Day Three: plenty of equipment sales off the stands at PacPrint

Everything from offset presses to digital finishing found willing buyers as crowd numbers kept up.

The recession seems to have little effect on the attitude of printers looking for new equipment on day three of PacPrint. Exhibitors of all sizes and sectors reported good interest and signed orders. The impetus to invest is gathering pace as printers recognise that their peers and competitors are upgrading and following through on strategic plans.

Heidelberg, for one, said it was well on its way to making and breaking targets at this half way point of the show. Interest ranged across presses and postpress. Tom Szabo, of Sydney-based Green-Loch Reprographics bought a press that included the one thousandth A2 printing unit in the country.

Another Heidelberg sale went to Clive Denholm and Trent Nankervis of CMYKhub. They bought the five-colour Anicolor off the stand for Trent's printing hub in Melbourne. They are also supposedly in the market for a Ryobi. Clive has plans to extend his 'for trade only' web-enabled print franchise to Sydney in the near future.

Up the aisle David Currie reported two HP Indigo presses sold today with a number of firm commitments in the pipeline. “We could always use a little more,” he said.

Plenty of companies, including DES and GBC, had SOLD signs on different pieces of kit, with shy buyers trying to keep their investment strategies a secret.