The national museum of New Zealand - Te Papa – is considering shutting down its publishing operation for up to five years, with the loss of four jobs.

Melbourne-based Direct Digital Group (DDG), a digital print pioneer and communications agency, has gone into voluntary liquidation.

Konica Minolta Business Solutions Australia has acquired two leading IT services companies as part of its strategy to diversity its business into marketing services.

Australia’s major newspaper publishing companies have launched a $5 million marketing campaign in a bid to stem falling advertising revenues and circulation figures.

Sydney’s Cactus Imaging, part of the Opus Print Group, is renowned not just within Australia, but internationally as an industry-changing innovator, not afraid to push the boundaries of grand format digital printing to their very limits.

End-user needs will be a focus of this year’s 2015 Australasian Paper Markets Outlook Forum held at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre from May 17-18. From design parameters to delivery time-frames, pre-conversion or partial completion suppliers are becoming more adaptable.

A Printing Industries webinar next week will focus on how employers can have a healthy, motivated and productive workforce by providing a corporate health plan for employees.

Fuji Xerox Australia will strengthen its stake in the thriving outdoor print market by becoming a distributer of the Fujifilm Acuity range.

Paper merchant PaperlinX has asked the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) to extend its voluntary trading suspension as the company assesses the collapse of its UK business.

One of Sydney’s last remaining independent newspapers City Hub has launched a crowdfunding campaign in a desperate bid to stay in business. It needs to raise $50,000 over the next six weeks in its ‘Don’t Make Your News Limited’ campaign on the Indiegogo crowdfunding platform.

The Australian book publishing industry could suffer ‘massive and devastating’ consequences under ‘ideologically driven’ recommendations in the Harper Review, according to the Australian Publishers Association (APA).

AAA Packaging Supplies has won the 2015 Australian Packaging and Processing Machinery Association’s (APPMA) Imported Equipment Excellence Award for its innovative C-One Plana Pallet Wrapper.

Print provider Snap Franchising has appointed strategic planning expert Anne Cashman as its new non-executive director to assist with the company’s ambitious rebranding strategy.

Paper merchant's profitable local operations are protected from the closure of most of PaperlinX UK operations as insurers withdraw credit ahead of voluntary administration.

Plastics print pioneer Graphics Plus Printing (GPP) is up for sale as a going concern just days after going into voluntary liquidation.