The LIVE New Frontiers in Packaging Print event will offer print business owners and managers exclusive market insights and engagement with brand owners, designers, and printers who have switched into packaging.

Stretch and limber up, test those Achilles tendons, jog on the spot and sign up to join this year’s PrintRun for fun and charity.

The second Printing Industries and Allied Trades Sportsman Charity Luncheon is slated for next month, and will unite printers with sporting legends for a trio of good causes.

HP's sustainable impact programmes, such as reducing product usage greenhouse gas emissions by 30 per cent compared to 2015 by 2025, contributed $900m in new revenues in 2018, up by 35 per cent compared to 2017, writes Laurel Brunner.

Advance Press swept into pole position in the WA PICAs, scooping a dozen medals, including seven of the 13 golds awarded at a glamorous evening, which saw 100 WA printers rock up to the brand new QT Perth in the CBD.

Liquidators of failed print business Sydney Allen have gained a court order to force six former company people, including John Mangos and Bob McMillan, to be examined under oath in the Supreme Court.

The Kiwi web offset market is consolidating, with the Commerce Commission just granting clearance for Mainland Print to acquire the heatset and coldset web offset printing assets of rival Inkwise.

Konica Minolta has become the world’s first press manufacturer and global solutions provider to achieve the robust Fogra53 profile certification, for its AccurioJet KM-1 B2 UV LED digital inkjet sheetfed printer.

Mutoh will replace its ValueJet eco-solvent printers with the new XpertJet range, which will come to Australia later this year.

Label press manufacturer Gallus will be focusing on the digitisation of label production at the upcoming Labelexpo Europe 2019, which will take place from September 24 – 27 in Brussels.

The Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) will hold a half-day training course in Melbourne next month on the future of flexible packaging.

Perth printer Picton Press is teetering on the edge, as its own administrator is requesting a creditors meeting, with the number one item being to terminate the controversial DOCA which has kept the company going, and liquidate the business.

Adams Print and Press Print have topped the gold medal charts at the Victorian PICAs, with five apiece. Chapel Press took out four, while Labelhouse and Pandoras Boxes won two each.

Christina Condos from label converter Labelhouse, and Lisa Schumacher from Print 2 Metal, have been named as the two Victorian finalists for the Media Super Young Executive of the Year Award.

Garment Printing Australia is installing the country’s first digital polyester print system, the Kornit Digital Avalanche Poly Pro.

Ricoh Australia has taken on a pair of new senior account managers in the Commercial and Industrial Print team.