Trade print operation CMYKhub is significantly expanding its Perth business; it is installing a new Ryobi A1 press and has bought the business of a local trade printer Top Print. Top Print struggled under the weight of a $100,000 bad debt from a Sydney customer.  The funds from the sale of the business ot CMYKhub will enable it to pay its creditors. It will continue to operate as a speciality trade printer focusing on NCR and PMS work, with former owners Peter and Merrilyn Watt remaining as the only staff, The new five-colour Ryobi 920 for CMYKhub which comes with inline coater will join the four-colour A3 Ryobi at the Perth operation. CMYKhub boss Clive Denholm says he put the new press in to cut turnaround times for local printers. The set-up mirrors the production power at the NSW centre.

According to Denholm his online business where CMYKhub provides printers with their own skin for his website is booming, but so is the demand for quick turnaround and national standards. Denholm is planning to run a series of free seminars for local Perth printers to introduce them to the online concept. The A1 sized press is proving popular, local Ryobi agebnt Cyber says it essentially enables printer sot produce 30 per cent more work than a B2 press for 15 per cent more investment.

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