Patrick Catteau has been the face of Dickson Coatings across Australia for the past 10 years is widely known to many in the trade.

HP and Currie Group will undertake a digital print tour of Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria to showcase the HP Indigo 3500 digital press and the HP Designjet Z series large format printers. The tour commences on 7th July in Cairns and wraps up in Bendigo on 22nd September.

EFI has announced that it has completed a strategic investment in Jettable, an inkjet technology company specialising in digital printing onto ceramic substrates.

Sun llc, the Russian company leading the race to install UV LED curing as the de facto standard curing technology in the global sign industry reported a great Drupa 08 with many orders and huge interest from across the globe.

For the first time since the acquisition of the Colorspan range HP is showcasing its new UV curable flat bed and roll to roll printers to the New Zealand market.

Adobe has announced the immediate availability of Adobe Acrobat 9 software, a significant upgrade that transforms the process of creating and sharing electronic documents. Acrobat 9 delivers major innovations that can enable organizations and individuals to communicate in an engaging, professional manner. Now included are native support for Adobe Flash technology, the ability to unify a wide range of content in rich PDF Portfolios, and access to real-time capabilities for co-navigating a PDF document with colleagues.

The past couple of months have seen no less than nine new appointments at wide-format and signage supplier Starleaton Digital Solutions (SDS). “We’re on the growth trail again,” says managing director Peter Eaton, “last year it was warehouse space and offices, this year it’s people!”

Mimaki has announce its new white solvent ink to be used in the JV33 series of wide format solvent inkjet printers.

Océ  has announced that its wide format hardware solutions have received four BERTL's Best Awards, the most given to any wide format vendor in 2008.

Océ say the wide-format graphic arts market is set to grow at an annual rate of 6% per year and the acquisition of Intersoft is part of it's overall wide format strategy.

Bordeaux has announced new inks in its Prime and Plasma lines.

Alucobond Architectural has added eight new colours to the Dibond range, the new colours being: Light Blue; Chocolate Brown; Yellow Green; Traffic Orange; Light Beige; Light Bronze Metallic; Sand Gloss Metallic and Graphite Gloss Metallic to its colour palette, in addition to the standard colours of Platinum White, Metallic Aluminium, Traffic Red, Jet Black, Ultramarine Blue, Traffic Yellow, Mayan Gold Metallic, British Green, and Light Ivory.

Adkote are pleased to announce at Drupa 2008 they have been appointed exclusive distributors for the Jeti range of Grand Format printing systems manufactured by Gandi Innovations.

Its being reported in the USA that Hewlett-Packard Co. is restructuring it's printer division by cutting five business groups down to three in a cost saving exercise. No official release has been issued to this affect as yet.

Dean Kearney started his printing company, Typeface Design and Print, around 18 years ago, and in that time he has steered its growth to become one of the major printing businesses in Hobart, Tasmania.