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Newspaper Historian Rod Kirkpatrick edits the Australian Newspaper History Group Newsletter. 
Horace Burgess Harvey is the third part of the Burgess story that has been unfolding through this column and the fourth generation of the Burgess printing dynasty that was starting newspapers in New South Wales in the 1860s. Part 1 was told in May and Part 2 in June
“But wait, there’s more.” This could have been the qualification when a Rockhampton sub-editor wrote the headline for the retirement in 1991 of long-time printer, Horace Burgess Harvey: ‘Ink runs dry on four generations of news’
This story has been waiting nearly six years to be written. It is a story that should be told because hot-metal and letterpress printers such as Horace Burgess Harvey will soon be extinct – especially printers who can claim a printing ancestry like this
The Australian Newspaper History Group, which emerged from a conference on local newspapers and local identities at Chiltern in north-eastern Victoria in October 1999, is an example of whatindividuals rather than committees can achieve
The Adelaide Advertiser celebrated its 150th anniversary in July and changed its old masthead in September
PODi (The Print on Demand Initiative) Australia New Zealand will present the inaugural Auckland AppForum, a one day conference on digital print, solution selling and print marketing on September 24. |
Australian companies with offshore operations have nothing to fear from Printing Industries’ new Print in Australia campaign, according to the Association. |
EFI has launched a digital inkjet label printing system with full LED UV curing technology for printing on flexible packaging materials. EFI says its Jetrion 4830LED UV Inkjet System along with a flexible ink set allows printing on unsupported and heat sensitive materials, opening up new opportunities for label converters in the flexible packaging market. |
Jakarta-based packaging and paper products supplier Sansico Group has commissioned two waterless Genius 52 UV printing machines from KBA-MetroPrint at PT Printec, one of its two production plants in Cikarang.
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Anitech will exhibit several wide format flatbed and textile machines at the VIIE 2010 exhibition at Darling Harbour this month, providing a clear demonstration to the Australian market of its range of industry products. |
