Letters, feedback, get it off your chest: 1 September 2010
Support grows for Printing Industries’ Print in Australia campaign. Why not write in and let us know your view on this, or any of our other stories.
Re: Name and shame for companies printing overseas
Great to see Printing Industries and Philip Andersen stepping up to the plate on offshore printing. Qantas has been given a rocket. But for printers there's an easy one on the horizon, and whom I nominate for the next name and shame target splattering.
Take aim at Hallmark cards . . . ready, aim, fire, bull’s eye! When you check the back of a Hallmark card, my experience is that it's printed in China. Their website says that in Australasia "900 employees working together to deliver superior quality products dedicated to providing first class design and innovation". Now, see the trick? There is no mention that the cards are not printed here.
If Andersen wants to kick off a TV advertising campaign, here's a billion reasons!
Paul Daley
The PIAA want to name and shame print companies who are sending work off shore. Is this the same PIAA that in November 2006 organised for Australian Print companies to tour China to create “partnering advantages”?
Peter McDonald
Bravo! We have seven staff in western Sydney. We have lost work because of the use of offshore printing and customers that take the manufacturing over there too.
While we have to keep standards here in Australia because of laws, such as minimum wages, superannuation, workers’ compensation and the like, the offshore devils bring not just print but all manner of goods into Australia.
I believe we need to put up the tariffs to stop the goods from entering our shores and unless these countries keep the employees the same way we are treated, don’t let it come in. We even import fruit and vegetables: mum and dad would turn in their grave; if it wasn’t in season you didn’t have it.
Let’s just say you have my vote.
Steve Ryan
Good idea. Why not try and push that textbooks used in Aussie schools are printed by an Aussie printer, using Aussie Paper.
Doug Affleck
Re: QANTAS gags comment on $10m print tender
Fly Virgin.
Craig Foley