A Regulatory Impact Statement (RIS) is required before the new Australian Packaging Covenant goes ahead the Packaging Council of Australia (PCA) has advised. The Council adds that while this is not a bad thing, it seems unlikely the Covenant will be up and running by the July 1 deadline.

More than 150 industry delegates attended DES’s Pathways to Profit' seminars last week with organisers pleased with the stronger than expected turnout from Melbourne and Brisbane.

Digital Print industry supplier Absolute Electronics has installed its fifth new Direct Target Mailer, since its launch to market 18 months ago. The supplier says that the new DTM 8000 creates a completely personalised envelope and letter, ready to be mailed in a single pass all from an A3 or A4 printed sheet.

In recent weeks there have a number of press events announcing new products to be seen at the forthcoming Ipex exhibition in May. The following is a summary of announcements from Atlantic Zeiser, EskoArtwork and Kodak. In following weeks I will also be covering announcements from HP and Xeikon.

North Shore-based company Rocket Signs, which recently replaced all of its solvent printers with the new HP Designjet L65500 printer with HP latex inks, has also taken delivery of the smaller HP Designjet L25500 with HP latex inks, complementing the larger machine.