Marketing services business Reacon has acquired mmw3degrees, the specialist direct mail and data-driven communications service provider that was suddenly placed into voluntary administration at Christmas.

The Minuteman Press franchise in Springvale, VIC has achieved record sales, moved to a new location, bought a wide format business, and is celebrating 20 years in business.

CPX Logistics in Brisbane is now producing 50,000 books a month, thanks to its new Horizon PUR perfect binder and inline three knife trimmer, supplied by Currie Group, which it has just installed.

At Hunkeler Innovationdays currently taking place in Switzerland, HP is unveiling its latest innovations to the HP PageWide Advantage 2200, and previewing what is to come later in the year.

Ricoh is using the Hunkeler Innovationdays to debut its new Pro VC70000e continuous feed inkjet press, which it says will print on a wider range of stocks, thanks to its inline pre-treatment unit.

Imaging giant Canon has launched its ProStream 3000 series at Hunkeler InnovationDays, which it says is its next generation of high-speed, web-fed inkjet printers for the commercial print market.

Printing onto t-shirts, sports shirts, tote bags and the like is potentially one of the best ways for print industries to increase their revenue streams. Veflex will enable print businesses to do just that themselves.

Mimaki is entering the direct to film (DTF) inkjet printer market, with the launch of the TxF150-75 at its Global Innovation Days event.

The country’s biggest trade print operation, CMYKhub, will showcase its Design Desk and online Subscription, Graphic Design & Prepress Platform at Visual Impact Expo in May.

The country’s biggest print group, marketing services operation IVE, saw its half year revenue surge by almost a third, to top the half a billion dollar mark for the first time, in the six months to December.

All major Ovato clients – many of whom were already IVE clients – were transitioned over to IVE successfully, according to the company, with full integration tracking on schedule.

The country’s biggest print operation, IVE Group, has printed the official 144pp full-colour Sydney World Pride festival guide, and its branded t-shirts, which are currently being sported by large numbers of Pride attendees.

Ricoh digital colour print systems are being installed at an increasing number of high-profile print businesses, including IVE and Lamson Paragon, as the companies beef up their digital operations.

The world’s biggest foiling materials developer, Leonhard Kurz, has a new CEO, and for the first time in the company’s 124-year history it is not a member of the Kurz family.

Marketing guru Malcolm Auld says if research shows direct mail gets more attention than any other form of advertising, why aren't today's marketers giving it more attention than they do?