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National Print Awards 2020
The National Print Awards were live streamed for the first time in their 37-year history. Taylor’d Press took top spot on a night that saw half a dozen business awards given out along with a gold, silver and bronze for a whole range of print categories. All the gold winners are in this issue of Print21.
Innovation
16 and prepress service, with multiple subscription options.
18 Vicon expands with interstate move
This garment trade print business is doubling the size of its floorspace with a move from Sydney to Brisbane.
Super
20 Super performer
Inkjet Webfed
26 Inkjet arrival
High-speed inkjet webs are now openly competing in the commercial space. Print21 looks at what they can bring to a print house.
28 Ricoh inkjet eating into commercial
The continuous feed Ricoh Pro VC70000 is designed to eat into much of the offset print market.
30 Screen inkjet emulating offset
Screen has developed a high-speed inkjet web that uses special inks to deliver offset quality onto offset stocks.
Inkjet Sheetfed
32 Sheetfed Inkjet B2
Commercial printers now have the option of offset or inkjet with a plethora of B2 cutsheet inkjet systems coming onto the market.
34 Konica Minolta releases enhanced B2
Konica Minolta is releasing a new enhanced version of its innovative B2 digital inkjet sheetfed press: the AccurioJet KM-1e.
35 Ellipsis into B2 inkjet
Ellipsis Media in Toowoomba took Australia’s first new FujiFilm JetPress 750S in a major investment for the company.
Inkjet Flatbed
36 Fabulous flatbed
Flatbed inkjet provides printers with remarkable versatility on the products they can print onto.
CMYKhub launches Design Desk
The country’s biggest trade printer is now providing a graphic design
september | october 2020
The financial year just past saw industry super fund Media Super outperform the average. Find out what’s behind the numbers.
Industry
22 Women in Print starts a new chapter
Women in Print has relaunched itself after 15 years, taking on the year, and the future.
Digital
24 Print pioneer pursues profitability
Xeikon was one of the digital pioneers in the 1990s. The company continues to make waves with multiple systems for multiple applications.
39 Roland DG into flatbed
Roland DG is launching its first-ever UV-LED flatbed printer into Australia and New Zealand.
40 Ultradrop for EFI flatbeds
EFI Flatbed print systems, the Pro 30f and Pro 24f,
use the company’s Ultradrop Technology for placement and image quality.
Inkjet Labels
Action into digital with Epson UV Label Power owner James Malone has bought Melbourne-based
44 Action Labels & Nameplates and invested in its first
digital press.
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More than ink on paper
The Durst P5 pixel-to-output strategy was created to give printers more than just a way of putting ink onto a substrate.