Ex-Ability Press, Longbeach, and On Demand owner Michael Wu is back in the print business, at Melbourne based Multiart, where he says is now employed as an estimator.

Wu told ProPrint, “I am making a living for my kids by getting a job here.”

Wu’s print business empire collapsed spectacularly in July last year, with debts to multiple creditors.

Wu was ejected from his partnership at the major Melbourne print business Docklands Ability Group with co-owner Abbey Aboughattas telling ProPrint he was let go for providing incorrect information to his merger partners.

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He bought wide format and digital printer Longbeach from Josh De Goot in January last year, it ceased trading in July, he rebooted it in August, but shortly afterwards it fell into liquidation.

His ownership of the former Bruce Peddlesden’s failed On Demand business suffered a similar fate, he bought the business in November 2014,  but last July it collapsed, with the remnants taken over by Docklands Ability Group and merged into a new digital division.

Towards the end of last year, ex-Wu employees claimed he owed them up to $50,000 in unclaimed super.

Multiart has been running for 23 years, giving customers a range of services such as printing, artwork design, web page design, professional photo shooting, digital printing, offset printing, wide format printing, signage manufacture and installation.

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