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.

The Printing Industries Association of Australia is launching a new business services and information website, www.betterbusiness.net.au, providing a one-stop centre for cost cutting services and information members can use to improve their bottom line.

Sydney’s Flash Graphics is the first print house in Australia to take on a SEAL 65 Pro MD laminator, after ordering the unit, which is billed as ‘the most advanced laminator in the world’ from local distributor, Starleaton

Following local backlash over the ATO’s decision to withdraw this year’s Tax Pack from newsagents in favour of an ‘opt in’ service, paper and print lobby group Two Sides has discovered that most people still prefer paper-based communications from government and private companies alike.

Heidelberg is unleashing its complete digital potential and bolstering its local digital profile, offering customers in Australia and New Zealand a new package which includes a range of Linoprint configurations along with your choice of a Polar guillotine.

KBA (Koenig & Bauer) is backing its packaging printing push with the proposed acquisition of German packaging printing equipment manufacturer, Kammann Machines.

Ricky Bannister, who worked with Heidelberg for 18 years, suffered a major spinal injury in April after a horse-riding accident. To help Ricky and his family Heidelberg is hosting a fundraising event on 20 August