Revenue at outdoor advertising host – and Cactus Imaging owner – oOh! Media plunged by a third in the first half, as clients pulled in their marketing spend while commuters stayed at home, resulting in a $27.5m net loss.

The first event for the newly relaunched Women in Print group is taking place this afternoon (Thursday), with registration free and available for the nationwide webinar.

Celmac NSW state manager Jonny Rumney has just achieved Fogra DPP (Digital Print Partner) certification, making him one of only two people in Australia and New Zealand that can help Fogra certify a business for the PSD (Process Standard Digital) certification.

The Covid-19 crisis saw diversified marketing services group and heatset print giant IVE take a 6.6 per cent hit on EBITDA, on revenue down by 4.4 per cent to $691.5m, with NPAT coming in at $32.6m for the 2019-20 financial year. The results were ahead of industry expectations, and those of analysts, with the IVE share price gaining an eight per cent uptick.

Imagination Graphics has fired up its new Konica Minolta AccurioJet KM-1, the company’s B2 inkjet sheetfed printer, with the first sheets coming off the press six months after the company was flooded out.

Canon is launching the new ProStream 1800 continuous feed inkjet printer, aimed squarely at commercial printers that it wants to switch from offset to digital.

The prestigious Asia Pacific and Japan HP Digital Print Excellence Awards is back with a new name: HP Inkspiration Awards 2021, two new categories covering Covid print, and are now open to entries

Women in Print is settling into its new home, with the organisation announcing a date for its first Patron Panel event, a webinar discussion with the Patrons from each state, which will be held on Thursday afternoon.

Packaging giant Orora took a Covid hit, posting lacklustre results for the 2020 financial year results with decreases in nearly all financial metrics, in stark contrast to last year's performance.

The most clicked news story in the industry this week was the Print21 coverage of the fallout from the decision by grocer Coles to axe its seven million weekly printed catalogues.

Heiko Riecken from trade print operation Industrial Print Co has been named the NSW LIA Heidelberg Graduate of the Year, receiving his award on site at the Lithgow NSW factory in a special ceremony attended by industry leaders.

With company collapses at an all-time low, there are fears that JobKeeper, Covid commercial leasing rules, and creditor limitations, are opening the way to unscrupulous operators taking advantage of credit lines, and to unsustainable pricing pressures in print.

Press manufacturing giant Komori is launching a new series of what it says are self-learning sheetfed presses. The company says they have improvements from feeder to delivery and will use a robot to feed into folder and guillotine.

The world’s biggest press manufacturer Heidelberg has eased its debt and sold off a non-core asset, revealing its first quarter orders had taken a hit with Covid, but picked up in June and July.

The latest issue of Print21 is out, and in it Starleaton CEO Ben Eaton says printers can reinvent themselves as advanced manufacturers with their existing equipment, including the Zünd cutter the company supplies.

Well-known industry leader Rob Mesaros has joined Currie Group in the newly created position of strategic executive advisor, moving from HP, where he spent 15 years in a variety of senior executive roles.