Industry

Wide format printer manufacturer Roland DG is offering printers $5000 cashback on their old printers if they invest in a new TrueVIS VG540 or VG640.

The booming outdoor media sector is being investigated by the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission over its discounting and rebates practices.

The energy used throughout the Apple business, in 43 countries around the world, is now derived from 100 per cent renewable sources. It relies on a mix of wind, solar, biomass and hydro power, much of it installed by Apple.

Kolbus CEO Kai Büntemeyer has suddenly left the company, surprising the industry after a 20 year stint at the helm of the historic business.

Townsville print businesses have largely avoided damage by the huge floods that have devasted much of the city, thanks to them being located on the high side of the area. However they are facing issues of stock supply, as the roads into the town remain cut off.

The PIAA has met with industry minister Angus Taylor to press print's energy concerns, and recommend actions that it says are neccesary for the stability of print.

The country's biggest printer PMP is consolidating its portfolio of more than 20 businesses into Ovato, a new brand for the $756m company. CEO Kevin Slaven flagged the change at the company's AGM late last year.


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The great and the good of Sydney's wide format industry gathered at Cactus Imaging for an in-depth presentation on the company, and a viewing of Australia's first Fujifilm Acuity Ultra in action.

Display print pioneer Jeff Gittus has passed away, leaving much of the print industry in mourning, with tributes pouring in on social media.

New business ABC Copier Solutions is offering to pay for unwanted digital printers, and to take them away, saving print businesses the pain of trying to dispose of the printers.

Industry veteran and colour expert Luke Wooldridge is the new national sales manager at Fujifilm Graphic Systems, joining from Kodak where he has spent the past four years.

Changes in lending practices to small and medium sized businesses were not in the recommedations of Kenneth Hayne's report of the Banking Royal Commission, but lending could still tighten.

The CEO of Vistaprint parent company Cimpress has left the company, as founder Robert Keane described the Q2 results as 'the worst in a long time' and put himself back as CEO.

Media Super, like all industry super funds, appears to have come through the Royal Commission in good health. Among the blizzard of accusations of bad dealings and bad faith, the not-for-profit industry funds shone like a beacon. Print21 editor Wayne Robinson asks Media Super CEO Graeme Russell why that is.