In a major Melbourne shake-up Southern Colour is buying Naresh Gulati’s Rooster IMC, creating one of the country’s biggest print businesses. The deal is essentially an asset sale.

Long established Melbourne print businesses TC Printing and Conlay Press are merging, with Conlay moving into the TC Printing premises.

Some 100 printers and politicians mixed and mingled at the second Print2Parliament event held in the Mural Hall of Parliament House, with printers pressing their case for government support in five key categories.

Adelaide's Swift Signs is in voluntary administration, as supplier Ramair Packaging seeks a winding up order against an unpaid debt from the company.

Sydney-based wide-format printer and display supplier ADI Displays has been hit with a cyber security breach affecting more than 1000 of its customers.

EFI is hosting a webinar aa 9am on Monday which will look at the experience of Melbourne business Impact Digital's online activity.

Print research agency Smithers is forecasting that in 2029 the global digital print market will be more than double the 2014 size, with an average CAGR of 5.3 per cent.

The new Océ Colorado 1650 roll-to-roll wide-format production printer is about to roll out across Australia following its debut at PrintEx, where it won a Print21 Hot Pick.

Agfa has introduced its new Eclipse process-free printing plate, which it bills as being just as easy to use as a conventional plate.

The LIA has celebrated International Print Day with events in Sydney and Brisbane, where members could network and learn about new innovations in print.

A research project at Griffith University has put out a call for printers to share their strategies for innovation.

Despite the rise of digital print, offset still surpasses it for cost efficiency and speed on longer runs. Major press manufacturers continue to develop their offerings for commercial and packaging printers, as Jake Nelson reports in the latest issue of Print21 magazine.

The country’s biggest two printers Ovato and IVE are facing a future where the country’s two biggest publishers are just one, as Bauer Media is spending $40m to buy Pacific Magazines.

Current Bauer Media commercial director Paul Gardiner is to succeed Simon Ellis as managing director of Ovato’s New Zealand operations. Gardiner takes over at a testing time with margins under pressure.

Security printing operation Note Printing Australia has installed a new B2 KBA Rapida 76 eight colour perfector at its Craigieburn factory.

Bobst is launching the Vision CI flexo press, which it says is designed to deliver the most efficient performance for all production lengths on a wide range of substrates.