Industry

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.

The Sydney-based Outdoor Media Association (OMA) has revealed it paid hackers a ransom of $5,000 to unlock its office computer systems after an overnight cyber-attack.

Fuji Xerox NZ managing director Gavin Pollard (pictured) has suddenly left the company following an investigation that found revenue at FX ANZ subsidiaries had been inflated by $450 million.

Visual Impact Sydney will have an education focus for its return to Darling Harbour in October, says Peter Harper, general manager of Visual Connections. The show will move into the newly rebuilt International Convention Centre after four years at Sydney Showground in Olympic Park.

Determining your prices based on the amount of work that goes into a job is common in the printing industry - but you should instead be pricing based on the value you create for your clients, writes industry analyst Barb Pellow of Infotrends.

Ascent Partners' Lot Inspection Day is on Wednesday 16th August with more than 130 lots across nine sites. They span a wide gamut of industry sectors – offset, digital, wide format, finishing, die-cutting, inserting, delivery vehicles, shelving and other miscellaneous print related plant.

Screen GP will preview its new Truepress Jet L350UV+LM, designed for the food industry, at next month's major trade shows - Labelexpo Europe in Brussels and Print17 in Chicago.


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The Queensland Government has opened tenders for the demolition of the GoPrint building four years after the company's closure, to make way for the Woolloongabba station of the new Cross River Rail. GoPrint ceased commercial printing operations in mid-2012, winding up completely in 2013.

Fuji Xerox has established a new role of chairman at its Australian subsidiary and is considering legal action against those responsible for an accounting scandal that inflated its ANZ revenue by $450 million.

The Spicers board has urged shareholders to vote for its preferred candidates Malcolm McComas and David Stillman to replace outgoing directors Robert Kaye and Mike Barker when the matter goes before an EGM in Melbourne next month.

EFI shed 45 percent of its share price after the company sent out a press release postponing its second quarter preliminary results and saying it did not believe its disclosure controls for financial reporting were effective in previous periods.

Just weeks after announcing it was shutting down after 25 years, Australia’s first free postcard advertising company, Avant Card, has been bought by arts and entertainment distribution company, Mr Moto.