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Thailand has a long history in theprinting industry. It roots can betraced back to the reign of King

Rama IV, whose vital patronagebrought about the nation’s determi-nation to establish this industry. Thecoincidental arrival of the Americanmissionary Dr Dan Bradley in 1836enhanced the evolution of thepublishing industry even more rapidly.

Thailand’s printing industry and itsadvancements into the digital era haveled to considerable success inexporting printed products, includingphotographic books, children’spublications, calendars, postcards,greeting cards, posters, pop-upbooks, and various types ofcatalogues. Principal markets includethe United States and many countries

in Europe and Asia.

Due to the availability of skilledmanpower at a relatively low cost,Thailand can deliver high qualityproducts at reasonable prices, thuscompeting effectively with othercountries that possess similar printingequipment and facilities. As a result,Thailand has become an internationalleader in offset printing.

The high growth rate of Thailand’spackaging industry has been evidentover the past decade. The industryhas developed to meet internationalquality and design standards, and itssuccess can be observed in the greatdemand for local Thai packagingprocesses by overseas businesses.There are more than 500 publishing

houses in Thailand, covering a greatvariety of sectors, including children’sinterests, arts and culture, literature,lifestyle, travel, religious interests,photography, science, history, andthe academic fields. Thailand has alarge domestic market. In addition toconventional distribution channels, aNational Book Fair, held twice a year,results in the distribution of millions ofbooks at relatively low prices toreaders around the world.

Today, the process continues withmodern equipment and materials tosupport the most advanced digitalprocess printing. The highly qualified,professionally trained and experi-enced personnel in this field furtherensure Thailand’s position at the topof Asia’s printing industry.

Returning in 2015, PACK PRINTINTERNATIONAL THAILANDoffers you a unique opportunity toshowcase your newest industrydevelopments, latest technologiesand cost-effective solutions to aregional and international audiencefrom related industries. Supported byMesse Duesseldorf GmbH, organiz-ers of drupa, the No. 1 internationaltrade fair for printing and crossmediasolutions, and interpack, the leadingtrade fair in packaging, PACK PRINTINTERNATIONAL is a premiere industryexhibition for a comprehensiveshowcase of products, services andinnovations, as well as machinery andequipment for the entire packagingand printing value chain.

PACK PRINT INTERNATIONALA UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO SEE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN PRINTING & PACKAGING

4 QUADTECH COLOR CONTROL SYSTEM

8 WORLD’S FIRST 3D PRINTED PHOTOSYNTHETIC WEARABLE,

10 TOUCH THE FUTURE - DRUPA

14 DISCOVER THE FUTURE OF PRINTING AT THE6TH ALL IN PRINT CHINA

21 TECHNOLOGY FROM Q.I. PRESS CONTROLS

31 K 2016 – INNOVATION TAKES CENTRE STAGE

33 HIGHLIGHTS OF THE LATEST PRODUCTS ANDTECHNOLOGIES AT PACK PRINT INTERNATIONAL 2015

34 NEW GOSS MAGNUM COMPACT PRESS

36 PRINT MATTERS FOR THE FUTURE AT WPCF MEETING ATPORTUGAL

46 GOSS COMMUNITY AT NEW FACILITY

47 DOMINO TO EXHIBIT NEW MODULAR DIGITAL INK JETSOLUTIONS AT LABELEXPO EUROPE 2015

48 FUJIFILM’S WIDE FORMAT UVIJET UV INKS

54 DOMINO LAUNCHES DIGITAL COLD FOILING SOLUTION

QuadTech announces theinstallation of aQuadTech® Color

Control System with SpectralCamTMon the newly launched DG press(DGp) Thallo Press. Purchased byVuye Flexible Packaging, one of theworld's first customers for the press,the QuadTech system will provideclosed-loop color control forreduced waste and fast make-readies.

Using QuadTech technology toautomatically measure and controlcolor on its new Thallo press forboth paper and film, Vuye FlexiblePackaging will be able to ensureaccurate color information for theentire web and throughout the printrun. It will also allow them to profitfrom a streamlined workflow forincreased job turnaround andproduction efficiencies.

With an expected delivery of lateJune 2015, Vuye Flexible Packaging'snew DGp Thallo press will be usedto produce a range of packagingapplications including labels, flowwraps, sachets and shrink sleeves.Recently demonstrated at a DGp

Open House event in Hall, theNetherlands, the new press waschosen for its ability to providequick and low-cost job change-overs, high quality print and lowwaste.

DGp commented that the QuadTechColor Control technology perfectlycomplements its new press,enabling it to deliver the bestpossible end product to customers.

"We are always looking for technol-ogy that can make our customers'lives easier, and their equipmentmore reliable and profitable,"commented Peter Kloppers,Director, DGp. "We are pleased tobe able to further enhance our

QUADTECH COLOR CONTROL SYSTEM INSTALLED ONVUYE FLEXIBLE PACKAGING’S NEW DGP THALLO PRESS

presses through the use ofQuadTech's technology. Combinedwith our new Thallo press, the ColorControl solution will provide notonly improved performance but willalso reduce waste. Together, thismeans that we are able to addressone of the key market concerns forcustomers."

QuadTech's smart SpectralCamtechnology enables the system toquickly detect and analyze printedmicro color bars at full press speedson paper or film substrates.Coupled with QuadTech's webstabilizing system, spectral colormeasurements of transparent andopaque web material are possibleon-the-fly without risk of substrate

corrugation. Obtaining the rightcolor quickly and maintaining colorquality throughout a print runprovides new levels of coloraccuracy and assurance toconverters and brand managers thatcolor specifications have been met."We are extremely confident in thecapabilities of the Thallo press and inQuadTech's technology - it was adelight to share this with so manycustomers and industry profession-als during our open house event,"continued Kloppers. "We arehopeful that this marks the beginningof a long and fruitful partnership withQuadTech, and we look forward tobeing able to bring the benefits ofour combined expertise to manyfuture customers."

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Combining compact inker modules with powerful automation and agility features, the Goss Magnum Compact press introduces advantages never before available in the single-width sector. The result is a versatile, cost-effective option for newspaper, semi-commercial and book production, including multi-product business models and ultra short run lengths.

...New Magnum Compact

Goss International Singapore Pte Ltd2 Toh Tuck Link, #05- 01, Singapore 596225PHONE: +65-6462 4833FAX: +65-6462 4877www.gossinternational.com

TechNova has recently expanded its portfolio of inkjetdigital media products recently by partnering with Canson,one of the world’s most reputed manufacturers of Inkjet

Fine Art & Photographic Papers. According to this tie-up,TechNova will offer Indian fine art printers select media fromCanson’s Infinity range.

The Canson Infinity Papers are manufactured by one of theworld’s leading Fine Art Paper Mills, Canson and Arches,located in France. Products from these two leading mills havebeen embraced by leading artists over the years, includingPicasso, Chagall, Warhol, Ingress, Miro and Alechinsky and forthe first time, the same papers are now available in India, fromTechNova.

The Canson Infinity Paper Range offers some uniquebenefits to printers. These include :

No Optical Brightness Additives (OBAs), which ensures that

the paper does not yellow overtime.

Cotton fibres to give paper andcanvas superior strength andsoftness to ensure superior ageresistance

The paper is acid-free ensuringthat the papers retain their originalquality over time, without gettingdegraded by harmful acids.

TechNova’s Vimal Parmar, DGM,Marketing – Digital Print Media alsopoints out that the Canson Rangehas been certified by the prestigiousWilhelm Imaging Research Certifica-tion to pass the industry standardpermanence tests regarding lifeexpectancy of inkjet prints. Thisrange has been certified asmuseum-grade archival papers, andis trusted by museums, artists,photographers, restorers and manyothers for their proven ability topreserve prints for very longdurations.

The Canson Infinity Range fromTechNova

TechNova is currently marketing apremier selection of the CansonInfinity Range of papers, that includeproducts like :

BFK Rives : The world’s numberone mould-made traditionalprintmaking paper, with a uniquepure white tone obtained withoutthe use of OBAs. This paper is idealfor fine art prints and photographsand gives them a prestigious aura.

Rag Photographique : This is a100% cotton museum grade whiteFine Art and photo paper, which isspecifically suited to address theneeds for continued longevityrequirements in the Digital Fine Artmarket

Plantine Fibre Rag : Setting thebenchmark for Digital Darkroompapers , this paper provides theaesthetic and feel of the originalBaryta Fibre paper. Offers extremelyhigh Dmax and exceptional grey

Canson Infinity Inkjet Fine Art Paper,now available in India from TechNova

“Digital Printing technology has evolved over the years, and in ashort span of time, TechNova’s NovaJet range of media hashelped popularize the use of Inkjet Media in India”


tones.

Baryta Photographique : This is atrue Baryta paper developed forInkjet technology. This museumgrade photo paper shows excellentblack density and great imagesharpness, making it ideal for blackand white photography.

Arches Aquarelle Rag : Thisgenuine 100% rag, mould-madewatercolour paper is now availablefor the Digital Fine Art market. Thispaper possesses unique strength,surface texture and warm white tonethat demanding artists expect from atraditional Fine Art Paper. This papercomplies with the highest archivalstandard and is extremely ageresistant.

Ideal Media for ProtectingPrecious Memories

According to Parmar, the CansonInfinity range of inkjet Fine Art papersoffer exceptional quality andcharacter, combined with a stellarprinting performance, consistencyand value. He adds, “The CansonInfinity range offers wide colourgamut, deep blacks and excellentimage sharpness.

This makes the Canson Infinity rangethe perfect choice for digitalprintmakers, artists and photogra-phers, as it allows them to expresstheir creativity and ideas in the bestway possible.” He added thatCanson Infinity product applicationsinclude Fine Art and PhotographicReproductions, Photo Restorations,Art and Photo Portfolio, and manyother creative applications.

For more details on CansonInfinity Papers and otherNovaJet products fromTechNova, please contact :TechNova HelpDesk on theirToll-free number (in India) :1 800 22 7474.

Or email them [email protected]

Stratasys Ltd. (Nasdaq:SSYS), aleading global provider of 3Dprinting and additive manufac-

turing solutions, today announcedthat its long-term collaborator,architect and designer Neri Oxman,has revealed the world's first 3Dprinted photosynthetic wearable,embedded with living matter. On theTED2015 stage in Vancouver, Oxmanunveiled Mushtari, an artwork 3Dprinted by Stratasys, and the world'sfirst wearable combining multi-material additive manufacturing andsynthetic biology.

In a step change for science,technology and design, Oxmanexplains how Mushtari has beendeveloped not only to host livingorganisms, but also to manipulatetheir function. As Oxman states inher oration: "We live in a specialtime," alongside the latest advancesin computational design, materialsengineering, synthetic biology, andadditive manufacturing.

"This is the first time that 3D printingtechnology has been used toproduce a photosynthetic wearablepiece with hollow internal channelsdesigned to house microorgan-isms," Oxman explains. "Inspired bythe human gastrointestinal tract,Mushtari is designed to hostsynthetic microorganisms - a co-culture of photosyntheticcyanobacteria and E. coli bacteria -that can fluoresce bright colors indarkness and produce sugar orbiofuels when exposed to the sun.Such functions will in the near futureaugment the wearer by scanning ourskins, repairing damaged tissue andsustaining our bodies, an experi-ment that has never been attemptedbefore."

Stratasys developed a new tailor-made solution for this particularpiece. According to Naomi

Kaempfer, Creative Director ArtFashion Design at Stratasys, "We havea fertile research collaboration withProfessor Neri Oxman, one that hasgreat reciprocal benefits as we pusheach other to the edges ofexpression and technologicalcapability. 3D printing Mushtari is awonderful example of how far thiscollaboration can bring us. The fluidchannels in the wearable stretch toaround 58 meters, with an innerchannel diameter ranging from 1 mmto 2.5 cm, frequently turning sharplyin new directions. Clearing thesupport material out from such along, narrow and complex structureto create the hollow channels forliving matter presented a significantchallenge. Our R&D team wentbeyond the boundaries of ourexisting technology, formulating adedicated improved supportstructure to allow a smooth,effective process in support ofProfessor Oxman's vision."

Mushtari is a continuation of a piecefrom Oxman's Wanderers: AnAstrobiological Exploration, part of‘The Sixth Element' design collectioncurated by Stratasys for EuroMold2014. With four pieces of artwork,the Wanderers series is an ongoingcollaboration between Stratasys andNeri Oxman, as well as members ofthe Mediated Matter research group,the Laboratory of Prof. Pamela Silverat Harvard Medical School, andDeskriptiv (Christopher Bader &Dominik Kolb).

The Wanderers series speculatesabout the possibility of voyagingbeyond planet Earth to otherplanets. Each of the wearables in theseries is designed to contain andgenerate life-sustaining elements.Mushtari, meaning huge or giant inArabic, evoking the planet Jupiter,was designed as a single strandfilled with living matter. An organ

WORLD’S FIRST 3D PRINTED PHOTOSYNTHETIC WEARABLE,OPENING NEW FRONTIERS FOR ART, DESIGN, SCIENCE ANDTECHNOLOGY


NERI OXMAN'S LAUDED TED TALK REVEALS STRATASYS 3D PRINTED WEARABLE HOSTING LIVING MATTER IN ANOTHER WORLD'S FIRST

system for consuming and digesting biomass, absorbing nutrients andexpelling waste, the 3D printed translucent tract was designed to supportthe flow of cyanobacteria engineered to convert sunlight into sucrosepresenting the prospects of sustaining living organisms inside a wearable.The Stratasys 3D printed piece for Oxman's creation and TED Talk continuedthis idea and saw Mushtari function for the very first time as a vessel tosupport, control and manipulate living organisms inside a wearable device.Other Stratasys 3D printed pieces featured in the TED Talk that weredeveloped by Oxman and her team, included an acoustic chair designed to

absorb sound, a ‘second skin' cape and skirt designed by Oxman with IrisVan Herpen for Paris Fashion Week 2013, and a bone and muscle inspiredhelmet from Oxman's ‘Imaginary Beings: Mythologies of the Not Yet'collection. For the Imaginary Beings series, first shown at the CentrePompidou, Paris, in 2012, Stratasys once again pushed the boundaries of itsexisting technological capabilities, showcasing a demonstration of 3Dprinted design pieces in color with a combination of different materialproperties, possible only with the Stratasys unique triple-jetting 3D printingtechnology.


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Consumerism, an increase in global populations, the effects of the Internet and e-commerce – all of these developments are impacting our world, changing forecasts for the future and having a huge impact on the evolution and survival of print.

Consumers are reaching out to purchase the latest products in consumables, pharmaceuticals and decoration. The drive for goods with desirability, branding and quality is impacting the industrial, packaging and print industries.

The upsurge in interest in 3D printing, printed electronics, RFID, coding and mobile applications is taking the concept of communication into a new space. Here Gareth Ward offers his view on the future of print. According to Gareth we need to embrace the trends and all the developments affecting our world. We also need to face the challenges and use our creativity. The future of print is here today – we can touch and grasp it with both hands… at drupa 2016!

Smarter print to market

Author: Gareth WardGareth Ward first visited drupa in 1986 and has been writing about print ever since. During this time he has visited print companies across the world and interviewed leaders of most industry suppliers as editor of Printing World magazine. Today he edits and publishes Print Business both as a magazine and website. It helps printers navigate the changing communications landscape by discussing the technology and the successful businesses that have adapted to the new ways of working. Gareth is also a popular speaker and moderator at industry events around the world, and writes guest columns for magazines and blogs.

The successful printer of the future will deliver customers a full service offering that extends well beyond printing and finishing. The exact mix of digital communications, value added print, data manipulation and logistics will depend on the customer base and how the printer positions himself, or perhaps how he forms partnerships with others with expertise in these areas. But what is going to make print a successful communications medium in the next decade is already clear: print has to be relevant.

This was not necessary when print was the prime channel for advertising, information, communication with government and so on. Much of this mundane printing has transferred to digital and will never come back, but print is not shrinking. It is evolving into something smarter, more versatile and above all more relevant to those who receive it.

If a printer is not part of this development, the only option is to sell print services as cheaply as possible and this is no way to build for the future nor to create enduring partnerships with customers. Unfortunately there are many printers that lead with price and face the same inevitable fate as the wooly mammoth: extinction.

IT drives print relevanceTomorrow’s printer must become as comfortable with IT as he is with offset litho. That can stretch from operating a website to harvest jobs, to creating automated workflows that minimise touch points where errors can be introduced, using management systems - MIS to record and present up to the minute details of

how a company is performing through to data handling to create personalised communications for customers to talk to their customers in the most relevant way. If that means using social media alongside print, the new print house has to deliver.

The problem here is that printers continue to prefer to invest in a new printing press rather than in IT. It is as if the press is tangible and understandable. If it runs at 18,000sph (and machines at drupa 2016 are likely to hit 20,000sph) this is 20-30% faster than their current machine, so must make sense. But few give due thought to how jobs are to be processed either before reaching


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the press, or once printed. Across the globe, print runs are falling and time allotted is shrinking. A faster press magnifies the problem of handling more jobs in less time without introducing errors. In addition, too few consider training for their staff to be an investment rather than an imposition.

IT knowledge is key for automation at the process level. Those supplying software to the industry take it as read that JDF compliance is essential. Workflows have to become more sophisticated. Producing an eight page section on standard paper is simple, but tomorrow’s customers will want something far more than this. They will want their printed products to stand out, to have the impact to cut through the thousands of marketing messages that are received each day.

drupa President and CEO of KBA Claus Bolza-Schünemann predicts: “In some years from now there will be fewer printing companies but they will be larger and more industrial with a broad service range. In the commercial sector printers will turn into marketing service providers for print and online services.”

“The connection between print, online and mobile activities will grow stronger.” says Claus Bolza-Schünemann.

The transition is in its infancy. A well known commentator on advertising and the internet pointed out last year that consumers spend vast amounts of time with their smartphones, but these only take a small proportion of the overall marketing spend, whereas the fast shrinking newspaper sector receives a disproportionate amount of advertising spend. One must shrink its share while the other one grows – unless the newspaper becomes more relevant to its reader. This means hyper local sections, printed digitally with targeted advertising.

Revalidating print in a digital worldThe same can be noticed in magazines where the mass circulation titles that used to be printed gravure are losing circulation while magazines that focus on the special interests of readers remain healthier. There will be fluctuations across national boundaries and as fashions change, but the magazines that focus on this sort of reader will not be displaced by digital delivery of content because reading a magazine is so much more than the information presented.

A decade ago it was predicted that with the growth of the internet, video on demand and the ability to interact with websites, fashion magazines must disappear because websites can show clothes being worn, have links to prices and instant ordering. But fashion magazines are stronger than ever because possession of Vogue

makes a statement about the women carrying it. Online fashion websites like ASOS and Pret-a-porter have launched printed magazines because of this phenomenon.

The doomsayers who predicted the same fate for catalogues have also been thwarted by human nature. We like to browse a catalogue or holiday brochure. They spark our imagination in a way that digital fails to do. And retailers that either exist only online or else which dropped their print catalogues are returning to print to remind customers to visit their websites to complete a purchase. If online shopping is going to grow, (though it remains only a relatively small share of consumer spending even in the industrialised countries) more and more print is going to be needed.

But it is not going to be the same sort of print as of old. Why send someone who always takes a vacation in Mexico details of holidays in Canada for example? Instead the holiday company, with the help of the printer, can tailor a brochure that features the best hotels and resorts in Mexico. It will be a smaller publication with a shorter production run, but production standards can be higher in terms of print, paper and personalisation.

The printer must be ready to deliver this to his customers. It means investment in technology that can cope with shorter print runs. It means the ability to print on uncoated papers which are popular because of their tactile qualities, and this can be addressed through the new UV technologies that are spreading through the industry. It means being able to enhance the printed product using varnish, foils, raised print effects, die cutting and other processes that enhance the value of the printed product and make it more exciting and engaging to the consumer.

This can involve the inclusion of printed electronic circuitry to turn a printed page in a book or magazine into a loudspeaker to tell a story, the dashboard of a car which comes alive when various buttons and switches are activated, a printed label which can light up when a sensor detects movement.

Embedded codes within the printed page are scannable by smartphones to unlock digital information for the consumer, perhaps an offer to be redeemed in a certain store or restaurant, while providing the company making the offer with information about who has scanned the code, where and when. The printed poster or advertisement acquires a measurable value because it proved to be relevant to that consumer at that time.

The first drupa ‘Global Insights Report’ published in October 2014 highlighted this: “Only 23% of the drupa expert panel report an increase in IT spend in the last five years, and virtually all decision makers stated a lack of IT specialists. This is a major challenge for printers,” says Sabine Geldermann, Director of drupa 2016.


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Marketing innovationThe sorts of high quality print and finishing effects that sell the premium bottles of spirits are finding their way to other types of packaging, especially as the movement for artisan produced goods gathers pace. While overall volumes are small, the value of the printed pack is that much more important. And the printer can have far more influence on the quality than the company working for global brands with extensive product marketing teams forcing printers to toe the line.

However, even these global companies must become more flexible in order to match society’s craving for innovation and novelty. It means that printed packaging becomes a major marketing tool, consider the impact that Share a Coke has had for example. The printer must be able to help cut the time to market for new products, either through automated workflows or perhaps by also taking on prototype creation using 3D printing technology.

There is room too for using the new inkjet technologies by printing directly to the bottle or package itself, what is called direct to shape printing. The printing system becomes part of the bottling or packing line and rather than printing and delivering labels, the print company’s task becomes managing this new technology and establishing a new workflow.

It is going to require a whole new approach to marketing what a printer is and can do, and this is very much unknown territory for many print service providers. The exceptions are the online printers that have grown rapidly in recent years, sweeping away swathes of small print businesses as they have done so. But even these rarely lead on price; they are selling convenience and ease of access and that is down to constant marketing and sponsorship to raise brand awareness.

Increasing the valuePrinters should focus on benefits such as personal service, same day printing, wide choice of substrates, design, fulfilment and so on. Even this requires marketing skills that need to be developed.

The answer will be different depending on the printing company says Claus Bolza-Schünemann: “Every printing house knows its customers and its strengths best. Therefore, it is of little help to simply copy the recipe for success of others. If every company

offered the same this would automatically lead to over abundance in the market with the familiar consequences.”

Alon Bar-Shany, Vice President and General Manager of HP Indigo, agrees: “There is pressure to commoditise, options for lower quality and lower pricing, but that would spell disaster for the industry. The opportunity is for less pages but higher value ones.”

Printing will remain at the heart of it, but printers must become like project managers, shepherding the different aspects of the communication chain to achieve the result that the customers want, reaching a measurable return on investment. The focus on reducing overheads in the end to end supply chain has already transformed how books are printed and distributed; digital printing is starting to eat into packaging for the same reason. It is not the cost of producing an individual carton or label that is important, it is the overall cost of wasted materials and time in the supply chain that is important. Printers need to expand their thinking beyond the creation of the box.

For those companies that can do this, that become engaged with their customers and work together to find solutions that embrace print at some level, the future is bright.

“Print can still create emotions and print lasts, preserving moments and memories,” says Alon Bar-Shany.

Print is no longer the dumb sheet of paper that is recycled in moments. The smart printers are discovering this. Value now is a function not of scarcity but of relevance.

“Large trade fairs, such as drupa, offer good chances to find out more about new technologies and future-focused business models and the appropriate path for a company.” says Claus Bolza-Schünemann.

“Printers need first to acknowledge change and then embrace it. The industry needs to evangelise the inherent beauty and effectiveness of print in a digital world.” says Alon Bar-Shany.


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Executive summarydrupa 2016 like all drupa exhibitions before it, will be a marker in the sand for the printing industry. Large trade fairs such as drupa offer the best chances to find out about new technologies and future focused business models. Never before has this been so important. The radical changes brought about by the internet, global demographics and macroeconomics are forcing printers to reassess company performance and review marketing based business models, database management, MIS systems, online communications and above all IT education. There are now fewer print companies surviving, many swept away by online printers offering convenience and ease of access. The remaining print companies have to acknowledge change and embrace it. The successful printers of the future will have to become more like project managers and bring added value to a mix of services. The key to making print a successful communications medium in the next decade is already clear – Print has to be relevant! Print for newspapers will live on but will become more relevant to the reader with hyper local sections, printed digitally with targeted advertising. Short run, high quality holiday brochures and catalogues will also survive as personalisation and tactility using varnishes and foils meets consumer demand. Fashion magazine publishers have turned back to print as they witness a phenomenal trend and desire by the consumer for hard copy which gives them an identity statement. We are also seeing the uptake of printed electronic circuitry and embedded codes which opens up a world of possibilities for packaging and label printers and brand owners to market their products. The connection between print, online and mobile activities will grow stronger but the industry needs to evangelise the inherent beauty and effectiveness of print in a digital world and deliver a more rounded service offering which extends well beyond printing and finishing. As Alon Bar-Shany Vice President at HP Indigo says, “Print can still create emotions and print lasts, preserving moments and memories”.

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Executive summarydrupa 2016 like all drupa exhibitions before it, will be a marker in the sand for the printing industry. Large trade fairs such as drupa offer the best chances to find out about new technologies and future focused business models. Never before has this been so important. The radical changes brought about by the internet, global demographics and macroeconomics are forcing printers to reassess company performance and review marketing based business models, database management, MIS systems, online communications and above all IT education. There are now fewer print companies surviving, many swept away by online printers offering convenience and ease of access. The remaining print companies have to acknowledge change and embrace it. The successful printers of the future will have to become more like project managers and bring added value to a mix of services. The key to making print a successful communications medium in the next decade is already clear – Print has to be relevant! Print for newspapers will live on but will become more relevant to the reader with hyper local sections, printed digitally with targeted advertising. Short run, high quality holiday brochures and catalogues will also survive as personalisation and tactility using varnishes and foils meets consumer demand. Fashion magazine publishers have turned back to print as they witness a phenomenal trend and desire by the consumer for hard copy which gives them an identity statement. We are also seeing the uptake of printed electronic circuitry and embedded codes which opens up a world of possibilities for packaging and label printers and brand owners to market their products. The connection between print, online and mobile activities will grow stronger but the industry needs to evangelise the inherent beauty and effectiveness of print in a digital world and deliver a more rounded service offering which extends well beyond printing and finishing. As Alon Bar-Shany Vice President at HP Indigo says, “Print can still create emotions and print lasts, preserving moments and memories”.



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Recent years have witnessed difficulteconomic recovery in developedcountries and slower growth pacein emerging markets. Nevertheless,Chinese economy maintains steadygrowth amid this global economic

uncertainty. In 2013, total output ofChinese printing industry hit a highrecord of RMB 1039.85 billion, up9.3% over the previous year.

Geographically, Asian countriessuch as China and India continue toimprove their rankings in the globalprinting market (second and fifthplace, respectively) due to aconstant rise in the output volumeand value. Asia has become aregion with the most growthpotential and the strongestmomentum. Shanghai remains to beone of the core areas of the Chineseprinting industry. With the develop-ment of Shanghai Free Trade Zone,

its position in the global investmentand trading network will becomemore obvious.

The 6th All in Print China will be heldagain on October 18-22, 2016 inShanghai New International ExpoCentre. It is organized by The PrintingTechnology Association of China,China Academy of Printing Technol-ogy, and Messe Düsseldorf(Shanghai) Co., Ltd. under theapproval by the Ministry of Com-merce of the People's Republic ofChina, with Keyin Print Media, ThePrinting Technology Association ofChina and Messe Düsseldorf(Shanghai) Co., Ltd. as the undertak-

DISCOVER THE FUTURE OF PRINTING AT THE6th ALL IN PRINT CHINA

ers, and Shanghai Printing TradeAssociation as the co-organizer. It isone of the most importantprofessional exhibitions of theprinting industry in China and isbound to become anothersuccessful international event amongthe Chinese printing industry and inthe whole Asia. To know more fromthe official website:www.allinprint.com.

High Lights

Starting from 2014, All in PrintChina will be switched from a 3-yearcycle to a 2-year cycle, with theexhibition duration extended from 4

Brief ofAll-in-PrintChina


days to 5 days.6 halls including the outdoorsections individually themed topresent precise categories of theexhibition.More than 30 professionalconferences and seminars will beheld concurrently.All in Print China will extend thesteam of drupa, raising its heat to thetop of Asia.

The Press Conference of All inPrint 2016

The press conference of the All inPrint China 2016 was successfullyheld at Sheraton Dongguan Hotel inGuangdong in this April. A line-upof almost 100 representatives alsoparticipated in the press conferenceincluding those from over 20 mediagroups from home and abroad;those from industrial associations aswell as representatives fromexhibitors such as Heidelberg,Founder, Lenovo, Hans Gronhi,Siegwerk etc,. With the theme of“Discover the Future of Printing”, All

in Print China 2016 will demonstratethe all-round vitality and dynamicsinspired by the variety of printingtechnologies, keep close with themarket updates and present coresegments with bold and creativehighlights.

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85.80% visitors were satisfiedwith this exhibition, with 32.34%rated very satisfied

Voices of Industry:

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HP pays great attention to theChinese market. All in Print China2014 is of great significance for HP.At the exhibition, our achievementsin the first two days exceeded ourgoals. I believe that HP will gain moreat the exhibition.-Gido V-Gido V-Gido V-Gido V-Gido Van Praag, Vice presi-an Praag, Vice presi-an Praag, Vice presi-an Praag, Vice presi-an Praag, Vice presi-dent/general manager ofdent/general manager ofdent/general manager ofdent/general manager ofdent/general manager ofGraphics Solution Business forGraphics Solution Business forGraphics Solution Business forGraphics Solution Business forGraphics Solution Business forPrinting and Personal SystemsPrinting and Personal SystemsPrinting and Personal SystemsPrinting and Personal SystemsPrinting and Personal SystemsGroup,HP Asia Pacific & JapanGroup,HP Asia Pacific & JapanGroup,HP Asia Pacific & JapanGroup,HP Asia Pacific & JapanGroup,HP Asia Pacific & Japan

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Brand new perspectives inpackaging print

Author: Des KingDes King has worked as a freelance journalist in the printing & packaging industries for the past twenty years. During this time he has appeared regularly in leading UK magazines as well as several of the leading European & international trade publications. He writes a regular monthly opinion column in Packaging News. Des is a long-standing member of IPPO, The International Packaging Press Organisation.

Over the past four years he has edited UK print & packaging industry supplements within The Times, the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph and has been responsible for editing the English- language version on-site show newspapers at interpack ’08, ’11 and ’14 in Düsseldorf.

Prior to joining the ranks of the ‘fourth estate’, Des King was marketing director at Reed Exhi-bitions (UK) for seventeen years, during which time he was responsible for the promotion of PACKEX (packaging); INTERPLAS (plastics) and IPEX (printing) events.

His main interests within the packaging sector are the increasing impact of digital technology in accelerating time to market and increasing on-shelf impact; the role of packaging within product branding strategies; and ways in which packaging can be made more user-friendly to fellow grey consumers.

Looks count and first impressions matter. How products are judged by their many differing attributes - not least fitness for purpose, consistent reliability and value for money - will determine the extent to which they build market share on an ongoing basis. Prior to that, however, it will probably be a particular spot colour, a distinctive font, or else the artful application of a metallic ink on the exterior of the pack that initiates the relationship between a brand and a consumer.

“Thanks to impressive print packaging, brands can seduce customers into a change of purchasing vote at the point of purchase,” says Superbrands founder Marcel Knobil. “We would end up with less brand and more bland were it not for the attention that the packaging attracts.” Superbrands is acclaimed worldwide as being an independent authority and arbiter of branding excel-lence, committed to paying tribute to exceptional brands and promoting the discipline of branding.

The impact of a winning combination of text and graphics extends way beyond fronting up that initial beauty parade. As well as being the ‘eye candy’ that hooks the consumer in the first instance, a perfectly reproduced external image provides consumers with an often subliminal product recognition and reassurance that can be the brand owner’s banker in a congested retail space.

Today’s packaging trends are driven by longer supermarket opening hours, continually enhanced print technologies and capa-bilities and demand to protect brands and increase recognition. Not only surviving but attaining the status as the preferred choice

under such highly testing conditions is one half of the brand owner’s greatest challenge. The other is to meet it at an affordable cost.

Controlling qualityWith the high probability of colour variations occurring not only between different substrates, but also print processes - and indeed from one printer to another, not only in different locations but even when they are running presses made by the same manu-facturer - maintaining consistency can be a complex undertaking.


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The best way to meet it is to ensure that all the contributory links within the supply chain which are engaged in steering the progress of a printed pack from hatch to despatch are all able to interact via an open entry web-based platform.

“Our vision is to connect the supply chain from the brand owner to the retailer and to make that flow broader and richer,” Jef Stoffels, Esko Marketing Director.

“We do this by adding greater functionality which meets the go-to-market and quality needs of CPG (consumer packaged goods) businesses and retailers. We also make it possible for the brand owner to ensure that the flow of data is secure and trans-parent, mistakes and errors can be picked up early or avoided altogether and the net result is to get products to market faster.”

Similarly web-based colour management systems can extend the same degree of comfort and control to brand owners over how pre-determined colour parameters are then replicated accura-tely irrespective of substrate or supplier, ensuring a guaranteed consistency of colour reproduction that underpins brand authen-ticity and integrity. The X-Rite PantoneLIVE colour management solution is ideal for the brand owner as it has control over the pre-determined colour parameters, these are then stored in the cloud for use as and when required by his supply chain. This ensures accurate replications of the accredited brand image irrespective of substrate or supplier.

Pressed to performConverters equipped with smarter production facilities can be more directly instrumental in achieving cost and performance benefits to brand owners. Using high-definition flexo plate and software technologies, it is now possible to meet the requirements of 85% of current flexo-printed, flexible packaging without detriment to the finished result from CMYK + white rather than using special inks.

“Working out of a reduced colour palette means there are less plates and less waste ink. It ticks a lot of boxes,” says Ultimate Packaging (UK) Sales Director, Chris Tonge. “Whilst global players like Unilever and P&G have been specifying these solutions for the past 10 to 15 years, smaller brands are realising there is a cost advantage in that you can control the colours a lot better if you set the right standards.”

It’s not just improvement at the front-end that is raising quality and performance standards in flexo, still the sector’s most widely used print process accounting for over 40% of a current global printed packaging market worth around an estimated €250bn per annum, particularly for flexibles and corrugated board applications. Speed on the press and consistency across substrates are key. Ultimate Packaging has recently installed two additional servo-driven Bobst flexo presses. Offset has also responded positively to deliver cost-efficient shorter run-lengths.

Digital mindsetWhat has sparked these improvements in analogue press tech-nology is the increasingly potent challenge posed by digital print; not least in meeting brand owner requirements for cost-efficient shorter run lengths – and thereby, lower inventory levels – and the ability to differentiate products on-shelf through customisation. Whilst affordably utilising variable data has always been part and parcel of the digital print proposition, it’s now clearly on the retail marketing radar following its successful adoption by high-profile retail marketing campaigns run by Coca Cola, Heineken, Nutella and a steadily growing band of global blue-chip brands. “To take our brand off the packaging and replace it with something other than the Coca Cola script wasn’t easy to do within a structure like ours, where we operate according to very tight brand guidelines to protecting it,” says Coca Cola Packaging Innovator Greg Bentley. “The digital print capability enabled it to happen, but the marketing campaign is the really smart thing.”

“The combination of technological muscle and marketing inspiration is what it takes to make customisation fly,” Paul Randall, HP Worldwide Brands Business Development Manager.

“It’s breaking away from the mindset of packaging being the static bearer of logos and ingredients tables and using it as a media opportunity for consumer engagement to the benefit of the brand. The media landscape has changed. It is becoming increasingly fragmented between above the line spend (bought media), PR and below the line (earned media), and packaging (owned media) – with the latter two increasingly linked together. Not surprisingly, brand owners are now regular visitors to HP’s Graphics Experience Centre in Barcelona.”

Likewise Xeikon’s technology centre in Antwerp. “For brand owners attending our Xeikon Café programme, it’s a two-track learning curve,” says Labels & Packaging Marketing Director, Filip


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Weymans. “First, understanding how the benefits of digital pro-duction can be translated into diversifying communication towards the audience they’re reaching out to and second, how the tech-nology can address needs within their business model - notably, being faster to market and making better use of working capital.” “While the adoption of digital is an accelerating trend, despite the buzz being created it’s still under-selling its potential,” says SAB Miller Global Packaging Manager, Doug Hutt. “The top ten brand owners in the world are generating over a quarter of a trillion dollars in sales. If just 10 - 20% of these were digitised with the balance going to analogue, that is still a very large potential revenue that converters haven’t yet grasped.”

“FMCG companies should be more proactive in going out and talking to the packaging industry – and the packaging industry should be addressing those issues and coming up with solutions,” Doug Hutt, SAB Miller Global Packaging Manager.

Meanwhile, faster-running inkjet technology looks poised to dictate the next chapter in the digital packaging print story, not least via the keenly anticipated commercialisation of digital guru Benny Landa’s ‘nanographic’ presses engineered to deliver variable data printed material at offset speeds.

The finishing touchCustomisation is not the only route to catching the consumer’s eye on-shelf. Short-run, cost-effective special effects such as high gloss, glitter, metallic without recourse to hot-foil stamping and even Braille are also within the remit of next-generation digital post-press enhancement technology now establishing itself within the finishing sector. Also providing a more cost-effective means of achieving greater stand-out is the take-up of cold foiling using the analogue process - notably as an alternative to laminated / metallised substrates for labels and cartons.

The new frontier “The adoption of online-oriented technologies is pointing the way towards next generation applications aimed at facilitating greater engagement between brand and consumer,” says Sun Branding Solutions Packaging Technology Director, Gillian Garside-Wight. “Who would have thought that the Apple watch would be available five years ago? Brand owners need to deliver what consumers want including smarter packs that integrate with a digitally driven smarter life-style.”

Quite a number of applications on the market bring into play mobile technology. For example, on-pack augmented reality (AR) applications pioneered by Blippar that allow users to simply look at an object through the camera on their smartphone to activate an instantaneous digital search and draw down information from the web. In a recent campaign for Perrier, the invitation to consumers to shake their phone like a cocktail shaker to reveal a recipe was a typically innovative way to highlight the overall concept and add fun by using the technology to unique advantage.

Rather than position an icon on-pack to facilitate interaction, UK-based prepress specialist Reproflex3’s proprietary ‘PackLinc’ scanning technology embeds a hidden code within the ink itself, enabling the consumer to effectively treat the entire pack as a portal. Most recently applied within a limited edition run of the children’s POM-BEAR crisp packet, the system was the recipient of EFIA (European Flexographic Industry Association) and the pres-tigious Starpack gold awards last year. Debbie Waldron-Hoines, EFIA Director says, “Brand owners need a deeper understanding of the processes so that they can help make considered decisions on what is best suited for their brand. Both flexo and digital can work wonderfully together to enhance the brand.”

Underpinning product security and thereby underpinning brand integrity is another obvious avenue being explored by smart tech-nologies. A fully printed near-field communication sensor tag (NFC) developed by Thin Film Electronics for Diageo’s Johnnie Walker whisky doubles as a security and anti-counterfeiting device as well as interacting with smartphones to dispense product advice and information.

As a lot of the labelling and pre-printed information currently required to be displayed on-pack is gradually phased out, just imagine the potential for branding afforded by that freed-up real estate. Brands are currently getting maybe only 40% of the pack’s surface for its primary purpose. However, if one small interactive barcode resolves all the regulatory and legal requirements 90% of the print surface could be released for marketing the product.

Meanwhile, at the higher end of the scale is the arresting 3D effect achieved through the use of Fresnel lens technology providing instant ‘stand-out’ in retail duty-free for cartons containing the global gin brand Bombay Sapphire. “It’s obviously more expensive than a normal foil by about one-third, but you do get significantly greater impact. If you want something that is undeniably eye-catching and alluring then that’s what it takes,” Dominic Burke, Webb deVlam UK Managing Director.


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“Ironically, the most practical bridge linking brand and consumer might simply entail upgrading the humble linear barcode into a 2D format,” says Domino Printing Sciences Global Account Manager, Craig Stobie. “Brand owners are yet to fully realise the potential in having a machine-readable code that not only contains a lot more data but with the same footprint or smaller than a human-reada-ble, but can also actually be cheaper.”

“Brand owners need to meet the challenges faced by counterfeiting, product security in the supply chain, consumer engagement and ‘Big Data’ management. Brand protection and better marketing of their products are major starting points towards averting potential reputational damage and simply saving money.”

Eye-catching and innovative printed packaging is a shrewd investment towards building a loyal and enduring customer-base, concludes Des King. Whilst consumers are exercising greater ver-satility than ever before in choosing how and where they are able to gather information through which to determine product prefe-rences, packaging offers the brand owner a uniquely guaranteed opportunity to control how they communicate with prospective customers face to face in-store at the very point of purchase. No surprise then that the ways in which the package is printed will occupy centre-stage at drupa 2016.

“Whether it be products that communicate with your tablet or temperature or time sensitive thermochromic inks that indicate when your lager is perfectly chilled or provide the re-assurance that pre-packaged meat is safe to eat, the facility for interactivity ticks all the right boxes for forward-looking brand owners,” Eef de Ferrante, Managing Director of the Active & Intelligent Packaging Industry Association (AIPIA).



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Executive summaryPrinted packaging is the key mechanism enabling brand owners to build expanding and enduring customer loyalty in order to out-sell and out-perform their competition.

Changing patterns of communication have elevated the role of packaging from protective wrapper to front-line sales & marketing tool. In a media-neutral environment it’s a function that is increasingly as much marketing as technology, and that provides the brand owner with guaranteed profiling and exposure in front of the consumer.

In order to optimise consumer response at the point of sale, brand owners will want to invest not only in imaginative, innovative and well-executed creative design in order to achieve distinction and differentiation, but also in the appropriate colour management tech-nologies to ensure its accurate replication irrespective of substrate or geographical location. The latest developments in web-based workflow platforms and systems that link all components within the packaging print supply chain will be on show at drupa 2016.

Whilst a consistently reproduced and instantly recognisable image is vital in underpinning authenticity, brand owners are increasingly required to be able to demonstrate rapid response agility in order to maintain competitive edge via updated printed messaging and as these tactics are often short-term and invariably short-run, as cost-effectively as possible. The same level of expediency applies to the introduction of brand extensions and new products. Enhanced analogue process print and next-generation digital equipment designed to deliver accelerated cost-effective time to market will compete for attention at drupa 2016.

Special decorative effects and added functionality are increasingly providing an added value finishing touch that can extend beyond the point of purchase to enhance the consumer’s relationship with the branding proposition throughout its life expectancy.

The appropriate systems and solutions to accomplish all of these imperatives are not only readily available to print service providers but are constantly updated and extended. Applications to facilitate the synergy between printed text and graphics, the internet and social media through the development of on-pack interactivity accessed by smart mobile technology will constitute a growing area of visitor interest in Dϋsseldorf.




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“We have important customers in Pakistan, with a number of BOBST gravure printing, laminating and metallizing equipment installations for converting flexible materials,” commented Eric Pavone, Business

Director, BOBST Business Unit Web-fed, “In addition to illustrating the way our value-creating solutions can meet market needs, and supporting the drive among Pakistan’s converters towards higher performance and product quality, the roadshow provided us with the opportunity of personally giving them an in-depth look at the advantages of our very latest developments. Most notably among these was the brand new RS 5002 gravure printing press for flexible packaging which we launched earlier this year.”

Carton packaging was covered on day two of the roadshow. BOBST presented its latest solutions designed to help carton makers work towards “zero-fault” packaging, along with highlighting some specific process developments in hot-foil stamping, the die-cutting of in-mold labels, rotary Braille embossing, and litho-lamination. Industry partners Kodak, BW Paper System, and Schmid Rhyner also showcased their latest solutions, aimed at driving innovation through the corrugated board and folding carton packaging supply chain and giving converters a competitive advantage.

Mr. Samir Khoudja, Head of Zone, Bobst Africa & Middle East, said, “Pakistan in an important market for us. It already has a large number of BOBST folding carton installations and we expect further development in the corrugated board industry over the coming years.” He added, “This seminar brought a unique opportunity for us and our industry partners to demonstrate to customers in Pakistan how we can help them improve the quality of their output while at the same time reducing their costs. Our presence in Pakistan shows our commitment to supporting the development of the packaging industry in this key market.”

Complementing the technical presentations, very valuable insights on trends in both the flexible and carton sectors of Pakistan’s packaging industry were given by Mr. Rizwan Ghani, General Manager of Packages Limited, Lahore,

and Mr. Ahmed Farooq, Corporate Packaging Services Manager, Nestlé Pakistan, who relayed the perspectives of a major converting company and a brand owner respectively.Also of interest were the addresses given at the opening of each day of the roadshow. On the day dedicated to flexible packaging, Mr. Syed Aarij Iqbal, CEO of M/s Alpha Penta Pvt Ltd, spoke in his capacity as Executive Member of the Italian Development Committee (IDC) about the promotion of bi-lateral trade between Pakistan and Italy, as well as about the role of the IDC.

Mr. S. M. Naseeruddine, Member of the Board of PAPGAI, the Pakistan Association of Printing and Graphic Arts Industry, addressed the audience on the day dedicated to carton packaging. He highlighted the history and the mission of the association, and shared information about the organization of the PrintPak exhibition, which will be held in Karachi this November.

The event was co-hosted by Sal-Im International Company, the BOBST agent in Pakistan.“We have been BOBST’s carton converting equipment representative in Pakistan for over thirty years and through very many successful

installations in the country. From earlier this year we have also taken over the representation for BOBST flexible material printing and converting equipment,” explained Mr. Salman Hanif, Director of Operations, Sal-Im International Company. “The roadshow has provided us with a tremendous opportunity to touch base and establish a personal contact with the management of a great number of Pakistani flexible packaging converting companies, which is invaluable for the development of our activities in this sector of the packaging industry.”

About BOBSTBOBST is the world’s leading supplier of machinery and services to packaging manufacturers in the folding carton, corrugated board and flexible material industries.

Founded in 1890 by Joseph Bobst in Lausanne, Switzerland, BOBST has a presence in more than 50 countries, runs 11 production facilities in 8 countries and employs over 5.000 people around the world. The firm recorded a consolidated turnover of CHF 1.3 billion for the year ended December 31st, 2014.

Pakistan’s flexible and carton packaging industries participate in BOBST & partners Karachi roadshow

The two-day BOBST & partners packaging print and converting roadshow, held in Karachi in May 2015, brought together over 140 prominent representatives of the Pakistani flexible and carton packaging industries. Together, delegates heard from world-leading equipment and consumables manufacturers about the latest technologies and processes for packaging printing and converting. The focus of day one was on the latest innovations in flexible packaging solutions, from raw materials to finished products. These were presented by BOBST and its industry partners Atlas Converting, Coim, Kodak, Macchi and Schmid Rhyner.


EAE has enjoyed a long business relationship going back to the eighties with E. Holterdorf, a

publisher in North-West Germany. This newspaper and media company, which resides in the small town of Oelde and prints the regional daily called Die Glocke, chose EAE Engineering Automation Electronics GmbH of Ahrensburg to carry out a comprehensive retrofit on its newspaper press. The press in question is a KBA Colora with two four-high towers, three reelstands and one folder which was commissioned in 1996. Since its installation the newspaper press has been equipped EAE control consoles and technology. In addition, since 2009, production planning and pre-settings on the newspaper web press have been managed by an EAE PRINT system.

EAE will modernise not only the control consoles but also the planning and logging systems and the complete web press control. The drive controls for the towers, reelstands and infeeds are another important item on the retrofit project agenda, along with equipping the press with Q.I.

Press Controls’ (QIPC) IDS-3D system for colour control, colour register, fan-out and dampening control as well as mRC-3D for cut-off register control.

The aim of the retrofit project is to ensure the continued reliability of the newspaper press throughout the next decade. The retrofit measures and the press control upgrade will take place as part of a major investment programme, which will also include the replacement of E. Holterdorf ’s entire mailroom technology. Assuming everything goes according to plan, the press control retrofit will be carried out this year and the whole project will be completed in the first half of 2016.

“We’re delighted that E. Holterdorf is placing its trust in us with this large order”, says EAE Managing Director Werner Ringel. “Aside from the actual retrofit, the upgrade with QIPC’s automatic control systems will enable our customer to cut costs and improve product quality. That’s further evidence of the acceptance the alliance of EAE and Q.I. Press Controls is rapidly gaining in the market.”

Major retrofit order for EAE

German publisher E. Holterdorf has ordered a comprehensive retrofit for the control and automation systems of its newspaper web press, which will also be enhanced with

Technology from Q.I. Press Controls

Signed and sealed (from left to right): Marcel Wollgramm (Sales Manager, EAE), Jürgen Mauser

(Engineering Consultant), Thomas Decker (Production Manager, E. Holterdorf GmbH & Co KG) and

Werner Ringel (Managing Director, EAE).

About EAE Engineering Automation Electronics GmbH:The Ahrensburg-based company is active in graphic industries, automation solutions and automation technology. The company, founded in 1962 by Richard Ewert, is the leading supplier of controls, automation solutions and software for newspaper printers. EAE’s solutions are being used in all areas of a newspaper printing plant – from pre press to the mailroom. Worldwide more than 550 newspaper printing plants are using EAE’s control systems to produce more than 125 million newspapers each day.

For more information on EAE please visit: www.eae.com


Recently, the IMI Inkjet Technology showcase conference was held in Munich. During this event a company field trip to adphos Digital Printing

GmbH in Bruckmühl near Munich took place to see their drying and InkJet-technology integration . After this a post-conference symposium in a local Bavarian brewery with dinner completed this spring conference.

During the 45 minute bus ride to adphos, an introduction to Bavarian history, its tourist attractions and its cultural heritage was given, as well as a brief profile of the adphos Group, its product portfolio and the wide range of applications of its adphosNIR® technology.

At the adphos headquarters, besides a walk through the manufacturing area, three live demonstrations illustrating the special benefits of adphosNIR® technology were presented.

The first, a comparison of the drying of water based inks on thin plastic films compared the performance of midwave IR drying units with adphosNIR®. It was shown that with identical electrical power, the adphosNIR® dryer reached complete drying of the fluid in one third of the time, whilst even with three times more drying time, the midwave IR sample produced was not completely rub resistant.

In addition, the adphosNIR® demonstrated its instantaneous power adjustment capability, whilst the midwave IR required a start-up of 15 s to reach the nominal drying temperature. It was also seen that the high residual heat of the midwave IR dryer unit caused thermal damage of the plastic film once the transport was stopped, whereas the film was not visibly effected by the adphosNIR®.

The second live demonstration was to show that adphos can successfully dry process colour inks onto film. The drying of simultaneously applied, water based black and yellow pigmented inks with adphosNIR® was presented to

the auditorium.

Even though the radiation absorption by black ink is 8 times higher than for yellow ink, both coating layers were properly dried by the adphosNIR®, without damaging the black print pattern. Starting at 20 °C ambient temperature, the temperature after the dryer of the yellow ink was raised to 44 °C whilst the black ink reached

87 °C. This demo clearly proved to all participants, that adphosNIR® can properly dry process color and is totally applicable as a final dryer in color presses and not limited to only monochrome applications.

The third and final demonstration in this short tour was to show that adphosNIR® is also applicable in flexo printing processes. Here adphos showed water based inkjet fluids being dried onto plastic films. Due to the low thermal stress and low heat absorption of the adphosNIR® by the plastic film, water based inks can be applied to these substrates and dried using only the same minimal heat as is usually only possible using UV curable inks.

The highlight of the live demonstrations was the running of a Roll-to-Roll pilot line with a Kodak Prosper S10 Imprinting System onto 35 µm pre-coated OPP plastic film(oriented polypropylene), which

IMI InkJet technology conference participants inspect adphosNIR®-technology during a “field trip” to adphos

was possible due to the use of an adphosNIR® dryer. A 100 % ink weight, print pattern (see photo) was properly dried and rub resistant, yet the OPP was completely un-effected by heat. Thanks to the Kodak Stream InkJet technology with its low glycol content level ink, in conjunction with the special working principle of the adphosNIR® drying technology, high print quality, high coverage water based ink, can be dried onto temperature sensitive plastic films and can therefore substitute UV curable inks in applications where previously this was impossible.

Between the demonstrations, the visitors could also inspect the large variety of standard adphosNIR® dryer modules available enabling a customer to get the highest print quality and performance for an existing application. Whilst walking through the production area, several drying solutions for other business areas served by adphos, such as coil coating, automotive and plastic thermal forming were seen.

This highly informative and educative day was concluded with active discussions on the present and future potential of InkJet printing in a relaxing and refreshing environment of the bar at local Bavarian brewery with a variety of regional foods.


In October 2015 Meredith-Webb Printing Company in Burlington/North Carolina (USA) will be installing a six-colour KBA Rapida 205 with coater and dryer in sheet format 151 x 205cm (59.4 x

80.7in). It will be their fourth KBA press in five years. This installation shows that there is still a market, especially in display and poster printing but also other markets, for high-performance jumbo sheetfed offset in the age of wide-format digital printing.

Due to strong growth, in recent years Meredith-Webb has invested $20m in printing kit and the new Rapida 205 will offer the firm a unique position in the superlarge-format market. The press produces extra-large format, high-quality products in a highly cost-efficient manner. Its extensive automation delivers short makeready times and the economic production of smaller jobs.

“We’re eagerly anticipating the arrival of this giant press from KBA,” says Kelly Webb, executive vice president at Meredith-Webb. “Currently, our company’s capabilities are limited to printing products up to 165cm (65in). The new Rapida 205 will be able to print displays and packaging, point-of-sale signage for retail, and sublimation materials for the clothing and fashion industries. With six printing units and inter-station drying combined with end-of-press aqueous/UV coating facilities, we plan to introduce our unique printing capabilities to an even larger portion of the sheetfed market. Our customer base is looking forward to having Meredith-Webb’s high-end graphics and coating capabilities at a much larger sheet size.”

Four new KBA sheetfed offset presses in five years go to printshop in North CarolinaMeredith-Webb stands out with super-sized Rapida 205

Meredith-Webb president G. Travers Webb: “We are excited to combine the new press with our production activities. With CAD design and pre-press in the same location, we have built a company that is committed to providing the fastest speed-to-market service in the industry. The flexibility of four different press sizes from medium, large and superlarge-format in one location will be crucial to meeting those requirements.” Currently Meredith-Webb’s pressroom is equipped with three high-performance KBA presses: a six-colour Rapida 106 with twin coaters, a Rapida 162a with seven inking units and a coater as well as a six-colour Rapida 164 with two coater and two dryers. When the new Rapida 205 arrives, the pressroom will have a total of 36 printing and finishing units.

“We have formed a strong partnership with KBA over the last five years,” says G. Travers Webb. “This unique large-format press from KBA will provide us with an unprecedented level of speed and capacity, and will set us apart in the marketplace.”

The 105-employee firm has proudly earned the chain-of-custody certifications endorsed by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), and the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes (PEFC) as part of the company’s commitment to achieve its environmental initiatives. Meredith-Webb also earned the G7 Master qualification, the “seal of approval” from the IDEAlliance as a G7 Master Printer, which proves that the firm possesses the technology and tools to consistently deliver the highest quality printing in the world, based on the most stringent international standards.

The new six-colour Rapida 205 is still in the assembly hall of KBA-Sheetfed Solutions, but not for much longer as soon it will be installed at Meredith-Webb

L-r: Brothers Kelly Webb, executive vice president, and Travers Webb, president, of Meredith-Webb Printing stand beside one of their large-format KBA Rapida sheetfed presses installed two years ago


GMDE new agent for EAE in ItalyEAE welcomes GMDE as a new agent! GMDE will represent EAE in the entire graphical market of Italy. Due to the collaboration between Q.I. Press Controls and

EAE, the agency decided it was about time to add EAE in their portfolio. Menno Jansen, Director Q.I. Press Conrtols, believes that having just one agent for both Q.I. Press Controls and EAE makes sure that the efficiency and effectiveness of the combination QIPC – EAE will be well known in all Italy.

GMDE, with its headquarter in Milano, provides publishers complete solutions that can be integrated in existing system. Since the last eight years, GMDE has been a successful agent for Q.I. Press Controls to actively represent and promote the sales of Q.I. Press Controls’ equipment within the Italian newspaper and commercial printing market. Now, after Q.I. Press Controls took over EAE, EAE decided to appoint GMDE as an agent to actively represent and promote the sales of EAE in the Italian market as well.

Carlo Caporizzi, Managing Director of GMDE, is positive about the addition of EAE to the portfolio. He states: “EAE provides very good solutions. They manage to adjust these solutions properly on the presses and give more efficiency in the work processes of their customers.” Not only the solutions themselves, but also EAE’s work ethic fits GMDE. Caporizzi: “GMDE’s

strategy is perfect in line with the strategy of EAE. We want the best for our customers and make sure we provide in customers’ needs. By giving more attention and better support to EAE customers, we are going to make sure that the market share of EAE grows more in Italy.”

Mr. Jansen believes that representation of EAE by GMDE is contributory to the effectiveness and efficiency of the combination QIPC – EAE. He states: “QIPC – EAE is working hard to provide synergy. One of the goals we want to accomplish is structured and coherent communication to our customers. By having one agent that represents both EAE and Q.I. Press Controls we are one step closer to accomplish this goal.”

QIPC – EAE whishes GMDE a successful and efficient acquisition.

About GMDE s.r.l.:GMDE s.r.l. integrates systems and provide solutions for the publishing market in Italy. With 30 years of experience, the organisation works for daily publishers, periodically publishers and for business publications. Their job is to seek the best products and systems available on the market, check the solidity and manufacturing capabilities, integrate and install, start the production and staff training to ensure adequate technical assistance. For more information on GMDE please visit: www.gmde.it

About EAE Engineering Automation Electronics GmbH:The Ahrensburg-based company is active in graphic industries, automation solutions and automation technology. The company, founded in 1962 by Richard Ewert, is the leading supplier of controls, automation solutions and software for newspaper printers. EAE’s solutions are being used in all areas of a newspaper printing plant – from pre press to the mailroom. Worldwide more than 550 newspaper printing plants are using EAE’s control systems to produce more than 125 million newspapers each day. For more information on EAE please visit: www.eae.com

QIPC-EAE appoints new Sales Manager covering Southeast Asian RegionMathijs Baron to support customers in bustling Asian market

QIPC-EAE, the leading suppliers of innovative optical measure and control systems in the graphic industry, appoints a new Sales Manager for their office in South East Asia.

Mathijs Baron will be responsible as its new Sales Manager South East Asia supporting customers in this area. As part of the QIPC-EAE team he joined forces beginning 2015 with over 4 years of experience in the Asian market. In Sales and Support he will be a tremendous asset to our customers on many levels. Mathijs will be replacing Job van Hasselt

who will focus on his private life starting beginning of July.

As QIPC-EAE experienced remarkable growth opportunities in the region, we knew we needed to bring on additional resources. Mathijs Baron is responsible for all QIPC-EAE operations in Southeast Asia. He heads a team of engineers and locally based agents that collaborate with our clients in the region. Mathijs will focus on marketing and driving sales for fluid dispensing throughout Asia. He will develop and oversee new key accounts in addition to maintaining existing partnerships.

About Q.I. Press Controls:Q.I. Press Controls develops and delivers innovative, high quality optical measure and control systems. We are globally active in the newspaper and magazine printing industry. Our total solutions are supported by a worldwide service network. These reliable systems are proven in the market of existing and new printing presses and offer our customers structural better results.

For more information: www.qipc.com


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Ferag presents Skyfall for printing plate transportMarket success for EasySert, MiniSert and the High Performance System

At the World Publishing Expo 2015, Ferag is premiering Skyfall, the

transport, sorting and buffering system. Axel Springer’s offset printing centre in Ahrensburg is the world’s first operation to use the new system. Here, six Skyfall lines are transporting more than 2000 printing plates each day from the CtP department to the printing machines, and at the same time are bridging a height of eight metres. For the sake of energy efficiency, Skyfall makes use of gravity on the descending sections and dispenses with electrical drives.

EasySert inserting technology is becoming increasingly popular in the marketplace. In addition to newspaper printers, private direct-mail organizations and national postal companies throughout Europe are

producing their direct advertising on EasySert lines. In direct-mail alone, some 25 EasySert lines have now been sold or are up and running.At the base of the performance pyramid is MiniSert, the smallest inserting machine. Newspaper printers in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia have been investing in the compact inserting machine since its introduction in 2012. Ferag has placed the EasySert and RollSertDrum in the pyramid’s mid-segment, while the uppermost segment is covered by the MultiSertDrum high-performance inserting drum series.

Ferag is meeting a broad demand from the marketplace with the High Performance System. In emerging markets, HPC conveyor technology (High Performance Conveyor) and the HPS compensating stacker (High Performance Stacker) are triggering a response from newspaper printers that’s as strong as in the Western industrialized nations.

Maintenance and systems analyses bring security

Withintvv the context of ValuePlus, Ferag

customers obtain a full service package

from the WRH Marketing Group. The

package comprises contracts for preventive

maintenance and for systems analyses with

the corresponding retrofit products.

Preventive maintenance is the best precaution for ensuring high production security. Maintenance work on a fixed schedule prevents unexpected production system stoppages. Availability is guaranteed to remain at a high level. Thanks to the contractual agreement of all maintenance services, Ferag customers enjoy cost security.

Systems analyses provide Ferag customers with conclusive information about the condition of their Ferag production technology. In an analysis report, service technicians from WRH Global make recommendations about the components within a system that should be overhauled, or those that should be replaced by a retrofit product.

WRH Global technology specialists provide 24-hour support, seven days a week. A logistics network ensures the rapid, worldwide supply of top-quality, original spare parts from Switzerland.

Maintenance contracts and systems analyses bring investment security at predictable costs and extend the working life of a Ferag production system.

At Axel Springer’s printing centre in Ahrensburg, six Skyfall lines from Ferag transport the printing plates from the CtP department to the printing machines.


Opening in just over five weeks, FESPA Mexico (20-22 August 2015, Centro Banamex, Mexico City) is on course to be the largest FESPA Mexico event to date, with a 10% increase in overall space. Over 10,000 visitors are expected to pass through the sold-out halls, exploring the latest print machinery, techniques and product solutions.

FESPA Mexico 2015 will see world leading companies including 3M, Avery Dennison, Canon, Epson, HP and MS Printing Solutions showcase their latest technology and solutions for wide format print. This year’s show welcomes a 66% increase in US brands in comparison to 2014, with new exhibitors including Arlon, ASPE, Bordeaux Digital, Coveris, Graphtec, Multicam, Riso, Safety Speed, STS inks and Yupo Corporation.

There are 35 new exhibitors to this year’s show, representing 30% of the show floor. Multiple companies such as 100% Vinil, Allwin, Epson, Casa Díaz, Celupal Gizmo, Sain Soplai and SPI have increased their stand size, so they can display more products and innovations so visitors get the absolute most from their visit.

This year’s FESPA Mexico will include highlights such as the free-to-attend educational conference, which will include sessions every day in Spanish on topics such as Profitability for Graphic Art Producers; Vinyl for Interior Decoration; and the Creative Design for Solutions and Applications. Screen printing guru Charlie Taublieb will be demonstrating garment decoration techniques in the Garment Workshop, and will be on hand to answer any questions.

The winner and finalists of the Design a T-Shirt competition, sponsored by Epson, will be on display in Garment Workshop area. 3M and Mutoh are sponsors for the Mexican edition of the World Wrap Masters, where vinyl graphic installers have the chance to be crowned national champion and win

a host of prizes for their business.

Michael Ryan, Group Exhibition Manager for FESPA, comments: “This year’s FESPA Mexico will be bigger and better than ever before. The larger number of international exhibitors speaks volumes for how they regard Mexico as a key growth region. FESPA Mexico is always a bright and exciting show, and I’m looking forward to meeting with both visitors and exhibitors to hear their thoughts as to how the Mexican print industry will continue to evolve.”

FESPA Mexico 2015 is offering the chance for printers to win an iPad Air 32GB; simply visit www.fespamexico.com and under the ‘competitions’ section find out the details and take your entry details to the FESPA stand (A85).

For further details on FESPA Mexico 2015, visit www.fespamexico.com. For all the latest FESPA Mexico news, follow @FESPAMexico.

2015 FESPA MEXICO EVENT ON TRACK TO BE LARGEST SHOW TO DATE

Fastest selling Mexican event is sold out

About FESPA Founded in 1962, FESPA is a global federation of 37 member associations for the screen printing, digital printing and textile printing community. FESPA’s dual aim is to promote screen printing and digital imaging and to share knowledge about screen and digital printing with its members across the world, helping them to grow their businesses and learn about the latest developments in their fast growing industries.

FESPA Profit for Purpose Our shareholders are the industry. FESPA has invested millions of Euros into the global printing community over the last seven years, supporting the growth of the market. For more information visit www.fespa.com

FESPA CensusThe FESPA Print Census is a global research project to understand the wide format, screen and digital print community. It is the largest data gathering project of its kind. The survey is published in several languages and can be completed online: www.fespa.com/census.

Forthcoming FESPA events include:• FESPAAfrica,22-24July2015,GallagherConventionCentre,Johannesburg,SouthAfrica•AfricanPrintConference,22-23July2015,GallagherConventionCentre,Johannesburg,SouthAfrica•FESPAMexico2015,20-22August2015,CentroBanamex,MexicoCity,Mexico•BrasilSignageExpo,27-28August2015,ExpoCenterNorte,SãoPaulo,Brazil•FESPAChina2015,21-23October2015,ShanghaiNewInt’lExpoCentre,Shanghai,China•FESPAEurasia2015,26-29November2015,CNRExpo,Istanbul,Turkey•FESPADigital2016,08-11March2016,RAIAmsterdam,TheNetherlands


Considerable interest in the product portfolio of BST eltromat at the Converflex 2015 in Milan: the provider of all-embracing quality assurance and product optimisation draws a very positive conclusion

on their appearance at the international trade fair for processing, packaging printing and labelling that was held at Milan from 19 to 23 May 2015. The newly developed and further advanced appliance generations of BST eltromat catered for great interest at the fair stand. In particular, the live demonstration of the print monitoring and 100% inspection systems attracted the visitors’ attention. For more than 30 years, the Converflex fair has been regarded as international platform for the packaging printing, processing, labelling and tissue industry. This year, the BST eltromat group – together with its brands BST ProControl and AccuWeb – attended the Converflex fair to present the most comprehensive product range for quality assurance currently available on the market – and this was also noticed by the visitors. Many visitors to the BST eltromat fair stand took the opportunity to catch up on the most recent technologies used in the optimisation of manufacturing processes.

Thus, the final statement of Paolo Tamburrini, Managing Director of BST eltromat Italia, on the results of the trade fair is highly positive: “We are very satisfied with our presence at this year’s Converflex, regarding both the quantity and the quality of the visits of our stand. Many fair visitors were impressed by the fact that – contrary to our competitors – we presented a particularly high number of systems and solutions. On this basis, the very interesting discussions at our fair stand mainly focussed on our extended product portfolio.”

Amongst others, the area of surface inspection – and particularly the IPQ check surface for 100% quality control during production and for support of subsequent processes – created great interest. The visitors especially liked the print monitoring and 100% inspection systems from BST eltromat that

Converflex 2015: positive feedback on the trade fair appearance of BST eltromat• BST eltromat with persuasive presentation at international trade fair• Great interest in extended portfolio of solutions• Focus on print monitoring and 100% inspection systems

were installed on two winders for live demonstration. The solutions from BST ProControl for surface inspection and layer thickness measurement also received exceptionally positive feedback. Finally, at the end of this year’s Converflex, everybody agreed that the trade fair appearance of the BST eltromat group had been one of the most successful appearances for several years.

For further information, please visit www.bst-international.comContact:Anne-Laureen Lauven Tel.: +49 (0)5206 999 805Marketing Manager [email protected]


During a recent field trip to adphos Digital Printing GmbH in Bruckmühl near Munich, more than 50 participants from the IMI InkJet Technology conference held on June 24th/25th in Munich, were able to have an inside view of the adphosNIR®-drying technology through an inspection of the production and assembly areas.

During several live demonstrations, the extraordinary print performance and application benefits resulting from the special working principle of the adphosNIR®-drying technology were presented. The highlight of the visit was the Roll-to-Roll printing of water based inks through the Kodak Prosper S10 Imprinting System onto a 35 µm OPP plastic film. A 100 % ink weight print image(see photo) was properly dried and made rub resistant without thermally effecting the film - thanks to the Kodak Stream InkJet-technology and its low glycol content ink used together with the special working principle of the adphosNIR®-drying technology.

The company field trip concluded with a post-event seminar in a local Bavarian brewery with regional food and inspiring liquid refreshments.

adphos Digital Printing GmbHDr. Kai K.O. BärBruckmühler Str. 2783052 Bruckmühl/Germanywww.adphos.de

adphos hosts IMI InkJetShowcase conference participants

Welcome to

PACK PRINT INTERNATIONAL 2015!5th International Packaging and Printing Exhibition for Asia

DELIVERING BETTER BUSINESS BEYOND BORDERS

Established as Southeast Asia’s most prominent event for the packaging and printing sectors, PACK PRINT INTERNATIONAL has garnered consistent stellar results for both exhibitors and visitors with its ability to:

• Address current and future demands by showcasing cutting-edge technologies• Connect top manufacturers and leading brands to active buyers and influential decision makers• Maintain regional market-relevance by staying on top of global industry trends A LEADING TRADE FAIR FOR THE INDUSTRY, BY THE INDUSTRY.Here at Messe Düsseldorf Asia, we believe that our synergistic partnership with The Thai Packaging Association and The Thai Printing Association, offers a winning platform with PACK PRINT INTERNATIONAL. Since its premiere in Bangkok, in 2007, the trade fair has gained momentum over the years and enjoys a thriving reputation as a leading showcase for the packaging and printing industries in the region.

Officially supported by the Thailand Convention & Exhibition Bureau, and more than 20 specialist trade associations, PACK PRINT INTERNATIONAL is a vibrant trade fair with a truly international flavour. With each edition, it successfully brings together the latest technology and innovations, and the who’s who of the industry from all over the world to engage, network, and drive sales growth.

With PACK PRINT INTERNATIONAL, Messe Düsseldorf Asia provides the best business opportunities for you to navigate the dynamic marketplace of Southeast Asia.

DELIVERING TO YOU AN INNOVATIVE PLATFORM IN 2015In 2013, PACK PRINT INTERNATIONAL welcomed more than 200 exhibitors and some 17,000 visitors from 51 countries. In just four editions of the trade fair, PACK PRINT INTERNATIONAL has grown internationally to become a must-attend event for the packaging and printing industries from all over the region.

To be co-located with T-PLAS - International Trade Fair for the Plastics and Rubber Industries, both symbiotic events in 2015 will bring together the best companies from the packaging, printing, plastics and rubber sectors.

PACK PRINT INTERNATIONAL 2015 will feature the latest machinery, equipment, technology and solutions serving the entire packaging and printing supply chain, let us put our know how to work for you at PACK PRINT INTERNATIONAL.


Q: Mr. Dornscheidt, the registration period for participation in K 2016 closed a few weeks ago. How would you rate the response from the global plastics and rubber industry?A: Extremely positive! The demand for exhibition space has risen once

again and all of the 19 halls at the Düsseldorf exhibition centre are completely booked up. More than 3,000 exhibitors from all five continents will be taking part and presenting their innovations. The spectrum of participating companies ranges from globally operating industrial groups to start-ups and covers all segments of the world market for polymers. K 2016 will be presenting a panorama of unmatched breadth and depth.

Will all of the companies who have registered actually be able to take part?We will keep our promise: all companies that registered by 31st May and whose exhibits meet the K 2016 nomenclature will be allocated a stand. In some cases, it might be necessary to compromise on the stand size, but I am confident that we will find a good solution for everyone.

What is so special about K in Düsseldorf? Other industry events have large numbers of exhibitors too.K is the premiering platform for the plastics and rubber industry. No other trade fair sparks off so many new ideas. Right now, companies throughout the industry are already working hard to make sure they present themselves in the best light when the date comes around in October 2016. And “in the best light” stands for “with interesting innovations”. Because innovative products are the most important asset in a competitive environment. Only those who can offer new technologies that bring real benefits to their customers will be able to hold their own against strong competition.

Another unique feature of K is its high degree of

internationalism, both on the exhibitor and on the visitor side. This guarantees that trade visitors will find world-class products and services in every area covered. And it gives the exhibitors the opportunity to meet industry experts from over 100 countries and establish contacts with potential customers that they might not have been able to reach in other ways.

So innovation will take centre stage at K 2016. Will there be additional offerings providing insights

K 2016 – Innovation takes centre stageInterview with Werner Matthias Dornscheidt, President and CEO, Messe Düsseldorf GmbH

into new developments and perspectives alongside what the exhibitors will be showcasing?Enterprises from the industry and research institutes will be taking advantage of K 2016 to spotlight developments and future prospects in the plastics and rubber industry. This will be done not only at the exhibitors’ stands but also in the extensive supporting programme which offers the trade visitors another range of interesting topics.

To mention just two:


The special show in Hall 6 gives insights into how plastics can shape the future and solve tomorrow’s challenges – in functional, aesthetic and sustainable ways. Topics like resource efficiency, lightweight construction, new materials and Industry 4.0, and even the controversial marine litter, will be addressed in panel discussions and presented in multiple media. The special show is organised by the German plastics industry under the auspices of PlasticsEurope Deutschland and Messe Düsseldorf.

While the special show is directed at industry decision-makers and also reaches the general public through multipliers and the media, the Science Campus is the meeting place for the scientific community. This is where institutions, universities and other establishments present their latest research results in the complex field of plastics and rubber and dialogue with industrial users.

With such a broad array of offerings, will the trade visitors be able to find all the highlights at the trade fair?Yes, of course! K 2016 offers huge variety, but at the same time it is very clearly structured. The exhibition halls are dedicated to the specific areas of• raw materials, auxiliaries• semi-finished products, technical parts and reinforced plastics• machinery and equipment, and• services

This structure ensures that each visitor can easily locate the exhibitors most likely to match his or her professional interests. An extensive range of web-based services makes planning very easy before and during visits to the trade fair. As an additional resource, the Innovation Compass is being optimised to allow even better identification of the new developments presented by exhibitors.

K 2016- The World’s No. 1 Trade Fair for Plastics and Rubber19 to 26 October 2016

The world’s premier trade fair for the plastics and rubber industry will once again be presenting the entire range of products and services that the industry has to offer, from the latest state of the art to groundbreaking innovations to visionary developments. At K 2013, a total of 3,220 exhibitors from 59 countries showcased their capabilities, and 218,000 trade visitors from over 100 countries used this event as a business platform for information and investments. 82% of visitors at K 2013 were directly involved in investment decisions. The visitors categories at K are manufacturers of plastic and rubber products as well as developers, designers and manufacturing specialists from user industries, such as the automotive, consumer goods, electrical and electronics, aerospace and construction sectors.

K 2016 will be occupying all 19 halls of the Düsseldorf exhibition grounds. Suppliers of machinery and equipment are traditionally the largest group among the exhibitors, and their live presentations of sophisticated production units offer a globally unique experience. The producers of raw materials, semi-finished products and technical parts will be focusing on novel products and applications in addition to energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable solutions.

K 2016 will be open from 10 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. daily from Wednesday, 19 October, to Wednesday, 26 October. All the details can be found at www.k-online.com

The global events calendar for the plastics and rubber industry has seen quite an upheaval recently regarding shifting of dates. How does this affect K 2016?

Thanks to its scope and the unrivalled internationality, K has a very special standing in the world. It is seen as the heart of the industry and the starting point for major decisions regarding products, processes and solutions. One of the key reasons why K is so successful is its concept, which we designed from the very beginning in consultation with manufacturers and processers and their industry associations and have continued to develop jointly with them ever since. This interaction has proved to be a winning combination and ensured that the trade fair has remained the undisputed leader for decades. And right now we are hearing that suppliers and decision-makers have a very high preference for Düsseldorf. People in the industry are rescheduling their events calendar worldwide to ensure that nothing clashes with K.


Be sure to check out leading-edge machinery, solutions and services by 300 internationally prominentexhibitors, including Bobst Group, Heidelberg Graphics, Fuji Xerox, Hewlett-Packard and Kohoku Seiko

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE LATEST PRODUCTS ANDTECHNOLOGIES AT PACK PRINT INTERNATIONAL 2015

Bobst will be introducing the Novacut 106 ER - Autoplaten® die-cutter atthe trade fair. The new die-cutting machine comes with efficient in-line blankseparation and application capabilities. Another product on display is thenew Bobst folder -gluer for high quality micro flute lamination box.

A partnership between Heidelberg and Masterwork Machinery Co., Ltdpresents new competiveness for Post press packaging.On display is the MK Easymatrix 106 CS die cutter - ideal for short to mediumproduction, it offers a wide range of other user-friendly features. Othersinclude MK 1060ERSL, a hot foil stamping die cutter is capable of bothlongitudinal and transverse servo foil feeding to improve foil usage, andMK550Qmini – the full automatic sheet inspection machine.

FUJI XEROX Booth: X02

Color 1000i Press, the company’slatest production color press andthe industry’s first xerographicproduction press to offer bothmetallic Gold and Silver Dry Inks, willbe on display at the exhibition.Targeted at the high-end profes-sional printing market, the Color1000i Press will be available inThailand. FUJI XEROX Color 1000iPress Grand Opening Ceremony

Date: 26 Aug 2015 Time: 1130hrs

HEWLETT-PACKARD (ASIA PACIFIC) Booth: L01

HP will showcase the broadest and most complete range of industry changingproducts across the commercial and industrial graphics printing space

HP PageWide Printers: First time in Thailand!HP 8000XL – world’s fastest large format inkjet printerHP Indigo ws6800 – a high-capacity, high-quality narrow-web labels andpackaging solutionHP Latex L370 – most advanced ‘green’ printers in the commercial large formatprint space

HEIDELBERG GRAPHICS Booth: Q01

BOBST GROUP Booth: P15

Kohoku Seiko specializes in the creation of machinery and equipment usingcutting-edge mechatronics. 80% of its products are custom-made to suitcustomers’ needs for design to processing, assembly and installation. Itsproduct range includes bottle cap printers, labelers as well as inspectionmachines and packing machines. At the exhibition, the company willconduct in-booth demonstrations of the cap transfer air chute, the inkingunit for cap printer and the mechanical cam system demonstration machine.

KOHOKU SEIKO Booth: T25


Unique configuration for firstMagnum Compact press inthe US

Low-height design crucial to projectsuccess

With the press towers clearing theoverhead by no more than an inch,the first Magnum Compact presssystem in the United States has beeninstalled snugly and initial tests on itssix 2 x 1 units completed. The pressis currently undergoing commission-ing tests and shadow productionbefore moving into full productionthis month.

The new press for AdvancePublishing of Staten Island, USA,complements the company'sexisting double-width press line andoffers backup to the production ofthe daily Staten Island Advancewhile adding capacity for othercontract newspaper, insert andcommercial work.

Even at just 7'2" (2.2m) tall, the

installation of the Magnum Compacttowers was a high-precisionoperation. In what is possibly aunique configuration, web slotswere cut into the ceiling toaccommodate turner bars fordelivering the web to a folder on thefloor above. Extra web slots werealso cut to feed an additional, futurefolder which has been allowed forin the configuration.

An engineering achievement in itself,the installation was completed withonly very minor modifications to thebuilding.

Among the Magnum Compactfeatures attractive to Staten IslandAdvance was the Goss Autoplatetechnology that delivers fastmakereadies and enables succes-sive jobs to be run with completeplate changes within two minutes.This is accomplished with minimumwaste and contributes to maximumpress uptime. Plates that have beenremoved may be reused for repeatproduction of shorter run jobs,further extending the valueproposition of the press.

The design of the Magnum Compactsystem gives the towers a lowerprofile without compromising printquality or performance. Easy accessto blankets, rubber rollers and inkducts enabled by the single-leveltowers facilitates and acceleratesmaintenance.

Together with simplified operationand run-length flexibility, thesefeatures mean that the MagnumCompact design enables the Staten

NEW GOSS MAGNUM COMPACT PRESSEnters final phase of testing at Staten Island

Island Advance to offer a wide range of products competitively and withgood margins. The ability to print cost-effective runs as short as 500 - 1,000copies provides printers not only with an alternative to digital print, but aneconomical way of handling runs up to 250,000 copies, giving unparalleledproduction flexibility and a powerful competitive advantage.

The Staten Island Advance was established in 1886 and is part of AdvancePublishing's family of newspapers that comprises dozens of titles across theUnited States. A diversified communications group, Advance Publishing hasmedia interests that encompass cable television, leading media internet sites,business journals and magazines as well as newspapers.



National printing associationsfrom around the globe metin Porto to discuss Print

Matters for the Future. The meetingwas organised by the World Printand Communication Forum (WPCF)and Intergraf for participants tofocus on the future of the industry,latest technological developments,studies and the economic situationin various markets worldwide. Onthe behalf of All India Federation ofMaster Printers (AIFMP) Mr. KamalChopra, Chairman InternationalRelations participated the meetingon 5th June.

The World Print & CommunicationForum (WPCF) is an associationcreated by the world’s majortransnational and regional printingassociations. The objectives of theWPCF are to form a single globalexchange platform for the printingand communication industrybetween the different players and tostage conferences to analyse markettrends and business opportunities.

The main theme of the conferencewas ‘Print Matters for the Future’,with 50 participants from 23different countries enjoying a variedprogramme, the conference was asuccess and an important edition ofan event which is fast becoming ahighlight of the year for nationalprinting associations worldwide.

The conference was moderated byPresident of the WPCF, Michael Makinand President of Intergraf, FrancescHostench. It was hosted by thePortuguese printing association,APIGRAF and open to all WPCF andIntergraf member associations.

As the event took place in Portugal,it was important to have a perspec-tive on the local and widerEuropean economy. FormerPortuguese Minister for theEconomy, Professor AugustoMateus, delivered a keynote

presentation on thereindustrialisation of Europe andrecent economic developments inPortugal.

Digital techniques in printing are hereto stay and make up an evergrowing portion of the modernprinter’s workload. With that inmind, Jacques Claude fromGutenberg Networks in Francecompared digital and print efficacyin marketing, while Sousa Ribeirofrom Sistrade delivered a presenta-tion on the practical applications oftheir digital marketing solutions. SeanSmyth of Smithers Pira, provided avital overview of the print marketputting the day’s presentations incontext.

For the first time outside of Belgium,Olivier Braet from the Free Universityof Brussels (VUB) presented thefindings of a recent study on howmuch consumers are willing to payfor ebooks. The study, conductedby survey, found that in general,between seven and ten euro is thesweet spot for consumers and thereare a range of price points consum-ers would consider buying anebook and physical copy bundle.Print books will still exist of course,but over time the market will likelyshrink and both ebooks andphysical books will need to coexistat price points that both make senseand more importantly, profit.

At events like this, it is essential tokeep sight of the companiessurviving and thriving, changing theirbusiness models while day-in, day-out serving their customers.Emanuele Bandecchi from RotolitoLombarda in Italy, delivered a casestudy on how his family companyhas weathered changes in theindustry and brought staff with themon a journey changing thecompany’s focus towards digitalprinting. Paulo Silva, from PortucelSoporcel deliver details on

Portugal’s Think Againand variousother campaigns on print outliningthe environmental credentials ofprint and highlighting the innovativemarketing campaigns that can beachieved with an effective mix ofprint and digital technologies.

Mr Chopra from India reported thatthe literacy rate is currently at 70%,India has 28 different languages.Internet is not expanding rapidly asmany villages have no access. Theprinting industry is growing,particularly packaging. There arecampaigns running to plant moretrees in cities even though theindustry is not encountering anynegative comments towards the

sustainability of printed matter. Theeconomy in general is growing.Regarding postal rates for commer-cial mail companies receivediscounts from the postal authoritiesup to 75% of the cost.

Ms Dou reported from China thatthere are currently 3,4 million peopleemployed in the graphic industries’105,000 companies. The annualgrowth of the printing industry ishigher than the GDP growth. Theprinting centres are concentrated insome areas such as along majorrivers or on the coast. Export ofprinted matter is very important.

In Korea the GDP has reached 1,5

Print Matters for the future atWPCF meeting at Portugal


trillion USD which makes Korea the13th largest economy with 3.5%growth in GDP. The domestic marketis fairly small and a lot of theproduction is exported. One of themajor competitors for exports isJapan. The printing industrycomprises 17,000 companiesemploying 70,000 people. Due tothe move to digital the number ofprinting companies has reduced.Korea has an internet penetration of98%. The annual trade is 1 trillionUSD making Korea the 7th largestexport nation world-wide.

Mr Arruda Mortara reported that

Brazil is a rather small export nationwith a GDP of 19 billion USD. Abigrafas an association has offices in 22states / regions in Brazil. He pointedout that a major congress will takeplace in Rio.

Due to timing Mr Ishibashi did nothave a lot of time to present thesituation in Japan. However, he hadkindly prepared the most importantinformation on paper so that allmembers received an overview ofthe Japanese situation. He explainedthat since 1990 the industry wasdecreasing. The decrease is slowingdown and stabilization is setting in.

Paper is considered as a sustainableand environment friendly supportwith a very good recycling loop.There are no negative attitudestowards paper.

The worldwide nature of theconference was emphasised bypresentations from China, Brazil andKorea. Yang Bin from the PrintingTechnology Association of Chinapresented a market overview ofChina while Fabio Arruda Mortarafrom ABIGRAF, gave an overview ofthe Brazilian market. Finally, Peter Parkfrom the Korean Printers’ Associationpresented the World Print Congress

which will take place under theWPCF banner in Seoul, August 30 –September 2nd 2016.

Beatrice Klose, Secretary General,Intergraf stated: “As the worldwidegeneral economy recovers, it ismore important than ever for theprinting industry to come together,share information and face thechallenging and exciting future asone. As an industry, we are astronger as a team. We can learnfrom each other’s cultures, workingmethods and technologies to keepprint at the forefront of an ever morediverse media landscape.”


PR: Hope you had good timesin Portugal during WPCFMeeting! How was yourexperience to that?

KC: Porto is a great place and it wasvery pleasant to be there though Istayed there only for three days, butall these days were full of informa-tion, new ideas and enjoyable also.My experience at the WPCF meetingwas out of the world, the meetingremained extremely useful and full ofinformation. Print leaders from morethan 23 countries were present todiscuss the future of printing. It wasnice to see the work done by someof the leaders for the overall benefitand growth of the industry. FormerPortuguese Minister of Economy,Prof. Augusto Mateus delivered thekeynote address onreindustrialization of Europe andrecent economic developments inPortugal.

PR: You represented India inthis European meeting. Tell usthat is there any contribution ofIndia to the European printingand packaging market and/orvice-versa?

KC: Representing India at the WPCF isdefinitely a proud moment for any

one, so was it for me. We have tolearn from the research being doneby some of the developedcountries, because, we may facethe same/similar situations after someyears. Now is the time to takelession from what they have done orare doing so as to secure our future– the future of printing industry. Ihave observed that now it is the turnof India, many European countriesare interested to get theiroutsourced printing and packagingwork executed from India. We haveto prepare ourselves to cope withthese increasing demands, so as todeliver Quality In Time.

PR: How India can see thebenefit of this meeting in thenear future?

KC: Such meetings are the source ofinformation and guidance, manyEuropean companies/organizationsare working on the development ofprinting and packaging industry.They have presented their papersduring this conference which canlead us and guide us for a secureand successful future. As I havetold earlier, world is looking at India,many are interested to invest inIndian Printing & Packaging industry.Some other big brands are alreadyon their heels to install their units inIndia.

PR: What is the current scenarioof Indian printing, packaging& newspapers industries ofIndia, in terms of production,

growth & quality?

KC: The most interesting fact is thatPrinting is growing in India whereas itis decreasing in the developed andEuropean countries. We are notbehind any one in quality the onlystigma what I learnt from my visits isthat many Indian printers lacking incommitments. As per my personalstudy, I found that being a serviceindustry and since there is no firmsecurity of work, sometimes printersaccepts/bid for the orders beyondtheir capacity. Due to lack ofcapacity it is not possible to deliverin time and as per the orderreceived, may be, it is the majorreason for the lack of commitments.Somehow we have to assure theEuropean buyers about our sincerityand honoring the commitments,which is possible only with theincrease in the capacity, I am surethere is no dearth of outsourcedprinting and packaging jobs, worldis waiting for the Indian printers.

PR: To what extent ForeignInvestors can invest in printingand packaging industries, howdo you think India cancontribute in terms of growth ineconomy?

KC: As I told earlier, world is lookingat India – the country of youngestpeople in the world, many areinterested to invest in Indian printingindustry and some has alreadystarted. But, will it be good for theIndian Printers? Is a big question. Out

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Kamal Chopra (KC) Speaks about his visit to WPCC Meeting inPortugal to Printing Review (PR)

of 250,000 Indian printers more than85 per cent are micro, others aresmall and not more than 1 per centare the large printers, with FDI howthe micro/small printer will survive.FDI may be good for some sectorsbut I personally feel it will give adrastic jolt to the Indian printing andpackaging industry. The time hascome to work in Cluster, so as toincrease the capacity, think andproduce big, FDI may help in thegrowth of the country’s economy,but will it be able to help for thegrowth of more than 85 per centprinters of India . . . is a bigquestion mark.

PR: India is becoming one ofthe major print producer &manufacture of printed paperproducts for the World market.In fact some of the Indianprinters have won recognitionby winning prizes at variousinternational competitions forexcellence in printing. Whatare your suggestions for theIndian printers in becomingmore compliance with theInternational print standards?

KC: We have the caliber but we arelacking the capacity, I am talking onthe behalf of more than 85 per centprinters, India is on the path ofbecoming a major nation for thesupply of printed paper productsfor the world market. We are alreadyproducing world class jobs, and noone can stop us in becoming theleader in this trade..


Asahi Kasei E-materialsCorporation, a pioneer inflexographic photopolymer

plate development and parent entityglobally known as Asahi Photoprod-ucts, will be exhibiting at IGAS 2015,taking place from 11-16 Septemberin Tokyo. Asahi will be located onstand E2 2-17at the show withfeaturing its Pinning Top Dot platetechnology, which enables a broadcolour gamut, vibrant colourreproductions, soft tonal shadesand improved productivity. It is alsothe ideal solution for fixed colourpalette printing which is rapidlygaining in popularity amongflexographic printers looking tooptimize colour and reduce inkcosts.

“IGAS 2015 is an important show forus,” says Mr. Hidekatsu Hirayama,Sales & Marketing Manager for AsahiJapan Region. “We believe ourPinning Top Dot technology canhelp leading flexographic compa-nies maintain their competitiveadvantage in Asia’s demanding anddynamic labels and packagingenvironment.”

Sam Yamamoto, Senior Manager forAsahi Asia & Pacific Region, adds,“At IGAS, we will be showing all ofthe latest developments inflexographic plates, and our expertswill be on hand to answer attend-ees’ questions. Pinning Top Dottechnology (PTD) was designed byAsahi to improve flexographic printquality with the option of anenvironmentally sustainable water-wash system or a solvent washableplate. At the same time, all Asahisolutions ensure no-compromiseprint quality with the fixed colourpalette printing technique, whichdelivers both cost and qualitybenefits to brand owners and theirflexographic suppliers. Our

development efforts have beendriven by collaboration with creativeagencies, trade shops, brandowners and printers to ensure theright mix of capabilities to meet all oftheir needs. We are excited to besharing our solutions and expertisewith show attendees.”

Pinning Top Dot: The DetailsA feature of both Asahi’s solvent-washable TOP and TSP and water-washable AWP™ plates, Pinning TopDot technology (PTD) enables aclean ink transfer and prevents inkaccumulating

on the plate surfaces and shouldersin screen areas. This leads to fewercleaning intervals and reduced pressdowntime, as well as significantquality improvements.

PTD allows a kiss-touch printingpressure setting. It makes use of lowplate surface tension, madepossible by a specially engineeredAsahi polymer chemistry, to inhibitliquid flow. The ink forms a globule,with a large contact angle and highpinning point. This results in acleaner and more homogeneous inktransfer from plate to substrate,helping flexographic printers meetthe ever increasing quality demandsof their customers.

Further contribution to corru-gated post-print market

In addition to its PTD plate lines,Asahi will also show its new versionof Tenaflex™ liquid polymer resinand AFP™-CH new solvent thickplate. Tenaflex™ resin features solidplate level of printing quality anddurability in a liquid plate resin forJapanese post-printed corrugatedmarket which requires world highestprint quality. The resin has a hybridperformance that combines the

advantages of liquid resin including 3 layer polymer structure with theenhanced technical properties of a solid plate, including increased plateresilience and strength. AFP™-CH is newly developed thick plate achievingreduced flute-mark through newly developed polymer technology.

Sam Yamamoto adds, “Asahi first brought innovative liquid resin technologyto market more than 40 years ago, and we are proud that our innovationcontinues today. These latest developed polymers will help customersmaintain a leadership position in the highly competitive corrugated market.All of Asahi’s new technologies bring value to the markets we serve, and weare pleased to be sharing them with IGAS 2015 attendees!”

For more information about Asahi’s technologies and solutions, visitwww.asahi-photoproducts.com.

Asahi Photo products to Feature InnovativeFlexographic Plate Solutions at IGAS 2015PINNING TOP DOT TECHNOLOGY SUPPORTS FIXED COLOUR PALETTE PRINTINGTECHNIQUES WITH NO COMPROMISE IN QUALITY


The Small to Medium PrintService Providers and signshops in the country are

looking for innovative ways to meetthe evolving needs of theircustomers, whether it’s higherspeed and lesser turn-around timeto boost the overall productivity orthe flexibility to print on newermediums resulting in novelapplications for the end customers.At Media Expo 2015, HP hasacquired the largest space this yearand is showcasing its portfolioofferings from HP Latex andDesignjet printers to the Media Expovisitors, catering to a wide variety ofindoor and outdoor point ofpurchase, signage, banners, textileand wall covering needs.

In addition to showcasing theproducts, HP has created anapplication zone to demonstratenew, innovative solutions in signage,point of purchase, outdoor, customdecor, retail & shop displays andpromotional material helping visitorssee first-hand, the unlimited

application possibilities with HP’sLatex and Designjet printers.The flexibility to choose unique andversatile media has been one of thefundamental requirements from theprinting companies and PSPs. Toencourage the visitors to explorenew media for meeting theircustomer needs innovatively, HP isshowcasing hundreds of applica-tions printed on different media withHP Latex printers.

Many of the HP’s customers are alsoforaying into high value applicationsmarket to meet the unique endcustomer needs and drive higherprofit margins. To demonstrate thiscapability, Mahaveer Digitals; one ofHP’s customers has prepared acreative showcase of premiumapplications printed using HP UVtechnology on rigid media like glass,metal substrates, acrylic, MediumDensity Fiberboards (MDFs) etc.Visitors at HP’s booth can also seelive demos of wall art, vehicle wrapsand other printing applications. Atthis year’s show, HP is showcasing

the HP Latex 300 Printer series,powered by the third-generation,water-based HP Latex ink technol-ogy to help low-volume customersefficiently handle more outdoor andindoor applications with improveddurability and image quality.

The HP Latex 300 series scores highon versatility and is designed to helpsign shops, quick printers and smallto medium printing companies easilyexpand large-format printingcapabilities and break into newapplication areas.

The printer not only providesdurable quality and easy operation,but also largely contributes towardsbuilding a healthier work environ-ment and sustainable ecosystemwith water-based inks. Well suitedfor sign and display applications likewall coverings, outdoor displaysand banners, vehicle wraps, point ofpurchase posters, backlits andtextiles etc.

From the HP Designjet portfolio, HP

HP HELPS SMALL TO MEDIUM PRINT SERVICE PROVIDERS BREAKAPPLICATION BOUNDARIES AT MEDIA EXPO 2015

is showcasing the industry’s fastest60-inch large-format dye-inkproduction printer - the HP DesignjetD5800 Production Printer along withHP Designjet Z6800 Photo Produc-tion Printer and HP Designjet Z5400PostScript ePrinter. The HP DesignjetD5800 Production Printer meets theneeds of the print service providers(PSPs) who face a very cost-competitive market, requiringaround-the-clock production ofhigh-quality prints such as backlitgraphics, point-of-sale displays, roll-up banners, and indoor signage invivid color.

HP Designjet Z6800 Photo Produc-tion Printer and HP Designjet Z5400PostScript ePrinter help small tomedium copy shops and printingcompanies to produce durable,water-resistant prints that can last formany years.

Quote by HP spokesperson:“With the brand managers andagencies exploring new and creativemediums to reach their endconsumers, the indoor & outdooradvertising and signage market is fastevolving in India.

This in turn is making the marketmore competitive for the PSPs,driving their preference towardsnew and creative printing applica-tions which are effective inconsumer reach, affordable andenvironment friendly at the sametime,” said Puneet Chadha, Director,Market Development, GraphicsSolutions Business, Asia Pacific andJapan, Hewlett-Packard.

At Media Expo 2015, we areshowcasing the innovative HP Latexand Designjet printers and theirapplications, helping the PSPs breakapplication boundaries and establisha competitive advantage in meetingtheir end customer needs. We arewell positioned to help our partnersmeet the evolving end customerneeds and explore fresh revenuestreams to remain profitable in theirbusiness.”


Konica Minolta has beenparticipating in Media Expofor last few years through its

partners, KMI and VD Internationaland has always received verypositive response from the visitors.This year it again participated in theMedia Expo held at Pragati Maidan,New Delhi. Media Expo enables itsparticipants to analyse the globalmarket and network with qualifiedbuyers across the industry, helps indemonstrating new age solutions insignage, point of purchase,advertising, printing, retail shopdisplays and promotional material.

Visitors get an exposure to lot ofprinting formats in the exhibition.

For Konica Minolta this also providesto demonstrate the flexibility andversatility of the Konica MinoltaProducts. Konica Minolta displayedtheir most successful modelsBizhub PRESS C1100 & BizhubPRESS C1060. Bizhub PRESS C1100is a workhorse and can print onwide variety of Medias withconsistent productivity at all GSM’sand also does auto duplex formedia up to 350GSM. Bizhub PRESSC1060 shows the flexibility a pigital

Konica Minolta continues to participate in theMedia Expo

Printing machine can have. Themachine can print on wide variety ofmedia and also gives the flexibility toprint on media up to 13x47”.

About Konica Minolta BusinessSolutions India Pvt. Ltd.Konica Minolta Business Solutions isa leader in advanced imaging andnetworking technologies from thedesktop to the print shop.

Konica Minolta is the globaldeveloper, manufacturer of multi-functional peripherals (MFPs),printers, equipment for production

print systems and graphic arts,equipment for healthcare systems,measuring instruments for industrialand healthcare applications, inkjetprint heads and textile printers forindustrial use, and relatedconsumables and solution services.It is also engaged in the develop-ment, manufacturing and sale ofelectronic materials (including TACfilms), lighting source panels,functional films (including heatinsulation films), and opticalproducts (including lens units). Toknow more please visit http://www.konicaminolta.in


Key industries members and tradepress were in attendance to hear themajor exhibition announcement

The Print Show has hailed thesuccess of a recent press open dayin London, with organisers using thespecial event to announce thatKonica Minolta has signed up toexhibit at the inaugural edition of theshow later this year.

Taking place at Birmingham’s NECfrom October 13th to 15th, The PrintShow will give manufacturers andsuppliers the opportunity topromote their products andsolutions to the UK market. With anumber of key trade bodies andspeakers also due to attend, visitorswill be able to quiz some of theindustry’s best minds over bestbusiness practices and possiblediversification opportunities.

With the show already generatingplenty of talk in all quarters of theindustry, this interest is likely to

increase further after organisersstaged a special open day formembers of the trade press andindustry organisations at the Aquarestaurant on London’s RegentStreet.

Those in attendance were treated toa selection of afternoon drinks and arange of tasty canapés, while alsobeing able to network with othervisitors and quiz The Print Showteam about the latest goings-on inthe run-up to the event thisOctober. Visitors also had theopportunity to experience OculusRift Virtual Reality technology, whichwill also feature at The Print Showlater this year.

Commitment from key players

However, the highlight of the day formany was hearing the news thatKonica Minolta has signed up toexhibit at The Print Show. The digitalprint giant has taken one of thelargest stands at the event and will

be showcasing a range of technol-ogy.

Speaking about the news, eventdirector Chris Davies says he isdelighted to have secured thesignature of another key player in theprint market and will now work withthe Konica Minolta team to ensurethey get the best out of theirappearance at the show.

“Konica Minolta is not just a nameknown across the print world, butalso other industries outside of ourown market,” Davies said. Headded: “Obviously it’s great to haveyet another big name commit to theshow as this demonstrates just howmuch such companies think aboutthe event.

“If we’re being honest, companieslike Konica Minolta wouldn’t besigning up to The Print Show andassociating their brands with it if theydidn’t think it was relevant orwouldn’t be a success in the current

market. We’re delighted to have theirsupport and I’m looking forward toworking with them ahead of theshow in October.”

Commitment to The Print Show

Other highlights on the day includedan informative round table debatewith various key members of theindustry. Chaired by well-knownindustry expert Catherine Carter, thesession addressed the current stateof the industry and the impact thatThe Print Show could have.

Gareth Parker, strategic marketingmanager for production print atRicoh, was one key figure to featureat the roundtable. Speaking shortlybefore the session, he once againreiterated Ricoh’s commitment toThe Print Show, explaining that themanufacturer has a number of bigplans for the event.

Parker said: “The reason why we’rebacking The Print show is that it’s agreat time for Ricoh in particular,following our New Dawn event lastOctober. What we’re going to beshowing on our stand amongstother things will be the Pro C9100flagship series, the Pro C7100 seriesand other new applications thatwe’re going to be announcing tothe market at the show.”

Martin Hawley, director sheetfedservice at Manroland, was alsoinvited to take part in the session,using his appearance to explain thereasons behind the firm’s decisionto exhibit at The Print Show.

Hawley said: “As we’ve seen,especially in the UK, there has beena demise of industry shows, so it’sreally important that the British printindustry gets together in one placeas a focal point for the event so thatthey can network. It also gives us theopportunity to give people avisualisation of our new products.”

Increasing interest from the industry

THE PRINT SHOW ATTRACTS SIGNIFICANT INTEREST AT REGENTSTREET OPEN DAY AS KONICA MINOLTA SIGNS UP


The event attracted interest from allquarters of the print industry; rangingfrom trade media including Outlookand Digital Printer through to keytrade bodies such as the IPIA, BAPC,The Printing Charity, Two Sides/PrintPower, and the BPIF.

Amy Hutchinson, marketing directorat the BPIF, reiterated the federation’scommitment to The Print Show,praising the organising tram for theirwork in preparation for this year’sinaugural event. Hutchinson added:“Exhibitions that have relevant standsand engaging content are great fordrawing people out of theirbusinesses and getting themnetworking. They are an excellentway for business to talk to newcustomers and also reaffirm theirrelationship with existing customers.

“I think the UK printing industrydefinitely needs an annual show thatencourages information sharing andnetworking. In an industry that isevolving so quickly, I think it’s soimportant the business keep up todate with the latest trends andtechnologies. “We think it’s reallyimportant to facilitate events that willbenefit our members and theindustry as a whole.” LukeStoneham, sales manager for ThePrint Show, was also on hand at theopen day to answer visitors’questions. Reflecting back on theevent, he said there was plenty ofpositivity from those in attendanceregarding the show later this year.

Stoneham said: “The feedback wegot on the day was really positive;everyone I spoke to seemed to bevery upbeat about the show andwhat it will bring to the UK market.Everyone was also very impressedwith the fact we have managed toget Konica Minolta on board andbelieve it will generate a lot of buzzover the next two months or so inthe lead up to the event in Octo-ber.” Rather than just anothercorporate orientated event, The PrintShow will also work to provide a funand entertaining celebration of theindustry’s culture and history—seeing a series of on-going livedemonstrations of traditional printand finishing techniques from letterpress, to intaglio, relief, and stonelitho printing.

This is of key importance, as if theindustry is to thrive and prosper intothe future, todays brand managers,marketers, and media buyers fromacross the UK need to understandprint’s legacy and thus the value ofprinted products in a moderncontext.

As it celebrates the history andculture of our wonderful industry,The Print Show’s mission is also toprovide UK printers with a clearblueprint for the future.

About Link Exhibitions UK Ltd:

Run by the same team behind keyindustry titles Print Monthly andSignLink and their parent companyLink Publishing, the creativity anddrive behind the The Print Showdraws on more than 50 years ofcollective experience of the printindustry. Link Exhibitions goal is toprovide the print industry with morethan ‘just another show’ and insteadput the interest of every printcompany and exhibitor at the heartof the event, creating a stable annualmarket platform for the industry.

For more information:Tel: 0117 980 5049E-mail: [email protected]: www.theprintshow.co.ukTwitter: @theprintshow


The tenth Goss Sunday press tobe installed by Groupe MauryImprimeur, S.A., of

Manchecourt, France, a GossSunday 3000 4 units + 4 unitsduplex web offset press, is now inproduction. The press is printing awide variety of promotionalproducts for major French retailers.

Installation of the press was carriedout by Goss International engineersand a host of local contractors, thehighly versatile Goss PFF-3 and PCF-3folders and Rima rotary trimmersenable Maury to print products thatdifferentiate their customers andattract maximum attention.“The pressoffers high speeds and, using the

PFF-3 and PCF-3 folders, has thecapability to fold paper to produceup to 60 different products, makingit possible for us to offer a very wideportfolio to our customers,” saysJean-Paul Maury, CEO and owner,Groupe Maury Imprimeur. “We arevery familiar with the high perfor-mance of Goss Sunday presses,and we also benefit from thecompatibility the new machine haswith our other presses.”

With a top speed of 90,000impressions per hour, Maury’s latestSunday 3000 press has a web widthof 1830mm, a new width for thecompany and the only one of itstype in Europe, further contributing

Tenth Goss Sunday press now inproduction at Groupe Maury

to production versatility. Gaplessblanket sleeves and quick platechange ensure fast jobchangeovers, while the Goss pinlessfolders reduce paper waste.These features combine to maximizeup-time and productivity, andimprove competitiveness andmargins.

“We print runs between 4 and 12million copies on this press which isa significant improvement over whatwe were able to do before,” saidMaury.

“With its speed – it’s the mostproductive 64/72 page web offsetpress in France and even in Europe -

and with Goss reliability, we aim toprint 40 thousand tons of papereach year with this press.”Maury’s Manchecourt site printsweekly and monthly promotionalcirculars as well as catalogs anddirectories for leading Frenchsupermarkets, building supplieschains and other national retailers.

“We have a long relationship withGoss and it was our confidence inthe quality of its presses that led usto make this investment,” Mauryconcluded. “With a press of thissize, we had concerns about a fewthings, but the installation went welland it’s been running smoothlysince start up.”

NEW PRESS DELIVERS PRODUCT VERSATILITY FOR PRINTING PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS FOR LEADING RETAILERS

HIGH SPEEDS AND WASTE REDUCTION ALSO CITED AS COMPETITIVE BENEFITS


manroland India has made abreakthrough by clinchingan order for a CROMOMAN

4-1 newspaper press. The presti-gious order comes from NamastheTelangana – a registered Telugulanguage newspaper in India.

Future-proof InvestmentLaunched in 2011, the dailynewspaper aims to mainly focus onpolitics and developments ofTelangana State. The newspaper isowned by Telangana PublicationsPvt. Ltd. and is published in 10different districts. Srinivas Ch, G.M.Operations of Namasthe Telanganaabout the idea behind the newpress: “As a very young dailynewspaper we have revolutionizedthe newspaper market in Telangana.We are very successful journalisticallyas well as economically. Ourinvestment into a highly modernmanroland web systems´CROMOMAN 4-1 also reflects thisdevelopment. We have had a veryclose look to the press series. Theefficient and energy-savingproduction, combined with a highoutput, is the ideal equipment forour growing business. In future wewill be able to offer even betterquality to our readers and advertis-ing customers.”

The CROMOMAN 4-1 – A pressmade for India

The CROMOMAN 4-1 has especiallybeen designed considering Indianconditions. “With the newCROMOMAN 4-1 we perfectlyfocus on our future business. Now

we are able to handle various otherprint jobs in addition to our dailynewspaper. The reason is that weare going to expand our businessinto contractual printing. The pressproduces excellent quality also inthe field of heatset production ofmagazines. With the variable webwidth customer requirements canbe fulfilled flexibly”, Srinivas Chexplains the investment decision.

The CROMOMAN 4-1 forNamasthe Telangana

The CROMOMAN is a 4-tower 4-1press. The pressline is capable ofversatile printing possibilities such as32-pages, two times 16 pages, 24-pages plus 8 pages and variouspossibilities of two books in parallelproduction. There is an additional

At the contract signing (f.l.): A.Nagraja, Sales Manager, Pankaj Bhasin, MD,manroland India, Erich Wagner, Deputy Vice President manroland websystems, D. Damodar Rao, MD Namasthe Telangana, Srinivas, G.M, Opera-tions, Namasthe Telangana.

CROMOMAN 4-1 for Namasthe Telangana

INDIAN DAILY COUNTS ON MANROLANDWEB SYSTEMS

quarter fold for magazine printing. The maximum production speed is75,000 copies per hour.

The press is also equipped with several automation systems such as anautomatic web up device or the manroland web systems Closed Loopcontrol systems for color register control with manual camera movement andcut-off control. The PECOM control system offers the best possibletechnology for easy operation and short make-ready and changeover times.

manroland web systems already shows a great installed base in India.Altogether there are 26 web offset press systems that have been installedduring the last years – 25 high speed newspaper presses and one commer-cial press. manroland web systems technology can perfectly reach the highrequirements of the fast growing Indian market, which is marked by numer-ous high circulation print products. This can be realized due to an ownmanroland web systems market organization in India with different locationsin Delhi, Chennai and Bangalore.


Grupo El Comercio, Peru hasinvested in a thirdCommunity press from

Goss International to further improvedistribution and increase circulationfigures for the various newspapersowned by the group. El Comercio,Peru 21, Trome, Depor, Gestión,Ojo, Correo and El Bocón.

The Community press has beenordered with four four-high towers,four zero-speed splicers and anSSC folder. It will be installed in anew, purpose-built facility inArequipa (south of the country),designed to match existing satellitesites in Chiclayo (north of thecountry) and Huancayo (center ofthe country).

Part of an ongoing strategicexpansion plan, prior to openingplants in Chiclayo and Huancayo, ElComercio previously distributed allnewspapers from Lima, covering800 miles of territory. "Distributionwas becoming challenging withsome products arriving late due todistance," comments Ignacio Prado,director at El Comercio. "Since 2007we have opened two new facilitiesand, soon, a third which can onlyfurther improve our market share inthe region." The press is currentlybeing shipped.

El Comercio has a longstandingpartnership with Goss, workingtogether for over 15 years. Pradoexplains, "We have been employing

Goss technology since installing ourfirst Goss Newsliner press back in1997. That first press is still runningwell, which is testament to its designand build quality. Since then, wehave been very satisfied with theperformance of Community pressinstallations in Chiclayo and

Grupo El Comercio, Peru to installGoss Community at new facility

Huancayo. We have also workedsuccessfully with Goss on majorprojects including a waste reductionprogram and a color capacityupgrade. As a result, we have everyconfidence that Goss can supportus through this next phase and helpus ensure we continue to meet the


Goss Community press ordered with four four-high towers, one SSC folder and four zero-speed splicers Gosschosen for reliability of parts and extensive technical support Press will open new market opportunities

changing needs of our customers."

Perú 21, Trome, Gestión, Depor,Ojo, Correo and El Bocón are partof Grupo El Comercio. El Comerciois the oldest privately-ownednewspaper in Peru, founded in1839.

Domino Digital PrintingSolutions will be treatingLabelexpo Europe ’15

(Brussels Expo, 29th September –2nd October) as a platform toshowcase its new modular ink jetsolutions to the labelling industry.Visitors to stand 9A60 will be ableto view first-hand the new digitalhybrid version of the proven N610idigital label press, along with twoK600i digital print systems, as well asa standalone N610i digital labelpress.

Philip Easton, Director of Domino’sDigital Printing Solutions Division,states: “We are delighted toannounce our presence atLabelexpo Europe. Domino hasnoticed a considerable growth inthe labelling market since the lastshow, and we are excited aboutintroducing our latest innovationsand being able to demonstrate tolabel printers how we can createbespoke solutions that match theirneeds.” The Domino stand will

feature the high productivity 7colour N610i, not only as astandalone roll-to-roll label press,but also as a modular hybridsolution integrated with an ABGDigicon 3 incorporating flexo,varnishing and die-cutting modules.“The exhibition presents anopportunity to highlight the digitalhybrid modularity of the N610i,”explains Philip. “We’ve introducedthe capability for customers topurchase the system either as astandalone digital press, or as partof a hybrid machine includingoptions for flexo stations, and giventhe right job mix, could incorporatescreen and foiling modules. Thismodularity of the solution alsoallows the customer the ability toreconfigure the machine to suit theirfuture changing needs and isequipped to respond to new jobs.”

Also to be featured on the stand aretwo K600i digital print modules,which will be integrated onto aGraphiMecc web inspection system

Domino to exhibit new modular digital ink jetsolutions at Labelexpo Europe 2015

to print black variable data and present Domino’s new digital foiling solution.The solution uses the K600i a foil-like effect, Domino’s digital cold foilsolution is based on real metallic foil to provide a higher quality finish andenable the use of security and decorative holographic images within the foil.

Philip concludes: “Labelexpo Europe is set to be a great opportunity forDomino. We will effectively be showcasing to an international audience thecapabilities of the technologies we have to offer, and we are confident theywill attract a great amount of interest.”

Domino’s range of label and digital print systems will be on display on stand9A60 at Labelexpo Europe, Brussels Expo, 29th September – 2nd October2015.


Fujifilm announces that a largenumber of inks within its UvijetUV range for wide format print

applications received the NordicEcolabel certification. This furtherreinforces the company’s greencredentials and its position as aworld leader in the development ofUV inkjet inks, underpinned by the‘Sustainable Innovation’, ‘Manufac-turing Champions’ and ‘Best ProcessPlant’ awards it has won in the lastfour years.

The Nordic Ecolabel is a well-established and internationallyrecognised environmental labellingscheme that contributes tosustainable consumption and helpsconsumers identify environmentally-friendly products. The certificationconfirms Fujifilm’s commitment tomanufacture products that meet thehighest quality and performance

standards, according to thecompany’s internal ‘Design forHealth, Safety and Environment’policy regarding the use ofchemicals. This policy is designed tolimit employees’ exposure tohazardous substances, minimiseenvironmental impact, and tosurpass the requirements ofchemical control legislation.

Fujifilm Uvijet inks that now carry theNordic Ecolabel trademark include:Uvijet KI, KV, OZ, OB, OL, OW, QN,WH, WI and LL. Uvijet OB, OZ, OLand OW formulations have beendeveloped for use with the IncaOnset range of printers. Uvijet OZoffers excellent finishing properties,while Uvijet OL is a low odourcorrugated ink suitable for displayand secondary packaging. Thenewly launched Uvijet OW ink offersimproved adhesion properties, so

Fujifilm’s wide format Uvijet UV inksgain Nordic Ecolabel certification

that it can be used on a wider rangeof rigid and flexible plastic sub-strates.

The Uvijet KI and KV inks are suitablefor Fujifilm’s Acuity flatbed range, thelatter designed for thermoformedlight industrial applications, withUvijet WH and WI inks optimised forthe Acuity F in particular. In terms ofroll-to-roll systems, Uvijet QN inksare supplied for Uvistar printers, withthe Uvijet LL range of inkjet inksspecifically developed for use withthe Acuity LED 1600.

In common with all these inks is theability to deliver excellent dotreproduction, produce bright,vibrant colours and adhere to awide range of rigid and flexiblematerials, maximising applicationversatility.

Carole Noutary, Technical ManagerR&D at Fujifilm Speciality Ink Systems,comments: “The Nordic Ecolabelcertification is another testimony tohow Fujifilm’s state-of-the-art UVinkjet technologies support wideformat printers in their efforts tominimise their environmentalfootprint and achieve best practicein sustainable print production.

This is an important certification toadd to the extensive list of recentmanufacturing awards, and isrecognition of our quality-ledprocesses and environmentalcommitment.”

Fujifilm Uvijet inks are produced atthe Fujifilm Speciality Ink Systems(FSIS) manufacturing facility forscreen and UV wide format ink inBroadstairs, UK.


Screenpro helps printing andlabelling specialist Customarkachieve significant savings and‘remarkable’ results with SunChemical’s Streamline alterna-tive solvent inkjet inks

When Customark, one of theUK’s most diversespecialist printing and

labelling companies made thetransition from OEM inks to SunChemical’s Streamline range ofalternative solvent inkjet inks, it didn’tjust benefit from the combination ofpremium quality output and totalreliability. The company hasachieved significant cost savingswithout compromising standards,giving its service offering that allimportant competitive edge.

The West Midlands-based company,which specialises in the develop-ment and printing of unique labellingand identification systems as well aspromotional and display graphics,prides itself on its customer serviceand high quality products atcompetitive prices. With such adiverse and growing productportfolio and its wide-ranging anddemanding customer base,Customark was experiencingincreasingly high volumes of inkusage on its Roland and Mimakidigital wide format presses.

“Our digital wide format presses arein almost constant use, running 24hours a day up to six days a week,”says Steven Round, in charge ofmarketing at Customark. “And withcustomer demand for ever tighterturnaround times, shorter and morepersonalised print and high qualityoutput, any disruption to theefficiency and quality of ouroperation just wouldn’t have beenacceptable.”

The challenge of supplyingCustomark with its increasing inks

and consumables needs lay withScreenPro, Sun Chemical’s largestauthorised distributor for screen anddigital inks to the UK graphicsmarket. Liam Redmond, Director ofScreenPro explains: “We prideourselves in keeping one stepahead of our customers byanticipating their needs and carefullymonitoring product innovation.

Having worked with Customark forseveral years, we could see throughtheir increased volumes of inkusage, that they could benefitsignificantly by migrating from theirexisting OEM product, to theStreamline range of alternative inks,and just as importantly, withoutimpacting on the quality andproductivity of their output.”

Sun Chemical’s Streamline rangeoffer fully OEM-compatible solutionsfor inkjet printers, which have beenspecially formulated to match thecolour, physical properties andperformance of the original inks. Thisenables them to be mixed and

interchanged with OEM solvent inks,offering total flexibility and withoutaffecting output.

Prior to introducing the Streamlineinks to its customer offering, andrecommending it to Customark, Liamand his team at ScreenPro neededto be totally confident that the inkwould perform equally well, if notbetter, than the existing inks thatCustomark was using.

“We could easily calculate the costsavings, but we had to be abso-lutely sure there would be nodetrimental impact to the effective-ness of their equipment as well asreplicate the highest standards ofoutput,” says Liam.

ScreenPro undertook a series oftrials over a period of 12 months torigorously test all aspects of the inksin real production environments interms of quality, performance,colour matching and compatibilitywith printing technologies. “Theresults were quite remarkable,”

enthuses Liam. “There wereabsolutely no issues with theStreamline inks, giving us completeconfidence to recommend them toour customers, who have sincewelcomed the opportunity toachieve considerable cost andproduction efficiencies with someoutstanding quality output.”

Having conducted their own trials tomonitor performance alongside theirOEM inks, Customark has sinceconverted its Mimaki and Rolandwide format digital presses and hasbeen successfully using SunChemical’s Streamline alternativesolvent inkjet inks for some time.Steven Round concludes: “It’s beena win/win situation for us. Wehaven’t suffered any quality orproduction efficiency issues –which is something that can happenwhen you introduce somealternative inks. In addition, we’vealso gained some substantial costbenefits, saving around 32% in inkcosts alone over the last 12months.”

Sun Chemical’sStreamline alternative solvent inkjet inks


The recent FESPA 2015 GlobalExpo proved just howsuccessful FESPA has been at

consolidating its brand in Asia, as itwelcomed a significant increase inAsian visitors, including nearly 300from China. Among the 23137visitors to FESPA 2015 in Cologne,Germany, there was a 59% increasein representatives from Asiacompared with FESPA 2010, makingup 5% of the total visitor base. Thishighlights how the FESPA brand isstrengthening its presence in theregion, and how the wide formatmarketplace is of growing interest toleading Asian printers.

Asian success in the FESPA Awards

Taking place during the show, theFESPA Awards 2015 were also avery popular contest for Asianprinters. Accounting for nearly 50%of the shortlisted entries across all

categories, with particular emphasison posters, fine art reproductions,special effect screen, and t-shirtsand other garments, the skillset fromAsia was certainly showcased to itsbest advantage.

Asian printers won three of theseventeen categories. The Posters(Single Sheets & Multi-Sheets) andFine Art categories were both wonby Kumazawa Screen Printing, Inc.,Japan. Sincerely Screen Co., Ltd.from Thailand was awarded Gold inthe T-shirt category.

The coveted Hall of Fame Award,which is dedicated to an outstand-ing individual in the printing worldand voted for online by the FESPAcommunity, was awarded to MarkGervais from Ningbo ShenzhouKnitting Co., Ltd in China. Thisdemonstrates how exceptionaldevelopments in Asia are

FESPAbranddraws growing Asian audienceINCREASE IN ASIAN VISITORS TO FESPA GLOBAL EXPO 2015 AND HIGH LEVEL OF ENTRIES TO FESPA AWARDS

recognised across the globe.Roz McGuinness, Divisional Directorof FESPA comments: “The impactour FESPA China brand is having onawareness of FESPA in Asia is verypositive. We are delighted that visitornumbers from Asia to our GlobalExpo have grown significantly sinceFESPA 2010, and the increase innumbers from China in particular isvery encouraging.

The main FESPA exhibition not onlyallows visitors from the region to seenew technologies first hand, butalso to attend demonstrations andseminars from industry leaderswhich provide insight into where thefuture may lie.

“When we first launched FESPAChina in 2013 our goal was toincrease the number of internationalvisitors to the existing event, whilealso providing more focus on digital

technology. The fact that more Asianvisitors are attending our flagshipEuropean event shows a greaterinterest in digital printing in theregion, as people travel acrosscontinents to see the latest digitaltechnology and to meet theprincipal manufacturers. With moreand more international brandsexhibiting at FESPA China, localprinters can also benefit from thesame exposure to leading globalsuppliers at the regional event inOctober 2015.” FESPA China 2015,taking place from 21-23 October inShanghai, will be the third event ofits kind. The 2015 event is expectedto further strengthen the ties FESPAhas with Asian suppliers, printersand opinion formers.

For more information on FESPAChina 2015 and to pre-register toattend visit: www.fespachina.com


Inca Onset platform leads the way in

high-end wide format production due tohigher overall performance and lowertotal cost of ownership

Fujifilm announces a significantuplift in sales of the Inca Onsethigh-end wide format printer in

the UK, thanks to a unique combina-tion of quality, performance and asignificantly lower total cost ofownership.

A total of 14 Onset printers weresold in the UK in the last 12 months,making it the leading platform in aspecialist and competitive field forthe production of higher volumewide format print.

A diverse group of print serviceproviders have achieved significantbenefits from their investments in theOnset platform, which is testamentto its advanced features and

performance. In particular, the Onsethas proven successful in many ofthese installations due to its lowertotal cost of ownership. This is theresult of industry leading reliabilityand system up-time due to minimalprint head replacements, lower netink usage than other systems, andadvanced features built into theprinter that maximise productivityand minimise the need for mainte-nance. In addition, the Onset’sscalable architecture, allowing aprinter to expand functionality andperformance as their businessgrows, has proved particularlypopular.

It is the mix of quality, flexibility andproductivity offered by the OnsetR40i that helped Fujifilm customer,imageData Group, to manage anincreasingly wide variety of jobs andmeet the requirements of anextensive range of clients working

Fujifilm announces that the Inca Onset platform isproving a big hit with high-end wide format printers

across the public, corporate andretail sectors.

The Onset R40i also enabled VGL toproduce outstanding outdoor printapplications, and contributed to thecompany doubling its turnover to£17 million over the last five years.And, POP & display specialistImprint Groupinvested last year inboth the Onset S50i and Onset R40ito increase quality and productivity.Priding itself on stringent colourmanagement standards andbespoke print managementsolutions, the Imprint Group valuesits partnership with Fujifilm and Inca,and the leading performance of theOnset platform.

Chris Broadhurst, sales manager atFujifilm Graphic Systems UK,comments: “We’ve had tremendoussuccess across much of ourportfolio over the last 12 months,

with the Inca Onset platform playinga key role in helping us to growrevenue and extend our marketpenetration in a range of keysectors.

Along with the more traditional retailgraphics, Point of Sale and displaysectors, the Onset is increasinglybeing used for industrial applicationspresenting its users with excitingnew opportunities and revenuestreams.

All this demonstrates Fujifilm andInca’s leadership in the develop-ment of high-end devices thatdeliver fantastic uptime and anoptimum balance between qualityand productivity.”


A SURVEY OF UK CONSUMERSUNDERTAKEN BY TWO SIDES

A new survey into thepreferences of consumersfor printed versus digital

communications has beenpublished today by ‘Two Sides’; theglobal initiative which addresses themisconceptions of paper use as acommunications medium. Thesurvey, which was commissionedby Two Sides and undertaken byinternational research companyToluna, sought the opinions andpreferences of 500 consumers inthe UK and 1,000 in the US on anumber of issues relating to theswitch from paper-based to digitalmedia.

Results from the UK-based con-sumer research highlighted that 84%

of respondents understood,retained or used information thathad been printed and read onpaper much better than informationreceived on a digital device while83% stated a clear preference forreading print on paper for morecomplex topics. The survey alsorevealed 79% found printed mediamore relaxing to read, while 60% ofmobile/smart phone users (rising to71% amongst the 18 – 24 year olds)were concerned about how thesedevices were damaging their health(eye strain, headaches, insomnia).Overall, the survey reported that79% of respondents preferred toread print on paper when given thechoice.

“The results of the UK survey havelessons for all those who choosethe way in which information is

Two Sides releases results of new UK surveyREADING FROM PREADING FROM PREADING FROM PREADING FROM PREADING FROM PAPER OR READING FROM SCREENSAPER OR READING FROM SCREENSAPER OR READING FROM SCREENSAPER OR READING FROM SCREENSAPER OR READING FROM SCREENSWHAWHAWHAWHAWHAT DO CONSUMERS PREFER?T DO CONSUMERS PREFER?T DO CONSUMERS PREFER?T DO CONSUMERS PREFER?T DO CONSUMERS PREFER?

distributed, particularly for advertis-ers, marketers and educators whoneed to understand how informa-tion is being delivered, received,processed and retained,” explainsMartyn Eustace, Director of TwoSides. “While on-screen readingoccupies an increasing amount ofconsumer time, people’s prefer-ences are still for a physical readingexperience which they believe it tobe a ‘safe’ medium which is moreinformative, less distracting and lessharmful to their health.”

Eustace continues, “As the world ofcommunication becomes increasingdigital, books, magazines and otherforms of communication areincreasingly consumed on screen.There have been many studies to tryand find out if people actually preferto read digitally distributed informa-

tion, or whether the convenienceand immediacy of digital communi-cation is forcing a change of habits.Our latest survey specificallyexplores how consumers feel aboutthis development and reveals thatprint and paper is still preferred bymany who also have concerns forlearning and literacy in an increasinglydigital world.”

While acceptance of digital media isgenerally stronger among youngerage-groups in the survey, there is noevidence to suggest their prefer-ences are significantly different toolder ages, with a preference for‘print on paper’ still in existenceacross all ages. “This indicates thereis still a more fundamental andhuman way in which we react to thephysicality of paper-based print,”concludes Eustace.


Antalis steps up the pace ofits development in thegrowing packaging and

visual communication distributionmarkets, acquiring companiesrepresenting total sales of aroundEuros130 million

Antalis reiterates its strategy ofexpanding its footprint in growingsegments that complement paperdistribution, following its acquisitionof:

- PaperlinX’s Packaging companies inthe UK, representing sales of aroundEuros 30 million.

- Hansapakend in Estonia, with salesof around Euros 7 million. Thistransaction is subject to clearancefrom the Estonian anti-trustauthorities. These companiesgenerate all of their sales from the

distribution of packaging products.

- PaperlinX A/S in Denmark, whichgenerates two-thirds of its sales inpackaging and one-third in visualcommunication, and Cadorit i BorasAB in Sweden, which operatesexclusively in the visual communica-tion market.

They represent total sales of aroundEuros 92 million.

These acquisitions significantlystrengthen Antalis’ position in themarket for the distribution ofpackaging products and solutions,bringing its sales close to Euros 450million.

Antalis is significantly increasing itsgeographical presence operating inmore than 29 countries throughoutEurope and South America to serve

the major manufacturing industrieslike automotive, machine building,electronics, 3PL distribution, e-commerce business and platformswith custom made solutions andservices.

This international network allowsAntalis to serve large internationalaccounts on a pan-European level.

Antalis’ development in the high-potential markets for the distributionof packaging products and visualcommunication media is consistentwith its strategy of making thesesegments the second pillar of itsoverall business model, alongsidepaper distribution.

In 2014, these two businessesrepresented 12% and 6% of Antalis’sales, respectively, and their growingcontribution to Antalis’ gross margin

amounts to 33%.

Commenting on these acquisitions,Hervé Poncin, Chief OperatingOfficer of Antalis and Executive VicePresident of Sequana, said: “Byboosting our presence on theEuropean market for the distributionof packaging products and visualcommunication media, whereAntalis is a key player, we areconfirming our growth strategy inthese high-potential sectors.

Consolidating our position allowsus to serve our customers moreeffectively and to step up ourgrowth in Europe.

These profitable companies will

have a positive impact on Antalis’

earnings as from 2015.”

Antalis Initiative


Domino has recently launchedits first digital cold foilsolution based around the

proven Domino K600i digital printmodule. The solution uses the K600ito print a digital adhesive and createthe image area prior to UV-curingand delamination. Unlike some otherink jet systems that print metallic inkto provide a foil-like effect, thedigital cold foil solution introducedby Domino is based on realconventional metallic foil to providea higher quality finish and enable theuse of security and decorativeholographic images within the foil.

Depending on the substrate, thedigital cold foil solution can operateat speeds up to 75m/min (246ft/min) and can be supplied as astand-alone unit or be retrofitted toan existing foiling station. It is offeredin up to seven different foilingwidths ranging from 108mm (4.25”)

up to 782mm (30.81”).

Philip Easton, Director of Domino’sDigital Printing Solutions Division,comments: “We have been facing anincreasing demand for a digital coilfoil solution over the last sevenyears, so have now combined thelatest higher resolution K600i printtechnology with an advancedadhesive formulation and a webhandling solution supplied by ABGraphic International.”

Since the launch of the K600imonochrome ink jet printer in 2010,Domino has installed over 200modules in a range of differentproduction lines, including labelpresses for hybrid printing, andfinishing and sheet-to-sheet lines.The new K600i cold foiling solutionis based on the same technology,albeit printing a new digital adhesive.Digital foiling represents a unique

proposition for security applicationsdesigned to prevent parallel tradeand anti-counterfeit activity. Thecombination of holographic foil withdigitally created images providesadditional product complexity andmakes counterfeiting increasinglydifficult to achieve.

The label and packaging market,which is seeing a trend for shorterrun lengths and multiple SKUs, isanother segment that can profit fromdigital foiling. Easton explains:“According to our customers,production run lengths are gettingincreasingly shorter. More impor-tantly, brand owners are expectinglead times in some cases as short as24 hours. The only way a labelconverter can efficiently respond tothis demand is by digitally printingthe labels. And, if the produce thenneeds foiling, our digital solution canbe cost effective but also an

efficient way to quickly processmultiple small runs.” The K600ifoiling solution benefits from theinclusion of Domino’s unique i-Techintelligent Technology productivity-enhancing smart features designedto optimise printer performance andmaintain the highest levels ofproductivity.

Domino’s i-Tech ActiFlow inkcirculating system ensures that theink is always moving around the printhead, even when the print head hasstopped, while the revolutionary i-Tech CleanCap automated printhead cleaning and cappingtechnology reduces manualoperator intervention. In addition,the i-Tech StitchLink micro-motorcontroller technology ensures that allheads are automatically andprecisely calibrated to print as one,enabling seamless print across thefull web width.

DOMINO LAUNCHES DIGITAL COLD FOILING SOLUTIONTO CREATE SECURITY AND APPEALING LABELAPPLICATIONS


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