The Print Register https://latestprintingnews.com/ National trade masthead covering Australia's commercial print and packaging industry from primary documents: processes, standards, substrates, colour, packaging regulation and industry data. Researched and written with AI, under standing editorial rules; every factual claim links its primary source. en Ricoh's production print arm turned a loss into a profit while selling less. Hardware is the part that fell https://latestprintingnews.com/ricoh-graphic-communications-q1/ https://latestprintingnews.com/ricoh-graphic-communications-q1/ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 19:00:00 GMT Ricoh's Graphic Communications segment, which makes production printers and related supplies and services, reported sales of 69,761 million yen for the quarter ended 30 June 2026, up 7.1 per cent but down 2.6 per cent excluding foreign exchange. Operating profit swung from a loss of 1,559 million yen to a profit of 2,269 million on operating expenses up only 1.2 per cent, helped by expense control, refunds related to US tariff measures and the depreciation of the yen. Kornit beat its guidance and its GAAP loss grew by half. Sixty per cent of the systems it sold went to screen printers https://latestprintingnews.com/kornit-q2-2026-loss-and-screen-printers/ https://latestprintingnews.com/kornit-q2-2026-loss-and-screen-printers/ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 13:05:00 GMT Kornit Digital's second quarter 2026 results, read in full: revenue of US$55.3 million above the high end of guidance, adjusted EBITDA positive at US$0.3 million, and a GAAP net loss widening from US$7.5 million to US$11.2 million on operating expenses up 26 per cent. Around 60 per cent of systems sold went to traditional screen printers. The industry's next trade show opens Wednesday 2 September, and PacPrint's website still says 2025 https://latestprintingnews.com/next-trade-show-visual-impact/ https://latestprintingnews.com/next-trade-show-visual-impact/ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:30:34 GMT Visual Connections names Visual Impact Conference and Expo 2026, 2 to 4 September at Sydney Showground, as the next industry trade show. No PacPrint 2027 date is published. From 1 October you cannot surcharge a card. If your customers pay on company cards, the offset does not arrive https://latestprintingnews.com/card-surcharging-ends-1-october/ https://latestprintingnews.com/card-surcharging-ends-1-october/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:26:28 GMT The RBA ends card surcharging on eftpos, Mastercard and Visa from 1 October 2026 and cuts the interchange cap on consumer credit cards to 0.3 per cent. The cap on commercial credit cards stays at 0.8 per cent. The printing industry got its profit back and kept shedding jobs. The ABS counted 2,200 fewer people in two years https://latestprintingnews.com/printing-industry-abs-2024-25/ https://latestprintingnews.com/printing-industry-abs-2024-25/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:54:07 GMT ABS Australian Industry for 2024-25, released 19 June 2026, puts employment in the printing subdivision at 24,000 at end of June, down from 26,200 two years earlier. Over the same two years sales fell 12.7 per cent then rebounded 8.8, and operating profit halved then almost fully recovered. Revenue came back. The jobs did not. The government has said no to mandatory packaging EPR, and named what it thinks is missing https://latestprintingnews.com/government-declines-mandatory-epr/ https://latestprintingnews.com/government-declines-mandatory-epr/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:47:00 GMT In the Senate on 13 August 2026, Senator Michelle Ananda-Rajah said the government will not be supporting the Extended Producer Responsibility Scheme for Packaging (No Time to Waste) Bill 2026. Her stated reason is that extended producer responsibility without procurement and market drivers has failed in Europe, which lost about a million tonnes of recycled plastic processing capacity. The bill remains before the Senate with no amendments circulated, and the department's packaging reform page has not been updated since 6 March 2026. Both labels on your certified stock are being rewritten at once, on clocks five years apart https://latestprintingnews.com/both-forest-labels-being-revised/ https://latestprintingnews.com/both-forest-labels-being-revised/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 02:16:00 GMT Australia's two forest certification standards are being revised at the same time by two entirely different mechanisms. Responsible Wood's AS/NZS 4708 Amendment One tracked an upstream PEFC change and ran a comment window from 28 May to 7 August 2026. The FSC National Forest Stewardship Standard of Australia has been in revision since a 2021 review, received FSC International's formal approval on 26 January 2024, ran a first draft consultation from 1 July 2025 and a second from 29 April to 29 June 2026, was field-tested in a Victorian native forest and a Tasmanian plantation from 19 to 21 May 2026, and carries an end date of 2027. The one packaging deliverable with a deadline is waiting on a meeting that has not been called https://latestprintingnews.com/emm-packaging-intergovernmental-agreement/ https://latestprintingnews.com/emm-packaging-intergovernmental-agreement/ Mon, 24 Aug 2026 02:17:00 GMT Australia's environment ministers agreed at their 27 March 2026 meeting that officials would return to the next Environment Ministers' Meeting with a draft intergovernmental agreement on nationally consistent product stewardship, with a focus on batteries and packaging. Checked on 24 August 2026, no general EMM communique has been published since: the meetings of 22 June and 31 July were an emergency bird flu meeting and a joint agriculture and environment bird flu update respectively. The 5 per cent contamination cap is not a paperwork threshold. It is a criminal offence https://latestprintingnews.com/waste-export-cap-penalties/ https://latestprintingnews.com/waste-export-cap-penalties/ Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:48:00 GMT The Print Register read the Recycling and Waste Reduction Act 2020 as compiled on 1 July 2026. Section 20 makes exporting regulated waste material in breach of the prescribed export conditions an offence carrying imprisonment for 5 years or 300 penalty units, with a 600 penalty unit civil penalty alternative and strict liability on two elements. Sections 21 and following carry the same maximum for knowingly representing that the conditions were met. Orora wrote down $742.8 million on glass. Its Australian glass plant was not the problem https://latestprintingnews.com/orora-fy26-glass-writedown/ https://latestprintingnews.com/orora-fy26-glass-writedown/ Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:10:00 GMT Orora's FY26 results, released 13 August 2026, carry a non-cash Glass impairment of $742.8 million and a statutory loss of $616.6 million, while the separately disclosed Gawler plant grew EBITDA 9.5 per cent. The REDcycle stockpile has been processed, and the deal that cleared it has expired https://latestprintingnews.com/soft-plastics-stockpile-processed/ https://latestprintingnews.com/soft-plastics-stockpile-processed/ Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Soft Plastics Taskforce filed its final report on 22 July 2026: the legacy REDcycle stockpile has been processed, the Taskforce met for the last time on 28 May, and the in-store collection program transitioned to Soft Plastic Stewardship Australia in July 2026. Everyone agrees packaging EPR is coming. Nothing is scheduled to deliver it https://latestprintingnews.com/epr-reform-no-mechanism/ https://latestprintingnews.com/epr-reform-no-mechanism/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:50:00 GMT A status check on the three tracks that could deliver mandatory extended producer responsibility for packaging in Australia: the private senator's bill, the environment department's reform process, and APCO's industry-led fee model. None of them currently carries a date. The Senate committee agreed with almost everything the packaging bill wanted, then recommended it not pass https://latestprintingnews.com/epr-bill-committee-report/ https://latestprintingnews.com/epr-bill-committee-report/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 08:16:00 GMT The Senate Environment and Communications Legislation Committee reported on the Extended Producer Responsibility Scheme for Packaging (No Time to Waste) Bill 2026 on 6 August 2026, recommending the bill not be passed while finding broad consensus that existing voluntary arrangements have not delivered. The bill's eco-design standards and eco-modulated fees appear in the report's introduction and are absent from its key issues chapter. Vistaprint's owner grew 10 per cent. Only 4 of it was organic, and its Melbourne plant kept expanding https://latestprintingnews.com/cimpress-annual-report-australia/ https://latestprintingnews.com/cimpress-annual-report-australia/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 06:05:00 GMT Cimpress plc filed its fiscal 2026 annual report on 7 August 2026. Revenue rose 10 per cent to US$3,736.6 million while organic constant-currency growth was 4 per cent, and adjusted free cash flow fell US$25.6 million to US$122.4 million. The filing discloses a 124,000 square foot Vistaprint manufacturing facility at Deer Park in Victoria, Australian long-lived assets up from US$23.9 million to US$27.4 million, and a US$2.9 million Australian land duty tax the company continues to contest. Since 1 July every exported bale must be 95 per cent paper, and clearing that is still not compliance https://latestprintingnews.com/paper-export-contaminant-limit-2026/ https://latestprintingnews.com/paper-export-contaminant-limit-2026/ Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:05:00 GMT The Recycling and Waste Reduction (Export - Waste Paper and Cardboard) Rules 2024, read as in force from 1 July 2026: a 5 per cent contaminant cap written in at three points, a definition that excludes water, and the Hazardous Waste Act overlay. Paper recycling fell 17 per cent while paper waste fell 7. The Senate votes on packaging EPR from data this old https://latestprintingnews.com/paper-recovery-national-waste-report/ https://latestprintingnews.com/paper-recovery-national-waste-report/ Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT The National Waste Report 2022, read directly: paper and cardboard generation down 7 per cent, recycling down 17 per cent, disposal up 9 per cent between 2016-17 and 2020-21, and no national edition published since. The packaging EPR inquiry finally has a public transcript, and nobody can say yet who the scheme would capture https://latestprintingnews.com/epr-bill-hearing-evidence/ https://latestprintingnews.com/epr-bill-hearing-evidence/ Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:30:00 GMT The first Hansard from the Senate inquiry into the No Time to Waste packaging bill, read in full three days before the committee reports. The margin tailwind just turned: printers' input costs rose 1.3 per cent while their prices fell https://latestprintingnews.com/print-input-costs-june-2026/ https://latestprintingnews.com/print-input-costs-june-2026/ Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:20:00 GMT Analysis of ABS Producer Price Indexes for the June 2026 quarter, building the printing subdivision input and output series from the published data cubes. We read the AS/NZS 4708 draft. Europe's 2006 deforestation cut-off is now written into an Australian standard https://latestprintingnews.com/as-nzs-4708-what-the-draft-changes/ https://latestprintingnews.com/as-nzs-4708-what-the-draft-changes/ Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:30:00 GMT Amendment One to AS/NZS 4708 adds three new clauses: no reverting plantations to agriculture, a flat prohibition on forest degradation, and proof that no forest in the certified area was converted after 31 December 2006, the EU Deforestation Regulation's cut-off. It also writes free, prior and informed consent into the standard. Europe's deforestation rules are reaching the standard behind certified Australian fibre, and comment closed 7 August https://latestprintingnews.com/as-nzs-4708-revision-eudr/ https://latestprintingnews.com/as-nzs-4708-revision-eudr/ Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:30:00 GMT AS/NZS 4708, the sustainable forest management standard underpinning PEFC-endorsed certification in Australia, is being amended. Responsible Wood says the changes track PEFC ST 1003:2024, which was introduced to align PEFC with the European Deforestation Regulation. Public comment closed 7 August 2026.