Canva’s Global Partnership Lead Aaron Day talks to Print21 editor Wayne Robinson about the online juggernaut founded by Melanie Perkins and two friends, and how it can help printers grow their businesses.

Printers in all of New Zealand, except Auckland and Northland, can fire up the presses again, with the prime minister easing the country to Level 3. Auckland printers will limp along for at least a fortnight more.

Print staff who live in one of the 12 NSW LGA hotspots, and work for a company in another, must carry a travel permit with them from today to go to and from work, and from week after next must have had at least one shot of a Covid vaccine, or have a valid medical reason not to. The rapid antigen testing option has been dumped. The new edict has been issued by NSW Health overnight, with no jab no work effective from Monday 6 September.

The OOH industry’s HY net media revenue results show revenue increased 22% over the same period in 2020, further suggesting signs of recovery, although it is still 20% behind the 2019 result.

Print staff travelling to work into, around and out of any one of the 12 Sydney LGAs of concern are facing further restrictions on going to work, which include the need for permits from Saturday.

One of the country’s biggest employers has tackled the question of mandatory vaccination in the workplace head on, with Qantas telling its 22,000 staff they will need to get the jab to continue working for the airline.

Growing print solutions specialist IPG Marketing Solutions has rebranded itself, and will now be called Impressu Print Group. GM Kahn Barlow says the rebrand reflects where the business is today, and where it will be in the future.

Pantone CMYK Coated and Uncoated Guides will now be available printed using G7 calibration, which Pantone says makes them achievable at almost any print provider in the world.

In the latest edict from the Victorian government, all print staff travelling to work in Melbourne must have an authorised travel permit, with matching photo ID, or face huge fines. Get one here.

The New Zealand print industry has had to close, with only print that is directly necessary for the essential supply chain able to be produced, as the country enters strict level four lockdown over one case.

HP Australia is joining forces with Ocean Impact Organisation to launch Generation Impact Incubator, a programme seeking out the next-gen of eco-innovation from young Australians.

Twenty years of blood, sweat and toil is being celebrated by the Penrith Museum of Printing, which over the years has lovingly restored an impressive range of equipment, creating Australia’s largest working print museum.

As Covid cases rise Melbourne and Canberra are extending their lockdowns, Covid is hurting the economy. Printers can still print if they are compliant with Covid restrictions, but NSW police now have the power to close down non-compliant businesses.

The federal government’s decision to leave it up to individual businesses and organisations whether to make vaccines mandatory in the workplace is copping flack from all sides, over what will likely be the biggest workplace issue of the next 12 months.

Print21 is expanding with a new deputy editor, as highly experienced print industry journalist Colleen Bate joins the ANZ industry’s media hub. Deputy editor is a new role at Print21, reflecting the growth and increasing number of media platforms it operates on.

The FPLMA has had to postpone its national conference, which was originally scheduled for next month, and now pushed back to February next year.