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Due to high demand and a number of sold-out sessions, a second round of Roland Academy Online dates has been added for May through to July.
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Mutoh has released the XpertJet 1682WR, a 162cm-wide, 8 channel piezo drop-on-demand roll-fed dye sublimation inkjet printer - the successor to Mutoh’s award winning ValueJet 1638WX dye sub printer. It's due to arrive in Australia in May and Mutoh Australia is now accepting pre-orders.
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ASTRO America will manage a new U.S. Army initiative to build the world’s largest metal 3D printer to produce combat ground vehicle hulls. The announcement comes two weeks after Australian 3D printer manufacturer Titomic signed a deal with a Turkish company for the manufacture of weapons system barrels.
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Pardon the spoonerism in the title, but it seemed appropriate. This week, the mighty Google is celebrating the achievements of Johannes Gutenberg, with its customary snappy illustration when you open the search engine, linking to a search result page about him. Gutenberg started the whole print revolution, around 1440 AD.
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More than 200 exhibitors from 33 countries have confirmed for next week’s virtual.drupa (20 to 23 April 2021). “We are very pleased about the recent registrations of outstanding exhibitors and important global players such as HP Inc. and Israel-based Landa Digital Printing,” says Sabine Geldermann, project director print technologies at organiser Messe Düsseldorf.
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Epson’s popular EcoTank printers – featured in comedian Jimeoin’s ‘No Cartridges’ TV ads - have won a prestigious Red Dot: Best of the Best of the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2021 - awarded to only a small fraction of approximately 7,800 entries. The company’s document scanners and professional photo printers have also been recognised.
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Large Format is one of 32 categories in this year’s Print Industry Creativity Awards (PICAs), which run in each state with the winners going on to compete in the National Print Awards, to be presented this year during PacPrint 2021 in Melbourne on Thursday 30 September.
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Mimaki will introduce two new printers at the first virtual.drupa (20-23 April), designed to "open new application opportunities in the large format and fashion industries.” No further details have yet been released. The company’s interactive booth at virtual drupa will also feature its new 100 series.
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The Tractus range of 3D printers from The Netherlands is considered right at the top for industrial and signage use. Represented here by Jetmark, they are well supported with branches in every state, territory and in New Zealand and cover a huge range of sizes all the way up to 2.1 metres in height.
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The Outdoor Media Association (OMA) has released a special 'Best of Outdoor' International edition for March that features campaigns about International Women’s Day and a ‘Good Guys Guide’ designed to raise awareness of situations in which women feel unsafe.
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Growing Melbourne-headquartered Total Image Supplies has been named large format Business Partner of the Year by Canon Australia, with Sales Manager Ben Luke citing highest growth rates in the Large Format category. This is the third consecutive year that Total Image has won the award.
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SA International (SAi), developer of software for global signmaking, wide-format printing and CAD/CAM industries, has released EnRoute 7, the newest version of its popular EnRoute program.
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For the last six years, the Nyala flatbed printer has been the most popular product in its category in Europe, according to Swiss research institute Infosource.
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Enfocus, the developer of PDF editing and workflow automation for the graphic arts industry, says its new BoardingPass allows instant checking of PDF files for a range of issues.
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According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Industrial Printer Tracker, industrial printer products in Australia and New Zealand unit shipments fell 35% YoY in 2020. Market Analyst Faris Latief has researched shipment in Graphics, CAD, Industrial Textile, Direct-to-Shape, Direct-to-Garment and Labels & Packaging. The good news is that shipments and installations are on the rise again.
- Big changes at Fujifilm
- Lifting of NZ travel restrictions good news for PacPrint
- Register now (free) for this week’s ISA Sign Expo 2021 Virtual
- NZ’s Harland Graphics rebranded Vivid Signs by new owners
- Out of Home on the road to recovery
- Trade-only Flatbed printing service launches
- Job of the week - Graphic Artist and Prepress Designer - Brisbane
- Paul Coniglio buys Print X trade wide format business
- Tonejet Cyclone inkjet direct-to-can printer takes off
- Fairview webinar on combustible cladding legislation
- Esko completes sale of Kongsberg cutters
- Fuji Xerox becomes Fujifilm Business Innovation
- JCDecaux launches ‘real time’ ads for all digital assets
- Ricoh gears up to enter B2 inkjet sheetfed with Z75
- Call for judges for state printing industry awards
