Labels and short run packaging are being seen as some kind of El Dorado by digital equipment manufacturers, as click rates in the cut-sheet digital sector go even lower. There is unquestionably an over-supply of available digital label presses in a market where one or two players dominate and demand has yet to even remotely reach A3 cut-sheet proportions.

The Newspaper Works has launched the Newspaper Locator, an online tool to help media agencies better plan newspaper media campaigns. The tool presents 500 newspapers across Australia, grouped into established television broadcast areas to assist multi-platform campaign planning

Entries in the premiere awards can be delivered to your local Printing Industries office in person up to 5pm this Friday 30 January 2015. This is the first year printers can enter their work directly into the National Print awards.

The fearsome dragon from Peter Jackson's Hobbit movie on the fuselage of an Air New Zealand 777 wins the Best of the Best Award for the Hamilton-based printer. 'The Desolation of Smaug' proved a winner at the Specialist Graphic Industry Association (SGIA) Golden Image Awards.

Patrick Howard's review of the industry’s premiere ‘think fest.’

The second part of that is … “digital is the doorway to print,” and it encapsulates the relationship between one of the largest printing companies in the world and the internet age.

Linking up the industry’s leading array of print-focused software into one integrated offering will give printers an end-to-end workflow at every point. Patrick Howard reports from Las Vegas. Mark Olin (pictured left) CFO opened Connect

Four months after opening its Port Melbourne plant LEP is adding an extra shift each day to handle the workload. The extra production is indicative of the move towards hub printing across the industry with all the major ‘trade’ printers – CMYK Hub and Hero, as well as LEP reporting growing volumes.

A technology watershed investment in book printing technology will take place over the next three years in the USA with the announcement that Quad Graphics, one of the largest printing companies, will transform its production platform by installing more than 20 digital inkjet web presses.

There was no pot of gold at the end of Rainbow Printing's second time around in the Sydney printing market. The company closed it's Wetherill Park production operations before Christmas, selling off its equipment and letting staff go before transferring the client lists and data to serial takeover specialist, Mark Shergill.

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The printing industry is shrinking, there’s no doubt about it. Without a clear-eyed acceptance of that central fact we are unable to make sensible decisions about the future. Printing paper consumption in Australia declined 300,000 tonnes since its peak of 1.5 million tonnes in 2008, a fall of 20 percent.

The 15-year-old EFI users conference turns up trumps this year with the largest attendance ever at the seminal printing industry technology conference in the gambling capital of the USA.

Less than one year after launching its locally-produced Vantage brand from the Boyer mill outside Hobart, the local manufacturer is joining the push to lift prices with a 3-5% increase on new orders.