For a traditionally small regional show, the Visual Impact Brisbane show last week packed a heavy punch maybe reflecting the growth that has taken place in the Queensland industry over the last few years.
All shows have their peaks and valleys regarding attendance but this one had fewer valleys. Peter Harper, the GM of Visual Connections and his team obviously did something right with VI Brisbane. Thursday started slow but became busier during the afternoon. Friday the show was buzzing just about all day and Saturday we hear was an excellent day as well (this writer could not attend on the Saturday). We also understand that the show attracted quite a few interstate and foreign visitors as well.
So overall the exhibitors were generally very happy and whilst we don’t know the value of orders taken by the exhibitors, we saw many smiling faces.
There was a noticeable increase in the amount of Chinese exhibitors at this show, not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing, probably bad for the local competitors but maybe good for the overall economy. Most had local distributors.
Wide Format Online shot several videos of the leading wide format printing specialists and these videos are provided primarily for the benefit of all those that never made it to the show and possibly of value to those that did and want a recap of the presentations.
The following videos are published in the order in which we are given the authority to publish, first off is....
Pozitive (www.pozitive.com.au)
Phil Trumble highlighted the benefits of the SwissQprint Nyala2 as well as the DGI Fabrijet FT-1904X and the locally built GoTx 2190
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Sign Essentials (www.signessentials.com.au)
Sean Strange, GM of Sign Essentials introduced us to three new products, the Impact CNC Blizzard, the new range of Grafitype self adhesive media and the Lamidesk applicating table.
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Roland DG (www.rolanddg.com.au)
Greg Stone, Product Manager covered 3 products during his presentation, the new TrueVis printers, the VersaUV LEF-300 printer and then the new Texart XT640
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Neopost (www.neopost.com.au)
Morgan Quinn shows off the HP Lates 360, The Graftec FB8600 cutter, The Epson SC F200 DTG printer. Then Morgan moved on to show off the range LG Hausys, Studiojet magnetic media and HP PVC free wallpaper media and finally window films from LG Hausys.
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Canon Professional Print (www.canon.com.au/en-AU/Professional-Print)
Haydn Wills and Tom McKerrow of Canon Professional print show off the very popular ColorWave 700 and 910 printers, then the new Arizona 1280GT and the Procut system.
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Mimaki Australia (www.mimakieng.com)
Well known Brad Creighton used the Brisbane show to launch locally the 3.2metre UJV55-320 as well as the JFX200-2513 which was launched at this same show 2 years earlier and has since sold many units both locally and internationally.
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DES (www.des-pl.com.au)
Russell Cavanagh showed off the OKI/Seiko ColorPainter range of printers as well as explaining DES's heritage in passing on their expert knowledge regarding colour management, a subject that is becoming increasingly important in today's industry.
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Mutoh (www.mutoh-au.com)
Scott Donkin, Product Manager for Mutoh Australia talks about the new X range of Mutoh printers and showed off the ValuJet 1638X (all printers with an X at the end means that it includes the Drop Master technology - Scott expains what that mean in the video). Then he talks about the ValueJet 628X model and the ValueJet 1628X.
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