Queensland Complete Printing Services is a Queensland finalist in the Telstra Business Awards

We have been officially notified that Queensland Complete Printing Services is a Queensland finalist in the Telstra Business Awards.

The Telstra Business Awards program was introduced by Telstra in 1992 to recognise the achievements and enterprising spirit of small businesses across Australia. Formerly known as the Telstra Small Business Awards, the program was developed to help profile Australian businesses.

In 2006, the name of the program changed to the Telstra Business Awards (formerly the Telstra Small Business Awards). Through market research Telstra identified that customers do not want to be perceived as ‘small’ businesses. In addition, with award categories catering for businesses with up to 100 employees, the new name better represents the nature of the program and its evolution over the past 15 years.

The Telstra Business Awards are organised on business size (based on number of employees), making it easy to choose the appropriate category for each entrant.

The winner of each of the five categories is eligible to be named the State or Territory Telstra Business of the Year (except for the AMP Innovation Award Winners). The state winners in all categories will be named at an Awards Dinner at the Hilton Hotel in Brisbane on 7th August.

The Telstra Australian Business of the Year Award will be awarded to one of the eight State or Territory winners.

We are entered in the 6-20 employee category which is sponsored by MYOB.

Whilst we have won many state and national awards for the printing industry this is the first time we have entered a competition where we are up against businesses outside the printing industry.

We are excited to have made it this far and have our fingers crossed at progressing further.
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Community Colour

We can offer you high quality colour printing at very affordable prices.

I don't wish to bore you with the technical details but with advances in technology we have never been in a better position to offer local community organisations (schools, churches, sporting clubs, special interest groups and community organisations) real colour printing at rates previously only available through a lesser quality colour copying process.

Not only is it now possible to give you quality printing at affordable prices we can also provide surprisingly short turnaround times.

We have been printing on the Sunshine Coast since 1983 and whilst we have received many state and national awards for business excellence, innovation, printing craftsmanship and the environment we haven't forgotten where we come from. We care about the community and want to be good community citizens.

If you have a project coming up from a brochure to attract new members or promote an event, an annual report or a sponsorship proposal give us a call on 5441 7775 or email me don@qprint.com.au and I will do my best to help you out.
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Launch of Warm 07'

On Friday night 1st June Queensland Complete Printing Services created a display of books and personalised boxes for the launch of Warm (Writers, Artists & Readers Month) 07 held at Sajun Legal in Maroochydore.

Over the last few years we have been recognised by the Queensland printing industry as a leader in book printing and this will be a fun way to show the Sunshine Coast literary community what we are capable of producing. We will showcase the books that have taken out the prestigious Judge's Choice at the last two Queensland printing industry awards nights.

"We are pleased to be able to support this great new community event and local writers. Without writers and publicity for their work there is no book printing industry. We are very proud of what we have been able to achieve and it will be fun to show this to our fellow Sunshine Coasters." Anne Blacklaw, Managing Director.

What is WARM?

WARM07, Writers, Artists, Readers Month, is a festival of events being organised by the Sunshine Coast Literary Association Inc throughout June 2007. The events are planned to complement and enhance the Noosa Long Weekend and Voices on the Coast Festival.

What are WARM’s Missions and Objectives?

The Writers, Artists and Readers Month - WARM 2007 - is a literary festival to nurture, showcase and celebrate talent, particularly on the Sunshine Coast.

During the month a large number of events will be held that provide:

• skills development to nurture talent

• events and activities to showcase talent

• ceremonies and awards to celebrate talent.

More information & Bookings

For more information, visit www.warmwriting.org

For bookings visit www.theeventscentre.com.au or phone 5491 4240

Five return from PrintEx 07 with Fresh New Ideas.

On the 24th, 25th and 26th, five staff from Queensland Printing attended the national printing industry exhibition (PrintEx 07') in Darling Harbour, Sydney to keep in touch with the future directions of the printing industry.

Don attended two of the forums Control your Future which looked at insights and strategies for survival and success in an increasingly complex printing industry and Digital Dilemmas which looked at making sense of the array of impacts, technologies and issues caused by living in and supplying to a digital world.

Anne and our IT Industry Placement student Cameron searched through the maze of new software available to the graphic design and printing industry before meeting up with Don for a trip to a spectacular new technology park for a guided tour and lunch with Fuji Xerox.

"We are particularly interested in a piece of personalisation software that Fuji Xerox have. It will change the printing industry as we now know it and we want to be one of the first on this new wave of digital transformation" said Managing Director, Anne Blacklaw.

On Friday night Anne attended the National Print Awards before meeting up with Steve and Jason on Saturday morning to look over all the big boys toys.

"To stay in front as an industry innovator we just have to attend these events. To not know what is happening and more importantly what will happen in our industry is to be left behind" said Don Parry.

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Local Partnership a Case study in Sustainable Business best practice.

The environmental impact of Small to Medium Enterprises and their capability to drive sustainability is often underestimated. It is interesting to note that an estimated 99% of companies in Australia employ under 100 people and that these enterprises are responsible for 60% of employment. While we are still researching their exact contribution to GDP , it is clear that the cumulative impact of small business is significant both in terms of wealth generation and environmental degradation.

Research conducted in 1999 demonstrated that 65 % of operators in the retail and service sectors believed sustainability was either important or vital to their business. This attitude was closely linked to their day to day hands on experience with consumers. Several years later and after the unhappy consequences of Climate Change related impacts, such as water scarcity and increased power costs, we are finding SME’s are becoming more aggressive in their pursuit of sustainability.

The Environmental issues most important to SME’s tend to be Waste management, Water efficiency and Energy efficiency. Most SME’s attempt to address these in their business through their own personal drive and using their own time and funds. This is a significant drain on already strained resources and many times cannot be maintained.

To improve their capability to implement sustainability, the SME simply requires access to the right knowledge and financial assistance. The SME does not wan’t newsletters, web sites, or consultations which cost money or waste time. They do want fast and effective ways of innovating their business to enhance their environmental performance and their bottom line.

The SBA has been formed to deliver this. It provides

1. the networks, partnerships and information needed to innovate.

2. the links to financial assistance (tax concessions, subsidies or direct financial incentives) and

3. the sustainability branding and media exposure to ensure their hard work and commitment is known to the consumer.

The benefits of the SBA for our local business community were underlined when Justin met with Don Parry of Queensland Complete Printing services to discuss business sustainability.

QCP is typical of SME’s in that they have invested a significant amount of their own time and resources to learn about Climate change, global warming, carbon sequestration, carbon trading, carbon taxes and carbon emissions targets.

QCP managing director Anne Backlaw was not satisfied with what she found. "It will be months or years before local, state and the federal government come up with carbon trading schemes and the like. We don't want to wait for governments to lead the way.

Armed with the facts QCP then implemented a plan and created a partnership with a local community group Florabunda Bushcare to demonstrate how an SME in Nambour can do its bit to reduce Carbon emissions.

It is a simple and effective plan whereby the QCP fund the planting of 1000 trees in the local area. The trees will be propagated at the Florabunda Bushcare nursery and then gifted to organisations such as schools and not for profit groups to assist local creek revegetation, landcare and community planting projects. Florabunda will assist community organisations in selecting appropriate species as well as information about planting, ongoing maintenance and care. All that community organisations have to do is visit the Florabunda nursery at the end of Laidlaw Road at Woombye and they can get the trees and advice they need.

Justin Holbrook estimates that the successful implementation of the project has the potential to deliver upto 1,000,000 tonnes of Carbon dioxide sequestration over the life of the scheme. Clearly the Queensland Complete Printing Services will be making a significant and demonstrable contribution to both its environmental and community goals. Not only that, QCP will be supporting a community tree planting organisation and maximizing the environmental return to the local area.

But the story doesn’t end there. The carbon sequestration scheme is part of bigger environmental policy being implemented by the company. Plans are underway now to reduce the organisations waste generation and also its energy and water consumption.

Queensland Complete Printing service is defining itself as a clear leader in sustainable business ethics and practices. They are pragmatic, highly informed and taking action. The Sustainable Business Alliance is looking forward to working with the QCP team to implement their next generation of Sustainable Business practices.

To find out more about Queensland Complete Printing's Environmental printing go to www.qprint.com.au or email us at enquiries@qprint.com.au