We are pleased to share with the rest of the South African sign making industry that effective January, 2010, Triline International S.r.l. and Rowmark Italy S.r.l. have entered into a defined asset purchase agreement concerning the purchase of Triline International S.r.l. by Rowmark Italy.

t was in August 2009 at Sign Africa in Johannesburg that we managed the mean feat of seling every machine on their exhibition floor and transporting them directly from Sandton Convention Centre to their new owners’ premises. One of those machines, the GCC K72UV had to wait a while due to the Sytech Supplies technical team not having had training on it themselves yet. The Taiwanese technical team that represented the manufacturer at Sign Africa 2009 stayed on a while longer after the exhibition to train our technicians.

CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X4 has been one of our best software sellers since late in 2008, and we continue to get enquiries for the product. If you don’t own CorelDraw X4 yet ad you have been pondering whether to but it or not, here’s 10 Reasons why you should to Buy:

Events for the year kicked off on 4 February in the form of the Durban Signs & Graphics Roadshow 2010. All the big names in Signs & Graphics were in attendance. Sadly there was no vehicle wrap exhibition or activity on the use of media and materials on display. The stands were very well organised, with Midcomp coming in a bit disappointing, but close enough to the entrance to hijack the attention of those coming and going. Sadly, the newest and probably most fascinating machine in the building, IMDM’s 1.8 metre Solaris eco-solvent printer was on display right at the back of the hall. Nonetheless they had a good crowd coming to check the machine out.

Towards the latter part of 2009 – just after the Sign Africa Johannesburg exhibition – we introduced the South African signage and graphics industry to the GCC Expert 24. We shared with you how this nifty piece of equipment is revolutionising the signage and graphics industry. WE told you how this machine is an entry level priced plotter with advanced, professional features that rank up there with the best of them. We here’s an opportunity for you to see what we’ve been saying all along.

This device is custom made right here in Kwazulu Natal and boasts the ability to take jobs that would take hours and get it done in minutes – literally. In the video they apply a very small sample, but the Eezy Applicator can handle any size media. Another nice feature is that it uses compressed air and not electricity. All you need electricity for is the table light.
Vinyl or any other film is applied in minutes by doing the application in halves.

As a solution and to prevent our future buyers of the CorelDraw software from experiencing the same challenges, we have made a package deal available for signage & graphics professionals. From 7 December 2009 until 31 January 2010 all buyers of the Coreldraw Graphics Suite X4 will get either a Buffalo Ministation Lite 320GB External Hard Drive or a Wacom A6 Bamboo Pen Tablet for FREE!

In a move toward building a truly South African signage and graphics suplier brand, Sytech Supplies has just taken the first of several step in that direction. “From December the beautiful coastal city of Port Elizabeth will be our second home”. says Arthur Van Wyk, Sytech’s head of Brand Marketing.

Last month Roland Digital Group released a wide format machine that we guess was a good few months in the making and then a number of months in testing as well. The new Soljet III XC-540 MT with metallic ink.
The The fact that the machine was not launched at some big expo also says that the timing was off – whether it was production or testing delays – and the company needed to bring this machine to market quickly.

What came through very strongly was my inexperience in removing adhesive vinyl from surfaces, because if you look very closely you can actually see that i’m scraping the chromadeck in order to lift the edges of the vinyl. Now if that was someone’s vehicle, they would not be very happy with me.