The printer, based in the Sydney suburb of Silverwater, recently secured a job to produce a set of 650 gold coins and 1000 silver coins in honour of a Royal visit to Papua New Guinea, said managing director Phil Roden.

Roden is one of five preferred suppliers to the Mint, which must meet "very stringent" standards for the 50 collectable sets it produces each year, a spokesman told ProPrint.

"If you're a collector of coins, the packaging is also important, so it has to be perfect and we don't accept anything less than that," said the spokesman.

"We do have a lot of printers approach us, but once we tell them of our stringent requirements, they say it's too hard for us and we can't do it."

Roden said the Sydney printer relied on a thorough knowledge of the client's needs to meet the Mint's high standards.

"There's a long trail of dead printers behind the Royal Australian Mint," he said.

"They're very, very good people to deal with, but you earn your money."

The Mint produces coins to commemorate anniversaries, special events and famous Australians.

Most jobs feature a box and a numbered certificate and are produced in quantities ranging from 500 for premium items like gold coins to 50,000 for more generic offerings, said Roden.

The 12-staff operation uses a four-colour KBA SRO for most of its production and a Canon ImageRunner C9065 for the variable printing, he told ProPrint.

Roden said the company had been working for the Mint for about a decade and averaged one job per month.

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