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.

Danish manufacturer Contex has awarded GBC New Zealand the title of worldwide distributor of the year, as the companies continue to grow the wide format scanner market locally.

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.

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.

Finishing equipment manufacturer Plockmatic has announced a new booklet making system with crease and full bleed capabilities for the digital print market: the Plockmatic CST Crease Side Trimmer.

PrintNZ will bring its first mini-conference to Wellington this week, when its learning and networking event: the PrintNZ Day of Development gets underway on Friday morning.

Over 130 leading local and international suppliers will gear up for the region’s biggest printing and graphic communications event PacPrint 2013, which takes place on May 21-25, with over 18000 visitors expected to attend.

Cyber New Zealand will introduce a new cutter, creaser, perforator to the New Zealand market from BN International, saying the new solution will meet the needs of digital and offset printers.

Kiwi visitors to PacPrint will see some familiar faces with Aarque Group announcing that it will offer New Zealand representation at its respective vendor stands at the show in Melbourne.