This month, Hewlett announced that 1,900 employees in its printing division had accepted voluntary retirement - more than the company had anticipated.

A printing division was opened in the late 1950s as an additional revenue source, and was eventually shut down in 1979.

Convinced that reducing documentation may be an insurmountable task, officials in the Secretariat's printing division are turning to computers.

The company reported solid earnings in most business areas, including its highly profitable printing division and its consulting services unit.

This led to the paper being published off-site in Muswellbrook, with its commercial printing division sold to a private company in 1986.

Earlier this year the company announced 3,000 layoffs, most of them in the company's lucrative printing division.

She pushed them aside and quickened her step, arriving at the unmarked door to the printing division.

Mr. Davidge, whose father was a porter at Christie's, started out in the company's printing division and worked his way up.

A commercial printing division has been set up, offering commercial printing of newspapers and other publications.

For instance, he was mediating disputes between the computer division and the printing division, which shared a sales force.