Fujifilm will launch a new Acuity wide format printer at Fespa in Munich next month; it is keeping mum on details for now, but they will be released prior to the show.

Canon Production Print Australia is launching the Colorado M-Series UVgel print system, with the new modular system, which has a white ink option, able to handle a wider range of media.

Wide format printers looking to enter the Ball & Doggett Metamark MetaWrap Competition, with its eye-watering prize of a free trip for two to Fespa in May, have until Monday to get their entries in.

The upcoming Fespa global wide format print show in Munich will have more than 500 exhibitors, including 60 new exhibitors, and 95 returning for the first time since Covid. There are no Covid restrictions.

Grandprint, GSP and Print Effect are the winners of the Outdoor Media Association's quarter four Creation Collection 2022 competition, with Grandprint taking out two of the four awards.

The Fujifilm Acuity Prime L flatbed printer is now commercially available. The printer, which was unveiled at Fespa last year, is a larger version of the award-winning Acuity Prime 20 and 30 models.

Wide-format media developer Orafol unveiled the BMW Driving Experience car last night, wrapped in its 970RA film by Drive Creative, which also designed and printed the wrap.

Wide format print association Fespa Australia held its annual Sydney networking event on Sydney harbour, and said it intends to run its Future Leaders programme again this year.

Avery Dennison has opened a new national training and innovation centre for the wrapping industry, located at its five-star environmental distribution facility in Brisbane.

The judges for Ball & Doggett's Who is Australia’s Greatest Wrapper competition are industry leaders Matt Horne, Dan Sefton and Steve Warn, the trio set to run their eagle eyes over the entrants.

GSP's printing of Subway’s Beyond Big campaign is the Outdoor Media Association’s Grand Prix winner for the 2022 Creative Collection competition.

Mutoh has released new files for its Vertelith software and Adobe Illustrator Texture Library that will enable embossed printing on its LED flatbed printers. The service is available for Mutoh club, a website exclusively for Mutoh users.

The Australian Sign & Graphic Association is running a free business boost workshop later this month, which it says will provide instant benefits to those who take part.

As the numbers of digital and neon advertisements proliferate on city streets, the number of temporary print hoardings covering up construction sites in the CBD is exploding. Patrick Howard reports.

The country’s biggest printable materials supplier Ball & Doggett, and the biggest sign franchise Signarama, have signed a new partnership agreement to supply the 100 stores nationwide.

Cactus Imaging parent, outdoor media giant oOh! Media, more than quadrupled its full year net profit after tax to $56.2m, on sales up by 18 per cent to $592.6m.