Leading paper, packaging and print media distributor Ball & Doggett has announced a major expansion into New Zealand with the acquisition of leading wide format supplier Aarque Graphics.

High-profile industry identity, Anthony Lewis, finished his role with Konica Minolta last week and is looking forward to new opportunities. The dynamic and very dapper, Lewis, headed up the company’s thrust into ‘industrial printing’ over the past three years.

Forward-thinking Melbourne printer Peak Digital says its newly installed large format Epson SureColor SC80600 has delivered an amazing upgrade in speed and colour quality. The company has also cut its power bills in half by installing 280 solar panels.

Launched at the height of the GFC in 2007, Sydney-based print production company Shout Media gained traction by capitalising on increased demand from organisations for outsourced printing. It has thrived, however, by forging collaborative relationships with its clients.

Kwik Kopy Miller Street, owned by father, son and daughter team of Peter, Daniel and Susie McKenzie has made the finals of the 2018 NSW/ACT Franchise Council of Australia (FCA) Awards. “We are thrilled to be shortlisted," says Dan McKenzie.

Sydney Rare Book Auctions is holding a competition and exhibition to celebrate the gentle art of bookbinding, with a first prize of $1,000 on offer. The book to be bound by contestants is a facsimile of The Report of the Bordeaux International Exhibition of Wines, 1882.

OKI Data Australia has moved into its new office at Macquarie Park, Sydney, with Alex Kawamura, managing director, cutting the ribbon and opening the ceremonial sake barrel at an event for channel partners. The new facility is double the size of OKI's old demonstration centre.

Fuji Xerox has won a $27 million contract with the Australian Electoral Commission just weeks after being slammed by the Audit Office over a similar deal to scan Senate ballot papers in the 2016 federal election.

EFI celebrated its 30th birthday at January's Connect 2018 conference in Las Vegas with a packed schedule of keynote speakers, breakout sessions and product announcements. Read all about it in the latest issue of Print21 magazine.

Talks between Australian Paper and the AMWU over the dispute that led to an eight-week strike at the company’s envelope factory in Preston are now focused on a 0.5% difference in the size of a proposed wage increase.

Jodie Sangster (pictured), CEO of ADMA and the Australian Alliance for Data Leadership (AADL), has announced she is stepping down from both positions to take on a new role at IBM's Watson AI division. After seven years in the top job, Sangster said she felt it was a good time to move on.

Major shareholder Darwin Deason filed a new lawsuit against Xerox after the company refused to allow him to make board nominations in his fight against the proposed $6.1 billion merger that would combine Xerox with existing joint venture Fuji Xerox.

Today is the last day to put in an offer for liquidated Melbourne printer Graphic Impressions, which went out of business last week. Richard Rasmussen of Ascent Partners (pictured), who is selling the business, invites anyone interested to submit their offer by 5pm Melbourne time.

Leading display and signage manufacturer Active Display Group has ordered the region’s first two Inca Onset X series UV flatbed printers from Fujifilm Graphic Systems for its site in Melbourne.

Kodak has launched the Sonora X process-free plate – the latest addition to its Sonora range – that it believes can address almost all litho printing applications from carton printing to newspapers.

Melbourne magazine publisher Blitz Publications and its printing business Graphic Impressions have been wound up, leaving behind a trail of creditors reportedly owed hundreds of thousands of dollars. Richard Rasmussen of Ascent Partners has been given rights to sell Graphic Impressions.