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Cover feature – Billboard EFI
Leading ANZ display graphics business Billboard Media has just installed a trio of new EFI VUTEk Q5r roll-to-roll printers to take the company forward. Wayne Robinson visits one of the most go-ahead print business in the country to file the report.
Business
16 How much is your business worth – now?
Putting a dollar figure on a business in times of pandemic stress is complicated. Old methods may no longer apply. Richard Rasmussen looks at the problems and solutions for buyers and sellers.
When’s the right time to sell?
Patrick Howard sat down with Brian and
Geraldine Stevens, to discuss the realities 18 of selling their CopyDocs business in a
pandemic-affected market.
Printer Profiles
20 Sheetfed production rules
The arrival of the HP Indigo 100K B2 press last year allowed leading industry trade supplier, CMYKhub, to bridge the gap and develop a highly evolved synergistic sheetfed printing operation. Patrick Howard reports.
LABELS21
30 Label opportunities for all
Gareth Ward looks at options for commercial print businesses looking to enter the label printing world.
32 Labels set to grow by 30% over 5 years
The self-adhesive label market is projected to grow by up to 30 per cent over the next five years, according to a leading research agency.
34 Digital to future-proof labels
David Pittman says the label industry is well placed to embrace the next iteration of digital transformation.
38 Digital label printing
Print21 highlights nine of the leading digital label print systems on the market today.
44 Label technologies
Print21 looks at ten of the leading technologies for the label sector, in hardware, software and materials.
48 Labeltopia personalises VB beers
The benefits of the Konica Minolta AccurioLabel 230 digital label press can be seen in the work done for Carlton United Brewers, enabling punters to purchase personalised VB beer.
50 Currie Group consultative on labels
Currie Group has become one of the country’s biggest suppliers to the label industry, with a wide range of production solutions for myriad applications.
51 Where quality is king
The luxury labelling sector is set to rise. Colleen Bate finds out more from Napil Abdel, national sales manager, Labels and Packaging Materials at Spicers.
52 Seeking start-ups to Stretch
Materials developer Avery Dennison is seeking to disrupt and evolve the market with its AD Stretch programme, which aims to enable start-up businesses to make more of their labels and packaging.
Innovation with a twist
Wausau Aged Agave, supplied exclusively in Australia by printable materials and consumables distributor Ball & Doggett, is a smooth, natural, earthy toned facestock, made with Agave Sisalane fibres from reclaimed burlap coffee bean bags.
54 Labels drive brands forward
Stephen Pratt, MD of Kurz Australia and New Zealand, tells P21 how brand owners can move their labels into the fast lane with the help of advanced, sustainable decoration solutions.
56 Labels in the limelight
Labels shine a spotlight on branded products and their contents. To inspire and please the eye, we’ve compiled examples of labels in the wine and spirits sector which recently took centrestage.
22 Celebrating 30 years at AFI
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Australia’s largest fabric printer, AFI Branding, celebrates hitting a business milestone – 30 years in operation – growing from a two-man band in 1992 to become an innovative high-tech company today.
Legal issues
66 Restraint of Trade
Print21 legal expert Wal Abramowicz says Restraint of Trade clauses need to be carefully considered, and points to a recent example, where it was not worth the paper it was written on, as a warning.
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