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As executive director of the merchant’s association for the past nine years Anni cut a swathe through the industry, raising the profile of the association and committing it to being a post-graduate scholarship provider. Feisty, energetic and straightforward she more than held her own during heated debates in what is still a heavily male-dominated industry.

President of GAMAA Dr. David Rands wished Anni well in her future pursuits. “Anni has been a tremendous asset to GAMAA and we thank her for her unswerving commitment to the development of our Association and the advancement of the industry as a whole.”

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Remember last week James Cryer of JDA Recruitment was seeking sponsors for his participation in the Oxfam 100km charity walk? Well, read on. This from his goodly wife, Evlyn.

Thought you might be interested in James’ result in the Oxfam race last Friday. To qualify for a place, the runners/walkers must compete in a team of four. An allowance is made for one person to withdraw, leaving a team of three to finish.

James’ team had been running sixth place (out of over 300 teams) until mid afternoon when the heat took its toll on two of the team (both very experienced and fit runners) and one collapsed and had to be taken by ambulance to hospital. Very unfortunate, as James and his remaining team-mate both felt, at that point, very comfortable and able to finish running the remaining 19kms, but would not have been placed at the finish. They made the decision at 81kms at 11.00pm Friday night to withdraw after 15 hours of running.

Their team was placed at 16th when they had to pull out. Fifteen hours of continuous effort, with six 10-minute “water” stops. Had they been able to finish as a full team, their projected finish time would have been 17.5hrs. Not a bad effort for a team of blokes all in their 50’s!

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The Australian industry has no overall preference for particular colour standards according to results from GASAA’s latest 10-second pop-up poll.

Executive officer Gary Knespal says the results show that 60% of respondents are using Australian profiles for colour match in their production set-ups. European or US Colour Match standards were being used in 40% of cases. 38% indicated they used 3DAP publication guidelines for colour match, while an additional 22% used their own internal requirements. 19% indicated they used SWOP TR001 colour standards (predominantly used in the USA). 10% noted GRACoL DTR004 standards were being used (another USA standard). 12% of respondents reported, they used European ISO e.g. FOGRA colour match standards for print production.


For further details contact Gary Knespal on garry@gasaa.asn.au

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Brisbane company Label Power has just signed an exclusive distribution rights for Nagano machinery from Japan for Australia and New Zealand.

Nagano manufactures a range of electronic business card and post card cutters in A4 and A3+ size. They are designed to work behind today’s colour Xerox, HP Indigo and other digital and conventional sheet fed printing machines. According to live wire James Malone, Managing Director, this eliminates any smudging or marking of ink as each sheet is cut individually, also the cards are trimmed exactly as the machine has sensor which reads eyemark on sheet before cutting.

Interested? Contact James on James@labelpower.com.au

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And finally . . . here’s something that is kind of funny, but very, very weird.

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deson't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?