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Sydney large format printer Cactus Imaging has won the Signage (Ridged & Flexible) category for works produced with HP digital printing technology at this year’s Dscoop Edge event in Orlando, Florida.

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David Ryan of LST Group had planned to be living on the waterfront, with a yacht and a sports car, enjoying the benefits of a successful signage business, when he sensed a calling that led to him setting up Heart For Kids, a not-for-profit group that has helped hundreds of orphans and children living in poverty across China, India and Indonesia.

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Gill Kennedy, owner of Minuteman Press in Caboolture, Queensland, emigrated to Australia from the UK four years ago with her husband and two children, intent on someday buying her own business.

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Avery Dennison is set to wow customers at this year’s FESPA 2019 with a range of their latest creations featuring the Avery Dennison and Mactac brands.

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European Sign Expo 2019, taking place alongside FESPA in Munich, will feature over 100 exhibitors specialising in illuminated displays, channel lettering, dimensional signage, engraving and etching, digital signage, display systems, out-of-home media, neon, LED and sign tools.

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“We cannot just go to a big company like Fuji Xerox and reconstruct their entire accounts and business for years on end; we really have to be focused on where we think that the misdoings or the misdeeds are occurring and work on that,” says Julie Read, chief executive and director of New Zealand’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO).

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This week, some of you might have received an email purporting to come from the former owner of this website/newsletter, brian@wideformatonline.com. In it, the sender (not Brian) asks that any payments due be put on hold and new bank details will be advised. It’s an attempt at fraud - phishing or ID theft. 

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Having achieved zero deforestation for its own brand paper, HP is now aiming to help customers transition to a low-carbon and resource-efficient future so that every page printed using an HP printer will be ‘forest positive.’ The goal is to “reduce the impact to the planet.”

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Sydney’s annual outdoor display extravaganza, which last year attracted 2.25 million visitors, this year includes a session about street signage that will look at 'typography and signage in an urban context.'  Vivid Sydney, the largest festival of light, music and ideas in the Southern Hemisphere, takes place from Friday 24 May to Saturday 15 June.

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Gift cards are increasingly the payment method of choice for scammers, according to the Scamwatch website published by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). More than $5 million was lost in 2018, a 38 per cent jump on the previous year.

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Epson has won its first Red Dot: Best of the Best award in the Product Design category for its SureColor large format printers. In addition, five Epson inkjet printers, one scanner and one projector model also received Red Dot Awards. Designers and companies from 55 countries entered more than 5,500 products in the competition.

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Canon Information Systems Research Australia (CiSRA), the Sydney-based Australian research subsidiary of the Japanese electronics giant, will shut down next month after 29 years, with the remaining 35 workers to be made redundant. Australian inventor Kia Silverbrook, developer of Memjet high-speed digital inkjet technology, was CiSRA ED from 1990-1994.

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The World Wrap Masters Europe and Series Final will take place at FESPA Global Print Expo between 14 and 17 May 2019 at Messe München in Munich, Germany. In addition to cars, competitors will be tasked with wrapping other challenging items, which will be announced on the day to add an element of surprise.

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Avery Dennison Graphics Solutions has appointed Premier Film Distribution as a new distributor of its architecture, solar and safety window films in New South Wales and Queensland.

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Digital textile printing technology manufacturer Kornit Digital has appointed former EFI AP sales director Andy Yarrow as president of its Asia Pacific business to 'accelerate the company’s growth across Asia.'

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The Mimaki 3DFF-222 printer, which uses plant-derived eco-plastic made from corn and potato starch, can produce jigs and three-dimensional signage when used in combination with Mimaki’s range of LED UV flatbed printers.

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Avery Dennison has awarded its advanced ICS Performance Guarantee for graphics printed with Roland DG's New TrueVIS TR2 eco-solvent ink and the new TrueVIS VG2 series 64" and 54" wide-format eco-solvent printer cutters.

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Diana Sim began the Minuteman Press franchise in Midland, Perth in March 2015 before being joined nine months later by husband John, a printing industry veteran.

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Wizardry Imaging & Signs, which employs about 48 staff in Sydney, has a branch in Victoria and staff in WA and QLD, has gone into administration and called a first meeting of creditors.

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The unfortunate news from Adelaide is that the state’s and possibly the country’s foremost manufacturer of etched, engraved and printed metal signs has to be sold due to the illness of long-time owner, Peter Vasic. 

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New Zealand architectural and signage supplies group PSP has established a new Signage & Graphic Supplies division, headed by high-profile former Total Supply owner, Dean Stuart: “They’re the country’s biggest substrate provider so adding self-adhesive films and print media is a natural progression.”