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In this ever-changing occupational landscape, where more power and influence is accumulating in front of a computer screen, the survey is timely and likely to prove very useful.
Be in it.

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Steve Dunwell is a football tragic. That’s soccer football, mind, the code Australia has developed quite an interest in since last Wednesday night’s victory over Uruguay to get into the World Cup.

Having suffered through the past five elimination qualifiers, the NSW honcho of the Currie Group was not going to miss out on the chance of witnessing glory. Down in Canberra with the Currie Colour Express, he flew back to Sydney that night for the game, got to a riotous bed at 2.00am after the sudden death penalty shoot-out and was back on the road to Canberra at 5.45am to be there when the first customers arrived.
Now that is dedication to company and to code.

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And speaking of dedication… no better man to take on the role of national president of the LIA than Greg Grace of Heidelberg. Picking up the role from departing Ankus Scott who served three years, Greg epitomises the value of the LIA; committed to the industry, hugely technically literate and proud of the craft traditions that still sustain quality printing.
Of course, he had to clear the nomination with the boss, (it’s a serious time commitment), but Heidelberg in Australia, under Andy Vels Jensen, is always that kind of company.

Congratulations all around.

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To paraphrase the Oscar Wilde … to lose one Sinnott from the industry may be unfortunate, to lose two in the same year smacks of carelessness. Bruce Sinnott, marketing manager and techno guru of IPMG, and prime mover of 3DAP, finally worked himself out of a job at the industry’s second largest printing company. He left last month and when Clancy tracked him down he was taking his ease at Seal Rocks on the NSW north coast. It’s Clancy’s opinion that the industry can scarcely afford to lose one of the finest technological minds it possesses, but he’s comforted by Bruce’s declaration that he’ll only take a few months off before looking around to see what’s what.

Earlier in the year brother Kevin Sinnott, CEO of the family company Sinnott Bros, now part of IPMG, took a well-earned retirement. And that makes two.

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John Crosfield, founder of the seminal scanner company in the 1950s, celebrated his 90th birthday at a luncheon in the company of some 90 of his ex-colleagues at the end of October. During an after lunch speech, Jim Salmon, former CEO of the company, commented that Dr Hell, Crosfield's friendly competitor passed the 100th milestone. "As Crosfield was never content to be second best to Hell, we look forward to celebrating your 100th in due course,” he quipped.

“This is also an occasion to revive fond memories of Crosfield Electronics, the company you founded and for which we so enjoyed working. We were inspired by your spirit and enthusiasm, inherited we feel sure, on reading the books which you wrote about your Crosfield and Cadbury ancestors, from their fervent Quaker principles.

“Those families cared about people and their welfare. The Bourneville village that your grandfather George Cadbury built for his employees was a social revolution in its day. You inherited that ethos and kindled a family spirit in your company that we still enjoy today.
“ For that, and all the enjoyment and prosperity we have experienced throughout the years, we thank you John.”

And so say all of us.

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And finally … here’s one to prove we never get too homogenised around here,


A little old lady decides to join her local Commancheros bikie gang, so she rides her hog over to the clubhouse and knocks on their door. A big burly biker opens up, take a look at the LOL and asks what she wants.

“I want to join the club,” she says.

"Well,” he says. “We do a lot of drinking here, do you drink?"

"Oh, I drink like a fish," said the LOL.

"We also do a lot of smoking. Do you smoke?" says the biker.

"I smoke like a chimney," she says.

The biker steps outside and takes a walk around her Harley Davidson and he's impressed. "When's the last time you were picked up by the fuzz?" he asks.

"Oh," she says, "never been picked up by the fuzz… been dragged around by the nipples, though."