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Strengthen the healthy presence that Scodix already has in the Korean packaging market

Scodix, the leading provider of digital embellishment solutions for the graphic arts industry, today announces the signing of a new partnership agreement with Müller Korea Co. Ltd., facilitating Müller’s distribution of Scodix solutions in South Korea.

Founded in 2019, Müller Korea is a dynamic distributor of Muller Martini, Kolbus,Prati, MBO group, Bograma and mps. The new partnership will strengthen the healthy presence that Scodix already has in the Korean packaging market and will serve as a complementary addition to the existing partnership with Screen HD Korea Co., Ltd, which has been a successful collaboration since 2011.

Nakyeon Cho, President and CEO of Müller Korea, says, “Our purpose is amplifying the success of our customers with state-of-the-art technology, so it is an honour to be partnering with Scodix to bring their market-leading embellishment solutions to businesses across Korea.

“Demand among our diverse customer base for high-value, luxury print, and packaging continues to grow, and with Scodix technology, print providers have an unparalleled opportunity to deliver premium products in an economical, efficient, and sustainable way.”

Ziki Kuly, Scodix APJ President, adds, “Müller Korea’s expert team, focus on efficiency, and diverse sector knowledge makes them the perfect partner to support Scodix in this key region. The Korean packaging market in particular is poised for impressive growth, and the potential this alliance has to boost print businesses looking to add high-value, embellished products to their portfolio is very exciting.” .

Award-winning PDF optimization solution

Solimar Systems, Inc., provider of leading workflow software solutions for print production and digital communications, has announced the release of version 9.2 of its awardwinning PDF optimization solution, ReadyPDF® Prepress Server™.

ReadyPDF 9.2 offers many enhancements to its current features and new additions to boost functionality and improve user experience. These improvements include a streamlined configuration, additional discard object options, ReadyPDF job property variables, expanded optimization settings, pre-defined modes for various activities, greater optimization report functionality, and the addition of a new preflight mode.

With a focus on user experience, ReadyPDF 9.2 includes updates to its user interface that simplify the setup and configuration of jobs. The configuration now has multiple options for users to select preconfigured optimization settings that aid in onboarding new work and boosting productivity.

The new Preflight Mode in ReadyPDF can detect certain characteristics, such as missing or subset fonts, and will apply appropriate optimizations. It also identifies and removes redundant and unnecessary resources, such as empty XObjects, which increases processing speeds and shrinks file sizes.

Another new ReadyPDF 9.2 feature includes a Job Redirection function that detects certain characteristics within a PDF, such as font and color properties, and can reroute those to specific configuration profiles designed to optimize those characteristics.

Also notable is the Discard Objects option in version 9.2. Discard Objects is designed to remove unnecessary information for the presentation or viewing of the document. Additional discardable options have been added to further decrease file sizes and create simpler documents. These objects include unused images, unused forms, invisible text, popup annotations, and more.

One Solimar customer reaping the rewards of these new features is DataProse. By utilizing ReadyPDF among other solutions in the Chemistry™ platform, it has been able to optimize its e-presentment files

and reduce sizes dramatically. “With ReadyPDF, we are able to reduce file sizes by 95%, which streamlines our print output but also creates an optimized file for e-presentment online,” shares Brian Ray, Chief Technology Officer, DataProse. In addition to file size reductions and file optimizations, ReadyPDF has increased overall productivity and seen a huge ROI while increasing customer satisfaction.

“We’re thrilled with the benefits our customers realize with the latest version of our ReadyPDF Prepress Server,” says Mary Ann Rowan, Chief Experience Officer at Solimar Systems. “Along with correcting fonts, images, color and structural issues in PDFs, ReadyPDF creates clean live data and detailed before and after optimization reports that can boost overall workflow productivity processes.”

The new partnership will extend Domino’s presence in Asia-Pacific.

Domino Digital Printing Solutions is delighted to welcome GMS Pacific as the distributor of the N730i in Australia. This new partnership will extend Domino’s presence in AsiaPacific with GMS Pacific responsible for expanding the Brand position in Australia and driving sales, service and support for Domino’s N730i digital colour ink jet label press.

GMS Pacific was established in the late-1970s by Founder Peter McNamara. Headquartered in Melbourne the company delivers intelligent solutions across a range of printing sectors, serving Australian and New Zealand manufacturers in the narrow-web label industry, wide-web flexible packaging, corrugated and carton packaging – as well as paper mills and the sign and display market. For more than 40 years, GMS has earned a strong reputation for the quality, reliability and consistency its solutions deliver, as well as its loyalty to the brands it is partnered with – many of whom have been working with GMS Pacific for multiple decades.

“GMS Pacific’s strategy continues to actively partner with leading companies and new technologies, to expand and evolve product offering where we see that the products offer superior value to the market and a competitive advantage”. says Andrew McNamara, Managing Director at GMS Pacific. “Domino Digital Printing is a recognised global leader in its markets, and we are proud delighted to be cementing our relationship with Domino. Together, helping our customers achieve success and growth through distributing, supporting and servicing this leading range of digital printing solutions and technological advancements.”

Mario Fanton, Director for Domino Digital Printing Solutions in AsiaPacific, says: “We are delighted to welcome GMS Pacific as a distributor of the N730i label press. GMS Pacific has a strong presence in the Label and Packaging market and has always placed great emphasis on delivering exceptional service and support. This new partnership now represents an exciting opportunity to drive growth and sales for digital colour ink jet presses in Australia. We are confident that the industry expertise and the common values shared from both businesses will prove to be successful to our existing and future customers.”

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Let’s talk about the state of our Packaging industry post pandemic. What to look out for moving forward. The SHIFT 2022 Packaging Conference.

No doubting it, our industry in under pressure, not from print job volumes, but by the ever-increasing cost of our production supplies, like film, board, plates, inks, freight, wages and other increases that we are being subjected to. Every business today is in the same boat, and this is not just a packaging issue. But we honestly only care about the costs that effect our business post pandemic in our industry.

What can we do to help elevate some of these costs with careful and correct purchases. How willing are supply companies wanting to work with you! By changing suppliers on consumables (for example) due to cheaper prices, is it really going to help long term?. What about workflow, can that help save you costs. Is that cheaper machine purchase going to be the right investment you need at this stage.

We are having the SHIFT 22 conference in Bangkok on December the 8th and will try to address these issues and many others as well. The one-day event will bring back (for our 19th year) industry leaders so you can hear from people and companies who have the answers. Network with other companies who like you need to find these ways forward.

Following the one day “intensive” SHIFT conference we will hold the industries only regional Asian Packaging Excellence Awards dinner, where we showcase the quality packaging companies who have been awarded Gold Silver and Bronze in the 2022 competition, always a highlight of the year. Register and book your seat booked today for the 2022 SHIFT conference and also get your best printed work ready to enter in the Awards Competition. Nothing says it better than being a winning quality packaging printer in Asia. And nothing helps more than you having the right information for your business moving forward.

Details we be sent to you soon on how to register for this event