In a move that was held up by COVID, Roland DG has now opened a fully operational showroom and Creative Centre for the first time in five years.
In attendance was its president and CEO of Korea, China and Oceania Chi Hun (Charles) Seo and local management, plus dealers and customers from all over Australia.
As Roland DG product and marketing Manager Greg Stone noted, “We were just about to sign a new lease when the first COVID lockdown happened. Naturally, that was put on hold, but we now have this fully functional Creative Centre to support our customers and resellers”.
The new centre is decorated, walls and doors alike, in Re-board recyclable fluted fibre panels from Spicers and printed, die-cut and converted by Melbourne shop Resolution Imaging.
Roland DG sales manager Shane Adams said, “Resolution created the whole décor as a custom job for us; they measured up, printed and CAD cut everything to fit perfectly”.
Resolution uses both Eco-solvent and Resin (latex) Roland TrueVis printers.
Present to celebrate the opening, joining Seo, Stone and Adams, was the company’s global strategy manager Conrad Birkett, who is based in Australia but spends a quarter of the year helping Roland branches throughout Asia-Pacific; as well as Roland dealers and customers.
Inside the centre, visitors see and train on a good range of Roland DG equipment, including milling and shapeing. The partial list of machines in the centre includes:
- Versa UV LEF2-3000 printer
- VersaStudio GS2-24
- TrueVis VG3-540 printer
- TrueVis MG-640 printer
- TrueVis AP-640 resin printer
- VersaStudio BN-20
- CAMM-1 GR2-640 vinyl cutter
- DG Shape milling machines DWX-42W & DWX-53DC
Located 30 minutes from Melbourne’s CBD at Nunawadding, the Creative Centre is ideally located for access from all areas of Melbourne metropolitan and regional Victoria.
In cutting the ribbon to officially open the Creative Centre, Seo said “In opening this centre, we are delighted to welcome so many customers, dealers and trade media. It is another demonstration of Roland DG’s unceasing support for its products and customers”.
Roland DG managing director, who is also president of industry association Visual Connections, John Wall, could not make the opening due to illness.
Here are more pictures from the opening of the Creative Centre:
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