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.

Western Sydney commercial printer Saunders Print Group has closed its doors after 65 years in business and called in a liquidator.

Workers at Australian Paper in Preston agreed to return to work after an eight-week strike as negotiations continue over their demands for a 2.5 percent wage rise.

Security printer ABnote is moving ahead with plans to shut down its plastic card manufacturing business based at Christchurch and move the operation to Australia.

Kodak rolled out its new Nexfinity digital press that it describes as the most versatile digital sheetfed platform in today’s market. Nexfinity offers exceptional image quality with running costs that are consistent with medium-run offset litho.

Australian Catalogue Association (ACA) CEO Kellie Northwood will be a guest speaker at next week’s annual general meeting of the Queensland LIA. Nominations for committee member elections close on Monday 13 March.