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SAi, the leading provider of software solutions for the signmaking, digital printing and CNC machining industries, has added three new members to its board “to support strategic planning and decision-making.”  Dan Purjes, Edna Purjes and Rudy Baron will work alongside existing board members of the Salt Lake City, Utah-based company.

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More than 24,000 industry professionals were on hand as Sign China launched its annual exhibition series with a successful Signage and LED trade show in Shenzhen. The focus now shifts to the major Sign China exhibition to be held in Shanghai in September. 

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PrintNZ, the body that represents New Zealand’s printing, packaging and visual communication industries, says a government proposal to restructure the vocational education and training sector will “likely worsen the skill shortages faced by such key sectors as the print industry.”

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FESPA Global Print Expo 2019 is this year’s largest speciality print exhibition for signage, display, POS, screen and digital wide format print, textile printing and interior décor solutions. 

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Perth printer Label Image has invested in a Durst Tau 330 E UV inkjet press which has allowed the company to bring the majority of its outsourced jobs back inhouse. 

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Signage and display textiles business Ricky Richards has become the principal partner for this year’s Melanoma March organised by Melanoma Institute Australia (MIA).

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US-based Xerox plans to implement "a structure in which the existing company will become a wholly owned unit of a new holding company.”  The move comes after a US judge last month rejected the company's bid to dismiss a $1 billion lawsuit filed by Japan's Fujifilm over their failed merger deal.

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Roland DG’s 20-inch (50.8cm) LEF2-200 flatbed inherits the VersaUV LEF series’ ability to print full-colour graphics and unique textures onto a vast array of materials and objects up to 3.94 inches (100 mm) thick. 

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The new Ricoh Pro TF6250 Large Format UV Flatbed Printer is a 2.5m x 1.3m system designed to help sign and display, graphic arts and industrial sectors with decoration, packaging, screen printing and personalisation.

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This publication is in receipt of a Media Release issued by the Association of Accredited Certifiers (AAC), reproduced in full below. It concerns the growing issue of the use of combustible, sign-grade ACP (Aluminium Composite Panels) as cladding on high-rise buildings.

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It’s not all doom and gloom in the printing industry as 2019 progresses. Steve Hall’s SunPrint, based just outside Noosa on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, has logged two stunning results for January and February.

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Gary Kelly was in his early twenties in 1968 when he set up a small shed in Corunna Bay at the foot of Napier Hill and drove around town in his Morris Minor armed with sign brushes offering ‘signs of quality’ to clients. More than 50 years later, Gary is still on the job but has handed over the heavy lifting at the family-owned business to his three sons.

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FESPA’s design exhibit Printeriors will this year highlight both interior and exterior decor applications at the FESPA Global Print Expo in Munich, Germany from 14 to 17 May.

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Printers could be coffin makers of the future - LifeArt, an Australian-founded global business that produces environmentally friendly, personalised cardboard coffins is looking to partner with UK wide format printing companies wanting an opportunity to diversify into “a huge new market.”

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Roland DG Corp launched its second generation TrueVIS VG2 Series 64" and 54" wide format eco-solvent inkjet printer cutters which expand the colour gamut with ‘mind resonating’ Orange ink.

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Austrian-based laser cutting specialist Trotec Laser has opened a new laser demonstration and training showroom in Brisbane and reported ‘unprecedented’ business growth across its Australian operation.

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MM Plastics Group has merged leading local distribution companies Australian Visual Solutions (AVS), Amari Plastics and Chief Media into a new entity called Amari Visual Solutions to offer an expanded product range and wider distribution network. “MM Plastics seems to be mopping up any viable distributor who will sell,” says an industry insider.

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The New Zealand Sign and Display Association (NZSDA) has opened a new entry website for its flagship Sign and Display awards event at the association’s annual conference to be held this year in June in the harbourside city of Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty.

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The paper company and wide format supplier has sold the 56-hectare site of its former Wesley Vale Paper Mill near Devonport as it prepares for a shareholder vote on the company’s proposed sale later this year to Japan-based global paper giant Kokusai Pulp & Paper (KPP). The sale “looks to have scuttled" the possibility of a new jail being built at the site.

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Roland DG’s VersaWorks: Beyond the Basics training courses will be held across the country again in 2019, aimed at improving users’ knowledge of VersaWorks software to increase efficiency and productivity.

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Orafol Australia has released ProSlide, a new adhesive technology which makes film repositioning easier for vehicle wrappers. “ProSlide is this year’s blockbuster,” says Orafol, one of the world's leading manufacturers of self-adhesive products and reflective materials.