Spotlight

Enda Kavanagh from XMPie says print businesses will benefit from offering digital marketing solutions for their clients, and shares some stories of printers who have done just that.

Marketing guru Malcolm Auld says print businesses and mail houses will reap rich rewards from establishing an engagement with young people at their local educational establishment.

Steve Gamble from mental health advocacy group Man Anchor looks at the impact of the 24-hour swimathon championed by Konica Minolta channel manager Andrew Ward.

Hybrid and digital flexible print systems are offering new opportunities for brands and for print service providers, with opportunities coming thick and fast for those prepared to look at the options.

Innovation has come to Australia with the new Alumma tool-free foiling and Alumma X dent-free embossing from Avon Graphics, which bring new short run opportunities to printers.

Euro Poles & Textile Display is investing strongly to ensure its innovative solutions will enable print businesses to meet and exceed the expectations of their customers in a range of compelling displays.

Fespa's Debbie McKeegan says there are different business models to consider in the race to cash in on the booming digital-for-textile printing market.

Offset press manufacturers have been working in overdrive to enable their presses to be connected, integrated, and hyper-productive. Print21 looks at the latest developments.

Packaging demand across the world is set to hit the trillion dollar mark and is expected to continue its growth, with board, flexibles and rigid plastics all trending upwards, according to research agency Smithers.

Ruth Cobb, CEO of New Zealand employers' association PrintNZ, sets out the key benefits of the group for Kiwi print business owners, which include the services, training, lobbying and promoting the industry.

How do print business owners prevent staff from walking out and starting a rival business? Legal eagle Wal Abramowicz says a restraint of trade clause is essential in all employment contracts.

Marketing guru Malcolm Auld says that without print running alongside it, electronic communication is destined to fail in a post-Covid world.

Robyn Frampton takes a look back at the past to set the scene for the future in the upcoming PacPrint, the major show set to run in five months' time, with the theme Review, Rebuld, Reconnect.

Fresh from its first tee-up with online design juggernaut Canva, the country's biggest print franchise group, Snap Print & Design, is banking on the future of print. Its CEO, Richard Thame, tells Print21 where the group is heading.

The biggest story in the print industry this week was Print21's news that PVCA CEO Andrew Macaulay was moving on, after five years at the helm of the employers' association.

Printed books are on the front line in the battle to empower remote and isolated Indigenous communities throughout Australia with literacy. Patrick Howard talks to Karen Williams, CEO of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, on the importance of books.