Fuji Xerox New Zealand recorded a $43 million pre-tax loss for the year and the Japanese-owned parent company is ready to step in to provide financial assistance "if necessary," according to the National Business Review.

NZME agreed to buy Fairfax NZ for $55m if their proposed merger wins regulatory approval - with Fairfax Media taking a 41% share in the merged entity. The deal would create New Zealand’s largest media company with an audience of 3.7 million.

In five years' time, digital and offset will be so merged that they will be one, according to Heidelberg Australia MD Richard Timson (pictured), speaking at Tuesday night's LIA drupa roadshow event at the Mulgrave Country Club in Melbourne.

Melbourne real estate printer Newlitho has rebranded as Neo and unveiled a new logo in preparation for the next chapter in its 78-year-old history. “We’ve come a long way and our name hasn’t survived the journey," says CEO Seth Watts (pictured, right).

APN's multimillion-dollar Sunshine Coast print centre Yandina (pictured) has again won the Print Centre of the Year award at the PANPA Newspaper Awards held at The Ivy in Sydney. Yandina also took the top honour last year.

Signage and wide-format show Visual Impact Sydney opens next week and organisers are urging those planning to visit the event to preregister without delay. Exhibitors include AVS, Avery Dennison, Currie, Canon, Epson, Graphic Art Mart, HP, Jetmark, Kiwo, Biesse, Mimaki, Multicam, Pozitive, Roland DG.

The liquidator investigating the collapse of Melbourne digital printer On Demand says the total debts owed to creditors could run into millions of dollars. The failed business was sold last week to Mercedes Waratah and rebranded as Data Direct Digital.

Liquidators have wasted no time in moving to recover what they can for creditors of collapsed Melbourne wide format printer The Printcentre Group. The company's machinery and other assets are up for auction today in Sunshine West.

The assets of former award-winning Adelaide printer Five Star Print will be auctioned off on Thursday. Five Star– formerly one of South Australia’s high profile print companies – went into voluntary administration in May before being liquidated.

John Sands printing company was one of the largest printers in Australia during the 19th and 20th centuries until its demise in the 1990s. It exercised significant influence on the craft culture of the industry, says James Cryer (pictured at last week's Sydney reunion).

Access Print Solutions, Acorn Press, AIW, Bambra Press, Blueprint Australia, Franklin, Lighthouse Print Group, PMP, Spectrum Print and IPMG were all honoured at the Catalogies held in Melbourne as printers of the 2016 award winners.

Melbourne's Ready Steady Print is opening a new trade-based finishing division weeks after installing a new Horizon PUR binder. "We've identified a gap in the market for short-run finishing especially when it comes to high quality PUR binding."

“This is the first monochrome Fiery digital front end (DFE) to bring industry-leading Fiery technology to the Konica Minolta black-and-white print engines,” said John Henze, EFI. The new EFI Fiery MIC-4150 DFE is built on the latest Fiery FS200 Pro platform.

Kieran May, president, urges a return of the current board in the interests of further stability while Andrew Macaulay, CEO, cautions would-be candidates on the onerous workload involved in serving.

The final leg of the LIA Drupa Digital roadshow will be held on Tuesday at the Mulgrave Country Club in Melbourne, following successful events in Sydney and Brisbane. It is part of a new invigorated role for the venerable industry association in Victoria.

Well known industry identity Lindsay Barnes (pictured), GM for Graphic Systems, and Troy Strachan, business manager for Graphics, have left Fujifilm Australia as part of a restructuring of the company's sales and marketing team.