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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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  • 2019-06-04 10:58
    Siegen/Heidenheim, 04. Juni 2019 – Das Pressehaus Heidenheimer Zeitung produziert ab sofort seine Print- und Online-Angebote mit InterRed. Neu ist dabei auch der Einsatz von InterRed als Honorarsystem. Die Umstellung auf ein einheitliches Redaktionssystem wurde im Frühjahr 2019 erfolgreich abgeschlossen. Read more ...
  • 2019-06-03 12:42
    29.05.2019 – Located in Aarau in Northwestern Switzerland, Mittelland Zeitungsdruck AG operates one of Switzerland’s most efficient coldset printing sites. As the portfolio not only includes daily and weekly newspapers but also high-circulation customer magazines for trade and industry, the technical possibilities in postpress processing were significantly expanded in 2018. With the help of Ferag, the company also wants to make the individualization of insert collections possible in future. Read more ...
  • 2019-05-29 13:41
    Rochester, New York, May 29, 2019 – Over 150 Printers, industry partners, and media from around the world convened in New Orleans at the 2019 GUA Conference to mark the 20th anniversary of the print industry’s leading prepress automation software, Kodak Prinergy Workflow. The two-day forum celebrated twenty years of collaboration between print service providers and Kodak that has transformed the way prepress departments operate, while also fostering lively discussions on the latest technology innovations shaping the future. Read more ...
  • 2019-05-29 12:46
    Princeton, NJ (28 of May 2019) – ProImage an Agfa Company is helping several newspaper publishers streamline their prepress operations and centralizing their production by modernizing and upgrading their workflow management systems. Essential in the streamlining processes is ProImage’s new generation of production workflow system NewsWayX. Read more ...
  • 2019-05-29 07:52
    28.05.2019 – About one year after the business combination of manroland web systems and Goss International the newly formed company successfully completes its Post-Merger-Integration phase. The manroland Goss Group has been strategically positioned to be the leading solutions partner for all webfed printers around the world, be it Parts Solutions, Service Solutions, Engineered Solutions or System Solutions. Read more ...
  • 2019-05-27 12:57
    May 24, 2019 – On the 20th and 21st of May, ppi Media GmbH hosted its annual ppi Days. Representatives of media companies from around the world reported on their publishing strategies and digital trends. Read more ...
  • 2019-05-24 09:05
    Würzburg, 23.05.2019 – On 22nd May, the supervisory board of Koenig & Bauer AG elected Prof. Dr.-Ing. Raimund Klinkner as its new chairman. He takes over from Dr. Martin Hoyos, who is stepping down for age reasons. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Raimund Klinkner (54) has assumed his new role with immediate effect. Read more ...
  • 2019-05-23 10:14
    Würzburg, 22 May 2019 – In addition to details of the group’s good business performance in 2018, in which it achieved the highest EBIT in its 201-year history, the highlights of the annual general meeting held at the Vogel Convention Center (VCC) in Würzburg touched on numerous innovations, the Koenig & Bauer 4.0 digitisation concept and the group’s business targets. On the strength of the good order and project situation ensuring full capacity utilisation across the entire group as well as the further progress made in the group projects targeted at service business and cutting costs, the management board is confident to achieve organic growth of around 4% in revenue and an EBIT margin of around 6% in 2019 in the group. This factors in the margin impact of the growth offensive 2023 to which management is attaching high priority. With all initiatives and projects, the management board is aiming to increase group revenue to around €1.5bn with an EBIT margin of between 7% and 10% until 2023. Read more ...
  • 2019-05-22 12:31
    Kinna, May 22, 2019 – The V-TAB group with headquarters in Göteborg, Sweden, is a major player for printed media in Nordic countries. With Newspapers, Inserts, Magazines and other Commercial products and a total of four coldest printing plants across in the south of Sweden, newspaper production is their largest business. Read more ...
  • 2019-05-16 13:11
    Oosterhout, 16 May 2019 – Effective immediately, The Siebold Company (TSC) is the authorised agency of QIPC-EAE in the United States, the Caribbean and Canada. The Dutch specialist for color control and registration equipment for the printing industry praises the technical knowledge of the new partner. TSC in turn is full of praise for QIPC's state-of-the-art and register control systems and EAE's press control systems. Read more ...

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