The company will showcase its latest products at the Africa Print Expo, taking place from 22-24 August at the Sandton Convention Centre, including products recently launched at drupa 2012 in May.
Highlights include:
Duplo DBMi Saddle System
This innovative and precise saddle stitcher offers todays commercial and digital printer a wealth of features that will allow them to grow and improve the profitability of their business.
The precise and user friendly system provides a large variety of book formats, including the increasing popular A4 Landscape size right down to formats as small as 90mm x 75mm. With quick make-ready times in approximately 60 seconds, and book thicknesses up to 120 pages, the system will allow any novice to be turned into a print finishing professional.
HP Indigo 5600
This digital press delivers unmatched digital offset and photo quality with high versatility and productivity. Seamlessly switching between jobs and media types‚ with a new added ability to print on synthetics‚ press is ideal for PSPs with a diverse job mix. HP Indigo printing is fully interchangeable with offset. HP Indigo ElectroInk enables high quality, wide and accurate colour gamut, and sharp images, similar to, and at times surpassing, conventional offset printing. It is capable of printing well over two million colour pages or five million monochrome pages per month.
Screen EQUIOS Universal Workflow
This single workflow with a single interface drives streamlined production from web to print to the delivery of the finished item automatically. Users dont need to operate different device-dependent workflows, each with a different way of handling imposition and colour management, to drive their variety of Screen and third party CTP, toner and inkjet devices. It provides integrated job management with consistent colour management across different output devices. Communication with a variety of third-party finishing systems is automated via EQUIOS JDF.
Agfa :Apogee Suite 8.0
The software features new tools, including cloud-based applications, which help print service providers produce better output, work more efficiently and extend their market reach. The new tools are designed to help printers in offset and digital print or hybrid environments become more innovative and interact more efficiently internally and with their customers while optimising every step in the production process. The software makes it easy to set up online stores for both printed and non-printed products.
AGFA :Azura C95 Washout Unit
This chemistry-free solution boasts a small carbon foot-print, an intelligent interface, tool-free maintenance and minimum operational cost. It has a processing speed of 60 cm/min (23.6/min).
Durst RHO P10-200
Recently unveiled at drupa 2012, this 2.05m device is a true 1000dpi printer with 10 picolitre heads, producing high quality images using the Durst Quadro Array heads. It can print at speeds of up to 175sqm in draft mode, 90sqm at high speed, POP quality at up to 60sqm and high quality at 40sqm. The printer defines a new quality standard for industrial production level machines. This is the highest quality and fastest device in its class and will be a show stopper.
Aristo Aristomat TL 1625-C
Touted as the best new generation cutter, the product features on this 1600mm x 2500mm machine include a work surface that is accessible from around the table. Up to 54 controllable zones secure even the smallest of jobs. It has easy to use cutter control panel software and a remote control pad for easy access and operation. It is equipped with the latest version tool head with Automatic eye system and tools which include cutting, creasing, bevel cutting and routing.
Last year’s Africa Print Expo in the City of Gold attracted over 6 300
visitors, making it the best attended show to date. Entrance is free.
For more information and to pre-register online, visit:
www.africaprintexpo.com.
