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When you combine a Professor of Additive Manufacturing with a Mimaki full-colour 3DUJ-553 3D printer and a love of guitars what do you get? Answer- Fireworks! Swedish Olaf Diegel, now Prof of additive manufacturing at Uni of Auckland has re-imagined the iconic Fender Telecaster to create a fire-breathing LED-festooned masterpiece. Jimi Hendrix would have loved it - and saved the lighter fuel.
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With a week to go and over 80 tickets sold so far, there’s still time to buy tickets for the FESPA Australia Annual BBQ in Melbourne on Wednesday, 15 February. FESPA also released details about its Sydney Social event set for 15 March.
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Color Concepts, a leading software developer for the large format inkjet printing industry, has changed its name to ColorBase and announced plans to help reduce an estimated $90 billion of global print waste. The company maintains a huge database of printers, RIPs, ICC profiles & materials.
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Ricoh’s sales in the first nine months of the fiscal year rose by 19.8% to ¥1,528.6 billion ($A16.75bn) and gross profit increased by 16.7% pcp to ¥538.8 billion ($A5.9bn). The company’s Graphic Communications business, which includes Commercial and Industrial Printing, recorded a sales increase of 25% (9.8% excluding foreign currency exchange fluctuations).
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Roland DG Australia announced the first round of 2023 dates for its popular Roland Academy Online Training courses. Places are limited to eight people per class.
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ASX-listed IVE Group has rebranded 2021 acquisitions AFI Branding and Active Display Group as Brand Activations - “a full-service display, signage and activation value proposition."
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“We want to bring manufacturing back to Australia," says ASGA president Mick Harrold. "That’s what these machines and new technologies are allowing us to do.” The Australian Sign & Graphics Industry Association (ASGA) says its upcoming webinar on Channel Letter Bending will help attendees decide if it’s a good fit for their business.
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New orange, green and violet colours enable the formulation of inkjet inks for wider colour gamut printing, says Fujifilm. The new inkjet pigment dispersions are now available world-wide.
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For the nine months ended 31 December 2022, Kyocera posted record sales revenue of ¥1,526 billion ($A17bn) up 12.6% year-on-year. Profit was down 3.9% year-on-year, partly because of increases in costs for raw materials and logistics.
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Epson recorded Q3 revenue of ¥361 billion ($A3.9 billion), up 22% year-on-year, with profit up ¥4bn to ¥31.2bn ($A340 million). The company's Printing Solutions business revenue rose 21% to ¥249 billion ($A2.73 billion) but profit was down due to high material and logistics costs. However, Commercial and Industrial printing segment revenue and profit both increased.
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Sydney signage and car wrap company Bespoke Signs will be wound up after the NSW Supreme Court appointed a liquidator following an dispute involving workers compensation.
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Women in Print says its popular Breakfast Series will take place this year between 16-24 May at capital cities around the country. Companies interested in sponsoring the events are invited to contact the organisers.
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Since the welcome news that, from January 1st 2023, print qualifications had been put back on the Government’s Australian Apprenticeships Priority List, further detail has emerged, with industry representatives now turning their attention to significant omissions and working on ‘problematic’ coding and categorisation.
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UV cured inks have traditionally been considered unsuited to car wrapping, due to their brittle nature causing cracking and flaking when moulded into curves and contours. However, Mimaki's latest, more flexible, LED-UV curable inks offer car wrappers an exciting alternative to eco-solvents and latex/resin, the company claims.
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Now in its ninth version, the latest edition of CPH's Big Blue Book (V9) Product Guide is regarded as the ultimate resource for professionals in the world of Signage and Wide Format Print.Full of product knowledge, tips and tricks it's available to industry professionals free from CPH.
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