SCG joint MD Fred Soar and Mark Daws, director of Labels & Packaging ANZ for Currie Group, give insight into the market drivers for SCG's purchase of the HP Indigo 6K digital label press.

The Real Media Collective CEO Sleepout Team raising money for the homeless and those in housing crisis, has surpassed its target, achieving $45,000 in its first year, following last night’s sleepout.

Walter Reist, founder of Ferag – which became one of the biggest developers of mailroom solutions for newspapers, magazines and catalogues – has passed away, at the age of 95.

Marketing, communications and printing group IVE expects to close the financial year with revenue 14 per cent higher than last year, at $750m, and EBITDA and net profit also up.

A complex and multi-faceted exhibition of promotional print work saw Penrose-based Logick Print earn the coveted Pride In Print Supreme Award for 2022 – the fourth time it has claimed the title.

Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre played host to the premier event on the Kiwi print industry calendar, when the Pride In Print Awards returned to the Garden City for the first time in five years.

Print Against War has turned its sights to Odessa-based New Media to provide support as the conflict with Russia continues.

The embattled Melbourne Museum of Print is seeking a benefactor willing to inject $200,000 into the project, in order to help it stave off eviction from its current premises.

Kodak has installed the world’s biggest computer-to-plate system, at heatset operation WKS in Germany. Its super-automated energy efficiency is good for the environment, and the way of the future.

The 5.2 per cent rise in the national minimum wage will add to pressures on printers already battling rapidly rising paper, plate, ink and energy costs, with the rise due in just two weeks' time.

A high-powered industry roundtable on the training crisis currently facing print, and the potential pathway forward, will run during the Wednesday of PacPrint, with input invited from all print people at the show.

In keeping with a night of competition and celebration, funnyman Andrew Barnett – a familiar face to Fox Sports viewers – will be the entertainment for the 39th National Print Awards event.

HP says its PacPrint stand for large format printers will be dynamic and immersive, with the theme Print for the Future, and attendees invited to take part in an interactive and visual demonstrations.

The HP 2022 National Sign & Graphics Awards has seen the highest number of entries since its commencement in 2008 – receiving 478 entries across 22 categories.

The latest issue of the industry’s must-read trade magazine, Print21, has been arriving on the desks of the owners and managers of print businesses across Australia and New Zealand all week.

Marrickville print business Imagination Graphics is seeking donations to help it meet its target of supplying 500 Supertee Marvel Edition care packages to seriously ill children.