The latest Power of Print webinar is set for 11am Wednesday, with Gordon Loch, managing director of The List Factory presenting.

Perth print businesses have been closed down by the police, with the city lockdown appearing to operate under different conditions to the rest of the country, where print remains open in lockdown.

Tonight’s SA/NT state PICA gala awards dinner has been postponed for six weeks, as Covid threatens an Adelaide lockdown.

The annual general meeting of the PVCA will be held in Sydney at noon on Friday 16 July as a hybrid in-person and Zoom event. The agenda will be released shortly.

Print and packaging businesses across the country are allowed to continue to keep operating, as new lockdown rules are implemented in states across the country to try and rein in the latest Covid-19 outbreak.

Printers in Sydney and NSW are on edge, as the growing Covid outbreak sends four LGAs into full lockdown, with premier Gladys Berejiklian so far avoiding closing the whole city.

New Zealand’s night of nights, the annual Pride in Print Gala Awards dinner event, is all systems go for tonight, unless you live in Wellington, or NSW.

The Victoria PICA awards gala evening has been rescheduled, with the venue delaying its renovation reopening, causing the print event to change to Friday 6 August.

There was little in the NSW budget for printers or businesses of any size, who were more concerned with the possibility of a city-wide lockdown should the Covid cases escalate significantly.

Print industry leaders were among those spending a freezing night outdoors to highlight homelessness in the Vinnies CEO Sleepout, laying their heads down on cardboard around the country.

Print business owners are facing a 2.5% rise in the minimum wage from 1 July, and a 0.5% increase in everyone’s super on the same date. The rises come on the date paper prices are going up.

The Australian industry is set to celebrate the PICAs, with registrations now open for a series of glittering presentation evenings planned for state capitals during July.

TRMC has moved its SA training review to larger premises, in response from strong response from the local industry, which it says has been “overwhelming".

Melbourne has come out of its fourth lockdown, with print businesses and everyone else hoping this is the final one, although few would bet against more coming.

The latest issue of Print21 is arriving on the desks of print business owners and managers around Australia and New Zealand, with the front cover providing a dazzling example of the progress of print.

Fujifilm is back online, after closing down its external online networks to repel a suspected cyber ransomware attack last week. No customer data was breached.