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Roland DG Australia is offering disaster pricing for replacement products and reduced service rates on moisture-affected Roland equipment to any customers affected by record flooding in Queensland, which has now inundated 1.3 million sq kilometres. 

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Graphic Art Mart has announced a new nationwide series of Avery Dennison Vehicle Wrapping Workshops to be held across Australia from February-November 2019.

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Danish manufacturer Contex is hosting a free webinar to showcase two new additions to its range of large format scanners, the HD Ultra X scanner series. 

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Spandex has created an innovative new app that gives customers easy access to digital colour swatches for thousands of colours from leading brands.

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“We don’t know if they can absolutely guarantee that none of the toxins such as mercury and dioxins can be prevented from going out the stack,” says Jill Redwood, coordinator of Environment East Gippsland (EEG), which has filed legal action against Australian Paper’s $600 million EfW project at its Maryvale mill in the Latrobe Valley, east of Melbourne.

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The project for Pukara Estate provided QLM Label Makers with its first market application of HP Mosaic software for self-adhesive labels. It's part of a number of ongoing QLM projects aimed at utilising personalisation and customisation to generate increased sales.

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The new Océ ColorWave 3500 and ColorWave 3700 are both packed with intuitive operational features and print on a wide range of media from thin uncoated stocks like 80gsm bond to vinyls.

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"Think of us as a Swiss Army Knife,” says Perry Brahan, director of UK-based Amersham Signs Design and a former special effects designer for the BBC. “We’re a relatively small company offering a wide variety of services usually found only in larger companies, many of them enabled by design, print and cut software from SAi.”

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“People have this idea around franchising that’s it’s this tightly controlled, cookie-cutter type of thing but all of our businesses are unique and a reflection of owners connecting to markets according to their individual interests,” says Linda Sultmann, director and GM, Signwave Australia.

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oOh!media has signed a new long-term contract with Brisbane Airport Corporation (BAC) which includes exclusive rights for internal and external advertising for both the domestic and international terminals.

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US printing giant Xerox has moved into metal 3D printing with the acquisition of New York-based start-up Vader Systems - creator of the first liquid metal 3-D printer for manufacturing. The process uses aluminium, which opens up potential signage applications.

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Well-known industry figure Luke Wooldridge has been named national sales manager at Fujifilm’s Graphic Systems (GS) Division.

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Océ Australia says the latest in its popular Arizona range, the 1300 series of high-productivity mid-volume UV flatbed printers, will arrive in Australia in the next few months.

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Australasia's largest commercial printing and marketing company has confirmed it will consolidate its portfolio of more than 20 unique businesses under a new brand name: Ovato. The company says the name comes from the word 'ovation.'

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oOh!media - owner of wide format specialist Cactus Imaging – says it will cooperate with an Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) investigation into the use of heavy discounting in Australia’s $1bn outdoor advertising market.

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Roland DG Australia has a new trade-In program for its award-winning TrueVIS VG Series. To qualify, customers need to purchase a TrueVIS VG-540 or VG-640 wide format printer cutter before March 8th 2019. 

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The six models in the new Océ Arizona 1300 series, the first to use LED curing, are aimed at sign and display graphics producers looking to increase production over a wider range of applications. 

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“We’ve been very lucky and it could have been much worse,” says Wal Robinson, co-owner of Queensland Signage Solutions (QSS), one of Townsville’s biggest signage firms that has been forced to stand down staff after record flooding that has claimed two lives and forced thousands of residents to evacuate their homes.

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“We’ve been experiencing considerable growth and we needed to increase our capacity to keep up with demand,” says Ewen Donaldson, MD of Melbourne wide format specialist Vivad, which installed its second Durst 5-metre printer in the first week of January.

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A Federal Court hearing in Perth has been adjourned for four weeks in the hope that lawyers can find “middle ground” in the protracted legal fight between the Australian Taxation Office and Perth printer Picton Press over a $1.3 million tax bill.

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Global outdoor advertising leader JCDecaux recorded a 5.2% jump in revenue for 2018, which included a two month boost from its Australian business following the $1.2 billion takeover of APN Outdoor.