The company says the acquisition extends the Plockmatic booklet making range into the high-end market segment where digital prints are created using both toner and advanced high-speed inkjet technology.

The new service from Kodak not only helps offset print service providers save money, but also improves environmental impacts by helping to improve the management of waste, ink and energy usage.

On the outside it features a concrete look graphic, but on the inside it is a vibrant, tactile print experience emblazoned with graffiti graphics.

Visual Impact Sydney 2018 has opened at Sydney Olympic Park, and organisers are optimistic about attendance after a surge in pre-registration numbers.

There is a major shake-up in Industry Association land, with the Australasian Catalogue Association (ACA) merging with TSA Limited and the Australasian Paper Industry Association (APIA) with Kellie Northwood (pictured) as CEO under The Real Media Collective brand.

2017 was the first year that, with nearly 300 digital press installations, the volume of newly added digital label presses surpassed that of new conventional label press installed volumes.

The Penrith Museum of Print and its Linotype operator John Berry have a starring role in the new Australian move Ladies in Black.

Cam Gurnett from CRG Designs in Carrum Downs, Victoria, is the winner of the Hexis Design Wrap competition.

The company will have the press on a five year subscription basis, which will see Heidelberg supply and service the press, and supply all consumables, except paper, for the duration of the term.

Industry technology supplier Jet Technologies is hosting The Innovation Series, which will present the latest developments in labelling and narrow web printing.

The group was welcomed by long-term member of both the Pressgang and the PMOP, former Fairfax print supremo and now gentleman of leisure, Bob Lockley.

Owner of the business Ross Read has hailed it as the next leap forward for the print side of his business, as it is helping open up an entire new market in flexible packaging.

Decline is offset by increased share of paper from Australian Paper’s local mills even as overall demand continues to track south

Australia’s most significant post-press web printing installation in a decade cements Rima’s dominance of the sector. The yearlong installation at IVE Group’s Sydney printing sites proved to be a win for Tom Ralph’s Graph-Pak.

Pre-registrations for next week's Visual Impact wide format expo in Sydney are running some 25 per cent higher than last time out, for the show which sold out of exhibition space two months ago.

Despite the rise of digital, photographs only really come alive when they're printed. That's the message from the 2018 Australia Institute of Professional Photography at its Award ceremony in Melbourne.