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printing.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08550908068998054803noreply@blogger.comBlogger118125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7962931436913200666.post-23381974852329552142014-09-03T15:19:00.000-07:002015-08-26T08:20:29.938-07:007 compelling reasons why you should enter the 2014 Canadian Printing Awards<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I know you’re terribly busy. On most days most printers are stretched so thin that squeezing in one more extra task seems next to impossible. Even so, it would be a serious strategic error for you to skip making your submission to the Canadian Printing Awards (CPAs) in time for the entry</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> deadline. In fact, any serious business owner or manager needs to make it a priority to enter awards programs in their field because of the multitude of astonishing benefits they’ll reap in return. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>1. Large-scale publicity </b></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> – Arguably, awards are the most powerful and cost-effective marketing tool. The publication, association, or trade show that organizes an awards program will devote all its considerable resources to publicizing the awards and participants before, during, and after the event. Especially if you are a winner or finalist, you can continue to publicize your own participation and successes in the awards program to your customers, prospects, prospective investors, and trade media indefinitely. Many awards, including the CPAs, come with an impressive trophy you can display prominently at your company forever.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>2. A record of your achievements</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> – Awards contests help you review your own progress and evaluate your successes and the areas of your business that need improvement. Initially you’ll perform this process when deciding which projects and initiatives to submit to the contest. But also, while some of the CPA award categories require you to submit only basic information with the entry fee, others require more detailed documentation. The latter categories not only help you document your progress but also result in a report you can recycle many times in many ways to broadcast your achievements and track your future progress.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>3. Networking opportunities and peer recognition – </b></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Awards competitions and ceremonies attract the best companies and prominent business leaders. Thus they provide an opportunity for you to show off and discuss your best achievements and latest innovations with a discerning and appreciative audience. Additionally, by attending the presentation ceremony or even by connecting with fellow participants by phone, e-mail, or social media, you can build your relationships and network with a prestigious new pool of contacts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">4. <b>A leg up on your competition</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> – Entries, recognition, or wins all give you a tangible edge over competitors and showcase your company as among the best in your field.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b style="background-color: black;">5. Support for your employer brand</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: black;"> – Participants gain recognition in their industry as award-winning employers whose companies and products make them leaders in their field. This recognition makes your company a more attractive place to work for top-performing new hires.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial;"><b>6. Staff motivation, morale, and retention</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> – Everyone wants to feel appreciated and part of a successful organization. Participating in awards competitions sends your staff the message that your company is worthy of recognition by a respected external body. This realization raises staff’s motivation and morale--especially if your company is astute enough to use your victories in awards competitions as platforms to stage internal celebrations recognizing the achievements of staff members who contributed to your success. If your company is located within reasonable striking distance of the Greater Toronto Area, it also helps to buy staff tickets for the dinner where prizes are announced. (Information on ticket sales is ava</span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">ilable at:</span><span style="color: cyan;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 21.33px;"><b><span style="color: cyan;"><a href="http://www.printaction.com/CPA">http://www.printaction.com/CPA</a></span><span style="color: white;"> )</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial;">7. <b>A measure of your performance</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: black;"> – Entering the awards gives you an unparalleled opportunity to assess the strength of your entry against others in the same category and gauge how your business stacks up against the very best. Frankly, you’d be crazy not to take advantage of this opportunity for an economically priced assessment from some of the industry’s most knowledgeable independent business experts who judge the entries. (For details see</span><span style="background-color: black;">: <o:p></o:p></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: lime;">http://www.printaction.com/news/20140825-cpa-judges</span><span style="color: white;"> )</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16pt;">But the craziest part is that you can reap all the above seven benefits for a cost of between $90 and $110 per contest submission</span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16pt;">. (The actual cost depends on the total number of submissions you make.) With awards in 28 diverse categories, it’s hard to imagine why any printing company of any size wouldn’t take advantage of the opportunity to participate in the CPAs. To get started immediately, click on:</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16pt;"> </span><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 21.33px;"><a href="http://www.printaction.com/CPA/event/awards">http://www.printaction.com/CPA/event/awards</a></span></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08550908068998054803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7962931436913200666.post-74835711673596961032013-09-23T07:32:00.001-07:002013-09-24T15:55:15.584-07:00StampaTech Intelligent packaging innovation available free until December 31st <!--StartFragment-->
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">Earlier this month,
Italian printing company StampaSud S. P. A. launched StampaTech, an intelligent
packaging innovation that lets users access unlimited amounts of
information from a product's label. It can connect to data on everything
from point of origin, current location, ingredients, quality and freshness
indicators, instructions for use, shopping and social media sites, satisfaction
surveys, and other marketing collateral. Besides increasing consumer
trust, it offers a huge potential to facilitate operations like delivery
tracking, quality monitoring, supply analytics, mass recalls, counterfeit
detection, sales, and marketing of food, beverages, pharmaceuticals, and many
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Commercial and R&D Director, Tony Calo, stated: "We wanted
something that allowed digital systems to work at 360 degrees on a platform of
print that is in reality the basis of most communication. There was
currently nothing in the market that had the ability to do this, so we built
one ourselves"<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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leading digital communication; it is easy enough for every brander,
agency, print buyer and manufacturer to use and afford; and that it works with all hand-held
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notes that it offers more appeal and interactivity than NFC and QR codes (but
can be incorporated with them as needed), plus it is more environmentally
friendly, less expensive, and requires no post-printing finishing work in
contrast to RFID or security tagging solutions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">Mr. Calo’s
unorthodox marketing techniques for StampaTech have included a product launch
during a 6-day gathering on Italy's Mediterranean coast of select international
guests whom Calo met on social media (see</span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> <a href="http://vicg8.blogspot.ca/2013/08/back-to-future-first-international_14.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://vicg8.blogspot.ca/2013/08/back-to-future-first-international_14.html</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">)</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">.</span></span></span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">In an
upcoming issue of </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">PrintAction</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"> I will be devoting an entire column to
StampaTech, complete with working samples and case studies as the technology becomes more widespread and more examples become available.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">Meanwhile, to launch the product onto the market, Mr. Calo has announced that
his company will provide a free introductory package to all manufacturers and branders who register before 2014.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">To receive further
information,</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"> please visit </span></span><u><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">www.smartlabitalia.com</span></span></u> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">and
leave your details in order to be re-contacted.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">StampaSud S.P.A.’s Website is available at: </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I know
you’re terribly busy. On most days most printers are stretched so thin
that squeezing in one more extra task seems next to impossible. Even so,
it would be a serious strategic error for you to skip making your submission to
the Canadian Printing Awards (CPAs) in time for the October-25</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">th</span></sup></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> deadline. In fact, any
serious business owner or manager needs to make it a priority to enter awards
programs in their field because of the multitude of astonishing benefits
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>1.
Large-scale publicity </b></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> – Arguably, awards are the most powerful and cost-effective
marketing tool. The publication, association, or trade show that
organizes an awards program will devote all its considerable resources to
publicizing the awards and participants before, during, and after the
event. Especially if you are a winner or finalist, you can continue to
publicize your own participation and successes in the awards program to your
customers, prospects, prospective investors, and trade media
indefinitely. Many awards, including the CPAs, come with an impressive
trophy you can display prominently at your company forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>2.
A record of your achievements</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> – Awards contests help you review your own progress and
evaluate your successes and the areas of your business that need
improvement. Initially you’ll perform this process when deciding which
projects and initiatives to submit to the contest. But also, while some
of the CPA award categories require you to submit only basic information with
the entry fee, others require more detailed documentation. The latter
categories not only help you document your progress but also result in a report
you can recycle many times in many ways to broadcast your achievements and
track your future progress.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>3.
Networking opportunities and peer recognition – </b></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Awards competitions and ceremonies
attract the best companies and prominent business leaders. Thus they provide
an opportunity for you to show off and discuss your best achievements and
latest innovations with a discerning and appreciative audience.
Additionally, by attending the presentation ceremony or even by connecting with
fellow participants by phone, e-mail, or social media, you can build your
relationships and network with a prestigious new pool of contacts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>A leg up on your competition</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> – Entries, recognition, or wins all give you a tangible
edge over competitors and showcase your company as among the best in your
field.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>5.
Support for your employer brand</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> – Participants gain recognition in their industry as
award-winning employers whose companies and products make them leaders in their
field. This recognition makes your company a more attractive place to
work for top-performing new hires.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>6.
Staff motivation, morale, and retention</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> – Everyone wants to feel appreciated and part of a
successful organization. Participating in awards competitions sends your
staff the message that your company is worthy of recognition by a respected
external body. This realization raises staff’s motivation and
morale--especially if your company is astute enough to use your victories in
awards competitions as platforms to stage internal celebrations recognizing the
achievements of staff members who contributed to your success. It also
helps to buy staff tickets for the dinner where prizes are announced, held in
Toronto on November 21st. (Information
on ticket sales will be available shortly on the CPAs microsite at: </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b><a href="http://www.printaction.com/CPA/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">http://www.printaction.com/CPA/</span></a> </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: normal;">)</span></div>
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<b>A measure of your performance</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> – Entering the awards gives you an unparalleled opportunity
to assess the strength of your entry against others in the same category and
gauge how your business stacks up against the very best. Frankly, you’d
be crazy not to take advantage of this opportunity for an economically priced
assessment from some of the industry’s most knowledgeable independent business
experts who judge the entries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But
the craziest part is that you can reap all the above seven benefits for a cost
of between $90 and $110 per contest submission. (The actual cost depends
on the total number of submissions you make.) With 24 awards in diverse categories, it’s hard to imagine why any printing company of any size
wouldn’t take advantage of the opportunity to participate in the CPAs. To
get started immediately, click on: <a href="http://www.printaction.com/CPA/entryforms.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">http://www.printaction.com/CPA/entryforms.html</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Today’s
post resurrects a similar entry I made prior to last year’s Awards, but it
bears repeating because this content is truer than ever in 2013. </span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08550908068998054803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7962931436913200666.post-35827876326164255642013-08-28T09:23:00.003-07:002013-08-28T09:25:06.285-07:00How your printing business can capitalize on the next big local event<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After my 14-August-2013 blog post, "Prince George's birth proves yet again: Nimble = Profitable" <a href="http://vicg8.blogspot.ca/2013/07/prince-georges-birth-proves-yet-again.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://vicg8.blogspot.ca/2013/07/prince-georges-birth-proves-yet-again.html</span></span></a>, I fielded numerous questions from printers via e-mail and social media on the detailed mechanics of how they can prepare their businesses for the next commercial windfall associated with a big local event.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's hard to generalize about this topic, since the answers are often situational and depend largely on the type of event for which you are planning.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, in case you're seeking more information, my feature "Olympian Printing" contains case studies describing how Metropolitan Fine Printers and Ampco Grafix positioned themselves strategically to provide printing for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A PDF of the Olympics article is available at: <a href="https://www.box.net/shared/erx45bpunc"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.box.net/shared/erx45bpunc</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span> </span><br />
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2013 I reported on a remarkable development in the U.S.A. in which an informal
networking get-together in New Orleans, Louisiana, organized by half a dozen
printers who were well connected on social media, turned into a conference of
over 100 people and The National Print Owners Association, Inc., a trade
organization with currently 315 registered members located in five countries in the Americas and Australia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">Now a
parallel grassroots movement is taking place in Europe, where printers
connected on social media are taking the task of organizing a face-to-face
networking event into their own hands:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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September 5 to 10, 2013, leading Italian family-owned print group StampaSud will
host a select group of between 15 and 20 international print personnel at a
networking conference at Castellaneta Marina, near Taranto, on Italy’s
Mediterranean coast.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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will participate in informal workshops, presentations, and discussions about
the printing industry and changes affecting their businesses. Although topic suggestions are still
being collected and the program is still being finalized, items of discussion
are expected to include:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">The
latest applications of such new technologies as QR codes, Augmented Reality,
and 3D printing<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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digital technology in print, colour management, and file preparation<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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windows and whether there is a tendency to put print back on the high street.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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print is returning to a providing a more personal touch.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">Attendees
will consist of qualified printing personnel, brokers, buyers, suppliers, and
facilitators who can provide insights on these and other subjects. Many are members of the 16,000-member
Print and Print Procurement (International) (PPPI) Discussion Group, a
16,266-member networking vehicle for digital, litho, and web printers,
corporate print buyers, and print management firms that has been active on
LinkedIn since 2008.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">The event in
Italy is being organized by StampaSud’s UK Commercial Director Antony Calo with
assistance from Paul Scanlon, Chairman of Liverpool-based print management
company CDP and Francis Grogan, Director of Leeds-based grg print management. The photographs in this post show the venue for the event, Turchesi Club Village. Applications from persons </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">wishing to
participate are still welcome.
(A downloadable application form is available at: <a href="https://app.box.com/s/ym1nzjfzwdt9rxpbrnt6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;">https://app.box.com/s/ym1nzjfzwdt9rxpbrnt6</span></a>) StampaSud will generously cover the cost of attendees’ accommodation,
airport transportation, and most meals.
Other sponsors include Italian paper manufacturer Fedrigoni. Organizers hope that, if the conference
proves successful, it will become a regular event, held in various
international locations every year or two.</span></span></span></div>
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attendees can exchange views and plans via the PPPI LinkedIn Group at: </span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=56173&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=56173&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">or via the event’s Facebook page at:</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"> </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/198529176977201"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">www.facebook.com/groups/198529176977201</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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article on the evolution of The National Print Owners Association Association,
Inc. can be found a</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">t: </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"> </span><a href="https://app.box.com/s/1q8sm8r949s6m26zv67b"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">https://app.box.com/s/1q8sm8r949s6m26zv67b</span></span></a></span></div>
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wine and print – ‘Back to the Future’ first International print networking
event to be held in Italy</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">Leading
Italian family-owned print group, StampaSud (including Paco and Smartlabel and
the print brand PrintItalia), has announced that it is to play host to a select
gathering of between 15-20 international print personnel, as part of a 4-day
networking conference to be held in September in the Italian Mediterranean
coastal venue of Turchesi Club Village, Castellaneta Marina near Taranto.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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event will involve a series of informal workshops and presentations based
around print, new techniques and methods and the changes taking place in the
industry. There will also be a debate on whether there is a trend towards print
returning to the more personal touch, as well as a presentation from host
company, StampaSud, who are providing all of the costs for hosting the event.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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subjects that will be debated include; Guru’s, new digital technology in print,
colour management and file preparation, quotations, substrates, social media,
logistics and the shop window – whether there is tendency to put print back on
the high street.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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aim is to gather together some of the great minds and most qualified
international print personnel, comprising of print brokers, material buyers and
suppliers as well as facilitators, who will be able to provide opinions and
thoughts on the subject matter, in both an informal and relaxed atmosphere.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">The Print
and Procurement International group has been running successfully since 2008,
with the aim of helping printers and print buyers connect, network and ask each
other for advice. Whilst the idea of a conference/event has been discussed for
some time, it is only through the generosity of StampaSud and other supporters,
including Italian paper manufacturer, Fedrigoni, that this has been made
possible. The aim is that the conference will hopefully be the start of more
events to come.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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addition, a LinkedIn page has recently been established,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> </span><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=56173&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=56173&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">where members and those attending can engage and exchange views prior to the
conference and view the various presentations and personnel. The idea is that
through social networking there can be a transition via the conference into a
real and social networking opportunity. A Facebook page has also been set up
for further engagement</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/198529176977201"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">www.facebook.com/groups/198529176977201</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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development will see the creation of a standalone website, which is currently
being built to offer printers and print buyers even more ways to connect in the
future.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">If
successful, the intent is to make the conference a regular event, which will be
held in various international locations every 12-24 months. Those attending
will then debate and talk about the industry and the changes affecting the
businesses therein.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">Commenting
on the initiative, StampaSud UK Commercial Director Antony Calo stated, “The
idea has been to get this off the ground for some time, but now thanks to my
company and several other group members this has finally been achieved. We hope
that this will be both an informative and social occasion, where leading print
personnel can provide topical debate. We look forward to establishing this as a
regular event on the print calendar.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">StampaSud
have been assisted in co-ordinating and planning the event by Paul Scanlon,
Chairman of Liverpool-based print management company CDP and Francis Grogan,
Director of Leeds-based grg print management.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">Situated
on the far southern coast of Italy, StampaSud was established in 1950 by the
Posa family as a small and private family run print firm. Significant
investment in recent years has enabled the company to become a prominent and
successful supplier of print and packaging materials to many leading
advertising agencies, banks, tour operators, insurance providers and commercial
clients for both the Italian and European markets.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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2010 the company opened a UK sales office to capitalise on the European market.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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is now a leading player in the graphic print industry employing around 80 staff
and with a turnover of approximately EUR8m.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><i><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">Email: </span><a href="mailto:antony.calo@printitalia.co.uk"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">antony.calo@printitalia.co.uk</span></span></a></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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you have any queries on this press release please contact Andy Scott (07770
520484) or email: </span><a href="mailto:info@andy-scott.net"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">info@andy-scott.net</span></u></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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services, visit </span><a href="http://www.andy-scott.net/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">www.andy-scott.net</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08550908068998054803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7962931436913200666.post-27907300375856201322013-07-29T08:24:00.004-07:002013-08-28T08:14:29.917-07:00Prince George's birth proves yet again: Nimble = Profitable – Prepare your business for your next big local event-related windfall <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Nn6DdA8LlIwXk7X6VkLLuqQgdwjKzEKHcynIAzHCj6pv1ITJ7vl3RJssZKxMK25it7iax_tkOUIlhKTfekmss_8R3K_t8ErLEbNVz3FZtlHol-hYx02wY047Fl7VCoeFUQih0AWj_IE/s1600/KnitRoyalFamily.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Nn6DdA8LlIwXk7X6VkLLuqQgdwjKzEKHcynIAzHCj6pv1ITJ7vl3RJssZKxMK25it7iax_tkOUIlhKTfekmss_8R3K_t8ErLEbNVz3FZtlHol-hYx02wY047Fl7VCoeFUQih0AWj_IE/s200/KnitRoyalFamily.jpeg" width="149" /></span></a></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Before and after the birth of His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge in London on 22 July 2013, commentators have enjoyed an international field day (pro and con) over the explosion of limited-edition sales and merchandise that have accompanied the royal birth. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 16px;"></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXbwDYwHQzSda6cSi5IBfX1ZRe9NCG9AlChhG68CBGk7AtUZhZ4zqZ-LKoCMqW5ln-cVqiFdKMDub5SlVASrwdqJ0QRFY09RZ-jUFcWir6EvB3T2SP0el9CB_W_krCgmFn-800zC_mi1U/s1600/RoyalBabyCupcakes.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXbwDYwHQzSda6cSi5IBfX1ZRe9NCG9AlChhG68CBGk7AtUZhZ4zqZ-LKoCMqW5ln-cVqiFdKMDub5SlVASrwdqJ0QRFY09RZ-jUFcWir6EvB3T2SP0el9CB_W_krCgmFn-800zC_mi1U/s1600/RoyalBabyCupcakes.jpeg" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Instead, my congratulations go out to all the printers and their creative teams around the world who have proven themselves astute, organized, and agile enough to capitalize on this temporary windfall--an opportunity comprising such diverse products as advertising and marketing collateral, books, labels, packaging, signs, and point-of-purchase displays--</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">which forecasters have conservatively valued at around 3 billion pounds for the British national economy alone.</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLPzPhDOsp-8EG3ucuOEEyHgBQhvVY1veC_fWn1UAstZoQ-KYnnLK68Cn7IlSPCJ2QSYh8-7nbTXdEMH2W6sHrd0ZfCKhQl0_my4XvxKY9YXe8EPTNs-FCxUEGhrkWBR-TUdMV8r1Y3kY/s1600/RoyalBabyflights.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLPzPhDOsp-8EG3ucuOEEyHgBQhvVY1veC_fWn1UAstZoQ-KYnnLK68Cn7IlSPCJ2QSYh8-7nbTXdEMH2W6sHrd0ZfCKhQl0_my4XvxKY9YXe8EPTNs-FCxUEGhrkWBR-TUdMV8r1Y3kY/s1600/RoyalBabyflights.jpeg" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Clearly, even if you missed the royal-baby boat, now is the time to consider what similar new time-limited opportunities for printers are coming up next: the Glasgow (Scotland) 2014 Commonwealth Games, the Toronto (Canada) 2015 Pan American and Parapan American Games, or Canada's 2015 federal election, perhaps?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">On July 1<sup>st</sup>
Michael Britt of Brentwood, Missouri, was charged with 13 counts of forgery
resulting in the theft of over $1 million from Gene-Del Printing, a company co-owned by Mr. Britt’s mother and three partners.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The company’s internal
investigation revealed that Mr. Britt’s <i>modus operandi</i> extended over more than five years. It involved making at least 166
cheques out to himself and forging the names of two of the company’s owners on
the cheques. He also stole at
least $25,000 through unauthorized purchases using a company credit card. Mr. Britt later admitted to police that
he had also used the company’s accounting software to conceal the theft by creating
fraudulent invoices for the cheques he forged.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Since the days when I
managed the Ontario Association of Quick Printers, I have heard too many similar sad
stories from small-printing-business owners with first-hand experience of
embezzlement at their own company.
Usually the perpetrator was someone they thought they knew well and
trusted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Embezzlement is the
theft of assets or property by a person in a position of trust or
responsibility over those assets. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Statistically in such cases, the average amount stolen from small companies is $120,000 (versus just
$10,000 from Fortune 500 companies.) Additionally, employers of fewer than 100 employees and fewer than
three bookkeepers are 100 times more likely to experience employee fraud than
larger companies. The crime often
persists over a number of years and has forced many small companies into
bankruptcy.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Update on 16 September 2013:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Yet another story of embezzlement by an employee of a printing company is all over the news again: in this case, Leona Gebhart, the 68-year-old former comptroller of Henderson's Printing of Altoona, Pennsylvania, has been charged with embezzling at least $151,000 over an 11-year period. I rest my case.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Sadly, two more cases of employee theft have recently come to light at printing companies in Pennsylvania and Oregon. After so many recurring examples, I'm sure you get the point:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08550908068998054803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7962931436913200666.post-60728285139991511222013-06-25T08:50:00.001-07:002013-06-26T06:34:13.012-07:00Recommended: Photos of printers using antique equipment in Guatemala, Central America<!--StartFragment-->
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I can’t say I recommend this
blog about the travels of Chris Vervaeke, a Mississauga, Ontario man with a
Bolivian knitted toy penguin that he uses as a gimmicky storytelling
device.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But I genuinely appreciated
his photos of the printing shop with moveable-type equipment that he visited in
Guatemala and especially his sensitive portraits of the printers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Although, quite amazingly,
the blogger neglects to identify the location of the shop, called Francisco
Franco and Son, other clues in the text point to Quetzaltenango (the country's second-largest city, called </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Xelajú or Xela locally) as the most
likely site.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08550908068998054803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7962931436913200666.post-34097316449147664992013-06-21T06:42:00.002-07:002013-06-21T07:00:58.366-07:00A Letterpress Education: The Mackenzie Printery and Newspaper Museum <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A valuable resource for anyone wishing to become reacquainted with the marvels of letterpress printing is the Mackenzie Printery and Newspaper Museum, Canada's largest working printing museum, located in the village of Queenston, Ontario (5 km north of Niagara Falls). </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The jewel in its rare collection of letterpress, typecasting, and lithography equipment is a Louis Roy Press dating from the 1760s, Canada's oldest press and one of very few original wooden presses remaining in the world.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The museum occupies the restored Georgian home and print shop of publisher and political activist William Lyon Mackenzie, who lived and worked there from 1820 to 1824. The building was officially opened in 1938 by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, Mackenzie's great-grandson. The on-site printing museum came later, in 1990, through a joint partnership between the Niagara Parks Commission, that owns and operates the facility, and a seven-person volunteer Printery Committee, that maintains the collection and secures the necessary operating funds. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>PrintAction</i> publisher Sara Young, who has served on the Printery Committee for over 12 years, wrote me in a recent e-mail: "I do believe that it is very important, perhaps even more so today, to preserve antique presses and the ancillary equipment that pushed our industry forward and allowed the Canadian printing industry to flourish in Canada from the time of the war of 1812."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From May until Labour Day, the Mackenzie Printery is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily (last tour at 4:30 p.m.) After Labour Day, it operates only on weekends until it closes for the season in October, either right after Canadian Thanksgiving or Hallowe'en, depending on its volume of visitor traffic.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Besides special exhibitions and a dedicated library, the Printery museum offers all visitors not only a tour of the facilities but also the unique opportunity to try their hand at setting type and operating two of its eight antique presses. Each visitor also receives a free poster and bookmark. In all, it's good value for the nominal admission price of $5 (less for children under 12.)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Additionally, for the second year running, in response to growing interest, the Printery offers two half-day, professionally oriented, hands-on letterpress seminars costing $96 each (less for students), six people per class.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The museum is always collecting names of people who are interested in participating in their teaching programs with a view to expanding their offerings. The contact for this purpose is Harold Meighan: 905-684-7672 / haljan@gmail.com.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For general information about the Printery, contact: 905-262-5676 / printer@mackenzieprintery.org</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">For more resources on letterpress printing, please
refer to my Pinterest boards entitled History of Printing and Printing Museums and:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://vicg8.blogspot.ca/2013/04/staying-in-touch-with-our-roots-beauty.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://vicg8.blogspot.ca/2013/04/staying-in-touch-with-our-roots-beauty.html</span></span></a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://vicg8.blogspot.ca/2013/06/robert-smails-printing-works.html</span></span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08550908068998054803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7962931436913200666.post-35419318941252994822013-06-18T06:37:00.000-07:002013-07-24T06:18:48.491-07:00Why new Del Monte labels but not safer cans?<!--StartFragment-->
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">It seems that The Del Monte Corporation, doing business as Del Monte Foods, has its hands full. According to its own Web site, the San Francisco-based
company is one of the United States of America’s largest and best known
producers, distributors, and marketers of branded food and pet products for the
American retail market, generating about $3.7 billion in net sales in fiscal
2010. In an article dated 15 June
2013, </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">Packaging Digest</span></span></span></i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"> confirms that Del Monte
is the largest player in the category.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">The latest news is that the company
has just come out with extravagant new packaging designed to convince a
suspecting public how safe, wholesome, and “natural” their canned products
are. Since last year its marketing
agents have also been generating a storm of spin along the same lines.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRuNormCr8ywaIXsgvg1fdR2IXVS24FA2-hsY5PhnU0EhyphenhyphenEp9kjUlwRWVRh_TzzGzz8mOBTv3Z4BiyxzN7TgMOaj5wRr0itGpP6dNo1mYMVlBH2VFPfacORdLFBGNVCSxMfeDE77kWR4I/s1600/greenbeans.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRuNormCr8ywaIXsgvg1fdR2IXVS24FA2-hsY5PhnU0EhyphenhyphenEp9kjUlwRWVRh_TzzGzz8mOBTv3Z4BiyxzN7TgMOaj5wRr0itGpP6dNo1mYMVlBH2VFPfacORdLFBGNVCSxMfeDE77kWR4I/s1600/greenbeans.jpeg" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">Yet if the Internet is any
indication, it seems that these days Del Monte’s worst publicity nightmare
centres on the fact that their can liners have been proven among the worst
offenders on record for their concentrations of BPA (Bisphenol-A--a
hormone-disrupting chemical that leeches into foods and that research has linked to heart disease, diabetes, cancers, obesity, reproductive problems, and
other medical horrors.) Last year, in response to consumer concerns, soup giant Campbell's already announced its plan to make its canned products BPA-free.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">Under these circumstances, from a humanitarian
standpoint, does it really make sense that Del Monte’s recent massive marketing
impetus has focused solely on the appearance of their labels and how the
contents are processed, instead of dealing with the potentially dangerous substance of their packaging?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">Or am I missing something? <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Additionally, four days ago
on 13 June 2013, The Wall Street Journal reported that <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">“</span></i></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">Del Monte Corp. is exploring a sale of the
canned-food business that made it a household name, said people familiar with
the matter, as the company increasingly focuses on products for dogs and cats.”</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this event, until further notice, you’ll probably
want to start keeping a closer eye on the BPA levels in whatever you’re feeding to Fluffy and Fido.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.packagingdigest.com/article/523424-Del_Monte_freshens_up_its_produce_labels.php"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.packagingdigest.com/article/523424-Del_Monte_freshens_up_its_produce_labels.php</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324688404578543732512595260.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324688404578543732512595260.html</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-del-monte-stop-using-hormone-disrupting-chemicals-in-can-linings"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-del-monte-stop-using-hormone-disrupting-chemicals-in-can-linings</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://news.discovery.com/human/canned-food-bpa.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://news.discovery.com/human/canned-food-bpa.htm</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/amywestervelt/2012/03/05/under-pressure-from-parents-advocacy-groups-campbells-goes-bpa-free/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.forbes.com/sites/amywestervelt/2012/03/05/under-pressure-from-parents-advocacy-groups-campbells-goes-bpa-free</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">/</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/food-nutrition/facts/bpa-canned-foods-best-and-worst-brands-out-there.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/food-nutrition/facts/bpa-canned-foods-best-and-worst-brands-out-there.htm</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.inspirationgreen.com/bpa-lined-cans.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.inspirationgreen.com/bpa-lined-cans.html</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/del-monte-solves-fresh-can-problem-150129"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/del-monte-solves-fresh-can-problem-150129</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08550908068998054803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7962931436913200666.post-68473011123994287852013-06-14T07:04:00.001-07:002013-06-14T07:07:50.894-07:00Robert Smail's Printing Works, Innerleithen, Scotland - A complete working Victorian jobbing printery<!--StartFragment-->
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">While
researching several upcoming articles on historical topics, I ran across the
following rare and impressive resource in Scotland:</span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">Robert Smail and Sons was a family business of jobbing printers
that operated for three generations in Innerleithen (population 2,586, an
hour’s drive south of Edinburgh in the Scottish Borders).</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>After a successful run of 120 years
from 1866 to 1986</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">, the
business closed.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">Then the National
Trust for Scotland took over the property and still maintains it today as a
functioning letterpress shop that still produces commercial printing jobs,
including some of the National Trust’s own printed materials.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">At the same time, the shop also
functions as a living museum, giving visitors the opportunity to see and try
their hand at letterpress printing and typesetting.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">The Smail
family’s legacy comprises not only their shop and equipment but also a massive
hoard of historical documents.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">
</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">These take many fascinating forms, including ledgers, personal
correspondence, volumes of the </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">St. Ronan’s Standard and Effective Advertiser</span></span></i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">.(the weekly newspaper the Smails produced
for 23 years starting in 1893), </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">1/4-inch glass plate negatives, </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">and 52 guard books containing everything
the print shop ever printed.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">(</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">The law
required printers to keep a copy of every job for six months, but the Smails
did it for nearly 100 years.)</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">
</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">Other records include passenger tickets showing local patterns
of immigration to the United States, Canada and South Africa.</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">Since 2006 until the present a seven-person team of staff and volunteers has
been labouring to catalogue and index this archive of documents and make it
available on line.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08550908068998054803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7962931436913200666.post-37827856716473342522013-06-05T06:35:00.001-07:002013-06-24T06:50:52.084-07:00Ever see Steamroller Printing? Shopping for letterpress gear? Try the annual June Printing Arts Fair near Boston<!--StartFragment-->
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Steamroller Printing returns to the 10th Annual Printing
Arts Fair at The Museum of Printing in North Andover (near Boston),
Massachusetts. This year's event will be
held on 16 June (Father’s Day) 2013, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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featured attraction, a steamroller will print huge 3-foot x 9-foot prints using
27 individual linoleum blocks made by local artists. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">Demonstrations
of litho, intaglio, and letterpress printing will also be offered, and rare
letterpress accessories and memorabilia (including </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">wood and metal type, gadges,
presses, furniture, quoins, gauges, cabinets, galleys, and chases) </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">will be available for sale and at
auction at the event. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">The
museum’s </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">promotional Weblink reads: </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">Dad will love the clang of the working
printing presses, Mom will marvel at art prints being made and the kids can get
ink on their fingers when they set their name in wood type then print it.
Everybody will be amazed as hot molten lead is turned into lines of type and
kids (of all ages) can print their own Father’s Day card</span></i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://museumofprinting.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;">http://museumofprinting.org/</span></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.creativebloq.com/print-design/get-started-letterpress-2131998"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">http://www.creativebloq.com/print-design/get-started-letterpress-2131998</span></a></span></span><!--EndFragment-->
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08550908068998054803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7962931436913200666.post-33798360860586027942013-06-03T08:10:00.000-07:002013-06-03T08:29:19.348-07:00WANTED: Details on the 1,300 printing companies born in 2013<!--StartFragment-->
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Andrew D. Paparozzi, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, and Joe
Vincenzino, Senior Economist, of the National Association for Printing
Leadership (NAPL; East Rutherford, New Jersey) point out that in the last
several years, the printing industry has seen an average of 1,300 start-ups
annually.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">They also rightfully
lament the fact that, although establishment sources provide such head counts,
they don’t furnish any additional information on the types of companies
entering the industry.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In this context Mr.
Paparozzi and Mr. Vincenzino admonish printers: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">Remember,
the companies that are entering the commercial printing industry every year are
starting with a clean slate—i.e., without the legacy equipment, work habits,
and mindsets that can limit flexibility. They’re coming in with a different
workforce, with a different, more relevant set of skills. They don’t have the
troublesome issue of long-term, loyal employees whose skill sets don’t quite
match the direction on which the company is embarking—new entrants are hiring
the skills they need at the start.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">Thus,
while we may pick up business from the printer that as shut its doors, don’t
ignore the rest of the story—a new breed of nimble and tough competitors are
entering the industry. Furthermore, don’t be lulled into a false sense of
security because new entrants tend to be smaller companies. Smaller companies
grow—and the good ones grow rapidly</span></i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">From my
perspective as a printing-industry journalist and commentator, I’m most
interested in investigating and spreading the word about the specifics of all
those newfangled types of equipment, workforces, habits, and attitudes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So now or at any future point, please
don’t hesitate to forward me links and details about any new “nimble and tough”
start-ups that you uncover or know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://napl.org/andrew-paparozzi/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://napl.org/andrew-paparozzi/</span></span></a></span><!--EndFragment-->
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08550908068998054803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7962931436913200666.post-85271583176344426442013-05-24T07:36:00.006-07:002013-05-24T07:42:37.963-07:00Am I missing any good printing quotations?<!--StartFragment-->
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">T. E. Lawrence, British Army Colonel & Author, a.k.a. "Lawrence of Arabia"</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">“The palest ink
is better than the best memory.”</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">- Chinese
Proverb</span><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">The above
quotation delighted me when it was recently published as the Forbes Thought of
the Day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had never heard it
before, and it starting me wondering if I was missing out on any other
compelling sayings about printing and print.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">Unfortunately,
since then my research has only yielded the following relatively short
list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you know of any other
good quotations about ink, presses, printing, and the phenomenon of print,
please forward them to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">“Words, once
they are printed, have a life of their own.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">- Carol
Burnett (1936 - )</span><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;">“He who first
shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired
armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new
Democratic world, he had invented the Art of printing.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;">- Thomas
Carlyle (1795 – 1881)</span><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">“American detest
all lies ex</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">cept lies spoken in public or printed lies.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">- Edgar Watson
Howe (1853 – 1937)</span><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">“The printing
press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><i>- T. E.
Lawrence (1888 – 1935)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wendell Phillips, Abolitionist, Advocate for Native Americans, Lawyer</td></tr>
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boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know
something about the history of the art of printing.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">- Horace
Mann (1796 – 1859)</span></span><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at
the fearful magic of print.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">“What gunpowder
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print is ever good news.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">“The printing
press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern
times. Sometimes one forgets which
it is.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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giveth, and the fine print taketh away.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">“With a face like
mine, I do better in print.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">“Print is the
sharpest and strongest weapon of our party.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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reading health books. You might
die of a misprint.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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memory of printing, the art preservative of all arts. This was first invented
about the year 1440.” [Latin, “Memoriae sacrum Typographia Ars artium omnium
Conservatrix Hic primum inventa Circa annum mccccxl.”]<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08550908068998054803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7962931436913200666.post-39642440136776833372013-05-17T06:14:00.000-07:002013-06-26T06:38:30.717-07:00Raise a glass to the ingenuity of Victorian printers this holiday weekend<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This weekend Canada celebrates </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Victoria Day (<i>Fête de la Reine </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">in French), a federal public holiday scheduled on the last Monday before May 25th in honour of Queen Victoria’s birthday. (Canada also celebrates current reigning sovereign Queen Elizabeth II’s official birthday on the same date.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Victoria Day rates special mention in my Printing Blog because Queen Victoria's reign (1837-1901) was a time of extraordinary innovation by printers, whose inventions included:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Steam-powered presses for printing large numbers of pages<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Powered lithography equipment with metal plates replacing the original limestone slabs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">The introduction of chromolithography using multiple litho plates to produce multi-coloured impressions.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Victorian linotype machine</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Informally, even Canadians who aren't monarchists often consider Victoria Day as marking the beginning of the summer season; but the important technological advancements of Victorian printers give us cause for yet another toast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.spanglefish.com/TheEphemeraAlbum/index.asp?pageid=124425"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.spanglefish.com/TheEphemeraAlbum/index.asp?pageid=124425</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/progs/cpsc-ccsp/jfa-ha/victoria-eng.cfm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/progs/cpsc-ccsp/jfa-ha/victoria-eng.cfm</span></span></a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08550908068998054803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7962931436913200666.post-14255524079332994412013-05-13T09:23:00.001-07:002013-05-13T09:29:10.055-07:005 new developments since Cody Wilson fired world's first fully functioning 3D-printed gun last week<!--StartFragment-->
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Five new developments since Cody
Wilson test-fired the first fully functioning 3D-printed gun (a.k.a. the “Liberator”) and
released the printable file for it on the Internet last week:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">1. The file was downloaded
100,000 times in just the first two days it appeared on line.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">2. Last Thursday a letter to
Mr. Wilson from the U.S. State Department Office of Defense Trade Controls
Compliance demanded the removal of the Liberator file and other downloadable
designs for printable gun parts from his Website DEFCAD.org, until the State Department decides
whether or not the files’ Internet availability violates American arms
export control laws called the International Traffic in Arms Regulations
(ITAR).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">3. In compliance Mr. Wilson
has removed the files from his own servers, although they have already spread
to other file-sharing sites where they still remain available.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>4. Mr. Wilson has also made the printable gun files accessible at a public library and a bookstore in Austin, Texas--which he claims
entitlement to do under his organization Defense Distributed’s exemption for
non-profit public domain releases of technical files designed to create a safe
harbor for research and other public interest activities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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5. Mr. Wilson is said to be
weighing his further legal options and has also contacted the Electronic Frontier
Foundation for help in counteracting what he views as an infringement of his
right to free speech.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Recent news reports:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/05/09/3d-gun-printer-defense-distributed-pull-weapon-specs-off-website/#ixzz2T6Ltn2ZA"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/05/09/3d-gun-printer-defense-distributed-pull-weapon-specs-off-website/#ixzz2T6Ltn2ZA</span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-05/defense-distributeds-cody-wilson-takedown-notice-we-win"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-05/defense-distributeds-cody-wilson-takedown-notice-we-win</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-government-orders-cody-wilson-and-defense-distributed-to-remove-blueprint-for-3dprinted-handgun-from-the-web-8610842.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-government-orders-cody-wilson-and-defense-distributed-to-remove-blueprint-for-3dprinted-handgun-from-the-web-8610842.html</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/05/09/state-department-demands-takedown-of-3d-printable-gun-for-possible-export-control-violation/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/05/09/state-department-demands-takedown-of-3d-printable-gun-for-possible-export-control-violation/</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://vicg8.blogspot.ca/2013/05/can-equipment-manufacturer-reclaim-its.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">http://vicg8.blogspot.ca/2013/05/can-equipment-manufacturer-reclaim-its.html</span></a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://vicg8.blogspot.ca/2012/07/gun-enthusiast-uses-3d-printer-to-make.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">http://vicg8.blogspot.ca/2012/07/gun-enthusiast-uses-3d-printer-to-make.html</span></a></span></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08550908068998054803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7962931436913200666.post-86718182238726239152013-05-09T06:05:00.001-07:002013-05-30T06:27:48.550-07:00NDP to introduce legislation protecting Ontario workers from Vertis ex-workers’ plight <!--StartFragment-->
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">On April 25, 2013 at
Queen’s Park, Welland New Democratic Party (NDP) Member of Provincial
Parliament (MPP) Cindy Forster held a news conference with a handful of
ex-workers from the closed Vertis Communications plant in Fort Erie, Ontario.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Their goal was to publicize the problems
faced by employees of foreign-owned companies that go out of business.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Although the unionized ex-workers have stopped picketing the closed plant, they are still fighting to
get over $2 million in pension plans, benefits, and severance packages they
were denied when the U.S.-based parent company abruptly closed the plant in
January.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Vertis was granted
bankruptcy status in the United States and sold its assets to Quad/Graphics,
another U.S.-based company, but the deal excluded the Fort Erie plant (Vertis’s
only Canadian operation) and several of its other U.S. facilities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Because of the circumstances of
Vertis’s bankruptcy, Vertis has been successful in circumventing Canadian labour laws protecting the ex-workers' right to compensation. The ex-workers have also been denied access to the
federal Wage Income Protection Fund that pays a small amount of financial
compensation to terminated employees of a Canadian company that closes without
paying severance.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Appeals to the
federal government from Ms. Forster, Niagara Falls Liberal MPP Kim Craitor, and
Liberal Ontario Labour Minister Yasir Naqvi have failed to gain the Vertis
ex-workers access to the fund.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Ms. Forster believes the
provincial government should do more to prevent this kind of situation
from recurring in Ontario.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Accordingly, she plans to table legislation, probably in the form of a
private members’ bill, that would better protect the province's workers when a foreign-owned
company closes. She says that the law might provide for the province to pay the
terminated employees what they are owed, then use its powers to retrieve the
money from the company.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">She says such
legislation existed when the NDP were last in power (from 1990 to 1995), but that
the Conservative Party under former Premier Mike Harris repealed it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Since then, o</span>ne subsequent effort by the
NDP to reinstate a similar law failed to gain government support.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">“As foreign ownership
of Canadian manufacturers continues to grow, and global financial markets
continue to struggle, more and more Ontarians could be exposed to similar
situations,” Ms. Forster said in a press release. “We need to take a serious
look at these loopholes, and figure out the best way to protect the rights of
Ontario workers.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08550908068998054803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7962931436913200666.post-51126971800981487602013-05-08T06:12:00.002-07:002013-05-08T07:32:14.126-07:00Ex-Vertis workers end Fort Erie picket line but continue fight for compensation<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqQWJ8-KoSY5C7BDwevedxJquV308CX4dxK6bW22XzoCoNfDG3N5KrMpBvhPjGpjsXCs2tDws-DvX_uk8-x4ZQ0SjwZihGp2tKrrA3pXaeFn5RxIpH85tffa5dQM-WN_a6puyMfimlZrA/s1600/vertis-logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqQWJ8-KoSY5C7BDwevedxJquV308CX4dxK6bW22XzoCoNfDG3N5KrMpBvhPjGpjsXCs2tDws-DvX_uk8-x4ZQ0SjwZihGp2tKrrA3pXaeFn5RxIpH85tffa5dQM-WN_a6puyMfimlZrA/s1600/vertis-logo.jpg" /></a><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bullet
News Niagara</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> reports that last week former employees of the closed Vertis
Communications plant in Fort Erie, Ontario, stopped picketing outside the plant's front gates, since all the equipment has now been removed, and the few remaining
employees working during the shutdown were let go on April 30. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the nearly 100 terminated workers
are still continuing their fight for the approximately $2.7 million (roughly
$27,000 each) they claim is owed to them since they were terminated without prior notice, termination pay, or severance in January, when the plant was closed. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The closure occurred
after Quad/Graphics Inc. purchased most of the assets of Vertis in October 2012, but
not the Fort Erie facility.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ex-workers are represented by the Communications, Energy and Paperworks Union of Canada (CEP). </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through
their union, the workers have tried to get at least some compensation from the Wage Income Protection Fund, a
federal program meant to provide a maximum of $3,640 to Canadian workers caught up in similar
cases. But although they qualify
for the fund, their claim remains unprocessed, because of a technicality: Vertis apparently did not file for
bankruptcy in Canada but rather had a Canadian court recognize the U.S.
bankruptcy the company filed in December 2011. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rumour also has it that one of the company's former customers, a
large Canadian newspaper chain that still owes the company about $2 million, is
withholding payment in hopes of finding a legal means to redirect the money to
the workers instead of the receiver for the company. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: red;">Please let me know if you have any more news about recent developments.</span></span></span></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Further to my post of 29 April 2013 ( </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://vicg8.blogspot.ca/2013/04/3d-printed-weapons-producer-says-hes.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">http://vicg8.blogspot.ca/2013/04/3d-printed-weapons-producer-says-hes.html</span></a> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">), over the weekend in Austin, Texas, 25-year-old Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson and a partner have
successfully test-fired the world’s first fully 3D-printed gun.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the end, they used a
common hardware-store nail as a firing pin, the 16-piece firearm’s only
non-printed component. Mr. Wilson has named his creation “The Liberator” after
the cheap, one-shot pistols designed to be air-dropped by the Allies over
Nazi-occupied France in World War II.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://defcad.org/liberator/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://defcad.org/liberator/</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/05/05/meet-the-liberator-test-firing-the-worlds-first-fully-3d-printed-gun/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/05/05/meet-the-liberator-test-firing-the-worlds-first-fully-3d-printed-gun/</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://vicg8.blogspot.ca/2013/04/3d-printed-weapons-producer-says-hes.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">http://vicg8.blogspot.ca/2013/04/3d-printed-weapons-producer-says-hes.html</span></a></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://vicg8.blogspot.ca/2013/05/can-equipment-manufacturer-reclaim-its.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">http://vicg8.blogspot.ca/2013/05/can-equipment-manufacturer-reclaim-its.html</span></a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Ken Lanci, owner, chairman,
and CEO of Consolidated Graphics Group Inc., is expected to announce he is
running for mayor of Cleveland at a news conference he has scheduled at his business at 12:30
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Mr. Lanci is known locally for his philanthropy and for spending hundreds of thousands of his own dollars on
a failed 2010 bid for Cuyahoga County executive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(But keep in mind that even Winston Churchill lost an
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be held in Cleveland next September, from which the two candidates with the most votes will
advance to the election in November.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">It’s official. As expected, on Monday Ken Lanci
announced his intention to run as a Democrat in Cleveland’s 2013 mayoral
election, making him the first challenger officially to enter the race against favoured two-term Democratic incumbent Frank Jackson. Mr. Lanci says priorities of his
platform will include reforming Cleveland’s substandard public-school system,
reducing crime, improved public safety, and poverty reduction through job
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">Mr. Lanci was born and raised
in a housing project on Cleveland’s east side.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">His press release says he rescued the family
business from bankruptcy when he was only 19 and has since built and turned around many other businesses.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">His current enterprise, Consolidated
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Further to my post of 29 April/13 </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">( </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://vicg8.blogspot.ca/2013/04/3d-printed-weapons-producer-says-hes.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">http://vicg8.blogspot.ca/2013/04/3d-printed-weapons-producer-says-hes.html</span></span></a> ), </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">it seems that, besides issues of gun control and civil rights, Cody Wilson’s use of 3D-printing technology to manufacture firearms also raises
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make gun parts, the 3D-printer manufacturer Stratasys cancelled Mr. Wilson’s
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">you don’t happen to like the content of a
particular job I’m running on a press that I’ve leased from you or you think
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.geek.com/news/stratasys-seizes-3d-printer-from-man-who-tried-to-make-gun-1519653/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.geek.com/news/stratasys-seizes-3d-printer-from-man-who-tried-to-make-gun-1519653/</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08550908068998054803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7962931436913200666.post-66069106338814241762013-04-29T09:20:00.001-07:002013-05-03T07:06:54.799-07:003D-printed weapons producer prepares to print world’s first complete working handgun <!--StartFragment-->
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Last week University of
Texas law student Cody Wilson told the Inside 3D Printing Conference in New
York that within the next few weeks he will successfully produce a working
handgun with 3D printing technology.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">The weapon is expected to be capable of firing at least a few shots before breaking or melting and will be printed in 12 parts using ABS+, a sturdy, conventional
3D-printed thermoplastic.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> In addition to its 3D-printed components, t</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">he gun will
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Mr. Wilson is founder
and director of Defense Distributed (DefDist), a controversial non-profit he established
last year to explore the possibility of manufacturing weapons with 3D printers. Mr. Wilson calls his mission the "Wiki Weapon Project". In 2012,
DefDist 3D-printed a lower receiver for an AR-15 rifle. Earlier this year it 3D-printed a 30-round AR-15 magazine, besides obtaining a U.S. federal arms licence. For some time other gun enthusiasts have been conducting similar experiments (e.g., see my blog post of 31 July 2012 <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://vicg8.blogspot.ca/2012/07/gun-enthusiast-uses-3d-printer-to-make.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">http://vicg8.blogspot.ca/2012/07/gun-enthusiast-uses-3d-printer-to-make.html</span></a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">).</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">After printing and testing his new
3D-printed gun, Mr. Wilson plans to upload his model files to the Internet so
that anyone else can print one. Debates are already exploding (pardon the pun) on government, legal, and social-media forums over the implications of these pending developments for gun control and civil rights.<span style="color: #555555;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">One sample discussion can be found on LinkedIn's Disruptive Print Group at: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&gid=4638740&type=member&item=236917411&qid=4ce61fb7-c586-47f5-913a-d5d6d9ebe4b8&trk=group_most_popular-0-b-ttl&goback=%2Egmp_4638740"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">http://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&gid=4638740&type=member&item=236917411&qid=4ce61fb7-c586-47f5-913a-d5d6d9ebe4b8&trk=group_most_popular-0-b-ttl&goback=%2Egmp_4638740</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">As of 3 May 2013, participates universally expressed the hope that </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">3D printing technology will be used for good not evil. I conclude that it's probably better to focus on its more constructive applications; for example, in the housing and fashion fields, cars, prosthetics for amputees, and implants for reconstructive surgery (see links below).</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17px;"> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57581053-76/3d-printed-guns-are-inevitable/?part=rss&subj=news"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57581053-76/3d-printed-guns-are-inevitable/?part=rss&subj=news</span></span></a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2295283/3D-printing-gunsmiths-make-blueprints-available-free-download-granted-firearms-licence.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2295283/3D-printing-gunsmiths-make-blueprints-available-free-download-granted-firearms-licence.html</span></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/04/15/lawmaker-seeks-to-extend-3d-printed-gun-ban-bill-to-magazines-and-other-components/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/04/15/lawmaker-seeks-to-extend-3d-printed-gun-ban-bill-to-magazines-and-other-components/</span></span></a></span><!--EndFragment--><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://vicg8.blogspot.ca/2013/02/3d-printed-garments-draw-headlines-at.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">http://vicg8.blogspot.ca/2013/02/3d-printed-garments-draw-headlines-at.html</span></span></a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Canada Post, the Crown corporation responsible for carrying the nation’s mail, became the brunt of jokes this week for the copyright
claims it has made--not only on Canada's postal codes, but also the phrases "postal
code" in English and "code postale" in French (Canada’s two official
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In spring 2012,
Canada Post launched a lawsuit against the Internet company Geolytica for
providing a free database of Canadian postal codes on line. Geolytica runs the
geocoding site GeoCoder.ca, which turns street</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> addresses into geographic
co-ordinates so they can be mapped.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although
postal and zip-code data is available for free to companies in the U.K. and the
U.S.A., </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Canada Post charges companies
between $5,500 and $50,500 a year for access to its copyrighted postal-code
database.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Canada Post’s original
lawsuit against Geolytica is based on the claim that Canada Post loses major
revenue when people distribute its postal-code information for free.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Geolytica’s counterclaim is that it
never stole Canada Post's information, but rather since 2004 has been compiling
its own database of postal codes by crowdsourcing the information from on-line
users who provided it voluntarily.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The latest in the
year-old lawsuit is that on March 9 Canada Post filed an updated statement of
claim alleging that Geolytica and other sites owned by Ervin Ruci violate
Canada Post’s trademark on the terms "postal code" and "code
postale."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Canadian Internet
Policy and Public Interest Clinic is representing Geolytica pro-bono, because for one reason t</span><span style="mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he high cost of
using Canada Post’s data also limits innovation opportunities for developers
who want to incorporate the data into geo-location software products.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> A </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">court date has not been set yet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meanwhile Treasury
Board Secretariat president Tony Clement continues to tout the Canadian federal
government’s “open data initiative,” which aims to make government-controlled
information from hundreds of sources (including safety
recalls, food-inspection reports, business licences, and Statistics Canada
research) accessible to Canadians.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">QMI Agency
reports:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">"’Other than
filling my mailbox with junk mail, misusing the legal system to pursue absurd
claims appears to be the way those overpaid pencil sharpeners see as the way
out of the woods,’" Ruci wrote on his blog, referring to a recent
Conference Board of Canada report predicting Canada Post's annual operating
loss will reach $1 billion by 2020."</span></i></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The <i>Ottawa Citizen</i> writes:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">“Ervin Ruci, founder
of Geocoder.ca, said the hassle Canada Post has presented over the collection
and use of postal code data should act as a warning to any business trying to
using government-created data for financial gain. He pointed to several other
businesses, including Canadian Tire and Walmart, that ask for postal code
information in order to present customers with a local store’s sale flyer.”</span></i></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A <i>Citize</i>n reader comments in a letter to the editor:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">“Canada Post has
forgotten that they exist for the benefit of Canadians not for the benefit of
the Canada Post corporation. Their recent desire to keep the words ‘postal
code’ for themselves is ridiculous.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">“It is equivalent
to the City of Ottawa saying that street addresses belong to them so that we
would not be able to say ‘24 Sussex Drive’ without permission.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">“Instead, we'd
have to say something like ‘the big house on the river where [Canadian Prime
Minister] Stephen Harper lives.’”</span></i></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.torontosun.com/2013/04/24/canada-post-claims-to-own-the-phrase-postal-code"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.torontosun.com/2013/04/24/canada-post-claims-to-own-the-phrase-postal-code</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.data.gc.ca/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.data.gc.ca</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://geocoder.ca/?sued=1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://geocoder.ca/?sued=1</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://geocoder.ca/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://geocoder.ca/</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Canada+Post+claim+ownership+ridiculous/8297590/story.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Canada+Post+claim+ownership+ridiculous/8297590/story.html</span></span></a></span><!--EndFragment-->
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08550908068998054803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7962931436913200666.post-31965106132125964682013-04-23T07:12:00.001-07:002013-04-24T13:24:55.344-07:00Pierre Karl Péladeau to chair Hydro-Québec and help Quebecor seek National Hockey League team for Quebec City<!--StartFragment-->
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Further to my post of 15
March 2013 (<a href="http://vicg8.blogspot.ca/2013/03/pierre-karl-peladeau-stepping-down-as.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">http://vicg8.blogspot.ca/2013/03/pierre-karl-peladeau-stepping-down-as.html</span></span></a>),
on May 15 (a week after he leaves his role as president and CEO of Quebecor on
May 8) Pierre Karl Péladeau will become chairman of the board and an
independent board member of the Crown corporation Hydro-Québec, Canada’s
largest power utility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mr.
Péladeau reportedly asked for and received this prestigious new role from
Quebec Premier Pauline Marois, whose office announced the appointment last
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><i>Macleans</i> has already
criticized the appointment as a nakedly political and partisan move by Ms.
Marois’s party, the Parti Québécois.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yesterday’s Montreal <i>Gazette </i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">speculates that Mr. Péladeau’s ultimate goal is to become Quebec’s next
premier.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">His new role is expected to
last five years and to save Hydro-Québec over $500,000 (since he has asked not
to be paid, and his predecessor, Michael Turcotte, received $125,000 annually.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Meanwhile Mr.
Péladeau will also remain the largest shareholder of Quebecor Inc. (effectively
retaining him control of the company that his father founded in 1950) and will
also assume a new position as chairman of two Quebecor subsidiaries, Quebecor
Media Inc. (QMI) and TVA Group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
has also been named vice-chairman of the board at parent company Quebecor Inc.,
and will retain a mandate from Quebecor to seek a National Hockey League team
for Quebec City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Additionally, Mr. Péladeau is back in the news for his part in an August news conference asking the federal
government to disallow a proposed takeover of Astral Media Inc. by Bell Media,
since despite opposition the takeover still seems to be actively proceeding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: red;">Pierre Karl
Péladeau’s Hockey Project </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In 2011 Mr. Péladeau
was reportedly instrumental in persuading Quebec’s former Liberal provincial government to
commit up to $200 million toward a new National Hockey League-ready arena in
Quebec City by offering additional tens of millions of dollars to support the project.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Then In March 2012 he
secured a deal with Quebec City to give Quebecor naming rights for the future
arena and exclusive rights to manage the facility.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">By the terms of the deal, if an NHL team is
acquired, Quebecor will pay the city $63.5 million for naming rights, plus $5
million in annual rent for the arena. Without one, the company will instead pay
$33 million for the rights and an average of $3.15 million annually for rent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Quebec City lost its
NHL team when the Nordiques relocated to Denver in 1995.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although the new arena is expected to be complete by
September 2015, no guarantee exists that the city will ever get a team back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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career:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2013/04/17/quebec-pierre-karl-peladeau-hydro-quebec.html?cmp=rss"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2013/04/17/quebec-pierre-karl-peladeau-hydro-quebec.html?cmp=rss</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/pierre-karl-peladeau-is-new-chair-of-board-of-directors-for-hydro-quebec-1.1242159"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/pierre-karl-peladeau-is-new-chair-of-board-of-directors-for-hydro-quebec-1.1242159</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Pierre+Karl+P%C3%A9ladeau+named+chairman+Hydro+Qu%C3%A9bec/8254639/story.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;">http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Pierre+Karl+Péladeau+named+chairman+Hydro+Québec/8254639/story.html</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.torontosun.com/2013/04/17/quebecor-chairman-pierre-karl-peladeau-joins-hydro-quebec-board"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">http://www.torontosun.com/2013/04/17/quebecor-chairman-pierre-karl-peladeau-joins-hydro-quebec-board</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/18/a-tale-of-two-patronage-appointments/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/18/a-tale-of-two-patronage-appointments/</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.montrealgazette.com/mobile/opinion/editorial/a9ladeau+next+leader/8278029/story.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">http://www.montrealgazette.com/mobile/opinion/editorial/a9ladeau+next+leader/8278029/story.html</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2013/04/17/bce-astral-plan-critics.html?cmp=rss"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;">http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2013/04/17/bce-astral-plan-critics.html?cmp=rss</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/11/16/bce-astral-deal-shares-halted_n_2144220.html</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://business.financialpost.com/2013/03/15/fading-to-background-of-quebecor-peladeau-said-to-be-eyeing-nhl/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://business.financialpost.com/2013/03/15/fading-to-background-of-quebecor-peladeau-said-to-be-eyeing-nhl/</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/story/2012/03/25/sp-quebec-city-nhl-arena-announcement.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/story/2012/03/25/sp-quebec-city-nhl-arena-announcement.html</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/opinion/2012/03/nhl-is-unmoved-about-quebec-citys-arena-plans.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/opinion/2012/03/nhl-is-unmoved-about-quebec-citys-arena-plans.html</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2012/09/03/quebec-hockey-arena-ground-breaking.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2012/09/03/quebec-hockey-arena-ground-breaking.html</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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