The Digicon system adds a wide range of embellishments to printed substrates in a hotfoil flexo screen. It can be installed in either inline or offline applications.
   
Hyde, who is based in the northern England coastal town of Bridlington, emphasised that the sales had been finalised before PacPrint opened. At the same time, he was equally enthusiastic about the reception by visitors on Day One to the PacPrint debut of the Omega VSR Servo drive slitter/rewinder, claimed to be the fastest (400 metres per minute) rewinder on the market.
   
A regular visitor to Australia, Hyde is highly complimentary about the local label industry. Compared to their UK and European counterparts, Australian label converters are more forward thinking about their level of investment in equipment, he contends.
   
While local label printers may be concerned about shrinking margins, the outlook for the industry here, he believes, is still extremely strong, buoyed in no small way by the strength of the Australian and New Zealand wine industries. Margin constraints, Hyde contends, are not anywhere as dramatic as those in the UK and Europe.
   
As for the label industry’s digital footprint, “the word is out on the street that inkjet is the big future”, the UK exec maintains.

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