More than 5000 visitors turned out for this year's PrintEx show at Sydney Showground, with millions in sales made at the four-day event.

The annual Food & Drink Business + PKN Packaging News LIVE event is coming up on 11 October. Join us for a breakfast forum from 7.30–11.00am to hear about what it takes for a brand to behave bravely.

The 40th anniversary edition of Labelexpo is set to be the biggest yet, with 600 exhibitors booked in for the four day show taking place in Brussels at the end of the month.

EFI is hosting a live webinar next week which focuses on new opportunities in hybrid wide format printing.

The world’s biggest press manufacturer Heidelberg has started another 99 new trainees at its four sites in Germany, with a digital focus for the industry newcomers.

Australia Post will increase unaddressed mail prices from the end of September, and has applied to increase the base postage rate by 10 cents from January.

The current furore over packaging often overrides the reality that sustainability issues may be complex; however, Australia has great minds working on it, guests heard at the inaugural Global Table forum in Melbourne this week.

Label industry veteran Chris Moretto has started a new label printing business, Graphic Labels, six years after moving to Sydney from Toulouse in France. Moretto is targeting the food and chemical industries for his new venture.

Mark Shergill's Focus Press has bought the customer list and most of the equipment of collapsed Sydney print business Reactiv, and brought over half a dozen of the 20 staff.

Leading end-to-end industry solutions supplier Starleaton is sponsoring the Ballarat International Foto Biennale which is currently running, and has produced a stunning outdoor graphic on its Alumigraphics material to light up the show.

Roland DG is launching a new 30” UV flatbed benchtop printer that it says will print high quality images onto a range of both rigid and flexible materials – such as leather and fabric – for realistic effect images.

Melbourne Business School professor Mark Ritson says print is the real deal when it comes to marketing, pointing to the soaraway success of start up travel business TripADeal, which spends heavily on print newspaper advertising.

Intense lobbying over several months has seen the PVCA (formerly PIAA) win a review of the National Skills Needs List from the government, with the aim of getting print and packaging on the List, and so being able to receive government assistance for training.

The country's largest printable materials supplier Ball & Doggett is launching a campaign to reward customers for their Avery Dennison wide format purchases.

The Judges' Choice Award at the Real Media Collective Awards on Friday night was the Aldi Supermarkets 'Christmas: The More the Merrier 18' catalogue, printed by Ovato.

In another twist to a story that has already left many in the industry with their jaws on the floor, the Skope Group building in Castle Hill does not in reality have any signage – the image in the corporate marketing appears to have been photoshopped on.