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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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  • 2016-07-04 12:47
    Regensburg, 04.07.2016 – The new software versions for Workspace, Asura and Amendo will offer OneVision clients various new and expanded modules and features for more automation, stability and reliability in the production workflow and improved output quality. Read more ...
  • 2016-07-01 10:53
    Siegburg, Germany, 1st July, 2016 – Siegwerk Druckfarben AG & Co. KGaA, one of the leading international suppliers of printing inks for packaging applications, labels and catalogs, and Flint Group, a global solutions provider to the packaging and print media industries, have received approval from the competition authorities to complete the planned transfer of Siegwerk’s Heatset & Newsink product lines to Flint Group. Read more ...
  • 2016-07-01 09:10
    (UPM, Helsinki, 1 July 2016 at 9:30 EET) – According to the agreement announced on 26 April 2016 the UPM Schwedt mill site and relevant assets have been transferred from UPM to LEIPA Georg Leinfelder GmbH on 1 July 2016. Read more ...
  • 2016-06-30 13:51
    30.06.2016 – The world’s first inkjet web printing system with a web width of over 30in (76.2cm), the RotaJET L-Series from Koenig & Bauer (KBA), has been officially certified by the International Association of the Deinking Industry (INGEDE). Test prints with newly developed inks which were used to print on coated stock at this year’s Drupa and were evaluated by INGEDE were shown to be extremely deinkable. Deinking, the process of removing ink or toner from paper, is of great importance when it comes to an orderly recycling chain. “The very good results achieved once again by the high-volume inkjet press from KBA clearly show that it is possible to design inkjet printwork in such a way that they can be easily integrated into existing recycling chains,” says Axel Fischer, expert for recycling print products at INGEDE. RotaColor inks from the previous press series the RotaJET 76 were certified as extremely deinkable in 2014. Read more ...
  • 2016-06-29 09:31
    Düsseldorf/Oosterhout, 28 June 2016 – The second week of Drupa 2016 proved even more successful than the first for Q.I. Press Controls - Engineering Automation Electronics (QIPC-EAE). The specialist in automation for the printing industry added 6.3 million Euros to its order books during the 11-day Düsseldorf-based event, trebling the 2 million Euros in orders that had been taken in the first week. And, it's likely that even more orders will follow, says QIPC-EAE chairman, Menno Jansen. Read more ...
  • 2016-06-23 10:09
    23.06.2016 – Read about Mail Newspapers UK’s success story of gaining full control over their image enhancement and image processing. Mail Newspapers is one of the leading national newspapers, magazine and online publishers in the United Kingdom and part of the DMGT Group. Mail Newspapers is responsible for the publication of the “Daily Mail”, United Kingdom’s second biggest newspaper. The company has more than 2,000 employees and is specialized in the printing of newspapers with water based inks. Besides that, Mail Newspaper is the largest flexographic newspapers printer in the world. Read more ...
  • 2016-06-22 08:50
    June 21, 2016 – The Brazilian printing sector would appear to have been waiting for this: the Commercial Former from manroland web systems. The unit transforms double web newspaper printing systems like the Geoman and the Colorman temporarily into single web printing presses – with all the benefits of a web width variability. Read more ...
  • 2016-06-21 09:51
    Sussex, Wisconsin, USA, 21 June, 2016 – QuadTech today announced that Aamoda Publications Pvt. Limited (APPL), one of South India’s largest newspaper publishing houses, has made a landmark purchase, with the QuadTech® Register Guidance System with MultiCam™ and QuadTech Ribbon Control System with MultiCam™ each being installed on 28 web offset printing presses. Read more ...
  • 2016-06-17 10:01
    June 16, 2016 – From the 31st of May until the 10th of June 2016 manroland web systems welcomed customers, media representatives and numerous visitors from around the world at drupa 2016 in Düsseldorf. As the leading partner and overall solutions provider for web offset and industrial digital printing, manroland web systems showed a wide range of solutions, systems and innovations, all aimed at making the customer more successful. manroland web systems convinced their customers and is able to boast satisfactory results. Read more ...
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