APN News & Media has officially changed its name to Here, There & Everywhere, in a move that it says reflects 'the final shift away from traditional publishing.'

The Supreme Court of NSW has approved a proposed deal by paper merchant Spicers that’s designed to simplify the company’s capital structure and break a long-running deadlock with its hybrid shareholders.

Fairfax's decision to slash editorial jobs from its metropolitan newsrooms has no bearing on any printing staff, the company has confirmed, despite recent revenue declines. The media company announced earlier this week that 125 jobs would go from its mastheads across the country.

Corporate regulator the ACCC says the proposed merger of APN Outdoor and oOh!media could ‘substantially lessen competition’ in the outdoor advertising market. The ACCC again pushed back the date for its final decision on the merger.

The Fair Work Commission is a ‘danger zone’ and the FWC must do something about it, according to Printing Industries. “Employees rely on a culture of ‘rack off’ money as motivation to lodge a claim with the FWC," says the PIAA's Mary Jo Fisher.

Tickets are selling fast for the LIA-Heidelberg NSW Graduate of the Year awards to be held at the Carnarvon Golf Club in Lidcombe later this month, and LIA Queensland still has seats available for its Annual Printing Industries Sportsman luncheon on Friday, 12 May .

The PacPrint 2017 Business Improvement Workshops will include sessions on smart sensing technologies, printed solar panels, print’s role in a ‘digital first’ world, 3D print applications and a range of other topics.

Celeste Halliday of Broome, WA signage company BK Signs and Promotions is the lucky winner of Print21’s PacPrint Escape trip for two to this month’s big trade show in Melbourne. “I feel honoured to have won as I never win anything. We are so stoked.”

The former owners of Adelaide-based Protectaprint, Richard and Steve Wilkinson, have returned to the printing industry with the purchase of Allkotes Melbourne. “We decided retirement wasn’t as good as we thought it would be."

Fairfax has warned of further belt-tightening following the NZCC's decision to reject the proposed merger between between APN-spinoff NZME and Fairfax NZ. "Further publishing frequency changes and consolidation of titles is an inevitability," says Fairfax CEO Greg Hywood.

120 workers will be made redundant as PMP restructures IPMG's Offset Alpine plant in Lidcombe, Sydney. PMP announced it would convert the facility into the dedicated sheetfed plant for its entire operation across Australia, which will mean the loss of 120 web printing and bindery positions.

The unending search for a digital printing process that is both ‘better than the rest’ and locks in customers to a unique ink/toner supply chain continues. Andy McCourt examines the battle lines being drawn between digital processes in the lead-up to PacPrint.

Wesfarmers has launched marketing of its planned public float of Officeworks, sending out pre-IPO marketing reports to leading fund managers. Bankers have valued the office supplies, stationery and technology retailer at between A$1 billion and A$1.5 billion.

Most craft-based industries - like printing or engineering - are not very good at preserving and honouring their past. But now printing industry group the Australian Society of Old Friends (ASOOF) is organizing a meeting dedicated to just that and all industry members are invited.

We all know what happens to printed paper when it’s sent off for recycling. It either gets burnt or sent for processing into new materials, but when old computers reach end of life, matters are less simple. Laurel Brunner looks at the EU’s recycling initiative WEEE.

$5bn industry fund Media Super has launched an innovative $30m fund to finance research and development (R&D) projects in Australia.