Printex 07, held recently at Darling Harbour in Sydney, certainly surpassed the 2003 show results and also our 2007 expectations. 

3 days of sunshine and a diverse range of equipment on display attracted visitors from all Australian states, New Zealand and several Asian & Pacific nations.

All of the machinery displayed on the Aldus stands were continually running demonstrations for the 3 days and the response from existing and new clients alike was extremely positive with 2 major sales being confirmed during the show plus numerous new enquiries requiring follow up after the show.

Undoubtedly the machine that attracted most attention was the Mark Andy 2200 8 colour flexo press and “Gizmo” that was producing a double layer pressure sensitive label allowing clients to print on 3 times the area of a conventional label. This new product allows clients to incorporate a tremendous amount of product information on one label plus special promotions, games or additional advertising of similar products, in fact the possibilities are endless. Utilising various combinations of die cutting, slitting and perforating the sizes and shapes of labels are infinitely variable. As one client stated “…….the sales and marketing people are going to go berserk with this……”

The first Gizmo was installed the week after Printex on a Mark Andy press at a major Sydney printer and was producing labels for a client within a day.

The Mark Andy 2200 press exhibited at Printex was sold to a Melbourne client together with a JM Heaford ELS plate mounter and MicroClean 16A anilox roll cleaning system. Another Heaford ELS plate mounter was also sold during the show to a Melbourne client, with a 3^rd being confirmed immediately after the show closed for a Sydney client.

The new JM Heaford plate mounter’s now feature through camera laser beams to further improve accuracy and speed of set up.

The latest Dusenbery 735FAM attracted its fair share of attention especially the laser core positioning system with self checking feature, this can be retrofitted to almost any machine with cantilevered rewind mandrels and is simple to set up only using the operators touch screen.