T
oday’s prepress and printing professionals face tough challenges. How can
you stay profitable when press runs are getting shorter and turnaround
is faster than ever? What’s the best way to manage your increasingly
complex workflows? Are you keeping pace with all prepress and printing
technologies? How to control costs and increase profit margins?
If questions like these sound familiar, we would love to deploy our knowhow and
expertise to help you find the right answers to help you grow your business.
We believe in print as an essential and powerful medium of communication. Our
mission is to enable graphic businesses to achieve profitable growth and stay
ahead of their competition. We realise this by offering you integrated solutions
which are innovative, reliable, sustainable, cost-effective and price-competitive,
enabling you to adjust swiftly to new market demands. In doing so, we rely on
more than 130 years of experience and innovation.
Our offering
We are a leading supplier of digital printing solutions for sign and display and
industrial printing. We are constantly expanding our offering in the growing
digital inkjet market. Our digital printing solutions include wide-format
inkjet printers for printing posters, banners, signage and displays, textiles
and decoration.
As the world leader in prepress solutions, we provide commercial, newspaper
and packaging printers with the most extensive range of integrated premedia
solutions, from complete computer-to-film/plate systems to digital contract
proofing to PDF-/JDF-based workflow automation software. As the world’s
largest plate assortment provider, Agfa Graphics produces state-of-the-art
analog plates as well as thermal, visible-light, and chemistry-free digital
plates for different printing applications.
Complete Solutions
All our solutions integrate consumables, hardware, software and services. After
all, success is not just about a single piece of technology. It’s about optimising
efficiency and integrating state-of-the-art products into complex workflows to
simplify the process. We do more than answer your questions; we give you
real-life solutions that offer long-term benefits. You can rely on us if you need
solutions that offer scalability, modularity, and levels of automation that ensure
high productivity and performance.
Agfa Graphics creates these real-life solutions both through joint development
and manufacturing partnerships with industry leaders and through targeted
acquisitions that keep us ahead by gaining technological expertise and
market knowledge and broadening our portfolio.
Facts & Figures
• Approximately 4600 employees around the world
• Sales organisations in over forty countries and representations in more
than one hundred countries
• Software development groups in Belgium and the USA
• Research centres in Belgium, the USA and Canada
• Manufacturing four out of five chemistry-free printing plates in the world
• One out of four of the world’s newspapers is made using Agfa Graphics’
prepress technology
Agfa Graphics in South Africa
In the South African market, Agfa Graphics is expanding and strengthening its
direct sales and service infrastructure towards customers in the Newspaper,
Commercial and Wide Format Inkjet market segments. We believe that in the
rapidly changing printing environment we need to be closer to our customers
in order to better understand their needs, and we can only do this by being
more actively involved with the end-users of our products. We see the close
relationships with Heidelberg South Africa, Thunderbolt Solutions, William
Over (Zimbabwe) and Uchumi Quick Suppliers (Kenya) and a direct to market
sales strategy as offering a combination of access to Agfa’s full solution, and
dynamic product portfolio, and the at the same time ensuring the best after
sales support to our valued end-user customers across the southern and
eastern parts of Africa.
The sales team in South Africa includes Butch Lambert (Wide Format Inkjet and
Prepress), Brent Bradbury (Prepress), and Tim Dowd (Newspapers), all of whom
have many years’ experience in their respective industries. Dave Reynolds is
General Manager for the local subsidiary of Agfa and is regionally responsible
for sales and marketing in the territory. We are supported by a team of eight
Agfa factory-trained hardware and software engineers based in Johannesburg,
Durban, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth. The technical support engineers are
trained in multiple aspects of our business including CTP (both Newspaper and
commercial engines), Apogee and Arkitex software, and Wide Format Inkjet
products. Area operations are headed up by David Wilson who together with
his team of customer care and supply chain staff ensure that we have the
correct stock holding located at strategic third party warehouses in Kempton
Park, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth.
We look forward to helping you with an Agfa solution – please give us a call.
Contact numbers:
Brent Bradbury:
+27834685338
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Butch Lambert:
+27836511459
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Tim Dowd:
+27828046250
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Dave Reynolds:
+27826519068
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Isando Office General Number:
+27 11 9214650
Vol 4 Issue 4 • STAY AHEAD WITH AGFA GRAPHICS
Stay ahead
with Agfa Graphics
Are you ready for today’s printing challenges? Do you want to achieve profitable growth and stay ahead of your
competition? We develop the technology, knowhow and services that will get you where you want to go.
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