Commercial label printing specialist, Label Plus has installed a new Screen L350UV SAI inkjet digital label press from Jet Technologies, making it the first of its kind in Queensland.

Queensland-based sign operation Wood & Wood Sign Systems is in voluntary liquidation, the 31-year-old company ceasing business at its Caboolture site.

Opal will close its M2 paper making machine at Maryvale, less than six months after closing M5, both going as the result of the Supreme Court possum ruling, which stopped the mill's supply of logs for white paper manufacturing.

The heart-stopping moment a CEO is told his company is under cyber attack was shared at a recent industry lunch, but so was a clear understanding of what will happen and what you need to do.

Major label printing operation QLM Label Makers has a new CEO, with industry insider Tom Sullivan appointed to head the day-to-day running of the multinational business.

Figures from the Fespa census show the wide-format world has bounced back from the Covid downturn, with revenues up by six per cent since the last census, and the number of start-ups booming.

The federal government’s decision to overhaul the immigration system has been cautiously welcomed by the Print & Visual Communication Association.

Print industry employers’ association PVCA is rebranding and relaunching as Visual Media Association, following a special general meeting that garnered unanimous support for the move.

The Victorian government will no longer advertise in the state’s metro and national newspapers, sparking fears of a nationwide pull-out, and damage to the newspaper industry, if other states follow suit.

Konica Minolta Australia has showcased the new AccurioLabel 400 Press, designed for CMYK + white on-demand label print production, targeted at the burgeoning short-run label market.

PVCA is pausing the National Print Awards and state-based PICAs for this year, they will now be reviewed, with a promise they will be back in a new improved format next year.

The full 100 per cent of Epson’s electricity used at all of its Australian and New Zealand offices and company sites is now from renewable energy, with the local operation well ahead of the global schedule.

The latest issue of the nation’s favourite print business magazine, Print21, is out, and with a dazzling cover, now arriving on the desks of the owners and managers of print businesses.

Ball & Doggett has launched ecoporium, its sustainable packaging platform, at an in-person event at the Melbourne Museum, in front of printers and other industry professionals.

In a major win, trade associations APIA and PVCA have persuaded the government to lift the anti-dumping tariffs imposed on imported A4 copier papers, in light of the Maryvale fall-out.

The Federal government’s decision to overhaul the immigration system has been cautiously welcomed by PVCA, in particular its recognition of the need to give small business more access to immigration programmes.