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Signwriting student Tylah Field has won the Student of the Year award from more than 1,000 students from various trades at the 2019 Sydney region TAFE NSW Student Excellence Awards at Ryde Campus. Field also took home the Infrastructure, Energy & Construction (IEC) Student of the Year award.
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Flint Group warned of a global tightening of raw material supplies for UV and publication printing inks after last month’s massive explosion at a chemical plant in eastern China that left 78 people dead and hundreds injured.
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A typo on “No smoking, eating or drinking” signs inside at least 100 Brisbane buses has turned heads after a picture of the spelling mistake was posted to Reddit on Tuesday.
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Clairvoyance and crystal balls aside, it’s typically difficult to see into the future. Industry exhibitions can, however, allow business owners and decision makers to gain the foresight – and insight – they need to plan for a successful future.
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Roland DG’s new TrueVIS VG2 Series wide format eco-solvent printer cutters have won the 2019 ISA Sign Expo Innovation Award in the Printer category.
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Epson this week debuts its new industrial UV digital label press the SurePress L-6534VW at Print China 2019 in Guangdong, from April 9-13. The UV inkjet technology will be also be featured at PrintEx 19 in Sydney, August 13-16.
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French large format printer Métropole used its Massivit 3D printer to produce life-size comic book characters at the International Cartoon Festival of Angoulême in south-western France.
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Avery Dennison Corporation has extended its liner recycling program to include polyethylene terephthalate (PET) label liners. The adhesive materials manufacturer is collaborating with EcoBlue Limited, a Thai company that specializes in recycling PET label liner to create recycled PET (rPET) materials for use in other polyester applications.
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Digital textile printing manufacturer Kornit Digital has unveiled Kornit NeoPoly Technology - the industry’s first digital, industrial process for high-quality printing on polyester. NeoPoly uses an innovative ink set and a process developed for low temperature curing.
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At next month’s interzum 2019 show in Germany, Mimaki will showcase robotic technology that it says is “revolutionising the furniture production and interiors industries.”
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When James Ashby (Slippergate, Planegate, Assaultgate, Printgate, Nogate at all), Pauline Hanson’s Chief-of-Stuff for what Police described as One Nation Party, went to New York with his potty-mouthed mate Steve Dickson, few would have known that he is apparently owner of a multi-national sign and printing business with connections to Zanzibar, Bermuda and Queensland’s Sunshine Coast..
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With the announcement that franchise specialist Jim’s Group has entered the Sign and Print sector, and also Uniforms and Promotional items, the obvious question is ‘what impact will it have on the industry?’
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The Australian Sign & Graphics Association (ASGA) has called meetings of its members around the country over concerns about how new federal building code legislation relating to ACM cladding will impact the signage industry.
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Texas-based sign shop franchise business Fastsigns – the parent company of Australian-based Signwave – has been sold to Los Angeles private equity firms LightBay Capital and Freeman Spogli & Co.
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With PrintEx 2019, Sydney, just four months away, the organiser Visual Connections has updated and made available the floorplan which can be accessed here.
- Heytex rolls out new PVC-free sustainable outdoor banner
- Keith Ferrel of Cactus Imaging to speak at FESPA 2019
- Fujifilm integrates XMF Workflow with EFI and Tharstern
- Cactus Imaging wins global signage award at Dscoop in Florida
- Using sign business skills to change children’s lives
- Women in Print: Gill Kennedy at Minuteman Press, Caboolture
- Avery Dennison and Mactac expand portfolios for FESPA
- Latest non-printed signage technology at European Sign Expo
- NZ Fraud Office defends Fuji Xerox investigation
- WARNING: Wide format industry hit by phishing invoice scam
- HP aims to make every page forest positive, carbon neutral, resource efficient
- Street signage and ‘lived behaviour’ at Vivid Sydney 2019
- Gift card scam nets $5 million: ACCC alert
- Epson wide format printers win Red Dot: Best of the Best award
- Canon to close its Australian R&D operation in Sydney
