The election statements coming from the Labor Party on casual employees are causing increasing angst amongst business leaders and at the PIAA.

Big Image Australia lived up to its name last night with the official opening of its impressive new headquarters in Hindmarsh, SA, and the unveiling of Australia’s first Gerber MCT cutter, supplied from Halifax Vogel Group (HVG) Australia.

HP Indigo users who take operator training packages from supplier Currie Group are now able to transfer the training free of charge to a new operator, should the original operator leave within 12 months, under the new Currie Protect programme.

A dozen packaging producers across Australia and New Zealand won Gold at Australasia's peak packaging awards programme – the Packaging Innovation and Design Awards – held at a gala event in Sydney last night.

Former Fairfax regional newspaper business ACM, which became part of Nine, has just been bought for $125m by the ex CEO of real estate website Domain.

Printers have until the end of the week to get their entries in for this year's PICAs, the winners of which compete for the National Print Awards.

Sharing the presses took on a whole new meaning, as readers of Sydney's Daily Telegraph were left wondering if the paper had suddenly veered off its right wing trajectory, when pages from the Sydney Morning Herald appeared in the Murdoch paper.

Sydney's Canada Bay Council sparked outrage on Anzac Day with its commemorative signage, first for getting probably the best known phrase in Australia wrong, and then second for ignoring local printers and having the banners printed in China.

Despite his electioneering on a 'manufacture in Australia' policy billionaire Clive Palmer's United Australia Party is having its election corflutes printed in China.

Imaging giant HP is entering the nascent digital print for textiles market, with the launch of the Stitch series of inkjet fabric printers.

With all the current furore about plastic, the graphics industry can do more when it comes to plastic, such as printing instructions on the package for recycling or composting, writes Laurel Brunner.

Australia's biggest trade printer CMYKhub is exiting the UK on Friday, citing a change in strategic direction with a focus on its Australasian businesses, coinciding with a lease ending, as the reason.

Melbourne's biggest printer Waratah Group says the ATO-issued winding up order against it is due to an anomaly, and the outstanding amount will be paid in full on May 3.

Peak industry association PIAA says it is closer to securing funding for print courses at Queenland TAFEs, following a breakthrough multi-stakeholder meeting in Brisbane.

Independent candidate for Hume, Huw Kingston, believes politicians should put their money where their mouths are, and to show he is serious about the environment he is doing away with the usual plastic corflute advertising signs, and using Oppboga recyclable waterproof cardboard - supplied by Starleaton - instead.

Some 270 staff and channel partners from across Australia have taken part in the Konica Minolta sales kick-off, which saw the company aiming to build on its ten years of successive growth.