As packaging becomes more viable using digital flatbed UV printers and computerised table cutters, Starleaton has upped the stakes by bringing both - plus software - to PacPrint.

The print sector barely got a look in at the UN’s recent Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) summit, despite the industry’s sustainability credentials and its suitability for entrepreneurs, writes sustainability consultant Laurel Brunner.

Industry analyst Richard Rasmussen says that the trend in the offset market is increasingly towards consolidation - but it's not all doom and gloom for printers. In Ascent Partners' latest Market Watch report, Rasmussen observed a number of consolidations and closures.

Melbourne printer Print Dynamics has gone out of business 17 years after being founded by co-owners Mark Shapiro and Anthony Saben. The company’s website has been taken down and the owners have been unavailable for comment.

Leading South Australian commercial printer Openbook Howden Print & Design has bought out competitor Supreme Printers and will move the company into its facility at St Marys. The deal came after OBH learned Stuart Braund, owner of Supreme, was looking to leave the printing industry.

The first three of Landa’s groundbreaking S10 Nanographic Printing Presses will go into beta sites around the world later this year. “I am thrilled that after many years of development, we are now reaching the milestone of delivering our first Landa Nanographic Printing Presses to customers,” said Landa chairman, Benny Landa (pictured).

The printing industry recently won two court cases against patent trolls but now new cases have emerged of trolls attempting to threaten and extort funds from printing companies. “They work to destroy our industry by extorting funds from innocent companies," writes Harvey R. Levenson.

A supermarket worker who collected discarded shopping lists has won the $10,000 Emerging Artist award at 2017 Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize for his painting titled 'Fifty-two found shopping lists written by people who need milk (2016).'

Heidelberg installed its first Prinect Production Manager digital workflow system at a commercial printing and media service company in Germany. Prinect allows customers to control every function of offset and digital systems from one workflow.

The collapse of your company, something that you have put your heart and soul into, as well 60 to 70 hours a week for over 20 years, unleashes a myriad of feelings and emotions.

“We had to get out pretty quick so it was a dart and dash sort of thing,” says Duncan Ross of South Lismore screen printing and signage business Pegasus Screenprints, where last week’s devastating flooding has caused more than $40,000 in damages.

Full marks for Centrum Printing’s $4million + investment in a brand new KBA Rapida 145 six-colour +coater full-size offset press, which takes its place alongside an existing KBA 162 in the impressive production site at Chipping Norton.

The slow, agonising demise of TAFE presents the printing industry - offset, digital, packaging, signage and all the other strands – with a unique opportunity to create our own, tailor-made, custom-built curriculum, writes notable industry observer James Cryer.

Rising energy costs and poorly aligned energy policies are threatening the future of Australia’s pulp and paper industry, according to the latest edition of Pulp & Paper Edge. "The impact of inaction or poor policy settings could, at its worst, bring the pulp and paper sector to its knees."

Point-of-sale material is reaching new heights, helped by outstanding paper engineering, based on the quality of entries to the 2017 New Zealand Pride In Print Awards, say organisers.