Sign & Display

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.


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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.

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.

The Asga Sign & Graphics Awards will back for 2024, with the association asking sign, display, wide-format and graphics businesses to start gathering their best work.

Melbourne’s Tiger Corp has become Australia’s first user of the new Mutoh 1462UF flatbed printer, installed to improve the company’s competitiveness and production.

TMA Group of Companies has acquired Presfast – the retail display print business that went into voluntary administration last month – in order to extend its in-house print capabilities.

Currie Group’s Sign & Display By Appointment wide-format event in Sydney has kicked off, with the fully booked out event running for three days in the new look Currie Group Demonstration Centre.

Cactus Imaging owner oOh! Media is using a new Aussie-made fully recyclable billboard fabric, Ecobanner, for extra-large sites, and those liable to experience high wind situations.

Print21 editor-at-large Patrick Howard took time at trade show Visual Impact to check out the latest in cutting technology for the die format print world, and discovered it is a hotbed of innovation.

The owner of Sydney POP print operation Presfast says he put it in voluntary administration, and up for sale, because a change of strategy at its main client saw a switch from a local, direct relationship, to a global aggregator model.

The amount of print produced for the billion dollar out-of-home sector has fallen, with a 12 per cent downturn in the third quarter, compared with the same period last year, as digital outdoor surges.

Fespa has published the headline findings of its 2023 Print Census, highlighting rising sustainability demands, and evolving customer requirements, on business models and investment plans.