Central Coast trade label house Guru Labels has acquired tag and label supplier TyTags from the Sweeney family.

Ludlow cabinets with brass type were among the standout performers at an online auction for equipment from the Melbourne Museum of Print, with the on-site auction to take place tomorrow at its Footscray premises.

Sydney print finishing business Mega Tabs has been fined for its tardiness in recompensing migrant workers which it underpaid for two years.

Print shone in the Outdoor Media Association’s (OMA) 2019 Creative Collection competition for quarter three, with two pieces employing print among the four winners.

Packaging giant Orora is trialling new 100 per cent fibre cartons for Pink Lady apples as the groundswell against plastic gathers pace, in good news for the paper and board printing industry.

Sydney’s Imagination Graphics has celebrated the installation of Kimmy, its Konica Minolta AccurioJet KM-1 B2 inkjet press – the first in New South Wales.

Spicers is buying rival merchant Direct Paper, as part of its strategy to move into new areas, with the deal giving it an increased presence in packaging papers and boards. The O’Neill brothers, Dale and Todd, will be taking senior roles in the business and are keen to be a part of the success into the future.

Diversified print and marketing communications business IVE is spending $25m to acquire Salmat's catalogue distribution business, and will invest a similar amount again in upgrading the pre-collation technology at sites around the country.

The gloves are off in New York as two of the biggest names in print are now in a battle for control, with Xerox looking at making a hostile takeover of HP, following the latter's repudiation of its initial $33bn bid.

Epson's new 24” dye sub SureColor F560 has won a Good Design Award, as have the new 12-colour SC-P7560 and SC-P9560 roll-to-roll printers.

Neopost – soon to be Quadient – will demonstrate the capabilities of the HP Stitch S series of dye sublimation printers at open days in Sydney and Melbourne over the next couple of weeks.

Melbourne signage operator Di Sign has dropped its winding up order against controversial signage business Skope, with Skope paying the outstanding invoice.

Three weeks after exiting the Fuji Xerox business, Xerox has decided to switch its inkjet centre from France over to the US, closing its French site.

The classic Ingede Method 11 deinking test is proving unsuitable for new printing methods, but failing the test means paper intended for recycling gets sent to landfill or incinerated, writes Laurel Brunner.

In the latest twist in the Waratah collapse, its former CFO Steve Lewis this week became the sole director and the secretary of the Waratah Brand Services operation, and the business will now not be going to Finsbury Green as part of the Waratah deal.

Collapsed Waratah Group went down with debts topping $12m, and while debtors owe $4m to the company, secured creditors have a charge over $3.7m of that, leaving little for unsecured creditors.