Sytech Supplies has appointed Daniel Wilks as their newest addition to the company’s Technical Team

The team is headed up by Richard Haarhoff, the company’s Technical Manager. Then there is Dane Anderson, the Head Technician, and the two Technical Assistants Norman Khuzwayo and David Esteves. With Daniel on board the score board is even. Two Technicians and two Assistants.

This is Daniel’s second position he’s holding since finishing his studies. He joins Sytech Supplies after having been active in the signage & digital graphics industry as a Technician at Midcomp.

In his new role Daniel will be responsile for training customers and owners of large format solvent and UV digital printers, cutting plotters and CNC routers. In addition he’ll oversee servicing, repairs and maintenance on all Sytech Supplies-issued machines and equipment.

He has an I.T qualification, specialising in hardware and has been working in the technical field for the last 3 years. Management wished him well and we are all very confident he will make nothing short of positive contributions to the company’s success.

That advice was well-heeded and was evident in the size of the stand the company booked (144sqm) at Sign Africa Johannesburg 2009.

On display at the Sytech stand was the newest range of digital UV printers and cutting plotters from GCC, a series of CNC routers from Viccam, water-based digital printers from Lecai (pronounced Le-Tai), Solvent and UV digital inks from Triangle, de-identification liquids from Crystaltek, a host of digital print media and colour sign vinyl and the busiest, most enquired about dye sublimation systems.

‘Day one of Sign Africa saw the entire contingent of staff at the Sytech stand run around like ants, helping clients, distributing product samples, answering questions and of course selling. Our range of CNC routers generated loads of enquiries and the brochures (which are slow moving at our business premises) were taken like they contained insulin and everybody that attended were diabetic,’ said Van Wyk.

On day two further buzz was created and attention drawn to the Sytech Supplies stand when Arthur Van Wyk was interviewed at the stand by a television crew from the SABC3 design program “Hatch”. Every member of staff fielded queries from multiple attendees – sometimes simultaneously. There was also a lot of attention given to the water-based Lecai printers after everybody saw the immaculately colourful backlit film print-outs on the exhibition floor.

By approximately 10:00 am on Day 3 a gentleman came by looking for Richard (our Technical Manager). He had a cheque ready to pay for a CNC router and wanted to take it right there and then. Not long after our demo model heat press that was on exhibition was paid for and taken as well.

Eventually this is what happened to every single machine on the Sytech Supplies exhibition stand at Sign Africa. The only machine they had to bring back to Durban was the GCC 250UV digital printer. The reason for that is because it went straight to the exhibition from the boat and nobody locally had been trained on how to use it yet. As soon as training finishes this week, that printer will be shipped to its new owner as well.

‘So in a sense we had been “cleaned out” at Sign Africa 2009.