The printing industry: One or many?
James Cryer argues that there is a call for the consolidation of representative bodies across the printing sector and believes that an umbrella group is the way to go.
5 ways digital printing can change your business – and your life
James Cryer reckons it’s too easy for printers to get bogged down in technical arguments about digital printing, such as dye-sublimation v’s toner, or whether a thermal inkjet heads are preferable to piezo. He argues we should focus on what digital technology can do for us.
Do you want that now, later or whenever?
Do you want that now, later or whenever Our resident industry sage ponders ways and means of solving that most vexatious of all printing questions: how to maintain margins in an increasingly competitive market? I know it’s normally not good form to adopt the ‘bad guys’ as role models but sometimes we can learn from those…
Follow the leaders
Age is no barrier when it comes to running a successful printing business, writes James Cryer, who believes that it is time to start harnessing the wisdom of our elders. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, the collapse of one printing company is an unfortunate accident, but two in the one month is just sheer carelessness. Just…
Would the real Printing Industry please stand up?
No owner likes it when their business collapses, but, asks James Cryer, would it hurt for them to stand by their staff to the end? We all like to claim our industry is a role model of good corporate governance and the last proud bastion of true craftsmanship – the National Print Awards tell us…
One Industry or many, we need to work together
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…
Supply side should share the journey with customers
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…
Carbon tax or trading – just so much hot air!!
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…
LIA Carbon debate heats up in the industry
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…
Carbon calculation does not add up
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…