Industry

The open house slated for tonight at Cactus Imaging has been postponed until February next year, due to the impact of today's storms in Sydney.

Print industry veteran Adrian Blessington (pictured left) is selling his business, Green and Gold Printing, to Corey London's (pictured right) Special T, uniting two Sydney printers in a deal long in the making.

Brisbane based Bailey Print Group has hit the higher echelons of regional wide format printing by taking out top spot in three categories at the HP regional APJ large format sign and display print excellence awards.

The world's biggest online retailer Amazon has printed a Christmas catalogue for its USA business, as it attempts to cash in on the demise of the giant Toys R Us business.

EFI has unveiled its new Reggiani Bolt high-speed textile inkjet printer, capable of printing at 600 x 600 dpi at 90 metres per minute in a single pass. The Bolt features a new recirculation printhead system with greyscale drop sizes between five and 30 picolitres.

Press giant manroland Goss has bought the intellectual property of press control systems and RFID solutions provider Harland Simon. Dennis Wickham (pictured), managing director of manroland Australasia, said the deal was good news for Australian and NZ printers.

With plastic the hot button topic at the moment, Australian media manufacturer, Megara, has launched a video showing how it recycles its Promeg polypropylene sheet.

Sydney-based Gopher Graphic Communications is in liquidation, the second time in four years the design, print and mail business owned by Ed Jones has hit the skids.

Book printer Griffin Press has signed a new four year $56m contract with Penguin Randon House, for both hardcover and paperback titles.

A huge crowd turned out for the re-opening of the Penrith Museum of Printing on Wednesday night, with around 80 guests coming out to see the newly-renovated facilities - including the granddaughters of founder Alan Connell.

Magazine publishing is a rewarding, if challenging pursuit, especially in Australia which used to rejoice in having the largest per head consumption. But if the rewards are good, the risks are high, as a tale of two magazine shows.

Two-time King of the Wrap World Nick Caminiti of Exotic Graphix in Melbourne has teamed up with wrap expert Justin Pate, of The Wrap Institute in the United States, to give a charity van a much-needed makeover.

Esko has opened a new facility in Germany to consolidate its flexo platemaking systems operations under one roof. The new 4300sqm facility will encompass research, engineering, product development, testing, and production.


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The Real Media Collective (RMC) will hold its Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 12 December in Melbourne. Kellie Northwood, CEO (pictured), encourages members to come and celebrate the year that was.

Multi-award winning WA print business Scott Print has invested in a new Fuji Xerox Iridesse, the six-unit digital colour print solution.

Rawson Print Co is enabling retail giant Kmart and confectionery brand Cadbury to sell personalised printed gift packs of Dairy Milk chocolate, with customers able to have their names printed on labels in-store.