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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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  • 2016-05-31 13:32
    May 31, 2016 – Pacific Daily News, a Gannett Company in the US Territory of Guam, has selected manroland web systems’ FoldLine finishing system for new digital inkjet newspaper press installation. Read more ...
  • 2016-05-31 09:41
    Baden, Switzerland, May 31, 2016 – ABB, one of the leading suppliers of automation solutions for the newspaper industry, has announced the successful commissioning of the control systems of a first printing tower on one of the manroland Colorman presses at the print site of Groupe Sud Ouest in Bordeaux, France. Read more ...
  • 2016-05-31 09:19
    Rochester, NY, 30. Mai 2016 – Kodak gibt heute neue OEM-Partnerschaften mit der manroland web systems GmbH und der Matti Technology AG zur Integration der Kodak Prosper Stream Inkjet-Technologie bekannt. Die neuen Integrationsvereinbarungen ermöglichen es den Unternehmen, die Geschwindigkeit, geringen Betriebskosten und Zuverlässigkeit der Kodak Prosper Inkjet-Lineheads bei neuen Konfigurationen und Anwendungen, wie Handelswerbung, Büchern und Transaktionsdokumenten, zu nutzen. Die integrierten Inkjet-Systeme von manroland web systems und Matti Technology werden im Rahmen der drupa 2016 in Düsseldorf, Deutschland, auf den Ständen beider Unternehmen in Halle 14 und Halle 6 demonstriert. Read more ...
  • 2016-05-31 09:05
    Düsseldorf, 30. Mai 2016 – Druckdienstleister können im Rahmen der drupa 2016 im Kodak Quarter (Halle 5, Stand F09) zahlreiche Produkte sehen, die das Resultat erheblicher F&E-Investitionen von Kodak in Druckvorstufenlösungen sind. Read more ...
  • 2016-05-31 08:36
    May 30, 2016 – manroland web systems, Augsburg, as part of the press conference to begin drupa 2016, introduced their interpretation of the market, their strategic orientation and technological highlights. The main focuses are extending their market leadership in web offset printing, the further development of the successful start to their digital printing business as well as the establishment of their new web offset printing machine Geoman e:line. Read more ...
  • 2016-05-30 12:00
    17.05.2016 – The deciders in the printing industry of today want to be correctly informed – fast and comprehensively. This means a visit at the exhibition must be worthwhile. For that reason RIMA-System has developed a concept for this year’s drupa that focuses on providing a maximum of practical experience and solution: Read more ...
  • 2016-05-30 10:46
    Woodridge, May 25th 2016 – The big event in our industry is near to start, the drupa expo in Germany. Since many years there has been a cooperation around the exhibitions between Tensor, DCOS and Tolerans and this year is no, different. We have partnered up again, in Hall 15, Booth C50-2. Read more ...
  • 2016-05-30 10:36
    Kinna, May 26, 2016 – Just about 6 months after DCOS completed the press extension of Amedia Trykk´s Goss Universal press in Lilleström and retrofitted the existing EAE control system, the parties has agreed on a new large project. Read more ...
  • 2016-05-30 10:20
    Chicago, IL, 27th May, 2016 – Harland Simon is delighted to announce the next stage of a multi-phase project at The Des Moines Register, IA, which includes the upgrade of their folders A & C, as well as their Angle Bar Nest Web Break Detectors. Read more ...
  • 2016-05-30 09:32
    Regensburg/Düsseldorf, 27.05.2016 – Mit seiner neuen 4D-Farbmanagement-Technologie realisiert das Software-Unternehmen wesentliche Verbesserungen im Farbmanagement, die eine reibungslose Integration von den neuen Standardfarbprofilen im Akzidenz- und Zeitungsdruck ermöglichen. ­­­­­­So kann Asura als durchgängiger 4D-Farbserver nicht nur für Bilder, sondern auch für komplexe Produktionsdaten eingesetzt werden. Read more ...

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