Recruiting print champions to spearhead a new PrintNZ campaign called Part of Life, PrintNZ aims to lift the profile of printed products and make the general public aware of how great a role printed materials play in our everyday lives. Dave MacIntyre outlines the campaign and how print champions can help the industry

Market research company, Wallis Consulting Group, is conducting research into the Australian printing industry and is looking for print and production experts who’d be prepared to participate.

Over 20 industry representatives gathered in Wellington last month to attend PrintNZ Training’s bi-annual Industry Review Workshop.

The Newspaper Publishers’ Association expressed confidence that the industry remains in good heart, after the latest newspaper readership results from Nielsen Media Research showed gains for newspapers in the major metropolitan markets.

Training and development is often one of the first budgets to be cut during difficult times - yet it is one of the areas where significant performance enhancement and efficiencies can be gained

Discovering how industry training organisations can help member companies boost their operations was the key aim of a pilot productivity project held throughout the country in 2008

Wood fibre costs, the cost component that often determines a pulp manufacturer's competitiveness, fell for the first time in many years in practically all major pulp producing regions around the world in the third quarter of last year.

Wood fibre costs, the cost component that often determines a pulp manufacturer's competitiveness, fell for the first time in many years in practically all major pulp producing regions around the world in the third quarter of last year.

Wood fibre costs, the cost component that often determines a pulp manufacturer's competitiveness, fell for the first time in many years in practically all major pulp producing regions around the world in the third quarter of last year.

Wood fibre costs, the cost component that often determines a pulp manufacturer's competitiveness, fell for the first time in many years in practically all major pulp producing regions around the world in the third quarter of last year.

HP has announced that it garnered multiple top award wins from independent imaging authority Buyers Laboratory Inc in 2008.

PrintNZ’s fifth industry report, released just prior to Christmas, contains a comprehensive study of the printing and allied industries in New Zealand.

Among the more interesting demonstrations at the recent drupa exhibition was the digital printing of newspapers, says Andrew Tribute

New Zealand continues to improve its paperboard recovery rate with an impressive 78 per cent of all paperboard consumed now being collected for recycling into new products.

PrintNZ Training has two new initiatives available to all print industry members – the revamped Diploma in Management - Print qualification and two Colour Management modules.

It’s amazing what is tucked away in our libraries. For example, there is Mrs Butters’ extraordinary Press Dress, which was donated to the Pictures Collection of the State Library of Victoria in 1951. It has undergone extensive conservation recently.