A third HP PageWide inkjet web has been installed at Print Media Group in Melbourne.

Trade publication Print21 has reported the installation of a PageWide 2200, the first of its kind in Australia. It joins a portfolio including Indigo digital presses and two T50 PageWide presses.

The single-engine duplex press prints a web of up to 558mm at up to 152 metres a minute in colour. HP offers the 2200 with a ‘plus package’ which includes 244 metres/minute capability, as well as extended print width and media support.

Print Media Group – or PMG – began in business in 1892 in Melbourne’s Bourke Street as Fraser & Jenkinson Printers and Publishers, Thomas Jenkinson having previously been secretary of the Australasian Typographical Union.

After making a name for itself as a book printer and through some controversial work – both partners were summoned for printing a handbill referring to ‘Red Flag Day’, and later produced what is thought to be an “underground” copy of Frank Hardy’s ‘Power without Glory’ – the business was sold to the Hutchinson family in 1965.

Present owners the Moio family acquired Fraser & Jenkinson in 1990, changing its name to Print Media Group and building a network of printing companies across Australia.

Pictured: The single-engine PageWide 2200 turns its web with a bar system; and (below) the Fraser copy of Power without Glory in four volumes (from the State Library of Victoria collection).