New CorelDraw X4 Christmas & New Years Special now available

Last year we became the only supplier of the Coreldraw Graphics Suite to the signage, graphics and display industry. Through our efforts many signage professionals and startup companies now have one suite of software that helps them to cut adhesive vinyl, design prints for digital vinyl and develop graphics for engraving and routing.

Since we started selling the CorelDraw Graphics Suite, we have also been keeping in touch with the customers that purchased the box sets to ensure that the software works for them; to the extent that we've made our sales and marketing personnel available to help customers with anything they need to do in Coreldraw. In addition our sales personnel have been making notes of the challenges that most customers have with using CorelDraw and have been feeding that information to the marketing department . After selling Coreldraw for a full year, we collated the information gathered over that period and drew the conclusion that most owners of the CorelDraw Graphics Suite have 2 problems in common:

• They run out of hard-drive space quickly because they store all the Corel clipart and their designs on their hard-drives for easy access.
• They struggle to either find proper graphics; or vectorise and redraw downloaded and scanned graphics for use in their design work.

CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X4 lets you tackle creative graphics and design projects with confidence. It has precision tools, market-leading file compatibility and high-quality content that helps you turn your creative ideas into professional results: from distinctive logos and signs, to striking marketing materials and eye-catching web graphics.

The MiniStation Lite Portable USB 2.0 320GB Hard Drive is a compact, lightweight and portable storage solution. Store, back-up and transport digital images, music and other files without taking up space on your PC’s hard drive. It comes in 3 colours to match your personal style, Crystal Black and Pearl White. Its Memeo™ AutoSync software automatically syncs your MiniStation with your PC or Mac, ensuring your back-up files are always kept up to date.

The Bamboo Pen A6 Tablet has a pen that turns your computer into the ultimate editing tool and gives you the ability to paint, draw, edit, and personalize your documents with handwritten notes, sketches, and doodles. The ergonomically-designed pen fits comfortably in your hand, and the tablet’s textured work surface makes you feel like you’re working with a pen on paper.

Whether your challenge is STORE or DRAW, the solution is HERE - NOW.

This offer is valid from Sytech Supplies from 7 December 2009 until 31 January 2010 or While stocks last.

Sytech Supplies opens shop in Port Elizabeth

This company started trading by selling adhesive vinyl in metres out of a tiny garage in a suburb West of Durban in 1992. Since then, the company has come a long way in servicing the signage, digital graphics and display industry. The company's current range of products include wide format digital printers, adhesive vinyl, CNC routers, cutting plotters, PVC and other flexi substrates, heat transfer media, outdoor display solutions, PVC signex board, dye sublimation products, liquid de-identification products and software.

In 2003 the company set up a national distributor network that ensures their products and services reach every major city in South Africa. Technicians travel extensively to maintain, repair and service equipment sold by Sytech Supplies. However, despite all the travelling and nationwide shipping of products, the Sytech Supplies brand remained pretty much a Durban-based one.

All that is changing in December 2009, when Sytech Supplies opens its first branch outside Durban - in Port Elizabeth.

In a move toward building a truly South African signage and graphics suplier brand, Sytech Supplies has just taken the first of several step in that direction. "From December the beautiful coastal city of Port Elizabeth will be our second home". says Arthur Van Wyk, Sytech's head of Brand Marketing. He jokingly adds that the reason for going to Port Elizabeth first (as opposed to Johannesburg) is because "it's windy there and we hope that wind will blow us to the rest of the country".

The new Sytech Supplies offices will open on 1 December 2009. Managing this new branch is Colin Rishworth (pictured). Colin is himself a signs & graphics veteran who has been active in the industry since 1988. Colin, like many big names in the industry, started out as the guy that sold you a machine and also the guy that fixed and serviced it. Colin and his staff are just as excited as the Durban-based contingent about this move.

When asked about the company's expansion plans, CEO Malcolm Groger reckoned: "Sytech Supplies has a vast number of customers around South Africa using the company's products, and to improve our service levels and value offering to these customers we decided to open in Port Elizabeth in December and in Johannesburg early in the new year".

For orders and enquiries, Sytech Supplies Port Elizabeth can be contacted on 041 360 2760 or sales@sytechsupplies.com

The PhotoPRINT DX XL Software & Hardware Bundle Pack now available

Providing ultimate pinting quality to your customers is what can make your company stand out from the rest of the industry. Getting the most out of any combination "Printer + Ink + Media" calls for custom ICC profiling. For many digital printer owners achieving this is often a very expensive exercise and way too complex to implement.

Not anymore!

Sytech Supplies is pleased to introduce a special, limited edition bundle, PhotoPRINT DX XL, that brings full custom ICC profiling - and much more - to you at a very attractive price. The PhotoPRINT DX XL bundle consist of :

• The PhotoPRINT DX V6 for Windows box set
• The i1 BASIC Complete SpectroPhotoMeter suite
• The ColorPROFILER Option

This unique and attractive offer is available for €2990 until 31 December 2009 and features :

• SIGNAGE & GRAPHICS DESIGN/CREATION
• RIP & PRINT
• PRINT & CUT
• Multiple Contour Cutting (Design & Production)
• 1000 printers supported
• 1000 cutters supported
• Custom ICC creation using the ColorPROFILING Wizard
• SO Diffusion for ultimate output quality
• Re-linearization of ICC profiles
• TFT/CRT Monitor Profiling
• SpotColor measurement

Our aim is to add value to customers' work so that the choice of software to use should become a lot easier. End-users will feel spoiled when being offered this solution. We must admit that this offer is not for all end-users, but for those who really want to control the Rip&Print or Print&Cut process more closely. Software is currently looked at by end-users as a necessary product that costs money while it should be looked at as a value adding product that brings ease and quality to the workshop.

We're sure you will have questions, and look forward to personal discussions with anyone to determine if this offer has a place in your company. Drop us an email, call us, leave comments on our blog (www.sytech.co.za) or find us on Facebook and Twitter. Click here to download the brochure.

Sytech Supplies brings GCC Expert24 cutting plotter to market

GCC, a global giant and innovation front-runner in equipment manufacturing for the visual tech industry, is celebrating its 20th anniversary.

In appreciation of the support the company has been receiving globally and knowing very well how difficult it is to get started in the sign-making industry without proper equipment; GCC has produced what the company’s CEO Dr. Leonard Shih considers ‘ a gift to the global sign-making industry”. Says Dr. Shih: “When we celebrate GCC’s 20th anniversary, I also want to take this opportunity to express my sincere appreciation and gratitude to my staff, vendors and distributors for your continuous hard work and support.”

That gift is the new GCC Expert 24 cutting plotter, which is now available through GCC’s distribution partner in South Africa - Sytech Supplies.

The Expert 24 is by far the best choice for beginners and provides sign makers with optimum speed to deliver projects on time, a superior quality mechanical device, solid reliability and the enablement to add unmatched value to sign-making endeavours. It is the first Vinyl cutter backed by the manufacturer. Over the last 20 years GCC has produced over 400,000 machines for the sign making industry, and they have taken all of that knowledge, expertise and lessons learnt to now give the entry level consumer the very best cutting plotter in the world.

Norman Khuzwayo, a Technical Assistant at Sytech Supplies, remembers how people at the Sign Africa 2009 exhibition in Johannesburg inundated him with questions about this machine because they had the machine’s brochure on their stand. Norman says he is very happy that the machine is finally here, because now he can back up his claims with first hand demonstrations. As far as features go, it has dual port connectivity so the type of computer you have doesn’t really matter. It cuts at a speed of up to 400 mm per second to shorten the time it takes to get jobs done and has up to 250 grams of cutting force for handling any media thickness.

The best part is that it is now available to you (yes you) right here in South Africa, and will not cost you an arm and a leg.

The GCC Expert 24 cutting plotter is available as of this week from Sytech Supplies.

Neon thermoweldable PVC..

Management at Staff here at Sytech Supplies have been hard at work throughout this year to bring several new products to market for South African signage and graphics professionals.

One of those products is Neon Colour CADFlexx, a PVc based CAD-cut material for plotter cutting and used mainly in decorating and customising of sports apparel. CADFlexx (popularly known as Videoflex) has been adopted by sports organisations globally due to its opacity and the appearance its matt finish lends to garments decorated or cutomised with this product.

Having made the transition from sports to fashion, a wider colour spectrum became necessary and to that end Sytech Supplies started talking to manufacturers about introducing more and brighter colurs. Those talks eventually resulted in the product we make available to the South African signage, graphics, sports and fashion industries today. CADFlexx in neon colours.

CADFlexx is suitable for use on pure cotton, pure polyester, blends of polycotton and most other synthetics, but not nylon (challenges with coatings). The plotter cutting of this material has to be done in reverse, and it has to be heatpressed with its backing intact. The backing is only removed when the CADFlexx is pressed and has cooled down considerably. Heatpressing has to be done with medium pressure, at a temperature of around 150°C with the plate pressed down for 10 to 15 seconds.

This product is perfect for the sports, fashion, custom apparel and even outdoor promotions, display and branding industries.

CADFlexx in neon colours is now available from Sytech Supplies and our countrywide distributor network.