The theme for the PacPrint Forum Series this year will be ‘An Industry in Transition’ with the organiser just announcing the names of the speakers for the three day Series.

Screen Australia will showcase its new Screen Truepress Jet L350UV digital label press at PacPrint in May, broadening further the show’s digital credentials.

The Gallus Group has reported an $8m drop in sales for 2012 of $197m compared to the previous corresponding year’s $205m, with its folding carton business taking the hit.

Canon Australia’s Queensland display graphics representative Jane Bridger is doing the World’s Greatest Shave in support of the Leukaemia Foundation and has raised $8000.

Monday kicks off Konica Minolta and HP’s nationwide Tiki Tour, starting at the RoyalNew Zealand Yacht Squadron in Westhaven Auckland and highlighting the range of HP Designjet printers and their applications.

The Currie Group has expressed delight with the attendance at its mobile showroom so far as the company wound up the north island section of its tour yesterday.

New research conducted by Roy Morgan has revealed that over 70 per cent of Australians aged 14 and over prefer reading printed catalogues over online catalogues.

Exhibitors may be dropping like flies from the Ipex line-up but the local show PacPrint looks like being one of the strongest ever, with Aussie printers now being able to see a new high speed inkjet web at the show with the Fujifilm JetPress W.

Print industry personnel wanting to gain Level 3 National Certificate in Sales qualification from CMITO have until April 1 to receive a $50 discount on the price of the course.

The technotrans Group's total revenue reached €90.7m  for the past financial year, a drop of 6.8 per cent on the previous year’s €97.3m.

BJ Ball has moved into the narrow web flexo inks market, signing an exclusive deal to represent Flint Group products in Western Australia.

Konica Minolta has launched its next generation monochrome high speed digital press series to Australia, the bizhub Press 1250 and the bizhub Press 1052.

Bosch Packaging Technology has posted stronger growth in fiscal 2012 than the packaging machine market as a whole, and intends to maintain its high growth rate, setting its sights on reaching €1.5bn in sales by the end of 2015.

One of the biggest offset printers in the Indonesia pharmaceutical packaging industry Duta Warna has entered the labels market  installing the first Gidue Combat MX in the country.

The world’s largest English language print trade show Ipex is still losing exhibitors, with Canon / Oce the latest to announce it is withdrawing from the event next March.

Economic growth data released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) for the December 2012 quarter shows that the printing industry surged ahead during the quarter to record the highest rate of growth amongst the manufacturing sectors.

Pankaj Bhasin has become the new managing director of manroland India, as the company seeks to make the most of the potential for growth in the sub-continent.

Ecovative plans to expand its Mushroom Packaging business to Asia as it sees the continent as the world's biggest hub for manufacturing and packaging.

APN Print New Zealand has received international and domestic recognition at recent awards events for its company-wide focus on quality and commitment to staff advancement awards events.

In a dramatic move late last night Geoff Selig’s Blue Star Group bought Geon’s NSW and Victorian businesses for an undisclosed sum, creating Australia’s biggest sheetfed printer.