The click-charge has come a long way since its earliest days in the office copier market. Now it's king of digital production printing. Andy McCourt reckons it's time to give the click the flick and move to a more mature charging model for what has become a major print production sector.

The age of industry business and the succession plans of their owners is the subject of a snapshot survey from the Printing Industries Association of Australia.

Ron Patterson, former Printing Industries Association of Australia (Printing Industries) Victorian state manager, is teaming up with the Todisco family after being appointed as the new sales and marketing manager for M&M Binders in Melbourne.

Chili Publish is helping designers to better visualise jobs in 3D, with the company’s new online document editing system Chili Publisher version 3.5 coming loaded with enhanced 3D Folding functionality.

The extent to which Australian printers are changing their business offerings to respond to evolving market conditions will be the subject of an exclusive Printing Industries webinar on Friday 28 June.

A new offset press manufacturing alliance between Ryobi Limited and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Printing & Packaging Machinery is set to see the two Japanese companies bolster their standing in the global offset industry.

Kodak is readying to pay back its creditors when it emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US following a deal with its financial backers that sees it receive debt financing of US$895 million with which to repay its outstanding debts to secured creditors.

The Printing Industries Association of Australia is hosting the next webinar in its free industry webinar series on 28 June, with the ‘New Business Opportunities’ webinar set to tackle some of the changes the local printing landscape is undergoing.

Epson is moving to introduce its next-generation Micro Piezo inkjet print heads in the second half of this fiscal year, following the completion of two new print head production lines at two of the company’s sites in Japan.

Pro-Pac Packaging Australia is making further moves into the local food packaging industry, picking up the business and assets of Eco Food Pack Australia, with the Sydney-based packaging business set to be rolled into Pro-Pac’s existing infrastructure.

American publishing veteran, Bo Sacks, is making a guest appearance at next month’s Galley Club of Sydney event to talk about the past, present and future for printing and publishing as it continues into the digital age.

The Printing Industries Association of Australia is backing a series of international standard specialist training for essential mail and transactional document sectors, with the first course kicking off in mid-July.

Galley Club of Sydney talk: The Lucrative Future of Publishing in the 21st Century - A Tale of Modern Media Trends and Actionable Advice, by guest speaker, Bo Sacks.

A new online print quote platform is hoping to bridge the gulf between creative agencies and printers in the local marketplace, with the freshly launched website, Dotgain, working to ‘revolutionise’ the traditional print quote model.

The Printing Industries Association of Australia is backing a series of international standard specialist training for essential mail and transactional document sectors, with the first course kicking off in mid-July.

Spandex Asia Pacific is ramping up its reseller agreement with HP to include the HP Scitex Industrial flatbed printers, and freshly re-branded HP Latex models following the successful 2012 introduction of the HP Designjet Latex wide-format printers to its range.