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Print For Good: FESPA launches the FESPA Foundation

Gulf Print and Pack 2024 will be held from 09 to 11 January 2024 in Dubai. Registration for the event is open. On this occasion, PrintWeek MENA held an exclusive conversation with Barry Killingrey, Event Director of Gulf Print & Pack 2024 and Andy Thomas-Emans, Strategic Director of Labelexpo Global Series. Interview with Barry Killingrey, Event Director of Gulf Print & Pack 2024: 1. Registration has opened for Gulf Print & Pack 2024, the Middle East and North Africa’s leading exhibition for the commercial and package print sectors. What are the highlights of the 2024 edition of the show? Visitors can expect to see technological advancements in wide format, cut-sheet digital labeling and embellishment and flexo print. The key trend in the MENA market is the transition to digital, not only in terms of print and post-print equipment, but also workflow, and visitors can expect to see this transition come to life on the show floor at Gulf Print and Pack 2024. 2. What are the key launches and special offers anticipated? Gulf Print & Pack 2024 features the world’s leading print and converting supplier brands, all of whom will be bringing to the show their most recent and cutting-edge equipment and software systems. Most companies like to keep the actual machinery they will bring under wraps until the big day, but with this calibre of exhibitors we can guarantee a stunning view of current technology trends. Among those leading suppliers include: Heidelberg, Konica Minolta, Kyocera, Epson, Ricoh, flexo press supplier Etirama (through local agency Afra), Nilpeter and Vinsak promoting Lombardi label and packaging presses. There will also be a large contingent of Chinese suppliers at this show, including Weigang demonstrating its inline flexo press and Dongguan showing its post-press automated binding equipment. Key equipment agencies representing a vast array of OEM principals include Multisystem, MTEX NS and Feida Machinery. 3. What does digital transformation mean for the printing and packaging industries? How does GPP 2024 focus on these post-pandemic digital trends in the industry? Conventional offset printers are now looking closely at cut sheet digital presses, while both flexo and offset printers are seeing increased digitization and automation of printing and finishing machinery, as well as automation in platemaking and colour management. Corrugated printers also have new digital options, both at the high-volume end and in continued development of wide format presses and cutting tables. Another key trend to watch out for at Gulf Print & Pack 2024 is digital embellishment of cut-sheet commercial work, folding cartons and labels. The replacement of conventional tooling by high build inkjet varnishing, laser die cutting and digital metalization technologies will transform the value proposition for both commercial and packaging printers. 4. What is the number of visitors expected for the event? How are they going to benefit from the show? Appetite is very healthy for this next edition, and we expect a return to pre-pandemic numbers, when we had almost 9,000 visitors. Visitors to Gulf Print & Pack 2024 will be able to learn how to enter new and profitable niche markets in the fastest growing sectors of print, everything from commercial printing, digitally printed textiles and display graphics, wall coverings to labels, package printing and on-demand digital printing. 5. Please share a brief profile of the exhibitors. Exhibitors for Gulf Print & Pack 2024 cover all aspects of conventional and digital printing and finishing as well as inks, consumables and prepress/workflow software across both commercial print and packaging printing spaces. 6. How does GPP contribute to accelerating the industry's growth in the region? Gulf Print & Pack provides not only hands-on demonstrations of cutting edge digital and conventional print and finishing equipment, but also the networking and educational opportunities that arise when the entire print and converting industry supply chain is brought together on the same show floor. This is a unique opportunity for commercial printers, PSP’s and packaging and label printers to come together to share information on emerging technology trends, regional development trends and detailed ‘how to’ demonstrations on exhibitor booths. Interview with Andy Thomas-Emans, Strategic Director, Labelexpo Global Series: 1. How can printing and packaging companies maximise the value of their hardware offerings and combine it with software solutions? Today’s printing and finishing hardware – whether digital, flexo or offset - has reached a high level of print quality and automation, but the key to making full use of these developments lies in integration into automated factory-wide management systems. Integration runs in both directions: we want to be able to download production information to the hardware from our pre-press and factory planning systems; and we want to be able to access real-time production data from the hardware to feed back into the factory planning system. There are huge gains in productivity from this kind of two-way communication and linking the hardware to a Cloud-based network. For example, it does not matter how automated your hardware is, if the operator is keying in the wrong information from a job bag. We want to eliminate this ‘double keying’ and download production data directly to the machine. And the ability to receive real-time data on machine down/uptime, materials usage, ink consumption allows factory manages to see where there are bottlenecks in production and work with the operator to resolve them. It will also make costing and estimating far more accurate which has a direct impact on profitability. 2. What are the new growth areas for the printing and packaging industry in the digital age? The key growth areas for commercial and package printing are based around key consumer and retail trends towards shorter runs, personalisation (or mass customization), multiple variants and just-in-time production and delivery. In the commercial space, this is opening up new opportunities, for example, for photobooks, on-demand automated book production (printing and binding), high value magazines and direct mail. The new generation of young consumers value authenticity, which is driving, for example, a revival of vinyl records with high decorated gate-fold sleeves. Similar trends are boosting personalised digitally-printed fabrics and wallpaper. The same trends are driving growth in the package printing and converting formats – labels, folding cartons, flexible packaging. Short run, JIT production, consumer engagement via QR codes, multiple product variants and reduced design-to-shelf cycles. In addition, we see brand security and track+trace using variable codes and microtext holograms as rapidly growing opportunities for digital print and converting systems. Looking at new trends on the horizon in both the commercial and package printing space, digital embellishment will be a key one. The ability to digitally print variable tactile features using high build inkjet and digital metalization opens up new opportunities for value-added print production. 3. What strategy do businesses need to consider while implementing digital transformation? The most important factor is to understand why you are making the digital transformation. To simply replace a piece of analog equipment with a digital press or finishing line without considering how it fits into a wider business transformation strategy will not reap the full benefits of that new equipment. Instead, think about what new skills need to be developed among the workforce; and how will digital automation change your allocation of staff – are you simply aiming to cut the workforce, or can existing skilled operators be redeployed into more added-value management level tasks? It is critical that your workers see the digital transformation as giving them more opportunities for development and advancement – rather than simply as a threat to their jobs. So, developing a digital culture or mindset among your staff is absolutely key. Secondly is to plan how all the parts of the digital transformation interact and add value. It is as important to think about how you will automate factory operations such as warehousing, invoicing, repeat ordering and planning, as deciding on which pieces of digital equipment you will buy. For example, a digital press will be handling a lot of short-run jobs, which all have to be estimated, costed, and invoiced, and these processes absolutely have to be automated – and staff trained to operate these systems – before considering investing in digital equipment. Finally, think about how you will interact digitally with the world outside. For example, a digital store-front, cloud-based proofing and job acceptance with key customers and working digitally with your supplier network. 4. In your view, what are the current trends and growth opportunities for the printing and packaging industry in the Gulf region? The population profile in the Gulf region and in the wider MENA region is overwhelmingly a younger demographic, meaning all the trends we have outlined in an earlier question apply here. So as far as the consumer market is concerned, we will see the proliferation of SKUs, a trend towards ‘challenger’ brands launching bespoke products, and in many cases selling these direct to consumers via social media and the internet rather than through the traditional retail network. Not only does the huge growth of online purchasing involve increasingly sophisticated transit packaging – for the ‘opening experience’ - but it also requires a huge amount of VIP address and tracking labels, including RFID. At the same time, we see a continued growth of organised retail throughout the region, which means greater opportunity for the global brands to be present, with their requirement for labels and packaging matching global standards. The younger demographic also means there are major opportunities in educational print, with examples being on-demand textbook printing as well as all the types of print required by educational institutions, all of which has the potential to move to digital printing from traditional offset. Another important growth trend lies in the industrial sector. Dubai, for example, is a major airline and transhipment hub, where secure documentation and address labelling, as well as ticketing and industrial address labels for shipping consignments, is a major opportunity for printers. The wider Gulf region is also a strong user of industrial labels and packaging for chemicals – typically in drums or flexible packs - which require in all kinds of variable information printing from hazchem to shipping information. 5. We are keen to know about the industry trends to be highlighted at GPP 2024. Please explain. The key trends at GPP 2024 will be the continued move from analog to digital printing and finishing. We have already seen a strong move from screen to wide format inkjet in the commercial print space, and this will accelerate. An interesting development here will be the continued development of hybrid wide format systems capable of handling both sheets and rolls, greatly increasing their flexibility for a range of end use applications. Wide format will show a huge range of diverse applications at the show, from floor tiles to décor and from in-store corrugated POS display units to flatpack tables and chairs. In transactional printing we will see a continued move to high-speed inkjet with automated finishing, and similarly in the photobook and book sector we will see automated on-demand bookmaking systems including both printing and binding in the same line, or with automated offline binding and packing. There will be a strong focus on label technology at the GPP 2024, with an Etirama flexo press demonstrated by Afra and a range of digital printing and embellishment equipment.

Print For Good: FESPA launches the FESPA Foundation

FESPA has announced the launch of The FESPA Foundation, a new sister organisation to FESPA, dedicated to encouraging sustainable practices throughout the speciality print and visual communications industry, and channelling resources into community support and educational outreach programmes. Under the strapline ‘Print for Good’, the principal activities of The FESPA Foundation are: Encouraging exhibitors to produce print applications that can enrich educational environments for children in underprivileged communities, thereby reducing printed waste from FESPA exhibitions worldwide; Facilitating the collection, transportation, distribution and installation of these print materials in the beneficiary communities, via international and local partners; Collecting in-kind and monetary donations that further support the beneficiary communities, for distribution via credible local charities and community outreach programmes. By diverting printed exhibition sample materials that would ordinarily be wasted towards meaningful community support projects, The FESPA Foundation’s work aligns clearly with FESPA’s ISO 20121 Sustainable Event Management System standards, reducing event waste and maximising the positive legacy of FESPA exhibitions. Transforming Evane Intermediate School, South Africa Illustrating the initiative’s transformative potential, The FESPA Foundation has revitalised Evane Intermediate School, a rural school serving 90 children in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. This project was overseen by FESPA Foundation associate Steve Thobela ka Mdlalose in South Africa, with active support from the FESPA Africa team and partners, and using funds and in-kind donations from FESPA. A print business owner, former CEO of Printing SA, and founding General Manager of The Mandela Rhodes Foundation which develops young leaders across Africa, Thobela coordinated resources and directed a local project team to repaint and decorate the school, upgrade decrepit toilet blocks, and deliver a range of printed educational posters and creative materials to provide a more functional and inspiring learning environment. Sustainable Impact at FESPA Global Print Expo 2025 The FESPA Foundation’s first major initiative will be to collect printed materials and in-kind donations at FESPA Global Print Expo (6-9 May 2025, Messe Berlin, Germany), for distribution to community projects in southern Africa. The FESPA Foundation seeks the active support of exhibitors at FESPA Global Print Expo 2025 to produce printed applications such as educational posters, maps, student clothing and backpacks to a defined set of technical and creative specifications and to donate these, meeting a range of educational needs informed by local programme partners. A number of exhibitors have already committed to supporting The FESPA Foundation in this way. Visitors to the Berlin show will also be invited to make in-kind donations of items such as used reading glasses, notebooks, pens, art kits or school supplies. Visitors and exhibitors will also have the option of making monetary donations to The FESPA Foundation to fund the purchase of items such as mosquito nets for malaria prevention and clean-water drinking straws. Printed materials and donations collected at FESPA Global Print Expo will be transported to South Africa free of charge by FESPA’s global logistics partner DSV. In South Africa they will be distributed via the Kingsley Holgate Foundation, a recognised community charitable organisation which was initially established to support malaria prevention, water purification and access to Rite to Sight spectacles for the poor-sighted in Africa. It now also provides Early Childhood Development and Conservation & Communities initiatives, among others. In the medium term, The FESPA Foundation intends to replicate this activity in other regions, for example, diverting printed materials from FESPA events in Mexico and Brazil to communities in need in their respective regions, and funding outreach initiatives in Asia. Neil Felton, CEO of FESPA and founder of The FESPA Foundation explains: “FESPA is a global support organisation, and our mission has always revolved around supporting communities, educating and knowledge-sharing, and promoting sustainability. Through The FESPA Foundation, we can bring these core values to life beyond our day-to-day work, encouraging practices that reduce waste and environmental impact while creating long-term value for communities. Those of us who live and breathe print believe wholeheartedly in its unique potential to engage, inform and inspire. By creating the Foundation, we want to harness the combined strength of our global exhibitor and visitor base and demonstrate how, together, we can channel the power of print to drive positive change globally.”

Print For Good: FESPA launches the FESPA Foundation

How to implement automation in printing operations

It is becoming necessary in printing operations to automate as much as possible to gain efficiencies. But before you begin your planning processes, look at your current state to ensure that you understand how works happen today. Kodak, a global technology company focused on print and advanced materials and chemicals, explains the vital role of automation in printing operations and how to do it properly. Read on. Single system of record that reliably gathers data from business and production systems If you have that system of record, you are in the perfect state to take on end-to-end automation. If you have multiple points of data collection that have never been integrated, there is still a path to automation. Still, your planning may take longer to accommodate identifying the required data and the processes that use them. Standard processes for order taking, job specification, and order management When there are standard processes, planning for automation can leverage them to speed implementation. When the procedures to take orders are different for every sales channel, it is hard to standardize order intake. When the process of capturing job specifications varies by sales team member and orders are managed without a strategic view into machine usage and job deadlines, some work will be required before automating and making those processes more efficient. How many spreadsheets are used to track jobs, components, or processes? Every business has some ad hoc processes tracked on spreadsheets, whiteboards, and notepads to keep mission-critical items front of mind. There is nothing wrong with them, but when they become the sole source of truth about a job or a process, they add risk to production. Some organisations justify using spreadsheets by putting them onto shared-access servers so that all authorized constituents can easily access them. It sounds like a great idea, but over time you may find that copies are sitting on individual desktops, and the shared copy is no longer the reliable source of information. Knowing what you have as you plan for automation will help you size the effort. Moving to that automated environment creates a single system of record that is reliable and can be integrated into adjacent business and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. Planning for automation You could find some processes that appear easy to automate, add some new tools, and call that your automation plan, but there is a better path. It starts with knowing what is possible. New options in cloud-based workflows bring the same powerful options to smaller shops as the largest shops enjoy. With minimal investments and immediate implementation, shops with a single digital press can build an efficient workflow that will scale using the same technology as a mid-size shop with a mix of offset and digital devices. And these modern cloud-based production workflow solutions can help in any segment, whether the work you produce is graphically-rich static content or uses data-driven processes to execute variable content targeted to a specific recipient. Today’s automated production workflows are built to integrate MIS and ERP tools, Web-to-Print solutions, and e-commerce options. This approach should be high on your list as you consider automation options because it brings a robust IT infrastructure to the table. Automating individual processes glued together with manual interventions isn’t the accomplishment that brings the most benefit. Considering automation requires a dive into every action involved, from the point of estimation and sale to the final delivery to the customer. Planning is the active event designed to identify the touchpoints and the best approach to reviewing each step, the people involved, and the current tools used. Start by articulating your strategic goals for 2022. You may be looking to expand into a new industry or print segments. Your current workload may require more capacity. You may want to acquire more capabilities, either through buying more equipment, optimising workflows, or buying a company. As you consider your strategic plan, itemize the candidate processes for automation to move you toward those goals. Don’t be surprised if you identify current manual processes as critical roadblocks. Strategic goals are long-term and inform the way the business runs. There will be some work to do to build the bridge from strategy to implementation, and that is where tactical planning becomes essential. Tactical goals are more than solving today’s bottleneck. They work within the strategy to consider implementing new software and processes while keeping production moving. Think of it as changing the tires on a car while it’s in motion. There will be practical concerns as current processes are replaced by automation, including how and when to move off tools that are no longer providing value. Tactics should support the strategic goals and solve the business' specific challenges without adding more hurdles to creating an automated environment. Build the strategic plan for automation to consider the practical implication of automating the current processes, including goals for gaining buy-in from the team members in each department, who may be asked to change how they do their jobs or change positions to accommodate the planned process modifications. Look for onramps to the fully automated business environment for every element in the tactical plan that enables lower cost and higher margins. A part of tactical planning includes your approach to daily operations. To create an efficient environment in 2022, consider a standalone Operational Plan to document the expectations for each department, interface points between departments, and the key performance metrics that will help everyone stay on the strategic course. Automation does not eliminate the need to understand the production touchpoints. The best practice is to document what should happen if you lose access to the automation, too. The last step in planning for automation is to build the appropriate contingency plans. Cloud-based automated workflows protect you from onsite server disruptions and mitigate much of the risk associated with onsite installations when paired with a disciplined backup strategy. What to do next If you plan to automate your print workflow in 2022, look for scalable and easy platforms to integrate with your core business systems. Ensure that your chosen technology partner lets you automate each task within prepress and production and then map those automated tasks together to ensure that each type of job takes the correct journey through each process. Learn your options, and then create a plan that works for you.

admin in News July 22, 2022

Estimable estimators

If they were lucky, the human estimators had an adding machine or desktop calculator to help with the figures. A busy medium-sized printer might have 10 or more full time estimators. Finding and keeping that many specialised estimators could be tricky, as the work was exacting but hardly exciting. Computers were an obvious solution, but the knowledge of how to program for such specialised calculations wasn’t. One of the first UK companies to crack it was what was to become Imprint Business Systems, which is still going strong after 42 years. Today its customers in print and packaging run into the hundreds and many of them have used Imprint systems for at least 25 years. Like most of the early MIS developers, Imprint grew out of the needs of a particular print company, which then used the experience gained to sell to a wider circle or printing and packaging companies. The late 1970s and early 1980s saw a lot of computer estimating start-ups, often with printing company roots. Some of Imprint’s original UK competitors from 40-odd years ago have also survived and prospered independently, such as Optimus (originally Optichrome Computer Systems Ltd, or OCSL), DDS (Accura) and Tharstern, while others were taken over by the ever-expanding EFI empire (such as Prism, Radius, Shuttleworth and Technique). A few others have either merged, or closed, or both. Imprint itself was founded in 1978 by Glennys Bourne and Jonathan Richards. Originally the pair had worked together at the art book printer Shenval Press in Harlow. Richards was general manager, later a director of Shenval, but had learned programming skills at college. Bourne went on to run the nearby Caterpillar Press. Bourne says that the reason for writing the original computer estimating program was a shortage of the trained human variety. “You could not get estimators for love nor money,” she says. So the first estimating program was written to suit the needs of Shenval Press and Caterpillar Press. Bourne saw the potential for Imprint beyond the needs of Shenval and Caterpillar, so the latter was sold to concentrate on the new business. “The Imprint name describes the company well and has stood us well over the years,” says Richards. “As for why the name was chosen, it just seemed a good fit at the time.” Both are still very much involved today. Bourne is CEO, while Jonathan Richards says he’s “allowed to be chairman on high days and holidays”. However, time marches on and their children Will Richards and Nick Bourne have also joined Imprint – the latter now being MD. Today Imprint is based in High Easter, in the countryside between Chelmsford and Bishop’s Stortford, handily close to the M11 and Stansted airport. It employs 16 people in an often overlapping mix of management, programming and customer services roles.

admin in News July 22, 2022

Agfa Avinci CX3200

Avinci CX3200 is 3.2 m wide dye sub textile printer capable of printing on polyester-based textiles What is it? Agfa’s Avinci CX3200 is a highly reliable and convenient soft signage printer that can print directly to fabrics and onto transfer paper. It uses an off-line calendar unit to ensure perfect fixation. Agfa’s dedicated dye sublimation roll-to-roll printer will enable you to create vibrant, high-quality prints on polyester-based fabrics up to 3.2 m wide, including a broad range of in- and outdoor soft signage applications, as well as interior decoration. The Avinci CX3200 boasts a rich color gamut and delivers deep black, perfect solids, accurate spot color mapping and smooth tonal rendering that is particularly noticeable in skin tones. The Avinci inks are characterised by their flexibility, image longevity and outdoor resistance. They offer stable jetting performance and deliver the same high-quality results, batch after batch. An off-line calender unit fixes the color deeply into the structure of the polyester-based fabrics while evaporating the carrier fluid. When was it launched at what are the target markets? It was launched on June 22, 2021, and aimed at soft signage industry, sports wear, fashion industry and home décor. Avinic CX3200 is a 3.2 m wide Dye Sub Textile printer capable of printing on polyester based textiles. Does it replace an earlier product? It replaces the earlier model of DX3200. The Avinci CX3200 is driven by Agfa’s Asanti wide-format workflow software. Color accuracy is provided by the easy-to-use color management. Using their Calibrated Print Mode feature, new media can be calibrated and profiled in less than 15 minutes, after which the new profiles can be used to guarantee print quality. Asanti controls and automates the entire printing process from file intake to finishing, maximising productivity. Its comprehensive integration of file handling, color management and preflighting guarantees smooth and error-free jobs. The web-based Asanti Production Dashboard offers a view on your running production. It summarizes the jobs produced and reports on quantity printed, media usage, ink volumes enabling you to control your production and to manage your print shop optimally. What is the USP? It allows you to print directly on textiles and capable of print on transfer paper media as well. Single person media loading and low inks consumptions are another features. High productivity and a robust design for reliable printing at all times, vibrant prints and a wide color gamut; fine detail rendering; extensive applications scope; low ink consumption; convenient operations and a fast changeover between jobs are another features. Avinci produces good results with a minimum of jetted ink. This low ink consumption is based on Agfa’s renowned Thin Ink Layer technology: a smart combination of particular ink characteristics and our Asanti workflow software algorithms that tune the ink quantities perfectly to the required image quality mode. What training and support are available? Full in house training and support available from Agfa UAE and Belgium. Complete and integrated solution are available for printer, inks, workflow software, worldwide service and applications support. How productive is it? It prints at speed of 250 Sqm per hr on express mode. Being able to print directly to fabric is easy and ideal for fast handling and for special applications such as flags, where print-though is needed. Transfer paper allows for super sharp prints, eliminates any set-off, and limits media waste to a minimum. In addition, it extends the application scope to sportswear and fashion garments, as well as home décor prints on non-coated polyester fabrics. What does it cost? How is it sold? The recommended retail price (RRP) is approximately $220k stand alone printer and requires a separate calendaring unit. How many are in use? Currently, the latest CX3200 are around 11 units around the world. Specifications 3.2m Dye sublimation Printer Kyocera print heads 4 colour printer CYMK Direct to garment capable to print on transfer paper Max speed of 250 sqm Stand alone printer Resolution up to 600 x 1800 dpi Media types: Polyester-based fabrics, or transfer paper used to create banners, indoor wall graphics, shop decoration, outdoor advertising, light boxes, trade show displays, flags and high polyester-based blends “Agfa Avinci CX3200 was launched in June 2021.”

Aug. 2, 2022

Epson – SureColor SC V7000 Flatbed Printer

Epson's first UV large format printer offers exceptional image quality, Shihab Zubair What is it? The SureColor SC-V7000 is Epson's first UV large format printer, offering exceptional image quality. The V7000 is ideal for printing eye-catching retail and outdoor signage, window displays, hoarding panels, packaging, promotional goods, and décor products. It includes Epson’s Micro Piezo printhead with ten newly developed original inks, for accurate colour reproduction for spot and corporate colours. It allows businesses the flexibility to print on a range of media up to 80mm thick including acrylics, polycarbonates, PVC, glass, aluminium, metal, polyester, foam board, styrene, wood and stone. The printhead layout enables simultaneous high-speed printing and, with the 4-zone vacuum system, it offers real flexibility for production environments. When was it launched at what are the target markets? The Epson SureColor SC-V7000 was launched in April 2021 within the Middle East region, building on the success of Epson’s award-winning range of SureColor S Series signage printers. The V7000 allows sign and display makers to expand their portfolio of products, to deliver high quality, fast and reliable results on a variety of different media. Does it replace an earlier product? The SureColor SC-V7000 proudly marks Epson’s entry into the UV flatbed signage print market. As Epson’s first UV large format printer, it provides unique features to differentiate and enhance our offering to the signage market. Every feature of the Epson SureColor SC-V7000 has been designed with the customer in mind. This is a robust and affordable UV LED flatbed signage printer capable of fast and quality printing on a wide range of media – any type of surface, despite the size, thickness, or weight. This is in addition to Epson’s successful product solutions such as the Epson SureColor SC Series of eco-solvent and resin ink printers. For instance, for environmentally friendly organisations, Epson’s SureColor SC-R5010 Series has the capacity to include a resin ink solution, offering print service providers and creative design agencies the ability to produce a wide range of signage in a more sustainable way, without compromising on the results. For a larger ink capacity, Epson offers the SureColor SC-R5010L. What is the USP? The Epson SureColor SC-V7000 provides exceptional image quality, productivity, usability, and safety. With the unique Epson Micro Piezo printhead, the printer has ten newly developed original inks and 3-layer high-speed printing. It helps print with ease and safety with automatic measurement of media thickness, a multi-zone vacuum, and a printhead crash prevent function, Epson Edge Print, proximity sensors. What training and support is available? Epson manufactures all the components for the SureColor SC-V7000, including printheads, inks and software, in order to reach the consistent quality levels that our customers expect. The Epson Cloud Solution PORT is a cloud-based system from where you will be able to monitor equipment across several sites, or several printers across one site, from the production floor or remotely, and assist the control of production. This enables efficient production planning, increased uptime and enhanced support. Epson Production Monitor is part of the Epson Cloud Solution PORT suite of apps and allows you to examine the production status in real-time. If an issue occurs, it can be corrected efficiently with minimal disruption to the print run. How productive is it? The SureColor SC-V7000 enables businesses to print at high speed with a maximum print area of 2.5 metres by 1.25 metres. The printhead layout enables simultaneous high-speed printing, with white ink and varnish, without losing productivity. What does it cost? How is it sold? The recommended retail price (RRP) is around AED 330,563 (US $90,000) and it is sold through authorised partners in the Middle East. How many are in use? Currently two printers have been installed in the UAE, and we are scheduled to install a few more in December and further into 2022. Specifications UltraChrome UV 10-colour inkset Printing resolution of 720 x 1,440 DPI Outstanding print quality High-speed simultaneous printing even when using white, colour and varnish Printheads, ink, firmware and software with an ink tank capacity of 1,000 ml Price from AED 330,563 “Epson SureColor SC-V7000 was launched in April 2021.”

Aug. 2, 2022

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