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.

New owners, investment funds KKR and Allegro, indicate they will keep the business going if the receiver, McGrathNicol, sells it back to them without the debt.

The deadline for entries into this year’s Print in Print Awards is almost here, with 28 February marking the final date for late entry contenders to submit their work.

Canon Business Services Australia awarded its top local business partners in its annual Canon Partner Channel (CPC) awards, held at the Novotel Manly Pacific, Sydney, on 24 February.

Konica Minolta’s A3 MFP range has won the Buyers Lab (BLI) Line of the Year Award for the third year in a row.

GEON’s long-running saga comes to a bitter end, with the embattled print giant finally entering administration after years of financial difficulties and deepening debt.