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From the Editor
Wide-format
70 Océ opens Customer Experience Centre
Dozens of local printers were at the official launch of the new Océ Customer Experience Centre in Clayton, with Océ ANZ managing director Craig Nethercott saying the new centre
is all about applications.
74 Colour control for printed interiors
Professor Paul Lindstrom tells us how to apply colour management successfully to operate in the booming world of wide-format printed interiors.
Installations
54 Brewtopia pivots to new markets
Custom e-commerce beverage outfit Brewtopia is growing into the wholesale market with its new Konica Minolta AccurioLabel 190 digital label press.
58 E-Stickers invests in HP Indigo
Specialist trade label and sticker printer E-Stickers is making its biggest ever investment, in a reel-to-reel HP Indigo digital label press.
72 ADS finds solution with EFI
ADS is committed to enabling its clients to walk away with a good answer to their challenges, with a new EFI Vutek part of its solution.
drupa 2020
78 Dare to be different
In the first of a series of articles from the global mega show drupa, European analyst Raphael Ducos calls on printers to throw away the old baggage and embrace a change of mentality.
80 drupa 2020 to expand 3D sector
Next year’s mega trade show drupa will see an increased presence for 3D printing, or as the German manufacturers association VDMA correctly calls it, additive manufacturing.
News and views
16 Scott Telfer AI is marching into print.
76 Andrew Macaulay Latest news from the PIAA. 77 Ruth Cobb PrintNZ is delivering for members. 82 People in Print Movers and shakers in print. 90 Diary Events coming up in print around the world.
See you at LIVE and PrintEx. The Print21 editorial team (l-r) editor-at-large Patrick Howard; labels and industrial editor Jake Nelson; with editor Wayne Robinson.
OWelcome to Print21
ur aim in every issue of Print21 is to provide you – the owners and managers of print businesses in Australia and New Zealand – with real business intelligence; keeping you abreast of industry developments, updated with market
movement, and fully informed of threats and opportunities to business growth.
We kick off this July-August issue with an exclusive insight into one of the country’s most successful print businesses, Southern Colour, where CEO Rod Dawson shares some of the secrets of the company’s sustained growth.
Industry supplier Starleaton is also one of print’s success stories, now celebrating 40 years in the business. In this issue you can read how CEO Ben Eaton and his team are driving the company forward, and providing print businesses with the service they need.
A major focus this month is PrintEx, the local print technology show, due to open its doors August 13-16 in Sydney. Print21 brings you the industry’s biggest preview, with highlights of the stands, and insight into the accompanying forums, breakfast sessions and networking opportunities. It is a not-to-be-missed event, as attested by our coverage, which runs across 30 pages.
The day before PrintEx opens Print21 – together with sister title PKN Packaging News – is hosting LIVE New Frontiers in Packaging Print, an event which provides printers who are either in packaging, or looking to enter the market, with an unrivalled platform to hear direct from brand owners, designers, and technology developers on what they are looking for, and what opportunities are emerging. Packaging print remains a growth sector. See pages 56-63.
As ever a host of insight and analysis packs the pages of Print21. This issue brings you features on intelligent packaging, UV sheetfed printing, and digital textile colour management on wide format printers. We have reports on companies putting in the latest equipment and, in this PrintEx Preview issue, the first expert article from the mother of all trade shows, drupa. Our regular columnists including customer experience consultant Scott Telfer, PIAA CEO Andrew Macaulay, and Print NZ CEO Ruth Cobb, are in full flow.
Enjoy the read, and we look forward to seeing many of you at packaging print forum LIVE, and at PrintEx, both here in Sydney.
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Wayne Robinson
– Editor
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