Print With out Boundaries
Launched in 2015 following a spot out there for a UK-focused occasion for industrial print, The Print Present has since advanced and grown right into a profitable and anticipated annual date within the print calendar.
This 12 months, the occasion will run from Tuesday, September nineteenth to Thursday, September twenty first in Corridor 17 of the NEC, Birmingham.
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Run by Hyperlink Exhibitions, the sister firm to Hyperlink Publishing (the writer of Print Month-to-month and SignLink), the present sees quite a few well-known exhibitors on the floorplan every year. The 2023 version of the occasion is ready to be a robust one with the likes of Fujifilm UK, Liyu UK, Konica Minolta, Kyocera Doc Options, Vivid Laminating Applied sciences, Premier Paper Group, and extra all confirmed for the present.
Chris Davies, occasion director of The Print Present displays again on the present’s historical past and inception: “After different occasions moved to Exel London which wasn’t acquired properly by each exhibitors and guests, we determined as a writer to place an occasion on for our advertisers to exhibit, and our readers to go to again in the midst of the nation, on the NEC, which is inside two hours of most in England.”
Because it was based in 2015, The Print Present has advanced with Davies describing the occasion as “now a goal for lots of the main producers in print seeking to put their package in entrance of a UK viewers.” He provides: “The occasion is now established on the business calendar and has been and nonetheless is used as a platform for UK and worldwide product launches.”
Rebranded Occasion Options
The theme of the 2023 occasion is ‘Print With out Boundaries’ which refers to print not simply being ink on paper, however a various medium and a very good path to market. Forward of the place it often is at the moment of 12 months, The Print Present 2023 has extra main manufacturers and producers confirmed than ever earlier than with corporations bringing {hardware}, software program, and paper and consumable options, providing a full providing from pre-press, to manufacturing, to ending, and all the pieces in between.
This implies anybody within the print and graphic industries visiting The Print Present this 12 months can have entry to all of the experience, assets, demos, and samples they should make investments and develop their enterprise.
Providing experience, inspiration, recommendation, and steerage, the previously identified Enterprise Seminar Theatre is returning for 2023 with a rebrand and refresh. The function, now often called the Information Zone, is organised by Rob Fletcher, lead contributor of Print Month-to-month and SignLink, and is ready to cowl a variety of necessary business subjects. These subjects embrace diversification, packaging, web optimization, utilizing your web site to develop your print gross sales, traits in retail, how AI is the way forward for print, and waste administration.
Different key subjects coated shall be psychological well being and wellbeing with a session held by Nicola Peacock, senior relationship supervisor at The Printing Charity and Anthony Rowell, gross sales and buyer success director of Tradeprint. The subject of bringing younger folks into the business may also be addressed by FESPA UK with the Affiliation bringing its standard Subsequent Era occasion to the present. For this, a panel will take a look at tips on how to make the print business extra engaging to youthful folks hosted by Jay Burfield, inventive coordinator at FESPA UK Affiliation and chair of the FESPA UK Subsequent Era Committee.
Additionally working all through the three-day occasion would be the ‘Celebrating Success’ slot which is able to see a speaker from a distinct profitable print enterprise every day spotlight the story of the enterprise and a few of the challenges and rewards that happen when working a number one print firm.
Set to carry collectively exhibitors and their prospects, The Print Present is internet hosting a Gala Dinner on the night of Wednesday September twentieth at Birmingham’s City Corridor. The night will function a three-course meal and leisure from the favored Mini Large Band. Tickets are restricted however nonetheless accessible and will be bought through The Print Present web site.
Returning to this 12 months’s present is the favored Golden Ticket function. Over 35,000 Golden Tickets are being posted out to these registered and all guests need to do is carry theirs with with them to be in with an opportunity of profitable a prize.
Revealed every day of the occasion, The Print Present shall be giving out the next prizes: three £1,000 TUI vacation vouchers; three luxurious hampers; and three Amazon vouchers.
Main Names Exhibiting
By way of what guests can count on to see from the occasion, {hardware} producers similar to Fujifilm UK, Konica Minolta, Kyocera Doc Options, Morgana, Vivid Laminating Applied sciences, Liyu UK, Trotec, InkTec, and HPC Laser will all be demonstrating their newest applied sciences.
Fujifilm UK shall be demonstrating the Acuity Prime flatbed
Liyu UK and Fujifilm UK shall be bringing the largest presences with Fujifilm having damaged the report for the biggest single stand at The Print Present, and Liyu UK having expanded its presence making it now the biggest stand at The Print Present 2023.
Fujifilm UK shall be specializing in two print markets particularly: Large Format Inkjet and toner-based Print on Demand. These two areas shall be demonstrated by means of its Acuity collection with the Acuity Prime flatbed printer set to be one of many merchandise on the stand at The Print Present 2023. The producer may also be exhibiting the award-winning six-colour Revoria Press PC1120, monochrome Revoria E1 collection, and the extremely versatile and accessible ApeosPro C collection.
Guests to the Fujifilm UK stand will have the ability to expertise the Revoria PC1120 toner-based press
Liyu UK shall be bringing a variety of {hardware} together with the Platinum Q3 Hybrid mannequin. This machine brings the ‘wow’ issue resulting from with the ability to accommodate giant media similar to 3-metre boards.
Additionally on present would be the Platinum PCT 3.2m roll-to-roll printer which is on the market with both UV LED or eco solvent ink units; and the Platinum KC XL+ flatbed. The latter builds on present Platinum structure so as to add much more effectivity and performance by means of extra options similar to a cease/proceed invisible security ring, maskless mattress, reverse vacuum, and digital vacuum zoning.
On the ending aspect, Liyu UK shall be demonstrating the three.2 x 2.1m Platinum Q Reduce excessive precision, versatile and automatic cutter outfitted with an clever conveyor, automated digicam registration, automated instrument choice system, and speeds of as much as 1.5m/s.
InkTec says its focus shall be showcasing its new and full vary of DTF (direct-to-film) options together with a 60cm printer, compact shaker, air air purifier, high-quality inks, cold and warm peel PET movies, and hot-melt powder.
Included within the launch of InkTec’s full vary of DTG options, each {hardware} and consumables, the corporate will showcase a brand new 3.2m roll-to-roll LED-UV JETRIX printer and its prolonged vary of appropriate inks.
Guests to the Konica Minolta stand will have the ability to expertise dwell demonstrations of its flagship AccurioPress C14000 high-volume toner press, AccurioShine 3600 digital embellishment press with iFoilOne (for decent foil stamping), and TU-510 progressive four-edge trimmer and creaser. It will showcase that it’s attainable to finish whole jobs on a single manufacturing line.
Premier Paper Group may also be exhausting to overlook having chosen a big slot on the entrance of the corridor, and Vivid Laminating Applied sciences has additionally lately expanded its area at The Print Present.
This demonstrates the excessive ranges of anticipation because the run-up to the favored occasion begins.
A lot of print machine resellers similar to Graphtec, Encore Equipment, Your Print Specialists, Colyer, Good Bindery Options, Aurora, D&Okay Europe, and Ashgrove Buying and selling may also be exhibiting a variety of {hardware}, broadening the choices on show even additional.
Encore Equipment shall be demonstrating an intensive vary of ending options. The lineup will embrace the brand new Pitstop Oxo Multiskill high-speed creasing and folding answer; the Pitstop AF high-speed creasing and perforating answer; the MB PrestigeNet 38 automated pharmaceutical folding machine; and the Darix evolution gentle case-making machine.
Colyer shall be showcasing applied sciences from HP, Xerox, and Summa after a profitable 2022 present; and now the principle UK distributor of the Fastbind vary of binding merchandise from Finland, Ashgrove Buying and selling shall be showcasing two of the vary at The Print Present in September.
On the planet of software program, corporations similar to Accura MIS, PrintIQ, Wildcard Software program, Zaikio, Flex4, and Digital Specs, and extra will all be available to show their particular person choices.
Having exhibited at The Print Present since 2017, Flex4 is making ready to return to the 2023 version with a portfolio of options to point out.
This 12 months, Flex4 shall be demonstrating the most recent performance accessible with its print eCommerce and personal web-to-print storefront options. This contains quite a few thrilling new capabilities together with automated high quality checks when importing paintings.
XMPie will showcase its flagship product, XMPie PersonalEffect which permits printers to create extremely personalised and focused print communications that drive worth, engagement, and ROI.
The corporate may also showcase its Cross Media answer which permits printers to ship totally built-in campaigns throughout a number of channels, together with print, e-mail, internet, social media, and cell; in addition to its newest developments in web-to-print, variable knowledge printing, and advertising automation.
PrintIQ has positioned itself extra prominently this 12 months and is hoping to spice up the attention of automated workflow and enterprise intelligence with its highly effective cloud-based MIS answer. The corporate can have a number of specialists available at its stand with demonstration screens to supply the knowledge guests require.
Commerce printers similar to Route 1 Print, Solopress, Tradeprint, VB Media and Enterprise Banners, Commerce Embroidery, Baker Labels, Very Shows, and extra will all be utilizing their presence at The Print Present to show their product choices for the assorted areas of print, in addition to spotlight their commerce providing for these seeking to outsource or add additional choices to their very own print companies.
Exhibitor Tradeprint is wanting ahead to bringing new group members to expertise The Print Present
Lastly, paper retailers similar to PG Paper and Eliott Baxter Group shall be available to debate their merchandise, in addition to The On-line Print Coach who shall be discussing how he may also help print companies to develop and grow to be extra profitable, and Russell Richardson & Sons which plans to demostrate its waste administration schemes.
The complete interactive occasion floorplan is up to date often and will be discovered through the Print Present web site.
Religion In Exhibitions Is Again
Following the success of business occasions similar to FESPA in Munich, Hunkeler Innovationdays in Switzerland, Packaging Improvements in Birmingham and London, UK, and the combining of Printwear and Promotion LIVE! and Signal & Digital UK for the 2024 version, it appears commerce reveals are nonetheless a really related and desired a part of the print and graphics business.
One exhibitor that claims you’ll be able to nearly sense the optimism about The Print Present 2023, is Tradeprint. Anthony Rowell, gross sales and buyer success director and sustainability lead on the firm, says: “We love nose to nose networking and we love getting out to see the innovation in know-how and the nice sustainability initiatives the business is delivering on.
“The Print Present is a superb incubator for brand new concepts and new partnerships and it’s a possibility to fulfill with suppliers, rivals, and prospects – to catch up with out the stress of day-to-day enterprise makes a giant distinction.”
The Print Present is a superb incubator for brand new concepts and new
partnerships and it’s a possibility to fulfill with suppliers,
rivals, and prospects”
Reflecting on his personal expertise with The Print Present after a profitable 2022 present, Rowell provides: “It’s been nice to see all these exhibitors signing up and I do know the group have been working very exhausting to make sure we now have a profitable present. I just like the common contact with The Print Present group; it’s nice how they keep near the business and get on tour to see exhibitors of their pure setting.
The brand new and improved Information Zone function will change the well-known Enterprise Seminar Theatre space
“I’m wanting ahead to seeing them in Dundee at some point. I had an important expertise at this 12 months’s reveals. Signal & Digital was pleasing and worthwhile and FESPA was extremely properly supported. I hope commerce reveals are again for good.”
For an internet enterprise like Tradeprint, commerce reveals like The Print Present present its prospects with entry to the actual folks behind the corporate, one thing Tradeprint places a whole lot of emphasis on with Rowell citing the outdated saying: “Individuals purchase from folks”.
On what Tradeprint is most wanting ahead to about The Print Present, Rowell says the Gala Dinner will present the area to reinforce business networking alternatives, and the corporate may also be bringing some new members of the group similar to Marc Farmer from the client success group, with the occasion serving to to supply a wider context about dimension and scale and the delight Tradeprint reveals in its business.
“This 12 months we’ll even have Santha Hope, our model new head of promoting coming together with Charlene our managing director and Rod our operations director, we’re wanting ahead to seeing as many purchasers as we are able to,” Rowell provides.
Choice Makers In One Place
One other exhibitor that echoes this view is Very Shows with Kirsty Corcoran, advertising supervisor of the corporate describing occasions and exhibitions because the “excellent alternative” to get straight in entrance of your target market and lift model consciousness.
Very Shows says The Print Present is a good alternative to showcase its choices and community with prospects
For Very, the principle position of exhibiting at commerce reveals is to fulfill new and present prospects and to develop and create relationships. “Additionally, being current and letting the business know we’re right here and what we stand for within the related setting is vital to our advertising technique,” Corcoran explains.
As a consequence of Covid-19, there was a giant shift to webinars and digital occasions lately. Corcoran says irrespective of how a lot our skill to interact on-line grows, she really believes it may well’t change face-to-face interactions and relationship constructing in our business.
“Individuals keep in mind folks, and right here at Very Shows we delight ourselves on our useful customer support and creating these long-term relationships, which is tougher to do digitally. Occasions assist to humanise our enterprise,” Corcoran says.
“Additionally, by getting the business resolution makers in a single place over a couple of days ensures they’re really engaged with the businesses they’re assembly, and the conversations they’re having. There may be nonetheless a spot for smaller, informative-based seminars and occasions on-line however with one thing as huge as The Print Present, face-to-face wins each time!”
In addition to gaining publicity, Corcoran provides that the corporate attends The Print Present to show its dedication to the business. “We promote moveable exhibition options, and it might be uncommon to not showcase them at our business’s personal exhibition. Everybody concerned within the business ought to assist our personal exhibitions, creating a bigger occasion and attracting extra guests.
“We additionally discover different exhibitors typically come on to our stand to look and study our reusable moveable show options and get impressed about how they could exhibit higher at their subsequent occasion.”
Corcoran concludes: “The Print Present has all the time had an important buzz about it – pre-show and in the course of the present. We’re wanting ahead to speaking to everybody, in addition to exhibiting off some new merchandise that we haven’t exhibited earlier than. We additionally benefit from the dwell ingredient, posting on social media all through the day and linking with the occasion and prospects on-line.”
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