Currie Colour Express drives colour to regional Australia
In pride of place on the company’s large stand at PacPrint is the Colour Express, a mobile showroom destined to bring the latest in graphics technology to printers and graphic artists throughout regional Australia.
“It’s a big investment, but it’s something I’ve wanted to do for quite a while,” said David Currie. “Many of our customers don’t travel to the show, so we thought we’d take the showroom to them. Regional Australia is often overlooked by the industry but it is important to us. This is our commitment to the many printers outside the metropolitan areas.”
Colour Express is fitted out with a full graphic arts solution, demonstrating the company’s reach across offset and digital technologies. It will carry a HP Indigo 1050, a Shinohara two-colour, an Esko-Graphics DPX CTP system and a StarProof proofing system.
The idea is that when the Colour Express rolls into town, local printers will be able to inspect the equipment at close quarters, and even bring along their jobs to see how a networked system using the latest technology can transform their business. After PacPrint the Colour Express will make its regional debut throughout country Victoria.
The launch of the Colour Express is only one of a number of innovative and daring elements of the Currie Groups PacPrint presence. Staking its claim to being the supplier with the complete solution, the company’s stand is one of the largest at the show. As an exhibition of sheer imaging power it is hard to beat, with four multi-colour Shinohara presses, A2 and A3 Horizon collators, a perfect binder, and two Stitchliner. In CTP there is a four and an eight-up ECRM Mako along with an Esko-Graphics DPX system.
However much of the attention at the stand is focused on the Australian launch of the HP Indigo 5000, the latest iteration of the digital press and the first to emerge sice the take over by HP of the Indigo enterprise. Boasting of a number of significant improvements in paper handling and imaging technology the 5000 carries the company’s hopes to be the first in a more powerful and sophisticated HP indigo press range.
The Currie Group’s PacPrint presence is a striking affirmation of David Currie’s position as being one of the leading graphics suppliers to the industry and the only one with a product range that spans digital and offset printing at the y highest level.