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Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman (ASBFEO) Bruce Billson says the 2021 budget is “a clear acknowledgement that small and family businesses are central to the nation’s economic recovery and future prosperity.” JobTrainer has been extended for another year and small businesses can continue to write-off the full value of assets purchased until 2023.
Meanwhile, unions slammed the budget as failing the manufacturing sector.
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The five sector winners in Print NZ’s Apprentice of the Year Award will go on to compete for the overall prize to be announced at next month’s Pride in Print Awards in Auckland.
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The Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman Bruce Billson says small businesses in dispute with the ATO will get “a fairer go” under new rules proposed by the Australian Government.
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Ricoh posted an operating loss of ¥45.4 billion for the year ended March 31, 2021, down ¥124.4bn from the previous year’s profit of ¥79bn. But the global print technology company says the recovery is underway and predicts a return to a profit of ¥50bn in the current financial year.
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There’s still an opportunity to register for this week’s ASGA webinar - The Do’s & Don'ts of Neon Lighting - to be held on Thursday 13 May at 2.30pm AEST. It's free for ASGA members and staff, or $33 for non-members.
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FESPA is introducing FIT (FESPA Innovations and Trends), a new series of free virtual events aimed at helping printers plan for their business recovery. A two-day Wide Format event this month will feature latest technology from manufacturers including HP, EFI, Mutoh, Durst, Mimaki and Kornit Digital.
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Mimaki Australia’s technical site tour hosted by LIA (NSW) and Visual Connections on 26 May will be followed by dinner at Carnarvon Golf Club with guest speakers John Bryson of Mimaki Australia and Andy McCourt of Wide Format Online, whose topic is 'The unstoppable force of wide format.'
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The certification does not require Lamination or Coating. Roll-to-roll UV LED printers from EFI, sold and serviced in Australia by Currie Group, continue to deliver innovations for superwide-format graphics production printing, and they have now achieved an important certification for the quality and durability of prints used for décor applications.
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Mimaki, will host online Innovation Days from 2nd-4th June 2021, a collaborative virtual event, bringing together Mimaki’s regional offices to encourage and nurture innovation in the printing sector. The programme of events, led by experts from Mimaki Japan, USA and Europe, will focus on addressing the needs of customers and prospects in their local markets.
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Following the success of Fujifilm and Inca Digital’s Onset X HS range of flatbed UV printers, the ultra-high productivity large format series now comes with automated technology to assist with long run production. It also slashes job changeover times and reduces the need for manual intervention between runs.
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Sign Manufacturer Insurance Broker (SMIB) is to offer specialised insurance brokerage to FESPA Australia members. FESPA Australia is pleased to announce its affiliation with the Sign Manufacturer Insurance Broker (SMIB), part of the Sear Insurance Group.
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Following on from the successful series of open houses, marking its appointment as an EFI wide and super-wide format dealer, Currie Group is leveraging its expertise and broad service network to address soft signage with the all-in-one EFI VUTEk FabriVU 340i 3.4 metre roll printer and heat calendar fixation combined.
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The owners of Gold Coast sign business System Signs have decided the company will be wound up and have appointed Timothy Cook as liquidator.
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The new edition of HP's Stitch S1000 dye-sub printer allows users to print directly to fabric or onto transfer paper, with 1200 native dpi printheads and HP’s Drop & Dry system ensuring vivid colour and extreme resolution.
- Minuteman Prahran bounces back as restrictions are lifted
- Smaller holes and prices for Contra Vision HD
- Free ONYX Go automation webinar
- Jobs of the week - Cairns, Qld
- Colour Graphic Services appointed MYIRO Colour Measurement dealer
- Mesh Direct goes carbon-neutral for Signage
- Fujifilm raises prices across the board, raw materials and freight blamed
- Deadline extended for PICA entries
- Xaar’s new high-speed Nitrox printhead
- Epson large format printers win iF Design Award
- Print volumes to decrease in Asia Pacific: IDC survey
- Catalogue printing won’t recover until 2022: Ovato
- Durst’s ‘milestone for sublimation printing,’ the P5 TEX iSUB
- Guest editorial - Tyson Buechler on "Everything you need to know about PhotoTex"
- Fuji Xerox Australia $1,000 scam voucher alert
