Andy McCourt weighs in on a second round of debate about the local printing industry’s digital click-charge model following a spate of lively reader comments last fortnight in response to his ReVerb article, ‘Give the click the flick’. This time around, McCourt highlights how it can often be horses for courses when it comes to the click-charge model race.

Fujifilm has appointed marketing and prepress specialist Franca Balsamo to the newly created position of Product Manager: Plates, CtP and Workflow.

Spandex is lending a little bit of 'cool' to its Avery Dennison product range after shipping the first five custom-wrapped fridges to winners of a joint Spandex-Avery Dennison promotion.

PaperlinX is pushing its diversification strategy with the opening of a new operation in China, with a new Shanghai office set to serve as a sales office for its international trading business and as an Asian sourcing and procurement base.

HP is delivering its two newest print production products to the Australian market, with Victorian signage specialist, ABC Photosigns, taking on the country’s first HP Latex 3000 printer, and POS leader, Active-Adval, signing a deal for Asia Pacific’s first HP Scitex FB10000 Industrial Press.

Konica Minolta’s bizhub range of printers is garnering the company national accolades after the C754 series took home three Australian Business Awards.

Australia’s Cactus Imaging is showcasing local print prowess on the global stage after being selected as one of the top five international winners at FESPA 2013 in London during a gala awards night on 27 June.

Ricoh is making the move into print management information systems (MIS) after making a multimillion-dollar investment in Avanti Computer Systems Limited, a leading provider of MIS solutions for the print industry.

Epson is broadening its national dealer network in the sign and display segment, appointing Neopost Australia (formerly GBC Australia) as a national reseller for the Epson SureColor S Series eco-solvent printers.

Digital wide format press manufacturer, swissQprint, is sharpening up its image after introducing a nine-picolitre droplet size for its inkjet system among with a new ‘efficiency-boosting’ print mode.

Labelexpo Europe 2013 is the world's largest event for the label and package printing industry - with more products, more launches and more live demonstrations! Labelexpo Europe 2013 is set to be the largest in the show’s 33 year history as it returns to Belgium between 24 – 27 September.

The Australian catalogue industry has come in at fourth place in the multichannel marketing mix, according to new data released in the Annual Catalogue Industry Report 2012/2013, which was released on 10 July.

Barry Grant, former Anitech marketing director, is ramping up Neopost Australia’s sign and display portfolio standing after being appointed as the company’s Australian national manager for sign and display solutions.

The Printing Industries Association of Australia and the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage are in discussions that could lead to the development of a new benchmarking tool for the printing industry

Local narrow web digital label print equipment manufacturer, Rapid Label Systems, is delivering Australian home grown innovation to Europe following its showing at FESPA 2013 in London last month.

For printers who, like most of the service providers out there, are managing their own legacy production workflow systems in addition to all of the other workflow suites that came with purchased equipment, there are dedicated bridging applications available that can take the pain out of integration. North American industry expert, David L. Zwang, investigates the options.