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During a series of EFI Ignition open house events highlighting new and upcoming product launches for display graphics customers, EFI has announced its latest soft signage printer, the EFI VUTEk FabriVU 340i+. 

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Industry consumable supplier Ball & Doggett is leading the charge to post-covid employment recovery in seeking applicants for two great customer service positions in NSW and Victoria. The positions are advertised in Wideformat Online's twice-weekly newsletters. Ball & Doggett is a major Avery Dennison distributor, plus a vast range of Display and Visual media from Yupo, ConVerd, Katz, MagneGrip, MasterTac and a host of other top brands, curated from the world's best suppliers.

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Mutoh Industries has released a new orange colour for the MS41 ink used in its XpertJet 1682SR, a dual printhead high-speed inkjet printer.

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The new, industrial, entry-level EFI Reggiani TERRA Silver textile printer making its debut at the FESPA Global Print Expo uses TERRA pigment ink for sustainable direct-to-textile printing without steaming or washing.  

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Kongsberg Precision Cutting Systems has signed a new partnership agreement with software supplier PrintFactory for an integrated production suite tailored for Kongsberg cutting tables.

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“These new innovations reflect our ongoing goal to help wide- and superwide-format print customers deliver the very best possible prints as quickly as possible,” the company said. The new Fiery software and proServer digital front end now have added support for more than 180 new printer drivers from Agfa, Canon, d.gen, Durst, HP, Mimaki, Mutoh, Roland DG, and Teckwin among others.

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The latest model of the VersaSTUDIO BN series of desktop inkjet printer cutters, the BN-20A is designed to be more affordable by offering  only CMYK ink colours.

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Jetmark continues its October 'Deal-A-Day' program with today's (Tuesday 12th October) offer of the Bubble-Free Basic flatbed applicator/laminator at below $20,000 +gst. This represents a saving of over $3,000 and is available only until 7pm this evening. Included is the fitted Keencut 1600mm cutter.

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Orafol Australia has provided its ORACAL 970RA Wrap cast film in 'Luscious Lips' shade onto a Liberty Walk body-kitted Toyota Supra, creating a stunning high-gloss colour change and head-turning appearance. Wrap application was by Wrapwise of Brisbane.

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A natural evolution of Kodak's NexPress and NexFinity digital toner presses has been announced under the name 'Ascend.' The revered Kodachrome brand re-emerges as 'dry ink' and not the diapositive colour film lauded by Paul Simon in his 70s song 'Kodachrome.' Ascend is packed with embellishing features and, with a max. sheet length of 1.22 metres, will find applications in POP and Signage as well as cartons, says the company.

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Roland DG has introduced its new Texart XT-640S-F – a short-run textile and apparel printer that switches between direct-to-garment and direct-to-textile printing.

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After another delay, the remaining PICA presentations - Western Australia, New South Wales and Victoria – will be presented on the evening of Friday 5 November, immediately prior to the National Print Awards presentations in Brisbane, which will be live-streamed around the country.

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Bulk and commodity trade and vessel movements are “embroiled in further turmoil,” with day rates for vessel leases spiking so dramatically that a trader has told paper industry researcher IndustryEdge: “It’s stupid o’clock out there. You can get a vessel, but you’ll pay through the nose, and rates are increasing by the hour some days.”

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oOh!media has strengthened its partnership with WA property group Hawaiian, signing a new agreement to install Out of Home assets into its shopping centres and rolling out more digital panels across Hawaiian’s nationwide retail portfolio.

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oOh!media’s pro-vaccination campaign features in this month’s 'Best of Outdoor' collection of local and international Out of Home (OOH) campaigns selected by the Outdoor Media Association (OMA).

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Easy Signs co-founders Andy Fryer and Adam Parnell will feature in the first webinar session of HP’s new 6-week Large Format Inspire Series that begins on Wednesday 13th October.

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SAi - the leading software supplier to the Sign & Display industry with its ever-popular Flexi platform, has released the first part of a 3-part series of videos on 'How to get the best colour from your printer.' Here, we present a link to the first episode.

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swissQprint is launching a new series of wide format models this October and the core of the new flatbed printers is advanced print head technology and mechanical features that promise “a quantum leap for users,” the Swiss manufacturer said.

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Spicers will increase pricing on commercial print, digital, packaging, PSL (sheets & rolls), and narrow web products by 8% across the board from Wednesday, 1 December. “This increase is a necessity for our business and has been averaged out across our Print & Packaging product portfolio, including locally manufactured material,” the company said. This represents Spicers' fourth increase in 2021.

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The October 'Deal-A-Day' offers from Jetmark get better and better and todays (Thursday 7th Oct), is a stunning $23,000 off the price of a ColorJet Verve 2513 Flatbed LED-UV printer. That makes it just $69,990 + gst!

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Authorised workers in Victoria must have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by next Friday October 15, and two doses by November 26, in order to continue working on site.  All manufacturing workers are considered authorised.