Inkjet has conquered large format display graphics, it is surging in label printing, and has swept through direct mail and book printing. Now the barriers to widespread adoption by commercial printers are falling away.

Kodak has acquired Graphic Systems Services, the engineering company that has been building the transport systems for its inkjet presses, in a move to ensure supply, and ramp up production.

Kurz, the biggest supplier of hot and cold transfer products in ANZ, has launched a new service, delivering flat stamping dies manufactured to order.

With the sharp rise in on-demand wallpapers for home décor, driven by home reno TV shows, Xeikon and Ahlstrom have collaborated for a new peel-away media.

Fujifilm Business Innovation Australia is launching three new production colour press models; the Revoria Press EC1100 and Revoria Press SC180 / SC170, with AI image enhancement.

Buddco, the company contracted by ink manufacturer DIC to supply labour for its Auburn site, has been fined $600,000, following the death of a worker, and serious injury of another, in an ink vat they were cleaning, in what Safework NSW said was an avoidable incident. DIC itself has already been fined $450,000 over its part in the deadly event.

Kodak has launched its Prinergy Access content management SaaS solution. It provides full connectivity to any digital press, as well as to any on-premise third-party or Kodak Prinergy workflow.

Global technology provider for print and packaging companies, eProductivity Software, has unveiled a partnership with HP, at Dscoop Edge, which has just taken place in St Louis.

Specialist short-run, on demand book printing operation Ranz Print is boosting its production capacity with a second Horizon perfect binding line and a new Horizon three knife trimmer, from Currie Group.

PVCA has told the government review that Australia Post must introduce pricing stability, promote business mail, and engage with industry and stakeholders, in order to meet the needs of the print and mail industry, and the wider community, in its Letters business.

Jag Khairjani and Durga Murjani's Footscray Minuteman store has taken out the company’s the Top Overall Performance Award from their franchisor, Minuteman Press International.

Cloud-based print management solutions printIQ has appointed John Alden as its new CEO. Alden comes with years of experience in the print and software industries.

The proposed deal by papermaking giant Sappi to reduce its exposure to graphic arts papers, by selling three of its mills to p/e fund Aurelius in a $400m deal, collapsed at the 11th hour.

Press manufacturing giant Koenig & Bauer is targeting further growth this year, following a 6.3 per cent rise in group revenue to €1.186bn for 2022, with sheetfed revenues up by 5 per cent.

WA-based Daytone Printing is in voluntary liquidation, some 25 years after the general commercial printer, which ran with offset and digital presses, was founded.

Canon Australia is launching the imagePrograf TC-20M, a four-colour CMYK, large format, desktop printer, with an A4 flatbed scanner. Canon says even first-time users can easily create large format prints.