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Digital Print Companies and Signmaking Businesses snatch up space at Spandex Open House event
Friday 22. October 2010 - Free seminars, demonstrations and workshops designed to help digital printers and signmakers increase business.
Spandex, the one-stop supplier of complete and innovate solutions to the digital printing and signmaking industries has recently announced an inspiring Open House event, taking place at Spandexs premises in Bristol on November 4th and 5th 2010. The event has been greeted enthusiastically by a wide range of existing and potential customers prompting Spandex to advise those interested in attending to pre-register in advance. More information on the event and how to pre-register is available by visiting www.spandex.co.uk/openhouse or calling 0800 77 26 33.
The highlight of the Open House will be two seminars delivered by technical expert company Color Concepts. Both seminars are designed to help visitors deepen their knowledge of digital print and the opportunities it represents. The Creating Printer Workflows seminar will offer practical advice on how to reduce costs in the print department. It will also demonstrate how to optimise communication with customers by using proof prints and how to use PDF and colour more effectively. Focusing on the world of media and printer profiling, the Creating Print Profiles seminar will show visitors how to achieve the best colour results from any media and how to maintain this quality in the long term. There will also be a seminar on Photographic & Fine Art Reproduction and the The Latest Digital Materials.
Delegates will be able to meet representatives from top suppliers including Avery, Mactac, 3M, ImagePerfect, Kemmetech, Labate and Co, Kunstdünger and Epson.
Workshops will cover subjects focussed on vehicle wrapping; textile marking; new techniques in modular sign systems; banner fixings and fastenings and Gerber Edge media applications.
Live material demonstrations will include wall wraps, window applications as well as vinyl removal among others. Throughout the day, visitors will also be able to experience live product demonstrations of an extensive range of wide-format inkjet printing solutions from leading industry manufacturers. Taking centre stage will be Spandexs new Gerber CAT UV flatbed inkjet printer which was previewed for the first time at Fespa 2010. As a true economically priced flatbed UV printer, the Gerber CAT UV is ideal for signmaking, point of sale and other unique applications.
Also on display will be Epson’s new Large Format printer GS6000 (64″) printer, designed to enable sign shops and screen printers to move into more premium services, such as vehicle wraps, point-of-sale, and fine art reproduction due to its high resolution, 8-colour output capability.
On the day, delegates will benefit from a range of materials and hardware promotions; prize draws as well as a choice of gift: either one litre of each ImagePerfect Surface Cleanerand MagicApply Application fluid or a voucher for a 20% discount off list price on textile marking range(during November and December 2010).