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While no one can predict the future, Industry Edge founder Tim Woods has a better handle than most on the trends that are defining the market. Patrick Howard takes time out to talk with the industry’s numbers guru.
Wide Format
34 Campaign proving power of print
Well-known Sydney wide-format printer Cactus Imaging has been on the front foot during the Covid-19 pandemic, and is reaping the rewards as a result.
34 Esko launches entry level
Kongsberg X Edge
Graphic arts supplier Esko has expanded its Kongsberg range of digital cutting tables with the new Kongsberg X Edge, which it describes as an entry level, fully- upgradable table design, that offers productivity, flexibility, and reliability.
36 Window dressing
Graphic Art Mart is set to launch the new Veilish printable window fabric across ANZ, which is designed especially for printed window graphics, giving wide format printers another string to their bow.
AAB celebrates 20 years with digital vision
Pegasus Print and SOS Print + Media owner AAB Holdings is looking to a digital future as it celebrates 20 years in business. Print21 editor Wayne Robinson asks CEO Wayne Finkelde how he sees the next 20 playing out.
Paper
20 Label presses broaden applications
Label printers are among the few sectors of print that have been busy this year as the pandemic has played out, and the press manufacturers continue to develop their machines for a broader range of applications – cartons, pouches, and sleeves among them.
22 Durst expanding boundaries
The digital print systems developer Durst is encouraging printers to look outside the box with its labels and packaging systems, which are enabling users to go to market with a range of products.
24 Epson serves up quality
Epson has two commercial grade, digital label presses in its portfolio. Targeting commercial printers looking for a new revenue stream, both are presented to the market with Epson quality as their key benefit.
26 Labelmakers investing for growth
In less than four decades Labelmakers has become the largest label converter in Australasia. That kind of growth does not happen by waiting around or playing catch-up. Now the company has demonstrated once again that
it has no intention of resting on its laurels, with the installation of its first HP Indigo 20000 digital press.
28 AccurioLabel opportunity
Printers using the Konica Minolta AccurioLabel 230 digital labels press have seen volumes rise by 24 per cent during the Covid-19 pandemic, and the company says there are compelling reasons why the market is set to continue to grow, offering opportunities to printers.
30 Screen time
Screen says new SAI press takes labels to the next level, and provides a platform for multiple applications, giving users new opportunities in new markets.
32 Flexibility for Xeikon solutions
Xeikon ANZ country manager Trevor Crowley tells Print21 it is the flexibility and scalability of the company’s presses that sets them apart.
Software
39 W2P in the new normal
Aaron Tavakoli at EFI says today’s web-to-print marketing should deliver strategies for enhancing value, and driving revenue growth, at print businesses of all types.
14 Print’s paper prospects
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CMYKhub invests in Asia Pacific's
first HP Indigo 100K
In a major boost for the local print economy, the country’s biggest trade print operation CMYKhub is bringing Asia
Pacific’s first HP Indigo 100K non-stop high volume B2 sheetfed printer to Australia.
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Epson into new markets
Imaging giant Epson is making
a bold play for new markets for itself and commercial printers, with the launch of a raft of new digital print solutions leveraging its technologies, and targeting opportunities in direct-to- garment, sign and display,
and textiles.
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