Net media revenue for Out-of-Home print last year rose slightly compared to the year before, although print’s share of the market slipped by 1.6 per cent compared to digital.

Entries are open for the refreshed National Print Awards, with the industry’s night of nights, the awards ceremony, set to take place on Thursday 22 May at PacPrint in Sydney.

Diversified marketing communications group, and the country’s biggest print operation, IVE, saw its profits rise strongly, on flat revenue, in the first half of the financial year.

IVE is building a new 42,000sqm print supersite in Sydney’s west, with the site expected to be fully operational by March next year. It will house commercial, packaging, and display print operations.

The Visual Media Association has revealed that HP & Currie Group are the Platinum Sponsor of the 2025 National Print Awards, and has issued a call for entries, with discounts for VMA members.

The Visual Media Association is touring its Annual Industry Metrics Survey around the country, enabling print businesses to benchmark themselves. The Roadshow, hosted in Ricoh showrooms, also included a sales booster seminar.

Fujifilm is set to combine its two print solutions supply business operations in Australia, bringing them both into one new division, Fujifilm Graphic Communications. Steve Fisher will head the team.

Major trade print operation LEP has installed a new Horizon iCE StitchLiner Mark IV saddle stitcher at its Queensland production centre, supplied by Currie Group.

Yaffa Media is one of Australia’s largest independent media companies, and has remained an independent operation with significant growth and diversification over the past 100 years.

The Real Media Collective New Zealand (TRMC NZ) will officially merge into the VMA, in a move designed to strengthen advocacy, research and compliance. A key focus will be letterbox marketing.

Smartech Business Systems has signed on as the official naming rights partner of the Smartech Super Rugby Pacific and Smartech Super Rugby Women's competitions in Australia for 2025.


The Visual Media Association is launching the Emerging Talent programme for future industry leaders, designed to engage, support, and retain the next generation of talent across the industry. Konica Minolta is supporting it, as the Platinum Partner.

The innovative digital can printing line that will send beverage packaging giant Orora into the short-run and promotional can printing market is arriving in Dandenong next month.

Currie Group is hosting a new event for the industry, the Print for the Planet Forum, which will focus on the hot topic of sustainability in print. It is being held in Auckland next month.

Print’s global workforce will shrink by 20 per cent over the next five years, according to a new report by the World Economic Forum. However, industry figures say that does not mean print itself will shrink.

IVE has received the Food Safety System Certification (FSSC),  the ISO 22000, for its packaging division, as it continues to expand its folding carton capabilities.