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Penrith Print Museum finds a safe haven for its overflow of printing exhibits with the industry’s largest paper merchant in Sydney Safe haven: printing history An important milestone in the ever-evolving story of the Penrith Museum of Printing (PMOP) came when paper merchant Ball & Doggett accepted a delivery of old and antique printing equipment for much-needed storage. A…
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Hornsby TAFE design students visit to Clarke, Murphy Print by VOICE OF THE INDUSTRY James Cryer History was made today as a group of graphic design students from Sydney’s Hornsby TAFE college were introduced to the wonders of print as they were taken on a guided tour of the Alladin’s cave of delights, aka busy…
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How to find a good sales rep (and do they exist?) While finding the right sales rep can be difficult, some employers inadvertantly scare away good reps by going for the ”low base/high commission” option. This is tempting – but a mistake – as the sales role these days is not one of ”quote and hope”…
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As you all know, everything I do is to help the printing industry. Case in point: I’m sure you’re all avid readers of AFLOAT magazine (circulation 30,946, proudly printed by Sydney’s Spotpress) – which is free, making it especially attractive to those of us lowly-paid print tragics. So, I thought I’d give the circulation a…
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The LIA/Heidelberg Graduates Awards Night – unreported by the trade press! Last week, coinciding with both Printex and the National Print Awards, there was an event of great significance to our industry, but which snuck through to the keepers – un-reported by either of the two ”mainstream” trade publications, but reported here for the first…
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Amid much pomp and pageantry, visiting US print guru (flown out specially last week to speak at Printex), Deborah Corn was officially sworn-in as the Museum’s inaugural (and perhaps only) Ambassador to the Printerverse. Uniquely equipped for this role, Deborah is well-known for her passion, perseverance and perspicacity in promoting print – across America, across the globe…
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Every print job that I can remember, stretching back into the mists of time, has always been urgent! This may be due to a number of factors, but the underlying cause, is that we neither penalise the client for wanting it ”urgently”, nor do we reward the client for allowing us to deliver it, in…
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That globe-trotting ambassador of the Printerverse, Deborah Corn (in case you haven’t heard!) rocketed into Sydney this week, to deliver a series of thought-provoking talks on … guess what … our industry! But Deborah, being a child of the intergalactic Universe, sees thing differently from us mortals. We can only see our industry ”as it is”. She,…
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By James Cryer This is the story of the discovery of a diary my grandfather had written back in 1913-14, as he travelled across America as a newly-minted letterpress printer, having grown up in Sydney. He was 21. It’s hard to imagine him, every night as he travelled across America, staying overnight in a bedsitter…
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James Cryer takes a playful wander through the terminological minefield that we in print walk through each day – unarmed and unharmed. But would an innocent bystander escape unscathed if they risked a mad dash across this cabbage-patch, so full of hidden traps for the unwary. Here is his whimsical take on printing terms for the beginner.…
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