As part of our environmental initiatives SOS Print + Media Group held a ‘family tree planting day’, Sunday, 29th November.

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.

 

 

An exhibition at the Ku-ring-gai Arts Centre features artworks by long time SOS customer Adrian Farrow made 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 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:

• Article in Bookseller & Publisher Magazine
• Article in The Age
• More about POD @ SOS

This article in Print21 magazine explains Print on Demand and digital book printing.

New 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.

Factory manager Ian Stephenson undertakes some global marketing for SOS.

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.

In January 2007 SOS Print + Media Group added an Océ 6250 to their digital production machines to further increase the capacity in their mono digital print area. This machine – the first of its kind in Australia – has a throughput speed of 250 impressions per minute, more than 30% faster than its closest sheet fed competitor.
But speed is not the only advantage: Apart from excellent quality it provides other advantages such as printing on a bigger sheet size and perfect front to back registration, as it prints both sides of a sheet at the same time and does not have to turn the sheets around. The Océ 6250 is also environmentally friendly because it operates at a much cooler temperature to other production machines and therefore doesn’t require exhaust, ducting and air-conditioning and produces no toner waste.

Implementation has been smooth. In the first ten days we printed a worldwide record three million prints on the new machine.

Click here for the OCE press release