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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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  • New Managing Director at manroland India Pvt. Ltd.
    2016-04-07 06:12
    April 6, 2016 – manroland web systems has been represented on the Indian market with a sales and service company since 2003. “Customer focus, high-performance service, and business relationships based on partnership can be best realized with a local organization”, explains Managing Director Jörn Gossé. “By appointing Mr. Bhattacharjee, we are reinforcing our local presence on a major market and continuing to support our customers with innovative solutions in offset printing, and trendsetting products for digital workflows and postpress in industrial digital printing.” Since 2008, Mr. Bhattacharjee has managed the entire newspaper production of The Times of India in Delhi as its Asst. Vice President. Before, Mr. Bhattacharjee held a leading management position for the ABP Group of Publications, Kolkata, and the Business India Group of Publications, Mumbai. Read more ...
  • Mit technotrans-Lösungen effizient und sicher hochreaktive UV-Farbe drucken
    2016-04-06 09:49
    (PresseBox) (Sassenberg, 05.04.2016) – Spezielle Lösungen für Anwendungen mit hochreaktiven UV-Farben zeigt die technotrans AG auf der drupa 2016 in Düsseldorf. Eine zuverlässige und effiziente Kühlung der HUV oder UV-LED-Trockner garantiert die Prozesssicherheit sowie eine optimale Leistungsfähigkeit und Langlebigkeit der Maschinen. Ebenfalls für hochreaktive UV-Farben präsentiert technotrans eine Farbversorgung mit patentiertem Kolbendichtungssystem. Besucher erfahren an Stand A04 in Halle 2 mehr. Read more ...
  • Trib Total Media select Harland Simon for the second time in as many weeks – this time for reelstand control
    2016-04-05 13:30
    Chicago, IL 21th March 2016 – Harland Simon announces the award of a contract by Trib Total Media for the supply of new control systems for their Goss CT50 [MK II] reelstands. The project covers the supply and installation of new drives and controls for the six CT50 reelstands on their Goss Newsliner Press, once again utilizing industry standard, off-the-shelf components which will eliminate obsolete proprietary systems. In addition, splice and waste performance will be improved and maintenance time will be reduced. Read more ...
  • Harland Simon to Upgrade Drives on a Goss Newsliner Press
    2016-04-05 13:26
    Chicago, IL 14th March 2016 – Trib Total Media have selected Harland Simon to replace the aging and obsolete Allen-Bradley 1336 a.c. lineshaft drives on their Goss Newsliner Press at The Tribune Review. This follows the successful upgrade of the Meridian/Echelon controls on the same press in 2015. Read more ...
  • Star Tribune Selects manroland web systems for Controls Upgrade
    2016-04-05 12:01
    Lisle, IL, March 31, 2016 – As the largest newspaper in the upper Midwest, the Minneapolis-based Star Tribune has chosen an innovative strategy to deal with controls and electronic obsolescence issues on their current press equipment. Star Tribune’s success in building a regional print center – printing multiple daily and weekly newspapers – compounded the need to upgrade and make current the press controls on their Headliner Offset Press. In an effort to stabilize their press system for the foreseeable future, they needed a controls system which would allow their presses to be highly utilized and perform reliably, meeting their challenging production needs. Read more ...
  • Koenig & Bauer AG publishes its financial statements for 2015
    2016-04-05 11:04
    Würzburg, 24.03.2016 – The Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) financial statements for 2015 underline the press manufacturer’s successful group realignment within the past two years. At €1,025.1m group revenue met its target of over €1bn. The decrease in revenue compared to 2014 (€1.1bn) was the result of the security press business and lower sales in the Digital & Web segment due to the realignment. CEO Claus Bolza-Schünemann: “We made good progress with our strategic goal of increasing revenue in growth markets packaging and digital printing and thus reduce our dependency on the cyclical security business and media-driven publication printing. Packaging now makes up some 70% of group revenue with new presses, followed by security printing at around 20%. Media exposure now only totals around 10%.” Read more ...
  • Draabe befeuchtet drupa-Hallen
    2016-04-05 10:36
    Hamburg, 23.03.2016 – Auf einer Gesamtfläche von mehr als 16.000 m2 entsteht aktuell die größte temporäre Luftbefeuchtungsinstallation Europas: Der Hamburger Luftbefeuchtungsspezialist Draabe ist Partner der beiden führenden Druckmaschinenhersteller Heidelberg und Hewlett-Packard und befeuchtet anlässlich der drupa die beiden Messehallen 1 und 17 komplett. Read more ...
  • OneVision Software auf der drupa: Innovation für Etikettendrucker und vielfach bewährte Automationstechnologien für die Druckvorstufe
    2016-04-05 09:42
    Regensburg/Düsseldorf, 18.03.2016 – Der internationale Hersteller von Softwarelösungen für die Druck- und Medienindustrie zeigt im drupa innovation park 2016 im Themenpark ‚Process Optimization & Automation‘ in Düsseldorf wie mit seinen umfassenden Software-Lösungen nicht nur der Automationsgrad in der Produktion, sondern gleichzeitig auch die Druckdatenqualität deutlich gesteigert werden kann. Read more ...
  • Change of Management at ppi Media
    2016-04-05 06:57
    March 18, 2016 – After twenty years as managing director of the Hamburg-based software company ppi Media, Norbert Ohl is to hand over to his successors Hauke Berndt and Markus Feldenkirchen on July 1, 2016. Together with Jan Kasten, the new members of the management board will continue to expand into new business areas and markets. Norbert Ohl will act as a consultant to ppi Media for one year after stepping down. Read more ...
  • Agfa Graphics to address opportunities for growth at drupa 2016
    2016-03-23 22:37
    At a pre-drupa press conference hosted in its headquarters in Belgium, Agfa Graphics unveiled its plans for the upcoming drupa show in Düsseldorf: • ECO³ in prepress: the new generation of eco-friendly, economical and extra convenient CtP solutions for commercial, newspaper and packaging printers • Cloud solutions running in Agfa’s own data centers, for reliable and hassle-free prepress operations and communication • Best-in-class UV-inkjet wide-format sign & display printers with different automation and finishing options and dedicated workflow software • A state-of-the-art ink portfolio for a wide array of industrial printing applications • A new range of technologies for smart packaging print applications, including security design and authentication and track & trace software • The latest version of our automated mobile publishing software for various media communities Read more ...

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