- HP confirming 27,000 job cuts
- A 7.7% fall in circulation for Australia’s metropolitan dailies
- Magazine veteran calling for more launches to turn around declining sales
- Two Sides Australia and PIAA asking local printers to participate in an international survey
- ProPrint helping printers with IT challenges
- The winning cover in the 60th annual Book Design Awards
- Warren Buffett buying 63 newspapers for $144 million
- South African bank notes printed in the wrong colour and size
- Someone stealing $20,000 worth of newspaper plates
- All the winners in the 2012 Momento Pro Photobook of the Year Awards
- Do you have continuity plans in case you get hit by a natural disaster, equipment failure, sudden loss of key personnel, etc?
- Where will print be in 10 years? Thoughts please.
- Do you print with QR codes?
- How do you know what your customers are thinking? Surveys? Informal chats? Gut instinct?
- Are your junior staff encouraged to provide ideas to make your business better?
Our top five stories this week were…
1) Hundreds of jobs in limbo as transactional giant SEMA enters administration
2) TMA outed as PMP’s mystery $250m suitor
3) Administrators call on customers to stick with SEMA
4) Administrators give deadline of today for potential bids for Sands Print
5) Geon sustainability head to manage Two Sides Australia
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