Letters, feedback, get it off your chest: 14 August 2008

12 August 2008

Readers have their say over last week's news.

Re: Please recycle this message: Print 21 magazine article

Having been in the printing industry a bit over 40 years it has been great to see the companies that I have worked for behave in a responsible manner regarding recycling.

I am with SOS Print Media and I am pleased to report that they have recycled a lot longer than my 17 years with them. SOS is also FSC- accredited.

Not only paper gets recycled, printing plates are collected into a central area and recycled on a regular basis.

I have also worked as a night time contract cleaner, what you have reported is true the cleaner if asked by their customer will recycle into a separate recycling bin.

Sadly not many customers bother to have a separate recycling bin, but rather a common dumpster which when emptied goes into land fill.

Offices with a drink vending machine also never seem to bother with recycling their empty aluminum cans.

Bob Robertson

 

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It's a pity not one Australian printer can print in colour?
Trevor
Maxam Printing
 
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Re: Electronic archive system cuts Leigh Mardon reprint costs


I'm sorry but your article about Electronic Archiving, is correct but misses one very important point. You state "According to Floyd Cowan, business services technical manager, Leigh Mardon, the US-based system SOLsearcher from Solimar was a first in Australia." WRONG.


SEMA (previously SecurityMail) has supplied an Electronic Archive called SecurDOCS to corporate and government clients for over eight years. The SecurDOCS solution is used for projects that are wide and varied in application. A few examples of it's use are;


Over sixty local government councils use SecurDOCS to store PDF copies of their Rate & Instalment Notices;Some of these Councils use SecurDOCS to enable e-mail broadcast of the notices; Whilst others use SecurDOCS to offer the secure online presentment of the documents; The AEC have used SecurDOCS to manage over 12 million images of election related materials; andThe ACER have used SecurDOCS to enable the marking of writing tasks for the NSW BST, SNAP, ELLA and more recently the NAPLAN.


And this is just a few of the clients using SecurDOCS.
If you would like to do an article about this very innovative and flexible solution I'm more than happy to entertain you.


Hans Kessler
Account Director
SEMA