Page 12 - Prnt21 magazine Jan-Feb 2023

| From the Editor|
NAew year, new hope
a special focus on industry giant Ricoh, and the best systems available.
The young guns include Jordan Shreeve, founder of Inke Packaging, which is successfully selling packaging print in a new way and engaging with a host of new clients, and Ben Carroll of Velflex, who has developed a whole new way of producing and selling print on garments, and who offers printers of every type the opportunity to become a garment printer.
Print profiles include include
a focus on print business Immij, which is now in the packaging space, and investing strongly. We look at
a print franchise which is working
in multiple applications, and at a specialist printer working in just one – metal.
As the official magazine of print employers’ association PVCA, Print21 carries a rosta of industry experts among its contributors. Kellie Northwood talks on PVCA, Ruth Cobb on PrintNZ, while Malcolm Auld provides marketing insight, and Wal Abramowicz deals with the legal issues surrounding the new IR bill.
Print21 is the platform where
the industry can gather to share the realities of life as a modern day print business owner or manager. We trust you will find this issue valuable.
Wayne Robinson – Editor
new year always understand the opportunity as well comes with new as the challenges. No-one ever got hope. And this year anywhere by standing still. And
will be the first in an industry which is still fairly since 2019 that is capital intensive, it takes courage to
completely free of Covid restrictions. move forward.
Business can be optimistic, even in
the face of multiple challenges. People need to eat, drink and have somewhere to sleep. They want to grow their families, indulge their passions, and connect with the world.
All that reawakening of life is good news for print, which remains a primary means of communication – trusted, cost effective, enabling and attention grabbing.
The print industry is however evolving rapidly, and as some applications fade – street directories, newspapers two of the more obvious ones – others rise, digitally printed packaging and display graphics being two of note.
Print business owners and managers have shown their mettle over the past few years, guiding their businesses through the most dramatic downturn there
has ever been, and
now as the economy
opens up, they are
well positioned to
take the businesses
forward.
The imperative, though, is to
Print21 magazine exists to serve printing businesses of all kinds,
by providing informed, insightful content and analysis of the dynamics impacting this great 500-year-old industry. Through the year, like every year, we will keep you completely up to date with all the big issues in print as they manifest in the markets, the technology, the people.
We will bring you all the latest developments in technology, and we will be at all the major shows. We will highlight print businesses pivoting into new areas, and those that are
optimising their operations in
existing ones. We will interview the movers and shakers; from the young guns and their start-ups, to the wise old heads who know which way the
wind is blowing.
This issue of Print21,
the first of the new year, sets the tone,
with our Revolution In Print feature,
where we look at commercial
printing systems both offset and
digital, and with
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