Body of Work and Offset Alpine have won 14 awards at the prestigious Premier Print Awards in Chicago. Photographer Bob Armstrong’s design and print agency Body of Work won 13 awards and IPMG’s Offset Alpine Printing was awarded for its work with iconic swimwear label Seafolly.

For years the graphics industry has been improving its environmental footprint, but not shouting about it much. Heidelberg’s introduction of LED drying technology for the European market is a case in point, says industry consultant Laurel Brunner.

The Adelaide Now website has a slide show called 'Adelaide in the 70s' and Print21 magazine editor Andy McCourt flipped through and found a photo that features Adelaide Art Engraver employees Neville Weaver and Bruce Collett.

n October, Fujifilm technicians are making their broad industry knowledge and experience available to printers in most capital city metro areas for an onsite process audit and consultation free of charge.

Visual Impact 2015 is underway in Melbourne with pre-registrations up by 76% and thousands expected to attend the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre for the three-day event.

It’s not surprising that the big Japanese press manufacturers, both offset and digital, along with the vast number of technology companies that call Japan home, should set the tone and the agenda of this year’s IGAS exhibition at Big Sight, Tokyo.

James Hannan has been named chief operating officer at IPMG - the Hannan family business that’s the largest privately owned marketing communications group in Australia.The move is one of four major appointments as IPMG continues to expand its marketing operation.

They’re the big issues for businesses in today’s rapidly changing landscape – change, customer engagement, future trends and productivity – and they’ll be some of the subjects tackled in a seminar program at Visual Impact, which began in Melbourne yesterday.

The PANPA 2015 Newspaper of the Year Awards were announced at a gala event held at Sydney’s Hilton Hotel. The photography section featured many powerful images and you can see all of the winning photos here.

Andy McCourt has charted the progress of digital print since its inception and his involvement with the launch of the Indigo E-Print 1000 in 1993. He looks at what we have now and might expect to see at Düsseldorf in May 2016.

The promotional campaign for the world’s biggest print machinery and technology exhibition, drupa 2016, arrives at the Sydney Opera House next month. The exhibition will feature print, functional printing, packaging production, multichannel, 3D printing and green printing.

Printing Industries will host the final Sydney one-day Print Estimating and Planning course for 2015 on Friday 25 September at Auburn. The course is aimed at company owners, managers, supervisors, sales teams, print buyers, print production co-ordinators and graphic designers

Bright Print Group is expanding into the wide format market with a half-million dollar investment in new equipment from Agfa. “Previously we had outsourced wide format work but demand keeps growing and clients have been pushing us to make the move," said BPG director Debbie Burgess.

About 80 leading print industry companies are setting up their stands for the Visual Impact and Exhibitions Expo that opens in Melbourne on Thursday. "Registrations are up 60% on 2013 and we've seen some very strong demand for the seminar program," said Peter Harper, Visual Connections.

At the close of the HP users group conference in Tokyo, Keith Ferrel, co-founder of Cactus Imaging and now GM of Opus wide-format, was elected chairman of the Asia-Pacific Japan (APJ) division. Patrick Howard reports from Tokyo.

The fallout continues for PaperlinX following the collapse of its European operation, with the paper merchant dismissing claims that it breached terms involving $260 million worth of hybrid securities.