Marketing, communications, and printing group IVE is launching ivolve, its expanded hygiene and personal protective equipment (PPE) offering, designed to help businesses return to the workplace safely.

AAB Holdings, the owner of print businesses Pegasus Print Group and SOS Print + Media, has gone to market in what will most likely be one of the industry’s largest digital print technology upgrades and expansions this year.

Sydney based Glory Printing is seeing a significant upswing in its productivity, with the installation of a new Horizon BQ-270 perfect binding system, supplied by Currie Group.

The Mail Boxes Etc franchise network has reached a new milestone in its long-standing history in Australia, reaching 40 franchise locations with a new store opening in Port Macquarie, NSW.

The company that was formerly Sunshine Coast-based Express Print & Mail is in liquidation with debts of $4m, although the Express Print & Mail business, including the brand itself, was sold prior to liquidation, and is now trading from a new address in nearby Kunda Park.

Speaking at a live Q&A session this morning to printers around the world, innovative printing system developer Benny Landa says his nanographic technology will become mainstream and will produce multiple applications in every print field.

Kodak has extended its partnership with German AI developer PerfectPattern in a deal which it says will enable “unmatched” levels of automation in its Prinergy On Demand workflow.

As the domestic newspaper printing industry rationalises, New Corp has released details of its new Vic print plant, revealing it has taken an initial 10-year lease on the 11,000sqm site in Truganina on the outskirts of Melbourne.

The owner of Digitalpress, bsigroup, has appointed industry veteran Cameron Williams as general manager of the company, following the end of the handover period that saw founder Theo Pettaras leave the business.

While the digital revolution is lapping at the shores of the offset press world, and is transforming the way printers work, offset presses are themselves in constant development, and opening up new opportunities.

Hilton Laminating is currently celebrating its 40th year in business, with the family owned business still run by founder John Peck, and committed to innovation in laminating for the local market.

In the latest of a series of analysis pieces from inkjet specialist Régis Thienard he says we are at a clear tipping point for inkjet to become a dominant technology.

Andrew Bailes-Collins at Enfocus says quality control and automation should work hand-in-hand to ensure job files are up to scratch, and stay that way, throughout the print process.

One printing file to output the same colour standard on any substrate from any type of output device – the nirvana of printing – in a multimedia landscape is a step closer, as David Crowther, aka the Colour Doctor, brings the IdeaAlliance G7 methodology to the region.

HP Indigo users in Australia and New Zealand are seeing their waste consumables recycled into steel, laptop cases, roads, and back into presses, through the Close the Loop initiative.

With print business owners and managers operating in a high-pressure environment, and now the coronavirus Covid-19 to contend with, mental health advocate Steve Gamble says there are simple steps we can all instigate to ensure we are well grounded.