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.

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.