Printers across the country celebrated their craft and industry at the Real Media Awards, with printers of all shapes, sizes and specialties sharing the success with their clients.

A good turnout of the graphic design community responded to an invitation to take part in the second round of the world’s largest colour survey to find the ‘colour of the future’, the event held in Sydney.

The Visual Media Association has inked a future and member-focused partnership with Media Super, to support financial well-being and superannuation security for the print and visual media industry.

Fespa’s 2023 Future Leaders met for an evening of informal drinks at the Sydney Brewery in Surry Hills on Thursday, a chance to meet their sponsors and hear from Fespa Australia’s president, Nigel Davies.

Offset press manufacturer Heidelberg has signed up to the UN Global Compact, the world's biggest global corporate sustainability initiative, which will see the company be carbon neutral by 2030.

The newly restructured print association, VMA, has a new board, with three new members, and making it the most diverse in its 141-year history, with different print sectors and environments represented.

Large format industry veteran Steven Badger is returning to Australia after seven years overseas in Europe and Singapore, taking a leading role with Canon Production Printing.

The Epson SureColor SC-F2260 Series direct-to-garment inkjet print system has won a Good Design Award, the awards given for products that benefit and enrich people's lives and society in general.

The country’s biggest trade print operation has installed a new Horizon CABS4000 binding line, supplied by Currie Group, to produce book jobs on demand for its resellers, as demand for printed books grows.

Rare book enthusiasts went to the Penrith Museum of Printing to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the printing of the original folio of comedies, histories, and tragedies – the plays – by Shakespeare.

Heath Nankervis has become the new managing director at Southern Impact, one of the country's biggest independent print operations, with long-time incumbent Rod Dawson deciding the time is right to exit the business after 29 years, the last 23 as managing director.

IVE Group has made its move into fibre-based packaging, signing a binding agreement to acquire 100 per cent of Melbourne-based JacPak, in a $35m deal. It aims to build a $150m business in the $800m folding carton sector, which it says is growing at 10% a year.

The biggest print business in the Northern Territory, Colemans Printing, has ordered an HP Indigo 6K Digital Press, to be supplied by Currie Group, as a platform to enter the labels market.

The industry’s employers’ association, PVCA, has today officially become the Visual Media Association (VMA), the final step in the merger and restructuring of what were PVCA and The Real Media Collective, with the Fair Work Commision giving its stamp of approval.

Today, 25 October, is International Print Day, with print people encouraged to connect with others around the world, and share print on social media under the hashtag #IPD23.

PVCA is relaunching the VoPP, Value of Paper and Print, effectiveness campaign as of today, it is dedicated to promoting print as a relevant, contemporary, and highly effective channel.