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Practical Sign & Display trade magazine South Africa by Practical Publishing
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| Nicholas Hellmuth during one of the several lectures that he presented at Sign Africa 2008. |
Practical Publishing company offers both the #1 English language trade magazine in South Africa as well as the premier signage, display and graphics trade show for this part of the world.
I had the pleasure of giving three lectures for Sign Africa 2008, so I have first-hand experience with this event. Whereas most speakers fly in and out and show up only for their lecture, I stayed every day at the Sign Africa trade show. In fact I met a lot of readers of FLAAR Reports in Johannesburg and made lots of new friends. Some of the people attending the lectures said they came to the trade show specifically to have access to FLAAR.
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| Lecture audience attending the presentation by Dr Nicholas Hellmuth, FLAAR Reports, on using UV curable flatbed printers for unique applications (printing on stone, wood, glass, ceramic tile, etc) where you can earn more profit than printing merely billboards or banners. |
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There is now a separate FLAAR Report on Sign Africa tradeshow, so I won’t repeat on this web page what is already in this full-color PDF. But I would like to add comments on their magazine, Practical Sign & Display. If you are in this part of the world it helps to have a local magazine to see who are the key distributors and for which products.
The trade magazine, Practical Sign & Display, is dedicated primarily to wide-format inkjet printers. So not to offset, not to office duplicators, not to variable data or label printing: purely on the subject: wide-format inkjet printing and associated aspects of signage. Dyelan Copeland and Charnia Yapp are two of the many capable people on their staff.
The 2009 main event is in Johannesburg, 2 to 4 September, at the Sandton Convention Centre. This is conveniently located in the middle of the safest part of the city. There are plenty of hotels within one to three blocks easy walk. I walked back and forth every day, something I would not think of doing in downtown Guatemala City (I live in this city, but far away from the downtown).
Practical Publishing also has events in Part Elizabeth, Durban, and Cape Town. These I have not yet visited, so I will defer comment until perhaps I can experience these cities and the signage, display, and graphics fairs there.
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GSW (Graphix Supply World) is one of the large and successful distributors in South Africa. They offer Matan, Mimaki and a dozen other leading brands, including cutters, textile printers, inks, etc. |
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| Practical Sign & Display trade magazine South Africa by Practical Publishing. |
Dr Nicholas Hellmuth will give a presentation on current trends in wide-format digital printing. This will cover UV-cured flatbeds, textile printing, latex ink (to replace solvent ink), and diverse other subjects.
Most recently updated July 29, 2009. First posted December 8, 2008.
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Most of our updates for 2008-2010 onward are in FLAAR Reports in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. It is more efficient for us to make new information available in PDF format. So if the web page itself is not updated, check out www.wide-format-printers.NET to see if the printer, RIP, or other subject is covered in an update in a PDF download. And if you prefer to speak with Nicholas Hellmuth in person, you can bring him to your company anywhere in the world as a consultant.
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