The weekend's first mental health for men swim-a-thon on Sydney's northern beaches exceeded all expectations of organisers, who are now planning an annual event.

Canon will shut Australian R&D subsidiary Canon Information Systems Research Australia (Cisra) after almost 30 years in operation, with 35 staff to be made redundant.

John Mancini's Jason Signmakers has bought the assets and saved all the jobs at Ron Eacott's stricken Expo Group, the latest print business to hit the skids on the west coast.

US print has bounced back last year from a disappointing 2017, with many businesses reporting a boost in revenue, and saying they are intending to take on more staff.

Marketing gurus teams up to reinforce the power of mail as the Real Digital Disruptor at a significant Printing Industries event in Brisbane. A large turnout of industry professionals came to hear how direct mail has not only retained its power but also increased its effectiveness in the digital age.

Kwik Kopy has been chosen as the official print partner for the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards for another year.

Starleaton and Oki will host an open house event at Oki's showroom in Macquarie Park NSW, to demonstrate Oki's ColorPainter range of wide-format digital printers.

Fibre packaging giant Orora has hosted a visit by Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) members to its recycling plant in Botany NSW to show off its massive B9 paper line.

The CEO of PIAA Andrew Macaulay says the most powerful trade unionist in the country, ACTU general secretary Sally McManus, will "declare war on the employer if Labor is elected", following her claims that living standards are lower than 25 years ago, and saying the country is in income recession.

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.