A beleaguered print industry is hoping for a shot in the arm this week with PacPrint, the biggest event of the year, now open for business.
A beleaguered print industry is hoping for a shot in the arm this week with PacPrint, the biggest event of the year, now open for business.
Fujifilm has been awarded the entire printing plate business for Fairfax Media across all of its newspaper and magazine printing sites in Australia and New Zealand after a tender process, in a deal valued at around $30m.
The PacPrint organiser says the show will highlight new revenue streams for printers with many stands having a cross channel approach, and also giving visitors a chance to experience the new world of 3D printing.
Opus is undertaking a strategic review of its outdoor media business with a view to exiting the sector, as it plants to turn its focus on its publishing business and growing its footprint in the Asia Pacific region.
Product Distribution Australia (PDA) is adding more products to its range of wide-format printers and cutting tables.
More than 300 printers, graphics designers and students attended paper merchant BJ Ball's Sydney Mohawk Show, which showcased a variety of work produced using the paper merchant’s range of paper stocks.
Pitney Bowes is telling printers there are new revenue streams available to them, as it hosted the first leg of its three city Productivity Expo series at Sydney’s Shangri La hotel.
Printers looking for help from what will almost certainly be Wayne Swan’s last federal budget were left disappointed, according to Hagop Tchamkertenian, national manager, Policy and Government Affairs at Printing Industries.
Leading wide format manufacturer Roland DG Australia is anticipating that the ground breaking new PRO4 XF-640 wide format printer will be a big draw card at PacPrint and Visual Impact next week.
Goss has introduced what is says is the world’s first high-automation, compact 2x1 press for newspaper, book and semi-commercial printing: the Magnum Compact.
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Queensland based jobbing outfit Payne Print believes that investing in new technology is key to keeping ahead, and has just taken delivery of a new single-colour GTO |