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People in Print
the OVERflow
Rockhampton newspaper printing born again
Below Big prizes: Marcus Marchant, CEO Vistaprint
Vistaprint in O$15,000 promo
nline print giant Vistaprint offered six lucky Australian
customers a brand refresh and a $15,000 financial donation that can be used for anything. The winners were chosen from nominated businesses, by a three strong judging panel.
Marcus Marchant, Vistaprint ANZ managing director said, “The promotion was aimed to show the power of print for business of all kinds, and how Vistaprint can help. 21
Almost a year after
News Ltd closed its Kawana print centre in Rockhampton, the plant is back up and running, under new owner Today Group, producing newspapers once more.
The print centre houses a six-tower two folder Manugraph and Muller Martini inserting equipment, which is now in
the fray once again, printing for Today Group and other publishers. The pressline will print 48pp newspapers, in one pass, in full colour.
“It is good news to have the press running again,” Dave Richardson, general manager, said. Today had been using presses in Townsville for its papers.
Today Group sprang up when
News pulled out. The company formed with backing from
Star News, which publishes newspapers in Queensland
and Victoria. Backers include Bruce Allen, Damien Morgan, and Paul Thomas from the Star News Group.
The Kawana site will print Today Group newspapers
from across Queensland including Bundaberg, Gympie, Noosa, Burnett and Kingaroy mastheads, as well as the group’s newest paper, Ipswich Today, which launched last month.
The current Rockhampton plant was opened in 2008 but there has been a newspaper plant in the town since the war.
The site was made idle when News axed swathes of its printed community newspapers as Covid struck, however, the new owner is starting its own newspapers. 21
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