Visitors came to the Excel, London, as Ipex opened its doors to the global print industry, looking to inform and engage with visitors.
With theatres and learnshops, the exhibition aims to inform attendees about every part of the printing sector, helped with the addition this year of Cross Media Production, a show within a show.
Trevor Crawford, event director, said, ‘I’m very pleased with how the first day has gone, obviously it is early days still and we have to keep our feet on the ground, but I’m especially pleased with how popular the seminar theatres have been.’
The day began with news of Springfield Solutions investing in Europe’s first Screen Truepress Jet L350UV digital label press. Operations director, Dennis Ebeltoft said, ‘The market for labels is changing rapidly as retailers take advantage of the creative and production benefits of digital printing.’
At its press conference Konica Minolta announced that the KM1 sheet fed UV colour inkjet press will be ready to be launched at the end of 2015 and that the press will go into beta testing this year.
The press, created with Komori, looks to combine the speed and flexibility of offset presses with the benefits of digital printing, such as variable data printing and zero make ready.
Mr Akiyoshi Ohno, executive officer, division director inkjet business unit, said ‘It is my mission to cause an industrial revolution in the printing world. We hope to do this with the launch of this press. The concept of KM1 is to minimise down time.’
