World Association of News Publishers


Newspaper Production

Newspaper Production

Publishers and printers around the world have come to expect WAN-IFRA to provide the most up-to-date know-how about production processes, whether it be in prepress, printing, workflow or postpress. Its range of advisory services, trainings, reports and events are unparalleled.

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  • 2017-10-23 07:33
    20.10.2017 – After more than 28 highly successful years as director of marketing and corporate communications at Koenig & Bauer AG, Klaus Schmidt (63) will be retiring from the company at the end of October. His duties will then pass to Dagmar Ringel, who was most recently director of public relations for technology group Zeiss. Read more ...
  • 2017-10-19 12:46
    19.10.2017 – By investing in the Muller Martini solution, the media company in the Lusatia region has revolutionized the insert process for its daily newspaper (run size of 80,000) and its two weekly advertisement papers (with run sizes of 226,000 and 250,000 respectively). The three titles, which are currently being produced in a total of 172 million copies per year, contain three times as many inserted products as in 2013. The FlexLiner is ideally suited to such print runs and insert volumes, and is seamlessly integrated into the whole production chain thanks to the Connex.Mailroom control system. Read more ...
  • 2017-10-18 13:00
    Berlin, Germany, October 10, 2017 – As newspaper publishers look for new ways to streamline their operations and rein in costs, Kodak introduces the latest addition to its highly automated thermal CTP portfolio for newspapers at IFRA World Publishing Expo. The new Kodak Achieve News Platesetter delivers the stability and reliability of Kodak’s thermal CTP technology at an affordable cost, enabling publishers to print exceptional quality and consistent, vibrant color images to attract both readers and advertisers. Read more ...
  • 2017-10-17 09:31
    October 17, 2017 – MainPad is the new mobile service and maintenance tablet from manroland web systems. The product has arisen from the Maintellisense strategy. The MainPad delivers a reduction of downtime in case of damage and an increase in comfort when it comes to maintenance and repair of the system. Read more ...
  • 2017-10-16 12:50
    10.10.2017 – Senner Medien GmbH & Co. KG of Nürtingen in south-west Germany was established 186 years ago and is meanwhile in the sixth generation as a family owned firm with its own publishing company for journalistic activities in print and online media (120 staff) as well as newspaper printing and distribution operations. Computer-to-plate, on the other hand, is still relatively young there. Senner only changed over from computer-to-film to direct digital imaging of violet newspaper offset printing plates in 2007. Read more ...

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  • The newspaper industry is under pressure globally. While in the West, decline of the newspaper has been rapid, in the East, newspapers will probably survive for longer. However, there are several pressures on the newspaper industry in the East as well – competition from digital readership, increasing input costs, reducing advertising spends, and so on. In such a scenario, it is important for newspaper industry players to collaborate to improve internal operational efficiencies across the industry. Through such an effort the overall industry will stand to benefit. With this objective in mind, an industry-wide benchmarking exercise was carried out to identify specific improvement opportunities across players. The result has been extremely encouraging. This report details out the methodology and findings of this benchmarking exercise.
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