The owner of newly established Maverick Print Group, Sorcha Hopmans, was the person who registered the trading name of Dark Horse Print & Design, the company which was liquidated by her fiancee last Friday.

The landlord of the premises occupied by Dark Horse says there was no dispute, “other than his lease had run out and he was behind with his rent”.

Craig Heckenberg has been promoted and become the new managing director of Epson Australia and New Zealand as well-known industry veteran and stalwart Bruno Turcato retires from the role after 16 years in the job.

In a series of video interviews, we hear from some of the speakers presenting our upcoming Print21 + PKN LIVE New Frontiers in Packaging Print event, slated for a week on Monday.

Controversial new laws being pushed through by the Victorian government on workplace fatalities could have a potentially devastating impact on print business owners, including 20 years jail and $16m in fines.

Mick Cullen, manager at Southern Colour in Dunedin, is the lucky winner of the Print21 PrintEx Escape competition, with an all expenses paid trip to PrintEx the prize.

Heidelberg has revamped the design of the world's biggest selling B2 offset presses, the Speedmaster XL 75 and CX 75, to make them more ergonomic and user-friendly.

Konica Minolta will exhibit digital solutions for commercial print, labels, and wide-format on stand D37 at PrintEx.

EFI will exhibit the h3 hybrid LED inkjet printer, which it bills as its most advanced yet, on stand D7 at PrintEx.

HP will bring its new Stitch S series inkjet textile printers to stand C25 at PrintEx.

Textile print giant Kornit Digital will bring new solutions for digital fabric print to its sales and service partner Kissel + Wolf’s stand, number H37.

Oki Australia is launching two new toner-based label printers: the Pro 1040 CMYK and Pro 1050 CMYK + white, which are aimed at the burgeoning craft food and beverage markets.

Durst will exhibit its flagship large-format printer, the P5 250 HS, on stand R28 at PrintEx.

Industry uproar as Victorian print business Dark Horse Print & Design put into liquidation, while the owner's fiancee and mother of his children opens new business, Maverick Print Group.

Queensland will soon have a one-stop shop for print finishing with the acquisition of Brisbane-based Auscote by Avon Graphics.

Shake up in New Zealand as the Aarque Group buys rival Jenrite, consolidating the wide format supplies sector.