Quark is laying the foundation for future features of its once industry-leading desktop publishing software with the release of its latest version, QuarkXPress 10, which the company claims is ‘thoroughly modernising’ the popular platform.

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

Canon’s imageRUNNER Advance series of multifunction printers (MFPs) is showing up its sector’s competition, claiming five accolades in the latest Buyers Laboratory LLC (BLI) Awards.

EFI is hitting record revenues, with the US-listed digital print systems manufacturer recording US$180.3 million in revenue for the quarter ending June 2013 – 10 per cent up from the figures for the same period in 2012.

There’s been plenty of movement for the local sign and display sector this month, with Gary Smith, former Starleaton director, joining Spicers’ Sign & Display division, Spandex Asia Pacific choosing Wayne Hood as its new Victorian and South Australia regional manager, and oOh! Media announcing a series of new appointments.

A flurry of new installations of the Fuji Xerox 2800 press is changing the market dynamics of the high-speed inkjet sector as the imaging giant takes the fight up to market leaders Canon and Ricoh.

The used printing equipment markets both at home and overseas continue to be in the doldrums with prices below half of what they were a decade ago. The recent Geon and Blue Star auctions showed that there are still buyers out there, but they expect low prices.

5S is one of the major tools of lean Manufacturing. This workshop will provide a hands-on introduction and toolkit for implementing 5S. This is particularly beneficial to small-to-medium businesses wanting to look at ways of achieving efficiency in the workplace.

The battle for Tecoma is heating up as the Dandenong community continues its struggle against the might of international fast food corporation McDonalds with the help of Garry Muratore, popular printing industry identity and Print21 columnist.

Queensland finishing company, Special Binding Service, is continuing to bounce back from a fire that swept through its Hemmant plant last year with the installation of a new Autobond Mini 105 laminator.

Adkote is introducing the Australian market to what is being claimed as the world’s first Memjet-powered wide-format press with the capability of printing on rigid substrates.

Introducing a new brand of CTP platesetters into the tough Australian and NZ market is not easy. When Currie Group sourced the Cron thermal technology three years ago, it had no illusions about the size of the task ahead.

Local industry economics guru, Hagop Tchamkertenian, is looking to work within the broader printing industry when he finishes with the peak industry body on 26 July. Responsibility for the iconic industry survey will remain with the Association.

We’ve heard from the Australian Catalogues Association that catalogues continue to grow in popularity and volume in Australia despite soft markets in other printing industry sectors, now that sentiment is being backed by the numbers, with industry bible, Pulp & Paper Edge, highlighting the growing volumes of catalogue paper stock entering the country.

Melbourne print house, TC Printing, is set to ramp up its speed and capacity after placing an order for a new Heidelberg XL 106 10-colour perfecting press to replace its older Speedmaster 74.

Local Memjet-powered narrow web digital label printing system manufacturer, Rapid Machinery, is introducing the Rapid-X SR2 slitter-rewinder globally to complement the international footprint of its X1 and X2 digital presses and its D2 die-cutter/laminator.