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Along with sister publication Escape to Florida the mags will be printed by Polestar Colchester. Initial print run is in the region of 20,000 and the Aust/NZ title is due to hit the newsstands in November.
It has to be a sure fire hit, given the weather over there at that time of year who wouldn’t want to Escape to Australia and NZ.
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Last week’s Print 05 show in Chicago is being hailed as a major success, forever putting the disaster of 9/11 behind it. The last show in 2001 was interrupted by the New York terrorist attacks and many Australian and New Zealand industry professionals had battle stories of trying to get home in a USA that was stricken by tragedy.
This time around the show hosted 954 exhibitors filling nearly 750,000 square feet of booth space. Attendance was approximately 62,000, including more than 7,100 international attendees from 99 nations, one of the largest international contingents for a PRINT show. And according to the organiser the clear trend to emerge from the show was more commercial printers getting into converting and package printing.
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A timely reminder coming out of Chicago from Dr. Hiroshi Tomimasu, president and CEO of Mitsubishi Imaging. He said the company wanted to remind printers that the CTP revolution and all the time and money-saving opportunities it created started with polyester plates, and more specifically with the company’s Silver DigiPlate. “Today, non-metal plates are being used in over half of the CTP sites in North America,” he said.
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Here’s a challenge to all aspiring forgers. A US security paper company is betting printers US$10,000 they can't copy a simple blue coupon produced on its K2 security paper. Hidden in the coupon are six levels of security that must be overcome, says the company, proving the value of its K2 paper as a security stock for reports, tickets, prescriptions, gift certificates, business agreements, warranties and other products that need to be protected from unauthorized copying. Printers wanting to accept the challenge and the chance at the $10,000 can email for the blue coupon to CustomerCare@BlankCorp.com
If you are having a go, quote Offer Code PR09 when requesting the coupon.
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The rivalry between the three German press manufacturers is of a high order. They compete at every possible point. Which makes the announcement that the medium-format KBA Rapida 105 sheetfed offset press won first prize in the print category when this year's German Print Industry Innovation Awards of some moment. The 29th September awards are conferred by trade journals Deutscher Drucker, Publishing Praxis and Grafische Palette. The company points out that this is the second commendation for its presses in the two years that the Innovation Awards have been conferred. Last year its Rapida 74 G got the gong.
We await revelations of other awards made to other German press companies.
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And finally … here is a joke that was once hailed as the funniest gag by German participants in a world joke survey, which just goes to prove … nothing at all.
A general noticed one of his soldiers behaving oddly. The soldier would pick up any piece of paper he found, frown and say: “That's not it” and put it down again.
This went on for some time, until the general arranged to have the soldier psychologically tested.
The psychologist concluded that the soldier was deranged, and wrote out his discharge from the army.
The soldier picked it up, smiled and said: “That's it.”
