Book printer Ligare has opened a digital print facility featuring an Oce VarioStream 7450 digital web printer at its site in Riverwood, which the company claims will retain its competitiveness in the market. Ligare also says despite the current economic climate it is experiencing an increase in demand for short and medium run books.

Fuji Xerox is celebrating Christmas early, with the arrival of Australia’s first iGen4 and the announcement that its printers have just passed the 2.5 billion colour prints marker in Australia.

Full exposure to a carbon cost without appropriate transitional measures could jeopardise Australia's pulp and paper industry with many facilities either closing down or becoming unprofitable if the carbon cost reaches AU$50 per tonne, according to the Australian plantation products and paper industry council (A3P).

The 2008 ACT Page Awards were held recently with 14 winners in all taking away Canberra's highest creative industry awards.

Colorpak says it has become the first folding cartons business in Australia to receive chain of custody certification from the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes (PEFC).

Some 70 Australian printers were amongst the first in the world to see the new Muller Martini Primera saddlestitcher, which was launched at the company’s annual Open House in Sydney.

BtoB magazine has named Kodak’s Jeffrey Hayzlett Marketer of the Year for 2008, awarding him the title at a ceremony in New York.

The outdoor media industry continues to track well in terms of year-to-date net revenue growth, recording a 10 per cent rise on last year’s results from $299m to $329m, the Outdoor Media Association of Australia (OMAA) reports.

Fresh from the prospect of losing its ACP magazine work PMP has just either lost or given away an $8m Coles contract, depending on who is telling the story.

Claiming to be the only vendor to have end to end products in the graphic arts space, HP says it will present a range of print solutions under its Designjet, Indigo and Scitex brands at Pacprint 09.