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From the Editor
Technology
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38 Screenpressesonintoflexiblepackaging
The Truepress PAC 830F is on track for release later this year.
39 Screen offset CTP goes into Hansen
Multi-site operation Hansen Print & Design has installed the latest Screen CTP.
50 Colour Graphics now Myiro dealer
The Australian colour management specialist is now a dealer for the Myiro-1 and Myiro-9 spectrophotometers.
52 Digital corrugated packaging
Print21 editor Wayne Robinson asks Rodd Harrison, VP Asia Pacific at EFI what the Nozomi system offers.
Events
56 Healthy perspective at Women in Print
Mental health was the focus of the Women in Print (WIP) Breakfast events.
74 The Essential Print21 Diary
It’s back – 18 months after Covid the Print21 Diary returns, showing that the world is getting ready for re-entry.
Columns, News, Views, Reviews
Screen’s L350UV SAI
off to flying start
Two Australian customers will be running with Screen Truepress Jet L350UV SAI presses early in the new financial year. A third will be operating a standard Screen L350UV.
44 Unfair contract
Legal eagle Wal Abramowicz unpacks your rights.
58 Marketing
Malcolm Auld says getting close to students will pay off for printers.
59 Sustainable Green Print
PVCA has a programme to take its members
on the environmental journey.
60 Supreme Kiwi
The New Zealand printing industry’s Supreme Award 2021 won with a “Beautiful Looking Book”.
62 TRMC Survey
The Real Media Collective, working with Toluna Research, has surveyed Australians to understand how we engage with print.
64 People in Print
This month’s big movers and shakers in the ever changing world of print.
Print business owners should know their strengths, but are they cognisant of the weaknesses they bring? For instance, plenty of sign and display businesses were strong in events and exhibitions, but that meant they were susceptible to the sudden, and continuing, shut down of the sector.
Print21 makes it our business to provide all the information print business owners need to ensure they are aware of all the trends and dynamics swirling around the industry, and this issue is no exception. We start by looking at the growing demand for green printing, and the latest developments in materials, digital presses and plates, which are enabling print businesses to present their environmental credentials to their customers.
Software today is key to the well-being of any print business, and in this issue we look at digital workflows, cross media integration, and at a case study with Hungry Jack’s and a piece of promotional print that optimised software developments, and printing techniques, to provide a remarkable piece of promotional print.
Online design operation Canva has made billionaires of its three young founders, and it is now keen to show that it offers printers opportunity. We take a look at what the platform has for print.
PacPrint is coming up soon, we talk to this year’s president Sue Threlfo, and have an early look at what to expect. Technology plays a key role in print, and we feature some of the latest developments in this issue. Our printer profiles include a wide format printer which is investing strongly, and a franchise printer which saw the opportunity for a hybrid digital and print proposition.
We also run the Print21 analysis over departed Ovato CEO Kevin Slaven, and his time at the country’s biggest printer, which were three and half years of turbulence.
With all our regular expert contributors, a look at who has been doing what in print since the last issue, and the return of the Print21 Diary, this issue has been a pleasure to produce.
Welcome to Print21
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roll-out here means ongoing lockdowns, while those countries that were ravaged have moved on with the vaccinations, and are now opening up again, leaving Australia behind.
hey say your biggest strength is your biggest weakness, and we have certainly seen that with our Covid response. Australia kept it at bay while other countries were seeing thousands of deaths, but the lack of urgency on the vaccine
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