Trade finishing house TLC Digital + has opened a pair of new factories in Braeside, three years after fire claimed its West Melbourne premises.

Family business Forest Print Services is investing in a new Konica Minolta C3070 digital colour printer for its Belrose production centre.

Sydney finishing house Twin Loop Binding is investing in a new Horizon BQ-480 perfect binder from Currie Group.

The LIA has celebrated its all-star graduates at the National Print Awards, with Jonathan Pitt of Multi-Color Corporation and Nicole Danger of Chapel Press taking the top prizes in the LIA/Heidelberg Graduates Awards.

The first exhibitor applications will open next month for Auspack 2021, to be held at Sydney Showground in under two years.

Snap Print and Design Mona Vale sold an old Fuji Xerox press to ABC Copier Solutions at PrintEx, and ABC will now give it a new lease on life elsewhere in the world.

Chapel Press sits on top of the print leaderboard after scoring four golds at last night's National Print Awards, with Rawson Print Co on three golds, and several printers taking two.

Skyline Printing has bought the MGI JetVarnish 3D digital embellishing system from the Konica Minolta stand, having seen it the previous day when it bought a new Konica Minolta 3080 digital colour press.

Franchise operation Snap Warriewood has just signed for its second Fuji Xerox Versant 180 digital colour press, inking the deal on the Fuji Xerox stand this morning.

Gold medal winning Paralympian Kurt Fearnley called on printers at the Dscoop PrintEx event to look inside to the struggle to find their strength, and then to be there for each other.

Women in Print PrintEx speaker Deborah Corn called on women in the industry to step out of their comfort zones if they want to break the glass ceiling at the top of the industry.

Courtney Group has signed a $2.5m deal at PrintEx with Currie Group for a major production upgrade for its Melbourne print centre. The deal is the biggest inked at PrintEx this week.

Esko is demonstrating its new Packaging Connected philosophy at stand S28, including a live display of the Kongsberg C24 cutting table.

Spicers is encouraging printers to shop smart at PrintEx, calling them to visit its on-stand supermarket concept, which runs throughout the show.

Durst has won a Print21 Hot Pick for its flagship large-format printer, the P5 250 HS, on stand R28 at PrintEx.

Neopost has brought a broad suite of solutions to its stand at PrintEx, including the Multigraf Touchline CF-375 creaser/folder.