Langley Holdings, parent company to offset press giant Manroland Sheetfed, posted record profit before tax for the first six months, and said the print industry is facing monumental changes.

Kwik Kopy is celebrating Australia’s start-up culture of entrepreneurs with a competition which will give three businesses $5000 worth of design, print and signage this August.

Commercial print and packaging operation Kuhn Corp is celebrating 30 years in business, and opening a new joint venture production facility based in Malaysia, to manufacture recycled PET egg cartons for distribution into Australia and elsewhere.

Richard Celarc has been bookbinding throughout his career, and is now executive chairman of the country’s biggest book manufacturing business Opus Group. Patrick Howard sat down with him.

IVE has won the job to print the Voice referendum pamphlet, which, as it is set to go to all 12.4 million Australian households, will be the biggest print job of the year, and one of the biggest of all time.

Today, women are an increasingly influential part of the print industry, and of Currie Group, which was a key sponsor of the recent Women in Print Breakfast Series.

Ball & Doggett has unveiled a new competition, launching a Yupo promotion where customers have the chance to win a getaway to Japan, including a day at the F1 Grand Prix in Sazuka.

Heidelberg has outlined a new dual-track strategy, which includes an expansion of its printing portfolio, particularly in packaging and digital, and unlocking new unrelated markets.

Kodak has launched a new ink technology with the Kodakchrome ink range for its presses using Ultrastream inkjet technology, which it says will give offset quality.

Inkjet has conquered large format display graphics, it is surging in label printing, and has swept through direct mail and book printing. Now the barriers to widespread adoption by commercial printers are falling away.

Kodak has acquired Graphic Systems Services, the engineering company that has been building the transport systems for its inkjet presses, in a move to ensure supply, and ramp up production.

Kurz, the biggest supplier of hot and cold transfer products in ANZ, has launched a new service, delivering flat stamping dies manufactured to order.

With the sharp rise in on-demand wallpapers for home décor, driven by home reno TV shows, Xeikon and Ahlstrom have collaborated for a new peel-away media.

Fujifilm Business Innovation Australia is launching three new production colour press models; the Revoria Press EC1100 and Revoria Press SC180 / SC170, with AI image enhancement.

Buddco, the company contracted by ink manufacturer DIC to supply labour for its Auburn site, has been fined $600,000, following the death of a worker, and serious injury of another, in an ink vat they were cleaning, in what Safework NSW said was an avoidable incident. DIC itself has already been fined $450,000 over its part in the deadly event.

Kodak has launched its Prinergy Access content management SaaS solution. It provides full connectivity to any digital press, as well as to any on-premise third-party or Kodak Prinergy workflow.