A Dame Edna impersonator will host this year’s annual WA PICAs held in Perth next month, where the dress theme will be 'Gold Logie'. Those interested in attending the long-running event have until this Friday to RSVP. Meanwhile, limited seats are still available for the Queensland PICAs.

International and local speakers from Landa Digital, Mark Andy and Currie Group have been lined up for the first Annual Conference & Print Awards Dinner of newly merged industry group the Flexible Packaging & Label Manufacturers Association (FPLMA), to be held in Melbourne next month.

“Industry support for the event is strong, with exhibition space filling fast and new sponsors coming on board. Currie Group and Pozitive Signs & Graphic Supplies have joined HP and Graphic Art Mart as Gold Sponsors while Spicers is now a Silver Sponsor, with EFI and Mimaki,” says Peter Harper, VisCon.

The EFI Midmarket Print Suite is a comprehensive portfolio of solutions with end-to-end certified workflows that provide out-of-the box value. "We are already able to process double the work with the same number of people."

Reports of substantial redundancies in Fuji Xerox Australia are coming in from all states as management makes ‘no comment.’

Australian Paper's proposed purchase of Edwards Dunlop Office Products from BJ Ball is free to go ahead after the ACCC said it would not oppose the deal.

$10 million business transformation project comes in on time with 162 Snap franchise sites throughout Australia and New Zealand linked into cloud-based PrintSmith Vision.

Opportunities such as this don’t come around very often. Here’s your chance to get into digital printing, or expand your existing fleet, with a well maintained, low mileage – only 16.9 million clicks – CMYK HP Indigo 3550 made in 2011.

Hours of hand binding went into every copy of a unique book created by a collaborative group of designers, printers and print finishing companies. The Subdivide is a technically challenging project featuring the works of 30 photographers, divided into artistic and commercial work.

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?