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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.

Computershare veteran Stuart Irving is moving up in the world, grabbing the top seat as CEO Stuart Crosby announces his surprise departure. After eight tough years in the role with the leading BPO operation Crosby leaves the business in rude health, officially handing over the reins on June 30th.

New blood for the industry is a priority on everybody's agenda these days, and Ipex is no exception. On Saturday March 29, students from schools, colleges and universities are getting a baptism of print, at the World Print Summit theatre for the official Ipex 2014 'Youth Day'.

UK large-format specialist Macro Art has set the world record for the largest ever movie poster. Macro Art knocked out the football field-sized promo on a 5 metre EFI VuteK GS5000 over a weekend, breaking its own world record and measuring up at a frankly ridiculous 3234.31 square metres.

Future leaders have nearly an extra three weeks to get in their applications for GAMAA's annual overseas internship grant. Worth a cool $15K this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study anywhere in the world is still up for grabs as GAMAA push back the cut-off to March 31.

Komori continues its break-neck success, taking the region’s offset market by storm as local dealer Ferrostaal signs off yet another Lithrone 840P, bringing the grand total up to eight presses sold in just over a year. The latest GL 840P H-UV touches down at Whirlwind Print in Melbourne this month.

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Paper prices are set to rise by as much as 10% from March. A weak Aussie dollar cops the blame as paper merchants circle the wagons on this latest attempt to push through a price increase, with all the major brands seemingly on the same page for once.

An intense week of negotiations following the shock announcement of Group Momentum's entering into administration have wrapped up with industry identity David Minnett reveals that the iconic digital business will go on, transitioning over to the Rawson Graphics stable in the coming weeks.