Sign & Display

The country’s biggest printable materials supplier Ball & Doggett is taking its regional roadshow to Bendigo, with the event running over two days next week, and focusing on its wide-format solutions.

Ben Eaton, managing director of stricken wide-format supplies business Starleaton, is aiming to pull the business out of the grave, with a proposal for a Deed of Company Arrangement.

Holler Print, a new online large format printing and signage solutions company, backed by CV Media & Signs, has launched onto the market, offering a web-to-sign service.

Expanding on the continued success of the Colorado M Series, Smartech Business Systems has been appointed an official Canon Production Printing Colorado Partner.

Agfa has made Smartech Business Solutions its exclusive distributor for its growing portfolio of wide format print solutions in Australia, New Zealand, and the Oceania region, effective from today.

Allprint Graphics has installed Australia’s first swissQprint Kudu, the flatbed 300sqm an hour print system which it ordered at Fespa last year, as the company transitions away from screen printing.

EFI is launching two new super-wide printers, the EFI Vutek h3+ and Vutek h5+ hybrid flatbed/roll-fed LED printer series, which it says come with enhanced printing and media handling capabilities.

The spend on outdoor print dropped by $65m, or 17 per cent, last year, compared with the previous year, while digital outdoor surged to new heights. Print now accounts for just a quarter of the market.

Outdoor giant, and Cactus Imaging owner, oOh! Media, lifted revenue 7 per cent to $633.9m in the year to December, buoyed by a vigorous outdoor media market in Australia.

Westman Printing has partnered with Fujifilm Business Innovation Australia to diversify its revenue streams, with a new Acuity Prime 20 hybrid printer installed and taking the company into new markets.

Trade display print operation Vivad is hosting its first Open House, the event designed to showcase its equipment and its proprietary trade web-to-print portal, Vivtrack.

Epson is offering users of its SureColor S-Series signage printer a seven year CoverPlus extended protection, service and support programme, in what it says is an industry first.

The Fespa Global wide-format expo, set for the end of March in Amsterdam, will have an Australia-New Zealand get together on the Wednesday of the show.

Epson has just printed a raft of First Nations Fashion + Design fabrics, following the completion of the inaugural Incubator training programme run in conjunction with The Iconic online fashion store.

Canon Production Print has taken out the Keypoint intelligence Buyers Lab Pacesetter award in Wide Format Sustainability: Product Innovation, across its entire portfolio.


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Central Coast based print service provider, Signarama, says that since introducing the HP Latex 800W to its business has experienced a 25 per cent revenue increase and business growth.