February/March 2018 Issue 36
NEWS & PRODUCTS
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Hot New Products
Industry News
COVER STORY
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Hot New Products
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International News
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Top Four Fastest Growing Areas In Industrial Printing
By FESPA
Industrial printers are having to adapt to evolving consumer and buyers' needs, which has enabled signifi cant
growth in four key areas of the market.
FEATURES
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Discover Digital Printing Start-Up Opportunities With The Africa Print Expo
Compiled by Meggan McCarthy
The Africa Print Cape Town Expo, taking place from 14-15 March at the Cape Town International Convention
Centre (CTICC), will allow visitors to explore the latest technologies and trends in digital printing presses,
binding equipment, digital packaging solutions, screen printing, digital textile printing, fi nishing equipment,
ink, software, pad printing, paper and board, litho print solutions, encapsulating/laminating and digital label
printing, right in their own city.
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Industry News
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Skills In A Box
By Frank Romano, RIT School Of Media Science
Most of the skill sets of the traditional printing industry are now shrink wrapped. That is, they are programmes
that do what skilled people used to do. Remember dot etchers and strippers? Skill sets keep changing –– or
disappearing.
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Invisible Print
By Laurel Brunner, Verdigris Project
Printing and publishing companies produce media communications. They print books, magazines, newspapers,
catalogues, signs and displays and all manner of transactional prints. These are the visible forms of print, but
there is plenty of the stuff that can easily be overlooked.
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Ricoh Provides Insight Into Print Trends
By Vaughan Patterson, Ricoh SA
Digital fatigue is a phrase that keeps cropping up lately in relation to people’s reading habits. I saw it again,
most recently, in a global survey conducted by Two Sides, which included South African respondents. And South
Africans, it seems, want to buck the trends.
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Ricoh Provides Insight
Into Print Trends
Enthusiastic Visitors From The Commercial Print, Label And Packaging Industry Flock To
Cape Town Expo
By Meggan McCarthy
The successful Africa Print Cape Town expo attracted 1210 visitors from the Western Cape and surrounding
areas, including Oudtshoorn, Mossel Bay, North West Province, Port Elizabeth, Durban, Johannesburg, Namibia,
Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Angola and Ghana.
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Writing A 'Knock Your Socks Off' Service Culture Plan
By John Tschohl, Service Quality Institute
One of the major weaknesses of most organisations is the top management’s lack of a service strategy. They
fail to realise the strategic opportunity on how to use superior service as a vehicle to build market share and
market dominance.
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Short-Run Packaging Is A Huge Opportunity For Commercial Printers
By Bytes Document Solutions
For many people, the mention of packaging print brings up visions of specialised carton presses and fl exo
printing. Traditionally, packaging print has been viewed as a long-run process, best suited to specialised
manufacturers.
Industry Waste Management Plan
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Africa Print Durban Expo Hailed A Major Success By Exhibitors And Visitors
The successful Africa Print Durban expo attracted hundreds of industry professionals from KwaZulu-Natal
and surrounding areas. The event, which was held at the Durban International Convention Centre on 7 and 8
February, showcased cutting-edge technology, such as: digital printing, 3D printing, wide format digital and more.
Industry Waste Management Plans - An Opportunity To Build Better Systems To Protect
The Environment
By Bubele Nyiba, ROSE Foundation
In December 2017, the government issued a gazette requiring the paper and packaging, electric and electronic, and
lighting industries to prepare and submit Industry Waste Management Plans within nine months of publication of
the gazette.
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