Industry

Roland DG subsidiary DG Shape has released its latest LD-300 Laser Decorator, which it says goes beyond foil decoration on soft plastics to include larger three-dimensional items and direct imprinting on natural leather.

EFI is launching PackCentral, an online web-to-pack solution, which it says will enable packaging converters to digitally transform their businesses and grow profitability through new revenue streams and reduced sales costs.

Australia Post has opened the biggest mail sorting facility in the Southern Hemisphere, as new research finds global shipping volume is set to hit 200 billion parcels by 2025.

Kodak is shifting its Prinergy workflow into the cloud with the launch of its Prinergy Virtual Machine Environment (VME) with Managed Services, which will see Kodak itself host customers’ virtualised Prinergy software.

Revolution Print in Ballarat has become the first printer in the country to trial Konica Minolta’s AIRe Lens augmented reality glasses for remote diagnostic input and service support.

With digital introducing new methods of printing, old deinking techniques for paper recycling are unable to keep up and must evolve to meet the times, writes Laurel Brunner.

It will be the end of an era at Geoscience Australia next month as the government agency ends its production of printed large-scale topographic maps and moves to digital.

More than 550,000 people have downloaded NSW’s new digital driver licence (DDL) – but the state government insists it will not replace printed cards.

In further proof that there is still money in print, the world’s most expensive Pokémon card has sold at auction for almost $300,000.

Victorian trade forms and systems printer Gippsland Trade Printers has been sold to Lamson Paragon Group.

Perth-based Quality Press is installing a KBA ten-colour B1 perfector, with managing director Atish Shah saying the company is “gearing up for the future”.


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A new cooperative for green printing has been set up for sheet fed offset printing companies, calling itself Print the Change, and it wants to attract organisations keen to turn themselves into more environmentally friendly outfits, writes Laurel Brunner.

The latest Move figures from the OMA show out of home audiences increased for the ninth year in a row, up by 2.4 per cent in 2019.

Printers in Melbourne are rushing to get their work out of trade finishing house The Bindery, with its owner Naresh Gulati bolting the doors shut and closing the business without warning.

Marvel Bookbinding owner Wayne Eastaugh says his company is ready and able to take on jobs that had been sent or are due to be sent to the now-defunct Bindery.

Digital print solutions developer Konica Minolta is making its first foray into the high-volume toner printing segment with the launch of the new 140ppm C14000 colour printer.