Global technology provider for print and packaging companies, eProductivity Software, has unveiled a partnership with HP, at Dscoop Edge, which has just taken place in St Louis.

Specialist short-run, on demand book printing operation Ranz Print is boosting its production capacity with a second Horizon perfect binding line and a new Horizon three knife trimmer, from Currie Group.

PVCA has told the government review that Australia Post must introduce pricing stability, promote business mail, and engage with industry and stakeholders, in order to meet the needs of the print and mail industry, and the wider community, in its Letters business.

Jag Khairjani and Durga Murjani's Footscray Minuteman store has taken out the company’s the Top Overall Performance Award from their franchisor, Minuteman Press International.

Cloud-based print management solutions printIQ has appointed John Alden as its new CEO. Alden comes with years of experience in the print and software industries.

The proposed deal by papermaking giant Sappi to reduce its exposure to graphic arts papers, by selling three of its mills to p/e fund Aurelius in a $400m deal, collapsed at the 11th hour.

Press manufacturing giant Koenig & Bauer is targeting further growth this year, following a 6.3 per cent rise in group revenue to €1.186bn for 2022, with sheetfed revenues up by 5 per cent.

WA-based Daytone Printing is in voluntary liquidation, some 25 years after the general commercial printer, which ran with offset and digital presses, was founded.

Canon Australia is launching the imagePrograf TC-20M, a four-colour CMYK, large format, desktop printer, with an A4 flatbed scanner. Canon says even first-time users can easily create large format prints.

Printers who were buying plates, software, and a raft of other offset necessities from Agfa, will now be buying them from ECO3, the new brand for the newly independent business.

Agfa’s offset business – which includes plates – is under new ownership as from today, with a new brand to be launched tomorrow, but it is business as usual for ANZ customers. Under the new owners it will be making major investments in software development.

Inkjet press developer Kyocera has stated its intentions to become a major player in the commercial market, by acquiring French inkjet web developer Nixka.

In its first major acquisition since it was spun out of EFI, eProductivity Software has acquired MIS developer Tharstern – which has a significant ANZ customer base – and branded it as ePS Tharstern

Canon Australia has launched the imagePress V900 series digital colour print system, which it says sets new standards in cut-sheet toner productivity, aiming it at both commercial and inplant operations.

Epson has released two new multifunction wide-format printers in its SureColor T-Series, which will produce posters and POP displays at speeds of 27sqm an hour, with CAD and tech drawings at 130sqm.

Well-liked and much respected local industry notable, John Coote, passed away at the age of 76, after a pioneering print career which took Australian prepress into a new era.