The Printing Industries Association of Australia (Printing Industries) is showing printers how they can use content on their website to attract potential clients and enhance their positioning for website search engines, in its next free webinar on Friday 9 August at 1pm.

Pressprint is the first company in Auckland to buy a new Heidelberg XL75 five colour press, with coater. This press is also the first ordered in New Zealand through Heidelberg’s Carbon Neutral Manufacturing Program, which offsets the carbon used to manufacture the press.

Richard Timson, Heidleberg Australia and New Zealand managing director is calling on the local printing industry to come together in support of Heidelberg veteran, Ricky Bannister, who suffered a major spinal injury in April.

Intense speculation surrounds the PaperlinX full year presentation on 21 August as battle lines are drawn between Andrew Price, the executive director charged with turning around the company's ailing European business and Graham Critchley convenor of PaperlinX Investors Group Supporters (PIGS)

Since last week’s release of Pamela Williams’ book ‘Killing Fairfax’ the media and blogosphere has been abuzz with opinions, views and predictions. In this week's ReVerb, Andy McCourt gathers together a lineup of the likely suspects behind the publisher's perceived demise.

The Manly Daily, The New Zealand Herald and The West Australian are among the hundreds of local newspaper publications to have made it into the 2013 PANPA (the Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers’ Association) Newspaper of the Year list of finalists.

It’s not quite up to the standards of the fictitious replicator technology featured in the Star Trek television franchise, but world’s first 3D printer bound for space is set to rocket its way up to the International Space Station next year.

Kodak chief, Antonio M. Perez, will hold on to the top job for up to a year following the company’s planned re-emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the USA, with the company claiming that continuity in leadership will help ensure the successful continuing transformation of the business into a global commercial print player.

Fineline Printing is claiming a binding boon after installing a Horizon Stitchliner 5500 equipped with twin VAC-1000 collating towers in early July.

EFI is claiming victory in an ongoing patent lawsuit filed against it in Spain, which accused the US print software and technology company and its recent acquisition, Cretaprint, of infringing on digital inkjet printing technology patents owned by rival, KERAjet.

A $4.5 million government-funded project between the Printing Industries Association of Australia (Printing Industries) and the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) will overhaul Australia’s print apprentice training.

The Federal Government is working help protect small to medium industry players by tackling Australia’s ‘late payment culture’, calling for public feedback on its proposed Prompt Payment Protocol.

Konica Minolta is building on the award-winning bizhub range of printers with the new bizhub C754e series, which features expanded multi-touch functionality and more flexible keypad and software options.

The Printing Industries Association of Australia (Printing Industries) has joined the campaign to unite the many voices of small business around Australia and help change the attitudes and actions of politicians and governments by showing them that, together, small business is too big to ignore.

The rapidly changing dynamic of the local printing industry is prompting one of the local market’s leading industry associations, the SGIAA, to change its full name to ‘Specialty Graphics Imaging Association of Australia’.

Rodney W. Larson, the worldwide CEO of Spandex Group, was in Australia last week and the local team headed by Alex McClelland, persuaded Rod to draw the second five winners of Spandex-Avery Dennison limited-edition wrapped fridges.