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The World Printers Forum (WPF) is an organisation of newspaper printers and suppliers within WAN-IFRA. Its objective is to encourage innovation and productivity as well as product development that can be instrumental for publishers to exploit future oriented news media products. It promotes the power of print and the sustainability of print production.

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  • Warum die Druckerei Konstanz zu den Weltbesten gehört – und was die Kunden davon haben
    2016-07-28 12:46
    Konstanz, 28.Juli 2016 – Die Mitglieder des International Newspaper Color Quality Club (INCQC) stehen für hohe und konstante Druckqualität. Die Druckerei Konstanz, ein Unternehmen des Südkurier Medienhaus, konnte sich die Mitgliedschaft beim INCQC für zwei weitere Jahre sichern. Damit ist die Druckerei auch weiterhin Mitglied des Star Club, dem Kreis der weltweit besten Zeitungsdruckereien, die mehrfach ihr hohes Qualitätslevel unter Beweis gestellt haben. Insgesamt schafften 64 Verlags- und Druckunternehmen aus 26 Ländern den Einzug in den Color Quality Club 2016 – 2018. Ausgerichtet wird der Wettbewerb vom Weltverband der Zeitungen und Nachrichtenmedien (WAN-IFRA). Read more ...
  • User-friendly and highly responsive: technotrans AG launches its new website
    2016-07-28 10:21
    Sassenberg, Germany, 28.07.2016 – New online presence of technotrans AG. The design focused primarily on user-friendliness and optimisation for mobile devices. In addition, the system supplier and cooling and fluid technology specialist has introduced a new applicant management system. Read more ...
  • Automation Knows No Limits
    2016-07-27 13:38
    July 27, 2016 – Who can best integrate hardware and software into my existing workflow? This skill is crucial to publishing houses and printing companies that are planning an investment project. Only with a highly automated, integrated workflow printers can realize business models and production processes that are profitable both in the short and long term. This applies to book, newspaper, and advertisement printing, in web offset and digital. Read more ...
  • The new manroland web Store Goes Live
    2016-07-27 13:04
    July 15, 2016 – The time has come: Having been announced over the past two months and having been greeted enthusiastically on first viewing at by many of the manroland web systems customers at drupa 2016, the new manroland web Store opens its digital doors on Friday, July 15, 2016. Read more ...
  • Evening Post Publishing Company equips multiple plants with ProImage NewsWay
    2016-07-26 13:06
    Princeton, NJ (21st of July, 2016) – ProImage is proud to announce the sale of two NewsWay Workflow Systems to the Evening Post Publishing Company. The two systems will manage the workflow of the Aiken Standard in Aiken, SC and of The Post and Courier in Charleston, SC respectively. Read more ...
  • Dynamic and forward looking Pudhari Publications chooses Q.I. Press Controls for automation
    2016-07-19 10:51
    Oosterhout, July 2016 - No fewer than ten mRC-3D cameras supplied by Q.I. Press Controls (QIPC), Dutch specialist in measurement and control systems for the printing industry, will soon be on their way to India. Pudhari Publications is set to carry out an investment programme with the aim of improving automation on its printing presses at its plant in Kolhapur. The mRC-3D system will ensure full automation on the colour register on the Manugraph Cityline press with five towers. Read more ...
  • The Providence Journal: Rejuvenated intelligence for EAE control consoles
    2016-07-14 15:18
    Largest flexo newspaper printer in the U.S. renews its trust in QIPC-EAE Americas to implement retrofit strategy. Read more ...
  • ISRA Vision: Benutzerfreundliche Druckinspektion auf Weltmarktniveau: Leicht installierbares System bietet Spitzentechnologie im Kompaktformat
    2016-07-08 07:56
    (PresseBox) (Darmstadt, 07.07.2016) – Die automatisierte Qualitätssicherung durch Inspektionssysteme stellt einen einfachen Weg dar, Qualität und Produktivität einer Drucklinie zu steigern. Eine neue Inspektionslösung ermöglicht jetzt auch kleineren Druckereien durch leistungsfähige Technologie den Einstieg in die Produktion nach Premiumqualitätsstandards. Mit kompakten Abmessungen sind sie an die typischen Produktionsumgebungen der Schmalbahn angepasst. Zudem lässt sich das betriebsfertig kalibrierte System aus der Plug&Inspect-Produktwelt schnell in Betrieb nehmen und über eine berührungsempfindliche Oberfläche bedienen. So können Druckereien die Menge der verkaufsfähigen Produktion steigern und zugleich die Makulatur minimieren. Read more ...
  • KBA takes over Spanish die-cutter producer Iberica AG S.A.
    2016-07-06 13:30
    06.07.2016 – The takeover of Iberica AG S.A. in Spain by German press manufacturer Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) announced on 23 May 2016 is now complete with the signing of the purchase agreement by Officine Meccaniche G. Cerutti S.p.A. (OMGC) from Italy. The KBA Group expands its extensive portfolio for packaging customers in print finishing with the acquisition of the die-cutter manufacturer based in Barcelona. Iberica with some 60 staff produces medium and large-format flatbed die-cutters for board and corrugated packaging. KBA has been active in this market successfully for some time with its presses. The takeover and integration of Iberica underscores the global KBA Group’s focus on growth markets and greatly improves the Spanish die-cutters’ growth prospects. The parties agreed not to disclose the purchase price or further details regarding the takeover. For the transaction OMGC has been advised by Fredericks Michael & Co. Read more ...
  • Q.I. Press Controls gives boost to Omani Establishments expansion plans
    2016-07-06 10:48
    Oosterhout, 6 July 2016 – The Dutch specialist in measurement and control equipment for the printing industry, Q.I. Press Controls (QIPC), has received a new order from Omani Establishment for Press, Printing, Publishing and Distribution L.L.C. in Oman. QIPC will be responsible for installing an mRC-3D system for colour register in its plant, based in the Omani capital of Muscat. Omani Establishment decided to invest in colour register because it now wants to focus its efforts increasingly on commercial products, alongside its newspaper-printing activities. Read more ...

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