Those who say the era of printing iron is coming to an end will need to think again, as Heidelberg signs its biggest deal in years, with a commercial printer taking 11 B1 Speedmaster 106 XL presses.

James Hannan is the new CEO of print giant Ovato, succeeding Kevin Slaven, as the company sells its retail distribution and marketing services businesses to enable it to focus on printing. Are Media is now a vertically integrated ANZ publish, print and distribute business.

A ransonware attack on Fujifilm has seem it close down its entire external online network, leaving it unable to fulfill email orders. Print businesses in Australia and New Zealand can use the call centre to phone through their orders for plates, inks and other consumables, and to book service calls.

Press manufacturer Koenig & Bauer has joined rival Heidelberg with what it says is a moderate price adjustment, as it faces escalating raw materials, silicon chips, and shipping costs.

Minto-based Westman Printing has brought its perfect binding capabilities in-house, and is offering a trade service, with the installation of a new Horizon BQ-270 perfect binder, supplied by Currie Group.

Paper is not the only price rise printers are having to contend with, as the world’s biggest press manufacturer Heidelberg flags increases across its range, citing many of the same reasons as the paper merchants.

Finsbury Green has installed a new Konica Minolta AccurioPress C14000 digital colour printer, with inline finishing and automated colour control enabling the company to reduce labour input and increase productivity.

Canon Production Printing Australia has launched the ColorStream 8000 series of continuous feed inkjet printers, which will target offset and continuous feed toner work.

Plockmatic Group company Morgana Systems is launching a new DigiFold Pro XL creasing and folding machine, which will be available through Renz in Australia and Imagetec in New Zealand.

Almost a year after News Ltd closed the doors on its Kawana print centre in Rockhampton the plant is back up and running, under new owners Today Group, and is printing a plethora of newspapers, old and new.

HP has used global online user event Dscoop to launch several new products, and given the green light to the commercial availability of its flagship HP Indigo 35K folding carton print system.

Konica Minolta New Zealand held the grand opening of its new Auckland showroom, created to enable customers to experience the company's new innovations.

Almost a year to the day after Melbourne print business Bambra Press went into voluntary administration, John Wanless will once again take over the business, which is now slimmer than before. A near unanimous vote on the DOCA saw unsecured creditors opt for 20c in the dollar.

The world’s biggest press manufacturer Heidelberg is running a webinar at 5pm next Thursday on print automation, based around its push-to-stop concept of full production integration.

The outfit to be worn by the Israeli entry in this year’s global high point of culture, the Eurovision Song Contest, has been printed on Kornit direct-to-garment technology.

The fallout from the worst year in print’s history continues, with the iconic Zanders paper mill closing, for good, just shy of 200 years after it started operations, its owners laying the blame on Covid.