The Africa Print Bloemfontein Expo, taking place on 12 February at Elanga Estate, is the region’s leading event for the printing industry. The expo goes beyond showcasing the latest commercial printers, digital label and digital packaging solutions by inspiring you to take your print business to the next level. The event is a platform for visitors […]
John Tschohl of the Service Quality Institute discusses leadership using four people who went through personal and financial difficulties but kept on looking forward to accomplishing their goals and making a difference. Their financial status is in the billions for each of them but, their goal was to ‘make a difference’ in people’s lives. Oracle […]
According to Laurel Brunner from the Verdigris Project, the main developers of process free plates are Agfa, Kodak and Fujifilm, which has recently announced a new addition to the options available on the market. New developments in this area are relatively few and far between, and Fujifilm has high hopes for the Superia ZE process […]
According to reports, one of the most important causes of South Africa’s present economic woes is a shortage of technical and managerial skills. Where can South Africa get the skills it needs to put the country on the path to economic prosperity? Ralph Ruthford, Group Executive: Human Resources, Novus Holdings, investigates how the private sector […]
Dana Eitzen, Canon South Africa’s Corporate and Marketing Communications Executive, has outlined three tech trends to watch in 2020, namely automation, AI and analytics. As we enter a new decade, all aspects of technology will continue to accelerate. Developments in space travel, quantum computing and an increase in the proliferation of software into our daily […]
Manny da Silva, manager industrial print at Konica Minolta South Africa, discusses the latest trends reshaping the label print industry, which he saw at Labelexpo 2019. Extended colour gamuts: most of us are familiar with the conventional four-colour CMYK printing separations – cyan, magenta, yellow and black. With so many product decisions affected by colour, […]
According to Laurel Brunner from the Verdigris Project, a paradigm shift is happening in that print and publishing, and its relationship to data, is changing. We have always been strong supporters of the printing industry and its sustainability. We have encouraged the use of print as a sustainable communications medium because it is mostly based […]
Africa Print wishes all its readers a joyous festive season and a prosperous New Year. We will be closed from 13 December 2019 and will reopen on 9 January 2020. Thank you for your support throughout the year! Be sure to add our expo dates to your 2020 calendar: – Bloemfontein: 12 February 2020. – […]
Quentyn Taylor, director of security at Canon EMEA, provides insight into how companies can develop a robust cybersecurity system through a collaborative, collective and uncompromising approach. For example, shared use printers can be a weak point if poor data security practice is observed and outbound comms processes need to be taken into consideration when thinking […]
Manny da Silva, industrial print manager, and Edmund Jacobs, commercial print manager, for Konica Minolta South Africa, discuss how print is a sensory gateway. The content we consume through the media we are exposed to, enters our consciousness via our senses. Traditionally, print has been mainly a visual medium, but the possibilities of modern print […]
