On Wednesday, 24 August 2011 – at the opening of Sign Africa 2011 – South Africa will be introduced to the brand new Solaris Gen 2. This printer is a new generation of innovation beyond the imagination. Without giving away too much, we’d like to invite you to join us at Sign Africa 2011 from 24 to 26 August 2011 at the Sandton Convention Centre. See you there.

We repeated the same at Sign Africa 2010, selling stuff directly off the exhibition stand. In fact our technician Aaron Francis had to stay over in Johannesburg for 2 weeks following the exhibition to install machines at our clients’ premises and train their staff. We also won an award at the Sign Africa 2010 exhibitor event held at Garden Court Sandton for our stand at the 2010 exhibition.

This year we’re going to Sign Africa guns blazing. We beefed up our product line-up to rival that of some of our biggest competitors in the industry. For starters we have the 3 meter wide Solaris wide format digital printer, the Solaris Evolution printer series, which consist of a direct to garment t-shirt printer and a printer that can print directly on to curved surfaces like candles, golf balls and mugs. Then we will be showing off our Magnotex directly printable magnetic sheeting and Samurai non-curl PVC printable substrates. Add to this our digital ink product – ChromoInk – that is ISO9001 tested to be better than most inks in the market today (yes even the OEM ink you’re using right now).

So come and find us at Sign Africa 2011 in the Sandton Convention Centre from 24 – 26 August 2011. We are downstairs at stand number N13-32. A word of caution. Be prepare dto be blown away by our product range.

IMDM present to you the brand new Magnotex printable magnetic sheeting. A full 620mm x 30m roll of quality printable magnetic sheeting, Magnotex is available with a high quality printable matte surface. Print your own magnetic signs for your business and change them as often and as much as you’d like. They’re great for sale announcements or even menus in a restaurant, or employee and customer notices.

Magnotex can be used with most wide format inkjet printers to create colorful signs and graphics that stick to any magnetically receptive surface. You can easily cut it to your desired size and shape with scissors or a cutting knife.

Naidoo comes to IMDM with a solid background in the signs and graphics industry. In his previous position Naidoo was a specialist in heat transfer equipment, consumables and promotion display systems for just over two years. He is a serious business man whose sole focus is to deliver solutions that the customer wants and not what the company wants to sell.

IMDM launched in 2009 and is a serious player in the signs and graphics space and as such had to start developing a personnel component that reflects that seriousness. When asked about the decision to bring Vish Naidoo on board, IMDM Technical Director Aaron Francis said, ‘Bringing Vish on board is merely the first step in our strategy to dominate the Durban signs and graphics arena. We have lots more in store for our clients and business partners all over South Africa’. Naidoo has already proven himself to be an asset to the collective by establishing new client relations and thereby creating depth to the existing client portfolio of the company.

IMDM’s management has declared that 2011 is the year they make their mark as Durban’s preferred sign and graphics distribution company and with Vish Naidoo on the team, this is happening faster than anticipated.

Our best feat yet was exhibiting at the Sign Africa Roadshow Durban in March 2010. Here we launched the Solaris, an affordable, high speed, high quality wide format digital printer. This little number was literally looked at, felt about, investigated, perused, scrutinized all day long for the duration of the Sign Africa Roadshow. The Solaris has arrived. Adoption of the printer happened in the blink of an eye. In no time our Technical Director Aaron Francis had to be in several places at once to install and train people on how to operate the Solaris. Adoption was so widespread that Aaron spent two weeks in Johannesburg following Sign Africa 2010 to install printers and train signmakers.

It’s 2011 and the Solaris has undergone a monstrous evolution. We are currently upgrading every single Solaris printer in the market. It is now faster and prints with much higher quality. Imagine being able to print 90 square meters an hour and maintain impeccable print quality? Yes that is the new Solaris.
We look forward to demonstrating this incredible technology at the Sign Africa Roadshow Durban on 9 March 2011. From then on, the rest of 2011 will be all about the Solaris.