i-grafix news http://www.i-grafix.com 2010-03-20T23:14:26+01:00 http://www.i-grafix.com http://www.i-grafix.com/template/i-grafix/images/logo.gif text/html 2010-03-12T03:30:00+01:00 http://www.i-grafix.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=41989&Itemid=139 <p class="MsoNormal">Paper industry information provider RISI has announced plans for their 2010 Asian pulp and paper industry conference. The 11th Asian Pulp and Paper Outlook Conference is set to take place June 7-9 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Shanghai.</p> text/html 2010-03-05T03:00:00+01:00 http://www.i-grafix.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=41918&Itemid=137 <p class="MsoNormal">Around 50 managers of printers and implants took the opportunity to taste some of the nation’s best wine at a Ricoh technology forum in Sydney last night, with a lively debate ensuing.<span lang="EN-US"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p> text/html 2010-03-03T03:30:00+01:00 http://www.i-grafix.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=41890&Itemid=137 <p class="MsoNormal">Economic growth in the printing industry picked up during the December 2009 quarter according to data released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). However Printing Industries says that despite the welcome pick up the industry still remains well below its peak activity levels.</p> text/html 2010-02-24T03:00:00+01:00 http://www.i-grafix.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=41773&Itemid=140 <p class="MsoNormal">The move to self-manufacture by brand owners is currently confined to PET and plastic beverage packaging however down the track it is likely to impact on films and flexibles and metal food cans, according to the Packaging Council of Australia (PCA). The Council says converters need to adapt and turn the changing landscape into opportunities for growth and rejuvenation.</p> text/html 2010-02-22T13:00:00+01:00 http://www.i-grafix.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=41704&Itemid=138 <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">It appears that the B2 format sheet fed digital press may be the Holy Grail for press manufacturers. In the 1990s Indigo regularly brought a mock up of a future B2 format press to the different trade shows. </span></p> <p /><span lang="EN-GB" /> text/html 2010-02-22T13:00:00+01:00 http://www.i-grafix.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=41719&Itemid=139 <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">It appears that the B2 format sheet fed digital press may be the Holy Grail for press manufacturers. In the 1990s Indigo regularly brought a mock up of a future B2 format press to the different trade shows. </span></p> <p /><span lang="EN-GB" /> text/html 2010-02-22T03:00:00+01:00 http://www.i-grafix.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=41696&Itemid=137 <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">It appears that the B2 format sheet fed digital press may be the Holy Grail for press manufacturers. In the 1990s Indigo regularly brought a mock up of a future B2 format press to the different trade shows. </span></p> <p /><span lang="EN-GB" /> text/html 2010-02-17T17:29:00+01:00 http://www.i-grafix.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=41728&Itemid=141 <p>In early December, members of NIPPA travelled to Auckland for their Eastern Branch Meeting hosted at Konica Minolta’s Auckland head office. Over two dozen New Zealand NIPPA members and three invited guests from Australia made the journey to participate in the meeting, sneaking a preview of three new Konica Minolta products, networking and sharing future roadmaps</p> text/html 2010-02-16T17:43:00+01:00 http://www.i-grafix.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=41734&Itemid=153 <p>PrintNZ Training will be acting on some key ideas put forward at its bi-annual Industry Review Workshop in Wellington last November. Alicia Lambert reports on progress made at the workshop</p> text/html 2010-02-09T17:47:00+01:00 http://www.i-grafix.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=41810&Itemid=141 <p>The organiser of Ipex - the world’s biggest English language print trade show gathered the world’s leading graphic arts media in London to outline its plans for this year’s show, slated to take place in Birmingham in just over three months time, May 18-25, reports APP editor, Wayne Robinson from the conference centre</p> text/html 2009-11-07T12:45:00+01:00 http://www.i-grafix.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=40019&Itemid=141 <p>While some businesses slip into paralysis by worrying about the problems associated with upgrading their technology, others find themselves struggling to cope with new business coming from new machines. Solution Dynamics on Auckland’s North Shore has translated new equipment into new business by increasing capacity and productivity </p> text/html 2009-10-13T12:35:00+01:00 http://www.i-grafix.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=40013&Itemid=153 <p>The time for selling a business is always likely to be a stressful period. You have to face up to retirement, or a change in circumstances, and letting go of what has been a great interest in your life. It is also the time you find out if the market agrees with you as to the real worth of the business</p> text/html 2009-07-05T18:05:00+01:00 http://www.i-grafix.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=38515&Itemid=153 <p>The giant bookseller is forcing the pace with e-reading devices, which may well impact on print</p> text/html 2009-06-09T19:29:00+01:00 http://www.i-grafix.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=38458&Itemid=153 <p>Joan Grace recently marked 10 years as chief executive of PrintNZ Training. She took time to consider on changes she has seen during that decade: changes in technology, changes in government policy for training, and changes in industry training in general</p> text/html 2009-04-27T15:43:00+01:00 http://www.i-grafix.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37251&Itemid=141 <p>Squeezing ourselves through each month of this current credit crunch, we find agreement on one point. Economists, employers, employees and financial pundits concur that uncertainty remains the constant feature of the new world economic order. According to one economist, however, that’s a good reason for us to prepare for the more predictable times ahead</p> text/html 2009-04-09T13:48:00+01:00 http://www.i-grafix.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37220&Itemid=153 <p>With the business pages and our customers telling us the country is currently in recession, businesses in the print industry are looking at ways to cut costs and survive in tough economic conditions</p> text/html 2009-03-04T13:00:00+01:00 http://www.i-grafix.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=36582&Itemid=193 <p>Internationally renowned experts Neville Norman, Peter Ellyard and David Parkin have been confirmed as the keynote speakers for the PacPrint 09 Forums, PacPrint Chairman Alastair Hadley has announced. The three speakers will each address their key areas of expertise.</p> text/html 2008-11-24T03:00:00+01:00 http://www.i-grafix.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=35360&Itemid= <p>With the Christmas period approaching thoughts turn to what will be the gift one would most like. In past years digital technology has provided many of the most desired gifts, in particular Apple’s iPod and more recently iPhone have topped many people’s Christmas gift lists. This year one has to wonder how many of us are longing for a new digital gift and if so what will it be.</p> text/html 2007-05-25T14:19:00+01:00 http://www.i-grafix.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29226&Itemid=193 A total of 3,778 visitors came through the doors of PrintEx07 during the first day of the exhibition, a four per cent increase over the same time at PrintEx03, when the previous event took place. text/html 2007-03-06T06:00:00+01:00 http://www.i-grafix.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4743&Itemid=193 Australian printers spent 27.5 per cent less on capital expenditure in the final three months of 2006, compared with the same period of 2005, according to new figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). text/html 2006-03-15T06:00:00+01:00 http://www.i-grafix.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3339&Itemid=153 David Underwood takes an informed view of six topics that could hold considerable sway over your business in the coming year text/html 2006-02-16T06:00:00+01:00 http://www.i-grafix.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3329&Itemid=153 Printers get pointers for 2006 with &lsquo;The Answers&rsquo;. By Dave MacIntyre text/html 2005-12-08T06:00:00+01:00 http://www.i-grafix.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3097&Itemid=153 With the continued boom in the Chinese economy, China&rsquo;s print market continues to blossom, with an estimated 15 per cent growth text/html 2005-12-08T06:00:00+01:00 http://www.i-grafix.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3108&Itemid=153 Due out before Christmas, PrintNZ&rsquo;s industry survey for 2005 shows an industry that is optimistic about the future, despite some immediate concerns By Joan Grace text/html 2005-11-11T06:00:00+01:00 http://www.i-grafix.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2953&Itemid=153 One benefit of my background of the past 40 years digitising the graphic arts industry, including when I directed the marketing activities of one of the major suppliers to this industry, is I can often look at a piece of technology from a non-graphic arts related industry and anticipate how it could be utilised within graphic arts text/html 2005-10-17T07:00:00+01:00 http://www.i-grafix.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2867&Itemid=153 I have just returned from a month in Scotland and England. It was good preparation for a wet winter here. It was also interesting to see the ever increasing volume of printed brochures promoting the tourist attractions. I have commented on this in earlier articles and it must be a growth specialist market here. text/html 2005-09-09T07:00:00+01:00 http://www.i-grafix.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2695&Itemid=153 Has digital technology killed off film? Chris Heric suggests things may be changing at a slower pace than was first expected. text/html 2005-06-07T07:00:00+01:00 http://www.i-grafix.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=94&Itemid=153 The purchase of Macromedia by Adobe will have far-reaching consequences for all in the graphic communications world. text/html 2005-01-18T06:00:00+01:00 http://www.i-grafix.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=520&Itemid=153 Everybody has seen the internet affect business in some way. There are even more changes to come, suggests Andrew Tribute text/html 2005-01-18T06:00:00+01:00 http://www.i-grafix.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=521&Itemid=153 Many companies shirk on upgrading some of the less visible aspects in their printshops, not realising that a slow prepress department can be a real millstone around their necks, says Chris Heric.