SEE THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY AT AFRICA PRINT DURBAN EXPO
The Africa Print Regional Expo will stop in Durban for a two-day event on the 26-27 August 2014 at the Durban ICC. The Africa Print regional expos are proudly sponsored by Xerox. This dedicated commercial and digital print regional expo gives industry professionals an opportunity to see solutions in their own city.
The entire digital print process will be showcased, featuring from sheetfed A3 machines up to wide format digital equipment and will include both suppliers and manufacturers of commercial and digital printers, finishing equipment, software, media and consumables.
The Africa Print regional expos aim to evolve your business by showcasing the latest and most innovative equipment and consumables related to the commercial printing industry to help you grow your customer base, offer your clients a wider range of products and solutions and remain at the forefront of technology.
The Regional Expos are not only targeted at digital and commercial printers, but also at entrepreneurs interested in exploring new business opportunities, right in their own city. You will see products and services for digital printing, digital packaging, wide format printing, finishing, ink, paper and laminating.
Forming a strategic alliance is a sure way to grow your business. Strategic alliances are a powerful way to facilitate business growth by not only sharing experiences, market intelligence, and other inherent benefits but most importantly by also sharing associated risks. I will enjoin you to divinely seek a like-minded strategic partner to work with to grow your business. Study other successful businesses and evaluate how they promote their plans together. Again, analyse activities and promotional events, tradeshows, print media advertising, newspapers, PR efforts and promotions that can aid your decision making. It’s also helpful to develop mutual relationships with people who have successfully expanded their own businesses through alliances. NUMBERS CMYK LTD (publisher of WHERE To Print magazine) is a case study and you can share from our experiences.
GRAPH EXPO AND CPP EXPO 2014 PREVIEW
GRAPH EXPO 2014 EXPANDS FOR A COMPREHENSIVE AND STIMULATING EDUCATION AND NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES
GRAPH EXPO 14 and the co-located CPP EXPO show, coming up from September 28 to October 1, 2014 at Chicago’s McCormick Place, USA has expanded the floor space to accommodate targeted industry-specific training programmes such as Creative Cloud Master Class for print professionals in corporate, education and government print institutions attending this year’s shows that will also demonstrate live equipment and services demos along with value-added networking opportunities.
According to a joint statement from GRAPH EXPO 14 organiser – The Graphic Arts Show Company (GASC) in conjunction with one of the training programmes facilitators – Future Media Concepts – the co-location of the Creative Cloud Masters Conference with GRAPH EXPO will provide advanced training for print, web and video designers in Adobe’s Creative Cloud from Adobe certified instructors and master trainers. This co-location reflects GRAPH EXPO’s progressive growth and expansion into integrated media technologies, answering a need within the industry. “GRAPH EXPO has always experienced strong demand for education, best practices and tips for design and creation. Adding the new Creative Cloud Masters Conference is the perfect compliment, delivering huge value for attendees,” remarked Christopher Price, Vice President of Graphic Arts Show Company. “Now, attendees can expand their design skills and spark their creative inspiration with the training they’ll receive in the Creative Cloud Masters Conference, then, have full access to the newest equipment innovations to bring their designs to life in GRAPH EXPO’s comprehensive exhibit hall.
Attendees at GRAPH EXPO can expect to see new technologies and advancements in wide format digital printing, commercial printing, 3D printing, photo imaging, pre press, sublimation and more. Creative Cloud Masters Conference offers 3 days of cutting-edge design techniques, including classes on portrait retouching and the power of Photoshop, advanced colour conversion techniques, HTML and CSS styles for e-publishing, getting started in video production, animation and interactive design, integrating print and online workflows and more. “We’re confident agency, print shop and design professionals will find new inspiration at this year’s show. With these two co-located events, shop owners and graphics professionals will have a competitive advantage in the marketplace, equipped to deliver unparalleled creative services to customers,” noted Price.
…OFFERS IN-PLANT PROFESSIONALS FUTURE OUTLOOK OF THE INDUSTRY
In a related development, GRAPH EXPO 14 and the co-located CPP EXPO show, will also offer In-Plant professionals seeking to maximize their show going experience the added advantage of the always popular EXECUTIVE OUTLOOK technology and marketing trends update conference, themed “Print That Performs,”.
Recognized as THE industry event for In-Plant print professionals, GRAPH EXPO 14 has created a myriad of specialized education, peer networking opportunities, and individualized resources geared to meet their needs. To be held from 8:00 am to 12:00 noon on Sunday, September 28, opening day of the exposition at the ultimate “home base” and networking hub for professionals from corporate, educational, and government In-Plant print centres – The In-Plant Place exclusively sponsored by the In-Plant Printing and Mailing Association (IPMA). IPMA will also sponsor a special free Lunch and Learn presentation especially for In-Plant print professionals on Tuesday, September 30, 11:00 am to 1:00 pm.
At every turn, In-Plant attendees will find together in one place at one time exciting offerings of the latest equipment, products, and services including: workflow and design software, digital, offset, and hybrid printing, wide format inkjet, prepress, postpress finishing and mailing, consumables and substrates, and package printing.
Throughout the show, a comprehensive slate of In-Plant oriented seminars will offer sessions on:
- “The DATA Difference: Targeting for Stronger ROI”
- “In-Plant Panel: War Stories, Wise Ideas, and Q & A”
- “In-Plant Insights: HOT Tech Trends & Applications”
- “Digital Services TOP SHOPS’ Best Practices Revealed”
- “Offset, Inkjet, or Toner: Which is Right for me?”
- “Simple Lean Start-up Steps for Your Company”
- “In-Plant Survival: Lessons Learned from the Best”
- “Performance Metrics MAGIC: The Keys to Operational & Sales Success”
PROPAK WEST AFRICA 2014 PREVIEW
PROPAK WEST AFRICA 2014SET TO BOOST INDUSTRIES IN SUB-REGION WITH VALUE-DRIVEN SEMINARS
“In 2013, the Middle-East & Africa (MEA) market flexible packaging market totals almost $4bn. The most dynamic market is Nigeria, where flexible packaging demand has grown by around 12 percent per annum over the past five years. ”, said PCI Films Consulting.
Preamble
PROPAK West Africa is now in its second edition as the leading packaging, printing and plastics exhibition in the West African sub-region that provides an international platform for suppliers in the industries to promote their products and services to decision makers and top manager. This year edition will also provide an unparalleled opportunity to examine future trends, identify immediate, long and short term needs and uncover (up and coming) technologies for use in critical areas thereby enusuring business advancement in a series of seminars scheduled during the show.
Taking place from the 2nd to 4th September 2014 at the Eko Hotel and Convention Centre in Lagos, Nigeria PROPAK West Africa 2014 will feature international and local product leaders, regional and international experts and decision makers that are influencing and shaping West Africa’s packaging, print, plastics and labelling markets and sets itself appart at the premier Printing and Packaging trade show in West Africa.
Organized by Montgomery West Africa, the definitive trade show will feature five seminars stream over the three-day period namely Pro-Plas West Africa, Print Expo West Africa, FoodPro West Africa, Pro-Label West Africa and the launch of Digital Print Expo West Africa. Invariably, the event runs in conjunction with Print Expo West Africa, Pro-Plas West Africa, Pro-Label West Africa, Food Processing West Africa, and Digital Printing Expo West Africa dedicated to suppliers involved in the packaging, food processing, plastics, printing and labelling industries and offers a unique prospect to get a foothold in the fastest developing West African market dominated by Africa’s biggest economy – Nigeria.
With up to 80 exhibitors and hundreds of products on display, visitors will get the chance to walk around seeing machinery and networking with experts who know most about the industries and the prospects. That is the more reason the show is supported by the Institute of Packaging Nigeria (IOPN), World Packaging Organisation (WPO), Nigeria Export Promotion Council (NEPC), Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), Chartered Institute of Professional Printers of Nigeria (CIPPON) and The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control(NAFDAC).
The experiences that have enabled us to achieve our strategic alliance goals affording us the opportunity of reporting a highly successful Africa’s largest wide format digital printing, signage, screen printing and garment decoration exhibition – FESPA AFRICA 2014 collocated with AFRICA PRINT EXPO 2014 from 2nd to 4th July at the Gallagher Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa. Check out our EXCLUSIVE REPORT AND IMAGES on pages 2, 12, 20, 28, 29, 30 and 32. On pages 36 and 42, we also have a SPECIAL REPORT on X-RITE COLOUR MANAGEMENT TRAINING 2014themed: ‘STANDARDISATION IN MODERN WORLD’ also held in Johannesburg, South Africa. In this edition also, WHERE To Print exclusively covered the maiden edition of AFRICAN OUTDOOR ADVERTISING CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION 2014 held at Eko Hotel Convention Centre, Lagos from 25th to 27th of June. The EXCLUSIVES are on pages 38 and 39. And lastly, the major and highly inspiring print event in Lagos, Nigeria which was exclusively covered by WHERE To Print in a SIX-PAGE PULLOUT SUPPLEMENT is DigitalReality Print LTD rebranding and commissioning of her ultra-modern facility. The supplement is from page 21 to page 26 titled: DIGITAL REALITY REBRANDS AND REDEFINES PRINTING STANDARDS.
With all the exclusives captured in this edition, we unfortunately have to reserve our usual COVER STORY, PRINTERS FOOD and SMART PRINT CELEB for the next edition – but we leave you to savour this edition’s SMEs MANAGEMENT & ACCOUNTING ACCORDING TO FEMI.
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