PRESENTS NOVEMBER NEWS Profitable Printing Solutions For Your Business Kiss Goodbye to MS In This Issue 10 years ago a lifelong friend of Cariss Printing, along with Simone • Help Kristy Get Right of ours received, at 26 years of age, and myself personally, are super the shock diagnosis of MS (multiple proud to donate to Kristy’s Multiple Sclerosis sclerosis). Kristy is doing awesome fundraising for MS. She is not 10 years on, the fitness and raising funds for herself. The funds • Melbourne Cup Time strongest she has ever been in fact. are not to get to Vegas. What To commemorate that wonderful the funds ARE for is to donate to • Where Did The Year Go? It’s feat, she is running a half marathon research so we can kiss goodbye Already Time To Plan Your this month in Vegas. to this disease once and for all. Christmas Printing! • Nothing More Satisfying Than Seeing One Of Our Jobs In Use. We had an awesome night raising funds for MS research last month at her music trivia event and we wish her the best of luck for her very first half marathon! Go team Kristy. If you would like to donate her fundraising page can be found here: https://kissgoodbyetoms.org/ fundraiser/kristy-draper/ Print2Profit News | November 2017 1 We love client Some Melbourne Cup feedback Trivia… “Hi mate, picked up the printing, The race that stops a nation has o Lloyd Williams 4 Wins great job as always, everything been and gone for another year. (1981, 1985, 2007, 2012) Unfortunately to keep our production • Trainer With The Most Wins looks perfect. schedule for the year, we put this Thanks again for your help!” newsletter to print before the cup o Bart Cummings 12 wins is run and you get it after the race is (1965, 1966, 1967, 1974, won… so well done to the winner… 1975, 1977, 1979, 1990, Cheers 1991, 1996, 1999, 2008) The Melbourne cup is a race serves Nick Tait up some truly remarkable bits of o Etienne de Mestre 5 wins (1861, 1862, 1867, 1877, HyperBeat trivia over the duration… here are some of our favourites. 1878) • 2003’s Cup set the modern o Lee Freedman 5 wins attendance record 122,736 (1989, 1992, 1995, 2004, 2005) • Race Record: Kingston Rule 1990 - 3 minutes 16.3 seconds • The first woman trainer to ‘officially win’ the Melbourne • Slowest Winning Time: Archer Cup: Sheila Laxon in 2001 with 1861 -3 minutes 53 seconds (in Ethereal the first ever Melbourne Cup) • It’s worth noting the 1938 • Biggest Winning Margins: 8 Melbourne Cup was won by lengths achieved by both Archer Catalogue trained by Kiwi Allan in 1862 and Rain Lover 1968 McDonald. However the actual • Heaviest Weights Carried By A trainer was Allan’s wife, Hedwick Winner: Wilhelmina McDonald better o 10st 5 lb (66.0 kg) known as Granny - a New Zealand Carbine (1890) , trainer of some renown… Unlike New Zealand, in Australia women Welcome Aboard! o 10st 2 lb (64.5 kg) were not allowed to compete as Archer (1862), trainers. So she put her husband o 10st 0 lb (63.5 kg) down as the official trainer. We’d like to welcome the Poitrel(1920) Catalogue’s owner Mrs Jamison following business to the • Lowest Weight Carried By A was so upset she nearly scratched winner: 1863 33.5kg, Banker the horse from the race when the Cariss Printing family VRC refused to grant Granny a • Heaviest Weight Carried In A licence. • Derrimut Hotel Melbourne Cup: 10st 10lb (68 kg) Phar Lap who lost • The first radio broadcast of the Melbourne Cup was made by • Pinsent Hotel • Weights most commonly the Australian Broadcasting carried by the Winner: 52.5kg Company in 1925 • Signature Bespoke and 53kg with eight wins each, followed by 47kg, 48kg, 51kg, • The photo finish camera was first • Urban Food Collection and 56kgs each have seven wins used in the 1948 Melbourne Cup • Owners With The Most Wins • Jockeys in Victoria must have • Village Gem blood-alcohol readings under o John Tait 4 Wins 0.02. (welcome back!) (1866, 1868, 1871, 1872) • Save this one for your next trivia o Etienne de Mestre 4 Wins night: What Australian sporting Thanks everyone for their on- (1861, 1862, 1867, 1878) event did Russia win in 1946? going support. We love you all. o Dato Tan Chin Nam 4 Wins The Melbourne Cup. Russia was a (1974, 1975, 1996, 2008) horse. He won by three lengths. 2 Cariss Printing | Print2Profit News It’s Time To Get Cracking Quotes of the Month On Your Christmas Good health and good sense are two Printing of life’s greatest blessings. —Publilius Syrus Christmas may still be the furthest materials. Use a Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and thing from your mind right now. But graphic designer to renew yourself, your body, your mind, time is actually getting away from you carefully incorporate your spirit. Then get back to work. if you are looking to get your Christmas some Christmas cheer. printing done in time to be successful. Using traditional red and —Ralph Marston gold if your logo is hot pink Some of our clients are onto it already. and fluoro green won’t really do You’re never perfectly safe. No One started in September. I’m talking your print materials justice. For the human being on Earth ever is or ever Christmas cards, Christmas invitations, most part try to fit Christmas around was. To live is to risk your life, your Christmas product catalogues and your company. heart, everything. 2018 calendars. These clients get excellent results from their Christmas The only exception to this rule —Rick Yancey printing that’s why they keep doing it. would be for Christmas cards. These are going to your loyal followers, As much as we want to keep The lead up to Christmas is one clients and suppliers so these ourselves safe, we can’t protect of the busiest times of year so need to have a personal feel, have ourselves from everything. If we preparing early is essential. genuine Christmas cheer, rather want to embrace life, we also have to than a corporate feel. embrace chaos. So let’s take a look at 4 of my top tips to make sure you are prepared: 3. Plan & Make a schedule —Susan Elizabeth Phillips 1. Actually DO some Christmas is a hectic time for everyone. There are few, if any, jobs in which Christmas Printing People and businesses are busy. That ability alone is sufficient. Needed also includes your staff AND us, your printer. are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and So this is a bit of a no brainer. Seriously, You need to plan and if you haven’t team play. get into the spirit of Christmas and made a schedule get onto it ASAP. you might just find it’ll have a positive —William B. Given, Jr. impact on your bottom line. A schedule will allow you and your people to know what is expected of To find joy in work is to discover the Christmas isn’t just for retailers who them and in what timeframe. It also fountain of youth. want to get Christmas shoppers means you’ll allow enough time for —Pearl S. Buck through their doors. Take a standard your design to get done without Christmas card for example. A perfect being rushed. And importantly (for The science of today is the opportunity for ANY business who us anyway) your printer isn’t left technology of tomorrow. has the names and addresses of their with a timeline that’s tighter than clients to touch base, stay front of Santa’s red suit. —Edward Teller mind and actually show you care. Going to the effort of printing a ‘real’ 4. Find a suitable printer The hardest arithmetic to master is card says a lot these days. Less and that which enables us to count our Oh wait. You’ve got Cariss Printing. less businesses do it too so you get to blessings. One decision you don’t have to stand out from the crowd. make. Tick. —Eric Hoffer A digital Christmas card just doesn’t Don’t be afraid to ask us for advice The most beautiful thing we can cut it and not doing anything is on getting the most out of your experience is the mysterious. It is the a missed opportunity to set your Christmas print projects. Even if source of all true art and science. business up for a successful 2018. you’re still at brainstorming stage. —Albert Einstein 2. Get the Design Right But make it snappy, please talk to us by November 30. That’s not to say Everyone is born a genius, but the Ok. So assuming you’ve decided to December is off limits but do yourself process of living de-geniuses them. give the Christmas printing thing a a favour and heed some of my advice go. Puh-lease don’t just throw a bit above. Call 1300 85 77 85 or email —R. Buckminster Fuller of tinsel or glitter at your usual print me on [email protected] Cariss Printing | Print2Profit News 3 Enough to Share Magnificent Menu Josh spent took a holiday We loved doing this year’s ‘Best and Fairest menu’ job for the Essendon volunteering with charity that Football Club. built housing in underdeveloped countries. During one project, a few They always produce magnificent artwork and special finishes for this important club event. children from the local village visited the camp where the volunteers This year was no exception.