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From the Editor
Inkjet
22 Inkjet arrives in commercial world
Inkjet commercial printing systems are now offering print businesses serious options, reports Gareth Ward, with both continuous feed and sheetfed inkjet staking their claims.
26 Serengeti migrates to inkjet
From a farm in Zimbabwe to one of Australia’s most advanced printshops, complete with sheetfed B2 inkjet Fujifilm Jetpress, it has been quite a journey for the Games family.
28 Inkjet for full gamut of work
HP Inc is launching a new high-speed, reel-fed, full-colour, inkjet digital production printing system, the PageWide Advantage 2200 series, which it says is positioned to handle the full gamut of publishing, direct mail, and general commercial work.
Direct to garment
58 The rise in on-demand DTG/DTF
Kissel + Wolf’s John Field outlines what it takes to get going in textiles with DTG / DTF.
Mental health
60 Building resilience
Steve Gamble from Man Anchor says mental resilience can be built, if we train our brains, just as we train our bodies for physical resilience.
Marketing
61 Marketing in tough times
Industry guru Malcolm Auld shows print business owners how to take some simple but effective steps to help them get through the current turbulent times.
Legals
64 Private nuisance
What are your options if the activities in business in the adjoining block is causing you a nuisance? Lawyer Wal Abramowicz looks at the issues.
Columns, News, Views, Reviews
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chaos, which is now manifesting itself in runaway inflation and soaring interest rates.
62 PrintNZ
CEO Ruth Cobb on highs and lows during
the year.
63 PVCA
Ricoh to support industry, and the budget response.
66 People in Print
The who’s who of the movers and shakers in print this month.
74 Print21 Diary
Print industry events are back. The Print21 industry diary has all you need to know.
Keep calm and carry on, says the popular maxim, and while putting one foot in front of the other is necessary, turbulent times can also reward those who are able to lift their heads above the parapet and see the bigger picture.
The Print21+PKN LIVE event, Amplify & Engage, focusing on the rapidly growing digitally printed packaging, that has just taken place, was a real opportunity for print service providers to do that. It was a terrific forum, and there is a full report in this issue. It is accompanied by a special section on packaging printing.
Our cover story focuses on the world’s biggest offset press manufacturer Heidelberg, which is also a major finishing solutions supplier, and we highlight the finishing options the company is bringing to market.
Inkjet printing has been predicted to become a major technology for commercial printers for some time, and in this issue industry expert Gareth Ward assesses whether that time has now come. We visit a local print business using sheetfed B2 inkjet, and highlight one of the new inkjet print systems on the market.
Labels is one of the great opportunities for print businesses of all kinds, thanks to the new generation of digital label print systems. This issue of Print21 contains Labels21, the new media for the label sector, which is full of informed content, including a round-up of the major developments at Labelexpo Americas, and an in-depth look
at some of those new systems. The issue also highlights some fo the commercial print businesses now moving into digital labels
With the usual industry expert contributors, and all the regular pages, this issue of Print21 ends the year as we mean to go on, full of engaging content, providing valuable insight.
And finally, from all of us here at Print21, we wish you, your staff, and your families a wonderful Christmas break.
nd whoosh, just like that another year has raced by. Thankfully it was a year when we waved goodbye to the Covid lockdowns and other restrictions, but a year when businesses were left to pick up the pieces of two years of
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