Commercial printers and advertising company based in Saudi Arabia, Al Khalaf Advertising and Press Company has purchased the Canon Océ Arizona large format UV-flatbed 460GT printer from Al Eqtessad, Canon’s distributors in Saudi Arabia.
Ahmed Al Khalaf, chairman of Al Khalaf holding company said: “The market in the Eastern Province is in need for powerful and innovative printing technologies to support the growth of their business. We have invested in a solution that brings flawless printing quality on virtually any media imaginable, thus offering our customers a fantastic opportunity to create on a huge diversity of rigid and flexible media applications for the first time in the Kingdom.”
The Canon Océ Arizona 460GT is a flatbed large
Abdullah bin Ali Al Aqeel, deputy minister for Internal Trade inaugurated Saudi Print & Pack 2014 - a trade fair for the printing and packaging industries in the Middle East region. A total of 520 exhibitors participated from 27 countries. The exhibition was hosted between 17th-20th February at the Riyadh International Convention and Exhibition Center.
Saudi Polymers were the trade fair’s platinum sponsor, while Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) and Tasnee were diamond sponsors
Agfa Graphics introduced a new CtP system to its partners in the Middle East and Africa.
The Avalon-B8 thermal platesetter system was exhibited at the demo centre of Giffin Graphics.
In a statement released to the press, Afga stated that ‘the new Avalon B8-24 S can be seamlessly integrated with industry Agfa Apogee workflow and imaging on the innovative Azura TS plates, and will deliver affordable, good quality and care-free plate production for your commercial, packaging and publishing
Muscat, Oman based Mazoon Printing Press have invested in the digital printing machine from Xerox - the J75, to branch out into high quality, short run jobs and also increase capacity to take on variable imaging jobs with in-house designing and binding facilities.
The printing machine has been installed in their existing factory in Muscat.
Says Ajay Bahadur, sales & marketing manager of Mazoon Printing Press, “The XEROX J75 is a unique machine which offers inline spectrophotometer to
Agfa Graphics, manufacturer of prepress solutions & digital printing solutions, announces a successful second half year for its digital solution range in the MEA for the year 2013. Thus, foreseeing an optimistic start for the coming year.
With installations all over the region, Agfa Graphics exceeded its sales targets for the Jeti series in the Emirates as well as in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Qatar, Yemen, Kenya and Uganda. Additionally, UV curable inkjet systems such as the




