Former marketing services powerhouse Salmat is calling it quits, asking its general meeting at the end of the month for approval to delist, wind itself up, and appoint liquidators to end its 41-year journey.

All print businesses in Victoria now need a Covid-safe plan to stay open, and it must be in place by 11.59pm this Friday. The government has a three-stage plan to follow – so what is it, and how do you do it?

The country's biggest trade printer CMYKhub says it will be able to continue supplying print to the trade in Victoria "come what may" thanks to its national manufacturing footprint.

Continuing uncertainty over Covid has pushed EFI to move its popular user conference Connect from its regular Las Vegas home to an online event for the 2021 experience.

Out of Home signs across Australia this week are highlighting and profiling missing people, during what is National Missing Persons Week, donating $1m worth of signage to the cause.

Canon Oceania is releasing its 2020 Sustainability Report, which provides an overview of how the company is addressing issues around sustainability in its business.

Printers are breathing a huge sigh of relief as the Victorian commercial print industry has not been shut down under tough new lockdown measures taken by the state government, but they must have a Covid-safe plan in place by 11.59pm on Friday to stay open.

Heatset print giant Ovato is asking the national industrial tribunal at the Fair Work Commision to end its current agreement with its staff, as it battles revenue losses, which will lead to a round of redundancies in the near future. The AMWU is fiercely opposing the change.

US technology operations Google and Facebook took more Australian advertising dollars than the big five media companies combined last year, with print losing out as a result.

Diversified trade print company Lamson Group is celebrating 30 years in business, with founder Arthur Frost joining his son and current managing director Rodney Frost in toasting the success of the business.

An out-of-home campaign printed by Cactus Imaging took home an Outdoor Media Association Award in the best use of multi-format category.

Press manufacturer Koenig & Bauer has developed Visual PressSupport, an App-based live video streaming service for sheetfed presses and other business units.

The Penrith Print Museum is open for visitors after a four-month closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Volunteers at the museum are also working on the restoration of an 1841 Columbian printing press.

Next year's giant trade expo drupa is set to stage its first digital textile printing show, complete with micro factory, reflecting the new opportunities that digital textile offers to print businesses.

Some major debtors at Waratah Group are disputing the size of invoices issued by the now defunct print company, but the liquidator says they are all bona fida, and is now looking at court action to get all the money back for creditors of the business that went bust with $22m of debts.

Australia must embrace a new era of innovation and economic reform to rebound from recession and fix an inefficient economy, according to a new report published this week.