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GPMI Strengthens Sales Team
GPMI boosted its salesforce recently with the appointment of Niall Fitzgerald as Commercial Director and Karl Byrne as Senior Account Manager. Niall joined GPMI in February as Commercial Director with responsibility for the internal and external sales teams. His focus is on expanding the business across all areas of the industry, from commercial and digital print to packaging and consumables. Niall has experience in print management with InnerWorkings and commercial print with Business Print. He also worked for Spectrum Print Logistics, and in the paper business as Sales Director with Contact Papers, Robert Horne and Matrix Papers. Formerly of Xeretec Ireland, Karl Byrne took up his new role as Senior Account Manager with GPMI in May, looking after customers in the west of Ireland. [...]
McGowans Installs World’s 2nd EFI Nozomi Press
In July of this year, McGowans Print will take delivery of the Nozomi C18000, a revolutionary single-pass inkjet press that will change the print industry, not just in Ireland, but worldwide. The EFI press is capable of print speeds of 75 linear metres per minute, producing up to 7,224 square metres per hour, on substrates up to 1.8 metres wide. Digital print has long eliminated the need for up-front makeready, plates, storage, ink mixing and all the associated labour costs, but now, with the addition of single-pass, LED, digital drop-on-demand, piezo inkjet technology, digital speeds can match and exceed litho’s output. The investment in the Nozomi C18000, McGowans largest investment to date, allows them to enter and compete in new markets, most notably packaging. [...]
City Print Takes Delivery of New Heidelberg Folder
City Print in Cork recently invested in a Stahfolder TH 82-P supplied by Heidelberg UK. “It is no use having presses that run at 14,000sph or 15,000sph and folders that operate at 8,000sph or 9,000sph,” says Michael Courtney, Sales Director of City Print. “We read about the new P series folder in the media and decided to investigate and have ordered a Stahlfolder TH 82-P.” The folder will replace a rival machine. What intrigued, and then persuaded, the Cork firm that this was the right choice of folder is that the shingle feed method slows down the mechanical speed of the folder, as well as increasing output. That means that the jobs it handles will be finished in an even more controlled way that protects [...]
The Interiors Market
Independent research conducted by Infosource shows that Epson’s SureColor SC-S series is the top selling eco-solvent technology in its class in Western Europe. Maev Martin talks to Daniel Rafferty, Manager, Epson Ireland, and Epson UK’s Pre Sales Technical Specialist Paul Restarick about the interior décor demand driving this growth. The Infosource research shows that Epson grew market share for these printers from fifth place, with just over nine per cent in 2015, to a league-topping 28.4% by the end of 2016. This success follows the launch of a new generation of 64-inch width Epson SureColor SC-S printers in January 2016 - the SureColor SC-S80600, SC-S60600 and SC-S40600 - which gives users the choice of four to 10 colours (including [...]
