Celebrate the Power of Print – a visual showcase and recognition of the innovation, impact, creativity, care, pride and respect that separates print from all other mediums. MC is comedian and TV personality, Julia Morris.

The LIA is embracing the resurgence of embellishment and other ‘craft’ technologies in the Australian printing industry with an industry dinner dedicated to the subject on 23 October.

Bookings close at the end of this week for a Sydney lunchtime seminar to help printing companies to develop an innovation edge in client management.

Print21’s Drupa Snooper, Andy McCourt, takes a close look at how a three-year drupa cycle could wreak havoc with Europe’s crowded printing trade fair circuit.

Get your giggle on at this year’s NSW PICAs with one of Australia’s most loved comedians, Julia Morris, who is back to host this year’s awards night in Sydney on 2 November.

Australian HP press users have one last chance this year to get to a local Dscoop workshop, with the final Australian Dscoop event for 2012 to be held on 24 October.

Colorpak is feeling the effects of the Chinese health care system following the re-signing of a five-year, $30 million packaging deal with local pharmaceutical company, AstraZeneca.

North Melbourne human resources company, INGT, makes a successful bid for Tom Stockdale’s printing industry recruitment business, Stockdale Printstaff.

The competition watchdog is giving the green light for Champ Equity-owned outdoor media company, oOh! Media, to go ahead with its $145 million purchase of Ten Network outdoor advertising business, Eye Corp.

Ascent Partners' Richard Rasmussen looks at all the major mergers, acquisitions, administrations, installations and sales in the local printing industry for the month of September.

The first of the new generation of high-speed inkjet engines, an InfoPrint 5000, will be installed at Computershare’s premises in Brisbane in December. The investment extends Computershare’s capability to deliver personalised ‘white paper’ bills and statements along the entire East Coast.

Printing Industries is enlisting the former national foresight manager for global brewing giant, Foster’s, to speak at its Planning and Innovating for the Future seminars in October and November.

The Federal Government’s supposed commitment to the manufacturing Industry is coming under the spotlight with the announcement this week of a five per cent reduction in print spending under budget cuts announced by Penny Wong, Minister for Finance and Deregulation.

Channel Nine television personality, Lauren Phillips, is gearing up to host the Victorian industry’s Printing Industry Craftsmanship Awards Presentation Dinner in November.

Last week the doors opened a little wider to admit – and even welcome – a new breed to the printing industry. It may be too melodramatic to say that history was made, but nonetheless, it was an historic event. For the first time in the history of our industry, the existence of digital print was acknowledged as a legitimate, vital and now permanent part of the landscape – taking its place alongside offset, not as a poor-relation but as an equal.

If it’s true that everyone in business is – to some extent – engaged in marketing and sales, then attendance at the Masters of Marketing seminar series in October should be compulsory. At a time when technology is in danger of overwhelming and stifling significant communication, the irreverent wisdom of three amigos of marketing is like a breath of fresh air.