One of the country’s longest running offset printers Troedel, which has been in operation for the past 150 years and digital printer Docucopy, celebrated their recent merger with a customer event held in Melbourne.
The new business will trade under the Troedel-Docucopy name and will be based in Troedel’s premises in South Oakleigh. It will have a staff of 34 people, having retained all staff for both companies, there were no job casualties in the process.
Speaking with Australian Printer one of the owners, David Shandler, director, Troedel-Docucopy says, “We have been working together for eight years, and we have built up a good relationship, my company Docucopy focused on digital printing and when customers would call up for offset quotes we would hand it over to Troedel, who returned the favour when asked for digital work. Troedel needed to get into digital and this was the best possible solution for both businesses. I’m excited about the merger and I’m happy there were no job losses in the process, we have now become one big family.”
Troedel-Docucopy gathered together with clients, staff and management to celebrate the merger, clients were welcomed with a showbag of gifts, including a personalised calendar, stationary items and samples.
Tour groups of the plant commenced with a brief introduction to pre-press by Geoff Kennedy, followed by an in-depth look at platemaking by Agfa.
Troedel-Docucopy designers then gave an overview of their design capabilities before the team at KW Doggett demonstrated the difference between grain direction and helped to clear some myths about print and paper. The tours of the plant began in the offset section with representatives from Heidelberg and continued to the digital department with Fuji Xerox representatives.
The digital machines are from Fuji Xerox; a Nuvera 288, Nuvera 100, Xerox Color 1000 and Xerox Color 800. The offset presses are all Heidelbergs, including a six colour Speedmaster 74, five-colour Speeedmaster 52, two-colour GTO 52 and one-colour 52.
Andrew Tribute
