There is no getting out of printing – ask industry identity Peter Sage, formerly proprietor of supplier Graftek.

Landa is looking at installing half a dozen of its Nano presses in Australia in the next three years.

User of the online design website Canva have had their data stolen by hackers.

Konica Minolta Australia is launching Prokom to its Australian customers.

Longina Phillips Designs has installed a new Epson SureColor to print its textile designs.

Screen GP Australia is launching its PlateRite Ultima 24000N series of large format thermal plate recorders.

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Two paper merchants have invoices out with stricken print business Whirlwind for more than $1m each. Meanwhile staff have been told to apply to the government's Fegs scheme for their entitlements.

Alexandria print house Network Print Studio has hit the wall and is in voluntary liquidation.

Blue Star Direct is expanding and upgrading its digital fleet in Sydney with a new HP PageWide Web Press T370HD, a move it says is in response to increasing demand for agile and high-quality digital printing.

The proposed acquisition of web offset printer Inkwise by rival Mainland Print in New Zealand is in limbo, as the Commerce Commission looks deeper into the implications of the deal for the nation's web printing.

The emergence of direct-to-package and direct-to-container printing is shaping up as a major threat to traditional label printing; however for now label printing is still on the rise, to the tune of 4.4 per cent a year.

The country's largest trade printer CMYKhub is buying the assets of rival Whirlwind, as industry consolidation continues apace. Speaking to Print21 this morning, CMYKhub managing director Trent Nankervis said, “Whirlwind managing director Andrew Cester (pictured) and I have been talking for five years."

The Hannan family is increasing its stake in the country's biggest printer Ovato (formerly PMP) as the company offers its shareholders new stock in a $15.5m cash raising bid.

Printing Industries Association of Australia (PIAA) is congratulating the government on its surprise re-election, and is set to continue its lobbying on five fronts.

Mezographic has ordered a new Durst flatbed digital UV printer in a €750,000 deal inked at Fespa in Munich.