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The outdoor commodity rigid sign market has long been dominated by trusty fluted plastics – a carry-over from screen printing days to flatbed UV digital production. Now there is an alternative for short-term outdoor signage, that offers several environmental and production advantages over fluted plastic sheets.

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Arlon has announced the global commercial launch of two new innovative products and a new technology for vehicle and fleet applications. SLX Cast Wrap is a premium gloss white repositionable cast film with FLITE Technology.

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Techkon’s managing director, Albin Baranauskas, will be presenting a free workshop at May’s PacPrint exhibition in Melbourne. Local distributor Colour Graphic Services will welcome Branauskas on his first visit to Australia and is proud that he will be presenting in the Workshop area of the show. It covers colour measurement for printing, packaging, photography, wideformat and digital reproduction.

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Drytac has has announced SpotOn SynPaper for HP PageWide XL printers. The new introduction is a 120μ(4.8 mil) white matte polypropylene film, coated on one side with a dot pattern printed pressure-sensitive polyacrylate adhesive.

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The Out of Home (OOH) industry has posted an increase of 5.7% on net media revenue year-on-year in the first quarter of 2017, posting $186.7 million, up from $176.7 million* for the first quarter in 2016. This ongoing growth follows the all-time high revenue growth at the end of 2016 of 15.8%.

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New products on display include KernowJet FloorSharK, an easy-to-apply and remove floor graphic film, designed for hard floors and carpet tiles. Using Kernow’s ‘sharkskin’ coating technology, the resultant floor graphics are tough, vibrant and R10-certificated. KernowJet FloorSharK does not need to be laminated, improving production workflow and offering a far wider colour gamut than traditional laminated floor graphics.

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Italian manufacturer Elitron will be appearing at both shows. At FESPA they have the slogan “Dare to Print Different.” At Pacprint, Elitron will be showcased by the local distributor, Spicers and will feature the popular SDC automatic cutting and routing solution.

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In June, Spandex will introduce their updated 2017 Essentials Product Guide to the digital, signage and display market. The new guide, they say,  will have the very latest new products from all leading brand manufacturers, as well as helpful information to help you grow your business and save you time and money.

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In today’s highly competitive environment, wide format printers should be looking beyond their production equipment to find an automated end-to-end workflow that ensures faster time to market, fewer errors and improved profitability. If they recognise that waste is created everywhere; via complex manual steps, equipment idle time, incorrect material handling or lack of workflow control and if they seek to eliminate idle time—in design creation, pre-press, on press and on the finishing table, they should visit Esko at FESPA 2017.

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Starleaton’s CEO Ben Eaton and Product Manager John Buitenkamp will have a busy May as they fly to Europe for the FESPA Hamburg trade fair and will be straight into PacPrint preparations when they return.

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Leading Australasian paper, packaging and print media distributors, BJ Ball and K.W. Doggett Fine Paper have announced the two businesses will combine. This new entity will become the largest, most diversified paper, packaging and print media distribution business across both Australia and New Zealand.The transaction remains subject to conditions, including ACCC approval.

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Esko has announced confirmation of the compatibility of the Esko Software Platform with new Ghent Workgroup PDF Output Suite version 5.0 . All 48 test patches in the output suite were processed perfectly using Esko Software Platform applications and workflows.

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US-based ink manufacturer Nazdar will be presenting two new series of digital solvent inks to avoid raw materials facing a clampdown by recent regulations.

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Downers Grove (Dover) announced today that it has acquired French RIP company Caldera Graphics for total consideration of approximately EUR 35 million, including an amount related to achieving certain performance metrics. 

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Starleaton will be demonstrating the all-new Zünd Design Centre 3.0 at PacPrint from May 23-16. Known as ZDC3, it is an Adobe Illustrator plug-in for creating packaging and three-dimensional POP/POS displays from folding carton, corrugated cardboard, composite material, PP and PVC.

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swissQprint has a new subsidiary in Germany as of 1 April 2017. A 12-member team under the management of Wolfgang Tropartz has taken over all activities related to swissQprint from the former distributor Sihl Direct, who decided last year to withdraw from this partnership for strategic reasons.

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Avery Dennison’s long-established Integrated Component System (ICS) Warranty Program is now accessible via an online portal. Customers can register for their warranties and track the progress of their applications and claims, anywhere, anytime.

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When Starleaton acquired DES in late 2016, along with it came a reputation for leading the way in colour management. With products such as CGS Oris and PressMatcher; X-Rite, Pantone, Eizo, Just Normlicht and what was once the Best Rip, now EFI XF, DES had the tools and human expertise to solve almost any colour issues in offset, flexo, digital and wide format.

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Around the world, IJ180 is known and loved for its performance, dependability and versatility. The new IJ180mC range performs even better and provides even more design flexibility with white, metallic and clear options. Plus, now you can amp up impressions and safety on the road with the new wrappable reflective print film 780mC.

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Agfa Graphics has released the next generation of its StoreFront software, a cloud-based web-to-print solution enables print buyers to place orders online 24/7 and the new StoreFront 4.0 now features responsive stores for optimal ease of use, a ‘save for quote’ functionality for convenient pricing information and advanced packaging algorithms for cost-effective shipping.

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Roland DG would like to extend its thoughts and best wishes to those who have been affected by the recent tropical cyclones and resulting flooding in Queensland and Northern NSW. Roland DG would like to offer assistance and provide the following information on how to best handle your electronic and production equipment in this situation to customers affected.