The Colorplan system is sweeping the industry with high-profile paper evangelist, Jutta Birkenhauer, drawing sizeable groups of printers and designers during her ‘Spread the Love’ tour of Sydney and Brisbane.

Entrants in this year’s Media Super National Print Awards will need to send their entries to Sydney, as the consolidation of all Printing Industries activities continues to move to the Harbour city.

Indonesian pulp and paper giants APP and APRIL push green credentials at the Paris climate summit amid claims that some companies are exploiting the event for ‘greenwashing.’ “Companies are looking at the climate conference as a business opportunity," said an environmental group.

A new Rima RS 36S high-speed indexing stacker has delivered a significant boost in catalogue production at IPMG’s Hannanprint printing plant in Victoria. "We’re using it mostly for press catalogue work for clients like Aldi and Coles as well as local newspapers.”

Print and marketing powerhouse Rooster IMC has become the first B1 offset printer in Melbourne to achieve ISO colour certification across all of its platforms – offset, wide format and digital.“The objective was to unite our colour output devices to produce consistent and predictable colour.”

Wide format signage and display distributor Spandex and Avery Dennision continued their national vehicle wrapping tour with an apprentice workshop at the Polytechnic West premises in Perth.

Newspaper advertisements are more trusted by Australians than ads in any other medium, according to a new survey from Nielsen. There's still a considerable gap between trust in ads in newspapers and those on digital platforms.

Alex Coulson tells how the family-owned trade printer invested in the new digital press to satisfy Heroprint customers who want their work produced with the unique quality of the electro ink technology.

Canberra’s second biggest printer, Paragon Printers, has shut its doors and collapsed into administration owing $3.3 million and leaving more than 50 staff out of work. "There has been a definite decline in the amount of printing work done in Canberra," said a local printer.

Printing Industries has detailed its remarkable staff turnover since the arrival of new CEO Jason Allen earlier this year. But the roster changes are so extensive that the association itself seems to be having trouble keeping up, omitting at least five names from its list.

Heidelberg will exhibit its 'digitized future of the print media industry,' titled Simply Smart, at the drupa 2016 trade fair in Dusseldorf. "This is about the pressing need for print shops to improve efficiency and respond to customers in ever faster and more flexible ways."

For the first time, Pantone’s Colour of the Year is a blending of two shades – Serenity and Rose Quartz. “With the whole greater than its individual parts, joined together Serenity and Rose Quartz demonstrate a balance between a warmer embracing rose tone and the cooler tranquil blue."

The well-known Colour Graphics Services principal has travelled to Königstein/Frankfurt, Germany for in-depth training on the ultra-precision colour measurement instruments ahead of assuming full responsibility for the brand in Australia and News Zealand.

HP launched the widest-ever inkjet web press, co-developed with KBA, that it says will reinvent corrugated packaging printing for high-volume, digital pre-print applications. "Converters and brands need to create more targeted, effective packaging while reducing costs,” said Eric Wiesner, GM, PWP, HP Inc.

For the graphics industry, interest in the UN climate change conference in Paris is roughly similar to that of many other sectors: tepid to lukewarm. And yet all of us should care, not just for the headlines but because this event is unique in its potential to drive change.

James Cryer hands over the honor board of past presidents to Mark Easton, current president, at the LATMA 2015 Label Presentation Dinner & AGM in Sydney. He maintains the current president is “delighted” to acquire the honour roll and the association intends to refurbish it with the names of presidents since 2008.