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 […]
How can industries that today play a critical role in the South African economy, yet are evolving amidst this changing climate, ensure their sustainability? According to Steve Thobela, an executive at Novus Print, the answer is in the ability of an industry to tap into the opportunity presented by the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). The 4IR […]
According to Laurel Brunner from the Verdigris Project, there is no room to hide behind the idea that climate change is not as bad as it seems, that there is no space to hide because the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) does not allow it, or at least there is no evidence […]
According to Jana Smit, software and product manager for Photo2Print – a division of Remata in South Africa – the company has been using Taopix since 2014, and its experience with them has always been seamless. ‘We value that Taopix always keeps up with technology and are constantly innovating new and exciting features. The support […]
Africa Print attended Printing SA’s Central Chamber members forum at the Royal Johannesburg and Kensington Golf Club, where members could enjoy breakfast while listening to David Shapiro of Sasfin Securities, who shared his views on the current state of the economy. Shapiro emphasised that the strengthening of the United States and Israel’s economies are based […]
According to Laurel Brunner from the Verdigris Project, why printers have been so reluctant to get with the sustainability programme is a bit puzzling. They only seem to recognise it when clients ask about what they are doing to improve sustainability and their capacity to deliver some sort of environmental sign off. As this generally […]
According to BOBST, the packaging industry has made significant progress in a short period of time, while anticipating what trends are to follow next. While the sustainability of packaging has been an important topic for brand owners for several years, the need to implement meaningful solutions has significantly gathered pace in the last year or […]
