Avery Dennison has released the matrix recycling tool to help its converter customers divert and process scrap.

Great Lakes Printing has installed a new Epson 7900 CTP system, and the first oven for wide format platemaking in Australia from Brisbane based distributer G2 Solutions.

Sydney based Rawson Graphics and Artvue Printing have merged, and will trade under the Rawson Graphics name.

Canon Professional Print will launch its new workflow software PRISMAprepare version 6.1 at PacPrint next week.

Colour Graphic Services will be bringing its new ISO standards to PacPrint 2013, and hopes the show will bring new customers to the stand.

 Australian print businesses Carbon8 and Momento Pro have taken two of the top four awards in the HP Asia Pacific and Japan print excellence awards.

The New Zealand Herald enjoyed a huge night at the Canon Media Awards on Friday night, taking out the top award as Canon Newspaper of the Year, the country’s top newspaper award.

APN News & Media has the appointment of Michael Miller as its new CEO following the acrimonious departure of Brett Chenowotrh three months ago

As the print industry’s ‘night of nights’ draws closer, organisers of the thirtieth National Print Awards have released another highlight, with the announcement that Ben Price will entertain guests at the Awards Dinner…or will he?

KBA will present a new-generation sheetfed offset press, the large-format Rapida 145 with a sheet size of 1060x1450mm and output of 17,000sph, at China Print from next week.

 Graham Trickey is resigning as managing director of STI Lilyfield, little more than a year after stepping into the role.

Imaging giant Kodak is looking at emerging from its two year Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection status as early as this July.

Jet Technologies has announced it will demonstrate its water wash flexo platemaking capabilities in a practical fashion, making visitors’ plates its stand at PacPrint.

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

Fairfax Media is upgrading its Ballarat and Richmond manroland press lines with new Geoman towers to accommodate its move out of Sydney and Melbourne.

The Honorable Anthony Roberts, minister for Fair Trading, and Mark Dingley, chairman of the APPMA, officially opened Auspack Plus yesterday at the Sydney Showground in Sydney Olympic Park.

Printing industry respondents are remaining positive about future economic prospects, with a greater proportion of industry respondents expecting improvements to take place in general business conditions relative to those expecting deterioration, despite another quarter dominated by soft trading conditions.

The latest Trans-Tasman label incursion has seen Auckland’s Hally Labels buy Sydney based AC Labels for an undisclosed sum.

QuadTech will highlight its portfolio of press control technology for the commercial web-offset, packaging and newspaper printing sectors.at China Print 2013, taking place in Beijing, from May 14-18 May.

Regan Quaife, from Tauranga’s Commercial Signs Print and Plastic, has won the PrintNZ Apprentice of the Year title, the award forming part of last week’s industry celebrations.