Principals
Our Principals
One of the key drivers of our success in the New Zealand Laminating and Imaging market has been the partnerships we have formed with our principals. In nearly every instance each of our key partners are global leaders in their respective fields.
Not only do our principals provide us with top quality products they also supply us with the product knowledge and technology behind the use of their products. These companies provide us with training and support to ensure we deliver their products to the New Zealand market in a professional manner.
Hewlett Packard
(USA, Europe, Asia)
A global giant who supplies us with Printers, Ink and Media. HP has dominated the large format inkjet market for many years and continues to expand its large format printing product range. Whether your need is for CAD, GIS, photographic, commercial graphics or outdoor durable prints HP has the printing solution for you. Well supported with top quality inks HP takes all the guess work out of large format printing.
www.designjet.hp.com
Sihl GmbH
(Switzerland, Germany)
Sihl Paper Company Switzerland, part of the Diatec Group, is one of the leading manufacturers of quality digital imaging media in the world. With over 500 years of papermaking experience, Sihl supply their customers with the finest products in the digital printing industry. Utilizing the industry's most advanced technologies, Sihl develops large format printing media that are compatible with today's most popular digital printing platforms including water based inkjet, oil, soft-solvent, solvent and Estat.
With paper making and coating plants in Switzerland and Germany (Bern, Zurich and Duren) they produce a wide range of printable media. With over 80 grades of media, Sihl provide the widest product range available from any single media manufacturer. They manufacture media under OEM arrangements for many brands already familiar to the New Zealand market.
Sihl are regarded internationally as a technical innovator and this is reflected in the quality of the medias they produce. Being one of the few media coaters who are also paper manufacturers they are able to market their high quality products at a great value.
www.sihl.ch
Avery Graphics
(USA, Europe, Asia)
When it comes to developing and manufacturing the highest quality pressure sensitive graphic materials - especially for critical branding and signage investments - Avery Dennison has set the standard since 1935. Avery's graphic division is a global leader in manufacturing pressure sensitive and specialty media for professional graphic providers. Avery Graphics deliver high-quality graphic solutions via a complete range of highly engineered media including cast, calendered, reflective and specialty products.
www.ap.averygraphics.com/
Neschen AG
(Europe, USA)
Neschen is one of the most advanced manufacturers of pressure sensitive films, textile coatings and liquid coatings. While our main supplier of PSA films for many years, Neschen is also very strong in printable medias for both water based and solvent inkjet printers. A particular strength is the supply of premium medias for solvent printers including self-adhesive vinyls for vehicle graphics, solvent printable textiles up to 5M wide and grand format flexface vinyls. Neschen own Seal Graphics and Neschen Accutech and have a US joint venture plant with GBC.
www.neschen.com
Onyx Graphics
(USA)
Onyx Graphics is the world’s largest supplier of Software RIPs. Founded in 1989, Onyx has more than 14 years of successful RIP software development with more than 65,000 installations. Onyx Graphics partners with leading companies worldwide to provide custom digital printing solutions in a variety of market applications. Onyx Graphics' list of partners includes such companies as Agfa, Avery Graphics, Fuji Hunt, HP, Ilford, Mutoh, Océ, Pantone, Scitex Vision, and Seiko I Infotech. As well as custom solutions Onyx works with most printer manufacturers and supports more than 200 of the leading large and grand format printers.
www.onyxgfx.com
Summa
(USA & Europe)
For more than a quarter-century, Summa engineers have designed some of the most popular, affordable and durable equipment solutions for the sign making, outdoor advertising and aircraft marking industries. Gobally recognised for precision engineering and vinyl cutting accuracy Summa are the market leader in contour cutting technology.
www.summa.be
X-Rite
(USA, Europe, Asia)
X-Rite, which recently acquired GretagMacbeth, is the global leader in color measurement and color management, offering hardware, software and services for measuring, formulating and matching color. The Company serves a range of industries, including printing, packaging, photography, graphic design, video, automotive, paints, plastics, textiles, dental and medical. X-Rite serves customers worldwide from its offices in Europe, Asia and the Americas.
http://www.xrite.com/home.aspx
ClearStar Coatings
(USA)
A technology leader in the supply of liquid coatings Clearstar Coatings Corporation develops and manufactures top quality coating products. Clearstar’s core products include liquid laminates (clear coatings) and inks for large and grand format digital printing. Their coatings are formulated for sign, vehicle / fleet graphics, digital printing, fine art printing as well as a host of display and specialty graphic applications. Additionally, Clearstar manufactures application fluids and adhesive remover formulated for use with pressure sensitive vinyl.
Clearstar pioneered the commercial introduction of flexible vinyl scrim substrate to the outdoor advertising and sign industries. Today most billboards and thousands of signs and banners are printed on these same vinyl substrates. In 1996 Clearstar was established with a vision to produce a new generation of coatings for the rapidly changing graphic arts industry. Today, Clearstar’s coatings create, protect and enhance digitally printed images and signage worldwide.
www.clearstarcorp.com
Neolt
(Italy)
The world’s largest manufacturer of trimmers and board cutters. Based in Italy Neolt has the widest range of trimming and cutting solutions. Whether your need is for an A3 desktop rotary trimmer of a 4.3M power cutter Neolt have an appropriate product for you.
www.neolt.it
Fotoba International s.r.l.
(Italy)
With a heritage in photographic cutters Fotoba have taken their engineering expertise into the large format print market to produce a range of automatic X-Y cutters that have set the standard in this market.
www.fotoba.com
Explay (Display Systems)
EXPLAY is a brand of display systems for large format graphics. Our range has more than 15 models including L Banners, Roll Up Displays, Triple Dislays and multi-panel Display Wall.