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.

Fuji Xerox has launched  a new wide format printer with a blistering output speed of 320sqm a hour, targetting print runs of between 50 and 1000 posters.

The former Geon WA business that was bought by its management team has been renamed Advance Press, resurrecting the name it was known by before Geon bought the business six years ago.

Swedish-Australian innovation and digital strategist, Anders Sorman-Nilsson, the founder and creative director of research and strategy company, Thinque, will be telling printers at PacPrint that offset and digital combination is the way to growth.

Goss International will showcase its latest technology for commercial, book, newspaper and packaging printers at China Print on May 14-18.

A translucent plastic postcard, which allows light to shine through scenic photographs, delivered the 2013 Pride In Print Supreme Award to Arria Design Group on Friday night.

The New Zealand print and packaging industries put a turbulent year’s start to bed at the Pride In Print Awards on Friday at Wellinton’s waterfront TSB Arena.

Agfa Graphics has launched the web-to-print solution Apogee StoreFront 1.3 that enables print service providers (PSP’s) to set up web stores.

DES has always been known as a solutions specialist and it will cement this position by demonstrating a range of wide format and solvent print solutions on its PacPrint stand later this month.

Jet Technologies is the new distributing partner of Stork Prints graphic arts printing portfolio for the Indonesian market, building on the partnership between the two companies in Australia and New Zealand.

There will be 25 members of the World Packaging Organisation coming from all over the world to Auspack Plus from May 7-10.

Heidelberg and Polar have been working together for over 60 years and have now invested further in Asia with the establishment of manufacturing plants in Qingpu, China.

Strong growth opportunities in South Asia, and in particular India, have prompted Esko to move to a new office in Bangalore.

Agfa Graphics has had a sustained commitment to improving its carbon footprint for many years, It has also made considerable efforts to help the industry do so as well, particularly with the Azura line of chemistry-free plates and has now achieved the ISO 50001 for its plate manufacturing plants in the UK and Germany.

More than 350 women from the print industry joined in the popular Heidelberg Women in Print networking events in Brisbane, Perth, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide this year to hear keynote speaker, Carolyn Creswell, founder of Carman’s Muesli.

The minister for fair trading Anthony Roberts will officially open Auspack Plus on May 7, alongside APPMA chairman Mark Dingley.

Organisers have called for Australian retailers and agencies to submit their entries for the twenty-second Australian Catalogue Awards (ACA) set for August 9 at the Peninsula in Melbourne’s Docklands.

Esko has released a full HD flexo for flexible packaging which brings together a gravure-like ink laydown and a fully digitally controlled platemaking workflow.