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IVE opens world class supersite Star Business Evolution continues at Bambra with transformational MIS installed p26

Focus: Digital Labels Changing consumer demands open new vistas in labels p28

Tech Guide All you need to know about digital printing, CTP, plates and prepress technology p33

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EDITOR’S LETTER SHEREE YOUNG

Exciting year ahead with new tech display The ProPrint Power 50 awards were held two weeks after I came on board at the Cruise Bar on Sydney Harbour and what a fantastic night that was. It not only gave printers a chance to get together and socialise but for me it was a great way to get to know more of you and learn about your industry. Inside you will find a collection of photographs taken on the night showing a fine time being had by all. Shortly after that on a trip to Melbourne I had the pleasure of meeting with with a number of printers, including John Wanless, the owner of Bambra Press and others at the The Real Media Collective’s debut Annual General Meeting. This edition of ProPrint features a profile on Wanless and and the latest goings on at Bambra Press. The other feature is a detailed look at how

When I was a young backpacker I worked for a London law firm based at a beautifully restored historic building, Hogarth House, on Paradise Road, Richmond. At the time I was delighted to learn it was once the home of acclaimed writer Virginia Woolf and where she and her husband Leonard, also a writer, operated their printing and publishing business, Hogarth Press. Stepping down into the basement you could almost hear and feel the rumbling of the old presses churning out copies of their latest work. It seems incredible that I now find myself as the Editor of ProPrint and again have the opportunity to delve into print and learn more about this bustling and innovative industry. I’m loving my new role and look forward to engaging with more you as time goes by.

Australia’s largest print investment in history was put together at Blue Star’s Franklin Web in Sydney. There is also a wide range of other news and views from our wonderful contributors for you to read through. The Penrith Museum of Printing also reopened its freshly renovated doors in November and you can also see a photo gallery of that night inside as well. This year marks an exciting year for print as it continues to change, expand and move into new areas. The other major event on the calendar is PrintEx19 in August which has joined forces with the Labels and Packaging Expo and the Sydney iteration of Visual Impact, while being organised by Visual Connections. Enjoy and look forward to seeing or talking to you soon.

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STAR BUSINESS

4-8 Update

26-27 Consolidate and innovate

The monthly round-up of all the major news from the non-stop world of print in Australia and overseas

Bambra Press owner John Wanless shares his insights into staying strong in the Australian market

10-12 Debrief

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Recap of all the major developments published on proprint.com.au since the last issue

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13 Comment: Gettler Leon Gettler highlights the importance of seeking and responding to customer feedback to build better relationships

15-20 Downtime All the pictures from the Penrith Museum of Printing reopening and the ProPrint Power 50 for 2018

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Changing consumer demands are opening up new vistas for printers wanting to get into labels

TECHNOLOGY GUIDE 33-44 Digital Printing and CTP, Plates and Prepress

14 ProPrint Online What has been causing our readers to hit the keyboard this month on social media and share their opinions

28-30 Smart, versatile and on demand

ProPrint looks at the latest offerings in two technology guides

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21-23 Franklin Web's $50m print investment in Sydney's west

56 Print's Past, Diary, Q&A

A detailed look at how all the parts came together to construct a world class supersite in just 144 days

Get to know Ben Browning from 1800 for Promo, check out the ProPrint Diary, and reflect on the past with Frank Romano's take on why museums are so important www.proprint.com.au

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PrintEx 2019 packs an extra punch by Sheree Young

PrintEx19, Sydney’s premier expo for the print, sign, display and engraving industries, gets underway in August and has this year annexed with the Labels and Packaging Expo while continuing to co-locate with Visual Impact Sydney. Organisers expect even more visitors will pass through the doors at the Sydney Showground at Sydney Olympic Park for PrintEx19 due to the addition of the important growth market of labels and packaging, which has been an initiative of the Flexible Packaging and Label Manufacturers Association (FPLMA) and Labels Plus magazine. The expanded offering means visitors have the chance to view an even broader range of the latest print technologies across a broader spectrum while having the opportunity to network with suppliers and others in the industry. Peter Harper, chief executive officer of Visual Connections, which co-hosts the show with Printing Industries Association of Australia (PIAA), says the combined show is set to be one of the most significant in recent years. “With the co-location of Visual Impact and Label & Packaging Expo, PrintEx 2019 will unquestionably be the most comprehensive and relevant B2B event for the print, sign, packaging and

Expanded offering: PrintEx19 is now offering more for visitors

graphic communications industries, providing a wealth of ideas, information and inspiration to businesses across the entire print spectrum,” Harper says. “The continued rapid evolution of the sector is creating increasing overlap between different disciplines and, of course, a growing range of opportunities available for those willing to think ‘outside the box’. “By bringing together an even broader range of exhibitors under the one roof, PrintEx19 creates an ideal opportunity for forward-thinking business owners and key decision makers to explore ways in which they can expand their offering and create valuable new revenue

streams by venturing into allied disciplines and employing new technologies and innovations to their advantage.” Harper says Visual Connections will continue to work with other allied industries when organising trade shows with the goal being to have less but higher quality and broader expos in Australia. “This is what we have been trying to do to expand the market because trade shows are certainly diminishing in size so if we can get more and more shows to co-locate creating less trade shows but bigger and better ones then that’s our plan moving forward,” Harper said. “The industry is so diverse now so it’s all encompassing, whether it be sign, print, label, packaging. The machinery does it all these days.” Support for the show has been strong with Harper saying 85 to 90 per cent of space allocated to PrintEx had been sold. Industry leader Roland is the show’s platinum sponsor while Graphic Art Mart, Starleaton, HP, Euro Poles, Kissel + Wolf and Print IQ are gold sponsors. Kayell, EFI, Mimaki, MatrixFrame and Pozitive are silver sponsors. Other key exhibitors include Currie Group, Konica Minolta, Ricoh, Fuji Xerox, Epson, AVS, PES and Kodak.

MADE AN IMPRESSION SIGNWAVE Signwave reports an 18 per cent jump in sales across its 700 Australian outlets. SIGNARAMA DANDENONG Signarama Dandenong turns 20 with owners Ross and Pam Wade putting their success down to retaining great staff KONICA MINOLTA WIN Konica Minolta’s work to rid slavery from its supply chain wins it a Human Rights Award ORORA’S EXPANSION Packaging giant Orora buys US company for US$80.5m

UPS & DOWNS GOPHER GRAPHICS Gopher Graphics broke with another company with the same name liquidated in 2014

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For Digitalpress owner Theo Pettaras having the opportunity to produce “something physical and tangible” for the families of Sydney Lindt Cafe siege victims Katrina Dawson and Tori Johnson was an honour he will never forget. The NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet commissioned Pettaras to produce two versions of a beautiful remembrance book to mark the fourth anniversary of the 15-16 December 2014 tragedy in Sydney’s Martin Place. Each family received 10 copies of the beautifully crafted book presented in a rigid heavyweight presentation box. Katrina’s book featured aqua hydrangeas and Tori’s bright yellow sunflowers. Each book included a tear-out seed card with forget-me-not seeds ready for planting. www.proprint.com.au

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Selig and Aitken joint Power 50 winners by Sheree Young

IVE Group executive chairman Geoff Selig and chief operating officer Matt Aitken were named the joint winners of the 2018 ProPrint Power 50 at a cocktail party attended by close to 100 people at the Cruise Bar on Sydney Harbour. The win caps off a stellar year for the publicly listed company and sees Selig rise from 8th spot last year with Aitken leaping from 17. The Power 50 – which acknowledges the leadership and innovation of Australian printers – has been running for eight years but this is the first to be held under the new ownership of the Printer Media Group. A panel of 20 judges voted for each nominee with the tallied results verified by auditing firm PKF. “I couldn’t be happier to be sharing this award with our chief operating officer Matt Aitken, we are very close personally and we’ve also worked very closely over the last 20 years,” Selig said after accepting his award. “It’s been a huge year for the IVE Group. A lot of initiatives that have all gone well for us and it’s nice to come together with others in the industry in this sort of environment.”

Dual winners: IVE Group executive chairman Geoff Selig (L) and chief operating officer Matt Aitken (R) take out first place in 2018 Power 50.

Selig also thanked sponsor Konica Minolta for its support of the Power 50. “I acknowledge Konica Minolta for its ongoing support of the industry and for this function,” Selig said. Both Selig and Aitken paid homage to the company’s 1800 staff who they said do a fantastic job every day looking after IVE’s 3000 customers. “I’m very grateful to Geoff for the

support he has shown me and the team and the group. As Geoff said we’ve known each other for over 20 years and we’ve done some phenomenal things together and this evening is really a crescendo moment around being recognised together,” Aitken said. Real Media Collective chief executive officer Kellie Northwood, who advocates for all things paper and print, placed third, while John Wanless, the owner of Melbourne printer Bambra Press was fourth. Whirlwind Print chief executive officer Andrew Cester placed fifth. Rounding out the rest of the top ten was Kevin Slaven, chief executive officer at PMP who finished sixth, while Theo Pettaras of Sydney’s Digitalpress, was seventh. Printing Industries Association of Australia (PIAA) chief executive officer Andrew Macaulay placed eighth, with Pegasus Print chief executive officer Wayne Finkelde ninth. Peter Orel, the executive chairman of Finsbury Green, finished in 10th spot. Selig and Aitken’s shared win punctuates a mammoth year for IVE Group, which has invested the best part of $200m into Australian printing.

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Unlimited potential: WA gets first Massivit 1800 3D press

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A West Australian signage printer has bought the state’s first Massivit 1800 3D press and says its possibilities are endless and will take his business beyond signage production. Artcom Fabrications managing director Mark Walkden says he first saw the Massivit at the Visual Impact trade show and decided to invest in one through Graphic Arts Mart. The whopping 180cm high, 145cm wide and 111cm deep

machine is now up and running becoming the third to land on Australian shores, with the others in Sydney and Melbourne. Walkden says the possibilities are endless and is hoping the Massivit will allow him to break into heritage building restoration work, stage sets and other projects. “It’s unlimited. It’s a case of whatever you can think of and put it into a 3D drawing we can make it,” he says. www.proprint.com.au

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We have found our niche: Kaligraphic Print by Sheree Young

Sydney based Kaligraphic Print no longer must rely on an older style guillotine to cut the self-published novels and books it prints with a new Horizon HT-30 Three Side Trimmer installed. Owner Katya Shmaiger says she spotted the trimmer, supplied through Currie Group, at PacPrint in Melbourne and thought one day her Leichhardtbased business should have one. “We flew to Melbourne to see what was new in the printing industry and saw this machine and I fell in love with it and I thought one day we should have it. And here we are,” Shmaiger said. Kaligraphic handles all manner of items from business cards to training manuals to restaurant menus but it has really found its niche in printing books for self-published authors. It is a part of the business that has just grown organically as more self-published authors discover Kaligraphic, which now with more equipment on the floor is well and truly bursting out of its Parramatta Road shopfront. The Horizon HT-30 is Kaligraphic’s third Horizon product joining a Horizon Perfect Binder and a Horizon Scoring and Folding machine.

Increased automation: Katya Shmaiger (C), twin brother Alex Shmaiger (L) and Jerome Dizon (R) of Kaligraphic Print are very pleased with their new trimmer.

Shmaiger says the Horizon cutter can cut stacks of books unsupervised, freeing up other staff to get on with other jobs. “We are quite small but we are large in the things we do,” Shmaiger says. “For books that are thinner we can cut 10 at a time on the guillotine but still someone has to do it. “So, it does save us time as well but the main reason to invest in this machine was to have this process automated so anyone can put books in and go and do their own thing. You need to come and put in another set of books but you can do other things while you wait.” Shmaiger says this focus on automation is what sets her business apart from

other printers and enables the business to stay competitive in the market. “We use less labour than some other printers. This is our strong point and is how we can compete. That was the reason we bought this trimmer so we can do this part of the process automatically as well. Kaligraphic is also open to doing a short run, as low as 20, for self-published authors which has helped their niche grow. “The authors are used to having to print in big quantities and then they become stuck with boxes and have to pay lump sums. Now they can have the opportunity to print 100 books and once they are sold, they can order more. So, this is one type of the books we do. Another type is colour photo books, school books, training manuals.” “We have found our niche.” Nathanael Smith, account manager at Currie Group says, “Will Currie and I enjoyed work ing w ith K at ya to bring the HT-30 to Kaligraphic. We believe it is the perfect addition to the business and the automation will give Katya and her staff much more time to work on other parts of the operation.”

New Accurio at Digitalpress “has not stopped”: Pettaras

Picton Press hopeful ATO action fails

Aw a rd w i n n i n g pr i nt er Digitalpress has added a new press to its stable with a Konica Minolta Accurio C3070 four colour up and running at its Sydney workshop. Digita lpress owner Theo Pettaras bought the Accurio C3070 to support his other equipment, to give extra print power when needed and enable printing on synthetic substrates. Pettaras has not looked back and says the decision to invest was the right one. “The Accurio is a great press because it prints on lots of synthetic substrates and that is really important for us because we are trying to change our market a little bit,” Pettaras told ProPrint. “It’s fast, the quality is superb, it requires very little maintenance and the service from Konica Minolta is exceptional. “We have had an amazing relationship with Konica Minolta.” Pettaras has been busy transforming both himself and his business and is looking forward

Picton Press managing director Gary Kennedy is hopeful that Australian Ta xation Office (ATO) action to overturn a Deed of Compa ny A r ra ngement (DOCA) that has allowed his troubled company to continue to operate will fail. In the latest twist, the ATO launched further legal action against Picton’s directors on December 21 after creditors approved a DOCA that outlined a plan to keep the company’s 30 staff employed while repaying a portion of its $9m debts. Picton entered administration in May 2018 after the ATO sought to recoup $1.3m in tax. At the time $6.8m was owed to secured creditors with $3.5m due to unsecured creditors and $660,000 owed to staff. Jeremy Nipps of Cor Cordis said under the DOCA unsecured trade creditors owed less than $10,000 would receive full repayment, while those exceeding $10,000, including the ATO and a paper supplier, would get just

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Cost effective: Digitalpress Theo Pettaras

to 2019. “We got it around the middle of last year and it hasn’t stopped,” Pettaras said. While the decision to invest in new machinery is a big one, for Pettaras it is the only way to go. “It just makes it more affordable. When you have a machine for three or four years and a new one comes out it is actually more cost effective for you to purchase a new machine rather than run a debt free older press,” Pettaras says.

Renewed action: Picton bracing

one to two cents in each dollar. The agreement was that Picton would pay $205,000 to an unsecured creditors account four weeks after the vote, with a further $275,000 due on November 28, 2019, which Nipps confirmed has been done. Kennedy said the renewed legal action could also delay funds getting to creditors. “We are hopeful that it will work out, we are trading and staff are getting paid, suppliers are getting paid. “We have paid in what will allow staff and creditors to get paid. People are still paying their mortgages, we are trying to do the right thing.” February 2019 ProPrint 7

UPDATE PRINT BY NUMBERS

50 The millions of dollars spent building Franklin Web’s Huntingwood site p27

40000 Number of meals packed by AIP volunteers for Foodbank Victoria p10

88.6% The number of Fairfax shareholders who supported the Nine merger p10

144 The number of days taken to build Franklin Web’s new Huntingwood site p27

18 Number of images from the Penrith Museum of Printing grand reopening p14-15

50 The ProPrint 2018 Power 50 photo gallery, check out the photos of the night p17-20

700 The number of lightning strikes that failed to harm Sublitech’s coral reef installation at Sculptures by the Sea p8

18 Types of technology covered in this editon’s tech guide p34-38

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Sublitech prints giant inflatable coral reef by Sheree Young

Sydney sublimation printer Sublitech has pushed further into the large scale outdoor market as the printer of giant inflatable coral installation Microcosm which featured at Sydney’s Sculptures by the Sea exhibition. Sublitech owner Peter Faill says it was a no brainer when Sydney artists Maurice Goldberg and Matthew Aberline came to him with their idea for the installation, which then went on a tour of regional NSW. The fabric was supplied by Ricky Richards and Sublitech used a Japanese Mimaki inkjet printer using a roll to roll process to cover it with the colourful coral design which the pair then cut, restitched and inflated to create the eye catching display. It was seen by half a million people at Sydney’s Tamarama beach every day of the exhibition. Faill says, “Goldberg Aberline Studios came along with their inflatable idea and we talked about a partnership. “It was a no brainer for us to sponsor the project. I like the guys at Goldberg Aberline… As to whether it has value it is hard to quantify but if I get lots of calls (from new customers) then that is a

Impressive: Sublitech’s owner Peter Faill was very happy to help create this stunning Sculpture by the Sea display

good thing.” Sublitech already prints for leading active and swimwear brands and taking on a project of this scale was just a further extension of what they are already doing. Faill says,“The digital files were supplied to us and then we printed it with a roll of paper. “The printing survives very well in a harsh environment.” Aberline agreed saying that in one of the three weeks weeks that Microcosm was on display it was hit hard by up to 700 lightning strikes and wild storms but was “fresh as a daisy” despite the onslaught.

Family remember doting dad Cliff Royle by Sheree Young

Victorian print innovator Cliff Royle, founder of Shannon Books, RoyleBind and Purple Press, passed away suddenly in November and has been remembered by his family as a doting father, gifted storyteller, keen guitarist and a man who loved life. Royle turned 60 in September last year but his foray into print began in his teens when he bought a press and set to work in the garage of the family home in Shannon Street at Box Hill, giving rise to the name of his first company. Royle was interested in ideas and trying out new ways to do things and in 2012 he broke new ground with a digital innovation that enabled photo books to be printed on the front and back and inside covers and protected it with a triple patent. “It is the only different process in existence. I have spent five years of my life developing this,” Royle told ProPrint in 2012, describing the secret manufacturing method as simpler, quicker and less space-intensive than traditional methods. His innovations won him international and national acclaim, including most recently the $10,000 Konica Minolta National Specialised Print

Innovator remembered: Cliff Royle’s family have reflected on his creative and innovative spirit

Award in 2017 for his Photo Book Panorama. His sisters Cathie Smith and Ally Wilkinson said Royle was creative and intelligent and was extremely proud of his teenage daughter. “He was so proud of her and they used to play music together and sing,” Smith tells ProPrint. The family loved to go camping together and Royle would regularly play his guitar and sing. He was also highly social and “mixed with people of all walks of life.” Readers can contact Lifeline Australia on 13 11 14. www.proprint.com.au

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Debrief Recapping the major developments since your last issue. Stories are breaking every day at www.proprint.com.au

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06 november CACTUS BUYS ACUITY ULTRA Cactus Imaging boosted its fabric printing capacity with the addition of the first Fujifilm Acuity Ultra grand format press to hit Australian shores. The new printer complements the Durst P512 R machine, purhcased in 2017. “It is the first install in Australia, one of the first in the world,” Keith Ferrel, general manager, Operations, Cactus, said. Ferrel added the new press offers good direct printing and aligns with what Cactus is doing in both large and grand format. “It will certainly help us with extra capacity in fabrics, and the POS area,” Ferrel said. “We do a lot of interior decorating prints now, it will enhance that along with POS, and fabrics.”

BLUE STAR OPENS FRANKLIN WEB NSW SITE AT HUNTINGWOOD Blue Star Group, a divsion of IVE, officially opened its sprawling $50 million high-tech printing operation at Huntingwood in Sydney’s west. The new site cements the company’s capacity to deliver high volume catalogues and magazines in Australia, assuring a faster speed to letterbox for the northern states. The site is kitted out with two new Manroland 80 page Lithoman presses that can produce 600,000 catalogues per hour day and night. Prepress is virtually handled in Melbourne and two Muller Martini binders put the product together. IVE Group executive chairman Geoff Selig proudly declared it world class at the opening.

21 november PENRITH MUSEUM OF PRINTING REOPENS The freshly renovated volunteer-run Penrith Museum of Printing in western Sydney has officially reopened. A special ceremony was held to mark the occasion and was well attended by many printing industry supporters. The museum also played a part in the filming of Aussie film, Ladies in Black.

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Helping out: AIP volunteers lend a hand at Foodbank Victoria

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AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF PACKAGING CONTINUES FOODBANK VOLUNTEERING Australian Institute of Packaging members and their colleagues rolled up their sleeves to lend a helping hand to the needy. Together the group of 24 volunteers spent the day packing nearly 40,000 meals at Foodbank Victoria’s Yarraville warehouse. This involved sorting out 21,000kgs of donated food and groceries and packing it up for charities to distribute. The volunteers were from companies including Kimberly Clark, SPC Ardmona and Zipform Packaging. AIP executive director Nerida Kelton says the group reported back saying they had a sense of fulfilment from the day and had enjoyed working in a team with people they didn’t know. “It was a real mix of people and a lot of them brought their staff members and colleagues along to join them,” Kelton said. It came as Foodbank faced having its staple foods program budget halved by January 2019. After a massive community backlash Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the funding would remain. Kelton says more dates for 2019 will be announced.

FAIRFAX SHAREHOLDERS A CLEAR YES ON NINE ENTERTAINMENT CO MERGER Fairfax Media shareholders unanimously gave the $4bn merger with Nine Entertainment Co the nod of approval with a 88.6 per cent vote in favour of the move. The two media giants officially merged in December 2018 and now operate under the company name Nine. The strong shareholder vote came despite a last ditch attempt by former Domain chief executive James Catalano for a 19.9 per cent stake in the 177-year-old publishing house. After the shareholder vote, Fairfax Media’s then chairman Nick Falloon issued a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange saying shareholders had unanimously supported the bid to merge the two companies and that the merged entity would deliver a stronger digitally focussed media organisation with a compelling multi-platform audience reach. In July 2018 Fairfax Media and News Corporation agreed to share printing facilities as a way to cut costs, ultimately leading to the closure of some print sites.

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Doors closed: Gopher Graphics enters liquidation

SYDNEY-BASED GOPHER GRAPHICS ENTERS LIQUIDATION Sydney graphic design business Gopher Graphics entered liquidation with staff told the news by liquidators. One employee who lost his job said all but two staff at the Condell Park business were offered new contracts. This raised the suspicions of those in the industry but Cor Cordis administrator Andre Lakomy was quick to point out it wasn’t a “phoenix”. Lakomy said the company had been having cash flow problems and that all equipment had been left on site and would be sold to pay creditors and cover staff entitlements. An auction was later conducted to sell off equipment. The closure did however raise further concerns as it was revealed that Australian Securities and Investment Commission records showed a company named ACN 062 895 774 Pty Ltd, trading as Gopher Graphics Pty Ltd, also went into liquidation in 2014. ProPrint tried to contact Gopher Graphics owner Ed Jones (pictured) but he did not wish to comment on the situation.

LARGE FORMAT SUPPLIER CHARTI ACQUIRES STANTON National supplier of large format printing supplies Charti announced it had acquired Brisbane based Stanton Media. A decision to retire by Stanton Media’s owner Gary Epps opened the door for Charti which says it can now offer customers a wider range of products as it can now convert massive paper rolls into smaller ones. “Stanton has been operating for over 15 years and we pride ourselves in our longstanding commitment to great service and product innovation,” Epps said. Charti’s business values and work ethic are well aligned to what we had, which was why I decided to proceed with them.” Charti managing director David Cheng (pictured) said the acquisition has been a great strategic fit for the company.

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21 november CREATE APPAREL MOVES AHEAD WITH NEW DIRECT TO GARMENT PRESS Sydney printer Mark Yammin was all smiles after purchasing a new Israeli-made Kornit Storm 11 direct to garment press. The new addition to his Sydney printing business has allowed him to expand his production without taking staff away from other jobs. Create Apparel, in Sydney’s west, began in 2002 as a supplier of sports clothing but has since added custom t-shirt printing to its repertoire. The company had been supplying short run jobs with a smaller press but in order to achieve larger quantities and a higher quality product further investment was needed. The decision was made to purchase the Kornit Storm 11 through Australian distributor Kissel & Wolf. The press, along with an Adelco industrial textile dryer has allowed Create Apparel to supply much larger orders of custom t-shirts, delivering a better deal and a superior product to customers.

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ORORA BUYS TEXAS-BASED POLLOCK PACKAGING FOR $US80.5M Australian packaging company Orora Limited furthered its reach into North American markets with the acquisition of Texas based Pollock Packaging for $US80.5 million ($A110m). Pollock Packaging has been in operation for 100 years and mainly serves the industrial, retail and facility supplies markets and employs more than 440 people with annual revenues in excess of US$250m million. The purchase increases the business of Orora Packaging Solutions (OPS) in North America, while also boosting its geographic presence across several US states, including Georgia, North Carolina, New Jersey and California. Orora managing director and chief executive officer, Nigel Garrard (pictured) said, “The addition of Pollock to OPS’s business provides a scale platform to leverage the capability and customer reach of both businesses to continue to drive sales growth with existing and new customers.”

SIGNWAVE SALES UP 18 PER CENT Visual communications, signs and graphics franchise Signwave reported a 18 per cent jump in year to date sales across its 700 Australian outlets. The company, known internationally as Fastsigns, says it also achieved a 84 per cent overall result in customer satisfaction with some centres exceeding 90 per cent. A growing customer base and a focus on full-scale signage and display solutions in the construction, retail, healthcare, industrial and education sectors was behind the increase in sales. Signwave Australia general manager Linda Sultmann (pictured) says it is very satisfying to see the group continue to own the mid-tier market space. “Every year, we run an award for the centres to showcase their projects, and every year the projects get bigger and more amazing. It is satisfying to see the group continuing to really own the mid-tier to corporate market space and excel in servicing this market’s needs.”

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FESPA ANNOUNCES 2019 DATES The Fespa 2019 Global Print Expo and the European Sign Expo will take place in May 2019 at Messe Munich in Germany. The expo is being promoted as an “Explosion of Possibilities” and will showcase the multitude of commercial and creative opportunities within the screen and digital wide format, textile printing and signage markets. “Our insights from previous events and from this year’s Fespa Print Census affirm that print service providers (PSPs) and sign-makers are continually looking at new openings and ways to grow their businesses,” Roz Guarnori, exhibitions director at Fespa, said. “The Explosion of Possibilities theme for our 2019 global events underlines the boundless opportunity there is within our industry.”

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CACTUS IMAGING’S KEITH FERREL TO SPEAK AT ASIA PRINT EXPO 2019 Cactus Imaging general manager operations Keith Ferrel will be a keynote speaker at this month’s Asia Print Expo in Bangkok where he will host a seminar on diversification in the printing business and examine emerging trends. The expo, which runs from 21 to 23 February, is free for visitors and also will offer seminars covering screen, digital and textile printing and discussions about environmental issues and sustainability. Ferrel says he will use his experience to help other printers see how they can diversify and offer more dimensions to their business.

REAL MEDIA COLLECTIVE HOLDS DEBUT ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING The newly-formed Real Media Collective held its first yearly meet-up, with big industry players attending to celebrate the year. With its strong catalogue focus, reflecting its Australasian Catalogue Association origins, there were executives from IVE Group, PMP, and Salmat attending, along with Print NZ’s Ruth Cobb. Kellie Northwood, CEO, RMC, told guests, “We collaborate and educate. In February/March we will be holding our first Real Media Collective seminar. This is for customers, retailers, and agencies, and we will be hosting them across Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne, and will look at all sectors of print.”

20 december AURORA LABS SIGN JV TO FURTHER 3D ADVANCE Western Australian 3D print technology leader Aurora Labs has announced it has signed a 50/50 joint venture agreement with WorleyParsons Services. The new entity, AdditiveNow, aims to provide a complete additive manufacturing-based engineering service primarily to the oil and gas, mining and major infrastructure sectors. The incorporated joint venture brings together Aurora’s role as a leader in 3D metal printing with the data science, software and technology capability of Advisian Digital, a division of WorleyParsons. Aurora Labs managing director David Budge (pictured) says the announcement, which was released to the Australian Securities Exchange on December 20, marks a significant step for Aurora and the 3D printing industry as a whole.

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“Konica Minolta has been actively involved in supporting human rights.”

KONICA MINOLTA WINS HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD Konica Minolta has won a Human Rights Award in the Business category for 2018, for promoting human rights in its business and supply chain, including its work to stamp out slavery. The Human Rights Award is the pinnacle of human rights recognition in Australia, highlighting the outstanding contribution of individuals and organisations in promoting and protecting human rights and freedoms. Dr David Cooke, managing director, Konica Minolta Australia, says, “Konica Minolta has been actively involved in supporting human rights and has made significant efforts to not only ensure it has practices in place to ensure the ethical management of its own supply chain, but has also provided resources, raised awareness and worked with the government for changes to be made to address the issues of modern slavery in Australia and internationally.”

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SIGNARAMA DANDENONG TURNS 20 Signarama Dandenong has turned 20 and owners Ross and Pam Wade have attributed their success to knowing and retaining great employees and customers. The Wades opened the outlet in November 1998 and over time had to find larger facilities before hitting $1m in sales in April 2004 with their Dandenong franchise still going strong today. The couple were inducted into Signarama’s International Hall of Fame in 2005. “It seems like only yesterday that we started this franchise, and over the years we have built a great team,” Ross Wade says.

“We look forward to helping our new broader network of customers to find business advantage through 3D”

14 january PIAA EMPLOYS NEW INDUSTRIAL ADVOCATE AS MITCHELL LEAVES The Printing Industries Association of Australia (PIAA) has a new industrial relations advocate with Sam Puri appointed to the role. Puri will oversee the association’s industrial relations advocacy program, as well as provide over the phone HR assistance, while also advocating for the vocational and educational training needs of the industry. His appointment follows the departure of former industrial relations advocate Paul Mitchell, who left the association in December following a scandal over his apparent referral to fellow Victorian Liberal Party volunteers of Indian descent as “curries”. PIAA chief executive officer Andrew Macaulay says Puri will bring important firepower to the association, especially ahead of the looming federal election.

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Dealing with customer feedback Seeking customer feedback is important, but having a system in place to deal with it is critical LEON GETTLER

ustomer feedback provides the opportunity for any printer to hone in on problem issues and do something about them. For example, a customer may complain about pricing. As a result, you might adjust prices. A customer might say you don’t have a large enough selection. As a result, you might overhaul the range of services. A customer may compliment you about the cleanliness of the printing business or helpfulness of staff. When that happens, it’s time to promote and reward staff for work well done. So good customer feedback can boost morale. Of course, not all customers are happy. Printers have to go out and talk to their customers and find out what they don’t like. They can use customer satisfaction surveys to ask for general suggestions. Customers might not necessarily be dissatisfied, but they could give suggestions to make their experience even better. The survey is otherwise known as the Voice of the Customer or VOC exercise. A formal VOC program is there to encourage two-way communication between the printer and customers. Once customer communications channels are established, the company has to implement formal processes to support feedback data collection. They also need technologies that support a solid VOC program. Importantly, real-time customer feedback and survey data findings need to be distributed with everyone in the company. That means it goes to absolutely everyone, from the c-suite to managers and employees. Actionable insights need to be shared with employees and post-mortem meetings need to be held to discuss what did and did not work as well. Not only in terms of the company’s operations but also what is needed to improve the printer’s VOC program in the future. To build strong, lasting and engaging relationships with customers, the printer needs to gather and respond to feedback in real-time. Printers also have to make it easy for customers to submit

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feedback at every interaction point. The VOC survey should identify strengths and use those to help the business. For example, if customers say the business has the best customer service team or the fastest delivery time, the printer could use that as a selling point in the future. Approaching customers with a new sales opportunity when they are the most satisfied with your business can improve your chance of success. It’s also important to run customer satisfaction surveys on a regular basis, say every three to four years. This will allow you to notice differences from one survey to the next. You obviously want to see an improvement in satisfaction over the time and if that’s not happening, there’s something wrong. Since you can use customer satisfaction surveys to track satisfaction over time, you can easily identify when exactly your customers are the most satisfied with your business and when they’re not. In addition to finding ways to keep existing customers, you can also use the results of these surveys to potentially win back some old ones. If you are about to lose customers, ask them why they left. If you receive useful insights and are able to fix the issues that caused them to leave, they might consider coming back. All of these aspects, from helping customers feel more connected to your brand to making improvements based on feedback, can lead to customers that are more likely to

promote your brand. There are several questions printers can ask in these surveys:  Would you recommend our services?  Are you happy to provide a testimonial?  Who are you? Demographic questions are a great way to segment your customers into groups, so you can target them more effectively with separate marketing campaigns.  What do you think of us?  What is important to you?  Any other comments of suggestions? In other words, the printer is measuring and monitoring customerrelated metrics such as customer retention, number of products purchased, likelihood to recommend the company’s products or services, likelihood to purchase again, etc. Printers should also benchmark their program against other industry leaders. Printers need systems in place to manage feedback. What sort of systems? Are you currently measuring and monitoring Customer Satisfaction? Do you have a customer support centre receiving and responding to customer feedback through phone calls, emails and letters? Do you have a Facebook fan page where customer feedback comes via posts about themselves and your company? Do you have customers talking about you on Twitter or on blogs?

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UPDATE ONLINE THE PROPRINT ONLINE POLL

Are you more or less optimistic for print in 2019?

Does anyone want to buy my business? 10%

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Less? 35%

Think it will be about the same as 2018? 22%

More? 32%

NOTABLE POSTS: » Matthew Parker: It is an error to base a print sales approach on customer service. Buyers expect their suppliers to deliver high standards of service. It is taken as a given. High levels of service are rarely an exciting sales proposition. Buyers don’t see service as a differentiator. What do you sell on?

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For commercial printers: have you expanded into digital?

NOTABLE MENTIONS AND RETWEETS » @workflowz_AU: Many congratulations to all this year’s @ proprint Power50 winners. It was our pleasure to be invited to join the judging panel of this thriving industry » @workflowz_AU: It’s fantastic to see so many of our @Workflowz_AU clients feature in the @proprint Power50 awards. There’s too many to name here but congrats to you all.

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What do you see as the biggest threat to your business?

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Other 0% Under pricing from other printers 25%

Fierce competition in a shrinking market 25%

Rising costs in electricity or paper, inks and other supplies 50%

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COVER STORY

Franklin Web makes $50m move into Sydney Franklin Web can now promise a faster track to northern state mailboxes with its new automated supersite in western Sydney’s Huntingwood open for business High tech automation, streamlined workflow efficiencies and speed to letterbox are the order of the day at Franklin Web’s new sparkling supersite in Sydney’s west. The most signficant investment in Australian print infrastructure in living memory was officially opened in November.

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t was the most significant investment in Australian printing infrastructure in living memory. Franklin Web’s $50 million 144-day march into mega capacity, heavily automated catalogue production in Sydney’s west is yet another strategic move by listed parent company IVE Group. Each step, which has also included dual 2016 acquisitions of the long-held family owned Melbourne-based Franklin printing business and AIW, have come together to further cement the foothold of this company as an Australian print powerhouse. Huntingwood is the third jewel in Franklin Web’s crown. It complements the mammoth site at Melbourne’s Sunshine with BlueStar Web in Sydney’s Silverwater primarily focused on magazine production. At the grand opening in November, IVE Group executive chairman Geoff Selig did not hold back. “This is the most significant investment in this industry,” Selig proudly told the gathered crowd. “I have seen a lot of printing companies around the world and this is a world class facility.” And world class it is.

World class: Darryl Meyer, chief executive officer, Franklin Web; Geoff Selig, executive chairman, IVE Group; Warwick Hay, managing director, IVE Group

Two mammoth 80 page manroland Lithoman presses preside over this efficient, automated production hall and sit side by side pumping out 200,000 press finished catalogues per hour, 24 hours a day, seven days a week consuming five tonne of DIC-supplied ink and chewing through kilometres of paper daily. The Lithoman is the world leader when it comes to high-quality, highvolume printing and features drive and folding technology and groundbreaking automation to reduce costs while increasing print quality and output. Two Muller Martini binding lines, one a Corona C15S Perfect Binder which can produce a maximum 15,000 cycles per hour and a Primera MC Saddle Stitcher with a capacity of 14,000 cycles per hour, operate like clockwork reducing the chance of finishing bottlenecks slowing down the breakneck speed with which this operation functions. Robotic arms are used to hoist the finished product onto pallets removing the need for heavy lifting in this highly automated environment. In terms of prepress it is virtually “lights out” at Huntingwood. All the digital files for the Kodak plates are created in Melbourne and sent Continued on page 22 February 2019 ProPrint 21

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electronically to Huntingwood. From there, one of two Kodak Magnus VLF platesetters with a fitted multi cassette unit, automated plate punching and a complete processing line send the aluminium plates on their way. Kodak has installed two Magnus platesetters at Huntingwood, but the second will only be put into use once it’s required. Thirteen employees work each shift in the 24-hour production cycle with software programs able to quickly notice page anomalies. Putting this key investment in place was not always easy but Franklin Web chief executive officer Darryl Meyer says it was achieved ahead of time thanks to great collaboration between all involved. “Despite meticulous planning, constructing a world class printing facility of this scale in 144 days does not come without challenges. The collaboration and team work between Franklin Web, installation engineers and 138 contractors and subcontractors was crucial to the ahead of schedule start up,” Meyer says. “There were some nervous times working with utility providers for the supply of electricity and gas services, however they met the stretch deadlines we requested of them.” Meyer says Huntingwood’s grand opening was a momentous occasion with the result a contemporary, clean and bright manufacturing plant that employs the latest technology from some of the world’s most respected suppliers. Now, he says it is time to focus on the future and look at ways to further streamline the operation. “Our major investment plans for the business have now been completed including the broader strategy across the Silverwater site with the installation of the Rotoman, EasySert and Rima log stackers in 2018,” he says. “In 2019, we will continue to look at ways to streamline our internal processes in line with our overall goal to create and maintain a world class, profitable and sustainable print company.” manroland Goss Australasia managing director Dennis Wickham says Franklin Web will benefit from the flexibility offered by the manroland. “With an 80pp press you get flexibility, it is wider, with more tonnage, and a lower cost per copy,” Wickham said at the official opening. “We had a compressed installation timeline, a normal timeline would be 12-15 weeks, depending on the configuration. We completed the installation in 11 weeks, from the start, to its first production running.” Luke Wooldridge, NSW Territory 22 ProPrint February 2019

KODAK MAGNUS VLF WITH MULTI CASSETTE UNIT The Kodak Magnus VLF with multi cassette unit utilizes automated plate punching and comes with a complete processing line Throughput: Capable of outputting 17 x 2070mm plates per hour MCU capacity: Maximum 300 plates Process: Once the plates are loaded into the multi cassette unit they are automatically imaged, punched, developed, baked and stacked ready for collection by the printer Laser type: Thermal laser Technology: Kodak squarespot Imaging Technology Resolution: 2400/1200 dpi offering up to 10 micron or 450 lpi (lines per inch) resolution on plate Sensitivity: Electra XD plates have a spectral sensitivity of 800 - 850 nm. The required laser energy is 90 - 130 mJ/cm2 Max run length: This site uses ‘Kodak Electra XD’ plates that have been ‘baked’ to offer a run length over 1,000,000 impressions. The Electra XD plates are a positive working thermal digital plate

ink supply DIC INK DIC exclusively managed the installation and supply of ink for the manroland presses at Huntingwood. Site capacity: Eight ink tanks each with an eight tonne capacity Pipework: Around 1600m of stainless steel pipework installed to move ink Hours to install: 500+ hours of labour Daily consumption: Five tonne consumed per day Manufactured by: Sun Chemical Europe

Sales Manager at Eastman Kodak Company, says working on the Huntingwood project was very exciting for his team. “It’s not often that we have a blank canvas to start with when installing equipment but that is exactly what we had,” Wooldridge says. “Richard Clark and the Franklin team were a pleasure to work with and ensured that we had all of the space required not just for this installation but also allowed for additional CtP equipment that was to be installed at a later date once the site was operational. “Establishing a greenfield site under the strict time constraints that were in place was an exciting project. The size, scope and automation of the new site is truly impressive and Kodak were delighted to be involved to continue our

strong relationship with IVE.” The CtP setup is capable of producing 17x2070mm plates per hour with each multiple cassette unit able to hold up to 300 plates. Once the plates are loaded they are automatically imaged, punched, developed, baked and stacked ready for collection by the printer. Five tonne of ink, supplied by DIC Australia and sourced from Sun Chemical Europe, are consumed every day at Huntingwood. The ink supply project involved engineers moving eight bulk ink tanks from the AIW site in Melbourne to Huntingwood. From there a custom designed ink line was installed to deliver the ink to the new presses. Future growth has also been catered for with additional ink lines installed. www.proprint.com.au

COVER STORY presses MANROLAND LITHOMAN 80 PAGE PRESS The Lithoman is a world leader in the high-quality, high-volume segment. It offers a customised solution for commercial printers wanting to achieve shorter production changeovers and excellent repeatability. Its automation and workflow means efficiency and quality go hand in hand. Automation: The main options are the AutoJobChange control package which includes QuickStart pre-inking, rapid production changeovers with APL® (AutomaticPlateLoading) and quality assurance functions with Inline Control Systems for cut-off and colour registers and ink density. Cost reductions: The Lithoman’s drive and folding technology cut waste and reduce costs while increasing print quality and output. Other facts: Maximum rev./h. up to 50,000 and maximum web width 2,060mm.

bindery MULLER MARTINI PRIMERA MC SADDLE STITCHER The Primera MC saddle stitcher is an advanced and highly efficient saddle stitcher for the midperformance range. This highly flexible system was configured just for Franklin Web. Speed: Maximum 14,000 cycles per hour Features: Nine station with stream feeders, options for inserting, poly-bagging, inline strapped and palletised by a Solema product. Innovation: The Motion Control technology is a bonus for printers in a fierce market because the technology reduces setup times, resulting in shorter processing times which equals maximum profitability. Versatile: The Primera MC can also be used across a wide size range. Its modular design provides the right configuration option for every customer and production requirement. This enables future market needs to be met at any time.

DIC Australia general manager, offset division Jason Kent, says “DIC have a long history of design and installation of fully automated ink delivery systems. “IVE Group tasked DIC with the significant responsibility of having ink available for the “go live” date. “The installation had a very short lead time and we worked very closely with the manroland engineers who were installing the press to ensure all parties could meet their deadlines. “DIC worked very closely with IVE Group and our technical team in Europe to develop a new heatset ink to meet the demands of high speed catalogue production.” Speed to letterbox is what this massive investment was all about. Now Huntingwood is operational, www.proprint.com.au

bindery MULLER MARTINI CORONA C15S PERFECT BINDER Franklin Web required a high speed perfect binder with 15 feeders, stream-feeders, inline trimming, bundle wrap and automatic palletising. The Corona C15S fitted the bill as it excels in the upper performance range offering the highest level of productivity. Speed: Maximum 15,000 cycles per hour Features: Can be accurately adjusted to a specific job structure and can produce magazines with the most varied inserts, catalogues and paperback books plus much more. Cost effective: The unique automation offered by this machine means it can be cost effectively used for a broad range of print runs.

catalogues for retailers including Coles and JB Hi-Fi, no longer have to be trucked from Victoria to Queensland and the Northern Territory. Sitting above all the hard work going on at Franklin Web and Blue Star Web is IVE Group, which through its investments in a number of businesses, including wide format offshoot Blue Star Display, has the market well covered. Revenues are also soaring, bringing joy and comfort to shareholders and confirming the decision to go public in 2016 was the right one. “It is always challenging going from a private company to a public company, but if I look at our growth, in revenue, earnings, and even organic growth, which was six per cent, high for our sector, we have a lot to be proud of,”

Selig said at the grand opening. “This is a good example of why we did the right thing by going public. “I think large format web offset is a good fit for our business and expands our retail vertical.” Selig says the Franklin Web rollout has capped a huge year for IVE. “It has been a massive year for the business, following from decisions we made prior to the last 12 months,” Selig said. “The rollout post the acquisition of Franklin Web and AIW, the final shutdown of AIW, and integration with Franklin NSW, the establishment of the $50m facility that we have now opened is the most significant in our sector in a very long time and a huge vote in confidence for the sector itself at the end of the day.” February 2019 ProPrint 23

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PROFILE STAR BUSINESS

Consolidate and innovate: Bambra’s keys for print success Melbourne’s Bambra Press continues to stand strong in a turbulent market and here John Wanless and Steven Haas share their insights on what is needed for that to continue.

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Age: 39 years Staff: 60 Owner: John Wanless & Troy Riley Strategy: Delivering a complete print service through evolution and expansion

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hen asked about the future of the Australian print industry, there is one thing Bambra Press managing director John Wanless is clear on. The industry will be around for a “very very long time” and will definitely see him out. But the flipside? For the industry to achieve longevity, Wanless says further consolidation and sharing of commercial print equipment will be definitely required. Both Bambra and Wanless have a long connection to the Melbourne print scene with the business itself beginning in 1980 and named after the street in which it began. Wanless himself came into the industry a year later as a fresh out of high school teenager unsure about taking up a spot at Swinburne University. Instead of plunging into tertiary study, he took up a family friend’s offer to work at a paper supply company and from there you could say the rest is history. Wanless joined Bambra Press in 1993 and eventually took it over in 2006 with Troy Riley returning as general manager and shareholder in 2014. Wanless remains deeply connected to the industry while continuing to expand, develop and bring innovation to the company as it grows outwards. Along the way a well respected reputation has been built around both the company and its owner and the happy buzz of the 60 staff at Bambra’s bustling Port Melbourne production 26 ProPrint February 2019

facility further supports the success. Wanless is a current board member of The Real Media Collective which is a group of associations that have banded together to form a powerful group that promotes the value and power of print as a way to market to consumers. He has also featured in the upper reaches of the ProPrint Power 50 for a number of years, which acknowledges leading print innovators in Australia, including a No.4 finish in 2018. Not that he’s willing to boast about that and chuckles at the suggestion that he is considered to be one of the country’s strongest print leaders. But he is open to talking business and sharing ideas with other printers, to a point that is, and is chairman of the Melbourne Print Group that meets up in Melbourne bi-monthly to share non competitive information with like minded business owners. Wanless is also no stranger to buying printing businesses and bringing them in under the Bambra banner. The pace has been brisk. Most recently there have been three buyouts in a six year window beginning in 2012 with the takeover of the $1m revenue Printwize. The 2014 purchase of 50-year-old family business Allardice Graphics came next. Then in 2015 McKellar Renown, also a well respected and long running family business, joined the Bambra ranks bringing with it 22 staff, $6m in annual revenue and a

specialty production area of stamp printing. For Wanless it’s this kind of consolidation and continued evolution that is necessary for commercial printing to not only survive but thrive long into the future. “Printing will be around for a long, long time. It will see me out,” Wanless tells ProPrint. “I think there is still a need for some consolidation in the commercial printing market certainly in Melbourne. That could be through a whole lot of different means, but people getting together makes a lot of sense. Sharing machinery makes a lot of sense so I don’t know where it’s going to plateau, but it will level out at some stage.” Instead of liquidations, Wanless is hoping that business owners who find themselves struggling to keep their heads above water will opt to merge. “Honestly, a business owner should know if they are struggling well in advance of shutting the doors. If you are struggling and have no dynamic plans for the business – seek help, don’t just hope it will get back to normal, because normal is not coming back,” he says. “Some people do it not by choice but you can see there are some distressed businesses out there by the prices they are selling at. “It’s unsustainable and it can’t last forever. Unfortunately there will probably be a few more liquidations to www.proprint.com.au

STAR BUSINESS PROFILE come. Hopefully there will be more mergers and acquisitions.” Seventeen months ago Wanless and Riley hired Steven Haas as Bambra’s chief executive officer, who since walking through the door has enthusiastically examined every aspect of the business to hunt out opportunities for efficiency gains and identify areas for f u r t h e r b u s i n e s s a n d c u l t u ra l development. “There were many processes and contracts that needed to be addressed, and a full analysis of the business financials from top to bottom to put a strategy in place to make Bambra a much stronger company,” says Haas, whose own business was acquired by Bambra 18 years ago. One of the key initiatives set in play by Haas has been the rollout of a tailored PrintIQ management information system, which was installed in January 2019 after months of development. Haas says the Print IQ implementation will vastly change the way Bambra operates and open up opportunities that will allow some current staff to be re-trained where they can contribute to other, more profitable parts of the business. “It’s completely transformational,” Haas says. “The opportunity to access high quality reports out of IQ is a vast improvement and the ability to bolt on automation for different components of the process is really significant. “The MIS system is really quite modular so you have the opportunity to combine additional software or processes that we can develop internally to further systemise different aspects of the business.” Bambra Press has many strings in its bow which is one of the reasons why it has stayed competitive despite the ongoing challenges. Leading the charge is its twelve colour + coater Heidelberg Speedmaster offset press which since being installed in 2011 has continued to account for 60 per cent of total revenue for the business. The Speedmaster has the capacity to produce 15,000 sheets per hour and despite it hitting the usual changeover period, Wanless feels there is no need to upgrade at the moment as there has been no significant improvements to the technology to date. “They can’t really improve much on what they’ve built because it’s already pretty smart,” Wanless says, also adding that many consumable parts of the press have been replaced recently making changing over unnecessary. In the digital sphere, the HP Indigo 10000 was installed in 2013 and has the capacity to produce 3000 single sided sheets per hour. It operates with two other smaller Indigos and together these digital machines generate 40 per cent of www.proprint.com.au

1. Bambra Press’ bustling facility at Port Melbourne 2. John Wanless, Troy Riley and Steven Haas taking care of business 3. John Wanless with an original Heidelberg Cylinder bringing a mix of old and new to Bambra

company revenue. “It (the Indigo 10000) is just bigger and is more of a production press while the 7600 Indigos are more jobbing machines. We got into the digital printing 15 years ago so we were reasonably early users of the Indigo technology,” Wanless says. “We are a B2 format offset printer, not A1, so it suited us to go bigger in size while still doing smaller value jobs. It suited us to go into digital because we already had customers who were buying small jobs and some of the bigger A1 printers didn’t get into digital until quite late because they were doing big runs and they didn’t really want to get involved in doing low value jobs.” And then there’s wide format. A brand new 1.6m Mimaki UV roll to roll press was being installed as ProPrint toured the building and will complement the 2.4m SwissQ, meaning Bambra is all set to print CMYK on up to 50mm media. “It’s a new string to our bow ¬ it’s an add on that our sales team can now go and sell to existing customers,” Wanless says of Bambra’s expanded wide format offering.

Marking a mix in new and old tech arty finishes including formecutting, flat sheet debossing and letterpress are handled by the rock solid Heidelberg Cylinders and Platens. Having set such a cracking pace of acquisitions, the question does come to mind about whether Bambra may be on the lookout for any future purchases. Haas is pretty clear on this one. While he, Wanless and Riley aren’t on the lookout so to speak, they are open to opportunities, either of a whole business or equipment, that may fit in with its current operation and future strategic plan but only after the proposition has passed a stringent evaluation process. “The opportunities do come up reasonably regularly in this industry so there are always a few pieces of equipment or companies up for sale and really if it fits into our long term strategic plan then we would certainly act on that,” Haas says. “But there’s a pretty serious evaluation process in place at the moment as there is potentially more risk in acquisitions then there was before. “It is really quite challenging to buy a business and properly capitalise on the acquisition, whether you integrate it into your own business or whether it stands alone, a full evaluation of whether it is the right fit and financially advantageous must be done before we seriously consider any proposal.” Bambra Press does not stand still which is also part of its recipe for success, but it would be wrong to say it’s focusing on any particular direction, says Haas. “The industry is changing in so many different directions. It is important to pick a direction that offers sustainable opportunities so we now put processes in place to explore different directions and then choose a path,” says Haas. “We are constantly evolving. We are looking at the next iteration of whatever additional field we explore.” Historically, Haas says the print industry has taken over industries that were at one point stand alone. “That’s the thing about the print industry, it’s aggressively territorial and historically it has tended to steam roll over adjacent industries. For example more recently signwriting was an industry of artisans and print has really taken that over quite aggressively,” Haas says. “There are a few industries like that, that are currently in the sights of the print industry. “It’s an interesting perspective but it’s really quite valid if you look back across the history of the industry.” The questions about what 2019 may bring for Bambra Press are still open for discussion, but have no doubt improvements and further evolutions will continue to come. February 2019 ProPrint 27

FOCUS DIGITAL LABELS

Digital labels: Smart, versatile, on demand The advantages of demand-driven printing, with the potential to add a variable-data printing (VDP) component, set the scene for exciting times in label production, now that digital technology has been harnessed to an enduring, obsolescence-resistant sector of the Australian printing industry. By Peter Kohn

range of new digital presses built for the label industry ¬ from developers such as Epson, Konica Minolta and Screen ¬ open new vistas for label printers that conventional flexo solutions cannot cater to. In fact, following the digital route into label printing has placed some traditional commercial printers in the game – Southern Impact in Melbourne has even spun off a separate business, Onpack, to produce digital labels. These are companies that would not have invested in flexo because of considerable set-up costs. Craig Heckenberg, general manager for Epson Australia, sees food and beverage, alcoholic beverages, household products, and industrial and pharmaceutical, as the main areas of demand for digitally printed labels. “Services they are looking for include fast turnaround and ability to purchase just enough labels to fulfil their short-run orders. They avoid ordering and holding too much label stock as they don’t want to be caught with redundant labels, for example, to accommodate raw-ingredient or legislation changes.” Is the increasing complexity of 28 ProPrint February 2019

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products, with multiple versions, and smaller boutique brands, creating demand for shorter variably printed runs of labels? “Absolutely,” says Heckenberg. “It is very common now to print multiple versions of a label for the one type of product. An example would be cut and prepared, ready-toeat fruit that uses the same label design and is applied to a common container but varies the image and text using VDP to match the contents.” Epson’s entry-level SurePress L-4533AW production press uses aqueous resin inkjet technology, representing an affordable and very versatile solution for short-runs and smaller print volumes, says Heckenberg. “Aqueous resin inks can print on a wide variety of substrates without pre-coating. The aqueous pigments are resin coated and are cured by a dual drying system that makes them durable and water-fast on both synthetic and paper materials.

They are also very well suited to textured papers as inkjet printing is a non-contact technology which maintains texture fidelity.” The SurePress L-4533AW can achieve up to 91 per cent of the Pantone range using a wide CMYK + orange & green colour gamut, and the addition of white ink allows printing onto clear, metallic and coloured material, he notes. Additionally, it has a variable web width from 80mm to 333mm, so that material costs can be saved by not being forced to print onto set-width material all the time. “The SurePress L-4533AW is very easy to operate and, once a job is set up, operators can attend to other tasks whilst it is printing. The L-4533AW is the fourth generation of the successful SurePress platform with over 300 installations worldwide and has proven to be a reliable, versatile, shortrun label production press.” So how does Heckenberg see the www.proprint.com.au

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future of Australian label printing? “Industry surveys suggest digital label printing and investment into digital label presses will continue to grow. This year FINAT [the European association for the self-adhesive label industry] reported digital label press purchases overtook conventional label press purchases in Europe for the first time and we believe this trend will follow in Australia and New Zealand,” he says. At Konica Minolta, Mark Brown, product marketing manager for Industrial Print, notes there is a broad range of industries serviced with digitally printed labels ¬ such as foodstuffs, beverage (alcoholic and non-alcoholic), health and beauty and industrial. Specialty and boutique brands are a growing component, as is VDP-driven label production, but says Brown, it depends on the industry segment, the application and most importantly the www.proprint.com.au

marketing campaign, which is often the driver for the variable content. Variable data can also be driven by product batch requirements. “The best advice before entering the market is to try before you buy,” says Brown. “Outsource labels to a trusted printer where you can qualify the quality and repeatability and develop suitable volume. “Once you believe you have enough volume, you can then bring the production inhouse. In terms of the technology the device uses ¬ such as toner or inkjet ¬ you should print test jobs on each of the desired devices and test the output with your clients. From there, it’s a comparison of suitability for applications and materials and ROI which will determine the best investment to make.” Konica Minolta’s AccurioLabel 190 is a high-quality, easy-to-use label press with a very small footprint, states Brown. It prints up to 18.9m/

min on a web 330mm wide at 1200dpi. Since its release last year, Konica Minolta has sold over 250 units globally, he reports, “a testament to it being fit for purpose and good value for money”. Looking to the future, Brown says, “Australia is well known for early technology adoption and the printing of labels via digital methods is no different. Konica Minolta expects the level of digitisation of the label market will continue at an accelerated rate over the coming years, as presses become faster, better and cheaper. In addition, we expect to see the start of digital label embellishment in the Australian market.” Currie Group notes that changes in consumer behaviour and market trends are prompting brands to adapt and evolve, constantly looking for ways to save money, speed time to market and engage more closely with consumers. For labels and packaging converters, this translates into a landmark shift from traditional long runs to short runs and also to new long runs, consisting of multiple SKUs, brand protection features and VDP. With this in mind, HP Indigo has upgraded its WS6800 narrow-web label press to the 6900 digital press, which offers innovative solutions allowing converters to produce any narrow-format label, flexible packaging, sleeve, IML, wraparound labels or folding cartons job, with easy and quick changeovers. In fact, the HP Indigo 6000 series enables printing of any label, at any runlength, in a simpler, more productive and profitable way. The HP Indigo 6900 facilitates almost any packaging application, including labels, flexible packaging, and shrink sleeves on any film or paper. The press supports the widest range of media in digital production, including synthetic and paper substrates from 10 to 450 microns. It can print on either pre-optimised substrates or standard off-the-shelf materials, using inline or offline priming solutions. Many eco-certified substrates as well as environmentally friendly primers, varnishes, and adhesives are supported. Mark Daws, Director ¬ Labels and Packaging ANZ at Currie Group, finds FMCG (fast-moving consumer goods) to be “the strongest market for narrow-web digital, followed by healthcare and pharmaceuticals, wine and beverage”. “As millennials quickly move frontand-centre into becoming the largest consumer demographic, label technologies need to find new ways to enhance packaging to appeal to this Continued on page 30 February 2019 ProPrint 29

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market segment, says Daws. The need to frequently refresh content and launch new SKUs to market makes digital the ideal narrow-web platform,” he says. Referring to research that shows consumers are exposed to an average of 50,000 SKUs in a typical grocery store and this number continues to increase, Daws says shoppers have learnt to cope with this upswing and to seek out smart, relevant packaging that also has attractive shelf appeal. In attracting millennials, Daws also sees sustainability playing a significant role in decision making. With new brands coming to market, the need to produce small test-runs and to scale accordingly, based on product shift, is a growing consideration. Digital printing can help to drive just-in-time print runs as required, he argues. Daws notes the average run length of jobs continues to decline – in New Zealand, for example, it is down to 1,500 metres – and digital narrowweb is becoming the technology of choice. He sees a role still for conventional printing presses but digital is the technology that allows new label ideas to be driven to customers at just the right opportunities. He says HP Indigo presses have already played an important role in bringing flexible packaging in, as the next industry to embrace digital printing. Peter Scott, managing director of Screen GP Australia, describes the Screen Truepress Jet L350UV, as the optimal choice for printers looking to expand into digital production of labels. He points to the recent FINAT study, which indicated that 48 per cent of printers surveyed would be investing in inkjet digital label production as their next purchase. He observes that some ten years ago, that figure would have been close to zero. With its 350mm web width, 60

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Fast pace: FMCG is leading the charge for narrow web digital labels

Small footprint: Konica Minolta’s AccurioLabel 190

linear metres per minute, wide-gamut colour with white ink, chill roller option for thin heat-sensitive substrates and the recent addition of low-migration inks for food packaging, the L350 was the natural choice for the European Digital Press Association Award during last year’s FESPA, notes Scott. He reports the dealer association with Jet Technologies and Fujifilm NZ progressing very successfully. “Jet knows the label market inside-out and proved a successful reseller of Screen Flexo CTP devices and now the L350 series. Fujifilm NZ is a very strong graphic arts channel across the Tasman and we have a long association with them.” Scott sees not only short-run label jobs but also some segments of volume flexo/offset/gravure production being challenged by digital narrow-web printing. “The food and beverage,

packaged goods, cosmetics and pharma sectors are prime clients for digitally printed and finished labels.” Micro-breweries, boutique coffees and home businesses, as well as major brand houses, can benefit from digitally printed labels, particularly complex, highly versioned or VDP labels, he explains. “Alongside wide-format signage, POP and display, digital narrow-web is the most exciting segment of the printing industry into the foreseeable future,” says Scott. “For printers, digital label production is a low-risk, high-yield investment.” EFI has a long history in the label and packaging industry. With the proliferation of digital among the conventional analogue label converting space EFI says its software has been important in providing the types of streamlined, automated workflows that make it possible to produce short-run digital jobs with minimal touch points. EFI says converters depend on its Packaging Suite, including Radius ERP software, for efficiency gains. It says Radius ERP helps many of the world’s leading label producers expand their digital operations and drive greater profitability from shorter run work. Xeikon continues to offer its 3000 series, in which its Cheetah CX-3, a 330mm-web width, 30m/min toner machine, is prominent. The Cheetah features single-pass opaque white, food-safe toners, 1200x3600dpi resolution, and full rotary printing. Xeikon’s ANZ sales manager Trevor Crowley notes these are fundamental in establishing the role of digital label presses alongside high-volume flexography in the label printing market. PP www.proprint.com.au

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CTP, Plates & Prepress Here is a rundown of the latest in CTP, plate and prepress technology brought to you by ProPrint.

Platesetters AGFA AVALON N8-90 PLATESETTER

Agfa Graphics says it offers platesetters ranging from 4-up to 48-up in size, all with consistent performance and output quality, and seamlessly integrated with its Apogee prepress workflow solution. The company says the Avalon N8-90 brings more productivity and automation than ever before. It adds the device is the world’s fastest thermal platesetter, providing an unparalleled imaging speed up to 70 B1/8-up plates per hour. Its state-of-the-art Grating Light Valve (GLV) imaging head technology produces exceptional imaging quality and tonal accuracy from corner to corner, plate to plate and job to job. Agfa also says the machine offers a variety of automation options, such as a single-or multi-cassette autoloader, or an integrated punching system that further reduces make-ready time. For printers wanting to maximise productivity, Agfa says the Avalon N8-90 can be equipped with an Expert Loader and a compact pallet loader that can hold up to 1200 printing plates for full prepress automation.

CRON 3-IN-1 CTP

Supplied by Currie Group and previewed at Graph Expo the new CRON automated 3-in-1 CTP combines plate cassette input with precision imaging, punching and transport. The company says this provides a low-cost easy-to-use and compact unit which is easy to maintain. The exposure unit is based on CRON’s magnetic linear drive platform, which the company says provides fault free imaging across a wide range of resolutions, with registration accuracy up to 0.01mm and a tonal range of 1-99 per cent, in either conventional or stochastic screening. The 3-in-1 (H Series) solution in the 660mm format is already available,

Productivity maximiser: Agfa Avalon N8-90 Platesetter

CRON 3 in 1 CTP H Series

with larger formats up to 1168mm scheduled for release this year. CRON has several different types of CTP products, including silver plate CTP, violet CTP and thermal CTP. The CRON Thermal Series comes in several formats, including 26”, 36”, 46” and 72”. They image at up to 3600dpi resolution and come with a V shaped guide rail, an exclusive three point loading system with non-contact sensor, a vibration free dual balanced drum, and a patented auto clamp closing and drum vacuum technology. Plate output ranges from 77 an hour for the 26” version to 20 an hour for the 72” model. CRON produces an Autoloader to work with its CTP units, which comes in two versions and can handle up to 200 plates an hour in single size version and 150 plates an hour in the three cassette multiple size version. The company also supplies an automated Chemistry Regulation Device to ensure the stability of processing fluid automatically calculates and replenishes. CRON also has an optional Online Punch Bridge which gives a punch accuracy of 0.01mm. Currie Group has been the CRON reseller since 2012, and has fully trained factory engineers in Australia. SPECS AT A GLANCE:

Laser wavelength: 830nm Laser type: IR laser Plate: Thermal chem-free Max plate size: 925 x 675mm Min plate size: 340 x 240mm Resolutions: 1,200; 1,500; 1,800; 2,400; 2,540; 2,800; 3,000; 3,600dpi Production capacities: 23 - 77 plates/hr Plate thickness: 0.15–0.03mm 34 ProPrint February 2019

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ESKO CDI CRYSTAL 5080

Esko says the CDI (Cyrel Digital Imager) offers results that before were only achievable in offset or gravure. There is a CDI for every need from narrow web label printing to flexible packaging and wide-format corrugated printing, one-colour printed corrugated boxes to sophisticated multi-colour packaging and even security printing. New to the Esko portfolio is the CDI Crystal 5080 XPS flexo platemaking system, designed to address the overriding market pressures driven by shorter run lengths and a growing number of SKUs. It requires fast plate turnaround to address this increasing demand for product versioning, and the CDI Crystal 5080 XPS delivers that. It also brings higher quality to flexo, delivering better consistency, and is simple to use for operators at all skill levels. The CDI Crystal 5080 flexo platemaking system exposes both sides of a flexo plate using UV LED heads. It also combines imaging and exposing into the same compact footprint. This results in 50 per cent fewer manual steps, 30 per cent faster access to plates and 73 per cent less required operator time. Along with Full HD Flexo will be Esko’s Digital Flexo Suite (DFS), offering significant cost savings through the automation of flexo plate production. Label ‘one-ups’ are nested economically on the plate to reduce plate and substrate waste. The optimised plate and the corresponding cutting layout are simultaneously sent to a CDI and Kongsberg table. The plate

Flexible performer: Esko CDI Crystal 5080

is staggered cut to enable flexo cylinders to print continuous labels on the press. The Kongsberg X20 offers the flexibility of upgrading to add more cutting, creasing and milling tools as business needs develop. Esko has a local team in the Australian region, providing full training and service locally for all products and solutions.

HEIDELBERG SUPRASETTER A75

Long life warranty: Heidelberg Suprasetter A75

Multiple factors make Heidelberg’s Suprasetter range a market leader, including its plug and play functionality, ease of operation and its pre-installation. The laser head is designed by Heidelberg engineers and offers a long life with a warranty of up to seven years. The machines also feature inbuilt temperature control to ensure a stable environment, which has made the Suprasetter popular in rural locations and tropical climates. The Suprasetter units have a very small footprint, making them accessible technology for all sized businesses, and their low energy

consumption meets environmental concerns and reduces operational costs. Every Suprasetter is delivered with a CO2 neutral certificate confirming that Heidelberg has offset the carbon used in the manufacture of the unit. Suprasetters are upgradable in the field so those who start with a basic model can upgrade from manual to automated processes and also increase speed. The Suprasetter allows unattended operation and repeat jobs to be programmed, further streamlining workflow. Suprasetter CtP devices require minimum maintenance as the units self-check each day when they are turned on. For the rare occasions when there is a problem, Heidelberg’s engineers can remotely access the machine to make a diagnosis, ensuring minimum downtime. The most popular model in the range is the Suprasetter A75, which is ideally suited to the A2/B2 market and comes in various configurations including Automatic Top Loader and Dual Top Loader for high volumes. The Suprasetter A75 produces plates at 2,540dpi up to 5,080dpi for special applications such as stamps and security printing. The A75 runs on low power consumption using only five watts on standby and 550 watts on average when imaging. The Suprasetter family is competitively priced and Heidelberg provides options for financing. With its high productivity and proven reliability the Suprasetter is a secure investment engineered to Heidelberg Germany’s exacting standards. SPECS AT A GLANCE:

Operating technology: thermal Min plate format: 240 × 240mm Max plate format: 676 × 760mm Max imaging area: 1,413 × 1,460mm Max throughput: 22 plates/hr Resolution: 2,400dpi, 2,540dpi, optional 5,080dpi

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Increased speed: Screen GP Platerite 8600NII CTP Series

KODAK TRENDSETTER Q400/800W

Kodak says an exciting new option for Achieve and Trendsetter Platesetters is the Multi Cassette Unit which offers advanced automation – and cost savings – for printers. Automation brings many benefits, first and foremost being increased productivity. The new multi cassette unit offers automated plate loading and unloading of up to 480 plates, so printers can run continuously and for longer. Kodak says this increases speed to market as there’s no wait time for an operator to physically load the plates. Kodak says the use of the cassette unit will cut costs through potential staff reductions or the ability to reassign employees to other jobs. There is also less waste due to plate handling errors. Another benefit is better process control and stability as plates sent to the pressroom are more consistent and lack the variability that occurs with manual plate handling. Each cassette holds up to 120 plates of the same size and thickness with slip sheets, enabling up to four plate sizes online. The required cassette is automatically selected according to job definition. Printers using this technology can also cut energy costs through its unique, power saving technology. The current models of Achieve or Trendsetter Platesetters with MCU use up to 80 per cent less power than other MCU solutions. While imaging, the Trendsetter Platesetter uses only 770 watts, while the Achieve Platesetter uses 400 watts. In addition, the new Kodak Mobile CTP Control App allows printers to get 36 ProPrint February 2019

on with other jobs while the platesetter is doing its work. The app lets you monitor and control up to 10 CTP devices at a time, from wherever you are. When one of the CTP devices needs attention an alert will also be immediately sent to the user’s mobile phone.

SCREEN GP PLATERITE 8600NII CTP SERIES

Last year Screen GP Australia released a new series in the PlateRite 8600NII series of eight page thermal computer to plate (CTP) systems with notable improvements including increased speed and dot quality. The 8600 series of B1 platesetters was introduced in 2001 and is now a global leader and has earned the top position in 8-up CtP installations. Screen GP Australia managing director Peter Scott says the improvements in the latest series have brought

Cost savings: Kodak Trendsetter Q400/800W

increased speed and dot quality, making it an even greater option. It also uses less energy and the adoption of high-output fibre laser diode exposure heads enable 32 plates per hour to be produced, plus superior cost performance and energy savings. Computer-to-Plate technology revolutionised prepress in the 1990s. But in recent years there’s been growing calls for greater cost reductions and environmental performance in CtP as lower investment and running costs and higher productivity and energy savings are required for printers to cope with lower print runs and more frequent plate changes. Screen says it has responded to these needs with this latest series. It has further improved cost and performance offered by the original PlateRite 8600 series, many of which continue to be in use for between 10 and 17 years. All new PlateRite 8600NII models feature the latest fibre laser diode exposure heads, which work with Screen’s proprietary clamp technologies and auto-balance mechanism to enable stable, highspeed exposure with top quality. The series includes Z, S and E models, with three productivity choices to suit individual printers. The Z model is equipped with 96-channel exposure heads, supporting output of up to 32 plates per hour. The S and E models have 64 and 32 channel heads respectively, for outputs of 24 and 14 plates per hour. All systems are capable of handling plate sizes ranging from as large as 1,160 x 940mm (45.6” x 37”) to, when fitted with the small size option, as small as 304 x 370mm (12” x 14.6”). An MA-L8900 multi-cassette autoloader is another option, providing automatic supply of up to 600 plates.

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Plates AGFA ENERGY ELITE ECO PLATE

Agfa says it offers a wide range of both thermal and violet digital plates, for the commercial, newspaper and packaging markets – both for conventional processing, low chem-processing, chemistry-free and processless. The company says its latest releases in thermal are the Energy Elite Eco plate, in combination with the Arkana smart processor. This (no-bake) lowchem system offers the customer a lot of value, in terms of long bath life (limited maintenance), very low replenishment rates (low chemistry consumption) and very clean chemistry – all three resulting in a minimum of waste. Agfa says the plate is positioned for the sheetfed, packaging and low-run heatset market. Agfa also has a processless plate in its assortment, called Azura TE, that is based on the proven ThermoFuse technology that is used in the very successful Azura chem-free series of plates. It’s the only processless plate in the world with a very high image contrast and a good daylight stability. Agfa Graphics says it’s committed to sustainable innovation that focuses on ecology, economy, and extra convenience or ECO³. The company says its hardware, software and consumables make prepress and printing operations cleaner, more costeffective and easier to operate and maintain. This, it says, leads to more value for printing businesses.

FUJIFILM SUPERIA ZD

Fujifilm says it produces a wide range of processless, low-chemistry and violet plates to suit a variety of printing workflows. Fujifilm says Superia ZD is the latest generation processless plate. It adds it is the longest running processless plate designed for both UV and conventional ink with up to 150,000 impressions with conventional ink and 50,000 with UV ink. It says its advanced scuff and

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Latest generation: Fujifilm Superia ZD processless plate

New release: Agfa’s Energy Elite Eco plate

scratch resistance is due to a number of high-performance multi-layer coatings making plate handling easier and safer than ever. The company says the Superia ZD can maximise the efficiency of offset plate production with the fastest route from platesetter to press – simply image and mount directly on press. It also says the device is maintenance-free with no processor, chemistry, gum or water and minimal run up sheets (less than 10) helping reduce running costs and downtime. Fuijifilm says its low chem plates provide pre-press with a more stable plate through the bath life as well as minimal cleaning due to an enhanced development layer meaning there’s no sludge in the developer bath. When used with Fujifilm’s ZAC processors, it says the low chem plates can reduce printers’ resources associated with plate processing (water, chemistry,

materials, labour and energy), helping improve efficiency and productivity. The company says the plates are manufactured with Fujifilm’s multigrain technology, allowing printers to run less water on the plate due to its water receptive characteristics. It says the end gain for printers is better colour consistency and registration plus faster drying times. Fujifilm also says the ZAC processors feature the ZAC microprocessor control system. It says this results in a reduced need for operator intervention, and adds that with an expected bath life of 20,000m2 or six months, plates are produced consistently at high quality with minimal chemistry usage and maintenance. The ZAC/Fujifilm plate combination is the closest to processless chemistry reduction with the benefit of a processed plate. Continued on page 38

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HEIDELBERG FUJIFILM ZAC

To reduce the use of chemistry and water when processing plates and minimise maintenance requirements, Heidelberg’s offering of Fujifilm lowchemistry LH-PJE and LH-PLE plates and the award winning Fujifilm intelligent ZAC processing system allows printers to meet their environmental concerns and reduce maintenance at the same time. The Fujifilm ZAC system provides optimised processing quality by using intelligent developer replenishment. This results in a significant reduction in the volume of chemistry and water used, which helps to reduce printers’ environmental footprint. The Fujifilm ZAC processor can achieve up to 80 per cent reductions in chemistry by identifying only the areas on the plate that actually need processing, and by constantly measuring the bath conductivity. The intelligence of the ZAC system means there is hardly any need for operator intervention. Plates are produced consistently, without effort and quality is maintained. The ZAC/Fujifilm plate combination is the closest to processless chemistry reduction with the benefit of a processed plate. Maintenance requirements are also slashed due to the intelligent replenishment system that monitors developing conditions and accurately calculates the required volume of replenisher. With the Fujifilm ZAC system, bath life can be extended up to four months or 15,000m2, maintaining dot structure and stability. This means maintenance is reduced to less than half the time of many other processors, and may only need to be carried out four times a year. This is a massive saving in labour and wasted time for businesses trying to achieve more with fewer staff. Heidelberg has the portfolio of plates

to suit printers’ needs in thermal or violet, processless or processed. In addition to the ZAC system, Heidelberg also offers the complete range of Fujifilm’s new Superia thermal and violet CtP plate technologies, which includes the LP-NV2 processed plate technology, the Pro-V lowchemistry option which uses only a finishing solution instead of the traditional developer or replenisher for violet systems, and the Fujifilm processless thermal Superia ZP.

KODAK SONORA X PROCESS FREE PLATE

Kodak says the Sonora X Process Free Plate is the plate the print industry has been waiting for. It combines all the cost and environmental benefits of eliminating plate processing with the productivity and robustness of an unbaked processed plate. Kodak says its plate scientists have made it their mission to develop a process free plate that will work for nearly everyone. They say they have succeeded with this breakthrough enabling up to 80 per cent of offset printers to eliminate plate processing. The company says the Sonora X plates also deliver significantly longer run lengths, faster imaging speeds, and more robust handling capabilities than other process free plates, matching the performance of unbaked wet processed plates in a wide variety of applications and print environments. The plates can achieve long run lengths of up to 400,000 impressions on web presses and 200,000 impressions on sheetfed presses. Kodak says they are also ideal for UV and lowenergy UV applications, achieving run lengths of up to 75,000 impressions. It also says the plates are very robust and can be handled just like a processed plate due to the product having an improved scratch resistance

Environmental benefits: Kodak’s Sonora X Process Free PlateCaption

Green credentials: Heidelberg Fujifilm ZAC

compared to other process free plates. The required laser energy for the plates is 120 mJ/cm2, allowing all but the very fastest platesetters to achieve maximum productivity. Kodak says by eliminating the processing step and variability, printers can get to press even faster. Depending on the capability of the imaging device, it also says the plates are able to offer up to 450 lpi and 20-micron FM. Also, eliminating the variability of processing enables printers to manage quality and colour consistency more easily. Kodak says now just about any printer can increase the sustainability and productivity of their business with the Sonora X Plates.

WRH GLOBAL XINGRAPHICS PRIMUS PLUS

The Primus Plus positive thermal plate from Xingraphics is a hybrid plate and is distributed in Australia by WRH Global Australia. It provides both environmental and economic benefits with a reduction in water requirements and a corresponding reduction in ink.

IBF DIRECT

The IBF Direct offers the best of both DOP (Develop on Press) and conventional thermal CTP plate technology. After exposure the plates can be immediately put on the press for the commencement of printing. The emulsion is softened by contact with the rollers from the dampening system and the blanket removes this emulsion from the plate surface. WRH Global Australia is the Australian distributor.

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TECHNOLOGY GUIDE Digital Printing

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PRODUCT PORTFOLIO TECHNOLOGY GUIDE

Digital Printing Digital printing continues to evolve at pace. ProPrint has taken a look at some of the latest developments. CANON IMAGEPRESS C850 SERIES

Canon says the imagePRESS C850 series has versatility, more automation and better performance – all in a lot less space. Canon adds the device consistently delivers impressive 85 / 75 / 68 prints per minute on a wide range of uncoated media without sacrificing offset like quality. The imagePRESS C850 can also function at maximum printing speed with media up to 220gsm, supporting auto duplex print jobs to 300gsm. A range of innovative technologies are incorporated within this light production colour device within a small footprint, to reliably deliver outstanding quality, excellent end-to end productivity, smart flexibility and versatile media handling. Canon says the device also offers an excellent return on investment for customers – bringing time and cost savings to demanding CRDs and revenue generating opportunities from commercial print production to graphic arts environments. It also has a number of technology innovations which Canon says ensures class-leading print quality without compromising on productivity. The VCSEL laser unit achieves an exceptional 2,400dpi resolution

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enabling even higher precision in the printing of text and images. In terms of workflow, Canon says the imagePRESS devices integrate seamlessly with its versatile PRISMA software. Canon says the recently released PRISMAprepare version 7 is the company’s next generation of makeready tools, building on the success of PRISMAprepare version 6.3. Canon says the new version provides features and functionality that are designed to help increase productivity, reduce turnaround times and enhance personalised services. These include a new production workspace, new product configurations and smart and editable automated workflows. The modular structure allows users to customise their configuration for their requirements and significantly reduces the entry cost so small print operations can take advantage of its core document makeready capabilities. Current customers that have a maintenance agreement are eligible for a free upgrade. Canon says the newly developed Consistently Vivid toner improves transfer efficiency for enhanced colour consistency and accuracy across a wide variety of media. It also features a new

Versatility without compromise: Canon imagePRESS C850 series

compact and accurate registration technology that assures best-in-class results whether printing one sheet or thousands. All in all, Canon says the C850 imagePress is part of a successful series, offering speed licenses ranging from 650/750/850, engineered to suit your light to mid production environment.

HP INDIGO 12000 HD DIGITAL PRESS

Resolution doubled: HP Indigo 12000 HD Digital Press

HP has launched an updated version of its Indigo 12000 B2 digital press, which it says doubles the image resolution. Supplied by Currie Group and based on the world’s best-selling B2 digital press the HP Indigo 10000, the new version of the Indigo 12000 has HP claiming it delivers sharper, smoother, finer print, enabling printers ‘to surpass offset quality’ and open new digital possibilities in high-end commercial and photo applications. The press uses an all-new High Definition Imaging System, using 48 parallel laser beams and high screen sets up to 290 LPI. Alon Bar-Shany, general manager, HP Indigo, HP Inc says, “HP print service providers are experiencing unprecedented growth and momentum as print buyers, agencies, and brands are looking for ways to connect the online world with the physical world. HP’s digital print technologies are blending these realities, providing new application opportunities, alongside higher productivity.” The HP Indigo 12000 HD also features ColorUP!, which it says delivers an extended colour gamut using colour profiles to expand the on-press colour gamut using additional hits of CMY inks. The B2 29-inch (75 x 53cm), sevencolour HP Indigo 12000 Digital Press is able to print for nearly any commercial application. At a speed of 4,600 pages per hour, it can produce more than two million colour sheets per month. In its www.proprint.com.au

PRODUCT PORTFOLIO KONICA MINOLTA ACCURIOPRESS C3080

monochrome setting, the press can print 4,600 duplex sheets per hour for quick publishing and direct mail needs. HP says its automation tools also boost production efficiency and uptime, allowing users to process thousands of jobs per day. The on-press Optimizer tool uses artificial intelligence to enable non-stop printing, and the Automatic Alert Agent conducts real-time print quality error detection. HP says that with dozens of software and hardware innovations, the HP Indigo 12000 Digital Press delivers smooth and sharp prints that match or even exceed offset quality. It also supports a wide range of substrates, including canvas, synthetics, and metallised media, with One Shot technology, extending highvalue opportunities. The press also enables full sheet printing to produce canvas wall art, posters and folders.

FUJI XEROX IRIDESSE

The Fuji Xerox Iridesse is a new tonerbased digital press offering speeds of 120ppm with substrates up to 400gsm, with print resolution of 2,400dpi. The company says the new high speed Iridesse offers printers new levels of flexibility and versatility, and will enable them to increase their product range to the market. Along with the four process colours Iridesse is able to print specialty colours including metallic with a single pass, by housing up to two additional specialty dry inks of gold, silver, clear and white. The newly launched print engine enables CMYK dry ink layers to be processed on top of the special dry ink layer. An overlay of another specialty dry ink can be processed on top of CMYK dry ink layers, a feature made available with another Fuji Xerox digital printer, the Color 1000i Press. Fuji Xerox says, “While conventional offset printing www.proprint.com.au

requires mixing silver ink to make metallic ink, this new product allows for simultaneous printing of several metallic colours during a single printing process.” The standard colour library contains Pantone+Metallic and Pantone+Premium Metallic, which are swatches of metallic colours commonly used in the printing industry. With these colour swatches, the operator can reproduce colours similar to Pantone metallic colours on printing materials by designating the colour codes. Finishing options include Fuji Xerox’s Finisher D6 with Booklet Maker, Crease/Two-sided Trimmer D2, and SquareFold Trimmer D1, which can be connected to the Iridesse press, allowing for automatic production of booklets and folded leaflets. The company says the finishing options expand the possible printing applications by enabling to produce complex folded leaflets including accordion-fold and gatefold. Roger Labrum, senior product marketing manager, Graphic Communications Services, Fuji Xerox Australia, says, “It is about personalisation for end users. Businesses should be able to align their collateral in accordance with their brand. With the Iridesse Production Press, collateral colours can be matched to brands or personalised, with colours patterned, mixed, enhanced to provide more.”

Multiple options: Fuji Xerox Iridesse

Productivity increases: Konica Minolta AccurioPress C3080

Konica Minolta says the AccurioPress C3080 series delivers productivity increases of up to 20 per cent when the revolutionary, optional, Intelligent Quality Optimiser (IQ-501) is added. It also says the AccurioPress C3080 series offers enhanced productivity and brilliant quality. It can deliver speeds up to 81ppm, which equates to 4,399 A4 sheets or 2,113 SRA3 sheets per hour, helping print companies manage deadlines without compromising quality. Konica Minolta says long life consumables and parts means the AccurioPress C3080/C3070 delivers an increased overall performance with higher productivity and improved uptime to meet customer demands. Further productivity benefits as well as automation and colour consistency can be achieved with an optional Intelligent Quality Optimiser (IQ-501). Konica Minolta says the IQ-501 greatly reduces manual set-up, enabling less experienced operators to produce precisely registered, calibrated and profiled colour prints: on the first run and on every run. Sue Threlfo, general manager of production and industrial print at Konica Minolta, estimates that by using the AccurioPress C3080 series with the IQ-501, “printers can realise productivity increases of up to 20 per cent. This helps improve the speed and range of services that printers can offer their customers”. Other features of the AccurioPress C3080 series include high-speed digital colour printing up to 81ppm in colour and black and white and high-speed dual colour scanning at up 240opm. It has a 3600 x 1200dpi print resolution with 8-bit processing for smooth, superb colour reproduction while the SEAD IV Screen-Enhancing Active Digital Processing provides the highest quality image output. The Simitri HDE toner brings colours to life while reducing environmental impact and the 18,000 sheet maximum media capacity for long uninterrupted printing. It can also handle media weights from 62 to Continued on page 44

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RICOH PRO C9200 GRAPHIC ARTS EDITION

350gsm, 350gsm auto duplex and long sheet banner printing, simplex up to 1300mm and up to 762mm auto duplex. The Konica Minolta AccurioPress C3080 with EFI IC-417 has also been recognised for its reliability, picking up the prestigious BLI award in 2018 in the outstanding mid/light production category.

Sheetfed inkjet: Océ VarioPrint i300

OCÉ VARIOPRINT I300

The Océ VarioPrint i300 is a sheetfed B3 format inkjet press, more productive and efficient than other digital sheet fed presses with the ability to print on a wide range of media types including offset coated, uncoated and inkjet treated papers. The i300 was the first B3 sheetfed inkjet press on the market. When it was released the target applications were transactional documents, direct mail and book printing, but Océ Australia Managing Director, Craig Nethercott states that with the latest generation of developments, in particular a new ink set, they are able to target the offset market aggressively. The company says offset printers who require the versatility of an offset press but also need image variability and automated inline finishing can also consider the i300, as it can now offer compatibility with offset papers. It is a single-pass inkjet system with full-width head arrays of variable-drop inkjet heads. The print engine is adapted from a range of Océ technology platforms and includes the proven and adaptable Kyocera piezo printheads giving 600dpi resolution and DigiDot 2-bit variable drops for a perceived 1,200dpi quality. Although it is a CMYK system there

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Durable and high-volume: Ricoh Pro C9200

are six ink channels, with two spares. ColorGrip uses one channel to print a priming liquid. Océ has already developed MICR ink as an option for the VPi300 and are currently developing other specialty inks. Printhead nozzles are monitored and failures automatically compensated for. A sentry unit detects and diverts bad sheets. Finishing options include the BLM600 bookletmaking system producing square-back booklets up to 224 pages thick. The Tecnau TC1530 dynamic cut-sheet perforator creates horizontal and vertical micro-perfs, with the ability to be on or off on a perpage basis. Other vendor products was also available like the CP Bourg book systems. It can print up to 300 A4 impressions per minute and can output 8,700 duplex A4s per hour on average, including cleaning and other stoppages. In offset terms, this is about 4,350sph B3. It is controlled through the proven Prisma controller and Prismasync digital front-end technology, with graphical user interface and touch screen controls. It uses drop-on-demand piezo inkjet, with water-based pigment, on paper sizes from 203x203mm to 488x320mm. The stock weight range is 60–300gsm, paper input module is 4,600 sheets per input module, up to a maximum of three input modules, or 23,400 sheets.

The successor model to the marketleading Pro C9100 Series is the new Pro C9200 Series, Graphic Arts Edition, primarily aimed at the commercial print market. Ricoh says notable changes from the Pro C9100 Series include improved image quality and consistency, new toner formulation, higher resolution imaging, combined with a raft of image quality enhancements. The company says the new Pro C9200 has higher reliability with higher monthly print volumes, new swing-and-shift registration technology, and auto registration with real time adjustments, and new auto colour diagnosis. There is a broader media capability with heavier stock capability to 470 gsm (500 microns), auto duplex banner capability to 1,030mm, longer simplex banner sheet capability to 1,260mm, and enhanced NCR and envelope support. It has improved productivity with higher print speed and an hourly operating ratio of near 100 per cent. There is greater ease of use with new large operating panel, enhanced media library and new Media Management Tool, auto calibration, auto registration adjustment, and new jam LED guidance. New and enhanced accessories include enhanced Vacuum Feed LCIT, enhanced High Capacity Stacker, new BDT banner sheet feeder, a High Capacity Interposer, and new Plockmatic Banner Sheet Stacker. New print controllers include TotalFlow Print Server R-62 (with a choice of three PDF RIP engines for integration into Heidelberg Prinect, Kodak Prinergy, Agfa Apogee or Screen Equios offset workflows) or the EFI Fiery E-45 or E-85 Print Controllers based on the latest Fiery FS300 Pro system and new generation Fiery NX.

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POST SCRIPT Q&A Ben Browning,

FRANK ROMANO

Saving the past

director, 1800 For Promo Why did you get into printing? I have always been interested in advertising and branding going back to primary school when I would sell stickers in the playground. I was into skateboarding, surfing and motocross and still am today and have always loved the clever branding of these industries so I’m sure that had something do with it.

y life in printing began in 1959 at the Mergenthaler Linotype Company in Brooklyn, New York. Typesetting was hot metal, but the beginnings of “cold type” were evident. I lived through phototypesetting and imagesetting and the many changes in printing technology, from CTP to digital, both toner and inkjet. And today, most of my life is now spent in a museum ¬ the Museum of Printing in Massachusetts. Our national museum, the Smithsonian, closed its printing exhibition and its displays are in storage, where they gather dust. It is for a small patchwork of independent museums to preserve the past of printing. So it was with great joy that I read that the Penrith Museum of Printing has officially reopened. Australia is fortunate to have such a resource and it must be treasured and supported. It has a focus on letterpress printing, which is seeing a renaissance. Many people are acquiring table-top and other presses for hobbyist or commercial operation. Space limitations will restrict what is displayed, and it is important to show the evolution of letterpress and even offset printing. But we should not forget the less far-off past. A typewriter and a Linotype should be displayed. It was the typewriter that inspired the invention of the Linotype and the Linotype changed the world. It reduced the cost of typesetting and fostered more publishing and increased literacy. One of the first Apple Macintosh computers should be displayed because it helped to introduce desktop publishing and laser imaging in 1985. Within a decade, it shifted prepress functions to the desktop, and the typesetting industry ceased to exist. In 2018, our industry celebrated the 25th anniversary of digital colour printing. Think of the changes this technology has wrought. I tell my students that what I teach them will be obsolete by the time of their first child which is usually five to 10 years post college graduation. So the most important skill I can impart to them is how to cope with change. With that in mind I make these fearless prognostications. One is that labels will disappear as new manufacturing methods will directly print the bottle or can on the filling line. Plates will also go and re-imageable cylinders will create the image carrier on the press. Lastly, and it may sound a bit disgusting but instead of making inks from petro-chemicals, scientists will process biologic waste to make new inks, giving rise to a new colour system called “Pootone”.

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DATE

Fespa Asia Print Expo

Bangkok

Feb 21-23

Hunkeler Innovationdays

Lucerne

Feb 25-28

Auspack

Melbourne

Mar 26-29

AIP PIDA Awards

Sydney

Apr 30-May 1

PrintEx 19

Sydney

Aug 13-16

Pack Print International

Bangkok

Sep 18-21

drupa2020

Düsseldorf

Jun 16-21

What year did you start your business? In 2007 just as the global financial crisis came into play! What do you love about being in printing? I love the people I work with and the results we achieve together. We take on difficult work that others tend to pass off and with experimentation we deliver results with everday printing equipment. NRL or AFL? I’m more into action sports but if I had to choose it would be NRL. Dream holiday location? Why? An island brimming with fresh food, surf and beer because it’s got fresh food, surf and beer! Three people alive or dead you would like to have dinner with? My Mum, Mick Fanning, Richard Branson

Relax: Ben’s pet Alpacas have proven to be great conversationalists

If you didn’t work in print what would you be doing? I’d be working in action sports events. Do you have a weird habit? Talking to my four Alpacas: Al Pacino, Angus, Jeremy and Chadd. How do you unwind after a busy week? I head to our farm in Braidwood, drink beers and feed my Alpacas. It’s the ultimate way to reset.

Editor Sheree Young (02) 8586 6131, SYoung@intermedia.com.au Design and Production Manager Carrie Tong (02) 8586 6195, carrie@i-grafix.com National Sales Manager Carmen Ciappara 0410 582 450, carmen@proprint.com.au Group Publisher Brian Moore brian@i-grafix.com Managing Director James Wells james@intermedia.com Subscriptions (02) 9660 2113 subscriptions@intermedia.com.au Subscription rate (6 issues) Australia $69.95. Printed by Hero Print, Alexandria, NSW. Mailed by D&D Mailing Services, Wetherill Park, NSW. ProPrint is published monthly by Printer Media Group, registered in Australia ABN 47 628 473 334. This publication may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form in whole or in part without the written permission of the publishers. While every care has been taken in the preparation of this magazine, it is a condition of distribution that the publisher does not assume any responsibility or liability for any loss or damage which may result from any inaccuracy or omission in the publication. 56 ProPrint February 2019

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