Fujifilm has been awarded the entire printing plate business for Fairfax Media across all of its newspaper and magazine printing sites in Australia and New Zealand after a tender process, in a deal valued at around $30m.

Opus is undertaking a strategic review of its outdoor media business with a view to exiting the sector, as it plants to turn its focus on its publishing business and growing its footprint in the Asia Pacific region.

On the second day of China Print 2013 in Beijing, KBA handed the Rapida 145 showcased over to Ningbo Beike Packaging which becomes the first KBA Rapida 145 large-format press to go to China and the second in Asia to be installed after the trade show at the customer’s plant in Ningbo.

PPB Advisory, an Australasian financial advisory service, has outlined strategies for New Zealand print companies in the wake of recent major events and the GFC.

More than 300 printers, graphics designers and students attended paper merchant BJ Ball's Sydney Mohawk Show, which showcased a variety of work produced using the paper merchant’s range of paper stocks.

Pitney Bowes is telling printers there are new revenue streams available to them, as it hosted the first leg of its three city Productivity Expo series at Sydney’s Shangri La hotel.

Auspack Plus 2013 had 308 exhibiting numbers including 112 international exhibitors from 18 countries which occupied a record largest floor space in the events history with a display of almost 7300sqm.

Printers looking for help from what will almost certainly be Wayne Swan’s last federal budget were left disappointed, according to Hagop Tchamkertenian, national manager, Policy and Government Affairs at Printing Industries. 

Leading wide format manufacturer Roland DG Australia is anticipating that the ground breaking new PRO4 XF-640 wide format printer will be a big draw card at PacPrint and Visual Impact next week.

Goss has introduced what is says is the world’s first high-automation, compact 2x1 press for newspaper, book and semi-commercial printing: the Magnum Compact.

Chinaplas 2013 will be held in Guangzhou from May 20-23 at the China Import and Export Fair Complex in Pazhou, Guangzhou following its staging in Shanghai last year with exhibition space expected to be 220,000 sqm and visitor numbers to exceed 100,000.

Fast-growing graphic systems equipment supplier FAB Equipment is the Australian distributor of what it says is the world’s fastest full-colour SRA2 cut-sheet press, the Delphax elan 500, which is powered by Memjet technology.

Some 50 people attended the annual JPE / LIA NSW industry review at North Ryde RSL, and listened to presentations from banker Chris Caton and award winning website pioneer Tim Burrowes.

The world’s biggest press manufacturer Heidelberg says it has reached key milestone on its way back to profitability with a five per cent rise in sales in the year to March 31.

The third Printing Industries webinar will discuss how to ‘Know and Improve the Value of your Business’, and will be presented by Ascent Partners director Richard Rasmussen this Friday May 17 at 1pm.

Trade-exclusive printer LEP Colour Printers has opened the doors to a new Digital Print Centre, to complement its already extensive range of offset printed products.

Changes are continuing at IPMG, with Offset Alpine general manager Craig Dunsford appointed by company to the newly created position of chief executive officer print, effective immediately.

Ricoh is adding two new models - the Ricoh Pro C5110S and Ricoh Pro C5100S digital colour cut sheet production systems - to its portfolio of production printing solutions.

Currie Group has confirmed its intention to expand its New Zealand operation with the appointment of well-known digital print specialist Graham McDonald to the HP Indigo sales team.

Visitors to Aarque Group’s Waitakere showroom can now see a Soljet Pro4 XF-640, the fastest wide format inkjet printer from Roland DG, boasting a maximum print speed of 102sqm per hour.