Minto-based Westman Printing has brought its perfect binding capabilities in-house, and is offering a trade service, with the installation of a new Horizon BQ-270 perfect binder, supplied by Currie Group.

Paper is not the only price rise printers are having to contend with, as the world’s biggest press manufacturer Heidelberg flags increases across its range, citing many of the same reasons as the paper merchants.

Finsbury Green has installed a new Konica Minolta AccurioPress C14000 digital colour printer, with inline finishing and automated colour control enabling the company to reduce labour input and increase productivity.

Canon Production Printing Australia has launched the ColorStream 8000 series of continuous feed inkjet printers, which will target offset and continuous feed toner work.

Plockmatic Group company Morgana Systems is launching a new DigiFold Pro XL creasing and folding machine, which will be available through Renz in Australia and Imagetec in New Zealand.

Almost a year after News Ltd closed the doors on its Kawana print centre in Rockhampton the plant is back up and running, under new owners Today Group, and is printing a plethora of newspapers, old and new.

HP has used global online user event Dscoop to launch several new products, and given the green light to the commercial availability of its flagship HP Indigo 35K folding carton print system.

Konica Minolta New Zealand held the grand opening of its new Auckland showroom, created to enable customers to experience the company's new innovations.

Almost a year to the day after Melbourne print business Bambra Press went into voluntary administration, John Wanless will once again take over the business, which is now slimmer than before. A near unanimous vote on the DOCA saw unsecured creditors opt for 20c in the dollar.

The world’s biggest press manufacturer Heidelberg is running a webinar at 5pm next Thursday on print automation, based around its push-to-stop concept of full production integration.

The fallout from the worst year in print’s history continues, with the iconic Zanders paper mill closing, for good, just shy of 200 years after it started operations, its owners laying the blame on Covid.

The five sector winners in the PrintNZ Apprentice of the Year competition have been named, with the winner set to be announced at Pride in Print in June.

Vistaprint parent company Cimpress has signed a new two year deal for an unspecified number of new HP Indigo presses, mainly the B2 non-stop HP Indigo 100K models.

B2C print operation Vistaprint parent Cimpress is rolling all its financing into a seven-year US$1.16bn facility, split between US$795m and €300m. Cimpress will pay off existing loans from the new funding. Vistaprint Melbourne has now been operating for a decade.

Coronavirus restrictions mean this year’s HP Indigo users conference Dscoop Edge Fusion is taking place online, with registrations now open for the 17-20 May event, which features a host of top-line speakers.

Ovato’s books, packaging, retail distribution and marketing services sales performed solidly over the Jan-March quarter, but heatset catalogues continue to struggle, and may do so until the latter part of this year.