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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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  • Retrofit of Control System Makes The Pueblo Chieftain Fit for The Future
    2016-05-17 14:53
    May 17, 2016 – manroland web systems has recently concluded the successful second phase of retrofits and upgrades to the Uniset press at The Pueblo Chieftain. This means a modernization of servers, drives, and unit controls to improve diagnostics, security, and performance what includes a range of hardware retrofits, as well as the addition of a new Automation Diagnostic Server (ADS) and a retrofit of the entire press network to Ethernet. Read more ...
  • KP Services (Jersey) Limited Hosts Grand Opening for New Inkjet Printing Facility in Channel Islands
    2016-05-17 10:58
    Watford, UK, Friday, May 13, 2016 – KP Services (Jersey) Limited, a collaboration between Kodak and Guiton Group Limited, marked the grand opening of their new inkjet printing facility in Jersey, Channel Islands, with an official opening ceremony attended by customers, partners, suppliers and employees. Read more ...
  • Reconfiguration of Regioman at Times of India
    2016-05-13 12:34
    May 13, 2016 – For the last two decades, the Times of India has been cooperating with mrws as its trusted partner for printing technology and services. Now it is time to expand the capacities of the printing centers in Chennai and Pune to boost the already high levels of productivity and success of the leading English-language broadsheet daily in India. Read more ...
  • New Internet website for the KBA Group
    2016-05-13 08:55
    11.05.2016 – The printing press manufacturer Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) has com-pletely redesigned its Internet website, in cooperation with the queo agency from Dresden, and has adapted it to the changes in user behav-iour. The new website is more clearly structured, has less text and is more dynamic, with automatic links to useful detailed background infor-mation. With its new Internet website, KBA has also responded to the rapid increase in the mobile use of the World Wide Web. The individual pages automatically adjust their representation and navigation to the out-put device being used, whether smartphone, tablet or desktop. The streamlined design without time-consuming frills as well as the editorial revision of the content are geared to a modern company and product presentation. With the objective of stronger bidirectional communication, the options for online contact have become more direct and more pur-poseful. Read more ...
  • Koenig & Bauer Q1 report 2016: 46% more revenue and EBT up €18m y-o-y
    2016-05-12 14:58
    12.05.2016 – 2016 started well for the Koenig & Bauer Group (KBA). At €258.8m group revenue in the first quarter was up 46% on the prior-year figure of €177.3m. All three segments posted considerable gains in sales, with new presses for growth market packaging printing climbing to over 70% of the total. Incoming orders of €266.3m were slightly higher than revenue this quarter. Accordingly, order backlog at the end of March stood at €582.4m, an increase on the figure from the start of the year of €574.9m. Read more ...
  • Flexibility of ProImage NewsWay Workflow Solution appeals to Concord Monitor
    2016-05-12 09:49
    Princeton, NJ (11th of May, 2016) – Speed, efficiency and flexibility were the key features of ProImage NewsWay Production Workflow System that appealed to the decision makers at the Concord Monitor in Concord, NH. Hence ProImage’s popular production workflow system has been purchased and installed by yet another satisfied customer in the newspaper industry. Read more ...
  • CRON brings major diversification to its drupa campaign
    2016-05-10 14:52
    04.05.2016 – The highlights of CRON’s drupa campaign take the company out of its traditional CTP market and into broader fields of offset press optimization, plate production and flexo packaging. Its theme for the show, “True Image, True Color, True Print“ reflects the company’s pursuit of the ultimate solution to cost-effective, fast and perfect print production through creative technology application. Read more ...
  • Spokesman-Review looks to the future
    2016-05-10 14:27
    Oosterhout, 10 May 2016 – The US newspaper Spokesman-Review is to invest in a further round of automation for its printing press. Q.I. Press Controls (QIPC) is set to install the IDS-3D system on its TKS press with two towers in Spokane, Washington. QIPC, the Dutch specialist in measurement and control systems for the printing industry, will be installing 4 IDS-3D register control cameras at its plant in the United States. Read more ...
  • Agfa Graphics launches the Advantage N Essentials series
    2016-05-10 13:36
    10.05.2016 – With the launch of the Advantage N Essentials, Agfa Graphics now offers a series of low-cost engines that take computer-to-plate (CtP) technology for newspapers prepress back to its essence. According to the degree of automation that printers need, they can choose between the semi-automatic Advantage N-eSA or the fully automated Advantage N-eTR. Read more ...
  • Stefan Segger new sales director at KBA-Digital & Web
    2016-05-10 08:08
    09.05.2016 – With effect from 1 October 2016 Stefan Segger (48), currently general manager of subsidiary KBA Asia Pacific in Singapore, will become the new sales director at KBA-Digital & Web Solutions in Würzburg. Read more ...

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