Covid-19 has sent this year's Print Industry Creativity Awards online, with all state awards being live streamed tonight, at 8pm, via the PVCA Facebook page.

The Fair Work Commission is mandating an increase in the minimum wage for print industry workers, but in light of the Covid crisis has delayed it from next week until November.

Billion dollar paper producer Norske Skog is investing €350m in converting two newsprint papermaking lines into containerboard lines, entering the packaging market for the first time, as newsprint demand plunges.

Runaway Australian online graphic design success story Canva is seeing its valuation skyrocket, its latest fundraising round giving it a paper price tag of $8.6bn.

Konica Minolta will be supporting charity partner Breast Cancer Network Australia, by matching donations dollar for dollar, to help raise $55,000 during the 55 Hours of Giving campaign, which runs until 3pm on Friday.

Flint Group Packaging Inks – a major provider of packaging printing inks – is investigating how to support a circular economy for its business.

The fall in print during height of the Covid crisis has been highlighted by the April import figures from IndustryEdge, which says coated mechanical imports plunged by almost a third, with bigger falls expected in May.

QLM Label Makers is hosting the official opening of its new purpose-built Brisbane production centre and head office today, with a virtual event in these Covid times. It is treble the size of its previous facility, and represents a committment to local manufacturing..

Press manufacturing giant Koenig & Bauer has kicked off its Live virtual event, which is highlighting the latest developments, and running every day during what would have been drupa.

On what would have been the opening day of drupa Kodak has released a tranche of new technologies for offset printing and digital flexo printing with plates, platesetters and workflow solutions.

Esko and AVT Inspections Systems are officially integrating their operations in a move designed to incorporate automated quality inspection into the connected packaging and labelling value chains.

Agfa is hosting a six-day virtual event featuring sessions to supporting printing companies through the current business challenges and help them plan for the future.

The most clicked story on the Print21 news website over the past seven days was our report of the print business that was robbed of $100,000 in the so-called CEO email scam.

Horizon was planning to show its fully computer-controlled and robot- enhanced print finishing lines for offset and digital printing at drupa this week, Currie Group managing director Bernie Robinson though got to see it in Japan before Covid hit.

The region's biggest magazine publisher, Bauer Media ANZ, is in new hands, with private equity fund – and owner of heatset printer Webstar NZ – Mercury Capital buying what was Kerry Packer's ACP from its German owners.

The world's first virtual print expo, the Australian Print, Sign, Display & Graphics Virtual Trade Show, has smashed expectations, with more than 5000 visits clocked since its launch just two weeks ago.