Blair Cariss has a traditional attitude to running his commercial printing business. His practice is informed by a conviction that an ‘old school’ approach to the trade is worth preserving.

Spicers has appointed Jonathan Trollip as its new chairman, as investors now make up five of the six positions on the paper merchant's Board of Directors. Trollip, non-executive independent chairman of the Global Value Fund investment company, was appointed chairman following Wednesday's EGM.

The Victorian Parliament is investigating claims that state Labor MP’s siphoned off hundreds of thousands of dollars from their printing budgets to pay for ALP memberships.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics will begin mailing out its postal survey on same-sex marriage next Tuesday after the High Court struck down legal challenges to the ballot's validity. The ABS had already commenced producing the 16 million ballots at Fuji Xerox Document Management.

First major public outing for the newly merged paper company brought together Sydney’s creative design community for a celebration of all things print and paper.

Canon Australia has partnered with fashion illustrator Megan Hess for a free exhibition of limited-edition prints in Sydney. Hess is using Canon's industrial print range to bring her printing in house, which she says gives her more control over the finished product.

Fuji Xerox Australia has defended selling Chinese A4 paper imports to its Australian customers at a loss and denied it is guilty of 'hidden dumping', arguing that selling at a loss is a common commercial practice.

Fairfax's Canberra Print Centre has won the The Print Centre of the Year award at the annual PANPAs. News Corp's The Australian won the Daily Newspaper award and Fairfax's AFR was named Digital News Site of the Year.

One of Western Australia’s oldest operating printers, Advance Press works with clients as prestigious as the RACWA, the City of Perth, and the AEC. To boost its digital capacity, the company recently installed an HP Indigo 7800 Digital Press from Currie Group.

New technologies in high-speed digital printing will be the focus of an LIA (NSW) Technical Dinner evening at Lidcombe in western Sydney next week. Some tickets are still available.

Printing Industries has extended the closing dates for entries into the state PICAs and reminded entrants that winning a medal in the state PICAs is now the only way to qualify for the National Print Awards.

Screen GP Australia says the new series of VLF 16-page Ultima 16000N Platesetters - to be previewed at PRINT Chicago this month - delivers improved productivity and energy efficiency. 

IVE completed the $38m institutional section of its $55.6m capital raising just two days after announcing the move. "The offer was significantly oversubscribed," said chairman Geoff Selig (pictured). The retail offer to secure the remaining $16.9m is now open.

Shareholders have voted to remove Spicers finance director Wayne Johnston and have elected six new directors to the board including Vlad Artamonov and Todd Plutsky, the managing partners of New York private equity firm, Coastal Capital.

Fuji Xerox appointed Hirokazu Komaki (pictured) to the new role of chairman of the board at FXA in a bid to tighten control at the local operation after an accounting scandal inflated ANZ revenues by $450m.

A couple of weeks after posting a $95m profit and sending off its former CEO with a $10.75m handshake, the national carrier has rolled out yet another round of price hikes.