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.

Japan’s Fujifilm Holdings is to take over Xerox Corp in a $US6 billion deal that will combine the iconic US company with existing joint venture Fuji Xerox to become “a new Fuji Xerox.” Fujifilm plans to cut 10,000 Fuji Xerox jobs in Asia Pacific by March 2020.

Fujifilm’s $6 billion deal to amalgamate Xerox and Fuji Xerox into a new Fuji Xerox business will see ten thousand jobs cut across FX subsidiaries in the Asia Pacific region and is set to shake up the local market.

Supplier DIC Australia has officially announced its September acquisition of Avlo, which specialised in additives, binders, pigments and resins for the surface coatings, adhesives, construction, masterbatch and rubber industries.

Online print pioneer David Kegen and his business partner Jayden Farrell credit Currie Group as being a major factor driving the rapid expansion of CMYK Colour Online’s commercial printing and book-binding business.

Flint Group will increase prices globally on offset and publication gravure inks, coatings and pressroom consumables from March of this year, citing increased costs of raw materials. The company expects larger increases on some specialty products such as silicones and high-performance coatings.

Ad spend in print media is still more than twice that of digital, despite a 15 percent drop year-on-year from 2016 to 2017. In total, the news media sector reported more than $2 billion in ad revenue for the 12 months to December 31, 2017.

Bruce Drummond's Osborne Park-based printer Leader Press has bought out Dennis Booth's nearby Parmelia Print. Both printers have been established in Perth for decades, and are well known in the West's dynamic commercial printing sector.