Heidelberg has released its third-quarter results for the 2017-18 financial year. The company is continuing its 'digital transformation', and has successfully launched its new subscription print service. Rainer Hundsdörfer, CEO, praised Heidelberg's 'systematic transformation'.

Campaign Targeter - a new online tool from Australia Post that’s designed to boost promotional mailing campaigns - has won support from the mailing industry.

A 120-year old platen press is now in safekeeping at Direct Paper’s warehouse in Sydney after an ‘underground guerrilla army’ of print defenders swung into rescue mode this month.

Mutoh Australia has appointed Russell Cavenagh, wide-format print specialist, as its new general manager. Cavenagh brings 30 years of print and graphic design experience to the role, and will oversee the Australian and New Zealand operations of Mutoh.

Brisbane printer Platypus Graphics has expanded its packaging capability with the addition of a new carton erector. Unlike most of these machines, Platypus' gear is Taiwanese - and just as good as European kit for half the price, says director Tom Lusch.

Private equity giant Platinum Equity has completed its acquisition of OfficeMax Australia from Office Depot and will merge the business with Winc - formerly Staples. US-based Platinum is a global investment firm with $13 billion in assets.

The latest WhatTheyThink Printing Industry Survey of 300 industry executives has found that pricing is regarded as the number one challenge. The survey also found that printers were not planning to invest in a great deal of new equipment in the year ahead.

Canon Australia has launched seven new large format printers on the local market, including the imagePROGRAF TX Series and imagePROGRAF PRO-6000.

Sony DADC Australia is closing its Print Services business in Sydney and selling off its entire line-up of offset, digital and finishing equipment. A steep fall in demand for packaging has also led to the company laying off 375 workers at its Indiana facility.

A strike over wages by about 90 workers that has now entered its fourth week at Australia’s largest envelope manufacturer will go before the Fair Work Commission (FWC) in Melbourne tomorrow afternoon.

“This is a clear and targeted attack on small business, a sector that represents 97% of total Australian businesses and a significant component of the printing industry,” says PIAA CEO Andrew Macaulay.

Major energy retailer EnergyAustralia is scrapping paper billing fees for all its customers following a 20-month grassroots campaign by pro-paper lobby group Keep Me Posted. "Circumstances have changed," said the electricity and gas supplier.

Publishers Fairfax and NZME will appeal a New Zealand High Court ruling to uphold a decision by the Commerce Commission to block their proposed merger. The companies say the NZCC was "wrong in fact and wrong in law."

Registration has opened for Visual Impact Brisbane 2018 to be held at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre from 19-21 April.

The news that Fujifilm will take a controlling interest in Xerox Corp was not entirely unexpected but the mechanism of the deal certainly is. There were a lot of back-stories in play, not the least the unhappy large shareholders of Xerox stock listed on the New York Stock Exchange.