We can assist you in printing merchandise, flyers, publications and more! To make the process as smooth as possible, please provide us with the following:  

  • Minutes from council: Before we can book anything for your project, we need the document that shows your budget for design and printing has been approved 

  • Quantity:  How many print items do you need? e.g. 500 units of A5 flyers. It may be cheaper to print more, as the dollar per unit becomes cheaper the greater the quantity.   

  • Sizes: What physical finished size do you need for your publication artwork e.g. a booklet could be 148 x 210 mm (A5). For things like t-shirts and hoodies, you will need to provide us with fitted sizes (e.g. S, M, L, XL).  

  • Supplier quote approval: We can organise quotes from our suppliers and get your approval or you can fast-track the process by contacting the supplier yourself and passing on the approved quote to us.

Please Note: For all print work, the UMSU logo, department logo and Student Powered logo must be included. We also recommend that you include your department URL. Find out more about using UMSU's logos here.


Our Suppliers


Printed material (publications, flyers, banners)  

Kosdown Printing  
Contact: Andrew Downie  
andrew@kosdown.com.au  
info@kosdown.com.au  
9646 1177  
Kosdown.com.au 


Merchandise  

Bluegum  
Contact: Travis Kellerman  
E: travis@bluegum.com.au  
T: 8873 4444  
W:  bgpromo.com.au and bluegum.com.au    


Other ethical suppliers

The Design Department has been directed to provide guidance on the procurement of ethical printers committed to lowering their environmental impact while addressing labour practices within the supply chain for printed materials to UMSU.  

This list of Victorian unionised printers was provided by Tony Piccolo from AMWU: 


Printing posters on campus  

You can use the university printers to print off A4 and A3 posters.

We can provide your department with 2x A1 posters as part of our standard suite of promotional assets, free of charge. You can request additional A1 prints, which cost $10 per poster.  


Distribution of your publications (and posters!)

To get your publications distributed around campus you will need to drop them off to the CME office on Level 4, Building 168 (office 413+414) before midday (12pm) Thursdays. We will distribute them for you. 1-2 boxes is usually sufficient. We can let you know when we're running low.
Note that we cannot store your publications for you, so please only bring us a couple of boxes at a time!

Distribution also applies to any A3 posters you can choose to print yourself (in colour please!). Generally 5-8 of these will be enough. Same deadline, 12pm Thursdays to the CME office. You can also pin some posters up on the foam boards outside the lifts in Building 168.

Your A1 posters can be used for any a-frames you'd like to display at your event(s), or to display in your offices or autonomous spaces. Unfortunately we don't have any A1 sized poster displays available.


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