Te Awamutu Courier - Centenary Edition - April 18th, 2011

6 Te Awamutu Courier, Monday, April 18, 2011
Printing orders completed in Courier bindery
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Awamutu Courier commercial
printing department produced
millions of items during more than
90 years it was in operation.
Company founder AG Warburton
came to Te Awamutu in 1908 and
brought with him the skills and machinery
to operate a commercial printing business.
He initially began printing in a shed
behind G.Gifford and Son before shifting
the operation to the current site of the Te
Awamutu Courier.
His policy of ploughing profits back
into the company meant that the company
obtained and used up-to-date
machinery, amongst them Heidelberg,
Thompson and Rotaprint presses.
It also meant that the scope of work
could be constantly increased.
Large stocks of paper (lightweight
varieties to heavy cardboard) in a range
LEFT: Eva Hall collates a job.
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Centennial Edition
of quality, size and colour were utilised to
print on, initially in black and white, later
in colour.
Books, magazines, invitations, sales
catalogues, letter heads, wages books
and Christmas cards were just some of
the items that were printed.
Items were then sent to the bindery
for one or more of the following processes:
collating, folding, trimming, binding,
stapling, perforating.
The finished products were then
dispatched or collected by the customer.
Some larger jobs required days to
print and bind. For the massive jackpot
race meeting in .. staff worked through
the night to get more than 20,000 race
books done.
With the advent of computers, scanner
and printers the workload was
reduced.
The commercial printing department
closed in 2002, with some of the
machinery, staff and client lists taken
over by Rosetown Print.
BINDERY assistant Molly Brill wraps a job ready
for dispatch.
BOOK binder Marjorie Anderson collates a job in
the bindery (1990).