Ricoh Australia has appointed former Fuji Xerox chief marketing officer Simon Lane as Country Manager of its Production Printing systems business in Australia.

Advanced new inks, coatings and curing processes are forcing paper mills to find new approaches to the recycling of printed paper, writes consultant Laurel Brunner.

Australia experienced double digit growth in parcel volume from 2015-2016, according to global technology company Pitney Bowes’ second annual Parcel Shipping Index. By 2021, more than a billion parcels will reach Australia per year.

Kelvin Gage and Kevin Maybury, Dominion owners and some of their staff, will move around the corner to the Silverwater site, as IVE group continues its growth through acquisition.

Second year for the National Specialised Print Awards reinforces its place in the industry calendar with more entries than before. The customer-centric competition highlights the quality of digital printing produced on Konica Minolta technology.

With just over a week to go until the Queensland state election on Saturday November 25, Printing Industries has released a 'scorecard' that rates the parties in contention on how well their policies benefit printers in the areas of energy, education, tax, and infrastructure.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has announced it will not oppose Complete Office Supplies' takeover bid for OfficeMax, but has not yet made a decision on Platinum Equity's bid. The ACCC previously delayed its decision on COS' bid in September.

Agfa Graphics has secured a digital plate contract with NZME, and will be the sole plate supplier in moving the Ellerslie print centre forward with the introduction of N95-VCF chemistry-free violet plate technology alongside Attiro high-speed clean out units.

Pantone has been guiding designers, creators and manufacturers with its universal colour language for more than fifty years. But with almost 5,000 Pantone Colours on offer, how do these guides help when creating for print?

PMP at Moorebank, which prints Ikea's annual catalogue in Australia, has received an Ikea Tulip Award for Best Print Quality, Offset Printer. A PMP spokesperson told Print21 that the printer's high standards, as represented by its ISO 12647-2 certification, contributed to its success.

Marie Claire will publish its December issue with a limited-edition “Yes” cover on sale tomorrow, within only 24 hours of the marriage equality announcement. The Pacific Magazines publication unveiled its colourful wrap-around cover art in support of the postal vote result today.

Direct Paper will increase its prices for all paper and board products by six to eight percent from February, in line with a general trend of paper price rises from across the industry. Australia's third-largest paper supplier announced it could no longer fully absorb rising costs from paper mills.

From humble beginnings making and repairing flagpoles from a home bedroom in 1990, All Flags has grown to become one of WA’s largest and most trusted suppliers of flags, signs and banners. Now, with the help of three new EFI VUTEk machines, All Flags has given its business a major boost.

Any future ALP government would be a mixed bag for the printing industry with good news on training but little to cheer for in the energy prices that are bedevilling printers everywhere.

Graphic arts supplier GJS has opened a new warehouse facility in Springvale, Melbourne, a move which it says will improve dispatch and delivery times in Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania. The warehouse will supply products from a variety of companies represented by GJS.

Heidelberg has sold a second Gallus Labelfire digital press in Australia, as well as the country's first Labelmaster conventional press. Each will be installed in the second quarter of 2018 at as-yet-unnamed purchasers in Sydney and Melbourne respectively.