Victorian sign printer Smart Graphics and Signs has been placed into liquidation over an unpaid debt to the Australian Taxation Office. A court appointed Paul Langdon, of Vince and Associates, as liquidator on Friday.

EFI is hosting a three-part lunchtime webinar series looking at opportunities in corrugated digital, beginning this Thursday. The EFI Educational Webinars will discuss how businesses are already making the move to digital, expanding their range of work, and winning new customers.

Wide-format equipment manufacturer Mimaki has opened its new showroom in Brisbane, its third on the Australian east coast after Sydney and Melbourne. Located in Murarrie, the new 150 square metre facility has two salespeople and two certified Mimaki technicians.

The New Zealand Pride in Print Awards are offering a free online entry for the 2019 awards, valued at $75 plus GST, to the winner of a Facebook competition.

Printing Industries has partnered with the Australian Red Cross to offer members discounts on first aid training, aimed at ensuring workplace safety. PIAA members can access discounts of between 10 and 35 per cent on Red Cross first aid training courses.

Chinese candy packager LVAI will expand its fleet of HP Indigo 20000 digital presses to eight, in what is the Asia-Pacific and Japan region’s largest deployment of the press model to date.

The Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU) has withdrawn its submission to update the competencies under the graphic arts award. Lorraine Cassin, AMWU (pictured) said the Australian Industry Group (AIG) was not prepared to work constructively in the process.

Deputy Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek has met with Andrew Macaulay, CEO of Printing Industries, who says Plibersek gave her support for the need to overhaul vocational education and training (VET).

Kodak has sold its flexographic packaging division to a private equity firm for up to an estimated $390 million USD ($540m AUD). The sale to Montagu Private Equity will see the division spun off into a new standalone company.

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Ricoh has purchased German colour management software specialist ColorGate, the latest move in the manufacturer's strategy to boost growth by expanding its product portfolio. According to Jonny Rumney, Celmac (pictured), the move will help ColorGate grow its footprint.

Diversified marketing services group IVE has officially opened its new $50m Franklin Web NSW print centre, wowing guests at the opening event with its unprecedented levels of automation.

Furious unsecured creditors of Perth based Picton Press are up in arms, as the company is set to come out of administration with a Deed of Company Arrangement (DOCA) that the administrator says will see most creditors receive between just 1c and 2c in the dollar for the $2.25m they are owed.

The ability of a DOCA enabled PIcton Press to operate an ongoing sustainable business will to a large extent depend on its paper supply, and options appear to be shrinking.

An elite troupe of Israeli software engineers delivers two days of in-depth workflow and cross media presentations to local printers and coders at the inaugural XMPie regional innovation event, hosted by Enda Kavanagh, Sales Manager - Asia Pacific at XMPie.

Impact Labels has become one of just two companies certified by Coles Supermarkets as a preferred flexographic label provider. In a trial, Impact used UV flexo solutions from Jet Technologies to achieve a 97 per cent accuracy in matching Pantone and special colours.