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Valé Bruce Sinnott 1949-2019: A reflection
It is the melancholy duty of the survivor to write the eulogies for those who’ve passed on. Kevin Sinnott, the surviving brother of the prominent graphic
arts family, reflects on the life of his brother, Bruce,
digital cameras mid to late ’80s; spread spectrum radio transmission of data mid
to late ’90s; pre-microwave transmission of data; digital assets management; facilities management and more. Digital proofing, colour management of data from capture to final media output. I’ve forgotten half of the things we did.
Bruce started as a lithographic camera operator apprentice in his chosen industry in the mid ’60’s. During his time at tech he topped the class every year culminating as apprentice of the year. I can’t remember if
he finished his apprenticeship, for he was whisked off into
a management cadetship
in the Consolidated Press organisation. Our whole family, father Gordon as well, was employed at various times by CP. During this cadetship Bruce compiled a number of ‘futures’
reports
pertaining to
the letterpress,
lithography and
gravure plants
in operation
at that time. A
great number
of those crystal
ball gazes
still exist today, (not in plants owned by CP, naturally) but
in the processes. If Bruce saw something that looked logical, practical and importantly marketable, and could convince his brothers to his way of thinking, we had to have it. Never mind we had to hock
the house, kids and family to guarantee project’s finance.
It’s interesting to note that Sinnott Bros/SBM – whatever it’s called these days – to my knowledge has never shown a loss on its yearly balance sheet since 1973 to this day. Now that’s an achievement. 21
Ifollowing brother Neville’s earlier demise.
lost another brother, during a very special time,
Bruce Sinnott 1949 – 2019
Bruce, last month: the spanning image capture via wet first loss, Neville, was plate technology, and on into back in 2012. Both were the realms of digital cameras,
still reasonably young men by digital print and computer to
today’s standards. Neville 76, Bruce 70.
Neville succumbed to the aggressive recurrence of melanoma after 20 odd years in remission. Bruce had been suffering the early effects
of Alzheimer’s undetected
for many years, his bright intellect masked his malady
for quite some time before finally being diagnosed and the deterioration process began progressing to its culmination.
The three of us were involved in the graphic arts industry
plate. I think Bruce via Sinnott Bros was the first to implement CtP in Australia.
Bruce attended the holy mecca of drupa every four years, religiously returning to evangelise our company to be a beta site for most of the cutting edge technology.
Via his enthusiasm we were in the very vanguard for most quantum leaps taken by the graphic arts during this whirlwind of innovation; electronic pagination’ systems in the early ’80s;
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