The Junior Printing Executives Association of NSW (JPE) is working to ensure the printing industry is investing in its future leaders, offering training courses off the back of new government sponsorship, the first one of which is designed to tackle the challenge of leadership.

Clive Denholm, CMYKhub is leading an industry fundraising effort to support the Hands at Work charity’s efforts to establish a children’s sanctuary in the Congo.

The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union is once again calling on the government to back a minimum wage increase for apprentices and trainees in the printing and other manufacturing trades market sector.

Fairfax Media is standing by the printed word, pledging to maintain the frequency of print publication for its major mastheads in Australia and New Zealand – despite moving to close down its two largest newspaper print facilities by 2014.

Some companies are incredibly successful at building a strong business whilst flying under the radar. Melbourne’s Direct Paper Supplies in Dingley, 40 minutes south of the CBD, is a case in point. Over the past decade, this family-run business has quietly gone about establishing itself as a significant player in the paper merchant business.

Fujifilm and Inca Digital Printers are set to launch the next addition in the Inca Onset range of large format flatbed UV inkjet printers – the Inca Onset Q40i.

Two Sides is taking Australia’s top financial institutions to task in a bid to end what it calls misleading communications about the environmental benefits of e-statements to customers.

Centrum Printing is moving to expand beyond its commercial print standing into packaging and point of sale after purchasing a KBA Rapida 162a six-colour press – the largest single press investment in the company’s history.

The Sinnott Bros employee was chosen with difficulty from a strong field of six young graduates that covered a broad spectrum of industry processes.

In this 50th anniversary year of the LIA, the breadth of skills and specialisations on display was a cause for optimism at the North Ryde RSL for the LIA Heidelberg NSW Graduate of the Year dinner on 4 June 2013. Print21 was there to capture the all night's highlights.

The creator of Rapid Label System’s Memjet-powered press line has broadened his family’s heritage of innovation and he is now recognised as the Australian industry’s leading graphic arts technology developer.

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: