All print courses remain fully funded, prepress is back as an apprenticeship rather than a traineeship and a new standalone qualification for digital print is introduced at TAFE.

Changing of the guard at the top of the industry’s largest digital supplier has Takayuki Togo replacing Sunil Gupta. who served for two tough years at the top.

Upgrades and retrofits at the News Corp Australia Yandina site from manroland Goss web systems are increasing production efficiency, quality and the availability of the press.

Almost 40 Australian printers are in Ricoh's Customer Experience Centre in Rayong, Thailand, to see the supplier's newest kit, including the C7200 and C9200 series of cut-sheet digital presses, and to offer feedback on the company's direction.

Hosted by the PIAA and Print Promotion the two single day free to attend and fully catered conferences will be held in Melbourne on September 17 and in Sydney the next day September 18

Printers are now able to produce elevated print with the new Touchstone workflow software for use with the top selling Océ Arizona range of flatbed printers, software which the company says has the potential to help print operations broaden their offering and build their business.

Serial award winners RollsPack and Multi-Color Australia took out the flexo and labels Best In Show awards respectively at the Flexible Packaging and Label Makers Association (FPLMA) annual awards.

Graham Kirk, founder and owner of Australasia's largest flexo platemaking business was sole recipient of the 2018 Hall of Fame at the Flexo Packaging and Label Making Association awards ceremony.

“When it came time to replace them, we knew we would stick with ColorPainters. I was at the Brisbane Visual Impact exhibition in April and saw the OKI ColorPainters on the Starleaton stand. We did the deal for both a 64” and 104” model there and then.”

“The printed image will be more natural and impressive when compared to an image produced on a conventional CMYK system. The expansion of spot colour reproduction is useful for printing company logos, high-impact point-of-purchase (POP), packaging, and posters.”

Trevor Crowley, general manager for Xeikon in Australia and New Zealand says, “It is an end-to-end label print and finishing solution at a price point that will encourage new entrants to the digital labels market."

In the previous blogs we’ve considered the three Rs: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, emissions controls and management and waste handling. But how about materials usage and considering what’s required to produce a given print product and its recycling?

FESPA’s next pan-Asian event will take place, under its new name of Asia Print Expo, from 21 to 23 February 2019 at the BITEC exhibition centre in Bangkok, Thailand. Asia Print Expo is the region’s leading exhibition for screen, textile and digital wide format print.

The loss of Coles catalogues along with the Pacific Magazine printing contract to IVE Group as a result of the IPMG deal saw PMP's share price take a 13.7% hit on publication of its annual results.

Utilising its undoubted technical and manufacturing expertise Heidelberg is turning to other products apart from printing equipment. One of the first to market is the Heidelberg Wallbox Home Eco, a charging device for electric vehicles.

It’s been a long time between drinks for local printers who’ve put their hands up and their money down for the Landa-inspired Komori Impremia NS40. The group was given a tour of the Komori factory in Japan last month ahead of field testing next year, but will have to wait a while to get their hands on a press