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PacPrint Review
At PacPrint: XMPie’s Enda Kavanagh with Lindy Hughson, Print21
Epson launches suite of solutions
Cross media integration
Epson Australia had a suite of new digital print production solutions on
its PacPrint booth, covering labels, wide format and direct to fabric printing.
Among the many solutions on display was the SurePress L-4733AW water-based, resin ink, digital label press, which Epson says continues its legacy of providing white ink prime label printing, while delivering improved automation.
For the first time in Australia, Epson Australia presented opportunities, applications and samples on its new Monna Lisa ML-8000 direct-to-fabric textile printer. One of the key products Epson
Full suite of solutions: Nathan Fulcher, Epson
wX
featured on the stand was the large 76” SureColor F10060, aimed at soft signage and just-in-time manufacturing. It comes in four-colour and six- colour configurations, with up to six high-speed print heads
that enable production speeds of 200sqm an hour.
Epson debuted its SureColor V7000 UV flatbed printer,
for printing outdoor signage, premium packaging. 21
ith XMPie
MPie was highlighting its variable data print solution, uDirect, for
automating the production of personalised print campaigns, enabling print businesses to offer cross media campaigns to their clients.
It says that with uDirect, businesses of all sizes can create and produce graphically rich documents, individualised, using a single “easy-to-use” desktop VDP solution. 21
Colour clarity: David Crowther, Colour Graphic Services
Canon brings growing family to show
C
graphics family, including
Print further: Daryn Whittaker, head of sales, Canon
Australia’s head of sales, said, “The new Arizona 135 GT is the entry-level system, bringing the best-selling Arizona technology to print businesses buying their first flatbed, or entering the wide format display printing market.”
The Colorado UVgel roll-fed printer that was on the stand now has FLXfinish, which enables a matte or gloss finish, without changing ink or media. 21
anon was highlighting its growing large format
the Arizona and Colorado printers, with new models in both series.
Canon also had an application area focused on industrial print, covering the iX3200 series, and the ProStream and ColorStream continuous feed series, as well as the LabelStream. Workflow also forms part of the Canon presentation.
The latest member of the fifth-generation wide format Arizona printer series is the new
135 GT, which was on the stand, and which uses the same core technology of its mid-volume siblings, and VariaDot printing technology. Daryn Whittaker, Canon Production Printing
Colour Graphics releases new
Design and prepress outsourcing
COris X-Gamut
CMYKhub was showcasing its Design Desk online subscription, graphic
design and prepress platform, which it says will enable print businesses to outsource the functions on demand.
CMYKhub says Design
Desk aims to provide the print industry with access to a whole team of graphic designers and prepress operators at the click of a button. It says this service fills the void left post-pandemic of many creative staff that
were forced to move on, or
reduce their hours, in the wake of business downturn. Design Desk has also provided many businesses, including designers and creative agencies, the ability to scale quickly at a low cost. The multi-level monthly subscription web platform connects the Australian print businesses to CMYKhub’s team of qualified designers. Users select from the list of services, whether it be adding bleed to existing artwork, or creating a printed product from scratch. 21
olour Graphics Services launched CGS-Oris X-Gamut – a precision
software system to take
full advantage of extended gamut colour in sets, in both conventional and digital presses and printers.
X-Gamut is a fully automated colour management software for extended gamut colour printing on digital and conventional presses. 21
On-demand pre-press and design: Glen Francis (left) and Paul Norton, CMYKhub
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