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By Kevin Keane, IAPHC CEO Y'KNOW Requests Your Knowledge Network Obviously Works (Y'KNOW?) From Bruce Kenworthy of Phoenix Press and the Calgary Club: "I have a new client looking for someone who can print removeable tattoos like you see little kids wearing. Any ideas or leads for me?" You can reach Bruce at 403-590-2681 or via e-mail at kenwortb@cadvision.com Bruce, one idea that comes to mind immediately (thanks to the International Gallery,) is Modernistic. Contact Deb Olson via e-mail at dolson@modernisticinc.com - From Dean Wolter of the Milwaukee-Racine Club: "I have been receiving TMN for several weeks and I think it is a wonderful vehicle for sharing information about our industry with our membership here and abroad. TMN also represents the power of broadcast e-mail. I have a Y'KNOW request. I am posting on behalf of a former employee who lost his job due to the fact that our front end system changed on our CTP device, and his background could not be repurposed to the new front end system. This person is seeking employment in a prepress shop or with a printer that uses Barco's Conseps front end system on a Unix platform. This person is willing to relocate for the right opportunity. Possesses one and a half years of experience in working with all phases of the Conseps v1.2 software. Good employee, excellent attitude, excessive overtime never a problem. Keep up the great work on TMN!" You can contact Dean via e-mail at digital@execpc.com - From Beth Ryan of the Central Wisconsin Club and Northcentral Technical College" "Northcentral Technical College in Wausau, Wisconsin is looking to fill 2 positions for Printing Instructor beginning in the fall 1999 semester. If you are interested, contact Northcentral Technical College, Human Resources, 715-675-3331, ext 5120. Leave your name, address and etc, and an application packet will be sent to you. Deadline for applications is April 30, 1999." - From Toronto Club president Bob Dale: "We have an opportunity to develop a business relationship with a Montreal or Ottawa based firm to provide account management services for a major international company -- marketing digital printing and creative services with a major national organization. You need to provide industry expertise to customers to create customer awareness of services and technology, and have superior project management skills to ensure flawless execution of service on behalf of the provider. Traditional marketing and customer service skills are required. There are opportunities for several full time positions. We can discuss employment or equity opportunity in rapidly growing business. Strategic training and support available. There may be a requirement to outsource some of the graphics and offset printing, so expert knowledge of the printing and graphics community is critical." Please contact Bob Dale at Pilot Management Services Inc at 416-410-4096 or via e-mail to pilotmanagement@home.com - From Erie Club BackBone Cheryl Adams: "Well, coming out of the stone age sure causes a myriad of, I hate to say problems .... because that sounds so negative......but I lack another word. My dilemma is: I just upgraded to Windows 95 and PageMaker 6.0. Yes, you heard right. Needless to say, I have experienced several delays in having my equipment work properly. I find myself asking: What was wrong with 3.1? Why did I need Windows95? Is there anyone out there who can help with some of the fine tuning? Example: I have a penchant for manually condensing just about everything I set. For instance, If I use Times Roman PS 12 pt, I set it at 90% width. What can I say, I like the look of type set a little taller and narrower. But when I send it to print (I'm currently using a HP LaserJet 4V) my type is not condensed. I have reloaded and all driver boards for all my equipment. That doesn't seem to have helped. All jobs I've done previously are heavy on manual condensing and I really don't want to have to keep using 5.0 or stop manipulating type as I see fit. Is there a genius out there willing to share their knowledge? Let me know. Thanks for everything." You can contact Cheryl via e-mail at srnews@velocity.net A member of the Toronto Club has an opportunity for a Fine Paper sales rep in Montreal and Vancouver. Contact the writer for more details. - From Detroit Club member Gary Brown: "Another pat on the back for the great job you do every week with TMN! Being in the used equipment business, we have a piece of equipment we are offering at a special price to all Craftsmen members. Details are as follows: 1983 Heidelberg Speedmaster 102 SP Six color with perfecting1/5 Alcolor dampening CPC 1.03 Hickey picker rollers Continuous feeder and delivery Printing high quality labels and will meet the most demanding printing reqmt's Optical review, 1 being lowest and 10 being highest = 8.5 Technical review, same standards as above = 9 This press has over 300 million impressions on it and runs and prints beautifully. We have seen it in production painting a sheet in solid color with numerous photos mixed on the sheet, the kind of sheet that can drive printers crazy, at 8,700 sheets per hour! This press has been printing long runs, which accounts for the impression count, and has been maintained by Heidelberg service since new. We have had two different mechanics inspect it and it has passed with flying colors both times. The current owners are ISO 9000 certified and run a very clean operation, to the point that Fantastic spray bottles hang off the printing units to wipe down the press as it runs. These wipe downs include the catwalk! We offer this press to members at $318,000, as is, where is, subject to prior sale. Delivery to the door of an end user can be arranged for an additional price. For someone wanting to get into the 40" six color market, or even add to an existing equipment list, this is an ideal press. Of course, if we sell it through a lead from TMN we will make a generous donation to the IAPHC and the local Club. If any one has any interest, they can e-mail me at Intrepide@aol.com or phone 734-459-8474. Thanks again for TMN!" Education Notes Our sincere Congratulations to the IAPHC's Seventh District Dr. John Leininger, who found out last week he has been granted tenure at Clemson University, in Clemson, South Carolina, where he has long been a valued part of the graphics department. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy! - From Dr. Harvey Levenson: The Cal Poly Graphic Communications Department and the College of Liberal Arts will host an alumni reception for graduates of the Graphic Communications Department and industry friends from 6 to 8PM, Friday May 14th at the Long Beach Convention Center during the 1999 Gutenberg Festival. All Cal Poly GrC alumni attending the Gutenberg Festival exhibits and sessions and industry friends are invited to stop by the reception for a visit with Cal Poly GrC faculty and staff, and to meet the new college dean, Dr. Harry Hellenbrand. If you plan to attend, please let Doug Haines (GrC '78) know. You can reach him at 626-585-7250 or via e-mail at dxhaines@paccd.cc.ca.us - From John Berthelsen of Suttle Press in Madison, Wisconsin, reacting to a note in the 31 March TMN about an industry/education initiative in Des Moines, Iowa: "Just a note to pass along some information that is related to the blurb on Des Moines, regarding attracting qualified employees to the industry. I recently attended the Board meeting of the Graphic Communications Career Center (GCCC), formerly known as the Education Council of the Graphic Arts. Newly elected officers include Lee Weir of Clemson as the Chairman, Larry Kroll of Heidelberg as Vice-Chair, and yours truly as the Treasurer. Lee is very passionate about moving the newly restructured GCCC forward, and acting as an industry clearinghouse and focal point for activities related to educating both prospective employees, as well as school guidance counselors, about the graphics industries and its opportunities. I might suggest that any printers, or Clubs, or educators that are interested in supporting or participating in this effort contact the GCCC for more information. While local efforts are certainly beneficial, a coordinated national effort is something our industry sorely needs. For more info go to www.npes.org/edcouncil or 703-648-1768. Thanks!" GO GALLERY! Or, Six Degrees of Gallery Separation. The International Gallery is a part of the lives of each of the three members mentioned in the above Education Notes. Dr. John Leininger's students have won Gold awards for some of the flexo projects he has submitted to the International Gallery on their behalf. Dr. Harvey Levenson is co-chair, along with Baltimore Club member Richard Burnham, of the Graphic Arts Literacy Alliance. (G.A.L.A.) At the IAPHC's convention in Rochester, New York in August of 1998, a GALA auction was conducted with the proceeds to be contributed to G.A.L.A. to help assist in the fight to eradicate the scourge that is illiteracy. This weekend, IAPHC Chairman Jeanann Georgianna will be in attendance at the Fourth District Spring Conference in Williamsburg, Virginia to formally present the auction proceeds to G.A.L.A. And plans are underway to celebrate with another GALA auction at the IAPHC's 80th annual convention to be held in St. Louis, Missouri in August of 1999. Auctionable items are already being solicited. If you have something you would like to see be auctioned off with the proceeds designated to help G.A.L.A.'s battle against illiteracy, please contact the writer. John Berthelsen's company Suttle Press in Waunakee, Wisconsin, has a Wall of Fame to celebrate its many successes in the International Gallery over the years. By the way, we heard from Jerry Bigalk the 12th District Gallery Chair late last week indicating that he had received an inquiry from a printer in Los Angeles who had read about the International Gallery in some promotional materials for the upcoming Gutenberg Festival. This printer will be a first time entrant. Chris Jacobsen of the Los Angeles Club is the head of the Gutenberg Festival and he was also recently named to the Advisory Board at Cal Poly to help Harvey Levenson shape the program. (See how this is all intertwined?) We mentioned the Suttle Press Wall of Fame displaying their many International Gallery award winners. We have seen a similar display put together by Jim Franz of Technical Typesetting and the Baltimore Club (see this months Baltimore Club Bulletin for a photo) and also at Connecticut Printing and Graphics as proudly assembled by Jeff Mayer, Second District Governor. Importantly, because this is the 25th anniversary International Gallery, each award winner will bear a special decoration signifying the Silver celebration of excellence in the arts and sciences of printing. 1999 International Gallery Sponsors To date, we have received paid commitments from the following industry suppliers: PrimeSource Corporation Finch, Pruyn Paper Neenah Paper Fuji Photo Film USA GretagMacbeth Brandtjen & Kluge Western States Envelope Additional sponsors commitments have been promised. We thank the members who are respectively responsible for this wonderful support -- Fred Heinkel, Tom Lapham, Tom Wright, Tim Combs, Dave Albrecht, John Edgar, and Pete Peterson. We believe that these fine firms will soon be joined by Pitman Company, Kodak Polychrome Graphics, Worzalla, Blanks USA, Independent Machinery and others. One of the other potential sponsors is Xerox Canada. We would like to share a paragraph from an e-mail sent to a Xerox Canada representative last week: "The real marketing value of the sponsorship comes after the judging. While the nominal entry deadline is May 15, 1999, the judging doesn't occur until June 16-19, 1999. As perhaps you have noticed, we printers are world class procrastinators, so each year we receive hundreds upon hundreds of entries the weekend before the judging. Once the awards are determined and then presented at our annual Convention in St. Louis in August, the sponsoring firm can really start to have some fun with leveraging the award sponsorship across multiple marketing constituencies both internally and externally. For example, I wrote a news release at the request of the winner of the 1998 Kodak Polychrome Graphics named award only 2 weeks ago for use in local media in the winner's marketplace. Excellent and unanticipated residual impact, months after the 1998 competition had ended. In fact the month of March 1999 saw our 1998 sponsors feted in three stateside graphic arts magazines which reached printers from coast to coast." So why do we burden you gentle reader with this info about sponsorship marketing? Because we have a glaring hole in our line-up of sponsors. Nearly every printed job has 2 basic elements. It has INK, and the ink is on PAPER. We have a Best Use of Paper sponsor; but not a Best Use of Ink sponsor. Surely someone reading this will take up the charge to secure a Best Use of Ink sponsor. It occurs to us that perhaps NAPIM might be a good candidate. Can you help? Calling all Entries Okay, one more time. Maybe :) We understand that everyone is busy. And we know that everybody relies upon the adrenaline rush of procrastinating and the empirical certainty that there will be a double secret final final deadline... but our little bald headed worry wart is getting worried here! It's April 20. The nominal entry cut-off date is May 15th (yeah right!) And we really appreciate the fact that the North Jersey Club's president Howard Feinman's firm, Applied Printing Technologies, winner of the Best of Show in 1998, is now up to 23 entries for 1999 and counting; and that we have 56 in from the Sierra Nevada Club; and 14 from Tony Sarubbi and Sue Schmidt's company PrismaGraphics. And the individual entries from Joyce Fox in Pittsburgh and Bob Schneider in Cincinnati and Jim Wilde in Milwaukee are each gratefully accepted, but... As of today's date we have exactly 13.43 per cent of our target entry goal in the door. There's an avalanche of entries coming and we need your help to even out the order flow. If there is ANYTHING you can do to shake loose your entries now, it sure would help with our planning for the judging. Not to mention the simple fact of handling a last minute deluge. And please don't take us wrong. Every single International Gallery entry is exciting and appreciated. We are merely trying to ceaselessly cajole :) Capiche? Club entries we have heard rumoured on the winds Adirondack, Capital District, Mid-Hudson, North Jersey, Syracuse, Buffalo, Toronto, Cincinnati, Detroit, Milwaukee-Racine, Jacksonville, Des Moines, Kansas City, Omaha, Topeka, Waterloo-Cedar Falls, Wichita, Calgary, Seattle, Fraser Valley/Vancouver; the 11th District, Winnipeg.... In many of these case the entries are ready. They just need to be packed up and set free to find their own path to glory. If you can help, it would be wonderful. And don't think individual members will be off the hook... the great Gallery guru has a LONG memory. So, if Steve Ruckreigle or Bill Orr or David Pitts or Susan Kinney or Jim Hopkins or Dick Lunde or Cathy Hatfield or Tom Newland or Dan Weisenbach or Pat Strelitzer or Dan Marantz or Dave Kincaid or; well you get the idea! Please send 'em sooner than later. Thank you! That's All Folks! Yours in Craftsmanship, Kevin Keane IAPHC Minneapolis Minnesota
If you're having difficulty finding a solution or have an example of how the Craftsmen Network has recently benefited you, we'd like to hear about it. Please send an e-mail to Kevin Keane at ceo@iaphc.org.
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