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Heatset Web Offset
Big end of town powers on
Patrick Howard looks at the momentous upheavals in the heatset web offset sector over the past three years.
Fespa and Fabric
Fespa: wide format
goes on display
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Web profile: manroland Goss The two big heatset web offset manufac turers are now one. Dennis Wickham, managing diretcor of the ANZ arm tells us what
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Web profile: Spotpress
The local web market is not just the big two operators. Family-owned Spotpress has carved out a niche serving the many ethnic
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Plates: Sonora
The Kodak processless Sonora plate is being taken up with gusto. Patrick Howard talks to Kodak’s new ANZ sales director Rob Mollee on why this
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Turning audiences into customers
PMP is now Ovato. Print21 editor Wayne Robinson speaks to CEO Kevin Slaven on the company’s goals,
the rebrand from PMP, the
26 market, and the outlook. 52
Fespa: focus
Print21 previews the leading developers, and highlights what visitors from this part of the world can expect to see from them at the big wide format show.
Teeing up new revenues
Jake Nelson investigates the growing direct-to- garment sector, and where the opportunities are to be found for commercial print businesses.
Smithers Pira textile analysis Leading print research agency examines the four major trends in textile print and points to where the oportunities can be found.
Wide world of digital textiles There’s a four-cornered technology fight in the wide-format digital textile market, and Jake Nelson takes a deep dive into the opportunities for each.
Digital textile opportunity
Wayne Robinson travels
to Hong Kong to get the lowdown on Kornit Digital from the new men at the
top Andy Yarrow and Jamie Weller.
Everything you need to know about wide-format’s global event, taking place in Munich next month.
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Cover feature
Fujifilm launches new Acuity Ultra high quality super-wide format printer to market at Cactus.
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