Focus Press has opened the second stage of its new $6.1m highly advanced secure printing facility in Wollongong, which it built with the aid of a government grant for that amount, one of the largest ever given to a printing company.

Opportunities coming from the implementation of the government’s much maligned NBN were the topic for some 70 printers attending the Printing Industries Spotlight discussion event on the Future of Print and the National Broadband Network last Thursday in NSW.

Electronics For Imaging (EFI) has reported a profit of US$18.3m and an all-time record sales revenue of US$180.3m for the second quarter of 2013, up ten per cent compared to the previous year.

Pre-press apprentice Samuel Moss was awarded the LIA Heidelberg NSW Graduate of the Year Award, while his employer Sinnott Bros were awarded a plaque for employer of the year.

The wave of Memjet powered printers coming into Australia is rising, the latest iteration being the 42” Xanté Excelagraphix 4200 that prints onto rigid stock, available courtesy of Adkotes.

Melbourne based sign and display business Brand Print has moved to a new 550sqm factory in the suburb of Carrum Downs after investing in a new wide format Canon Arizona printer.

After twenty years with the Printing Industries Association of Australia (PIAA), national manager for policy and government affairs Hagop Tchamkertenian is leaving to pursue new opportunities and challenges.

Melbourne based family owned business TC Printing has invested in a new Heidelberg XL106 10-colour press, which will run in tandem with the company’s existing Speedmaster 102 eight colour press.

Well it has been a rocky road and we met with an awful lot of opposition, but we made it. To all 66 members of Working Group 11, the international band of hardy volunteers who authored ISO 16759 for ISO, thank you for your effort and commitment. Thanks to you the graphic arts industry and its customers have a single reference framework for carbon calculators.

SOS Print + Media has just ordered Australia's first Fuji Xerox 2800 inkjet press in its biggest ever digital investment, to exploit what it says are burgeoning opportunities in digital high speed colour printing.