The proposed US$11bn acquisition of WestRock by Smurfit Kappa has been given the go-ahead, with its NSW folding carton print site to become part of a US$34bn a year business.

PrintNZ has nominated the ten apprentices who will contest the BJ Ball Print Apprentice of the Year, with the winner to be revealed at Pride in Print, which takes place in Wellington on 12 July.

Print and sign franchise group Kwik Kopy will host its conference in Fiji later this month, under the title "World of Possibilities: Empowering Us to Make Possible."

The government will keep the Instant Asset Write Off, introduced during the Covid era, with the Senate raising the proposed level, but local printers are calling for it to be dramatically increased, to help them compete against foreign operators.

Imaging giant Fujifilm will have one of the biggest stands at the big event, and will use it to show a swag of new print solutions in commercial, wide format and packaging hardware, software and consumables.

Australian trade print supplier CMYKhub has become the first printer in the world to order new EFI VUTEk Q3h XP and EFI VUTEk Q3h X hybrid printers, the order placed with channel partner Currie Group.

Label printers in the country’s vineyard regions are celebrating, as China has officially ended its ban on Australian wine, meaning tens of millions of wine labels could soon be rolling off the presses again.

This year’s Women in Print Breakfast will include Canberra for the first time, so enabling the growing association to extend its reach to almost every state and territory in Australia.

Elisabeth Mitchell won the Salesperson of the Year Award at the annual Konica Minolta Sales Achievement Awards, as the Production Print division recorded its best ever annual result.

The latest issue of the nation’s favourite print business magazine, Print21, with the drupa Preview, is being mailed to the owners and managers of print companies across Australia and New Zealand.

The Apple Macintosh, which transformed print, taking it into the modern era, is celebrating its 40th anniversary this month. The Mac sits alongside Gutenberg's press and the Linotype machine in the pantheon of the most profound print technologies ever invented.

The Victorian chapter of the LIA, the association for all people in print, held elections at a special general meeting last week, to put in place their committee and office-bearers for the next 12 months.

With just two months until drupa opens its doors, the mother of all trade shows has been telling the world’s trade media that attendees will have an unparalleled insight into the future of print.

At its HP Indigo user group, Dscoop Edge, HP released its latest lineup of HP digital printing presses and intelligent solutions, designed to address today’s production challenges.

The Print21 Australia and New Zealand drupa party, for printers in Dusseldorf for the big show, will take place in the middle of drupa, on Friday evening 31 May, with the multi award-winning Frankenheim brewery the location. Tickets are now available.

The company that will produce the Frugalpac paper bottles for wines and spirits in Australia is looking for a printer to print, and then die-cut, onto the recycled paperboard that the bottles are made from.