German press giant KBA and inkjet solutions developer Durst are creating a 50/50 joint venture to produce a digital carton printing press, which will be available at drupa next year.

Chameleon Group Australia is offering to beat the price of any signage competitor in its local Hervey Bay area by 10 per cent, leaving local sign printers seething at the ability of Chameleon to go so low.

Signhere Signs has become the second business in Perth to install the new HP Rigid Latex R2000 flatbed print system.

A new development of grass based paper could seriously disrupt the packaging industry.

The choice between conventional and digital label printing is not as stark as you might think. Hybrid platforms, which combine traditional and digital processes in the one unit, can help future-proof your business against the unexpected.

While the year 2018 saw its fair share of companies hitting the wall there were just as many if not more printers moving ahead, investing and finding great opportunities.

2018 will be noted as the year print came out of the shadows and into the Canberra spotlight, thanks in large part to the tireless lobbying of the PIAA and Andrew Macaulay.

The year ended with some notable names no longer operating in the print industry; printers, vendors and individuals.

Two high profile cases both of whom denied they were phoenixes occupied the minds of rival printers this year, Chameleon in Queensland and Picton Press in WA.

It has been a long time since strikes hit the printing industry, but they returned in 2018, with the staff at Australian Paper's envelope factory and at the nation's banknote printer Note Printing Australia both taking serious industrial action.

The packaging industry hit the headlines in 2018 thanks to a global focus on sustainability, with plastic taking the title of enemy of the people.

The WA printing community is in uproar as debt-ridden Picton Press has managed to get the ATO's winding up order against it dismissed, so ridding itself of 99 per cent of its $2.25m debt to unsecured creditors.

Newly launched short run on demand digital textile printing business The Textile Hub has closed, with owners Next Printing citing lack of demand as its reason to shut up shop.

EFI’s Director of Operations for ANZ, Kathy Mitchell has made the decision to move on to the next chapter in her career.

Latest data from Pulp & Paper Edge reveals that printing and communication grade imports into both Australia and New Zealand fell by double digits in the year to October.

Konica Minolta has been awarded the top honour in the Australian Human Rights Commission Human Rights Award 2018 in the Business category, for showing leadership in the people-centred policies that promote human rights in its business and supply chain.