This afternoon is the final opportunity to take advantage of the Ball & Doggett a two-day super mega sale, where printers will be able to buy some stock at just 25 per cent of the list price.

Visual Connections CEO Peter Harper has been involved in expos for 45 years, first as an exhibitor and for the past 15 years as the organiser. With trade shows changing even before Covid, Print21 editor Wayne Robinson asks him for insight into the pathway ahead.

As Victoria emerges from Covid-19 restrictions The Real Media Collective has announced its Awards 2020 are still on, with entries and plans for awards flowing through.

IVE Group is selling its tele-fundraising business, formerly Pareto Phone, for $16.5m to Merchant Place Investments, with completion due to take place next Friday 30 October.

Australia Post is under fire for hiring a $3000-a-day PR company for reputation management as it looked to justify its move to alternate days postal delivery, a decision that caused uproar among the print and mail community.

Get ready for a double celebration – International Print Day and Girls Who Print Day go back-to-back, the online social media events scheduled for next Tuesday and Wednesday.

The most read story in the print industry in the last seven days was the Print21 story on industry reaction to the business boosting budget, which saw industry leaders give a range of views on the treasurer's effort to drag the country out of the Covid recession.

This year’s meeting between printers and federal politicians will be an online live streamed event, as Covid caution precludes the usual Canberra face-to-face gathering.

The latest issue of the print industry’s biggest trade magazine, Print21, is out, with the feature-packed issue currently arriving on desks of print business owners and managers around Australia and New Zealand.

Jamestrong Packaging Australia CEO Alex Commins says manufacturing is a key to recovery and growth and has welcomed announcements surrounding the future of manufacturing contained in the federal government's new Modern Manufacturing Strategy.

The latest Covid initiative from Durst sees the manufacturer of advanced digital printing and production technologies launch a Covid-countering air disinfection system: the Durst UVC-R.

The biggest story in print in the last seven days was the Print21 budget story, which reported to the industry on the extraordinary measures treasurer Josh Frydenberg is taking to pull the country out of the Covid recession.

The Covid budget means that all capital equipment in the printing industry is now discounted at either 27.5 per cent or 30 per cent in the year it is purchased, as treasurer Josh Frydenberg turbo-charged the instant asset write off, ditching the previous cap in favour of the full value of the equipment.

Industry response to the 2020 budget is mixed, with some hailing the measures as good for the print industry, others more cautious, and some lamenting what they said were missed opportunities.

In the biggest business-boosting budget in Australia's history, federal treasurer Josh Frydenberg announced a $35bn programme designed to help beleaguered businesses, including printers, get back on their feet following the Covid pandemic, as part of a larger $98bn government stimulus.

There are two recent examples of new technology that are harbingers of where the graphics industry is heading in automation and leaner businesses, controlled and managed for optimum efficiency with minimised emissions and waste, writes print environmentalist Laurel Brunner.