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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.

The t’s are crossed and the i’s are dotted on the Blue Star buy-out of Sydney’s iconic Lilyfield business from German STI Group. The official handover is now set for June 30, as Blue Star gets serious about boosting its wide format and POP offering.

The Truepress Jet L350UV nabbed a gold trophy at the eighth annual European Digital Press (EDP) association awards, held at last month's FESPA Digital show in Munich. From a pool of over 120 suppliers, Screen's leading digital label press took home the prize for "Best Label Printing Solution".

A step too far for industry consolidation as the Selig and Hannan families pull back from the brink of creating Australia’s largest printing company. Too many uncertainties and the potential costs of rationalising weighed against the benefits of the proposed $700 million merger.

Gallus owner Ferdinand Rüesch cashes in its shares for an anchor stake with Heidelberg. In a landmark trade-off, Heidelberg picks up 100% ownership of Gallus while the share swap deal leaves Ferdinand Rüesch as its single largest shareholder, controlling 9% of the company.

Paul Tannous, former managing director, will be one of a significant number of iGroup employees to join the Selig brothers' growing printing enterprise. The acquisition adds another building block to the rapid expansion of the Blue Star empire.

The World’s largest English-speaking Printing and Graphic Technology Exhibition is past. This evening event is your chance to hear first hand from those who attended the show, and whose job it is to bring us up to date and to keep us informed.