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PacPrint Review
Bring laminating inhouse: James Peck, Hilton Laminating
Hilton laminating Hthe industry
ilton Laminating had
a range of systems designed to enable print
businesses to bring laminating in-house, for full control over the finishing process, reducing the overall costs, and time taken to complete client work.
These included the 60
metres a minute GMB, the
D&K Europe Flying Knife, the compact Neptune, and the range of Starglazers laminators, available in four varying sizes, with the foiling uptake rollers to produce short run foiling work. 21
Any size box you like: Neil Southerington (left) and Simon Needham with the Kolbus Autobox Boxer
Graffica custom Oboxmaking
n show at the Graffica booth was the latest modular Kolbus Autobox
Boxer automatic boxmaker,
which company owner Neil Southerington said is efficient and simple to use, and “is great for any in-house or industrial operation”.
Manufactured in the UK under the auspices of Kolbus, the Autobox range enables print businesses to offer on-demand short run custom sized boxes to a growing market, with custom boxes in high demand. 21
Konica Minolta launches new C7100
onica Minolta launched its new production print unit, the AccurioPress
C7100, at the show, it had its AccurioLabel 230 digital label press on display, and the MGI JetVarnish digital embellishing system.
The AccurioPress C7100 incorporates the key features
of the successful AccurioPress C14000 Series and AccurioPress C4080 Series, which were also both on display. Konica Minolta says that from intelligent automation and enhanced finishing to quality, advanced capabilities, and exceptional durability, the new machine will give printers “the power to grow their businesses through a press that works smarter”.
The new AccurioPress C7100 runs at 100 colour pages per minute with the AccurioPress C7090 at 90ppm. Konica Minolta says that with a focus on optimising performance,
Launched at the show: Andy Cocker, new general manager production and industrial print at Konica Minolta with the new AccuroPress C7100 digital cutsheet colour printer
offering new and advanced
print products, and growing
the entire business, the AccurioPress C7100 series is designed to complete more jobs with innovative technologies. It combines a range of innovative technologies, and comes with a choice of controller options to “suit just about any workflow” with options from Konica Minolta, EFI and Creo, and it has a large range of flexible inline finishing options including the
TU-510 and IQ-501. Konica Minolta had its
full-service label offering, incorporating the globally successful AccurioLabel 230 and the Grafisk Maskinfabrik range of finishing solutions, on show for the first time. Konica Minolta has just partnered with Grafisk Maskinfabrik, to offer its ultra-compact DC350Nano and DC330Mini label finishers to customers in Australia and New Zealand. 21
Jet shows Screen SAI label press
Jet Technologies was showcasing the new Screen L350UV SAI digital labels and flexibles press, which comes with longer-run capability, and is targeting flexo jobs.
Jet says that with productivity improvements of between 20-67 per cent on the previous model, the SAI will “absolutely chew through the most complex print jobs”. It
HP focus on sustainability
P’s range of offerings more sustainability than meets on its ‘dynamic and the eye.
immersive’ stand “One of the principal things
says additional colours ensure the highest colour gamut is achieved, and a major software redesign “makes this a dream” for operators to run.
The company says other features include improved quality and stability, easy application and board application, and advanced registration accuracy for micro-droplet support security
Craig Hardman: sustainability more than meets the eye
Productive: Jack Malki,
director Jet Technologies,
with the Screen L350 UV SAI printing. 21
included the HP Latex 700/800 series, HP Latex R Series, HP DesignJet Z Series and the HP PageWide XL Series.
The theme ‘Print for the Future’ and a strong focus on sustainability provide a solid message at PacPrint, with Craig Hardman, HP’s country manager, large format printing ANZ pointing out that there is
you see when you look around our stand is that sustainability is one of our key pillars – that’s not just an HP large format thing, it’s an HP thing, and it extends to the products we make, and
in what we’re actually doing,” explained Hardman, “How we build, develop and think about the future for our products is really important.” 21
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