A survey seeking to quantify the impact of the Carbon Tax on printing industry business has been launched by Printing Industries.

EFI has launched its latest print software edition, the Fiery XF Version 5, a flexible and scalable high-speed digital front end and color management workflow for wide- to superwide-format production and proofing.

Caldera has launched PrintBoard, a software signage system designed to provide printers with a dashboard display of their production status.

The regional print and graphic communications industry will flock to Melbourne in May for PacPrint13 – but for those who enjoy pomp, ceremony and glittering celebrations, it’s the National Print Awards’ 30th Anniversary Dinner, to be held on the final day of the exhibition.

In the face of yet another major exhibitor pulling out of Ipex2014 this month with Mimaki’s withdrawal, the event’s organiser Informa Exhibitions is standing by its quadrennial trade show, with a letter to the industry heralding its determination to continue with the event.

The Currie Group New Zealand Colour Roadshow is wrapping up its epic graphic arts tour of Middle Earth, setting up shop in Dunedin, on its final stop before heading back to Auckland.

In a timely supplement to last week's Reverb article, Andy McCourt looks at the growing attention being directed at the sort of laws that allowed February's GEON receivership and legal debt nullification, with a British parliamentary review tackling 'pre-pack' provisions.

James Cryer of JDA Print Recruitment – and local print industry gadfly – analyses the GEON Group’s fall from grace of the PE brigade in his usual (un)-subtle manner.

The closing date for the 2013 GAMAA Industry Overseas Internship Grant, which is valued at $15,000, has been extended to 30 March, 2013.

The Currie Group truck rolled into Wellington this week, as the Currie Colour Roadshow travels south from Auckland where it kicked off in February, on its second tour of the Middle-Earth isle.

CLIQX is the newly launched Australian innovation set to shake up the printing industry here and around the world. With the current renaissance of specialty embellishments in the print industry, this patent pending embossing system is demystifying the traditional print craft.

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.