In any manufacturing industry, the quality of the output depends primarily on the quality of raw materials. The same is true for newspaper production, where newsprint and newsink plays a crucial role in print quality. Best quality can be achieved only if newsprint and newsink interact successfully, which constitutes the major cost to a newspaper. Therefore selection of right materials is very crucial to achieve efficient production and to focus on savings.

This workshop will focus on newsprint and newsink properties, International standards that define the optimum properties to develop purchase specifications. The workshop will feature a case study on Newsprint and Newsink waste management and also a visit to an ink factory to see the first-hand manufacturing and quality control process followed in newsinks

Programme

• „Newsprint and Newsink in the Newspaper printing process
• „Newsprint waste management
• „„Newsink Rheology, measurement, importance and its implication„„Newsprint manufacturing, raw materials
• Newsprint and ink interaction
• Standards for newspaper production
  ƒƒ ISO 2846-2 for newsink
  ƒƒ DIN 19306-4 for newsprint
  ƒ ƒISO 12647-3 for high quality print production
• „ „Laboratory testing and interpretation of results

Target Group
„Production Managers, Material Managers, „Quality Control Executives and„ „Production Engineers

Workshop Leader

Anand SrinivasanAnand Srinivasan is responsible for the activities at WAN-IFRA Researchand Material Testing Centre, Chennai, which offers newsprint and newsink testing, print quality evaluation and research on print related subjects. He was one of the members of the Jury that judged the general print quality of newspapers in INCQC 2010-12. In the last three years with WAN-IFRA, he has published three research reports on newsprint and newsink and has written several articles in different technical magazines. His areas of expertise are colour management, quality control and measurement tools, print process standardisation, newsprint and newsink standardisation and 3-D printing.