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Epson reported ¥282.1 billion in first quarter revenue for fiscal year 2021, up 46% year on year from ¥193.2 billion in Covid-plagued Q1 2020. Business profit was ¥24.2 billion, up 455% year on year from ¥4.3 billion in Q1 2020.

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The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) prosecuted Konica Minolta Business Solutions Australia for failing to lodge annual financial reports over three years between 2017 and 2019. The company was found guilty without conviction.

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The Real Media Collective’s next Power of Print series webinar will examine how retailers will use print in the evolving media landscape of the future.

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French RIP specialist Caldera has launched PrimeCenter V1.2, a new version that arrives a year after the original launch of the prepress automation solution for digital printers. The new version provides users with “long-awaited features while improving the flexibility of the software.”

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Enfocus, a leader in PDF editing and workflow automation for the graphic arts industry, has introduced Connect 2021, which includes the latest PitStop Libraries and supports macOS 11.

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Out of Home signs across Australia this week feature missing people as part of National Missing Persons Week, to help raise awareness of long-term missing Australians and the impact on their families. The signs utilise age progression technology to focus on changes that occur to a person’s appearance over time.

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Mimaki Australia has celebrated the arrival of its new JV100-160 eco-solvent printer by bundling a CG FXII Plus cutter and LA160-W laminator into a package below $33,000 + gst including delivery and installation anywhere in Australia. It's available only on existing stock and Mimaki even publishes the stock position on its specials website, so if you are in the market for a new 1600mm printer-cutter-laminator package, now is the time to act.

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Global print trade show organiser Messe Frankfurt says survey of 59,000 companies has found an overwhelming majority support in-person trade fairs. “This is a clear vote of confidence for in-person events."

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“Much like the walls that surround them and the floor underneath, countertops are a blank canvas and offer all sort of opportunities when it comes to placing graphics,” writes Shaun Holdom of Drytac – the UK-based global self-adhesive materials manufacturer for large format print and signage markets - in a company blog.

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Small businesses are in financial distress because of Covid-19 lockdowns and “the reality is some of them won’t survive,” according to the Council of Small Business, which has proposed a new post-lockdown cashflow program called Business Rebuilder.

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Second-quarter net sales jumped 31 percent as Canon posted Q2 net income of 61.15 billion Japanese yen or $A750 million, compared to last year's Q2 loss of 8.84bn yen ($A110 million). In the production market, demand for printing posters and flyers increased in Europe and the US due to the reopening of stores and events. 

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Ai Group’s Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index eased slightly in July but remained in “strong expansionary territory” after its 10^th consecutive month of growth. The employers group expressed concern over tough restrictions in Sydney local government areas where there's a concentration of manufacturing sites and workers.

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Australian Small Business Ombudsman Bruce Billson has urged the Federal Government to reactivate temporary insolvency protections after a sharp increase in businesses entering administration in the last week of June.

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The Federal Government is increasing the COVID disaster payment to $750 for workers who have lost more than 20 hours a week of work, as NSW extended its lockdown by one month. The expanded NSW COVID-19 Business Support Payment will now cover 400,000 businesses employing 3.3 million workers.

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Agfa Graphics has appointed Phillip Burns as the Sales Manager for its Australian Inkjet business.  He will be taking on the role of championing the Agfa Large Format digital printers across Australia, building on the growth of its inkjet presence and informing the industry of new digital platforms.

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Xerox posted $US1.79 billion of revenue in 2021 second-quarter results, up 22.4 percent year-over-year, but said recovery may be “uneven and affected by the emergence of new variants of the COVID-19 virus.” The board declared a quarterly dividend of 25c per share.

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Roland DG Australia has launched Roland DG Connect, an app that gives users a detailed understanding of their overall print operation to keep devices running at optimum performance. The new app is available for use with all TrueVIS series printers and printer cutters, and is free to new and existing Roland DG owners.

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Mitsubishi JetScript papers may not be well known under that name here but they find their way into the market under several other brand names. The mill, based in Germany, is renowned for coating very high quality stocks - and they are going up 20% across the board from September. The size of this increase is staggering - and probably indicative of more manufacturers doing similar adjustments. Mitsubishi had already increased inkjet paper prices by 5% in March 2021

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It was a site begging for a billboard - Pacific Highway at Gordon where a pedestrian footbridge has linked two sides of the Gordon Centre for years, with the highway thundering on below. Now oOh! media has bagged it and it looks great, both day and night. In this instance, digital makes complete sense as ad changes can be made remotely, without blocking the busy arterial road out of Sydney to the north.

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ColourChiefs, Kuhn Corp and Sunprint were among the big winners when the Queensland print industry came together at the Tattersalls Club in Brisbane to celebrate the state PICAs.

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Roland DG Corporation has begun construction on an expansion of its manufacturing facility in Thailand which will increase its wide-format inkjet printer production capacity by about 40% to 17,000 units per year.