Richard Rasmussen, director of Ascent Partners, looks at all the local market’s activities over the last month and discovers that Melbourne's PacPrint trade show has resulted in more new machinery sales than any other sort of market movement within the industry for the month - a Market Watch first.

EFI is at it again, snapping up international print software developers to build upon its own end-to-end software suite, this time acquiring European print management information system (MIS) company, GamSys Software – its second such acquisition in the space of a month.

Excel Australasia is tapping into what it calls the world market with the opening of an Asian office following its acquisition of Bangkok-based software and mobile applications developer, Devsenses.

Roland DG Australia has named the winner of its prestigious Body of Work competition, which it ran at its stand during its successful showing at the PacPrint tradeshow in Melbourne.

Spectra Training is running its Print Awareness Course (2 days) in June at its South Melbourne training rooms. Two courses are planned to cover the initial interest identified at PacPrint:

GCC is set to bolster its presence in the local landscape after appointing Sydney-based industry supplier, Stahls’ Pacific, as a local distributor for sale and maintenance of its laser cutter, printer and cutting plotter ranges.

Spectra Training is taking its PacPrint lessons to the classroom, running a two-day Print Awareness Course this month at its South Melbourne training rooms, with the two courses intended to cover the initial interest the training organisation identified among PacPrint punters at the trade show.

Australia’s leading postcard innovators were recognize for their breakthrough work on Thursday 30 May, with Melbourne Water taking out the annual Postcard of the Year Awards in Sydney.

Hard to tell who was having the best time at the Spicers’ stand down at the sign and display end of the show, the paper company’s equipment division or wide format manufacturer EFI.

Kodak and Heidelberg are giving local printers the ability to keep up their platemaking capacity without sacrificing their sustainability, following the release of the new generation Sonora XP process-free plates.

The Australian Catalogue Association 22nd Annual Catalogue Awards will be held on Friday 9 August at Peninsula in Melbourne’s Docklands.

The Lithographic Institute of Australia (LIA) is set to reveal the LIA/Heidelberg Graduate of the Year from its list of finalists at a gala dinner in Sydney on Tuesday 4 June.

North American print expert, David Zwang, investigates workflow systems, what they encompass, and what you need to pay attention to as you review them - all of this done with an eye toward building a flexible platform upon which to grow.

The Lithographic Institute of Australia (LIA) is set to reveal the LIA/Heidelberg Graduate of the Year from its list of finalists at a gala dinner in Sydney on Tuesday 4 June.

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