JDA PRINT RECRUITMENT
After Offset Alpine topped the award haul at last week’s NSW PICAs and won the gong for NSW Printer of the Year, James Cryer, long-time industry gadfly and founder of JDA Print Recruitment, shares his thoughts about how the awards should adapt to the modern era to become fairer for everyone. Comedienne Julia Morris held…
DetailsLast week the doors opened a little wider to admit – and even welcome – a new breed to the printing industry. It may be too melodramatic to say that history was made, but nonetheless, it was an historic event. For the first time in the history of our industry, the existence of digital print…
DetailsWith all the doom and gloom being spouted about the print industry at the moment, it can be easy to miss the plethora of positive and innovative developments spreading through the local industry as well. James Cryer (pictured), founder of JDA Print Recruitment and wellknown industry gadfly, writes that some of the industry’s biggest players…
DetailsPaper is dammed annoying. If only you could dig the damn stuff out of the ground. Governments would actually encourage you to do it – as they do with coal or uranium. Or, if it came from the sea, you could fish for it quite happily to your heart’s content until you’d practically exhausted the…
DetailsWho said printers were a bunch of beer-sodden, lager-louts? They may have been, but not any more. No more beer-stained shirtfronts or beery breath and no more beer-bellies. From now on we’re a bunch of latte-sipping, chardonnay-quaffing dilettantes, or so David Wells, President of LIA (NSW) would have us believe. David stopped at nothing to…
DetailsAlison Stieven-Taylor, in her comments about the recently held Printovations Awards, has correctly identified an issue, which tantalises and beguiles us at least once every year. Are there too many print awards? Well, it depends how you count them, but a quick roll-call of all the States’ PICA’s awards reveals an average of 40 different…
DetailsInnovation – A new weapon in the struggle to keep our industry relevant Quality is no longer the key driver of our industry that it used to be. Other more contemporary measures of success are emerging in this dog eat dog world. One of them is the need to be different. “Keeping the industry relevant…
DetailsWhile finding the right sales rep in the first place can often be a difficult task, the process that follows where the candidate and employer sit down to negotiate the famous ‘starting package’ can prove even more painful. This is what James Cryer from JDA Print Recruitment refers to as the ‘birthing’ stage. According to…
DetailsThe recent awards night was a brilliantly staged multi-media extravaganza, the general organisation of which is to be congratulated. There’s no doubt about its technical excellence, and about the venue, and its importance as a rainmaking get-together for the various industry tribal groupings who flock from all corners of the continent, much like the aborigines…
DetailsThere was a time when the printing process was exclusively about the craft. Skilled operators were tasked with preventing ghosting, adjusting ink densities on the plate and the all-important nailing down of the ink/water balance. To achieve good print quality you had to be a really good printer. But with rapid advancements in press technology…
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