After five years in development, Avery Dennison used Visual Impact to unveiled what it says is a significant leap in sustainable innovation, SP 1504 Easy Apply RS, for car wrapping and corporate branding.

In an exciting moment at Visual Impact, the team from EcoLease drew Deidre Jones from Dream Designs Studio as the winner of the Laminations Systems’ Show Giveaway.

Some 400 New Zealand print professionals gathered for this year’s night of nights, the National Pride in Print Awards, held at the Takina Events centre in Wellington. All the winners revealed.

Global sign and display expo producer, Fespa, has achieved ISO 20121:2012 certification for Sustainable Event Management, for implementing a sustainable event management system.

It was a full house at the Munich Brauhaus in Melbourne as the industry came together to review the trends and directions set at drupa, and for the Victorian LIA Graduate of the Year Awards presentation.

Around 60 Sydney print professionals joined together at The Bavarian beerhouse, for a review of the trends and directions set at the recent drupa exhibition in Düsseldorf.

Veteran marketer and Print21 columnist, Malcolm Auld, has launched the world’s first free live marketing talk show, delivered using Synergy Effect’s award-winning InfluenceTV platform.

Screen is launching a new roll-fed digital inkjet press, the Truepress Jet 560HDX, aimed at the commercial print sector,, and the latest version of its Truepress Jet digital label press.

It was at drupa 2012 that Landa first showed its nanographic printing concept; a dozen years later it is now selling presses, although not in ANZ, and will release two new versions at drupa.

Kurz will have its biggest-ever stand at this drupa, in fact 50 per cent bigger than last time, where it will show the full range of its embellishing options, including a digital embellishing system.

Heidelberg will launch its most automated press yet, the 21,000sph push-to-stop Peak Performance Heidelberg Speedmaster 106XL, at drupa in less than three weeks time.

With its new generation of cutsheet colour printers, its first inkjet B2 press, a new continuous feed inkjet, and software developments, Ricoh will have much to show at the upcoming expo.

Canon Production Print says drupa will see a host of new technologies launched on its stand, all the results of an R&D spend which is eight per cent of its total revenue.

Imaging giant Epson will be exhibiting under its 'sho sho sei' spirit of innovation mantra, which translates as precision, compact and energy saving, with a host of new developments on the stand.

The Adelaide Women in Print breakfast event is sold out, with tickets for Melbourne and Sydney also nearing sell out, as the seven-city two week series kicked off yesterday.

Visual Connections will hold post-drupa briefings dinner events in both Sydney and Melbourne in June, at which the NSW and Victorian 2024 LIA Graduate of the Year Awards presentations will also be made.