Resolution Imaging celebrates the arrival of its brand new six-colour flatbed UV, touching down over the Australia Day weekend. With less than a month under the belt, it marks the first Screen Truepress Jet 1632UV to land in the country and it is already earning its stripes.

The Australian printing industry has lost one of its most prominent and influential characters with the passing late last week of Noel Crichton. Noel Alexander Crichton died on Friday 21 February aged 87.

Print21 is the longest running online news service for the Australian and New Zealand printing and graphic arts industry. This month seven years ago Geon was at the peak of its power, pulling in more businesses under its banner, and revenues hitting $200 million.

Four weeks and counting, and Ipex 2014 has won back support from the printing industry after a shaky spell last year. Ipex 2014 is ramping up to provide print and marcomm professionals alike with the tools, knowledge and inspiration to turn today's challenges into tomorrow's opportunities.

An industry round-table has met in Melbourne to hash out new strategies to put trade training front and centre. Assistant Education Minister Sussan Ley led the meeting in a compaign to ensure that students pursuing manufacturing careers don’t feel like they’re on the ‘B team’.

Two local print owners have gone all in and bought up the Australian master franchise rights to international graphics group Signwave. Dean Rowland and Leo Baker get into the driver’s seat, determined grow the business’s local footprint and provide better support for franchisees.

MIS provider Optimus Group has joined forces with KBA for a global partnership set to kick off from the beginning of March. The offset press manufacturer has signed a non-exclusive deal to sell Optimus systems throughout Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific.

Manroland Sheetfed's Rafael Penuela narrowly beat out Manroland Web System's Eckhard Hoerner-Marass in an online industry poll, declaring Penuela the #1 print CEO of the year. They were pitted against KBA and Heidelberg heads to determine who 'shaped the industry most' in 2013.

The call has gone out to get ringside for the 31st National Print Awards. Dubbed the final bout in the Print Championship of Australia, this 'no-holds barred battle’ looks set to go off in a white heat of toner and testosterone at the Westin in Sydney, Friday May 23.

Rawson Graphics hosts Japanese experts to test the press giant’s entry product into the rapidly growing new ink market. Komori is conducting extensive trials of its new HUV offset ink before entering the battle with the two other Japanese ink suppliers, Toyo Ink and T&K Toka to supply the local market.

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Aussie labels competing on the world stage have bagged a knock-out three wins at the 2013 L9 World Label Awards. Judged at Labelexpo in Brussels, LATMA entered our own national winners in a range of label classes, cleaning up with three golds and two honourable mentions.

The drip, drip, drip loss of advertising in print media is turning into a torrent. On Monday night, 18th February; the ABC’s Media Watch programme revealed that Fairfax’s advertising revenue from the revered Age and Sydney Morning Herald titles dropped 25% last financial year.

Hannanprint is throwing open its doors for an exclusive look under the hood of its state-of-the-art $90 million Warwick Farm site. This Tuesday, February 25, the inner workings of one of the most technically advanced printing plants in the southern hemisphere will be laid bare.

Nothing provokes such an intense reaction in the printing industry as the phoenix. The merest hint of a company using the liquidation process to avoid paying its debts is enough to raise the ire of honest, hardworking printers. Simon Enticknap looks at recent attempts to fight the phoenix.

The folk over at Melbourne's Abacus Print & Display may know how many beans make five, but something wasn't quite adding up in the colour department. Enter David Crowther, founder of Colour Graphic Services, to set their ICC profiles straight and win over major brand work.