Currie Group, HP and Dscoop are teaming up to run Operator Saturday, a one day special training event for the country's HP Indigo operators, date is Saturday 23 February, location Currie Group HQ in Hawthorn.

Australian businesses have the talent to innovate, but lack strategic focus or a sense of urgency, according to a new study by Ricoh in its Workplace Innovation Index.

The double printing auction for equipment from Dotprint in Springvale and Cardboard Containers in Rosebery will now finish on Friday, as the volume of traffic casued the Printing Machinery Auctions website to crash yesterday on what should have been the final day of the online auction.

Dutch online print portal is setting up in the ANZ market, with Happyprinting signing a franchise deal for Kiwi print broker SMP Solutions.

Parramatta-based Vertex Print is in liquidation, with the general jobbing printer owned by Binaya Timaisina going into voluntary liquidation on Monday.

Stuff New Zealand is one of the global winners of the Kodak Sonora Plate Green Leaf environmental Award. Stuff is the Kiwi arm of what was Fairfax.

Printing and communication paper imports fell by 10.5 per cent in the year to November, to 605,000 tonnes, according to the latest Pulp & Paper Edge Report by Tim Woods, and it was quality commercial stocks that fell the most.

The federal government is offering $20,000 digital transformation packages to small businesses, with printers urged to apply for the freebie, but they will need to get their application in over the weekend, as they only have until Monday, 4 Feb to apply.

Currie Group is hosting a series of sessions to promote the HP Indigo 7r series - the reconditioned versions of the best selling digital press.

Registration for the two concurrent print equipment auctions currently underway closes 5pm Monday, with the final auction day Tuesday.

Printers will be able to see the new Fuijfilm Acuity Ultra in action on Wednesday, as the supplier and the SGIAA host an Open House at first Australian customer Cactus Imaging.

Charti, large format printing specialists and long-term supplier of printers, media, ink, display systems and supplies, will now be a reseller for the Océ Technical Document System (TDS) printers in Queensland.

Power surges during heatwave conditions are damaging expensive printing equipment of PIAA member companies in another symptom of a dysfunctional power supply system, according to Andrew Macaulay, CEO.

Packaging solutions supplier Bobst is launching Helpline Plus AR which it says is the first ever remote assistance service in the packaging industry to incorporate a smart headset with augmented reality (AR) glasses.

Australian Graphic Services (AGS) is launching the Cron EZ Color digital inking system for offset presses, which it says reduces waste, increases quality and brings down profitable run lengths to challenge digital at just 20 sheets.

Global document solutions business Xerox saw its annual revenues for 2018 dip by 4.2 per cent or 4.9 per cent in constant currency terms to US$9.83bn, from US$10.26bn last year, and US$10.77bn the year before.