Federal Government promise to source high-grade security paper from the speciality mill gives the company and employees security. Mill manager, Bruce Borchardt, says the government needs to step up to the plate by recognizing the unique advantage of the locally made grades.

Two new Designjet models are released ahead of the imaging giant's strategy to scale down of its PageWide technology. HP announced the release of two wide format machines at its media conference in Mumbai yesterday.

The Australian and New Zealand offset plate sector has been in turmoil ever since Kodak and Heidelberg ended their distribution deal at the beginning of the year. Patrick Howard looks at the winners and losers in the battle of the plates.

German speciality chemical group Altana has stepped into the future of Nanography, the water-based digital printing process being developed by the Israeli-based ‘father of digital printing.’

Long established Gosford printing business is seeking expressions of interest for established client base, stock, plant and equipment with option to buy the freehold premises.

Jet Technologies will showcase its digital and analogue label technologies and equipment at the opening of a new state-of-the-art demonstration centre on July25.

BJ Ball’s e3 energy scheme is able to save printers money on power that is being wasted in their factories. Click in to join the latest Printing Industries webinar next week, on Wednesday July 9 at 1pm AEST.

Finding ways to differentiate your product in the market gets more difficult when customers have many choices. Digital printing is still defying the trend towards commodity that has overtaken much of the offset world, which means the paper it processes attracts special attention.

Furthering Jack Malki’s drive to establish his label equipment business in the northern archipelago he has partnered with Italian press manufacturer to service the huge potential market.

The past six years has seen Worldwide South Brisbane undergo a complete digital overhaul and emerge stronger and more profitable than ever. Rebuilt from the ground up on a Konica Minolta platform in 2008, the business has defied the trends and entered a new growth phase.

Labels and narrow web get bumped up the totem pole as industry stalwart Mark Bladon signs onto the Fujifilm team. Bladon brings over 25 years printing industry experience on both sides of the supplier line to his new role as business development manager for this thriving sector.

The 2014 National Print Awards marked the end of an era, as next year's award season takes on a different flavour. State-based PICAS have been canned in light of dwindling numbers and decline in sponsorships, with the NPAs reverting to a direct entry model for the 2015 Awards.

Free online design templates are set to power up the next stage of web-to-print development for print buyers and designers. CMYKhub has launched its ‘online design templates’ in a Design4print solution for customers with minimal set up costs and NO monthly fees

After a pioneering history in the digital revolution, including the first Australian agency of Xeikon in the early 1990s, the iconic Belgium-based business has returned to commercial digital print with its local launch of the French-built Meteor DP 8700 XL.

Following a meeting with the fourth set of administrators on Friday Mark Shergill decided to move production onto his Print Warehouse presses to allow for the forthcoming auction of the building and machinery.

The launch of Komori’s full-size offset packaging press in Japan last week by Mr. Yoshiharu Komori, the venerable chairman, president and CEO of the company (pictured) delivers the missing link to the packaging specialists at Ferrostaal Australia.