Speaking at the EFI Connect conference currently underway in Las Vegas the entrepreneur inventor Benny Landa says some 430 print business have now signed letters of intent for his nano presses, many of them with the requisite US$10,000 deposit....

After playing pivotal roles in the 2006 sale and the recent purchase of Blue Star New Zealand, Tom Sturgess now looks forward to the company putting itself back on to the front foot for a more secure future....

Rising interest from digital printers around the world has caused the Hunkeler Innovationdays event to be extended by a further day, with the February event now set to run for five days....

Heidelberg has released a White Paper based on facts and figures relating to the development of the packaging market, forecasting annual global packaging sales to grow by 22 per cent from their base of €517bn ($778) in 2010 to approximately €630bn ...

PrintNZ has confirmed Phil O’Reilly as its first speaker for the Day of Development it will host at the beginning of May on the day of the Pride In Print Awards in Wellington....

The next Ipex will take place without star turn Landa Corporation, which has decided to skip the show, claiming it needs to focus all its energies on getting its nano presses ready for shipment....

The PacPrint13 Board has moved proactively to ensure the exhibition, slated for May 21-25, keeps pace and reflects the requirements of the industry, today and in the future, working with some 600 past exhibitors and visitors to ensure this year's show ...

Müller Martini will present a new industrial finishing solution for digitally printed products, the Presto II Digital saddle stitcher, at Hunkeler Innovationdays that take place in Lucerne from February 11–15....

Registrations are now open for the international WAN-IFRA (World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers) Printing Summit which will take place on March 19-20, 2013 at the German port city of Hamburg....

Heidelberg is showcasing visionary application concepts based on innovating printing processes, with it says market-ready and demonstration products showing just how much is already possible in the area of surface finishing and printed electronics....

Epson’s new SurePress digital label printers will now come with an Esko digital front end after the two companies signed an oem deal this week....

Kodak has done a $525m deal with a consortium of a dozen technology companies to sell off its patents, and heralded it as a major step to emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection....

Press giant KBA has won an agreement with its employees that will see it move away from a strict 38 hour plus overtime structure into an era of fluctuating hours with corresponding wages according to production demand. ...

Digital press developer Xeikon is in discussions with an unnamed suitor who is looking at making a public takeover bid for all shares in the capital of the company. ...

Multi-sector print group Opus is raising $11m to slice the top off its $62m net debt, through a combination of loans, land sales and asset sales....

Print and paper industry lobby group Two Sides has attacked Google’s 'Go Paperless in 2013' campaign with a stinging open letter (see below) to Google chairman Eric Schmidt, which highlights Google’s less than impeccable environmental credentials. ...

The final piece in the sale of troubled print group Blue Star has been completed with former managing director Tom Sturgess, backed by Australian p/e fund Mercury Capital, regaining ownership of the New Zealand side of the business. ...

Ipex has suffered a further blow with the withdrawal of Xerox from the exhibition, with the digital print giant joining Heidelberg, HP and Agfa in declining to attend next year’s event....

The team at New Zealand Printer and Inky fingers magazines - Ramona, Rosemary and Bruce - wish all of our readers a merry Christmas and a happy and safe New Year; may you all enjoy a well earned break....

Fairfax has waved goodbye to one its few profitable enterprises, completing the sale of its 51 per cent stake in Trade Me, the online shopping and classfied advertising site....