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Photograph - Print Troop Equipment and Personnel, Lithographic Squadron – Army Survey Regiment, Fortuna, Bendigo, c1970s to 1980s

  • Print Troop Equipment and Personnel - Army Survey Regiment, Bendigo. c1970s.

    Print Troop Equipment and Personnel - Army Survey Regiment, Bendigo. c1970s. .1) - Ultra-MAN-III Printing Press, L to R: unidentified technician, Laurie Sutton, SGT Jim Cook, unidentified technician.

  • Print Troop Equipment and Personnel - Army Survey Regiment, Bendigo. c1970s.

    Print Troop Equipment and Personnel - Army Survey Regiment, Bendigo. c1970s. .2) - Ultra-MAN-III Printing Presses, unidentified technicians (x2). George Mann Fast Five Quad Demi Printing Press in background.

  • Print Troop Equipment and Personnel - Army Survey Regiment, Bendigo. c1970s.

    Print Troop Equipment and Personnel - Army Survey Regiment, Bendigo. c1970s. .3) - Ultra-MAN-III Printing Presses, unidentified technicians (x2), George Austen in background and George Mann Fast Five Quad Demi Printing Press next to back wall.

  • Print Troop Equipment and Personnel - Army Survey Regiment, Bendigo. c1970s.

    Print Troop Equipment and Personnel - Army Survey Regiment, Bendigo. c1970s. .4) - Ultra-MAN-III Printing Press, unidentified technicians (x2) operating George Mann Fast Five Quad Demi Printing Press in background.

  • Print Troop Equipment and Personnel - Army Survey Regiment, Bendigo. c1970s.

    Print Troop Equipment and Personnel - Army Survey Regiment, Bendigo. c1970s. .5) - Krause Wohlenberg heavy-duty paper guillotine, unidentified technician.

  • Print Troop Equipment and Personnel - Army Survey Regiment, Bendigo. c1970s.

    Print Troop Equipment and Personnel - Army Survey Regiment, Bendigo. c1970s. .6) - Densitometer reading taken by unidentified technician.

  • Print Troop Equipment and Personnel - Army Survey Regiment, Bendigo. c1980s.

    Print Troop Equipment and Personnel - Army Survey Regiment, Bendigo. c1970s. .7) - Ultra-MAN-III Printing Presses, L to R: Janet Murray, Lance Strudwick, Terry Winzar, Komori Newkoni and Planeta Polygraph Printing Presses in background.

  • Print Troop Equipment and Personnel - Army Survey Regiment, Bendigo. c1980s.

    Print Troop Equipment and Personnel - Army Survey Regiment, Bendigo. c1970s. .8) - Ultra-MAN-III Printing Presses, Janet Murray, Komori Newkoni and Planeta Polygraph Printing Presses in background.

  • Print Troop Equipment and Personnel - Army Survey Regiment, Bendigo. c1980s.

    Print Troop Equipment and Personnel - Army Survey Regiment, Bendigo. c1970s. .9) - Ultra-MAN-III Printing Presses, Janet Murray, Komori Newkoni and Planeta Polygraph Printing Presses in background.

  • Print Troop Equipment and Personnel - Army Survey Regiment, Bendigo. c1970s.
  • Print Troop Equipment and Personnel - Army Survey Regiment, Bendigo. c1970s.
  • Print Troop Equipment and Personnel - Army Survey Regiment, Bendigo. c1970s.
  • Print Troop Equipment and Personnel - Army Survey Regiment, Bendigo. c1970s.
  • Print Troop Equipment and Personnel - Army Survey Regiment, Bendigo. c1970s.
  • Print Troop Equipment and Personnel - Army Survey Regiment, Bendigo. c1970s.
  • Print Troop Equipment and Personnel - Army Survey Regiment, Bendigo. c1980s.
  • Print Troop Equipment and Personnel - Army Survey Regiment, Bendigo. c1980s.
  • Print Troop Equipment and Personnel - Army Survey Regiment, Bendigo. c1980s.

Historical information

This collection of nine photos was most likely taken in Lithographic Squadron, Army Survey Regiment, Fortuna, Bendigo, c1970s to 1980s. The two Ultra-MAN-III Printing Presses were made in Germany at a standard map size format and introduced in June 1962 as a two-colour offset press with improved safety features. With an upgrade to a third colour deck in 1968, productivity greatly improved as the two presses could print a five-colour standard topographic map in two passes, rather than the three passes before their upgrade. They were replaced with a single Heidelberg Speedmaster 102 five colour Printing Press in 1990. There is more information on the Ultra-MAN-III, Printing Press on page 71 of Valerie Lovejoy’s book 'Mapmakers of Fortuna – A history of the Army Survey Regiment’ ISBN: 0-646-42120-4. For additional photos, refer to item 6065.10P for Ultra-MAN-III presses. The Krause Wohlenberg in photo .5P was a heavy-duty guillotine to trim bulk printed map stock in the c1970s and c1980s. See item 6069.6P for more information and photos of guillotine equipment. Densitometer readings as shown in photo .6P were essential to the quality control of film and printing processes, reductions in time taken and material wastage.

Physical description

This is a set of nine photographs of Print Troop personnel and equipment from Lithographic Squadron at the Army Survey Regiment, Fortuna, Bendigo, c1970s to 1980s. The photographs are on 35mm colour slides and were scanned at 96 dpi. They are part of the Army Survey Regiment’s Collection.
.1) - Photo, colour, c1970s, Ultra-MAN-III Printing Presses, L to R: unidentified technician, Laurie Sutton, SGT Jim Cook, unidentified technician.
.2) - Photo, colour, c1970s, Ultra-MAN-III Printing Presses, unidentified technicians (x2). George Mann Fast Five Quad Demi Printing Press in background.
.3) - Photo, colour, c1970s, Ultra-MAN-III Printing Presses, unidentified technicians (x2), George Austen in background and George Mann Fast Five Quad Demi Printing Press next to back wall.
.4) - Photo, colour, c1970s, Ultra-MAN-III Printing Press, unidentified technicians (x2) operating George Mann Fast Five Quad Demi Printing Press in background.
.5) - Photo, colour, c1970s, Krause Wohlenberg heavy-duty paper guillotine, unidentified technician.
.6) - Photo, colour, c1970s, Densitometer reading taken by unidentified technician.
.7) - Photo, colour, c1980s, Ultra-MAN-III Printing Presses, L to R: Janet Murray, Lance Strudwick, Terry Winzar, Komori Newkoni and Planeta Polygraph Printing Press in background.
.8) to .9) - Photo, colour, c1980s, Ultra-MAN-III Printing Presses, Janet Murray, Komori Newkoni and Planeta Polygraph Printing Presses in background.

Inscriptions & markings

.1P to .9P - There are no annotations stored with the 35mm slides.

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