Characteristics of India Sign + Digital (ISD) 2012 can be defined as a show which would bring all possibilities in the world of signage and beyond. This expo which debuted last year with an insightful focus on innovative signage products, technologies and services has grown its spectrum of coverage with newer applications based on the current trends surfacing productively with respect to the contemporary market segments. Here is a glimpse of the major attractions of this expo executing from October 29-31, 2012 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.
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Occupying an exhibition floor measuring 5,500 sq m in the Hall 12A of Pragati Maidan under its objective to attract around 10,000 visitors, India Sign + Digital (ISD) Expo 2012 is designed to provide visitors from all across the country with access to innovative products, technologies, applications and other interactive programmes tailored to specific market trends and requirements. This three-day trade exhibition is witnessing different aspects of applications coming out of large-format digital printing, outdoor signage, garment decoration, vehicle wraps, screen printing, wall arts, etc.
Flatbed focus
Among the myriad of products and technologies which include arrays of large-format printers, CNC routers, laser engraver, medias, print finishing equipments, glow signs… UV flatbed printers cast as a key exhibit at this second edition of ISD Expo. A unique reason behind such spotlight on flatbeds at the expo is that the printers are considerably a most sought-after weapon for those looking forward to pave new business path to the domains of in-shop displays, branding, fabrications and other related activities in the retail world.
Retail sector is indeed a productive landscape these days where PSPs who have never been landed upon would always want to explore it for fresh business. Some of the exhibitors showcasing an impressive range of flatbed printers during the three-day ISD Expo 2012 include Hewlett Packard (HP), Dilli, A-Jet, AGFA, Caldron, EFI Rastek, Infinity, Roland, Monotech, Britomatics, etc.
FDI opportunities
New investment in a flatbed printer or upgrading the existing portfolio with such a printer these days is a wise decision for PSPs who really want to tap the business opportunities emerging in the Indian retail sector. As long as the government has allowed 51 percent Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail in the country’s retail sector, there is nothing doubtful about new business opportunities for those PSPs, sign makers, fabricators and material suppliers whose activities are closely involved into in-shop/in-store branding, displays, etc. Keeping such important aspects of the current market scenario in mind, SS Events has set ISD Expo 2012 as a strategic platform where PSPs can decide upon their choices of UV flatbed printers from the arrays of exhibits.
Catch them LIVE!
A visit to the ISD 2012 cannot be considered a complete trip unless dropping in at the expo’s Live Experience Zones where flourish fresh fervours this year with the addition of three new zones, viz. ScreenExpression Zone, CeramicPrint Zone and NarrowFormat Zone. These three new zones add fresh thrills to the existing WallArt Zone, WrapperZone, TextileTemptation Zone and Events&Show Zone.
Newly introduced ScreenExpression Zone is a ‘live’ experience corner where one can grasp a new business opportunity of the expanding possibilities of screen printing in the present market scenario. On the other hand, the newly added CeramicPrint Zone is also a preferred spot to witness customised bath, kitchen and other applications. And NarrowFormat Zone, no doubt, is a groundbreaking new zone which underlines novel prospects of print-on-demand digital printing for photo books, event collaterals, etc, which really can be a fresh business prospect along the large-format business of several PSPs.
Mixed crowd
Swarming crowd at ISD 2012 would be from 23 key market segments, which include PSPs, ad agencies, architects, fleet service providers, outdoor media, commercial printers, copy shops/repro houses, corporate/business signage, print users, etc. As per the traffic recorded during the previous edition of the expo, visitors could be segregated as per the regions wherefrom they had been poured in. The crowd consisting of visitors from north India (48%), south India (15%), west India (13%), central India (11%), east India (9%) and overseas (4%) is expected to be bigger this year.
For further details on participation as exhibitor or to be a sponsor to select opportunity, please contact: VN Kutty at: kutty@smediagroup.in (www.isdexpo.com)
FESPA Mexico 2012 helps
printers move on business
Themed on ‘Keep Your Business Moving’ with its visual campaign of a Trompo (spin-top) - which represents dynamism, movement and completion in Mexico - FESPA Mexico 2012 witnessed as the region’s signage and graphic show of confidence and commitment. The show held from September 20-22, 2012 at Centro Banamex, Mexico City designed to reflect the needs of PSPs to constantly evolve their print services.
Printers who visited FESPA Mexico 2012 left the show by gaining inspirations and practical tools to help them increase their profit margins and expand their value-added services. Key exhibitors at the show with continued support from XAAR as Global Technology Partner and d.gen as Digital Textile Sponsor included Canon, Epson, FUJIFILM and Konica Minolta.
New attractions
The Wrap Cup Masters Series, a popular attraction in the last edition of the show, returned for another competitive installment of vehicle decorators showing off skills and expertise and competed for their place in the grand final at FESPA London 2013. The FESPA Hall of Fame, seen at FESPA Digital 2012, enabled industry professionals to nominate their ‘print heroes’ in the lead up to FESPA Mexico 2012 and onsite at the show.
The new Garment Workshop was an evolution of the Screen Print Workshop run in 2011, but also incorporated content on digital textile printing. The workshop was an interesting mix of practical demonstrations and presentations focusing on different elements of garment decoration and printing this year.
Stronger presence
Exhibitors at the FESPA Mexico 2012, on an average, have increased the size of their stalls by 14 percent this year. Visitors to the show took this on board, as most of them expressed their intention to invest at the show, or within six months after the exhibition. In fact, the success of FESPA Mexico 2012 witnessed through sales rate of machineries, as compared to the previous editions.
Innovations galore at fourth D-PES Sign China Expo
Fully packed with visitors rushing from all over China and various overseas countries, fourth D-PES
Sign China Expo concluded recently in a fruitful manner. The exhibition held from September 04-06, 2012 at Poly World Trade Centre Expo, Pazou, Guangzhou staged spectrums of innovative products and technologies.
Participations of around 200 exhibitors which comprised leading international companies as well as Chinese players have made the fourth D-PES Sign China Expo – Autumn Guangzhou a successful event exhibiting a wide array of latest digital large-format printers, CNC routers, laser engravers, LED modules, consumables and many more. Some of the leading exhibitors whose stalls were swarmed with visitors to witness the impressive products and technologies on displays included Mimaki, Océ/Canon, Wit-Color, Flora, Roland, Infiniti, Docan, Bimajet, Jingsu, Guangzhou Kanger, among others.
Productive platform
Fourth edition of D-PES Sign China Expo is considered to be one of the largest and most influential sign shows in Southeast Asia organised in the second half of 2012. The expo carried out on an exhibition floor of 16,000 sq m offering every visitor and exhibitor the opportunity to strengthen
