With Sydney’s annual Vivid light festival just around the corner, a more humble but equally bright light shone in one corner of the busy Fujifilm Business Innovation Australia (FBAU) Stand B62 on Day Two of PacPrint 2025, when representatives from Officeworks swooped in to purchase 3 new Vivid ‘VeloBlade Volta’ solutions.
LtoR: Peter Hann, (FBAU) with Officeworks’ Luke Sturdy, Rebecca Sweeney, Lee Meadows & Ryan Taylor, next to FBAU Yoshitaka Nakamura and Mark Williams
With the ink only a day old on the exclusive Asia Pacific authorised distributor relationship between FBAU and UK-based Vivid Laminating Technologies (see here), this is the first of many sales the strategic partnership hopes to achieve, using PacPrint 2025 as a springboard into Australia’s growing market for laminating and print finishing solutions in packaging, labelling and print. T
The VeloBlade Volta is available in 2mm and up to 10mm cut depths and features a patented interchangeable cutting solution to turbocharge die-cutting
The VeloBlade Volta features a patented interchangeable cutting solution speeds. Vivid Export Director, Bruce Cozens, who watched on as the sale between FBAU and Officeworks was formally cemented on the PacPrint stand, had a smile that matched the stand’s over-arching theme - One Fujifilm: Complete Solutions. More Smiles’ – adding: “This is a significant milestone for Vivid and we are excited about bringing our high-quality patented solutions to the Australian market.”
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More light ‘shines’ at PacPrint with Officeworks’ AccurioShine purchase
In other news, the Officeworks team were also seen with their chequebook primed, at the neighbouring Konica Minolta Stand B68 purchasing an AccurioShine 3600 as an integral part of its first venture into embellishment.
Konica Minolta has been an Officeworks supply partner for nearly a decade and the AccurioShine 3600 deal has been bubbling along since Drupa 2024
Konica Minolta sells AccurioShine 3600 to Officeworks at PacPrint 2025The AccurioShine 3600 is an inkjet spot UV coater that incorporates innovative varnish technology by MGI. It enables digital spot UV varnishing and digital hot foiling in a compact solution that forgoes the need for screens, plates, or dyes. The fully digital solution features artificial intelligence (AI) registration technology and an eco-friendly LED curing system.
The AccurioShine 3600 aims to let printers provide 2D and 3D gloss and digital hot foiling effects at a reasonable cost and without the complicated steps of conventional systems. It can be used from the prototyping stage to full production printing.
It also supports a large range of media sheet sizes up to a maximum of 750mm and is equipped to enhance printouts such as name cards, greeting cards, photobook covers, and packaging on demand.
It also supports Variable Data Printing (VDP) to add more impact to tickets, personalised packages and labels, invitations, and one-to-one marketing collateral, among other high visual print products.
