Ingo Bohlken of Deutsche Post and former Linfox CEO Annette Carey will join Australia Post as part of a restructure by the national mail carrier's boss, Christine Holgate. The two appointments are part of a management shakeup that has created five new executive positions.

The 2018 National Print Awards, presented by Media Super, will be held this Friday at Brighton Lakes Golf Club, Moorebank in southwestern Sydney. The big night will feature the gold-medal winners from each state's PICA awards.

Visitors to this year's Vivid Sydney festival are being treated to an unusual (and sustainable) sight: signage printed by VFX Print Group on Oppboga outdoor board supplied by Starleaton, which has survived a lashing from the rain and emerged none the worse for wear.

Fespa has always been about wide format printing but this year’s show saw high volume printers mixed with industrial textile printers and even corrugated printing, as Print21's Nessan Cleary found out when he went along to the expo.

Horton Media is shutting down its coldset printing plant in Queensland and exiting the Australian newspaper publishing market, blaming “grossly uncompetitive behaviour” by competitor Fairfax Media.

An investigation into a gas leak that claimed the lives of two workers at Norske Skog’s Albury paper mill has found that deadly hydrogen sulphide gas leaked from "uncovered openings" at the site.

Print and mail franchiser Mail Boxes Etc (MBE) is celebrating 25 years in Australia with the opening of two new business centres in the coming months, bringing the number of its Australian locations to 38.

IVE Group has signed a $2.1 million contract extension to its now $4.8 million deal with the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) for the printing of ballot papers for the next federal election.

Printing Industries has given a qualified ‘thumbs-up’ to the Queensland Labor Government's budget, welcoming a funding boost for training and an ongoing payroll tax offset for companies taking on trainees. “It’s a start,” says PIAA president Walter Kuhn.

Roger Kirwan (pictured), owner of Sydney’s Kirwan Print Group, escaped with minor injuries after a speeding truck ploughed into an outdoor table at Starbucks in Salt Lake City and killed one of two friends he was meeting for a coffee.

Graysonline will hold an auction of offset presses, digital printers, finishing and bindery equipment from Melbourne's Print Supply Management, which closed its doors and went into liquidation last month.

Fujifilm says it will walk away from its $US6.1 billion merger proposal with Xerox Corp if there’s no progress within six months. "I'm not going to wait forever," said Fujifilm CEO Shigetaka Komori (pictured).

IVE Group executive chairman Geoff Selig is driving the company’s innovative program to improve the working lives of its employees. In the latest issue of Print21 magazine, he tells Patrick Howard how the initiative covers areas such as health, lifestyle benefits and financial advice.

On a freezing day in 1913, a 21-year-old Sydney letterpress printer walked off a boat in San Francisco into the teeth of a howling blizzard to begin his journey across the US to 'learn the trade'. James Cryer shares the tale of his grandfather’s pioneering adventure.

Medium-sized printers are an increasingly important destination for the EFI software team in ANZ as the company focuses on lifting its profile and presence with the vast majority of middle-size printing companies.

Konica Minolta has appointed industry veteran Adam Todd to the role of industrial print sales for NSW and the ACT. “I was looking for an organisation that was customer-focused, nimble, innovative and had a good social responsibility," Todd said.