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Wide Format Online has tracked the progress of this hugely significant industry acquisition story, right from when Landa Digital Printing got caught up in a cycle of debt. Over a month ago, FIMI Opportunity Funds, one of Israel’s leading private equity firms, announced its intention to acquire the beleaguered print company, commencing due diligence on a deal that reached a conclusion on October 1^st 2025, with FIMI taking full ownership.

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Canon Production Printing (CPP) has announced its new Colorado XL-series platform of 3.4m printers which essentially extends the ‘advantages’ of Canon's UVgel technology to now include the 3.2m graphics market. The new series is available in two easy-to-operate models: the Colorado XL7 roll-to-roll printer and the Colorado XL7 hybrid printer.

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Konica Minolta has launched the KM1800iSHK-DC, a new inkjet printhead capable of jetting two colours of ink from a single printhead and featuring a ‘long throw’ distance, which allows it to print with high quality on objects up to 10mm away from the nozzles. The new printhead is part of the KM1800i industrial inkjet printhead series with an extended print width suitable for high-resolution, high-speed printing.

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Anyone travelling in Italy at the moment might want to consider dropping in to Viscom 2025 (October 1^st to 3^rd at Rho Fiera Milano) to ‘touch and feel’ Agfa’s Anapurna Ciervo H3200 high-output, hybrid press, one of three new additions to the Ciervo range, which now includes the compact H2050, the versatile H2500, and the high-output H3200.

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Scodix has launched a software RIP update that integrates with the new Adobe PDF Print Engine, to enable users to seamlessly convert graphics, text, and images into high-quality rasters, specifically for Scodix’s Ultra 6500 SHD and Ultra 2500 SHD digital enhancement presses.

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Moving seamlessly from the greens of golf courses to bowling greens, the Australian Sign & Graphics Association (ASGA) has locked in its barefoot social bowls evenings for sign, print and graphics businesses in Western Australia and South Australia once again.

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Following its integration of Megacolour earlier this year, Rawson Print & Packaging has announced the successful acquisition of NSW-based IntoPrint, opening the door for Rawson to significantly increase its production capacity by expanding to a six-day a week, 24-hour operational model.

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As an extension of its support of First Nations Fashion + Design (FNFD), Epson Australia and FNFD have announced an inaugural ‘Designer-in-Residency’ Program, including selection of their first two awarded recipients. The Program has been created to empower First Nations fashion and textile designers, both emerging and established, by providing essential resources, mentorship and support from Epson and FNFD to refine their creative practices and grow their businesses.

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Whilst still only 6 years old, the PRINTING United Expo has quickly become a permanent and must-attend fixture on the global print calendar, encompassing everything from commercial print to display graphics, labels and packaging, textiles and apparel, and more. This year the Expo is being held at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando from October 22^nd to 24^th.

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October is the last month that members can participate in the FESPA Global Print Census 2025, which was revamped earlier this year ‘to better reflect the changing nature of the speciality print and signage landscapes, through a new and more frequent approach to gathering and sharing vital industry intelligence’.

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Over 200 guests from around the world attended Heidelberg’s SHIFT 2025 ‘expert networking’ event at its Home of Print in Wiesloch-Walldorf, a new summit to exchange ideas on process digitization and hybrid print production. The event drew on working examples of production, using the facility’s Jetfire 50, upcoming Jetfire 75 and Versafire digital printing systems, integrated into end-to-end workflow with Heidelberg’s Prinect Touch Free system.

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The Real Media Awards recognize exceptional work across various sectors of the visual media industry, including print, publishing, media, and marketing. The Visual Media Association (VMA) has just announced the awards finalists who, according to CEO Kellie Northwood: “this year demonstrate how blending creative thinking with production excellence across campaigns enables results that connect meaningfully with audiences.”

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Epson has launched three new inkjet printheads to meet the expanding digital printing market in the commercial and industrial sectors. The new S3200-U1-2 and S3200-U3-2 are essentially an upgrade to the S3200-U1 and S3200-U3, used primarily with UV ink for printing on labels and packages, while the new D3000-U1R printhead also now enables UV ink for the water-based ink compatible model D3000-A1R, launched in 2022.

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In a move to further strengthen its capacity to support its members and to enable it to further expand its reach, Women in Print Australia has received approval for its new ‘rules of incorporation’. The new framework provides greater flexibility in generating and applying income from activities, while also opening access to nationwide grants and funding opportunities. It also gives the association the ability to launch a tiered membership model, which opens the door to male colleagues to be able to join.

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As the company prepares to celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2026, leading global sign and graphics franchise, Signarama, has doubled down on is commitment to continue to facilitate use of AI and emerging technologies to enhance support for is franchisees.

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Ball & Doggett has entered an ‘in-principle agreement’ to buy Impak Films, one of Australia’s largest suppliers of flexible packaging products. Assuming all goes ahead according to plan, the acquisition is expected to be finalised by the end of October 2025.

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Whilst Summa’s new F1625 flatbed cutter is just making its way for the first time in North America, at PRINTING United Expo (October 22^nd to 24th in Orlando, Florida); Phil Trumble, Managing Director of Pozitive Sign and Graphic Supplies has confirmed that they already have 3 of the cutters about to arrive locally and be installed.

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Nintex, a global leader in AI-powered process automation and application development, has announced a strategic partnership with FUJIFILM Business Innovation Australia in a move to help Australian organisations transform their businesses for a digital-first future.

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Global Graphics Software, the OEM business unit of Hybrid Software, has announced a new release of SmartDFE: the intelligent digital front end platform that drives high-speed label and packaging presses, to now include a Label Studio feature. This latest version now gives label press operators the ability to do late-stage planning and prepare jobs directly at the press.

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Koenig & Bauer’s Vision & Protection team has recently launched a new initiative – ‘protected at print’ – which make security technologies that can be integrated into the printing process, more accessible to a wider range of printers.

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Global smart workflow automation provider, Enfocus, has expanded its portfolio of accessible automation solutions with the introduction of Griffin+, an upgrade of its wide-format nesting software, which the company describes as ‘a high-performance, futureproof platform for signage and wide-format printers, with extended functionality to meet the complex demands of busy print environments’.