Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Employment Minister Michaelia Cash visited Brisbane’s Print Approach to congratulate owners Tom and Luke Eckersley on their success with the PaTH youth employment scheme.

EFI Connect 2018 has kicked off with the keynote address from CEO Guy Gecht, who urged printers to get on board with the "fourth industrial revolution" of artificial intelligence, robotics and big data, or be left behind. Jake Nelson filed this report from Las Vegas.

The Australian Taxation Office is asking for more than $100 million from HT&E, formerly APN News and Media, over former masthead licenses from their New Zealand branch, according to a NBR report.

Chris Segaert (pictured) has stepped into the position of national honorary secretary on the board of the Printing Industries Association of Australia, while Ron Patterson of Victoria becomes the new national honorary treasurer.

“This is the opportunity for the industry to highlight the phenomenal work being produced by New Zealand printers annually for customers." There’s one week left until the close of regular entries for the 25th annual Pride in Print Awards in New Zealand.

The launch of the KodakOne image rights platform and its associated cryptocurrency KodakCoin could be a foundation for a completely new approach to content commerce in the graphics industry, writes Laurel Brunner.

The Out of Home (OOH) advertising industry has notched its eighth consecutive year of overall growth, with print-based billboards still accounting for more than half of the revenue in 2017 despite rapid growth of digital.

Labelexpo Europe took place again in Brussels in 2017, focusing on Industry 4.0 innovations of automation, IT communications and productivity. Industry 4.0 is where the IT world merges with Operational Technologies – the ‘fourth industrial revolution.’

The EFI Connect 2018 conference opens in Las Vegas next week, and promises to be a big event with plenty to see for all who attend. For those who can't attend in person, Print21's Jake Nelson will be there to give daily updates on the latest and greatest innovations and ideas from the show.

A Federal Court judge has found that Calidad, a Sydney-based supplier of remanufactured ink cartridges, infringed on patents held by Epson. Calidad, however, is free to continue trading in remanufactured cartridges. Epson has long been opposed to to the use of third-party inks in its printers.

Lyn and Steve Murphy of MBE Melbourne CBD have been named 2017 Australian Franchise of the Year at the Mail Boxes Etc. (MBE) national conference in the Barossa Valley, South Australia.

Small Business Ombudsman Kate Carnell has warned Australian small business owners they're now likely to become a victim of a cyber-attack and that 60 percent of businesses that do suffer an attack end up going broke.

Printers and sign-makers looking to showcase their best projects in the FESPA Awards 2018 in Berlin have less than two weeks left to enter.

AMWU workers have formed a picket line outside the Australian Paper manufacturing facility at Preston in Melbourne to push for what they describe as a “fair deal” on wages.

Nulab offers for sale its album making equipment. This is a fantastic opportunity for a marketing orientated printing business ready to diversify in a growth, high margin, niche market.

A new survey of consumers has revealed a strong preference for renewable and recyclable paper and cardboard packaging over plastic. The results were released as the Forest Products Association joined the call for a ban on single use plastic bags in Australia.