PVCA is describing the ACCC's decision to give AusPost the green light for inflation-busting price hikes as “baffling” and “rewarding AusPost failures”, and is predicting the rises will have a “substantial impact” on the print and mail industry.

Venerable Hobart printing house Monotone Art Printers has invested in a suite of new productivity-boosting Horizon finishing equipment from Currie Group.

Industry associations Old Friends and the LIA are asking printers to contribute to a new archive of business cards.

Meltdown in Melbourne continues, with longstanding craft bookbinding house Irwin & McLaren closing its business - 150 years after first opening its doors.

Foot & Playsted has been crowned kings of Tasmanian print, taking out the Print Grand Diemen 2019 best of show award for the Amalgamation and Harmony book, winning the title at a glittering creative industries evening in Hobart.

Staff at Naresh Gulati’s collapsed trade finishing house The Bindery have been left owed thousands of dollars in entitlements, as promised redundancy payments have failed to materialise, and with the company now in liquidation.

Finsbury Green CEO Peter Orel confirms most of the staff working for Waratah when it went into administration are making the move to Finsbury, with former CEO Brett Chalmers also transferring over.

The artefacts at the Melbourne Museum of Print are being auctioned off – but the Museum's owner is not happy. Print21 editor-at-large Patrick Howard goes behind the scenes to get the real story.

The country's biggest franchise print operation Snap is appointing a new CEO, with Richard Thame set to get behind the desk on 16 December.

Digital flexible packaging operation ePac is investing some US$100m with HP for a new fleet of 24 HP Indigo 20000 digital presses, with which it it will serve its rapidly growing number of customers with on-demand, short-run packaging.

Wide format and 3D solutions systems supplier Roland DG is giving the trade an early Christmas present in a deal that lets printers have its equipment now, but with nothing to pay until the new year.

Fresh from its conscious uncoupling with Fujifilm, imaging giant Xerox is making an audacious bid to buy HP, slapping a US$33bn cash and shares bid on the table in New York.

The Fespa organiser says visitors to the wide format Global Print Expo 2020 in Madrid next March will discover a content-rich event, including a programme of features “designed to inform and inspire in equal measure”.

Visy is selling its Visy Cartons business to long term partner SIG for $70m, with SIG set to use the business to drive growth across the Asia Pacific.

Oji Fibre Solutions is investing around $100m in a new automated cardboard box plant development in Christchurch, which will come with the latest printing technology.

Private equity fund Mercury Capital is reportedly in “advanced talks” to buy the country’s biggest magazine publisher Bauer Media from its German owners.