Böttcher Australia is celebrating ten years in the Australian printing industry
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Böttcher Australia is celebrating ten years in the Australian printing industry
The HP Designjet large format range of printers is renowned for producing prints with rich colour and sharp detail that are suitable for a multitude of applications in the indoor and outdoor signage markets
After 30 years in the signage business, there’s very little Greg Edkins hasn’t done. He started posting bills at 18, graduating to large sign placement and eventually opened his own signage business
Roland DG’s new white ink technology has been taken to the MAX.
The growth in wide format printing shows no sign of abating, as markets and technologies continue to develop.
One of Christchurch’s oldest printers, The Caxton Press rolled out the green carpet for the launch of its latest press, the new five-colour Komori Lithrone with its additional unit for an optional protective aqueous coating.
The PrintCity Alliance brought leading journalists from around the world to Germany to announce seven competence centres for drupa 2008, where printers will be able to see the benefits of multi-vendor networking in action, Wayne Robinson reports from the freezing Bavarian winter
Does printing on recycled paper make you a green printer? No according to Rodney Wade, environmental and technical manager at Finsbury Green, one of the country's leading environmentally-friendly printers, who says the following are key attributes of a true green printer
Roland DG has just introduced a new version of its SOLJET PRO III XC-540 print/cutter featuring the new Roland Intelligent Pass Control technology, and additional enhancements that deliver even higher levels of speed, print quality and versatility. The company has also announced a new revolutionary white Ink under the ECO-SOL MAX brand
More than 100 digital wide format and screen printing practitioners and industry experts gathered in Bangkok, Thailand last month at the invitation of FESPA. PMG’s Brian Moore was invited to participate in and report on the event
The Packaging Council of New Zealand elected David Carter, group environment and technical projects director Lion Nathan, as its new President, at its AGM last week. Also at the meeting, Melissa Hodd, executive director Foodstuffs NZ, was appointed vice president. |
Canon Australia has launched PosterArtist 2009, the latest software for its imagePROGRAF large format printer, which the company says is a poster-creation application designed to make in-house poster production easier, with better quality output. The range will be sold through Alloys, GBC, DES, Anitech and Canon’s regional business partner channel. |
| Market research completed by the PPA (the UK Periodical Publishers Association) after the recent 37th FIPP World Magazine Congress in London, has shown that the value added printing techniques demonstrated by PrintCity Alliance members within the innovative & interactive FIPP09 printed Congress programme had created a noticeable impact. |
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has released an LED-UV (ultraviolet ray) ink-drying system using light-emitting diodes (LED) which the company claims enables significant energy saving in printing. |
As the digital printing market continues to grow, Spicers Paper says it is making paper selection for printing on-demand and variable data jobs easier with the addition of another digital paper to its range. |