The world’s fastest-growing photo printing app has returned home to New Zealand, allowing users to hit print from their phone, anytime and anywhere. Printicular - a free to download app - started as the brainchild of Kiwi app developer and creative agency MEA and was launched first in the US.

Victoria’s oldest newspaper, the Geelong Advertiser, has celebrated its 175-year anniversary with a dinner for 200 guests including business leaders, celebrities, athletes and politicians. The first edition of the Addy was printed on Saturday November 21, 1840.

The award-winning Earth Platinum atlas produced by Sydney boutique publisher Millennium House will be a highlight of the 50th birthday celebrations of The National Library of New Zealand this weekend. Earth Platinum, the world's biggest atlas, measures 6ft x 4.5ft (1.8m x 1.4m).

Bell Potter Securities and Evans & Partners have launched a $75 million initial public offering for IVE Group in a deal that would value the print and marketing company at $177.7 million. It's the second time in six months that IVE’s owners have attempted to float the business on the stock exchange.

Printing and packaging giant Flint has acquired digital innovator Xeikon, a leading digital solutions provider to the packaging and commercial markets. Xeikon’s products and services will be the foundation of a newly created division called Flint Group Digital Printing Solutions.

Norske Skog’s Tasmanian paper plant will begin sustainable chemical production in a joint venture with Tony Duncan’s Circa Group as it seeks to diversify from paper.

If you’re looking for a highly systemised, seriously profitable print management business with a diverse range of suppliers, warehousing, on line ordering, quality customers then this is a business you should look at.

Auto Paper Stretch Compensation might not sound desperately exciting, but it can save a lot of waste and cost, especially for packaging production. This new technology from Heidelberg cuts paper waste, plates, makereadies and emissions and will be shown at drupa next year.

Most print and prepress professionals will be aware of the recently announced updates to ISO 12647-2: 2013. As the largest provider of proofing solutions to the industry, DES is now set up to assist new and existing customers to manage changes to their workflows

Fujifilm has harnessed the power of inkjet in an easy-to-understand web microsite that serves as an expanding knowledge-base with interactivity, videos, blogs, application guides and advice.

Newsprint giant Norske Skog is scrambling to restructure a debt of €1 billion that threatens its operations in Australia and New Zealand. The company said it faced ‘an exceedingly more challenging operating environment in 2015 than envisaged at the beginning of the year.”

Pioneering Sydney photo book printer Momento says a newly installed Mitabook hard case binder is in full production in time for the Christmas rush. "The new machine is a fairly complex beast but we’re up and running in time for Christmas so we’re very happy and the staff are loving it."

Almost four in five shoppers use print catalogues when deciding what to buy, according to new research. Catalogues performed strongly for retailers when tracked in terms of shopping frequency, channel usage, channel purpose and as drivers of shopping behaviour.

Perth printer Advance Press has won the prestigious Best of Category Award for its Rio Tinto Diamonds 2015 Calendar at the 38th annual PICA WA awards held at the Hyatt Regency Perth. Murray Scott from Picton Press won the Media Super Young Executive of the Year award.

Trade supplier Spandex is hosting coast-to-coast Christmas BBQs at all of its branches in December to celebrate a successful year for the company and its customers. "Who knows? Only Santa knows and we’ve invited him to all of them using his new Rudolph warp-factor propulsion system."

Extraordinary general meeting in Sydney on November 27 to decide the future of the JPE as Franca Balsamo is asked to remove Presidents Boards and Shields from Printing Industries as a result of the shift to new smaller offices in Chatswood.