pressXchange.com launched in October 2000 and was acquired in February 2007 from its founder, John Roadnight, an ex used machinery dealer by Haymarket Media ­Group - publisher of PrintWeek, Druck & Medien, Pro Print, Packaging News and PrintWeek Russia, PrintWeek Middle East and Africa, PrintWeek Ukraine, Packaging News Russia and Packaging News Ukraine.

pressXchange.com has one of the largest worldwide online communities for the print sector and is the market leader for the promotion of used printing and graphics equipment

The core of the website is our huge database of used machinery for sale. The industry in this sector is valued at more than $8 billion a year. It is truly international, but its growth was limited by the inability of a buyer in one country or continent to source a seller in another. The Internet has changed that, and pressXchange.com is an instrument of that change. By July 2002 we had clearly become the world's premier pre-owned graphic arts machinery web site, and the most effective international medium in this global industry. 

Haymarket has access to over 275,000 printers worldwide and pressXchange.com benefits greatly from this.

Philosophy

pressXchange.com pledges to carry the most comprehensive listing of used graphic arts machinery, offered both direct from printers and from many of the world's most reputable dealers. We make no charge to visitors to our site for access to full information on the machines available and we give direct access to their owners; we take no commission from any seller. We are an enabler, not a barrier, between buyer and seller. We keep the site up-to-date, responsive to our users needs and suggestions and constantly evolving, with new services added on a regular basis. By a continuing large-scale marketing campaign we attract thousands of new visitors every month, and we keep them coming back through the quality of the site and our on-going member-care programme. The result of all this is that machines sell fast through pressXchange.com.

The Future

We are now extremely pleased to announce that the website has been fully redeveloped with lots of new features, which doesn't stop there, we have a long list of new functionality that we will be releasing over the coming months.

We are not complacent, and we are fully aware that we can only maintain our success if we provide you, our visitors and advertisers, with a useful and efficient site.

As part of Haymarket Media's growing international print and publishing stable we are confident that our growth is set to continue, and that we will enhance the value of pressXchange.com both to our advertisers and users.