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ProPrint Magazine: APRIL 2013

ProPrint Magazine Issue: APRIL 2013

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ProPrint is the leading monthly magazine for the Australian printing industry. We keep our readers informed on the issues and news affecting their businesses and the sector. ProPrint covers the business and technology issues of print with broad-reaching editorial coverage that includes news, comment, features and product reviews.

APRIL 2013

Articles in this issue

A much-needed lift for the industry

It would be nice to predict that PacPrint will be the turning point the industry needs.

Burning money

PE funds have lost hundreds of millions of dollars through their misadventures in print. How did it all go so wrong?

Community and competition can co-exist

A united voice is needed but market pressures have made the industry too fragmented

Don’t go all in unless you are covered

Solicitor Ben Sewell explains why all print companies should make it a priority to investigate this new, low-cost system to minimise exposure to bad debts

Fuji Xerox Color J75

This light production device boasts big specs for an entry-level machine

Geon insider speaks: the last days

ProPrint received this article from a former senior manager at Geon who, under the condition of anonymity, has written an inside view of the print giant – before, during and after the fall

Geon: broken up, sold off, shut down

Following the print group’s spectacular collapse, what became of its many Australian and New Zealand businesses?

HP Indigo 10000

Aldo Burcheri, operations director of Courtney Colour, has sky high ambitions after buying the first B2-format digital press in Australia

Hunkeler Innovation Days: inkjet breaks new ground

As vendors resolve issues around paper stocks and inks, they are opening up publishing, direct mail and packaging

PacPrint Q&A: Canon Australia

ProPrint asks PacPrint exhibitors for the inside track on the trade show and what visitors can expect from their stand

PacPrint Q&A: Currie Group

ProPrint asks PacPrint exhibitors for the inside track on the trade show and what visitors can expect from their stand

PacPrint Q&A: Fujifilm Australia

ProPrint asks PacPrint exhibitors for the inside track on the trade show and what visitors can expect from their stand

PacPrint Q&A: Muller Martini Australia

ProPrint asks PacPrint exhibitors for the inside track on the trade show and what visitors can expect from their stand

PacPrint Q&A: Roland DG Australia

ProPrint asks PacPrint exhibitors for the inside track on the trade show and what visitors can expect from their stand

PacPrint stand guide: the Power of Print

From inkjet and workflow automation to finishing and colour management, there will be something for everyone at PacPrint13. We round up some of the biggest exhibitors.

PacPrint: Four years in the making

In the lead-up to the show, ProPrint caught up with three of the people making it happen: show president Ian Martin, GAMAA executive director Karen Goldsmith and PIAA chief executive Bill Healey

Print's Past: How times have changed

When we first went to college in Auckland, they had a line of Heidelberg cylinders. We were given a project to print an eight-colour Christmas card on this letterpress, one colour at a time.

Putting credit on a more secure footing

Earlier this month, a lawyer friend of ProPrint got in touch and offered to write an article about the Personal Properties Securities Register.

Q&A: Peter Haggitt

The recently appointed national franchise development manager at Snap Franchising Limited wanted to be a farmer or fly a chopper, but was sidetracked by the printing industry along the way.

Reader reaction: How do you harness mobile technology?

How do you harness mobile technology to help staff do their jobs better?

Slow and steady success story

It might have a conservative approach to investment, but this family business is an early adopter that stays ahead of the curve

Social media has changed the rules for rumour

As Geon unravelled, online user comments played a key role in keeping the industry honest

Spec out a press with the works

There are plenty of options available for digital presses, so what’s your best bet – standard spec or fully loaded?

Tale of a trendsetting typesetter

The man behind the Monotype revolutionised data and inspired computers

Telecommuting can leave you disconnected

Mobile technology can allow your employees to work from anywhere. But is it wise to let them?

Tharstern Estimate PRO

The tool claims to ‘take the science out’ of print estimating

3D printing is making its PacPrint debut. Is the technology an opportunity for commercial printers?

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