Sydney outlet buys print trade media organisation, staff to stay on

Book printing revenue up seven per cent, digital surpasses print subscription for major titles

Company hit with loss of $63.8m, expects to see savings from News print agreement towards end of next half

A mix of tech and marketing savvy can work wonders to give your print business a winning edge.

New opportunities are opening in wide format printing, textiles and home decor.

Signarama chief Evan Foster says sign printers can benefit by transforming into a franchise.

Not the sleekest smartphone, but the screen, keyboard and battery life are all superb.

When it comes to colour consistency, sheet after sheet, job after job, the on-press controls can only achieve so much. Once all the dials are set to the same as last time, the variables are basically chemical: ink, fount solution, paper, blanket and, probably the biggest variable of all, water. So what do you do when your on-press spectro gives you a thumbs-up, but you can see with your own eyes that there's a colour shift between last time and this time? Flint Group thinks that it has found the answer: its new K+E Novavit F918 Supreme Bio inks, specially formulated for alcohol-free printing on high-speed, multi-unit sheetfed presses or perfectors.

The Love Food Hate Waste full colour brochure is part of a Waste & Resources Action Programme (Wrap) campaign being run by Kent County Council in the UK.