Remember the Time
Friday June
26 2009
5:00am AEST
– An emergency call to UCLA Medical Centre “50 year old male. Not breathing at
all”
6:15am –
Paramedics transport patient to Ronald Reagan Medical Centre. After an hour of
unsuccessful attempts to resuscitate him , the patient is pronounced dead.
Immediately, news services around the world run the story; Michael Jackson “The
King of Pop”, has died
Saturday
June 27 2009
The publishers of Time magazine plan to produce a special
edition 68pp magazine to be distributed in Australia and NZ on Monday 29th.
1:45pm –
The Hannanprint Account Manager for Time Australia, is asked, “Can Hannanprint
print and bind a special commemorative issue the following day and get it on the
stands by Monday”.
3:45pm –
Hannanprint Production Manager arranges
for press time to be made available. Paper Purchasing Manager agrees to come in
on Sunday to select a suitable stock for this issue. Despatch Manager confirms
that it is possible to airfreight NZ copies on Monday.
The project
has the green light.
5:52pm –
Time send through a print order with an additional request for posters.
6:08pm –
IPMG sheetfed printer, Craft Inprint
confirms that posters can be printed and delivered by midday Monday.
Sunday June
28 2009
7:30am –
Account Manager arrives at Hannanprint to create job datasheet.
9:51am
- Production Scheduling raises a job
number and schedules the presses.
10:50am -
Prepress creates an imposition and sets up a Centr@serve folder to
receive the files from Hong Kong
1:43pm –
Time approve the page files on-line.
11:39pm –
Printing commences
Monday June
29 2009
02:00am –
Binding commences
05:30am –
Less than 40 hours from the customers first contact with Hannanprint, 40,300
copies of the Time Michael Jackson commemorative issue are complete and ready
for distribution to newsagents.
Tuesday
June 30 2009
5:41pm – Email sent from Time Asia’s Nelson Luk to
Hannanprint MD.
“We would like to thank you for the great flexibility that Hannanprint displayed
in the production of the ‘Michael Jackson Special Edition Jul, 2009 issue’.
Your service is proven to be second to none, being able to accommodate our
request at such short notice and your teams (under the supervision of Mr. Ray
Blackwood) worked professionally even when they were brought unexpectedly in to
work on Saturday and Sunday on our magazine. Again, a big thank you to all of
you”