Walsh Colour Print Adopted Technotrans
Walsh Colour Print has adopted Technocrats peripherals to have more control while they are switching to H-UV technology.
“We have used Technotrans from day one and have always found the equipment reliable,” says managing director, Tony Walsh.
Technotrans Beta f.
He continues: “With the move to H-UV the process control must be spot on so, although we have no issues with our water, we want to ensure the hardness and pH is exactly right.
“Filtration of the dampening will help in this respect, too, but the primary reason behind this purchase is the saving in chemistry costs. We believe we will cut our chemistry bill by 60% with the beta.f.”
The company has been using Technotrans’ temperature control technology from the beginning. Now the company is being installing water treatment, filtration systems and dampening solution filtration. It has been a great addition to the company’s resources and also it shows company’s great reliance on Technotrans’ peripherals.
Adobe Courses Added In Antalis Workshop Offering
Antalis has been providing a number of courses in its digital academy. Now Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign are new additions to their courses.
The company has more than 20 workshops now under its digital academy. Martin Perhiniak is a certified Adobe design master and a tutor who would be teaching the participants. The participants will be provided training on design principles, compositional techniques and different other tools involved in this course.
Antalis Workshop Offering
Antalis’ digital support manager, Giles Bristow said “We are delighted to expand our workshops into this new area which we feel will be of great benefit to our customers, many of which will have in-house graphic designers,”.
He further adds: “As with all our workshops, we are working with a tutor who is quite clearly a leader in his field and can offer a competitive advantage to our delegates.”
Growth In Print Industry
There has been a considerable fight within the printing industry and different companies are striving for number 01 place.
Kyle Jardine, BPIF research manager, comments on the report: “Confidence in the general state of trade in the printing industry has taken a knock that it hasn’t yet recovered from. Whilst companies have reported some improvement in their output and orders, there is less confidence for the wider industry.
BPIF’s latest Printing Outlook survey
BPIF chief executive Charles Jarrold adds: “The Q2 report, in the immediate aftermath of the EU referendum, showed that confidence levels in 2016 have been lower than in recent years. There has been little improvement in Q3 – though a boost in Q4 is expected to lift confidence.”
“The print industry has shown a tremendous level of resilience and innovation; the climate is tough yet over half of respondents to Printing Outlook report that their own businesses are expanding. The industry is showing that it can be successful despite the numerous challenges thrown our way.
“The print industry has shown a tremendous level of resilience and innovation; the climate is tough yet over half of respondents to Printing Outlook report that their own businesses are expanding. The industry is showing that it can be successful despite the numerous challenges thrown our way.”
The industry is highly experienced in managing its costs carefully and that experience will be valuable as businesses face some difficult choices”
“Paper and board price rises – resulting from the devaluation in sterling that has been stimulated by the Brexit outcome in the EU referendum – is the latest challenge the industry is facing; it is not a new one. Some companies will be protected, to some degree, by their ability to target export markets; others may have paper price adjustments written in to some of their supplier contracts.
“However, many will have a decision to make about whether or not they can pass cost increases on in higher prices, afford to take the hit in their margins or look to mitigate cost increases through their purchasing or through efficiencies elsewhere in their business.
“The industry is highly experienced in managing its costs carefully and that experience will be valuable as businesses face some difficult choices.”
Lithgo Press enhances its capacity with Horizon
Lipthgo has procured Horizon StitchLiner 5500. It will help to create a more flexible bindery and help improve the efficiency of its operations. Horizon StitchLiner 5500 is a fully automated solution and it comes in 03 VAC-1000 tower collators. Also the product comes with icon based colour touch screen establishing quick setup, an ACF-30 Accumulator having scoring along with, plow-folding feature and a heavy-duty HTS-30S 3-Knife Trimmer.
Horizon StitchLiner 5500
The managing director of Lithgo, Mike Atkinson, said: “We also have a Heidelberg ST300 but with both systems we can now choose quite late in the day which one to use. As the StitchLiner is quick and easy to set up it is perfect for short runs but its quality and robustness means it can also handle longer runs too.
“We liked the StitchLiner because it takes sheets that were planned in a such a way that they could be traditionally folded. That means we can plan work with traditionally folded sections. We looked at other solutions but they didn’t do that.”
Tradeprint’s New Offerings
Bespoke-size display board is a new and unique offering by Tradeprint. It will help customers a great deal to reach out to new markets.
“When we brought in the fixed sizes it was a bit of an experiment,” said Barrett-Bunnage, “but what we’ve done now is brought in bespoke sizing and pricing with our simplest and quickest interface yet and we are able top offer some of the lowest prices in the UK for large format products.” From Now onwards, the products will be priced in square metre instead of pricing per product, he further explained.
Tradeprint Bespoke-size display board
“We see huge potential in the large-format market. We want to be a one-stop shop for our customers and so we need to carry a full range of products. We are introducing this to small commercial printers and showing them that there are other markets to tap. We want to grow with those businesses,” he explained.
“Because we are part of a group like Cimpress we can leverage that to maximise our volume discounts from the supplier and then pass it on the customer,” he said. “Our price point looks to be competitive but not hugely disruptive – we want to fit in with the rest of the market,” he added.
He explained: “We are a trusted name, our standards and quality are well-known and we’ve been growing exponentially. The major market difference between us and others out there is the price point, but we don’t want to be cheapest because a large element of what we supply is the whole package. We make a lot of effort not to be value-oriented.”
“Price wars are a huge issue and it’s inevitable people will start them, which means the rest of the market has to respond, but it’s not something that helps the industry. It’s not sustainable.”