Making sure the new HP Indigo 20000 at Luminar is looking its best is Currie Group NSW account manager Will Currie (right), who bet Luminar owner Matt Ellis (left) that he would personally clean the press, in appropriate apparel, if Ellis signed the order.

The QLM Label Makers Group took top honours at the HP Asia Pacific and Japan Digital Awards as the Grand Winner - Labels for its Food Label: Pukara Estate Mosaic Series that featured 1000 unique label designs.

The Bottcher Systems buyout of Brissett Rollers creates a manufacturing and service company of scale in Australia using the best aspects of both companies. Under Mitch Mulligan (pictured) it intends to meet the market with a combination of German imports and local roller manufacturing.

Durst and Koenig & Bauer have signed their joint venture agreement, which paves the way for the joint development and marketing of single-pass digital printing systems for the folding carton and corrugated fibreboard industry.

One lucky Yupo printer will be on an all expenses paid trip to watch Australia versus Wales in the Rugby World Cup, taking place in Japan in September.

With the digital labels and packaging market set to grow by 13 per cent in each of the next two years XMPie regional sales manager Enda Kavenagh says adding value will be key to printers achieving maximum results.

Finnish, Russian, Korean and Slovakian exporters of A4 copy paper into Australia will be slugged with import duties, after they were found to have been selling dumped paper into Australia.

GJI has bought multi-award winning sign and display printer Colourcorp, and will continue to run it as a stand-alone business within its Group.

Gold Coast printer Ecoprint is offering a new licence opportunity which it says will enable designers and anyone with some prepress knowledge the ability to sell print themselves.

The swing away from plastic to paper and board in packaging will gain added momentum after this Sunday's edition of Channel Nine TV show 60 Minutes, which is set to send shockwaves through the country, in what it says is a major exposé of Australia's plastic recycling crisis.

Once upon a time, paper was paper and fabric was fabric and never the twain did meet. As digital technology advances into the textile printing market, however, the rise of direct-to-garment (DTG) solutions has opened up new opportunities that commercial printers never had before.

Epson is launching a new high productivity, industrial UV digital label press, the SurePress L-6534VW, which it says is competitively priced and complies with the European framework Regulation on Food Contact Materials (FCM).

Jet Technologies has unveiled the Quick 54 thermal film laminating machine for small format print projects.

The new Roland DG TrueVis VG2 series of eco-solvent printer-cutters has won the 2019 ISA Sign Expo Innovation Award in the "Printer" category.

The sign and print industry is facing a major shake-up, as the country's biggest franchise operator Jim's is coming into the sector, initially offering sign businesses, and sign employees looking to set up on their own, the opportunity to market under the Jim's brand.

Shadow treasurer and shadow minister for small business Chris Bowen has pledged that Labor's skills training package will not be restricted by occupation, meaning that print apprentices will be able to access it.