Planting Trees
30 customers and staff planted over 500 trees at Hugh Bamford Reserve Military Road, North Bondi. To help celebrate the recent announcement that Tudor RP 100% Recycled is now FSC accredited, SOS Print + Media held a tree planting followed by a BBQ hosted on site by Spicers Paper and Waverley Council. Bush regenerators assisted us in planting the trees. Spicers Paper has raised in excess of $400,000 over the past four years for Recreate. Recreate is the name of a staff driven Spicers program created to give a little back to the environment. Spicers Paper has pledged $100 to Landcare Australia for every tonne of Tudor RP 100% recycled stock sold. The funds raised are being used to restore several landfill sites across Australia to their natural state, by removing weeds and replanting.
Art from Printing Plates
This is the Ku-ring-gai Art Centre's final exhibition for 2009, featuring the latest works from Helen Leete's sculpture classes; Diana Bilderbeck-Frost and Annie Hughes' botanical art classes; and Seraphina Martin and Karen Balls' printmaking classes. It is on until December 23rd, more information at the Centre's web site at http://www.kmc.nsw.gov.au/www/html/523-exhibitions.asp.
Random House launches POD programRandom House Australia (RHA) has launched a print on demand (POD) program that will allow it to produce single copies of out-of-print titles. The program, which has been 18 months in the planning, is in partnership with Sydney-based SOS Print+Media and will cover out-of-print in-copyright Random House titles that sell nine or less copies per year. More Info: The Power of One
This article in Print21 magazine explains Print on Demand and digital book printing.
SOS Print and Media Sets Printing Record For Océ PrinterNew South Wales printer SOS Print + Media Group in Alexandria has become only the third printer in the world and the only one in Australia to register 100 million impressions on its Océ VarioPrint 6250 duplex digital printer. Clocking in at more than 136,000 impressions per day, including weekends and public holidays, the record volume underscores the reputation of the Océ VarioPrint 6250 as a digital workhorse. Director of SOS, Michael Schulz says the company has been so impressed by the performance that it has installed a second Océ VarioPrint 6250. Second nomination for Employer of the Year
SOS installs the first OCE 6250 in the southern hemisphere |

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SOS has again been nomitated for the Prime Minister's Employer of the Year award.The picture shows SOS Print and Media's factory manager Ian Stephenson at the Prime Minister's ceremony in Canberra.