Currie Group is helping labels and packaging printers that use its HP Indigo presses up-skill their sales practices during the Covid downtime, through a series of small group webinars.

AB Graphic International (ABG) will provide Digicon Automation modules to deliver high-speed finishing in both nearline or inline configurations for the new high speed HP Indigo V12 Digital Press.

Press giant Heidelberg is expanding its subscription model, which sees printers not pay for the press but rather the sheets they produce, to create four distinct contract packages.

The virus-driven rush to buy supermarket products has seen demand for Jet Technologies' label and packaging materials for FMCG goods soar by 500 per cent.

Syntegon Technology and Swedish pulp and paper manufacturer BillerudKorsnäs have launched a joint system for Shaped Paper Pods.

The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has updated the Fair Work Act to enable employees to take at least two weeks of unpaid pandemic leave. It also enables employees to take double their annual leave at half their normal pay, if their employer agrees.

Heidelberg is launching two new high-performance die cutting systems, as well as a short run solution for smaller printing companies that may use Heidelberg jobbing and cylinder presses.

HP has launched new presses for labels, flexibles, and cartons. This includes the V12, a narrow web digital press that competes on speed with analogue presses, running at 120 metres a minute.

Wagner Prestige Labels is now producing a third of its labels on its new digital Durst Tau 330 RSC E inkjet label press and enjoying dramatically reduced waste levels.

The world's biggest offset press manufacturer, Heidelberg, is launching its new Speedmaster range, which it describes as the most intelligent and automated ever produced.

HP is launching a raft of new digital presses for labels, flexibles, and cartons, including a narrow web digital press the V12 which will compete on speed with analogue presses, running at 120 metres a minute.

Flexible packaging printer ePac has broken a production record on its fleet of HP Indigo 20000 digital presses operating around the world.

Techkon’s ChromaLT – a lite version of the Chroma software – is now available in Australia.

A titanic battle is underway in New York for control of HP, whose graphics arm is an increasingly important player in packaging print. PKN associate editor Wayne Robinson assesses the implications for the local packaging community.

Print & Pack will now distribute all Bobst products in Australia and New Zealand, including webfed presses.

The first converter to use Screen’s Truepress Jet L350UV+LM (low-migration ink) inkjet label press for flexible pouches plans to use it to expand into a fast-growing market.