The closing date to apply for the vacant Women in Print patron roles in Queensland and New South Wales is fast approaching, with applications due in before close of business next Thursday 31 October.

Diversified marketing services group IVE, which includes Australia’s biggest print operation, has ordered four new Koenig & Bauer Rapida 106 X sheetfed offset presses.

Visual Connections will hold special Celebration Dinners in Melbourne and Sydney next month, to give the industry a chance to farewell Peter Harper, who retires at the end of the year after half a century in print.

LIA Victoria elections held at its Annual General Meeting returned an almost unchanged committee line-up to take the association into the new year, with Robyn Frampton re-elected as president.

Epson has earned a platinum rating for sustainability from EcoVadis, a leading provider of business sustainability ratings, the platinum rating ranks Epson in the top one per cent of companies in its industry.

Tiktok owner ByteDance will start printing books, as the surge in popularity of the #BookTok community is reflected in the rapid growth of young people reading printed books, and enthusing about the experience.

One of the titans of the local printing industry, and likely the first-ever woman to run a print business in Australia, the remarkable Joan Daniels, has passed away in Melbourne, aged 93.

Women in Print is running its Print & Prosecco networking evenings in four states over the next few weeks, to celebrate dynamic women in the industry.

Epson Australia has released its inaugural Sustainability Impact Report, the first-ever documented step that details the company’s continued commitment to driving sustainable progress across ANZ.

The last few places are still available for the VMA’s Open Up to Mail Retail Insights Session, and the highly anticipated Real Media Awards Gala Night, both taking place on Friday in Melbourne.

Jet Technologies hosted its first Open House since Covid, with some 60 print businesses attending the launch of the company’s new Jet iQ finishing and embellishing line.

Print businesses and all manufacturers are facing skyrocketing costs imposed by state and federal governments, who seem to be oblivious to the impact of their actions, the increases often up to 10 or 20 times the rate of inflation, and which may force print overseas.

More than half of the country’s manufacturing businesses, some 56 per cent, have embraced new technologies in the past year, according to the latest CreditorWatch Business Sentiment Survey.

The Australian Sign & Graphics Association has inked an energy deal with Choice Energy, which it says will save its members money, with a free energy health check as the starting point.

Global print and packaging analyst Smithers says its modelling shows that digitally printed packaging will grow by 12.8 per cent every year for the next five years. That's an 80 per cent market growth by 2029.

LIA Victoria has issued a warm invitation to all people in print to enjoy a tour of the Marvel Bookbinding & Print Finishing production facility in Heidelberg West. The tour will take place on 7 November.