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Industry reunites at top show
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Visitors and exhibitors at PacPrint 2021, and its co-located events Label &
Packaging Expo and Visual Impact Expo, revelled in the freedom of Texperiencing a trade show again, with plenty on offer to celebrate.
HE Melbourne Convention and have serious conversations or to buy,” 1. Father and
said James Rodden, managing direc- tor and daughter Sarah Rodden, sales and marketing. The company supplies both the Canon Labelstream and Edale presses.
WA-based operation Footprint is moving into the labels market, with the order of a new Epson SurePress L-4533 digital label press and Scorpio converting unit from Fujifilm Business Innovation, at PacPrint.
Patrick Oldfield, founder of the 30-year-old business said, “Labels rep- resent a great opportunity. We are in Mandurah, near the major wine pro- ducing region here. We think many winemakers want short-run, on- demand, high quality labels, which Footprint will now be able to provide.”
The Trimatt 1170 digital colour printer for sustainable paper and card- board packaging was a showstopper, with owner Matt Johnson confirming that several machines were already sold on the Trimatt stand by the sec- ond last day of the show.
“I had a relatively high expectation coming into the show because we have more of a focus on the products here,
Exhibition Centre set the stage for she said, adding that formal feedback daughter duo:
exhibitors at PacPrint 2021, and its received from visitors (ahead of the James and Sarah Rodden.
co-located events Label & Packaging visitor survey) indicated that the dif- 2. (l-r) Patrick Expo and Visual Impact Expo, to ficulties in keeping a workforce ‘up and James successfully strut their stuff to an and running’ at present meant that Oldfield with industry eagerly emerging from the many did not bring their teams to the Chris Lynch in
effects of the pandemic over the past show this year, when ordinarily they front of the
two years.
Visitor numbers were strong over
the four-day show, which ran from 28 June to 1 July, with show organ- iser Visual Connections estimating an attendance of around 6500 visitors across the week.
While these figures have still to be confirmed, Visual Connections’ Robyn Frampton was able to com- ment on sales made on stand during the period of the show.
“There were many significant sales made during the week, and informal feedback from exhibitors was that the visitors in attendance were there to
would have done. Epson SurePress
“In fact, several commented that they are so pressed they would not have attended themselves except for the fact that they were ready to buy – and wanted to come to the show to do the deal,” she said.
SALES AT THE SHOW
The latest samples printed by the Canon LabelStream 4000 and Edale press were on the Rodden Graphics stand. Here we heard news that a LabelStream, which was purchased by Impact Labels last year, is about to land at the printer’s facility in Brisbane. So
L-4533.
3. (l-r): Craig Walmsley, HP Indigo; Mark Daws, Currie Group; Ross Fursey, Ultra Labels & Flexpack.
4. Currie Group’s Mark Daws and SCG’s Fred Soar.
5. Trimatt’s Matt and Josh Johnson with Mel Macfarlane.