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UniPrint, the University's in-house print and design facility, recently installed a new high quality colour printer that is stirring interest with clients on- and off-campus.

UniPrint Manager Craig Mackenzie is clearly proud of the B2 Sakurai 575SD which brings the on-campus facility in line with services offered by other major printers in Perth. The new printer will handle 99 per cent of printing needs generated by the University and it replaces the Sakurai 458P that had served UniPrint well for the past seven years.

When Craig initially started at UWA in 1981 the University has a duplicating room in the basement of the Administration building. After a period of absence, in 1988 he came back as a one-man team in charge of a small off-set single-colour press, producing in-house administration work, including minutes, agendas and theses and started UniPrint.  He learned on the job, saw the unit grow exponentially and today UniPrint employs 23 staff.

UniPrint's design office is based on campus in the Guild's Commercial Building, while its main production facility is on University-owned land off leafy Brooklands Way in Mt Claremont, adjacent to McGillivray Oval.

Once a bindery for the library, the facility is now greatly expanded to accommodate the large press and an extensive paper storage area.

" Uniview magazine, the University's flagship publication, was the first major job that UniPrint produced on the new printer, and we're very pleased with the result in terms of quality," Craig said.

"The new printer adds extra refinements in terms of quality, and offers a lot of efficiency gains including the ability to print four pages at once rather than two, so we can complete a job faster."