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The LIA Victoria has issued an open invitation to attend the Association’s final 2022 meeting and Christmas celebration, including the presentation of the 2022 LIA Victoria Graduate of the Year Awards.


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Konica Minolta saw sales of its production print systems surge by almost 30 per cent in the first half of the year, as supply chain issues and order backlog receded.

The world’s biggest press manufacturer Heidelberg has appointed its first ever female executive board director, with Tania von der Goltz to become CFO on New Year’s Day.

Prima Printing is set to acquire PMI Imageworks, a move that will bring together two successful Melbourne-based personalisation and print-on-demand businesses, and two of the biggest in the country.

The investigation by the New Zealand Serious Fraud Office into the accounting at Fuji Xerox between 2011 and 2016 has been closed for good, with the SFO saying it is ‘no longer in the public interest’.

Australia’s biggest trade printer CMYKhub has just installed a new RMGT 970PF-8 at its Brisbane production centre, the press is the first of its kind in the country.

Printer and MP Grant Schapps is at the centre of the chaos engulfing the UK government, with the owner of Printhouse Corporation now having one of the four highest jobs in the land, that of Home Secretary.

CDM Print (Corporate Documentation Management) is in administration, and will be wound up, following 35 years in business. It was owned by former print industry leader Mike Jones.

HP Inc is launching a new high-volume production inkjet web press, the HP PageWide Web Press T485 HD with HP Brilliant Ink, as part of a raft of new and enhanced inkjet web solutions.

Australian start-up online graphic design operation Canva is now being used by a remarkable 100 million people each month, the accelerating growth coming as the company celebrates a decade in business.

After a remarkable two years, during which surprisingly few print businesses troubled the liquidating fraternity, the tally is starting to rise once again.

One of the country’s oldest trade houses, Les Baddock Bookbinders, has suffered a major fire at its Sydney facility, leaving the company clearing the debris and waiting on its insurance.

David Procter – widely recognised as a driving force behind Konica Minolta’s entry into digital printing here in Australia and subsequent growth – leaves today after 20 years representing the company in the commercial print industry.

Riverwood-based Ligare Book Printers is enhancing its finishing output with the purchase of the GMB 1050 pallet to pallet laminating system, installed by Hilton Laminating.

Glenn Jarrett is the new CEO at print franchise Snap, coming to the role with a stellar record of transforming nationwide franchise operations. He talks to Patrick Howard about his plans and strategies.

When CPX Printing & Logistics lost $7m in damages and equipment in the Queensland floods, suppliers and local printers, including Currie Group, rose to the occasion, enabling it to make a swift comeback.