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An investigation into how a five-by-four metre road sign fell and crushed a car on Melbourne’s Tullamarine freeway in January has found the sign was missing a steel plate and several safety checks had not been carried out.
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Shareholders of paper company and wide format supplier Spicers, formerly PaperlinX, voted overwhelmingly in favour of a $A147 million proposal to sell the company’s entire Australia and New Zealand operations to Japan-based global paper giant Kokusai Pulp & Paper Co (KPP).
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The City of Sydney filed a Federal Court application to join the City of Melbourne in legal action against Telstra over its plan to add digital advertising screens supplied by outdoor advertiser JCDecaux to its national network of 16,000 payphones.
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“After a successful trip to Tokyo Sign and having a good look at all of the Japanese solvent printers on their home turf, coming back and buying the Epson S80600 was an easy decision as it stood head and shoulders over the competition,” says Darren Watkins, director of Melbourne large format & display printer Resolution Imaging.
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The new imagePRESS C910 Series is a light to mid-volume production colour digital press that offers long banner sheet printing up to 1300mm in width, enhanced colour and image quality and the ability to print on media up to 350GSM.
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The world’s largest textile and garment technology exhibition has gathered together a record 1,717 exhibitors from 45 countries to this year’s event in Barcelona. The full house meant another 250 companies had to be turned away.
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The new entry-level Mimaki TX300P-1800P hybrid enables direct-to-textile or direct-to-transfer printing. "Mimaki has provided an affordable solution that lowers the barriers to entry for smaller print providers."
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Continuing a popular tradition in the Sunshine State, the Australian Sign and Graphics Association (ASGA), together with new co-host Visual Connections, will host the annual sign industry Golf Day event for Queenslanders on Friday 23 August at the North Lakes Resort Golf Club.
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Auckland sign business Falcon Signs won three gold medals and two silvers, including the People’s Choice award, while The Signshop Nelson won three golds, two silvers and two bronze medals at the NZ Sign & Display Awards held during the NZSDA conference in Tauranga. Toby Marsh of Signbiz in Christchurch was named Apprentice of the Year 2019.
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New research commissioned by the UK sign and graphics industry’s leading trade association revealed that despite uncertain political times, optimism is high in the industry, with customers increasingly looking for creative design input from sign companies.
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New UV inkjet flatbed Onset X HS machines offer more than a 50 percent increase in speed, ‘single cycle’ print mode, full automation and robotic ’30 second’ job set up.
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SGIAA members have voted at their AGM in Melbourne to change the name of the association to FESPA Australia. President Nigel Davies says the move will not affect the group’s close relationship with SGIA in the US.
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SAi, a global leader in design and production software for signmaking, digital printing and CNC machining, has opened a new Australian division in Sydney.
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Class actions against Alucobond supplier Halifax Vogel Group (HVG) and its manufacturer 3A Composites and also Fairview Architectural have been instigated by legal firm IMF Bentham and William Roberts Lawyers on behalf of apartment owners in Sydney buildings. Wide Format Online publisher Andy McCourt has this report.
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Independent industry researcher Image Test Labs (ITL) says it has achieved “a historic first in the printing industry” by configuring Screen’s flagship inkjet press, the Truepress Jet520HD, to deliver the image reproduction quality of a commercial sheetfed offset press over a production run of three miles (4.8km) of paper.
- Epson requests exemptions in US/China trade tariff war
- Older printing equipment dismantled and recycled in Asia
- 'Thousands off’ EOFY sales from Roland, Mimaki & Alfex Laser
- SAi’s VirtualSign app for sign and display
- “We want to inspire action”: SGIA on sustainability
- Hexis Battle Wrap at Printex offers a trip to Las Vegas
- Epson opens new textile printing centre in Japan
- EFI’s Cretaprint hybrid inkjet printer for ceramic tiles
- HP opens massive 3D printing and digital manufacturing centre in Spain
- Avery Dennison introduces MPI 3300 Easy ApplyTM Series
- Exotic Graphix wraps Australia's first electric police car
- Fuji Xerox NZ ‘For Sale’ before government contract reversal
- Visual Connections broadens training to address skills shortage – Andy McCourt
- Suppliers providing fire-test data on substrate products: ASGA
- Ricoh launches voice-activated controls by Amazon’s Alexa
