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Longina Phillips installs Epson SureColor
Fundraising and fun at Sign Golf Day
Australia’s leading creative print design studio Longina Phillips Designs has installed a new Epson SureColor to print its textile designs.
Lola Phillips, founder and managing director of Longina Phillips Designs explained, “Our talented design team creates new trend directions with consistently forward- thinking, boundary-pushing collections of textile designs.
“Longina Phillips Designs consists of a full-service
studio offering three mainline collections. In addition to our collections, we share decades of experience in fashion and design by offering tailored trend reports, custom print work, a gifts section for limited edition art prints, and our own print school. In other words, the printers we use are essential to the success of our business and for those, we chose Epson SureColor.”
Epson SureColor printers now play a key role in bringing the Longina Phillips Designs to the global fashion industry. Phillips said, “As a design practice we have always sought the best colour output, the best product and the best support. Our relationship with Epson started early around 1995 with desktop printers. Colour has always been the first consideration
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NSW sign and print industry calendar, with the inaugural event delivering an enjoyable blend of networking and friendly competition, as well as raising more than $900 for the Man Anchor charity.
They’re a hardy lot in the sign, display and print industry, and none more so than the 68 enthusiastic golfers who braved the dark and cold of an autumn morning in Sydney recently
for the first annual NSW sign industry Golf Day.
Hosted by the Australian Sign & Graphics Association (ASGA) and supplier association Visual Connections, the day started with welcome coffee, egg and bacon burgers, groups hitting the course at 7.30am. 21
Early start: ASGA/Visual Connections Golf Day
Boundary pushing collections of textile design print being produced on the new Epson SureColor at Longina Phillips.
for us and our first models
were Epson desktop A4 and A3 printers, then we moved on and purchased an A2 printer. Our first wide-format Epson stylus had water-based inks, and was our favourite printer as it gave a much greater colour gamut. We now have all our Epson wide format printers calibrated to give the best colour.”
Phillips added, “Colour is absolutely paramount, and the flexibility of printing different sizes of paper is important
to us too. We now use Epson wide format SureColor printers to print all our design work.
We love the SureColor, as the colour of our printed designs is outstanding. Our clients always comment on the colour of our
designs and ask us what printer and inks we use. The printing and the quality of colour can be always relied on with Epson.”
In the fashion world, what you see is not just what you get but what you sell, so the imagery and prints Epson helps Longina Phillips Designs achieve go a long way within the company.
Lola Phillips concluded, “There are several key benefits for Longina Phillips Design in using Epson SureColor printers moving forward. Critically it is the reliability and quality of their printers combined with Epson’s first-class support, knowhow and knowledge. When all is said and done that’s an unbeatable combination for us.” 21
he ASGA / Visual Connections Golf
Day is set to become a popular fixture on the
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