Outdoor media company QMS Media achieved strong growth figures across the board for its first half year, with net profit after tax up by 65 per cent on revenue up 23 per cent.

Slaven points to positive signs as Ovato slips back into the red in the 2019 financial year, with soft conditions in retail, the exit of real estate from suburban newspapers, and a damaging price war in New Zealand causing sales to fall by 8.8 per cent.

Customer Experience consultant Scott Telfer asks if Artificial 
Intelligence (AI) is the next digital disruption for customers.

Diversified marketing communications services business and major printer IVE Group saw all its figures rise in 2019, as it met all its key operational milestones.

Digital outdoor media has overtaken print for the first time, with the half year to June showing print, or classic, or static slipping into the minority of the outdoor spend, and down by $11.5m in revenue.

The market gave Pro-Pac the thumbs up for its full year results, with shares rising 6.9 per cent in the first hour of trade, as its 2019 EBITDA rose by 72 per cent.

Fespa Australia (formerly SGIAA) and Starleaton will host another three-day colour bootcamp in Melbourne next week.

Print industry association PVCA (previously PIAA) says the new VET Expert Panel Review is a welcome step, but says to succeed it must talk to print and packaging businesses.

NSW sign and display company Grand Print Services is making a major investment with a top-of-the-range Arizona 1380XT flatbed printer, and a ProCut 3200L digital cutting system.

Digital print solutions developer Xeikon is offering the ability to print a haptic – textured touch – effect, directly from its inkjet print systems, with no need for file modification.

Konica Minolta managing director Dr David Cooke has been appointed to chair the first Australian Human Rights Institute advisory committee, located at UNSW, Sydney.

Processless platesetting, makes for more efficient and sustainable production, because it removes the need to chemically remove unexposed plate coatings. It’s a big step forward in making print media production more environmentally friendly, but it has taken a while to gain traction.

The sign and display industry is fuming over the actions of NSW sign businesses Skope and Clear Skies, with Skope aiming to buy Clear Skies out of administration for $100,000, on condition of Clear Skies shedding 70 per cent of its $2.3m debt through a proposed DOCA.

WA business Super Signs has installed the first Océ Arizona 1300 series flatbed UV in Australia, and is already reaping rewards from the new printer.

Sydney-based signmaker Coleman Group has purchased Australia’s fourth Massivit 1800 3D printer, from Stick on Signs, distributed through Graphic Art Mart.

Police are alleging that former NSW Surf Life Saving general manager Matthew Hanks set up a dummy printing company as part of a decade-long scheme to funnel $2.7m cash to himself from the association.