Low-cost wide format poster printing from Anitech will feature as another solution in David Proctor’s growing arsenal of digital imaging solutions. The innovative toner-based press will deliver cheaper prints than inkjet for high-volume jobs up to A1-size.

A proposed new awards system to recognise the winning qualities in the young professionals across our industry will not even mention the term – apprenticeship. Imagine a gala event held at one of our capital city’s lavish hotels with TV cameras and the press …

The top echelon of Fuji Xerox digital printers in Asia Pacific will join the thousands of other industry professionals in Melbourne next May for PacPrint 2013. The company’s Premier Partners programme will host visitors from 12 regional countries.

In the era of the ‘paperless’ office, kindles and well-meaning environmentalists demonizing the blank page’s use in day-to-day business, Andy McCourt revisits some of the reasons why it will continue to remain vital to the world at large.

Printing Industries’ Australian Apprenticeship Advisor and Mentoring program is set to launch a new job service that matches employers with potential apprentices.

Recent government statistics outlining the performance of the printing industry compared with other manufacturing sectors show that printers’ labour costs are too high. Printing Industries' Hagop Tchamkertenian has the details.

Sterling Publishing's The Adviser has trumped this year’s Publishers Australia Excellence Awards, taking the event’s overall prize, followed closely by Donna Hay, winning three awards.

There is an air of down to earth pragmatism about Simon Wheeler that sits oddly with his successful career. As the first Director of Canon’s new Professional Print Service division, he is one of the most influential individuals in the industry, responsible for the company’s graphic arts involvement.

Industry gadfly, James Cryer, bites back at the suggestion that high wages are a problem for the printing industry. In the current issue of Print21 magazine, Hagop Tchamkertenian, the industry's sole full-time economist, claims the industry's wages bill is too high.

The Swiss are not best known for their presence in the inkjet wide format market but that might be about to change. While the name swissQprint is yet to gain the stature of other Swiss printing brands, its owners leave no doubt as to their destination.

Printing Industries is calling for Expressions of Interest from New South Wales and Victorian companies in a series of business productivity courses that the Federal Government has agreed to subsidise.

With the stellar growth of the digital economy, print providers need to have a strategy to access it, says Andy McCourt. Having a website is not enough; having W2P is better but to truly extract dollars from the digital economy, you need an all-encompassing strategy and a heart for change.

Riding the crest of the winning wave attached to its Capabilities+ printers’ promotion book, Offset Alpine has finally scored a win in the world’s most prestigious printing competition, The Sappi Printer of the Year.

Geoff Selig, former CEO of Blue Star and current owner of Sydney-based CaxtonWeb has bought Blue Star Print Australia. After having the company on the block for months, Champ Private Equity finally sold the Australian part of the business to the former NSW Liberal Party president.

Epson and DES will be giving away three Epson Workforce Pro WP-4540 printers to lucky guests at an open day on at Epson’s North Ryde showroom in Sydney on 14 November.

After Offset Alpine topped the award haul at last week’s NSW PICAs and won the gong for NSW Printer of the Year, James Cryer, long-time industry gadfly and founder of JDA Print Recruitment, shares his thoughts about how the awards should adapt to the modern era to become fairer for everyone.