Gil Cortes has joined Currie Group in the newly created position of Scodix Product Specialist across Australia and NZ. Formerly the Latin American channel manager for a major digital brand based in Israel, Cortes started his new role in July, shortly after arriving in Melbourne from Mexico.

Sydney-based retail marketing company, Dashing Group, has won a contract to build an integrated marketing platform to manage the Bank of Queensland's branch-based print and digital campaigns, merchandising and signage.

An extraordinary general meeting of the Packaging Council of Australia voted unanimously to wind up the organisation and join the Printing Industries Association of Australia (PIAA).

Melbourne printer Conlay Press has signed the highly-coveted contract to print official merchandise for the iconic green-and-gold Australian Made Campaign.

Fairfax Media recorded a net profit of $83.9m after a loss of $772.6m in the previous year - when it wrote down the value of its newspaper mastheads by almost $1bn. Metro publishing advertising slumped by a further 17%. 

Seven West Media posted a loss of $744 million on almost $1bn in write-downs, compared to a profit of $184 million the previous year. Seven’s Pacific Magazines business suffered a 28% decline in revenue.

The PIAA says interest is running high in the new state-based Printing Industries Craftsmanship Awards (PICA) taking place across all major states in October and November 2017.

The accounting scandal that rocked Fuji Xerox subsidiaries in New Zealand and Australia followed intense sales pressure from FX headquarters in Japan, according to the fully translated report by an investigative committee set up by parent Fujifilm Holdings.

High profile wide format identity Jason Hay and long-term Fujifilm Australia managing director Dave Marshall are moving on.

The consumer watchdog has launched legal action in Federal Court to enforce a $50,000 penalty against a printer ink reseller over ‘deceptive and misleading’ practices.

Global corporations including HP and Ricoh are leading the way for industry to move from fossil fuels towards making 100 percent commitments to renewable energy.

Brisbane supplier G2 Systems has completed its most remote installation of a Xitron CTP System - more than 2,500 kilometres away near an active volcano in Papua New Guinea.

You can now register to bid from this site and view more than 130 lots spanning a wide gamut of industry sectors - offset, digital, wide format, finishing, die-cutting, inserting, delivery vehicles, shelving and other miscellaneous print related plant.

The Scodix Ultra Pro with Foil digital press has won a prestigious Printing Industries of America (PIA) InterTech Technology Award at the Print 2017 tradeshow in Chicago.

Epson Australia has rolled out its new Replaceable Ink Pack System (RIPS) printer, the WorkForce Pro WF-C869R, which significantly reduces printing costs with its high capacity ink packs.

Starleaton's stand at the three-day Art&Frame show at Randwick Racecourse featured three working Epson printers, colour-calibrated Eizo monitors and a Flexa EasyLite laminator.