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Profiles
Labels & Flexibles
14 Revolution in flexo
Hybrid and digital flexo print systems are offering new opportunities for flexible packaging production, with developments coming thick and fast.
16 Flexibles set for steady growth over 5 years
Latest market intelligence from research analysts Smithers says flexibles will see a steady rise over the next five years. Jan Arreza reports.
18 Labelmakers liner recycling
The country’s biggest label converter is launching RecuLiner, to create a local solution for recycling glassine liner from labels. Lindy Hughson reports.
Flexible output
from Screen
Printers looking for a digital
press that can produce multiple applications, from labels to pouches and lamitubes to cartons, should take a look at the Screen L350
UV SAI, says Jet Technologies managing director Jack Malki.
22 Epson launches 50mpm UV label press
Epson has taken delivery of and installed Australia’s first high productivity SurePress L-6534VW industrial UV digital label press.
26 Xeikon adds two new
entry-level label presses
Xeikon has launched two new digital label presses –
the Xeikon CX30 and Xeikon CX50 – describing them as entry-level presses to sit between its Rex range and its CX300 and CX500.
New press suite from HP Indigo
With the labels and packaging
28 market set for continued growth, HP has launched new presses for
labels, flexibles, and cartons.
Case Study
50 Printing Jet takes first
AccurioPress C4070
Growing Sydney print business, Printing Jet,
has installed the first of the new Konica Minolta AccurioPress C4070 digital colour presses in Australia.
Marketing
51 Opportunity out of pandemic
Marketing guru Malcolm Auld looks at how a consequence of the pandemic will help grow your printing business.
Avon launches Alumma and Alumma X — tool-free foiling and no-dent emboss
Leading trade house Avon Graphics has developed Alumma – a new technique for foiling without tooling, and for embossing without denting. Wayne Robinson reports.
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Mesaros, the
modernising man
The industry’s biggest supplier Currie Group has a new CEO, Rob Mesaros, and he has wasted no time in setting about modernising the 70-year-old business.
Macaulay moving
from print
After five years leading the PVCA, CEO Andrew Macaulay is departing the industry. Print21 analyses his time at the top of a changing industry.
Exhibitions
34 PacPrint timed for economic upswing
As the first details emerge on what visitors can expect to see at the late September show, PacPrint organisers say it will be ideally timed for businesses to capitalise on better-than-expected post-Covid economic conditions.
Business
32 Taking advantage of smart
factories in print
Smart factories are on their way, with print businesses set to benefit, reports Jan Arreza.
Technology
40 Fuji Xerox in more than a rebrand, now Fujifilm Business Innovation
Digital solutions supplier Fuji Xerox is now Fujifilm Business Innovation, with the company saying it will focus on solutions and services in a beyond-the-box strategy.
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