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The Penrith Museum of Printing needs to raise around $5,000 to decommission and relocate a Heidelberg Cylinder letterpress machine it has acquired following the closure of the last letterpress newspaper in Australia, the Don Dorrigo Gazette, after 113 years. The Museum has set up a crowdfunding website via mycause.com.au and all donations, no matter how small, are welcomed and will receive a certificate of appreciation once the press is working again.
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Canon Production Printing and Computaleta have joined forces in a new partnership agreement aimed at expanding the reach of the award-winning Colorado M-series and Arizona wide format printers within the New Zealand market.
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Participants in FESPA Australia's Future Leaders program will have “the unique opportunity to join a closely-knit cohort of like-minded professionals that will likely prove instrumental to their future professional development,” says FESPA Australia president Nigel Davies.
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Kyocera said a decline in demand and increased costs saw sales revenue for the first quarter decrease by 2.5% to 479,420 million yen, which “more than off-set a positive impact from the weaker yen.” Operating profit was down 38%.
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Ball & Doggett and Avery Dennison say limited spaces are available for their ‘Advance Vehicle Wrapping, Fleet and Auto Aftermarket Workshops’ in Sydney and Melbourne and an ‘Essential ‘Walls, Windows and Vehicle’ Application Technique’ workshop in Brisbane.
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In a new security alert to customers this week, Canon Inc. said it had uncovered a vulnerability in 196 of its inkjet printer models - including some wide format printers - where Wi-Fi connection settings are not deleted by the usual initialization process.
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“Some people have built their entire businesses on social media and digital platforms and having someone else access and control their account is devastating,” says Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman (ASBFEO) Bruce Billson.
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Roland DG Corporation has announced the acquisition of shares for UAB Dimense print, a subsidiary of UAB VEIKA, a manufacturer and vendor for wallpaper-related products headquartered in Vilnius, Lithuania.
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The World Out of Home Organization has expanded its Global Out of Home Media Spend Index to include first party data from 81 territories, accounting for 95% of the world's GDP. Global Market Index sources data from WOO's 200 members and others to give the most accurate view of OOH revenue and market share. An estimated 37% of the spend is from digital.
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MUTOH Industries Ltd., has announced the official release of the XpertJet 1462UF, first previewed at FESPA Munich in May. It is a flatbed DtO (Direst-to-object) UV-LED printer with a table size of 1,420 mm (55.9”) x 700 mm (27.5”), which combines high productivity and high image quality to meet diverse DtO needs (at FESPA, the pilot version was printing sunglasses). This now gives Mutoh UV DtO printers in A3, A2 and A1+ formats.
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Global trade show organiser Messe Frankfurt is on track for an estimated €600 million ($A902m) in sales revenue for 2023 and says the trade event business is “firing on all cylinders again.”
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Epson reported revenue for the first quarter was ¥314.8 billion ($A3.35 billion), an increase of 5.7% year-on-year, while overall business profits were down 31% year-on-year. "Revenue in the commercial and industrial printing business sharply increased."
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Canon’s second quarter net income increased by 10.8% year-on-year to ¥65.4 billion ($A700 million), as net sales increased by 2.2% to ¥1,020.9 billion ($A10.8bn). Printing Business Unit sales were up by 0.8% compared with the same period of the previous year.
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ColorGATE Digital Output Solutions, a Ricoh-owned German software developer for global wide format and industrial printing markets, has appointed chief marketing officer Oliver Luedtke as the company’s new chief executive officer.
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Sarah Moore has been promoted to General Manager for Visual Connections, stepping into the role at an exciting time for the supplier association. Moore is a longtime Association executive with experience in event management and business development.
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- Avery Dennison 2Q sales down 10% to $US2.1 billion
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- B&D/Avery present Sign, Display & Digital workshops
- Cactus Imaging to host FESPA Australia Open House
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- 1000+ students connect with sign industry at Careers Expos
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- Opal to shut down 1 of 3 pulp plants at Maryvale
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