It was a blast from the past when more than 50 former staff members of Seligson & Clare Australia – and the wider Aldus Group – reunited for lunch at Melbourne’s Notting Hill Hotel.

Mail monopoly Australia Post lost $1m a day, every day, on its letters business in the first half of the year, and says it is experiencing significant ongoing headwinds. However, the bulk mail industry says AusPost is not listening to it, as mailhouses experience a bumper period.

Marvel Bookbinding & Printfinishing has promoted Richard Eastaugh to the role of general manager, the move putting him in charge of running the country’s biggest trade binding and finishing house.

Korean artist Lee Ji-hee has recreated an iconic full-sized Heidelberg letterpress platen, made entirely from paper and card, in a marvellous tribute to the iconic press.

Online print giant Vistaprint has a new CEO, with founder and current CEO Robert Keane turning his focus to the SME market, and former Amazon exec Florian Baumgartner taking the reins.

Digital imaging giant EFI has split off its Fiery business into a new separate independent company, and appointed Frank Pennisi as its new CEO. He was previously running Orora's packaging business.

In a tragic but inevitable move, Opal is now looking at closing down Australia’s only printing papers manufacturing operation, with the company unable to source new logs following an adverse court decision in favour of a rare possum. Some 300 workers at the region's biggest employer will be sacked, and 200,000 tonnes of paper imported as a result.

The long-running battle between TMA Australia to seek redress and compensation from the Philippines Charity Sweepstake Office over their collapsed JV has taken another turn, with TMA now setting up a war chest to continue the fight.

Prince Harry’s controversial memoir Spare has smashed the record for autobiographies in Australia, outselling the previous bestseller by more than three times, delivering a production bonanza to local printer Griffin Press.

The Australasian Promotional Products Association has launched its Trade Show Calendar for the year, which includes capital city roadshows, and the Australian and New Zealand promo shows.

From a farm in Zimbabwe to one of Australia’s most advanced printshops, complete with sheetfed B2 inkjet Fujifilm Jetpress, it’s been quite a journey for the Games family.

The federal government wants to ditch printing the Voice referendum information pamphlet, which would run to multiple pages and go to 9.3 million households, making it by far the biggest print job of the year, if it were to be printed.

Some 37 staff at Opal’s Maryvale Mill have been stood down, with a further 120 about to face the same fate, as production at Australia’s only printing papers manufacturing plant grinds to a halt.

Kodak will debut its Kodak Prosper Ultra 520 Press high-speed digital production printing press, and show its end-to-end workflow management, at Hunkeler InnovationDays 2023 next month.

Major NSW mailing house MMW3degrees has shocked the industry by going into administration this morning, the move coming as other mailing houses report record-breaking months.

The country’s two big heatset print businesses became one, with IVE spending $16m to acquire substantially all of the assets of its stricken rival Ovato. There were plenty of other industry mergers in the year.