Less than a week after iconic engineering company, Plunkett and Johnson, went under, one of its principals is back in the game to ensure printers are not left in the lurch. Johnson is back into the ring with his new company, TJ Services Australia.

Nessan Cleary, respected UK print technology journalist and one of Print21’s valued European contributors, provides the final wrap on this year’s Hunkeler Innovationdays, showcasing the Swiss event’s highlights.

Naresh Khanna, Print21 Independent Media Alliance partner, and publisher of Indian Printer & Publisher, highlights some of the innovations on show at this year’s Hunkeler Innovationdays event in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Muller Martini showcased its new Presto II Digital saddle stitcher at the Hunkeler Innovationdays trade fair in Lucerne this month, producing three different print products live and without interruption stitcher.

Kodak Announced the launch of its Prosper 5000XLi Press, the latest family addition to its popular Prosper digital press platform, on 11 February at the Hunkeler Innovationdays industry event in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Kiwi printers will be queuing up for the opening of the Currie Colour Roadshow today in Auckland as the industry’s iconic mobile showroom starts its 2nd Middle Earth tour.

Trading halt in newspaper media company’s shares as its largest shareholder, Ireland-based Independent News & Media, which owns 29 per cent of APN, seeks an extraordinary general meeting to sack managing director, Chenoweth.

It’s where the brightest and the best of the better half of our industry will gather to snaffle cornflakes and toast, drink fruit juice and coffee and chart the future destiny of printing in Australia.

Ascent Partners’ Richard Rasmussen wraps up all the local market movements that hit the Australian printing industry in January 2013.

Ricoh is recognised at the Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as one of the most environmentally successful corporations in the world.

The iconic Artarmon-based service and engineering company ceased to trade on 8 February with the appointment of insolvency experts Dean Willcock Shepard. The failure illustrates the depth of the structural change affecting the printing industry.

Mobile Apps set to ignite the next print revolution. News that spending on marketing-oriented print is set to decline by 6% over the next two years is sobering indeed but the intoxicating counterfoil is that mobile marketing dollars will increase by 8.8% over the same period.

Quick printers once had to battle for their reputations but now they’re fighting to regain independence with a new association in the USA aiming to represent smaller printers again. The National Print Owners Association (NPOA) is a reinvention of the quick printers association to give control back to members.

A massive operational restructuring lies ahead for the troubled printing as US investor KKR Capstone and Sydney-based fund manager, Allegro were handed the company on a plate to save it from going into administration last Friday.

Currie Group has confirmed it will be the largest exhibitor at PacPrint13 in May, with Phillip Rennell, sales and marketing director, announcing that it has committed to a massive 990sq metre stand as a ‘show of support’ for its customers and for the industry.

Sales figures are up to EUR 1.9 billion three quarters way through the financial year to December 31 with the company claiming it is on track to meet operating targets. It is expecting to make a profit next year.