Here are just a few of the gems you might've missed in social media this week…
- Google buying a famous travel guide and then killing off the print edition
- Landa winning an international design award for its Nanography presses
- UK print giant Polestar ordering $72 million of web offset kit
- US currency printers blowing $120 million on faulty $100 notes
- Ballarat's daily cutting printing costs by shrinking from tabloid to 'ultracompact'
- A student politician wooing voters with personalised packs of chewing gum
- 15 superb letterpress business cards
- Stadium Signs installing the AFL Playground at the MCG
- Mexican artists living inside billboards whose ads they're designing
- The struggling printer that successfully diversified into printing bug traps
- Have you made any sales through LinkedIn? Manufacturer Autobond used LinkedIn to sell two machines
- Is it getting harder to deal with banks and insurers?
Our top five stories this week were…
1) Financial fallout of Geon revealed: more than 200 print industry creditors
2) Heidelberg tightens credit terms to 30 days after 'industry turmoil'
3) Liquidator forced to work 'for free' to wind up Park Printing
4) Blue Star holding companies liquidated with NZ$165m of debt
5) Around 70 Blue Star Canberra staff sacked in Opus deal
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