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Editor’s comment
MANAGING EDITOR
R&D drives
Jon Barrett
jbarrett@datateam.co.uk
recovery
Tel: 01622 850044
Fax: 01622 851378
Here’s a question, what do capital equipment companies do during a recession? Well, if the
screen and digital imaging industry is any measure, they innovate: and I think I know why.
SALES MANAGER
Having started my own career in product design and then worked in and around the
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manufacturing sector I have witnessed firsthand the process capital equipment companies
operate during the economic cycles. Put simply, original equipment manufacturers are duty
akinlan@datateam.co.uk bound to listen to their customers’ wants and need and respond by challenging their research
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and development departments to engineer solutions.
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If OEM’s abandon this process they become little more than assembly lines, adding
significantly less to their long term brand value. Thus, provided OEMs’ sustained innovation is
matched by careful cost reduction in other areas of the business, recessionary periods can
DIGITAL FEATURES EDITOR provide the breathing space for more fundamental leaps in technology.
Tracey Rushton-Thorpe
A classic example is the cover story of this issue of SPDI. For the first time, YES is offering
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garment decorators the opportunity to simultaneously apply white and colour when printing a
dark garment. This will save time, and time is money. What better way for printers to start
Tel: 01733 266990
clawing back profit as growth steadily returns to the UK market.
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I expect a steady flow of new technologies over coming months and years as printers reverse
their cost reduction processes and invest in new equipment designed to deliver sustained
SCREEN FEATURES EDITOR
growth. Keep your eyes on SPDI as new products emerge.
Peter Kiddell Jon Barrett, Editor
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