Nick Caminiti (pictured left), the reigning 'King of the Wrap World', will not contest this year's Wrap Like a King competition. Entries are now open for the vehicle wrapping championship with a total prize pool of more than US$30,000 (AU$40,470).

Label materials supplier Avery Dennison has teamed up with beauty company L'Oreal and waste management firm Wasteflex in an effort to eliminate liner waste from L'Oreal's production chain. Avery Dennison's liner recycling program diverts glassine paper from landfills and turns it into new products.

Epson aims to triple production of its advanced PrecisionCore inkjet printheads after the completion of a purpose-built factory in Japan.

Australian Photography and Panasonic Australia have teamed up to find the best amateur photographers in Australia and New Zealand. The 2018 Photographer of the Year offers $45,000 in cash and prizes, making it the richest competition of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere.

Fairfax Media and News Corp say they’ve dismissed a proposal by their hired business advisor Deloitte Consulting to close five newspaper printing plants across NSW, Victoria and Queensland. Hundreds of print workers would lose their jobs under the plan.

E-commerce giant Amazon plans to print millions of toy catalogues and distribute them to US customers by mail and through its national chain of food stores. It’s the company’s first large-scale move into printed catalogues.

Next month’s inaugural Print21 + PKN LIVE: New Frontiers in Packaging Print will examine how increasing numbers of label printers are finding gaps in the packaging market.

Industry veteran Peter Butterworth will examine the history of the letterpress at a special presentation titled 'Gutenberg vs. Coster or was it Coster the imposter' this Saturday afternoon at the Penrith Museum of Printing.

The second series of Neopost's Power of Print seminars is underway, connecting printers in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne with industry experts and the latest equipment from the graphic arts supplier. The Sydney event featured keynote presentations from Kellie Northwood and Jeremy Brew.

Note Printing Australia (NPA) has given ground in its standoff with workers engaged in industrial action, increasing its pay offer and signalling a willingness to resolve a classification review. Industrial action has cut productivity at the Craigieburn plant by 20 percent since it began on May 25.

The International Standards Organisation (ISO) has come up with a new standard for PDF, the portable document format at the heart of printing workflows, and CIP4 has unveiled a slimmed-down version of JDF, the job description format. Patrick Howard investigates in Print21 magazine.

Australia's first printing and packaging technology forum is just under a month away, and plenty of people have already bought tickets to what promises to be an exciting and informative inaugural event. Print21 + PKN LIVE: New Frontiers in Packaging Print will explore new technological developments.

The New Zealand Commerce Commission has approved the sale of office products business Winc NZ, formerly Staples, to Tiri Group, a private company owned by Tom Sturgess (pictured), chairman of NZ print company Blue Star Group.

Prominent industry identity Steve Green has joined Epson Australia to lead the company’s Document Solutions business. “Epson’s focus and ambition in the A4 and A3 office print space is unparalleled in the market right now,” Green says.

The corporate regulator is calling for submissions in its investigation of two major consolidation deals last week that saw oOh!media sign a $570m agreement to acquire HT&E’s Adshel just a day before French giant JCDecaux agreed to pay $1.2 billion to buy APN Outdoor.

A Truepress Jet520HD high-speed inkjet press running SC wide-gamut inks that enable digital printing onto standard offset coated stocks will be the star of Screen’s ‘Digital Everywhere’ stand at the IGAS trade fair in Tokyo later this month.