Innovative garment print business Vicon is doubling the size of its floorspace, with a move from Sydney to Brisbane, and is investing $600,000 in additional print equipment as part of the move.

The latest issue of the print industry’s biggest trade magazine Print21 is being mailed and arriving on desks of print business owners and managers around Australia and New Zealand this week.

Screen GP Australia is launching the new Truepress Jet520HD mono,a specialised high speed continuous feed inkjet system for monochrome printing directly onto offset stocks.

The Out of Home (OOH) industry half year net media revenue results showed a 35 per cent slump in spend for the first half of 2020, as Covid took a lump out of marketing budgets.

In a bolt from the blue the weekly Coles letterbox catalogue will move to digital-only from next month, leaving a hole in the IVE heatset schedule from the loss of the 10 billion pages a year print job, one of the biggest in Australian print.

The three big newspaper publishers have agreed a historic deal to print each other's papers, spelling the end for several newspaper printing plants around the country, and in effect giving News Corp a stranglehold on much of the nation's newspaper printing capability.

Printers across Victoria have to have their Covid-safe plans up and running to stay open from now on, failure to have a plan could result in being ordered to close and copping large fines, as the government tries to regain control of the spiralling crisis.

Women in Print, which says it is arguably the industry’s strongest diversity and inclusion programme, has, after fifteen years, relaunched itself to take on the year, and the future ahead. Susan Heaney of Gold Coast printer Heaney's Performers in Print is the chair of the board.

In the latest edict from the Victorian government all staff travelling to work at print businesses throughout Melbourne must have an authorised travel permit, or face huge fines.

An introduction from Currie Group NSW account manager Will Currie led to innovative garment printer Vicon Transfers donating printed aprons for the Food for Change charity MasterChef cook-off, which raised $30,000 for the charity.

Full year revenue for News Corp newspapers slumped by 18 per cent for its global portfolio, while EBITDA for the newspaper division plunged by 71 per cent.

The biggest story in the print industry this week was Print21's breaking news on Monday revealing the business smackdown ordered by Dan Andrews, with the fact that printing could carry on, albeit with the need for a Covid-safe plan.

One of the country's major direct mail houses, Fred Humphrey's Direct Mail & Marketing, is in voluntary administration, sending a cold shiver through the Victorian print and mail industry.

Former marketing services powerhouse Salmat is calling it quits, asking its general meeting at the end of the month for approval to delist, wind itself up, and appoint liquidators to end its 41-year journey.

All print businesses in Victoria now need a Covid-safe plan to stay open, and it must be in place by 11.59pm this Friday. The government has a three-stage plan to follow – so what is it, and how do you do it?

The country's biggest trade printer CMYKhub says it will be able to continue supplying print to the trade in Victoria "come what may" thanks to its national manufacturing footprint.