CJ King bids farewell to the West Coast after 23 years as a Perth printing institution, moving its total operation to the Gold Coast. The grand exodus sees CJ King grow into new markets from its new east coast mega factory.

Trade-only specialists CMYKhub have touched down in Darwin, with the official opening of its NT manufacturing plant set for February. The new Darwin site, the fifth in CMYKhub's growing national network of hubs, will sharpen the business's logistics and spearhead its new Web2Print platform.

The International Printing Machinery and Allied Trades Exhibition (IPEX) is one of the largest trade shows in the printing and graphic arts industry held every four years.

Heavy metal is on the move again, as not one but two Komori giants go into renowned WA printers, Scott Print. The bold move sees Komori land its largest sale in Australian history, as the family-owned Scott Print continues its trend of investing in new technology and reviving industry confidence.

The Printcentre throws up the shutters on its new Sydney site unveiling the city's first Inca Onset S40i through Fujifilm, and the second for the company in just ten months. With its power-base now doubled, the Printcentre boasts a combined capacity of 31,000 square metres a day.

Konica Minolta has won the coveted BLI A3 MFP Line of the Year crown for the fourth straight year, a first in the BLI's 50-year history. Konica Minolta's entire range was subjected to two months of grueling laboratory evaluation by the BLI team, coming in top of the pack in all categories.

Flint Group opens up its specialty portfolio to include new UV metallic silver and introduces three metallic pastes for narrow web. Already performing well in Europe, the new low-migration product range will be rolled out early in the year, starting in North America this March.

Another piece falls into place for Benny Landa’s Nanographic revolution, with EFI’s Fiery technology officially signed up to power the high-speed press’s digital front end. EFI users were treated to the announcement earlier today, personally delivered by Guy Gecht, EFI CEO, and Benny Landa.

Barely a year into his role as CEO Stephen Pratt walks away from the Anitech top job. Acting CEO Henrik Thorup vouches it is “business as usual” for Anitech. Pratt's brief stint saw job cuts and branch closures across the country, in a complete company operations overhaul.

Snap CEO, Stephen Edwards, is the newest face to join the Printing Industries board for 2014. A spot opened up on the board following the retirement of Paul Richardson, from Lindsay Yates Group, and with experience and credentials to spare Edwards was a firm fit for the role.

There probably has never been a better time for the Australian and NZ printing, packaging and allied industries to re-equip. Interest rates are low, print runs are getting shorter but more frequent, digital technology is getting better - to quote Mr Abbott's election edict, “Australia is open for business.”

Snap kicks off 2014 with two high-profile sporting sponsorships, putting its full strength behind print as a vital ingredient in the marketing mix. The print franchise group is pumped to get behind Iron Man athlete Nathan Smith, and signs up as naming rights sponsor of SMU Racing for the coming year.

A surge in supplier demand has forced upcoming FESPA Digital 2014, to pump up their floor-plan by 4000 square metres, making for their largest ever digital print show. With another five months still to go, the numbers blow-out has even forced the show to spill out into a second hall.

High-profile industry leader and CEO of Look Print, David Leach steps up to the bar as the new president of PIAA. A firm change-agent, Leach tells Print21 he looks forward to the challenge of creating a dynamic vision for the future and shaking things up a bit for 2014.

We're only ten weeks out now, and after a rocky run through the early parts of last year, Ipex 2014 looks to be set to go off in style this March. The folks over in London have retooled the entire event to deliver answers to the burning questions, solutions to the big issues and a profitable future for print.

Australian technology innovator Rapid-X Digital draws back the curtain on its new one-touch digital label press, the Rapid XL220. This latest offering is the first in a new wave of digital label printing systems, combining digital and flexo technology to achieve industry-leading speeds and quality.