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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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  • Oklahoma-based Stigler Printing upgrades Harris Press with ProImage Press Register Software
    2016-10-14 20:37
    Princeton, NJ (13th of October 2016) – ProImage – the leading developer of innovative browser-based automated production workflow – is pleased to announce the installation of their NewsWay Press Register Software Solution at Stigler Printing. Since 1983, Stigler Printing has provided newspaper and commercial printing services to Native American Tribes across Indian Country. Read more ...
  • QIPC to supply Suomalainen Lehtipaino Oy with full automation package
    2016-10-13 11:04
    Suomalainen Lehtipaino Oy, the Finnish-based printing concern, has decided to have a complete Q.I. Press Controls (QIPC) automation package installed on its Tensor T4000E with DCOS control. QIPC, the Oosterhout-based specialist in measurement and control systems for the printing industry, is to equip the press with its mRC-3D and IDS-3D systems for the automation of colour register, cut-off register, colour control and damp control at the printing plant in Kajaani, in the centre of Finland. Read more ...
  • manroland web systems retrofit trends and solutions directly from the newspaper printing market
    2016-10-12 09:26
    Every printing company has to face this question at some stage: press retrofit or new investment? manroland web systems experts compare this decision with buying a house: Would it make more sense to renovate an old house or build a new one? Basically any press can be put into a condition which will satisfy the current customer expectations. Which upgrades can be made these days through sensible investment and have new investments gone out of fashion? Read more ...
  • manroland web systems presents the new 16-page newspaper printing press Geoman e:line in Vienna
    2016-10-11 14:57
    Five years ago its “big sister” was being presented in Vienna: the Colorman e:line newspaper press. It asserted itself with great success in a difficult market. Now the e:line family receives a new addition with the Geoman e:line. The first unit of the new series has already been ordered and it is looking to emulate the global success of the Colorman e:line. Read more ...
  • Kodak announces new CTP options offering newspaper printers more productivity, efficiency and sustainability
    2016-10-11 14:44
    VIENNA, AUSTRIA, October 10, 2016 – Kodak is taking advantage of WAN-IFRA World Publishing Expo (October 10, to 12, 2016, Vienna Exhibition Center) to announce enhancements to its highly automated thermal CTP portfolio for newspaper. Since Kodak’s invention of thermal plate imaging technology 21 years ago, the company has shipped over 21,000 CTP units worldwide, of which over 2,500 are newspaper CTP’s. These new options will give newspaper printers more speed, efficiency and control in the platemaking process. Read more ...
  • manroland web Store: usability, quality and attractive prices win over customers
    2016-10-10 13:50
    Today, the manroland web Store supplies well over a thousand web offset customers with spare and wear parts as well as authorized consumables. Completely redesigned and relaunched on 15 July, 2016, this well-established online shop follows the model of the most modern shops in the consumption sector. Three months after its relaunch, this can be said: More and more customers count on the new manroland web Store. What convinced them to do so? Read more ...
  • Panaprint, Macon powers color accuracy with Instrument Flight to G7 standards
    2016-10-10 10:09
    Panaprint Inc., Macon (GA) powers both web presses with the latest Instrument Flight Gray Balance control technology from System Brunner in combination with QuadTech inline Color Control System with SpectralCam. Read more ...
  • UPM focuses on newspaper publishing and commercial CSWO printing at World Publishing Expo
    2016-10-10 09:56
    UPM is participating this week at World Publishing Expo 2016, the world's largest trade exhibition for the news publishing industry. Read more ...
  • ppi Media enters into strategic partnership with successful US-based company OwnLocal
    2016-10-10 09:42
    ppi Media has entered into a sales partnership with Texas-based American Company OwnLocal to help introduce their platform to the German-speaking market. OwnLocal automatically turns traditional print ads into sophisticated online campaigns, giving media companies a fast and cost-efficient way to create new ad revenues. Read more ...
  • KBA Report No. 49: drupa review and practice reports
    2016-10-06 13:09
    06.10.16 – The latest issue of KBA Report is out now and readers can look forward to a comprehensive review of drupa 2016, alongside articles on key innovations and practice reports from users representing the most varied markets and regions. In the editorial for the 49th issue of the customer magazine, Claus Bolza-Schünemann, CEO of Koenig & Bauer AG, comments that the print industry can be satisfied with the outcome of its recent trade show: “For all those who earn their money with or through print, drupa 2016 was a good trade show. After some difficult years, print made a dynamic comeback in Düsseldorf – with proven and new technologies and even more applications.” Read more ...

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