Northern Territory-based printing company Colemans Printing is expanding into a new market with the purchase of a Horizon BQ-470 PUR Perfect Binder from Currie Group. "Having a PUR binder is a gap in the market we were looking to fill."

Australia's largest online book retailer Booktopia has again called off its bid for an ASX listing, with fund managers reportedly concerned about competition from online retail giant Amazon.

Press manufacturer Mark Andy has installed the first of its Digital Series hybrid label presses to be sold in Europe and local companies will get a chance to hear more about the technology next month. Local distributor Aldus says the hybrid has created a lot of interest amongst its customers.

Australia Post chief Ahmed Fahour has told a Senate committee that commercial mail is being subsidized by the taxpayer, setting off a new round of speculation that the national carrier is again preparing to increase prices for business mail. "It’s clear that an increase is imminent," says the PIAA.

Takeover specialist Mark Shergill (pictured) of Focus Print Group has made an offer for Michael Wu’s collapsed Melbourne digital print company Longbeach Printing. “We’re interested in acquiring the Longbeach assets and we’re trying to see what we can do."

Epson’s inaugural Large Format Product Expo in Melbourne will feature its range of solutions in signage, photography, proofing, production, dye sublimation, garment and technical printing. It’s the first in a series of events designed to communicate more directly with customers.

Curing inks and coatings using ultraviolet light energy has been deployed in the printing, signage and packaging industries for some time now and offer identifiable advantages in production. Read the full blog from Fujifilm, titled LED-UV Drying and Curing: a Future Cure-All?

Nick Caminiti (pictured), MD of Melbourne signage company Exotic Graphix, will represent Australia and New Zealand at this year’s Avery Dennison King of the Wrap World finals in Las Vegas next month. “He’s ecstatic, very happy,” says a spokesperson at the company in Carrum Downs.

The big move is on as the two national suppliers for the printing and signage industry across Australia move into shared premises. “We have two great teams coming together to build one of the best service and sales support organisations in the industry," says CEO Ben Eaton.

Well-known industry identity Garry Muratore has been appointed product manager for Display Graphics at Canon. "We sought out only the highest calibre candidates and Garry was the clear choice,” says Adrian Morris, Canon Australia.

Today is International Print Day (IPD) and anyone with a Twitter account can join the hashtag #IPD16. Last year, the event's hashtag generated an impressive 27 million views in just under 24 hours.

The industry needs some sort of environmental declaration, a kind of mission statement for print that explains why and how the graphics industry makes a positive contribution to the environment. We must go far beyond bragging about the sustainability credentials of paper, writes Laurel Brunner.

Printing Industry’s top team of Andrew Macaulay, CEO and Mary Jo (MJ) Fisher, director of government relationships, strongly lobbied Senator Mitch Fifield, 
Minister for Communications, on the unsatisfactory behaviour by Australia Post towards the industry.

The PIAA’s Future Print program has signed a deal with Holmesglen TAFE to deliver much-needed printing apprenticeship training in Victoria. The association has been looking for an off-the-job training provider since RMIT dumped print training in 2012.

Australia’s largest online book retailer Booktopia is aiming to raise $40 million for its IPO as it pushes ahead with plans to float on the ASX in the face of competition from US giant Amazon.

Newspaper publishers should be doing more to counter the perception that print is bad for the environment, says analyst Laurel Brunner. 'Consumers associate printed newspapers with waste but correcting this impression doesn’t seem to be a priority,'