A trio of Epson printers have won Buyers Lab 2022 Wide Format Pick Awards in the Signage category, as judged by Keypoint Intelligence, following 24 months of lab testing.

The Rodney Robertson signage factory has been completely destroyed by a raging fire overnight, leaving it a smouldering wreck.

Industrial giant 3M has invested $133m in upgrading its graphic film production facility in Germany – which supplies ANZ – adding two new lines, to produce an extra 5 million sqm of wide format media a year.

After a enforced hiatus, wide format print association Fespa Australia hosted its annual Christmas party, with members enjoying convivial conversation – and sharing Covid war stories – over beers and snacks.

Epson has launched its SD-10 spectrophotometer, which is battery powered, small enough to fit in a hand or pocket, works with an app on a smartphone, and has just won a Good Design Best 100 award.

Paul Coniglio has sold out of wide format outfit Print X One to Rob and Chris Grosso, less than a year after he bought the business from the Motor One group, who had acquired it from founder Stephen Lane three years earlier.

In its biggest wide format investment to date, trade house Avon Graphics is installing Australia’s first Durst P5 350 HS system, significantly boosting its production power.

The outdoor media industry is moving toward carbon neutrality in 2022, with the industry set to calculate the carbon output of outdoor campaigns, in order to give advertisers the chance to offset their spend.

In what it says is a blueprint for wide format printing Fujifilm has developed the Acuity Prime, a new wide format UV flatbed platform for the workhorse market, and which has Fujifilm dedicated inks.

Epson SureColor printers took out three Printing United Alliance 2021 Pinnacle Product Awards, with the SureColor F-Series dye-sublimation printer line receiving the award for the seventh consecutive year.

Stick on Signs is bringing the Dimense wide format embossing and printing technology into Australia, with the company saying it offers printers the opportunity to cash in on the personalised home and business decor boom.

The thrice postponed Fespa Global that has just taken place in Amsterdam attracted 7,850 visitors, down by two thirds on the 2019 event, as Covid restrictions kept printers from outside Europe to a minimum.

It's fair to say Epson, which pioneered digital wide format print quality 25 years ago, has one of the most comprehensive ranges of production printers available, with several new models now on the market.

Signarama Tuggerah has completed installation of the Hewlett Packard Latex 800 W, becoming the first company to do so in NSW. The company says its environmental credentials align with its own sustainability drive.

Durst has launched its new 600sqm an hour wide format print system, the P5 350HS, which includes high speed, full automation, enhanced software, a complete workflow solution, and a full ink portfolio.