The unstoppable mega trend to personalisation has been good news for Ben Carroll, CEO at trade heat transfer supplier Vicon, and its Velflex, which supplies heat transfer equipment.

The paperworkers strike, that has crippled commercial, publishing and labelstock output from the €10bn a year UPM Kymmene mills for 81 days, has been extended by two more weeks.

A B Graphic International – represented by Currie Group in Australia and New Zealand – has formalised its exclusive global agreement with Actega Metal Print for its metallisation technology, Ecoleaf.

Active Mail managing director Luke Pearsall says marketers are rediscovering the benefits of direct mail, leading to a renaissance of the medium, which, he tells Patrick Howard, will only get stronger.

The longest paper workers strike in Finnish history, which has crippled output at the €10bn a year UPM Kymmene mills since New Year's Day, shows no sign of being resolved, adding to paper supply issues.

Print industry professional Stephanie Gaddin has been appointed treasurer for Women in Print, replacing exiting board officer and treasurer, Sarah Moore, who will stay on the NSW committee.

Australia’s biggest print magazines are getting bigger, with the big two – Coles and Woolworths' Fresh – gaining significantly more readers in the past 12 months. Only three of the top 25 saw a decline last year, with 22 seeing growth. The Fresh Christmas run was 2.5 million.

Gold Coast operation Foyer Printing has installed PrintFlow DIPS on its two B2 Komoris, bringing digital ink preset control to the machines, reducing make-ready by half, improving colour, and reducing waste.

Wallsend-based business Genr8 Printing is entering the digital label print market, and intends to attract new business with its new OKI Pro 1050 label printer and Virgo finishing system.

Direct to garment solution developer Kornit achieved record fourth quarter revenue, saw a 67 per cent increase in its full year and says it is on track to achieve its $1bn revenue figure by 2026, three times higher than its current level.

Press manufacturing giant Heidelberg is launching more new offset presses - the Speedmaster CX 92 and the Speedmaster CX 104, are now available, along with the Speedmaster SX 102 perfecting model, presses Heidelberg says offer the highest levels of output, with cost savings.

The first in-person HP Indigo user group event since Covid is taking place this week, with printers, Aussies among them, seeing new launches from HP at their location in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains.

Australian colour management, ISO and G7 specialist, Colour Graphic Services, is launching a trade-in offer on any older spectrophotometer or colorimiter, to a Myiro-1 in Australia and New Zealand.

Auspack exhibitor Konica Minolta predicts 2022 will to be a stronger year for the print industry due to demand for applications such as label, light packaging, and wide-format printing.

The devastating floods that smashed a large area of the country have wreaked havoc on offset and digital house Lismore City Printery, spelling the end for the 70-year-old business.

The ANZ industry’s biggest equipment supplier, Currie Group, is bringing the new Cron 46H+ B1 platesetter to market, promoting its quality output, ease of use, and ease on the wallet.