Industry suppliers are scrambling to book the few remaining spaces at Visual Impact 2016, to be held in September at Sydney Showground. Visitors from the sign, display, engraving and wide-format print markets are expected to flock to pre-register now that the online registration portal has opened.

Tickets are still available for a unique site tour of Roland DG Australia’s facility at Frenchs Forest in Sydney next week, hosted by The Lithographic Association of Australia (NSW). The event is aimed at expanding visitor’s knowledge of 'the rapidly evolving digital application space.'

Epson has launched a new high-speed colour production range. The 44” SureColor P10070 and 64” SureColor P20070 use a new ten colour ink set with an extended colour gamut and four levels of black.

Mercedes Waratah gets an interim license to run ‘Australia’s largest digital printer’ for the next six weeks. Shock twist in the ongoing affairs of controversial Melbourne printing industry identity, Michael Wu, as he admits defeat by putting the Port Melbourne business into voluntary administration.

The NSW government has continued its assault on the mailing industry with a new charge for receiving E-Toll statements in the post. In a letter to customers, NSW Roads & Maritime revealed that customers who continue to receive postal statements will now be charged $2.20 per statement.

Demand for newsprint in Australia fell by nine percent in the first five months of the year while demand for magazine paper was relatively stable, according to latest second-quarter figures from Norwegian paper manufacturing giant Norske Skog.

South Australian packaging printer Poly Products says new Flexo Wash FW 2500M technology installed at its plant in Regency Park, Adelaide will result in significant savings. A number of the company’s rollers which had been earmarked for replacement are now being brought back into production.

Epson EcoTank printers have come through a challenging stint at Base Marambio in the Argentine Antarctic, the southernmost point in the Americas. The extreme climate at the base makes it impossible to gain frequent access to supplies and spare parts for equipment.

Book publishing association The Galley Club will meet in Sydney next week to discuss latest innovations and trends in the industry. Speakers at the event titled 'What's new in book and print publishing...to excite, compete and prosper' include Michael Schultz (pictured) from SOS Printing.

Leading Melbourne printer Longbeach Printing, an official supplier of the Australia Made campaign, has suddenly halted production. The website is down and customers have been left scrambling to cover print jobs.

APN Print's Jayd Kiely has won the Heidelberg Graduate of the Year Award for Queensland from the Lithographic Institute of Australia (LIA). Over 130 people were on hand at the 2016 LIA Heidelberg Graduate of the Year & Early Stage Apprenticeship Awards held in Brisbane.

Xerox dismissed reports that it's planning to merge with the world's largest print group, RR Donnelley. The Wall Street Journal - quoting "people familiar with the matter" - reports Xerox Corp has "privately rejected a bid to merge its document business with Donnelley."

Canon Australia says its next-gen multifunctional imageRUNNER Series will help to drive digital transformation for Australian businesses. The imageRUNNER ADVANCE C5500i Series will be available in Australia from 1 August 2016.

Customer contact is what makes your customers pay faster, and cash is the fuel of your organisation, according to Andrew Le Marchant (pictured) - one of the Neopost team of experts presenting a Technology Showcase in Sydney this week.

Industry veteran Warwick Roden and Print21 editor Andy McCourt will be guest speakers tonight at a post-drupa dinner meeting in Sydney of The Australian Society of Old Friends, a group of mostly offset printers with origins that go back to London in 1906.