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.

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.”