The Japanese International Graphic Arts Show in Tokyo Big Sight is a comprehensive demonstration of the amount and diversity of the country's contribution to the graphic arts industry.

The story of how James Thirlby’s UK-based printing company, ESP Colour, is revolutionising the workflow, pricing and productivity of the industry – in the April issue of Print21 magazine – prompted James Cryer, industry gadfly and iconoclast, to write an affirmative and positive response.

Early commitments to substantial stands by the leading supply companies guarantees the industry can look forward to a comprehensive graphic arts exhibition next year.

The latest management tool for digital printers comes as a built-in feature of the latest Fiery Workstation 5.6 upgrade. It allows all Fiery Driven devices to report data in real time.

Six of the nine Komori presses that have gone in to Australia and New Zealand in the past year are equipped with H-UV drying. The others can be retrofitted. The partners from Sydney-based Rawson Graphics are solidly behind the new technology.

Trent Nankervis installs Australia’s fourth HP Indigo 10000 press to boost capacity in short-run, high-value print to meet the expectations of its print industry customers. The premier ‘for trade’ supplier made over $2 million investments in the Melbourne facility following a survey of its reseller customers

Something relating to print reverberated in the past week. It was an ABC doco on Google’s attempts to digitize every book in the world. What began as a noble endeavour to enable access to humankind’s storehouse of knowledge has descended into litigation for copyright breaches.

It is a case of David and Goliath as the new master franchisors in the signage world go to work full time on expanding the smaller Signwave network even as major player Signarama opens its 100th store.

Not enough market support stamped out the prospects for the Zumbox joint-venture digital mail service forcing the essential mail company to close the operation.

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.