128950489 Pty Ltd (formerly known as Express Print & Mail Pty Ltd) owner Matthew Chadwick sold the business, assets, and brand to a new company owned by his mother Wendy Chadwick for $177,000, a month before putting the company that owned the business into liquidation.

Digital textile printing solutions developer Kornit Digital has hired former Daimler executive Ilan Elad as incoming president of the company’s Asia-Pacific (KDAP) division, succeeding Andy Yarrow.

IVE Group and Australian Community Media (ACM) have entered into a five-year $100m contract for IVE to print and distribute publications currently published and managed by ACM. IVE will also acquire ACM's Mandurah print plant, giving it its first print site in WA.

Australia's biggest apparel direct-to-garment printer QTCo is having a stellar year, and has installed two more Kornit DTG printers to join its fleet of four existing models.

Innovative finishing equipment developer Horizon – supplied in ANZ by Currie Group – is opening its new 10,000sqm Innovation Park with a virtual Smart Factory exhibition, beginning next week.

Sydney general commercial printer Arrow Print installed a new fully-optioned HP Indigo 7900 just before Covid hit and is now reaping the rewards of its metallic printing ability.

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.