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Open Publish, now in its fifth year, has always been one of the most challenging and informative talkfests on the calendar. In a world where much is reduced to sales jargon and pap, it stands alone as the beacon of real information and concepts you have to stretch to get your mind across. Clancy for one thinks it only matters when you get a pain behind the eyes trying to understand what they are saying.
First cab off the rank at 9.00 a.m. on Wednesday July 27 in Sydney, is Robert Barta of Bond University, with his tutorial on Topic Maps, which covers such concepts as how taxonomies and ontologies can be used to moderate the TM authoring process. (See!)
If that doesn’t suit there is always Nadish Naoroji of MultiMatch Australia who will show you how to design an ICC compliant workflow.
Check it out: OpenPublish 2005
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Here’s an entry for the world’s worst photograph, showing a bunch of corporate suits ( no, Peter Tkachuk is not among them) turning the first sod in Friedberg, Germany, where Bladwin is building a new factory. The press accessory company, which is on a roll just at the moment having weathered some tough years, is digging in for the long haul.
One of the people is the photo is Gerald Nathe, president and CEO, who was here for PacPrint. A committed print enthusiast, he makes sure that sales people selling him things have a printed brochure, not a download PDF. Now there is a campaign that could take off.
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Banknotes need to be imaged to a high level of accuracy and intricacy and the new purpose-built Luescher Xpose! Simultan 130/D CTP device that is going into Note Printing Australia, is able to image both conventional wet offset plates at 8,000dpi and five microns, as well as dry relief letterpress plates. Ray Bounsall, Ferag sales manager, points out that although the engine can image as required, it will require two separate lines for processing the plates for bank notes, passports and other security documents.
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A KBA press, delivered to a Spanish printer in 1905 is still in operation at the Bolshoi theatre printing programmes. No one knows how it made its way from Spain to Moscow, but one Ivan Ivanovich Tushilkin, a printer at the Bolshoi Theatre, who stumbled across it outside a Moscow print shop that was being refurbished, scavenged it off the street in 1958. According to Yuri Mikhailovich Tikhinov, manager of the Bolshoi printing plant, the press has churned out more than 10 million posters. “Some of them were pretty unusual. One, celebrating the ballerina Galina Ulanova’s stage jubilee, was printed on pink silk!”
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The heyday of trade shows is definitely waning with the latest prestigious casualty being Print + Pack Expo 2005(The 18th International Printing & Packaging Machinery and Materials Exhibition for Asia) incorporating SignEx 2005(The 5th Asian Sign Technology and Materials Exhibition), and Imaging Convergence Expo 2005(The 2nd International Imaging Convergence Exposition for Asia). The three integrated events were originally scheduled for August 25-27, 2005 at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. According to the management, the postponement is a business decision counting the present market environment.
It makes our own PacPrint’s achievements even more admirable.
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And finally … this from Dave Bell who knows what it’s like to put in the hard yards.
A representative from the Department of Labour called at a farm outside Wagga Wagga to check that minimum working conditions were being adhered to. He asked the cockie how many workers he had on the property and what were their employment conditions.
“Well, there’s three of us," said the cockie. "There's the bloke that drives the tractor. He works eight hours a day, five days a week and I pay him $600.
“Then there’s the woman who helps out around the yard and does the cooking. She works nine hours a day, six days a week and she gets $450.
“Then there’s the half-wit. He works 14 hours a day, seven days a week and I give him a $100 and a bottle of whisky every Saturday night.”
The inspector was horrified. “You can’t do that. I want to speak to this half-wit. Where is he?” he said.
“You’re talking to him,” replied the cockie.
Here’s an entry for the world’s worst photograph, showing a bunch of corporate suits ( no, Peter Tkachuk is not among them) turning the first sod in Friedberg, Germany, where Bladwin is building a new factory. The press accessory company, which is on a roll just at the moment having weathered some tough years, is digging in for the long haul.