Hits: 3067

Shop! (formerly POPAI) will look at the best of global point-of-purchase retail marketing in the past 10 years as well as current trends in a webinar next month titled ‘Best of POP and Retail Marketing Activations 2010-2020.’  Meanwhile, six Australian retail marketing campaigns have won top awards at the annual Shop! Global Awards event.

Hits: 4304

Logick Print & Graphics has won the Supreme Award at New Zealand’s premier printing industry awards event for its BeeNZ’s Manuka honey packaging. It’s the third time in eight years the small Auckland company has taken home the top honour. Admark Visual Imaging won the Sign & Display gold medal for its van wrap for a craft beer company.

Hits: 3683

Roland DG Corporation has introduced the latest version of its VersaWorks 6 RIP software for inkjet printers and initiated a free upgrade service for customers using compatible models.

Hits: 2820

Konica Minolta has thrown its financial support behind Breast Cancer Network Australia’s 55 Hours of Giving campaign and will match public donations over a 55-hour period to double the impact of the campaign, which runs until Friday afternoon. 

Hits: 2955

The Printing Industry Creativity Awards (PICAs) – presented by the Print & Visual Communication Association (PVCA) and sponsored by Media Super – will be streamed live on PVCA's Facebook page from 8pm AEST on Friday, 26th June.

Hits: 2418

The winners of New Zealand’s premier printing industry awards will be announced in an online presentation event on Thursday 25th June at 4.30pm (2.30pm AEST). 

Hits: 2938

EFI says Schinlever will assume leadership of its market-leading industrial inkjet portfolio across display graphics, textiles, packaging and building materials. "It feels great to be back," he said.

Hits: 2861

Business email compromise scams caused the highest losses across all scam types in 2019, costing businesses $132 million according to the ACCC’s Targeting Scams report.

Hits: 2950

ASGA Risk & Compliance consultant Glenn Hain has issued an update on new legislation regarding ACM flammability issues and signage – “a brief summary of where I believe we are at with this,” Hain said.  The document is a follow up to meetings of ASGA members held around the country last year, and comes after Hain’s recent discussions with the Australian Building Codes Board and the Australian Standards Board.

Hits: 2904

The new Worldwide Quarterly Industrial Printer Tracker from International Data Corporation’s (IDC) highlights the impact of COVID-19 on Large Format Printer and Industrial Print Markets, showing global industrial printer and large format printer shipments declined sharply in Q1 2020, with the Asia-Pacific region the worst hit. But as markets recover, IDC forecasts improved supply chains and new signage and graphics applications.

Hits: 5956

Australian signmaking software company ISGI is offering a free 30-day trial version of its popular SignTools 4 add-on for CorelDRAW and Adobe Illustrator.

Hits: 3348

Signmaker supplier Eurotech Australia is offering special deals, free delivery Australia-wide and free downloads of its '3 Killer Action Items That Will Transform Your Signage Business' guide - all from its stand at the Visual Connections Virtual Trade Show.

Hits: 2683

Samba backlit fabric from Berger in Germany is “one of the best in the business for backlit,” according to local supplier Ricky Richards. A 25% discount on be.tex Samba FR is available now by visiting the Ricky stand at the inaugural Print, Sign, Display & Graphics Virtual Trade Show.

Hits: 5627

Prytec Solutions has unveiled its stand at the Print, Sign, Display and Graphics Virtual Trade Show - with its centrepiece PLS-51515 1kW Advanced Fibre Laser System - bringing the total number of exhibitors at the inaugural Visual Connections Virtual show to 24. More than 6,000 people have so far visited the show website.

Hits: 2491

Roland DG Corporation has introduced its newly developed Green TR2 ink for its TrueVIS VG2 Series 64” and 54” wide format inkjet printer cutters. The new TR2 ink in Green is also available with the recently-released TrueVIS VF2-640 Printer.

Hits: 3202

Canon Australia is keen to help encourage safe habits and policies to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Accordingly, it has made available a selection of poster templates, clipart, and word art of helpful phrases. The content can be printed via Canon’s free PosterArtist Lite and higher-level paid PosterArtist PC software that enables easy printing of high-quality posters.

Hits: 4874

UK-based, Japanese-owned inkjet encoding, marking and label press developer Domino Printing Sciences has announced a new direction, addressing the global USD$223 billion corrugated box market with its new X630i, aqueous inkjet flatbed printer, with which it aims to change plain 'brown boxes' to bright colour printed  showpieces.

Hits: 2780

ASGA and FESPA Australia have announced the 2020 HP Awards for Excellence Gala Dinner Presentation, which was to have been held during the Visual Impact Trade Show, will now be held on Friday 12 February 2021 at a Sydney CBD venue.

Hits: 2737

The industry’s first virtual expo, the Print, Sign, Display & Graphics Virtual Trade Show, has smashed expectations with more than 5,000 visits clocked since its launch just two weeks ago.

Hits: 3372

Printed paper waste has been excluded from the COAG Waste Export Ban until 2024 after a campaign led by printing industry group The Real Media Collective (TRMC). “Our lobbying was a success,” said TRMC CEO Kellie Northwood. Without the change, printers could have been forced to pay for printed waste to be sent to landfill rather than selling it off-shore.

Hits: 2880

In addition to cashback offers on its benchtop UV devices, Mutoh Australia has introduced three-month holidays on repayments on all printers, as a support initiative to get sign printers up and running again after Covid-19.