It’s tough being a rep in Australia’s mature newspaper printing market, but Fujifilm Australia’s Warren Hinder wasn’t reckoning on being fed to the crocs.

You could say it goes with the Territory: The Single Width Users Group is in Darwin this weekend and having scored the year’s biggest plate order, Hinder found he had also scored a dip in the “cage of death”.

And the opportunity to shout the 140 delegates a drink or two at the Top End city’s Crocosaurus Cove attraction before the conference gets down to business tomorrow. Fortunately, the 85-year-old – the croc, that is – had already dined.

The inner city theme park claims some of the world’s biggest ‘salties’ among its 200 crocodiles… as well as a snake or two. That’s Eli (right) cuddling up to SWUG president Bob Lockley and last year’s apprentice of the year, Nicole Clarke. Or is it the other way around.

On the agenda are technical sessions tomorrow and Sunday, a visit to host site the Northern Territory News and the annual presentation dinner on Sunday. The News Corp Australia owned print site is one of the most modern in the country, with KBA Comet press equipment and a Ferag mailroom.