Corné Mostert from Norwood Industries in Hallam took out the 2021 LIA Victoria Graduate of the Year Award, with Mostert presented with the award at the association’s first post-Covid in-person event.

Entries are now open for this year’s Printing Industry Creativity Awards, hosted by the Print & Visual Communications Association, with all Gold winners entered into the National Print Awards judging.

And so here it is, Merry Christmas, everybody's having fun, look to the future now, it's only just begun – all at Print21 echo the opening lines of the iconic tune from '70s glam rockers Slade to our readers, as we hope the future – free from Covid restrictions – has just begun.

The Real Media Collective has formed a partnership with standard development organisation, Responsible Wood, which manages the PEFC certification system in Australia and New Zealand.

There is a lot of discussion about vaccinations in the workplace, whether the employer can make them a condition of work, and what the rights are of the anti-vaxxer, the owner, and the rest of the staff. Lawyer Wal Ambramowicz highlights the issues.

Digital systems print toner and cartridge recycling business Close the Loop has merged with O F Packaging, with the new entity listing on the ASX, and raising $12m to plough back into the business.

Industry association The Real Media Collective held its AGM with a networking event, which paid tribute to a quartet of its key supporters, and set the scene for a major consumer campaign.

The latest issue of the ANZ print industry’s trade magazine Print21 is arriving on the desks of print business owners and managers, with a bumper end of year issue in store. Inkjet printing is a major focus, along with pivoting printers, and the 2021 Year in Review

Supplier association Visual Connections gathered its members, their clients and others from across the industry, for the association’s first post-Covid networking event.

Shares jumped at HP as the company reported better than expected full year earnings, with sales at its printing division topping US$20bn. Commercial printing now accounts for 7 per cent of turnover at the IT giant.

Visual Connections, the association representing suppliers to the print, sign, display and visual communications industries, has a new president, a new Board member, and has outlined a clear strategy for the future.

Online B2C print giant Vista says demand for the traditional Christmas card is skyrocketing, and is offering five special card designs for free to its Australian customers.

The inventor of the printing press Johannes Gutenberg could soon be reaching a whole new audience, if a bid to have Lego create a working model of the great man’s invention gets enough support.

Illawarra Print and Signage has become an unlikely TikTok sensation, with owners, husband and wife duo Kyle and Simon Morrisey, receiving millions of views for their videos of paper being cut.

Coleman Group is helping create a sustainable future, with the installation of its new Tigo solar panel system, allowing the event signage company to use renewable energy for its operations.

The Real Media Collective is preparing for its end of year AGM, and raising the industry discussion to focus on COP26 commitments across carbon net zero, and deforestation targets, for next year’s agenda.