Photos from 3 days at PrintEx15, Sydney Showground.

David Crowther, the Colour Doctor of Colour Graphic Services, has won a Print21 Hot Pick at Printex for the high-speed Mellow Colour software suite.

First time showing of the Seiko wide format on the DES stand attracted plenty of attention at PrintEx and won for itself a Hot Pick award.

EFI’s recently launched Productivity Suite won a Print21 Hot Pick award at Printex. The suite is state of the art graphics software and addresses customers’ most pressing automation and efficiency needs.

DGS, one of Australia's original wide format suppliers, warmly received its Hot Pick for a marvel of German engineering on its Visual Impact Stand. Made by industrial giant AEG, famous for quality household appliances, The Voyager Pro UV-Curable combination printer exudes precision engineering and features.

On a sparkling autumn day in Sydney, the doors of PrintEx15 and Visual Impact opened to visitors from around the city, the country and the surrounding region to be the first to see the very latest technology, equipment and ideas across the broad spectrum of the print and graphic communications sector.

Starleaton’s Vortex™ 4200 wide format printer has won a Print21 Hot Pick award on the opening day of Printex15 at Homebush. The Vortex 4200 targets several print applications, including CAD, AEC, GIS and point-of-sale graphics with a combination of speed and quality.

Konica Minolta has won a Print21 Hot Pick award for its award-winning MGI JETvarnish 3D, which takes digital spot UV coating to a new dimension, featuring increased throughput for flat spot UV jobs and amazing 3D raised effects.

New Zealand specialty printer Fuzed joined Trent Nankervis of CMYKhub in stepping up to take the second brand new Scodix Ultra from the Currie stand at Printex.

Screen GP Australia and its exclusive dealer Graphic Art Mart have scored a Hot Pick at PrintEx/Visual Impact for the Truepress Jet W3200UV flatbed printer,

The first Print21 Hot Pick of the 2015 show has gone to Epson for its remarkable Workforce Pro WF-R8590TC network printer. For the first time, an inkjet device presents a viable alternative to laser in the office environment.

Betting on the sustainable future of newspapers, the country’s largest group is investing millions of dollars on the latest inserting and collating technology from Ferag.

Australian print provider Snap Franchising has stepped up its transformation strategy by signing an A$10m MIS software deal with Silicon Valley-based technology supplier Electronics for Imaging (EFI).

The identity and motives of the arsonist who torched Michael Smith's business in Sydney over the weekend are unknown. Police are investigating the break-in and fire at the premises of the former TLC trade bindery less than three months after it was bought out of receivership.

Energy related CO2 emissions are rising in the USA by 2% to 3% every year. Print’s contribution to the rise is hard to quantify, if not impossible, because few other developed economies have such a large and sprawling print industry.

A patent row between Avery Dennison and UPM Raflatac shows no sign of being settled amicably as the two label substrate giants head to a German court.