Fuji Xerox Australia is launching the Versant 3100i Press/Versant 180i Press, digital colour printers which come with new features, that the company says are more flexible, smarter and simpler, ensuring optimised productivity for ANZ print businesses.

EFI is launching two new printers for the high-end, high productivity soft signage market, which it claims will help display graphics producers reach new heights in productivity and extend their capabilities.

Excel Australasia has installed a new Horizon perfect binder and three-knife trimmer – both supplied by Currie Group – to meet the demands of a major new contract win.

The world's biggest web-to-print operation Vistaprint is expanding its portfolio, acquiring 99designs to offer clients a low-cost bespoke design service, adding to its standard templates and its user-uploaded layouts.

The biggest print equipment deal of the year has just been signed, with online giant Amazon inking a contract for US$400m with digital direct to garment and textile inkjet print systems developer Kornit Digital.

Pioneering digital enhancement solutions developer Scodix is launching what it says is the next generation of its Ultra Digital Enhancement Press Series, consisting of six presses, each targeted to a specific market segment, and all supplied in ANZ by Currie Group.

The nation’s biggest trade printer, CMYKhub, is seeing a spike in orders as Covid restrictions lift. From next week it will be adding additional shifts in its major factories, and returning to next-day delivery for some products.

A B Graphic International has expanded its range of modules for its Digicon Series 3 with the launch of its latest, newly branded, digital technology – DigiJet (JetFX), supplied in ANZ by Currie Group.

Press manufacturing giant Koenig & Bauer is implementing what it says is a far-reaching four-year restructuring plan, under the Performance 2024 moniker, as it deals with the ongoing effects of the pandemic, which is reducing press investment levels around the world.

The new owner of Sunshine Coast printing operation trading as Express Print & Mail took a five-year lease on its new 1400sqm Kunda Park premises before the former business, that had previously owned the business and the same name, was put into liquidation with debts listed at $4m.

The print industry has a new name out in the field, with Southern Impact now the brand for what were Southern Colour, Intelligent Media, and Impact Digital, forming a powerhouse business operating under one brand.

Following an article in Print 21 published 18 September, Wendy Chadwick has had a number of enquiries about a recent business restructure. She said: "To correct any misconceptions and fully inform those who know only part of the story", she has, "decided to issue this statement."

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.