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Cover Story
Xeikon runs with inkjet and toner options
Digital print pioneer Xeikon offers both inkjet and toner print engines in its end-to-end solutions. Wayne Robinson talks with Filip Weymans and Trevor Crowley to find out what it means for print business owners.
Digital Inkjet
18 Inkjet challenging offset
Printer Profiles
36 Printer pivots into packaging
A pandemic-induced pivot for family-owned and operated Australian commercial print business CBS Printing has led to the establishment of a thriving one-stop-shop food packaging business. Lindy Hughson reports.
Pegasus hits 94.87% recyclability
Pegasus Print Group is one example of a company working to a long term vision of environmental sustainability, and achieving great results.
47 Smartcomm invests in new smart print and mail centre
Queensland mailhouse Smartcomm
is making its biggest ever
investment, spending in excess of
$5m on a new smart factory that is
fully air-conditioned, and on new equipment to up its production capacity.
Wide Format
Art meets science
The innovative Left Bank Art Group is growing with its
HP Latex R-Series flatbed printer.
40 Fespa-lite runs
in Amsterdam
At the fourth time of asking the global wide format show Fespa opened its doors, with the rescheduled, relocated, event taking place in Amsterdam.
Continuous feed inkjet printing systems have been around for more than a decade, and on paper seem a real alternative to off et for volume printing. Are they ready to achieve cut-through? Wayne Robinson reports.
Inkjet sheetfed print systems – the runners
If drupa had taken place, there would have been almost as many B2 and above sheetfed inkjet print systems on show as off et presses. Print21 looks at the emerging players,
in what is sure to be a growing sector.
Industrial Relations
26 Workplace vaccinations
The hot topic in industrial relations is workplace vaccinations, and whether employers can mandate them for staff. Lawyer Wal Abramowicz looks at the issues.
2021 Review
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A year like no other (except 2020)
The print industry has been through another tumultuous year, as Covid ravaged large parts of the economy. As it draws to a close, and we look forward to better days ahead, Print21 reviews all the major events, in a year many will want to forget.
Travels with my grandfather
For James Cryer, discovering his grandfather’s diary opened up a new dimension not only to his family’s history, but also to his engagement with the printing industry.
It launched him on a publishing journey, following a young Australian printer’s odyssey across pre-World War l USA.
Calling all flatbed
UV printers
Australian-made rigid board is now available from the country’s largest supplier of printable materials and consumables, Ball & Doggett.
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