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Canadian flexo & height charts

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Joanne Gardner tracks down the solutions to your print problems

We are looking for experienced flexo printers from Europe for our growing operations in Toronto. Are there any agencies that would help us in recruiting flexo press operators/plant managers or any associations for retired press operators who are seeking work?
Vinod Sharma
Metro Label Company

For recruitment agencies, just flick on few pages to our Appointments section. Alternatively, visit our jobs section on printweek.com. I couldn’t find any official association for retired press operators, except the PCC and various old boys’-style clubs, but I may be able to go one better than that. Packaging industry veteran John Durston, formerly the deputy chief of Amcor Flexibles Europe, said there may be former employees of Amcor’s Colodense site in Bristol, which closed down last year, who are still seeking work and would be interested in emigrating to Canada. The executive office is still open (0117 975 3200), so it may be worth calling Tino Savvas or Rob Plimley to discuss how you might contact ex-staff

Do you know any firm that can fold 90,000 height charts, 1,638x230mm?
Julie Markham
Theakston Print

An MBO T1420 with Mabeg feeder should be able to fold a job this tall, and Butler & Tanner (01373 451 500) is one of the few printers here that runs one. However, there may be an issue, not with the height but with the width: the MBO feeds a minimum of 550mm. Whether the job can be done 3-up using two slitters is a question worth asking Adam Sparey at B&T. A Stahlfolder TD142 might also do the job. Real Digital (020 8603 7000) has one of only two in the UK, the other belonging to Ordnance Survey.
RETRO STITCHER #2
After I basically gave up all hope of finding spare parts for Brian Johnston’s ‘retro’ Linotype Trim-stitch, and cheekily told him to get a new one, two firms got in touch to say they had the model avail-able for spares. So he can hold on to it after all.
MILITARY MEDALS #2
No, you’re not going mad, some text was lost at the end of my answer to Dr Anne Baker last week. Here it is: In terms of getting to the bottom of your grand-father’s military medals, your best bet would be the National Army Museum (www.national-army-museum.ac.uk), which has an excellent library, or the Imperial War Museum.
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