“It won't be long before we'll see more businesses opened up again and we'll try and get back to some type of normal,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison told ABC Radio.

Most printing and signage companies reopened for business on Tuesday as 400,000 New Zealand workers returned to work under more relaxed Alert Level 3 lockdown restrictions.

ASGA and FESPA Australia are collaborating on a series of free webinar sessions, beginning this Thursday, to examine the JobKeeper scheme and other issues related to coronavirus guidelines.

Small businesses across Australia have been given an extension to pay their employees under the JobKeeper program, after concerns raised last week by Small Business Ombudsman Kate Carnell.

The federal government has released national COVID-19 safe workplace principles for businesses and workers that are designed to prepare workplaces to resume normal operations during the coronavirus pandemic.

An infectious diseases expert says Australian factories and businesses hoping to reopen under any government easing of Covid-19 restrictions will have to rethink how they operate. The comments came as Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the federal government was building towards a ‘COVID-safe economy.'

Software company Enfocus, a global leader in PDF productivity and workflow automation for the graphic arts industry, has released PitStop Pro and PitStop Server 2020: “A must have, not only for printing companies, but especially also for Large Format Printing.” 

Wide format technology manufacturer Durst has responded to a lack of suitable protective masks for industrial work by converting the demo centre at its Brixen headquarters in South Tyrol, Italy to industrial mask production.

The Japanese government will invest up to two billion dollars to encourage Japanese firms that manufacture products in China to move back to Japan, according to industry researcher Keypoint Intelligence. Ricoh recently moved its production print manufacturing from China to Thailand to offset US tariffs.

Outdoor advertiser oOh!media has partnered with Greater Bank to recognise local heroes including nurses, teachers and café owners across NSW for their kindness and generosity during the COVID-19 crisis. Meanwhile, ASX-listed oOh!media this week completed the retail component of a $167 million capital raising.

Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman Kate Carnell is concerned by reports that many small businesses impacted by Covid-19 may not be applying for the JobKeeper payment because they can’t pay staff by April 30. "It’s especially critical that small businesses that are struggling to pay their rent apply for the JobKeeper payment for their staff."

The FTSE (or ‘Footsie – London’s Financial Times Stock Exchange index) has again included Epson in its 2020 FTSE4Good index, which measures corporations’ performance in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices.

JDA Printrecruit’s Chris Gander (Vic/SA) and James Cryer (NSW/Qld) are taking pro-active steps for the inevitable recovery in the print industry, job market and economy in general.

As NZ nears downgrading from Level 4 to level 3 restrictions, D&D Signs of Whangarei leads the way by example with a bulletin that is so near-perfect, we will reproduce it here in whole. We can all learn from the way D&D is operating.

The Outdoor Media Association (OMA) is supporting this year's RSL nationwide at-home Anzac Day initiative ‘Light up the dawn’  by providing digital signs throughout Australia.