Stock responses & émigré options

Q I am trying to track down a website that offers royalty free images to printers and art students. I did visit the site once and the picture choice was amazing, but I have mislaid the information. Do you know the identity of this site?

A It sounds like a useful site, but I’m afraid it’s not ringing any bells here. PrintWeek’s art director Dinah Lone suggested Stock.XCHNG (www.sxc.hu), which became part of Getty Images last year. There’s such a blizzard of information online about stock images, it was difficult to pin anything down, but I did find a couple of links that may be helpful. Budget Stock Photo has a ‘monster list’ of free stock photo sites with useful info about image quality and any strings attached (http://bit.ly/bdp4Fl) along with a similar listing for ‘creative commons’ (http://bit.ly/9xdTV7). Hope this helps, and if anyone can identify Colin’s website, please get in touch.

Q There was an article in PrintWeek some time ago focusing on living and working in Australia. It mentioned a couple of recruitment agencies that specialised in finding sponsors for people looking to emigrate. I can’t find the article online, can you help me with the names of the recruitment agencies please?
Isaac Smith, via the Help Line forum at printweek.com

A I think the article you remember was ‘Making a run for the sun’, published in February 2008. You can find it here: http://bit.ly/alkf5n. Since then, PrintWeek has acquired a sister title in Australia, ProPrint, so I suggest you have a look at their site too (which also features jobs) and sign up for their email newsletters so you can be in the loop on what’s going on down under. www.proprint.com.au/.

Chinese web printer #2
A follow-up to last week’s request for commercial publication printers in China has arrived in my inbox, courtesy of PrintWeek’s esteemed columnist – and notable globetrotter – Andrew Tribute. In your helpline you missed out the best of all the Chinese printers for this sort of work. C&C Joint Printing (China) has plants in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Guandong and many other Chinese locations. In this year’s Asian Print Awards it won more awards than any other. C&C has been the leading Chinese printers for many years and is Heidelberg’s crown jewel in the Far East. They do both sheet- and web-fed offset. Many thanks for the info Andy. More info on C&C can be found here: www.candcprinting.com.