Australia’s first industry-wide audience measurement planning tool for outdoor media, Move, has been successfully rolled-out in each capital city, according to the Outdoor Media Association (OMA). The Association adds it had a strong response from the industry with over 31 agencies and over 800 users currently signed up to use the Move tool.

Pettaras Press, one of the country's iconic print businesses, sent shockwaves through the print industry today (Friday, March 19) as it entered administration.

Digital press manufacturer Screen has signed up to be a Gold Sponsor of this year’s Galley Club Awards. The Kyoto-headquartered company sas the move demonstrates its intentions in the digital book production market.

The University of South Australia (UniSA) has revamped its print centre by installing new Océ equipment, replacing a fleet of equipment, which the print centre found to be incompatible with its ongoing needs and growth plans.

Ailing Sydney printer The Printing Department has been bought out of administration this week by former owner James Becker, however a former employee of the printer says around half of the staff could lose their jobs in order to keep the business afloat.

Industry icon William (Bill) Moore has passed away aged 80. Bill Moore – who was chairman of industry equipment supplier Aldus Engineering – was farewelled at a memorial service, which was attended by scores of industry representatives.

A creditors meeting yesterday revealed business forms printer Paragon Printing, currently in administration, owes millions of dollars in unpaid bills and staff entitlements, with $4m of it to paper merchants alone.

Hannapak showed its new manroland 700 with inline foiler at an industry event this week, which attracted both sheetfed and web offset commercial printers to the Richmond factory.

Digital offset supplier Presstek says it will demonstrate its new 75DI press at Ipex in May. The company says the new press - which is distributed in Australia by Cyber and Grafika Links - will deliver the same level of quality as its 52DI press, but in a larger format size and with the ability to add additional print towers with inline coating.

The country's biggest sheetfed printer lost NZ$140.4m (A$108.5)in the 2008-2009 tax year, as the full weight of the GFC hit the trans-tasman printing operation. Its operating loss was NZ$55m.