Both Ball & Doggett and Spicers are assuring the commercial print market that they have alternate supply lines to the 1000 tonnes a week of UWF that was being produced for local printers at the Maryvale Mill. Copy paper suppliers though are in crisis mode.

Industry solutions supplier Currie Group is set to take its Horizon by Appointment event around the country, following its successful Melbourne event last week.

Fast-expanding regional NSW operation Print Storm is making another growth step, acquiring the biggest printer in Orange, GK Craig Printing, to add to its Dubbo and Mudgee operations.

A new generation of leaders is stepping into key roles at Currie Group, continuing a process of modernisation that looks to an exciting future, built on the solid foundations of the past.

PVCA is urging printers to complete a new skills survey it is launching, which it will then use to lobby the new government to re-instate the nine print awards into the Australian Apprenticeships Priority List. They were sensationally dropped by the previous government.

Digital Print Australia and Enviro Print were among the winners at the Asia Pacific Fujifilm Business Innovation Awards, in the Catalogue and POS categories respectively.

Paul Plunkett, flexographic printer from Pakaflex, has been named LIA Victoria’s 2022 Graduate of the year, with Jacinta Allen, who works in prepress at Breen Printing, this year’s runner up.

A sure sign it’s almost Christmas is the arrival of the Pantone colour of the year, which for 2023 will be Viva Magenta, and which in PR guff of the year is apparently audacious, full of wit and inclusive of all.

The Currie Group event next week, Horizon by Appointment, is fully booked out, with a spread of print businesses taking advantage of the one-on-one sessions.

Digital print solutions developer Konica Minolta says it will be bringing new opportunities to the commercial print market in 2023 with additional investments, products, and solutions.

Visitors to the Fujifilm stand at the Igas trade show in Tokyo have seen a B2 version of its Revoria toner-based digital press, as the company fires up its drive into the half-size sheetfed market.

A Supreme Court ruling against VicForests' native forest logging programme is causing industry consternation, and could lead to the importation of thousands of tonnes of overseas pulp to Maryvale.

One of the country’s oldest trade houses, Les Baddock Bookbinders, is back up and running, just seven weeks after a devastating fire ripped through its Sydney facility.

Former graphic arts person of the year, and well-known industry identity, Bob Robey, has passed away, aged 89, after a lifetime promoting the local print industry.

Troy Neighbour will be the new head of Fujifilm Graphic Systems, taking over the top job next month, when current incumbent Tony van Broekhuizen retires after 30 years in the industry.

Currie Group is hosting a three-day special event on 6-8 December, Horizon By Appointment, which is aimed at businesses looking for automation and innovation in the general commercial print market.