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.

Most people are confused as to whether a particular piece of flexible plastic packaging can be recycled or not, which makes recycling almost an inconvenience. A UK project called Reflex is looking at solutions to the problem, writes Laurel Brunner.

American equity giant TPG Capital has no 'imminent' plans to buy out Fairfax, according to The Australian. It was reported last week that TPG had quietly amassed 35 million shares, amounting to a 4.9 percent stake in the newspaper publisher.

A sizeable area of Starleaton's 483 m2 PacPrint stand will be dedicated to colour management for offset, packaging, photography, digital and wide format – confirming its commitment to continue DES’s legacy of colour management expertise.

Fujifilm Graphic Systems will be exhibiting alongside Fuji Xerox Australia on PacPrint’s second largest stand, stand E10, from May 23-26 at Melbourne’s Exhibition Centre. The theme is ‘Value from Innovation.’