Grand Final fever is sweeping Melbourne at the moment and nowhere more so than Creffield Digital Print in West Melbourne which has spent a feverish week working on a top secret project for the AFL.
Creffield Managing Director Frank Veltman refused to be drawn on the content but says his company has put together 850 linear meters of wide format printed materials to be
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| Frank Veltman with operator Michael Skubevski, a keen Collingwood supporter, outputting one of the last elements of the AFL project on one of the company’s Océ ColorWave 600 wide format colour printers. |
assembled at the MCG prior to the big match between Collingwood and St. Kilda.
The output was printed on two Océ ColorWave 600 wide format systems on 90gsm Océ bond paper right in the heart of Collingwood.
“The job started as soon as the last final ended on Saturday and we knew which teams would contest the final,” Veltman says. “We started work that evening and spent 70 hours with both Océ ColorWaves going full pelt. It was one of the biggest jobs we’ve done.”
And the content? “The AFL is understandably reluctant to give the game away about its plans for a Grand Final so, you’ll have to watch the game to see that. But I can assure you it’s spectacular!”
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