US-based remote digital proofing company ICS Color has appointed David Crowther’s Colour Graphic Services as its ANZ dealer and support agent, and updated its Remote Director system.

Print bosses will now need to pay all staff on awards during company shutdowns, whether or not they have accrued enough leave, under new Fair Work Commission guidelines which have just come into force.

Perth and Hobart remain the only venues where tickets are still available for this month’s Women in Print Breakfast Series, with 2023 set to break attendance records around the country.

Angus McGrath from Note Printing Australia is the winner of the biennial LIA Heidelberg Graduate of the Year. He will now travel to Switzerland to spend more time studying print, courtesy of the $10,000 bursary.

Jim Chalmers' first budget has only a modicum of support for print businesses, with the federal treasurer spending the extra tax revenue business has delivered over the year mainly on welfare, aged care and mass energy relief.

Printers looking at investing in new equipment, and who want to take advantage of the government's Instant Asset Write Off initiative, need to get their skates on, with the scheme set to end on 30 June.

Industry suppliers association Visual Connections says printers still have time to take advantage of the instant write off scheme, but points out equipment has to be not just ordered, but installed, by 30 June.

Equipment from closed trade label print shop Foxcil is up for auction, at Grays Online, and running from now until next Wednesday. On-site inspection day in Brookvale is Monday.

Results from the vote on the four office bearers on the PVCA board are in, with the only change seeing Kevin Pidgeon succeeding John Georgantzakos as deputy president.

The Heidelberg/LIA NSW 2023 Graduate of the Year Award has been won by Jervis Tsui from Frontline Print, with the Employers Award presented to Frontline’s business manager Yash DeGamia.

PVCA is calling on all printers to fill out it what it says is the most important survey it has ever created, on Australia Post, to enable it to provide data driven input into the mailing giant’s future plans, by the government's 27 April submission deadline. Link to survey in story.

The nation’s biggest regional newspaper publisher, Australian Community Media, is preparing to sell or close nine more printed newspapers, blaming soaring newsprint costs and fewer advertisers.

Andrea Trumble, marketing manager for Pozitive Sign & Graphics Supplies, has been appointed to the Visual Connections board, replacing HP's Jeremy Brew.

PrintNZ CEO Ruth Cobb says the recent series of disasters in New Zealand clearly show the value of print as an unrivalled communication channel.

The latest issue of the nation’s favourite print business magazine, Print21, is out and arriving on the desks of the owners and managers of print businesses across Australia and New Zealand.

IVE is closing the Mandurah newspaper printing plant it acquired in October 2020 as part of its five-year, $100m deal to print and distribute ACM publications. Last date for printing will be 19 May.