Sharing the presses took on a whole new meaning, as readers of Sydney's Daily Telegraph were left wondering if the paper had suddenly veered off its right wing trajectory, when pages from the Sydney Morning Herald appeared in the Murdoch paper.

Sydney's Canada Bay Council sparked outrage on Anzac Day with its commemorative signage, first for getting probably the best known phrase in Australia wrong, and then second for ignoring local printers and having the banners printed in China.

Despite his electioneering on a 'manufacture in Australia' policy billionaire Clive Palmer's United Australia Party is having its election corflutes printed in China.

Imaging giant HP is entering the nascent digital print for textiles market, with the launch of the Stitch series of inkjet fabric printers.

With all the current furore about plastic, the graphics industry can do more when it comes to plastic, such as printing instructions on the package for recycling or composting, writes Laurel Brunner.

Australia's biggest trade printer CMYKhub is exiting the UK on Friday, citing a change in strategic direction with a focus on its Australasian businesses, coinciding with a lease ending, as the reason.

Melbourne's biggest printer Waratah Group says the ATO-issued winding up order against it is due to an anomaly, and the outstanding amount will be paid in full on May 3.

Peak industry association PIAA says it is closer to securing funding for print courses at Queenland TAFEs, following a breakthrough multi-stakeholder meeting in Brisbane.

Independent candidate for Hume, Huw Kingston, believes politicians should put their money where their mouths are, and to show he is serious about the environment he is doing away with the usual plastic corflute advertising signs, and using Oppboga recyclable waterproof cardboard - supplied by Starleaton - instead.

Some 270 staff and channel partners from across Australia have taken part in the Konica Minolta sales kick-off, which saw the company aiming to build on its ten years of successive growth.

Fujifilm will use its booth at Fespa Global Print Expo next month in Munich to showcase the Acuity Ultra, a superwide format printer targeted at the high end indoor graphics and outdoor signage markets.

Wide format systems supplier Mutoh has had its original LED-UV ink, or US11 ink, Greenguard certified. The certification on US11 ink is across the Mutoh ValueJet range including wide format printers and promotional printers.

Mimaki is launching a new flatbed UV printer, the JFX200-2513 EX, five years after its predecessor JFX200-2513 came onto the market.

EFI is being sold to US private equity fund Siris, which is stumping up $1.7bn in a leveraged all-cash deal for 100 per cent of the shares to acquire the billion dollar technology business, aiming to realise super-charged growth in packaging and textile printing for its returns.

The majority of Kwik Kopy franchisees are set to become members of peak industry association PIAA, with the owners' group unanimously voting to join at its biennial conference.

Press giant Heidelberg is launching boxuni - which it says is the world’s first web-to-pack platform and digital production solution for designing and ordering customised folding cartons – in partnership with one of China’s leading packaging manufacturers, Xianjunlong Colour Printing.