Fujifilm's Acuity LED 3200R made its first appearance in Australia last week at the PacPrint trade show in Melbourne, where it was awarded a Technology Hot Pick.

One of the largest investment waves in the show’s history sees every large item of printing and finishing equipment sold from the Currie Group's PacPrint stand.

Celebration and success was in the air at the 34th Media Super National Print Awards held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre last night, with Adams Print again the big winners of the evening.

One of the largest investment waves in the show’s history sees every large item of printing and finishing equipment sold from the Currie PacPrint stand.

David Crowther is delighted to host top executives from German-based Techkon on the Colour Graphic Services (CGS) stand at PacPrint to demonstrate the new generation SpectroDens.

Konica Minolta has sold three units of its newest gear to customers in Sydney and Melbourne, the first Australian sale of each machine, and celebrated over two days of announcements at PacPrint. Anthony Lewis from Konica Minolta was delighted to have sold to two companies in his home town.

The PIAA has appointed Walter Kuhn, founder and MD of Queensland-based Kuhn Corp, as its new president, replacing Kieran May, who is stepping down from the role.

The Morgana Digifold series has become almost the de facto standard for folding creasing and even perforating digitally printed sheets. The 4th generation version from Print&Pack earns a Technology Hot Pick for sheer automation and usefulness.

Rising pulp prices, higher input costs and higher shipping costs are combining to push global paper prices higher, with the flow-on to Australia and New Zealand anticipated to take effect before the end of the year, says pulp and paper industry analyst IndustryEdge.

Ascent Partners will hold a regular quarterly online machinery auctions following the success of its recent sale of surplus equipment from Graphitype NSW.

Lamination is fast becoming essential for digital print and one product stood out head and shoulders above all else at PacPrint.

"I could throw a deck of cards on the table and they could land in any orientation and this system will take a photo and automatically load 52 individual files," says Jason Hay of Spicers about the advanced Elitron SDC cutter.

Hot off the heels of its 650th Versant sale, Fuji Xerox has won a Print21 Technology Hot Pick for its Versant 3100 digital press. Quentin Sandery, national manager for production services business at Fuji Xerox, accepted the award and encouraged all PacPrint guests to visit stand E10.

Direct-to-Textile printing at PacPrint was a hot topic and what better way to celebrate it than a Hot Pick for Mutoh’s new machine.