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D&D Signs of Whangarei in Northland, New Zealand, is offering its customers all Covid signage at cost price. “Signage plays a crucial part to inform customers and staff of correct procedures to meet the guidelines that allow us to open in these crazy times.” 

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Established in the mid 1990's as The Printery Queensland, Sunshine Coast printing company TPQ Design and Print offered a full range of offset and digital printing, including large format, signage, graphic design and online web-to-print technology.

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Supplier Spicers has informed its customers there will be an 8% price increase on Epson inks from the 1st October 2021. Epson Australia has confirmed it has adjusted ink SKU pricing, but maintained hardware prices.

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Avery Dennison Graphics Solutions has announced the return of the Wrap Like A King Challenge and says wrap installers from over 40 countries are now invited to submit their best full print or colour change vehicle wrapping projects.

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New data shows worldwide shipments of large format and industrial printers slowed slightly year over year in the second quarter of 2021, as Label & Packaging printer shipments jumped by more than 27%.

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Canon Europe has launched four new imagePROGRAF GP series large format printers, including the imagePROGRAF GP-4000 (44 inch) and GP-2000 (24 inch) that use 10 colours including red, orange, green and violet ink plus fluorescent pink ink, and the imagePROGRAF GP-300 (36 inch) and GP-200 (24 inch) that use 5 colours plus fluorescent pink.

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Authorised workers from local government areas (LGAs) of concern in Sydney now have until 19 September to get vaccinated to allow them to continue to work outside of the LGA they live in, provided they’ve booked their COVID-19 vaccination by 8 September. It's the second deadline extension in a week.

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FUJIFILM Business Innovation New Zealand has appointed David Jupe as its new managing director, replacing Peter Thomas who stepped down last month. 

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In what can only be seen as a positive signal that face-to-face trade shows are returning, Mimaki Europe will have a physical presence at Luxe Pack, Monaco from September 27-29, almost the same time that Australia was supposed to be hosting PacPrint, now deferred to June 2022. Hopefully, we will follow Europe's lead.

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Vogue Signs of Coburg, Melbourne is being wound up following a difficult year in which it faced legal action involving a complicated family dispute.

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Signage production house Signs Unique Installations, trading as Unico Creative in Artarmon, Sydney, is being wound up and a liquidator has been appointed. This is sad news for a highly accomplished sign business.

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The US print industry's leading trade show Printing United Expo 2021 has been cancelled just five weeks before it was due to start in Florida as new Covid cases in the state reached more than 21,000 per day. The show moves to Las Vegas in October 2022.

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Under the theme ‘New beginnings. New opportunities,’ Agfa will celebrate ‘the gradual reopening of the world’ by presenting its updated range of inkjet printing solutions live to the European graphic industry at FESPA 2021 in Amsterdam (12-15 October).

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The ACCC’s Scamwatch wants to encourage Australians to talk about scams to increase awareness, educate and empower consumers to protect themselves. “Everyone will have encountered a scam at some point in their life and talking about scams can help people recognise the warning signs and avoid them.”

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Mactac's new IMAGin Simply Sustainable is PVC-free and consists of polyester (PET) and polypropylene (PP) films that meet current regulatory standards of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety and Improvement Act (CPSIA).

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Have you ever thought of relocating to the Festival state of South Australia? Adelaide is currently not in lockdown and has zero covid cases hospitalised, and has reported only one new case in the past week (from NSW). Visualcom is looking for an experienced Sign & Graphics installer. Why not send your CV today?

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ASX-listed print business Ovato recorded a net loss of $67.1 million for 2021, an improvement of $41.7 million on the previous year. Net debt of $39.8 million at June 2021 was $33.1 million better than 2020, as Covid continued to impact sales.

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NSW has adjusted work permit requirements for authorised workers in Sydney Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Concern after unions warned that thousands of workers wouldn’t be able to get their first vaccination in time. The first vaccination deadline for authorised workers has now been pushed back to Friday 6 September. NSW has also removed the option of rapid antigen testing.

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In another Covid-related rescheduling of the Printing Industry Creativity Awards (PICAs), the South Australian awards night will go ahead on 16 September and events in Victoria, WA and NSW will combine with the National Print Awards on 29 October.

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The August-September issue of Australia's and New Zealand's leading label and packaging magazine, Labels Plus - at 92 pages the largest pagination of any current graphic arts print publication- is out now online and on the way in print. It was to have previewed the Label & Packaging Expo in conjunction with PacPrint, but the shows were postponed until June 2022. Nevertheless, it's packed with news on narrow web, both digital and conventional.

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Print giant HP recorded net revenue of $US15.3 billion in the third quarter of fiscal 2021, up 7.0% from the prior-year period. Belgian technology manufacturer Agfa’s EBITDA increased from 15 million Euro in Q1 2021 to 40 million Euro in Q2 2021.