US-based Sun Chemical has become the latest global ink supplier to increase the price on all of its inks and coatings containing acrylic derivatives. Disruption in the production of raw materials will cause price increases of up to 8 percent.

Australian-based global packaging supplier Amcor continued its aggressive expansion on both sides of the Atlantic, investing in another state-of-the-art UV Flexo printing press in Spain and opening a new bottling plant in Paris, Texas.

The winner of the annual Red Flame Design Awards, is Isaac Gibson, Senior Designer at 121 Geebung who took out this year’s first prize at the 2017 Kwik Kopy Conference held in Queenstown, New Zealand earlier this month.

David Crowther of Colour Graphic Services will donate 5% of his company's sales revenue from PacPrint 2017 to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation. “The reef is in great distress because of coral bleaching, human activity and cyclone damage."

Fujifilm Graphic Systems will exhibit alongside Fuji Xerox on PacPrint’s second largest stand at Melbourne’s Exhibition Centre. “It makes sense for us to exhibit in the same area as our sister company Fuji Xerox Australia."

A new, easy-install option in cling film has landed at Rojo Pacific’s national warehouse in Melbourne just in time for PacPrint 2017, and MD John Wright is predicting it could be their most popular cling film ever.

There are calls for a government inquiry into Fuji Xerox New Zealand following news that parent company Fujifilm Holdings is investigating “the appropriateness of accounting practices” at FXNZ that have led to an estimated loss of 22 billion yen ($A262 million).

Ricoh has shifted responsibility for production printing to Europe as part of its new "Ricoh Resurgent" initiative, a program which Yoshinori Yamashita, CEO, says will deliver savings of ¥100 billion by 2019 - equivalent to roughly $1.2 billion AUD.

Paul Mitchell, the PIAA’s new industrial relations manager in Victoria, plans face-to-face meetings with every association member in Victoria before the end of the year – “if they’ll have me.”

The Galley Club of Sydney will hold its annual general meeting tomorrow evening, April 27th, to discuss plans for the future of the club - including donating most of its money to charity. Former president Michael Schulz said it was no longer financially viable to hold an annual awards ceremony.

As the largest trade show in Australia has come to represent both the printing industry and the signage sector, one company has assumed the mantle of being the complete supplier across both sectors – Starleaton.

Sustainability experts are preparing a new environmental ISO standard to measure the energy usage of high speed digital printers. In her 250th Verdigris blog, Laurel Brunner looks at the growing awareness of sustainability in the graphics industry.

PacPrint 2017, co-located with the Visual Impact Melbourne show, will open in less than a month and, with 150 exhibitors signed up and visitor numbers tracking strongly, organisers say it’s shaping up as one of the best in recent years.

Australia’s only office paper manufacturer, Australian Paper, welcomed the government’s decision to impose dumping duties on A4 copy paper exported from Brazil, China, Indonesia and Thailand, and has called on government departments to stop buying the dumped paper.

Top down changes at Fuji Xerox Asia-Pacific reflects continuing turnover of staff in the local operation as the company downsizes and refocuses in turbulent times.