Wide format print systems manufacturer Durst is consolidating its roll-fed and flatbed production into one expanded site, with a new leadership team.

Every one of the roughly 70,000 NSW students who completed their Higher School Certificate (HSC) exams last year has reportedly received a certificate printed with the wrong date. Education minister Rob Stokes (pictured) vowed the mistake would be fixed immediately.

Industry identity Graham Trickey (pictured) has taken over as operations director at American-owned packaging giant WestRock Company after a four-and-a-half-year stint at Visy. Trickey has also worked for Dominion Print, Lilyfield Print and Hannanprint.

Visual Connections has appointed event manager Sarah Moore as its new business development manager following the departure of former general manager Karen Goldsmith from the organisation last year.

Label printers and packagers need to be aware of the risks associated with chemical migration, according to a new white paper from Jet Technologies, which says low-weight particles with a molecular weight of less than 1000 Daltons can enter cells in the human body.

Aftermarket suppliers have captured 33 per cent of monochrome toner shipments worldwide and about 25 per cent of revenue, and have also made gains in the colour space, according to a new report from analysts Virtulytix.

Paper, packaging and wide format supplier Spicers is being bought by Japanese paper giant KPP, in a $146.7m deal set to go through in July, subject to shareholder approval.

With the value that embellishments can add to printing work, many businesses are jumping on board to pretty up their print. The question soon comes up, however: when should printers invest in their own embellishing kit, as opposed to outsourcing to a for-trade finishing house?

Uptime is the essential factor when calculating productivity, even more so than speed. Delivering fast and reliable service to ensure maximum utilisation is more than a mission statement for Konica Minolta. Read the full report in Print21 magazine.

National trade printing house CMYKhub has installed five 
HP Indigo Digital Presses, the biggest order supplier Currie Group 
has received in the 17 years it has been supplying the presses.

Victoria’s leading print training centre Holmesglen is establishing a strong and stable position in the tumultuous world of print education. Programme director Paul Ross talks to editor Wayne Robinson in the latest issue of Print21 magazine.

Changing times at two printing outfits, Dotprint in Springvale and Cardboard Containers in Rosebery sees a heap of printing and converting equipment up for auction. The plant and equipment for a complete B1 printing operation from Dotprint and surplus kit at Carboard Containers is being auctioned over the next two weeks.

Melbourne marketing services provider Intertype has installed a new Fuji Xerox Iridesse, and the first in the country with the Color-Logic special effects software.

Well known industry identity Rob Mollee is the new Kodak Australasia sales director, responsible for sales and the sales team for the Australia and New Zealand Graphics Market of the Kodak Printing Systems Division.

Die making trade house Rotometrics is investing in upgrading its Melbourne centre, in a move it says will reduce turnaround time by eight per cent.

The government expects three quarters of the population to complete the next census online, pushing print further away. This is despite the shambles in 2016 when it went online for the first time only to infamously crash out on the day.