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People in Print
the OVERflow
Printgraphics installs second B1 Komori long perfector
Trek: Ian Parsonson, managing director, Hexis
Epic adventure Hfor ASD kids
exis Australia managing director Ian Parsonson has been on a five day
trek through the wilderness, with the aim of raising $10,000 for charity 4ASDKids.
The group was the charity
of choice for the ASGA/Visual Connections Golf Day, where $900 was raised. Parsonson was hoping the trek would raise far more. He said, “I thought - why not involve the industry in something even more significant, and make it a fundraiser for 4ASDKids?” 21
Melbourne commercial business Printgraphics
Printgreen has installed
its second Komori B1 long perfector, and threw its doors open to the market with an Open Week for clients.
Founded 40 years ago by Ray Keen, the company has put in a B1 eight-colour Komori G40 perfector, to run alongside the ten-colour B1 Komori, which
is itself a recent addition. Both are supplied by local agent Print & Pack.
Nigel Quirk, one of the directors of the business said, “We are investing for the future. We are travelling well, and saw the benefit of adding a second B1 perfector to our firepower.”
Printgraphics is currently running 24 hours a day, five days a week, with weekends being increasingly used. Quirk
New long perfector: Printgraphics directors (l-r) Mark Terrill, Nigel Quirk and Sam Keen
said, “The new perfector replaces a six-colour, so will give us additional capacity.”
The company has around
50 staff, a large of number
of whom, 10, are account managers. Quirk says, “We operate in a classic way, we really look after our clients, we spend time with them, we take them hard proofs, it is a face-to -face approach.”
In addition to Keen and Quirk other shareholders
and directors are Sam Keen – Ray’s son – and the managing director Mark Terrill. Its
work is a fairly even four-way split between publications, retail, government and NGOs. The majority of business comes from Melbourne, with 10-20 per cent sourced from interstate. 21
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