National trade printer Heroprint with offset/digital plants in Sydney and Perth and standalone digital plants in Melbourne and Brisbane, has increased its stock offering dramatically in the last three months.

What was once ‘The Document Company’ is now plain Xerox (Fuji Xerox in APac). With the drupa tagline ‘Let the work flow’ documents hardly rated a mention at the company’s packed press conference, attended by Chairman and CEO Ursula Burns (pictured).

First blood in the looming battle between HP Indigo and Landa Nanography, the latest venture of Indigo founder, Benny Landa, has gone to the established player.

What a difference four years can make for the German webpress manufacturer and its sheetfed printing press relation. Last drupa MAN Roland the second largest press manufacturer in the world had recently gone broke and was split into two companies. It's a different story this time around.

Inside the halls at drupa a trend is becoming more and more apparent to Print21 magazine editor Andy McCourt. Offset press manufacturers are integrating digital print engines into print and converting lines to gain the best of both worlds.

More than 20,000 jobs in printing, book publishing, writing and retail could be lost under a government proposal to ditch parallel importation rules, according to a new campaign backed by publishers, booksellers and the PIAA. "We’ll be the ones putting ourselves at a self-destructive disadvantage."

Custom label specialist Guru Labels has launched a unique loyalty program that offers thousands of dollars in permanent discounts to trade customers. "We racked our brains before deciding to go down this path because we couldn't find anything like it operating anywhere else in the industry."

A Melbourne-based manufacturer and wholesaler is offering printers a new range of brandable fitness performance apparel that targets the booming printed textile market. “There is a significant demand for fashionable fitness wear and this represents huge opportunities for printers."

Due to overwhelming demand, the Australasian Catalogue Association has been forced to extend its call for entries an extra week until COB on Wednesday 8 June. The awards night will be held at Crown Palladium in Melbourne on Friday, 2nd September 2016.

Competing technologies stake their claim as manufacturers lean away from commercial printing towards developing products for packaging print. Konica Minolta, HP, KBA, Xeikon, not forgetting the notable Landa Press all launched their drupa campaigns on the first day.

Benny Landa has done it again at drupa, with smoke and mirrors...and huge orders, beta sites, dancers and success stories. Emerging from a space time capsule, beaming like Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise, he treated guests to a show worthy of a Hollywood production.

Five Star Print - one of South Australia's most high profile print companies - has collapsed into voluntary administration less than a year after it shut down part of the business following a costly dispute over a digital press. "This has cost me millions," MD Carolyn Cagney (pictured) said at the time.

Heidelberg captured the attention of the global print media with an impressive press conference held on the eve of the official opening of drupa 2016. Print21 magazine editor Andy McCourt filed this report on his first impressions from the big show in Dusseldorf.

The annual SWUG NZ newspaper technology conference will examine the impact of drug and alcohol abuse in the workplace. SWUG has unveiled an 'interactive' agenda for its 16th annual event to be held in Wellington in August.

“HP Latex is THE success story in wide format this century,” according to Spandex marketing manager Nathan Barclay. Spandex and HP have teamed up to present a series of Open Days focusing on marketing opportunities in Latex wide-format printing.

A UK company has come up with a cracking means of processing its wasted eggshells into raw material suitable for use in packaging materials.