Hello to all our readers and welcome back for an exciting 2011! We hope you enjoyed your Christmas and New Year – even if they seem like a long time ago now. We enjoyed the holiday, but we’re back at work and looking forward to a great year ahead.
PRINTEX11
Even though it’s still four months away, we are already getting very excited about PrintEx11, which lands in Sydney from the 4th-6th of May. PrintEx11 is Australia’s premier print and design exhibition, held every four years. ColourProcess will be present with a 27sqm stand, so come on down to Stall 3216 the Darling Harbour Convention Centre and let the ColourProcess team explain how our products can help your business.
AN INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVE
On January 6 this year, The Australian published an article entitled, “Dollar’s rise takes toll on factories”. The article reports that, due to the strong Australian dollar, our manufacturing industry is currently the second-worst performing in the industrialized or emerging world. As a consequence, manufacturers are being forced to slash production and employment.
By contrast, Germany and Switzerland — both countries with an even stronger currency against the American dollar — are currently the two most productive countries in the world.
One reason for this continued high growth is the willingness of businesses in these countries to adapt various innovative technologies. For instance, Enfocus and Caldera, two products supplied by ColourProcess here in Australia, have both seem exponential growth in sales in Switzerland and Germany in the last year. For instance, between 2009 and 2010, sales of Enfocus’s Switch automation software grew by 100%. Caldera, meanwhile, increased sales of their grand-format RIP workflow software by 110%. It is not too much to conclude that the use of such innovative technologies is a contributing factor in the manufacturing success and growth in these two countries.
ColourProcess is the master distributor of Caldera in Australia, and we are considered Australian market leaders in the installation and integration of Enfocus Switch software. We’ve been using these innovative technologies to increase the competitiveness of Australian businesses for the last three years. To find out how we can use these products and more to help increase your output and reduce production costs, please contact us.
That’s all from us this month! We’ll be back in March with more of the latest news from the world of printing and publishing, as well as some great success stories from ColourProcess clients and some very exciting news from Enfocus Switch!