Hot Picks on the mark with seven out of 14 sold at PrintEx

Picking winners is never easy but we had a go at last week's show. Seven of the items awarded Print21 Hot Picks were waltzed off the stand by happy customers.

The three-day show that drew a total of 8513 visitors saw plenty of deals and sales taking place. See who bought what below:

• The alliance of Kodak and Konica Minolta – along with Heidelberg as part of the new industry grouping – signed the sale of two NexPress SX Platforms to Digital Press and Five Star Print respectively. The latter will be installing its NexPress in Adelaide within the next 3-4 months.

First NexPress for Five Star Print

Five Star Print managing director Carolyn Cagney (pictured) says the NexPress SX Platform with its longsheet feed will enable them to produce everything from large offset to small digital signage and six-page brochures.

• Currie successfully marketed its HP Indigo Digital Presses with Graphix Labels purchasing a WS6000, Printmedia Group a 7500, and Eastern Press with a 3550.

• Roland DG accrued a lot of interest in its Versa Studios 20 (VS) series, to be released in May, with eight sold at PrintEx. One LEJ-640 Hybrid UV-LED inkjet printer was also sold, just a week after release.

CMYKhub takes two new systems into the fold

• Heidelberg sold a Polar 80se Guillotine to NZ-based Excel Digital and a Stahlfolder Ti52 to Clive Denholm's CMYKhub. Denholm also inked a deal with Ryobi for a 925D press with UV coating.

CMYKhub founder Clive Denholm pictured below (right) shaking hands with Brian Evans, postpress product manager for Heidelberg Australia/New Zealand.

• Canon signed three deals at PrintEx with the NZ and Melbourne branches of ABC Photosigns each snapping up an imagePress C7010VP digital colour press. University of Southern Queensland is in line to take up an imageRunner Advance C9075.

• DES signed off one of its VUTEK GS3200 3.2m wide flatbed UV printers at the show.

• Label Print Systems sold the first of its Speedstar Axis MEM-enabled inkjet printers to Dragon Print.

• GBC also got in on the act with an array of finishing equipment, which included single-side laminators, one UV flatbed printer, card cutters, crease folders and a PUR binder all signed off at show. It also sold four of its Duplo digital booklet-making systems with square spine and three-knife trimming.