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THE
CONTROLLABLES
A SCREEN PRINTER'S TO-DO LIST
KNOWS NO BOUNDS.
By Andy MacDougall

MY TO-DO LIST this weekend includes
vote on new Academy (ASDPT) members, shortlist 10 from a field of 34
amazing Women in Screen Printing
award nominees, watch Canucks hockey,
and write a column. Some items - beer
drinking, riding the motorcycle, playing guitar - are not list-worthy; they get
done anyway, like brushing your teeth.
I downloaded and dealt with the
Academy voting, because it looked like
the easiest and quickest thing. I'm all
about completing a first task on any
list, just to get going. Some amazingly
talented people who have - and continue to - advance the screen and digital
printing industries through technological improvements and education were
on the ballot. But all I could think about
was missing out on what might be The
Last Supper: the annual Academy dinner. It's the fanciest thing this hoser
goes to every year, a chance to see a
lot of long-time friends face to face, the
induction of new members, the roasting

of the old, the presentation of the
Parmesan Award...
With no "PUSGIA" in Atlanta, there's
no Academy dinner. Come to think of it,
there's not much left of SGIA in the new
regime, especially as a few long-timers
were let go in the latest reorganization
and the demographics (i.e. screen
printers) dwindle at the show. I was
going to put in a link to the Academy,
but we have disappeared from public
view on the Association website. Skimming the SGIA Journal, I don't see too
much on screen printing these days,
which begs the bigger question: Will
there be anything left for screen printers
in the new PU? Or are we back to square
one - a unique process practiced in
diverse fields of manufacturing, but
with no association to unite us, and little
attention paid by the much larger print
industry as they also struggle to survive.
Feels a bit like we got swallowed by
a sick whale. Now what, Jonah? SPTF?
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