JDA PRINT RECRUITMENT
Paper is dammed annoying. If only you could dig the damn stuff out of the ground. Governments would actually encourage you to do it – as they do with coal or uranium. Or, if it came from the sea, you could fish for it quite happily to your heart’s content until you’d practically exhausted the…
Who said printers were a bunch of beer-sodden, lager-louts? They may have been, but not any more. No more beer-stained shirtfronts or beery breath and no more beer-bellies. From now on we’re a bunch of latte-sipping, chardonnay-quaffing dilettantes, or so David Wells, President of LIA (NSW) would have us believe. David stopped at nothing to…
Alison Stieven-Taylor, in her comments about the recently held Printovations Awards, has correctly identified an issue, which tantalises and beguiles us at least once every year. Are there too many print awards? Well, it depends how you count them, but a quick roll-call of all the States’ PICA’s awards reveals an average of 40 different…
Innovation – A new weapon in the struggle to keep our industry relevant Quality is no longer the key driver of our industry that it used to be. Other more contemporary measures of success are emerging in this dog eat dog world. One of them is the need to be different. “Keeping the industry relevant…
While finding the right sales rep in the first place can often be a difficult task, the process that follows where the candidate and employer sit down to negotiate the famous ‘starting package’ can prove even more painful. This is what James Cryer from JDA Print Recruitment refers to as the ‘birthing’ stage. According to…
The recent awards night was a brilliantly staged multi-media extravaganza, the general organisation of which is to be congratulated. There’s no doubt about its technical excellence, and about the venue, and its importance as a rainmaking get-together for the various industry tribal groupings who flock from all corners of the continent, much like the aborigines…
There was a time when the printing process was exclusively about the craft. Skilled operators were tasked with preventing ghosting, adjusting ink densities on the plate and the all-important nailing down of the ink/water balance. To achieve good print quality you had to be a really good printer. But with rapid advancements in press technology…
Those unable to attend Printing Industries‘ CEO Forum last week missed some valuable insights into the operations of private equity in the printing industry. James Cryer of JDA Print Recruitment was there, and has a lot to say about the event. The PIAA’s CEO Forum might have been a languid affair, but our critical faculties…
Last week’s Sydney CEO forum was full of ideas on how businesses can work with the environment for a greener, richer future. Roving Print 21 commentator James Cryer was there and shares his thoughts on what companies should, and should not be doing. Printng Industries has done it again – picked another thought-provoking topic which…
At a time when printing is under fire for being an environmental enemy, the industry must work out what to do about Gunns. Regular Print21 commentator, James Cryer, shares his thoughts. Our industry’s new-found embrace of environmentalism (“accidental environmentalists” in Phil Lawrence’s terms) is to be commended. As converters, we may be very proud of…
