Print veteran John Ferguson has sold his Brisbane-based Fergies Print & Mail business to local competitor Printcraft after more than 51 years at the family company established by his great grandfather in 1868. Almost all staff have been made redundant, with only a handful offered new jobs.

Commercial printing and marketing will grow at an annual rate of 0.7 percent through 2020, with print packaging to enjoy a healthy 4.5 percent growth rate but publishing printing set to fall at 2 percent per annum.

In a stunning reversal of fortune, billionaire investors Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason have scuppered the $6.1 billion Fujifilm takeover deal in its present form, spilled most of the Xerox board and seen to the departure of the "hopelessly conflicted" CEO Jeff Jacobson.

Private equity giant Platinum Equity has signed a $US361m agreement to buy Pitney Bowes’ Document Messaging Technologies (DMT) production mail business and supporting software. The surprise move is likely to create opportunities for competitors in the local market.

Currie Group’s Mobile Showroom has hit the road on its 2018 Roadshow, trucking the latest technology around the country to provide print service providers with hands-on access to the latest solutions.

The Federal Government has endorsed an Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation proposal to make all packaging recyclable, compostable or reusable by 2025, in response to China’s waste import restrictions. The government will also invest in trash-burning incinerators.

More than 20 printers from four Australian states attended this year's Dscoop USA conference in Dallas, Texas, which Kelvin Gage, chairman of Dscoop Asia-Pacific and Japan, hailed as 'a return to the great Dscoops of old'.

Keep Me Posted accused Assistant Treasurer Michael Sukkar of pushing a corporate agenda in a newly launched government campaign that encourages consumers to 'Go paperless to save money.'

The Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union has slammed the Australian Industry Group for its “disturbing” opposition to the union’s application to update the Graphic Arts, Printing and Publishing Award.

Graphic and packaging designers can now make seeing, using and communicating colour easier, with Pantone’s Super Chips and Super Swatch on-demand prints.

Tickets are on sale and selling fast for this month’s final three state Printing Industries Craftsman Awards (PICA) nights to be held in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales.

Ricoh has launched the new Pro C9200, a heavy production digital sheet-fed toner press that builds on the ProTM C9100 technology platform with a number of productivity and quality enhancements.

Tate Hone continues to expand his family’s specialist print trade supplier and embellishment company with a buyout of high-profile Sydney print finisher as part of his strategy to grow through acquisition and investment.

With two weeks left in Currie Group's State of Indigo competition, the Blues are one win away from wrapping up the series - but if the Maroons take next week, a nailbiting tie-breaker will be in store. NSW leads 4-3 in the nine-week competition, meaning the next round could decide the contest.

NSW publisher Lovatts Media has bought popular Nourish magazine following last month’s collapse of former publisher, Melbourne-based Blitz Publications and its printing division, Graphic Impressions. Nourish will be redesigned with a focus on sustainability.

ACT-based CanPrint Communications has won another major Federal Government contract, signing a four-year deal with the Australian Tax Office worth $8,306,037.11 for the supply of Material packing and handling.