Steve Venn puts his competitors on notice that the revitalised imaging giant will be much more proactive in the market following Kodak’s successful emergence from Chapter 11. A revamped sales structure and growing confidence in the future of the imaging giant sets the scene for an intense battle for future graphic arts business.

The Printing Industries Association of Australia has launched a string of new webinar programmes for September focusing on the improvements businesses can make to their management, creative and IT areas.

Printing Industries Association of Australia president Bill Healey has been named as one of the speakers at the 2013 Australasian Printing and Writing Papers market Outlook Forum to be held on November 18, at the Bayview in Melbourne.

A meeting in Sydney between representatives of PaperlinX and the company’s hybrid investor support group (PaperlinX PIGS) has failed to agree on terms for the conversion of the hybrid shares into company stock.

Sydney-based Print Station has expanded its business with the latest Horizon finishing equipment. Producing the finishing touches on product brochures, catalogues, bills and letters at its new 400sqm factory is a new Horizon BQ-270V perfect binder and Horizon StitchLiner 5500 saddle stitcher.

As printers resort to the guillotine to shave their costs, no one knows how much offset paper is going through digital machines - and what that does to the machine warranty. Patrick Howard follows the paper trail in search of the money.

Richard Rasmussen, director of Ascent Partners, wraps up last month in the industry with more closures in the newspaper sector, Spectrum’s return to manufacturing in Christchurch, and a new label business is opened in the same city.

John Billett from Foot and Playsted in Launceston has been announced as winner of the 2012 Tasmanian Apprentice of the Year Award.

If you supply printers, deliver printed media solutions, publish, procure paper for corporates or government or advise on printing and communication paper sustainability, The Australasian Printing & Communication Papers - Market Outlook Forum presented by IndustryEdge is one not to be missed.

Australian-based manufacturer of Memjet-powered narrow web digital label printing systems, Rapid Machinery Company, is reaching Australia's tropical north with the installation of its digital label printing line comprising a Rapid X2 press, a Rapid D2 die-cutter/laminator and Rapid SR2 rewinder, in the far north of Australia at Aldine Printers, Cairns, Queensland.

Canon Australia has announced its line-up for the 2013 Digital Show – an opportunity to meet and learn from the passionate team of Canon staff, experts and masters, and get hands-on with the very latest imaging technology.

Epson is writing its own tale of two shows in two cities, with the technology company showcasing some of its newest leading printing and graphic arts equipment at the Visual Impact Image Expo (VIIE) in Sydney on 12-14 September and The Digital Show in Melbourne from 12-15 September.

The cut-off for early bird entry into this year’s annual Printovation Awards is nearly upon us, with submissions before 2 September receiving the special discount rate. However, general submission entries will be open until 16 September for the Awards, which are being held on 3 October in Sydney.

Join industry colleagues for the fourth annual GASA Printovation Awards presentation dinner at Dockside, Cockle Bay Wharf, Darling Harbour, Sydney, and celebrate all that is exciting about innovative print communications.

Intec Printing Solutions is giving its range of extreme heavy stock colour digital printing systems a new spark after signing a deal with print software giant, EFI, to develop and lunch a Fiery front end specifically for Intec printers.

School's out for former primary school teacher Helen Walker as she begins an exciting new chapter in her career as accounts manager of RotoMetrics Australia.