Access Print Solutions and sister company Graphic Print are in voluntary administration, with the general commercial printers calling in the suits to try and rescue the businesses, as a slowing economy bites.

Tasmanian printers expressed their frustration with government-funded print continuing to be sent to China rather than to local printers, at summits hosted by VMA in Launceston and Hobart.

Lamson Paragon CEO Rodney Frost completed his sixteenth Vinnies CEO Sleepout on Thursday, making the street his bed for the night, along with 1500 CEOs, who raised $8.3m between them.

The country’s largest packaging print operations, including Amcor, Orora, and Visy, are championing more inclusive and gender balanced workplaces, by joining the National Association of Women in Operations.

Some 170,000 printers went to the 2024 drupa, the first for eight years, and which ran for 11 days in Dusseldorf, Germany, representing a 35 per cent dip in numbers since that last drupa.

Epson is set to begin construction of a new multi-million-dollar factory for inkjet printheads this month, which will quadruple its current printhead production capacity, as commercial and industrial demand rises.

The Visual Media Association is supporting the News Corp’s ‘Let Them Be Kids’ campaign, which is aiming to restrict social media to children, recognising the harm it does, and instead point them to print.

Large-format print producer Cactus Imaging has been acknowledged as the global leader in wide-format sustainability, with its PVC-free flexible banner fabric, Ecobanner, taking out the Sustainability Award at the World Out of Home Congress.

The Visual Media Association (VMA) has released a survey to members and non-members to determine the best approach for the print industry’s State PICAs and National Print Awards.

Fujifilm Business Innovation Australia (FFBI) has launched a new digital workflow, XMF PressReady, for its Revoria presses, but which can also manage the workflow of any digital press with a Fiery rip.

Printers who were unable to get to drupa will be able to get a taste of the big show from some of those that were, at drupa Review dinners in Sydney and Melbourne over the next week.

The Fair Work Commission has ruled that both the minimum wage rate and industry Award wage rates, including those in print, will rise by 3.75 per cent from 1 July.

It was two weeks of brilliance, and as the global print community waved goodbye to the Messe Centre, Print21 reflected on the past fortnight, and gave out the Oi Oi Oi Awards, for those that went above and beyond in Dusseldorf.

Visual Media Association CEO Kellie Northwood spoke at the drupa cube on the final day of the giant show, providing keypoints for printers to grow their market share.

As drupa 2024 prepares to wrap up, Print21 brings news from the final set of press conferences it covered. And after 11 days in the halls of the Messe Centre, looks forward to spending time in the open air.

Apex Signage has ordered the first Elitron wide-format cutting machine to be supplied by Currie Group, as part of a deal that includes a new Canon Colorado M5W.