In the aftermath of the GEON collapse and the ongoing developments seeing parts of the group sold off and other parts shut down, Print21's Andy McCourt, investigates the increasingly complex series of events surrounding the failed print group's demise and lays it out plain and clear for all to see.

Dainippon Screen Australia will be the first Screen subsidiary to showcase a working, commercially available Screen Truepress Jet L350UV at a major trade fair, with the official release date to be announced soon after PacPrint13.

Fujifilm is launching its Jet Press W high-speed digital inkjet web press in Australia on 26 May, just in time for the PacPrint13 trade show in Melbourne.

Investment of new equipment within the Australian printing industry is at a 20 year low, with total new investment spend at its lowest level since 1991, according to a Printing Industries report published this week.

The catalogue printing market in Australia looks set to remain strong despite this month's industry turmoil following a Roy Morgan study that shows the printed media is far and a way more popular among most Australians than online digital catalogues.

Konica Minolta mounts the Aussie launch for its next generation high-speed monochrome digital bizhub printer series.

Local print apprentices who can tell the world that ‘print is alive’ in 500 words or less could win a trip to Melbourne for a guided tour of this year’s PacPrint13 trade show in May.

Geoff Selig is taking on GEON’s operations in Banksmeadow, Mt. Waverley and Parramatta, with plans to rationalise the printing sites in both cities and job losses inevitable.

A band of seven local HP digital printers made their way to country music capital USA to pick up the latest riffs and licks in digital printing diversity.

Ascent Partners’ Richard Rasmussen wraps up what was perhaps one of the most tumultuous months on record for the local printing industry

James Cryer of JDA Print Recruitment is extending a professional helping hand to print and graphic arts employees in the local market who may have been affected in the past month’s industry movements.

The first issue of Print21 magazine for 2013, which hit letterboxes in late February, is leading the global print pack in the latest print technology stakes, with its cover featuring Kodak’s as-yet-unreleased Gold Dry Ink.

Hans Müller, founder of the Muller Martini Group and pioneer in machine construction for the graphic arts industry has died at the age of 96 in Zofingen, Switzerland.

This series of articles by US-based industry commentator, David L. Zwang, focuses on the processes and products that can lead to the transformation of your current workflows and business, to prepare you for the new challenges ahead. This series runs once a month over the course of the year.

IPMG weighs in on the growing fury in the local industry at the prospect of a debt wipeout by KKRM to bring GEON back from the dead. Industry outrage is growing at the developments around the appointment of receivers to GEON. Trade suppliers are calling for a new attitude to companies that force them to take a massive debt hit as a means of restructuring.

Shock, emotion, uncertainty, anger and vitriol have reverberated around our industry since the announcement of GEON’s administration followed by receivership. In the midst of this, logic and reality appear to have taken the back seat. Print21’s Andy McCourt takes a closer look at the situation.