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What’s in a name? Quite a lot, and it is time the printing industry thought about how it promotes itself, says Print21 columnist, James Cryer. Last week’s GASAA seminar was useful for at least one reason: it brought the debate on alternate ways of trying to make a dollar, out of the closet and into…
It’s time for press manufacturers to work closer with their customers and look further than the next sale, says James Cryer. For decades, those few but powerful manufacturers of offset presses have enjoyed a certain asymmetry when negotiating with their print customers – typically small – and scattered around the globe. As an industry, do…
Ahead of next week’s LIA meeting on the same theme, industry sage, James Cryer, wades into the debate between the two competing climate-change policy instruments – carbon tax v emissions trading.He reckons it’s like comparing how many angels can dance on the head of a pin and that both miss the point. Only a climate-change…
Beset by different carbon schemes, industry sage, James Cryer, piles back into the debate, debunking accepted truths while sowing confusion in the minds of the undecided. Last week’s LIA meeting at Five Dock in Sydney dealt with the merits of alternate carbon-abatement schemes. It highlighted several things. One is just how gullible human beings are…
Concentrating on carbon dioxide continues to distract us from the bigger evil, pollution, which is the real demon. But unfortunately that word seems to have an old-fashioned ring to it. It’s so last-century, when things were simpler, remedies clearer and actions more decisive. Life was uncomplicated by the vested interests, stakeholders (another shocking word!), political…
The printing industry was represented at last weekend’s carbon tax rally in Hyde Park Sydney, when industry notable, James Cryer, brought his message to the assembled throng. Readers of this journal will be familiar with the thrust of Cryer’s complaints against the imposition of a carbon tax. He has presented his point of view at…
Let’s stop being bashful and get our voice into the marketplace, says Print21 columnist James Cryer, who used the Easter break to write another manifesto on how the industry can raise its profile. Our industry has recently been entertained by the ping-pong ball contest over the carbon tax – to be, or not to be.…
It is with a sense of schadenfreud that we watch various retailers currently grappling with the challenge of online-ordering from overseas vendors. They, like us in the printing industry, are having to adjust to the new realities that there are alternate forms of delivering product to market. Customers now have options in terms of how…
Industry gadfly and guru, James Cryer, wants to redefine the printing industry by its constituent parts and expand its borders to include the growing segments that are driving more of the current employment opportunities. How should an industry best reflect its priorities and aspirations, especially when it comes to the associations that represent it members?…
In the aftermath of the Printing Industries election, it’s worth asking what the Association is actually for and who is its constituency? As the dominance of printing fades in a fragmenting digital marketplace the quest for meaning and relevance takes on more urgency. James Cryer, industry seer and gadfly, kick-starts the discussion. It is with…
