Wide format print business Cactus Imaging has developed what it says is the world's first recyclable billboard skin, known as SmartSkins, to be used instead of the traditional PVC skins.

Calls are being made for a labelling system to distinguish between different types of plastic waste for recycling, but a problem is that ecolabels haven’t really take off, not in the graphics industry and not elsewhere.

EFI is running a series of global webinars on the new Vutek h series superwide format printer, with Print21 publishing editor Patrick Howard set to host the Australia and New Zealand event.

Trade association SGIAA is hosting a three-day colour management workshop at Starleaton in Melbourne, which features US print specialist and director of digital print programmes at the US SGIA Ray Weiss.

Wide format inkjet printers and printer cutters developer Roland DG Australia has released its dates for VersaWorks: Beyond the Basics, the Roland DG Academy training course for 2019.

The long-running legal battle between the ATO and Picton Press is set to continue to May, with the ATO contesting the controversial Deed of Company Arrangement (DOCA), an arrangement which would allow the company to pay only 1c-2c in the dollar to its major unsecured creditors.

Konica Minolta invited XMPie, printIQ and QLM to Holmesglen Institute to give a master class to the Victorian print industry on the future of short-run digital label printing, with the Konica Minolta AccurioLabel 190.

WA-based Label Image has invested in a Durst Tau 330 E UV inkjet press, coupled with the Durst Workflow Label system, including variable data printing.

LIA NSW will look at green practices in print when it hosts a tour of the Fuji Xerox Rosehill facility next month, with the theme A Blueprint for Sustainable Practices.

The graphic on the NSW Liberal Party's big blue bus for the 2019 election campaign - with slogan Let's Get It Done NSW - was not printed in the state, but in Queensland.

Who said there's no money in print - cards from the Pokémon and Magic: The Gathering trading card games have just sold for a staggering combined total of US$295,000 (A$420,000) at auction in Dallas.

Multi-award winning innovative Tasmanian print business Flying Colours has bought Saunders Signs to enhance its rapidly growing statewide sign and display business, and is rebranding its entire business as Flying Colours Group.

Paper merchant Spicers is clearing the decks ahead of its impending sale to Kokusai Pulp & Paper, realising sales on two of its Tasmanian properties, in Wesley Vale and Burnie.

Queensland sign business Higgins Signs & Plastics is in voluntary administration, a week after the ATO issued a winding-up order against the company.

Starleaton is celebrating its tenth year as a member of the prestigious colour standards group Fogra Research Institute for Media Technologies. Ben Eaton, CEO at Starleaton, says colour management is key to the company.

Leading print analyst and environmental commentator Laurel Brunner is calling on the paper industry to change its ways, or face continued shrinkage.