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Contents Page 4 Fuji Xerox positioning themselves for

success at drupa 6 Landa brakes the silence 10 Agfa Graphics offers full computer-to-plate autonomy 12 Chosen to expand is portfolio of creative services 14 HP Inc. Unveils Industry’s Most Productive

Label Press 18 Konica Minolta announces Digital Workhorse

– bizhub PRO 1100 20 The drupa 2016 Preview –

What to Expect Part 2 24 Innovations in digital, flexo, offset and new services 30 The Lithrone difference 34 Showcase trailblazer at Drupa 2016 36 The last printed issue of

The Independent 38 Look to the Future with Muller Martini 40 Print Service Providers’ Profitability with New

Latex Printers 44 New stretchable ink expands Wide Format

possibilities 46 Canon hosts first Photo-to-Print Seminar

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Fuji Xerox positioning themselves for success at drupa 25,000 sq’ of technology, applications and the Ministry of Sound drupa 2016 is heralded as ‘inkjet drupa’ yet again.

Perhaps in 2012 the technology at production speeds was in its infancy whereas in 2016 it has come of age.

Advancements in print quality has meant that many more applications can be undertaken with acceptable colour rendition

A few years ago we were told that inkjet was the future of print and I must confess to being very skeptical, however, today I think it is highly credible.

Although the majority of applications are still transactional, invoice and statements, or direct mail and books there is a clear pattern of not only faster more productive presses but the additional provision of technology to service lower volumes and moving into the toner heartland.

For drupa 2016 Xerox has announced that they will highlight a number of new inkjet presses including the Impika products that will not be seen in Asia because Fuji Xerox has had great success with their own range of production continuous feed presses having sold more than 80 engines in their territory, the FX 2800, FX1400 twin engine and single-engine duplex.

Both versions of the FX 1400 can be seen the new Integrated Customer Experience Center (ICEC) in Bangkok along with the complete range of Fuji Xerox’s production portfolio of presses, finishing and software solutions. “This center has been

put in place to provide support to customers at all stages of the sale, from proof of concept through substrate testing to application and business development.” said Tim Howard, manager of the center. In addition to the latest and greatest technology

The Fuji Xerox Integrated Customer Experience Center in Bangkok.

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the ICEC also hosts a wide range of industry and thought leadership seminars focused on innovation and business excellence.

For further information on Fuji Xerox solutions please visit www.fxap.com.sg The Zone of Disruption As mentioned earlier inkjet products moving to support lower print volumes is of great interest. This is an area of the market that InfoTrends calls the ‘Zone of Disruption’. The definition being primarily those offerings aimed at the sub three million prints a month with an acquisition cost around a US$1M filling the gap between high volume roll fed inkjet, like the FX1400, and high quality lower volume toner products, for example the Xerox Versant 2100. In addition to the Xerox Rialto 900 being identified as a contender, Xerox will also be highlighting the Xerox Brenva HD that also falls into this zone. Fuji Xerox are in the process of evaluating the potential market for Rialto and Brenva for the financial suitability for their customers in the Asia region.

Just Let the Work Flow

If inkjet is not your current interest there will plenty of other technology and solutions on display at drupa this year. For example Xerox are rumored to be showing new capability on the iGen5. However, the primary focus for Xerox will be six key market segments under the theme ‘Just Let the Work Flow’. These will be Direct Mail, Transactional Marketing,

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Packaging, Photos, Books & Catalogs and Marketing Service Providers. Plus, as now has become a Xerox drupa tradition there will be refreshments at the end of each day in the Xerox booth.

So come along and relax, chat and enjoy a glass of wine in the company of the Ministry of Sound before your attending your evening entertainment.

If you are going to drupa:

Please register at: www.Xerox.com/ drupa and visit Xerox in Hall 8b If you are not going to drupa:

Fuji Xerox will be hosting a post-drupa event at the ICEC on July 6 & 7, 2016

Contact your Fuji Xerox representative for more details

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Landa brakes the silence In the weeks closing up to drupa 2016, Landa finally broke the silence and announces its lineup of nanographic printing presses. By Sha Jumari.

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At drupa 2012, the talk of the town was Landa Group’s new digital printing technology, that chairman Benny Landa coined ‘nanography’.

The premise of nanotechnology is built upon the ability to produce offset quality at offset speed and productivity through digital printing.

This would bring aboard all of digital’s benefits including the elimination of cumbersome conventional set-up processes and variable data printing.

Perhaps the most tantalising allure: the promise of true cost-effective production of short-to-medium run lengths.

With such big claims, the technology was received with much fanfare; even though no working press was presented at drupa 2012. Of course, it helped that Benny Landa, also known as the father of digital printing and inventor of Indigo technology that HP now owns, is at the helm of this technology.

Orders and downpayments were made, yet no nanography presses were shipped out to date.

Since then, Landa was reticent on further nanotechnology developments

- until the end of March 2016 saw Landa making the official announcement that a series of nanography printing presses to be unveiled at drupa. Along with that, the company will also introduce Landa Nano-Metallography, a metallisation technology that can halve the cost of metallised printing compared to foil transfer processes. A total of four products will be released utilising the nanotechnology. The upcoming edition presents not just a (re?)launchpad, but also the defining moment for Landa to deliver on the promises made at the last drupa.

Throughout drupa 2016, Landa will hold live product demonstrations of Landa Nano-Metallography on a narrow-web label press. Landa will double the size of its drupa 2016 stand to 3,000 m2 and will conduct live demonstrations of all of the new Nanographic Printing Presses.

Theatre presentations will be held five times a day for the entire duration of the exhibition. Reservations can be requested in advance or may be booked at kiosks on the Landa stand (Hall 9) during the exhibition, subject to availability.

“Fourteen years of nanotechnology research has enabled us to make tremendous breakthroughs in the quality, speed and cost of printing,” said Landa. “Landa Nanographic Printing Presses produce offset quality, and now at offset speeds and offsetcompetitive cost per print - on virtually any paper stock. This research has also spawned a new technology, NanoMetallography, which will enable metallization graphics at less than half the cost of foil, with zero waste - and is quicker and simpler to use.”

“We expect visitors to our stand at drupa to be completely blown away by the amazing performance of these products – for which we will be taking orders at drupa. Our presses will start shipping in early 2017.”

Landa S10 & S10P The S10 and S10P is a series of sheetfed presses that run at 13,000 B1 sheets per hour. The two presses are described to be ultra-fast, offset-quality presses that offer up digital printing at offsetcompetitive cost per print. The S10 sheetfed press is for the packaging and converting industries, while the S10P perfecting press is targeted at the commercial printing industry.

The S10 is a single-sided B1 format press to enable just-in-time mainstream efficiency for the production of folding carton, POP/POS and corrugated boxes.

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The S10P is meant for two-sided general commercial printing, including

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advertising pieces, catalog production, direct mail and high-end magazines.

This press also aims to offer up the industry’s widest colour gamut.

Landa W10 The new W10 Press is touted as the industry’s first digital press for mainstream production of flexible packaging. The meter-wide, highspeed web press prints up to 8 colours at 200 meters per minute on plastic packaging films, paper, carton board and aluminum foil.

According to Landa, the specialty of the Landa W10 press is that it is able to produce gravure quality printing at ultra-fast, production speeds. A broad range of substrates can be used, from plastic packaging films to metal foils, from paper to carton. There will also be a solution to meet the needs for affordable short-to-medium run lengths of highest gravure-quality packaging materials, but with flexocompetitive costs and productivity.

The W1 is said to be cost effective for runs up to 10,000 linear meters.

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Landa Nano-Metallography Landa has announced a new nanotechnology breakthrough for the graphics metallisation market. The company’s new Nano-Metallography technology offers zero-waste metallization, reducing costs by more than half compared to foil. This process is purported to be quicker and simpler, to streamline the production of metallised print and improve customer profitability.

Landa Nano-Metallography is operable with the full spectrum of conventional printing technologies, including narrow-web flexo, offset and screen for the production of labels, sheetfed offset for folding carton and commercial printing, web-offset for publishing and wide-web flexo and gravure for flexible packaging.

“Current metallisation processes are prohibitively expensive due to the high cost of foil and tremendous waste,” said Landa. “Our Nano-Metallography technology will enable metallisation

at less than half the cost of foil, with zero-waste – and it's microwave compatible. We expect this technology to be available to customers in 2017.”

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Agfa Graphics offers full computer-to-plate autonomy Agfa Graphics has added a new member to its Advantage N platesetter family – the Advantage N-PL. With its ability to image up to 3,100 plates continuously at a throughput speed of up to 400 plates per hour, the newcomer takes computer-to-plate (CtP) productivity and automation to the next level.

Continuous plate production is made possible by the integrated pallet load module of the Advantage N-PL. This module supports two different plate formats – single plates and panorama plates – and allows printers to have both online simultaneously. The printer either loads two stacks of 1,500 single plates or one stack of 1,500 panorama plates. In addition, an extra 100 plates can be loaded on top.

“The pallet load mechanism is quite simple. When the CtP engine has used up its first stack of plates, it automatically puts the second stack in place to continue plate production”, says Emiel Sweevers, Marketing Manager for Newspaper Engines, Agfa Graphics. “Thanks to this continuous production, we can avoid inconvenient plate leftovers.

Moreover, the Advantage N-PL autonomy of more than 3,000 plates significantly reduces the number of necessary production stops and averts manual plate-loading errors such as badly stacked plates.”

Advantage N-PL pallet loading happens in daylight White light loading The pallet load module also enables printers to load new plates under white light circumstances, without interrupting the production process.

By inserting a light protection shutter between the empty stack and the online stack, for example, new plates can be loaded through the back or the side of the machine without damaging the online ones with UV light.

“The plate stacks are protected by a transport harness until they are moved to the online position inside the Advantage N-PL. That, together with the light protective shutter, allows printers to load a new stack without

needing yellow light conditions”, Sweevers explained. “The loading possibilities of the Advantage N-PL also add to the engine’s ability for continuous production.”

Pallet load bonuses The Advantage N-PL’s working process significantly reduces packaging costs. In this way, the engine takes a sustainable and ecological approach to plate production. Another bonus is the possibility to combine the pallet load module with other Advantage N units.

The module is available as an upgrade for both the Advantage N-TR HS and the Advantage N-TR VHS.

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Chosen to expand is portfolio of creative services asveer Digital Press, India, has chosen to expand is portfolio of creative services by adding with the ‘extraordinary’ size, performance and versatility of the Xeikon 8500 Digital Press.

The company is known for its heritage of innovation and its exceptional customer service. The Xeikon 8500 Digital Press carries that heritage forward by adding even more versatility to its offerings.

Timir Naik, owner of Tasveer Digital Press - located in Surat, Gujarat - states, “We have been operating in the digital CMYK segment for the past six years and we have always thought out of the

box in terms of expanding our business.

The Xeikon 8500 press is a great addition to our production portfolio with its width of 20" and unlimited print length. Its extraordinary size in digital CMYK will allow us to cater

Naik family: Karishma Naik (daughter of Mr Timir Naik), Krushan Naik (elder son of Mr Timir Naik), Kavin Naik (younger son of Mr Timir Naik), Timir Naik (owner), Madhvi Naik (wife of Mr Timir Naik), from left to right.

to various market segments including commercial printing, graphics, weddings, oversized photo albums, PhotoBooks and corporate marketing materials, including Posters catalogs and magazines. By offering different sizes, that are not available from our competitors, we will continue to set ourselves – and our customers – apart.”

Tasveer Kendra, a name that has been synonymous with photography for a long time, was founded by Kanti Naik in 1948. Tasveer became a household name in Surat following an awardwinning legendary documentary on the 1959 floods.

His son, Krushan and Kavin Naik, joined the business in 1979 handling numerous videography and photography orders across Western India. As the first lab owner to be a photographer and videographer, Timir launched lab services in 1990 with Tasveer Digital Color Lab. In 2000, anticipating the changes being wrought by digital technology, a second location in Adajan, Surat, was launched.

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Its latest acquisition is the Xeikon 8500 Digital Press that enables the company to produce 20-inch-wide printing of any length, once again setting itself apart in the marketplace.

The 39 ft/minute, 1200*3600 dpi with 4 bit variable dot density press has an imaging width of 504 mm (19.8 inches) and can handle monthly duty cycles of up to 5 million pages. It can produce a range of applications such as brochures, posters, leaflets, catalogs, packaging and direct mail on a variety of substrates from 40gsm to 350gsm.

It delivers a combination of productivity and quality benefits that include high productivity in One-Pass-Duplex web fed printing, professional image and data integrity, refined screening library, perfect color consistency and professional color management. Also the QA-P Dry toner allows the use of substrates without specific pretreatment, there are no VOC emissions

Snapping up new markets Three years later, Tasveer was the first photo lab in Western India to install the Noritsu 3001 Digital Printing Machine, enabling the introduction of the hugely-successful of 12x36 inch print size. It later expanded its head office with a state-of-the-art showroom, offering all digital services under one roof. At the same time, Tasveer established its Karishma Album & Binding Manufacturing Unit to provide the largest and most advanced wedding albums, catalogues and various different forms of binding services. It was also India’s first photo lab to start photo album manufacturing, opening up an entirely new industry segment.

But there was more to come. In 2007, Tasveer Digital Imaging was founded with expansion into the CMYK printing market with wide format equipment that enabled the creation of Jumbo Enlargements up to 60 feet wide and the ability to print on various surfaces like vinyl, backlit film and canvas. Over the ensuing years, Tasveer continued to

and a wider color gamut is possible.

Complete solutions provider “Over the years, Tasveer Digital Press has continued to invest in state-ofthe-art technology to enhance and further develop the business,” says Naik. “Today, we are proud to be a complete printing solution provider and the Xeikon 8500 Digital Press is an important part of that evolution, significantly expanding the range of quality applications we can produce.”

Naik concludes, “We service customers from around the world with varying imaging needs. Because of our small beginnings, we have been able to incorporate our attention to detail and premium customer service to all of our customers. Our commitment to our clients is to continue offering the best quality available with the best customer service possible. Our partnership with Xeikon and the Xeikon 8500 Digital Press take us another giant step down that path.”

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HP Inc. Unveils Industry’s Most Productive Label Press HP announced the HP Indigo 8000 Digital Press, the industry's most productive digital narrow web press,(1) offering end-to-end label production at double the speed previously available.(2) HP also announced upgrades for the HP Indigo 20000 and 30000 Digital Presses as well as new ink and substrate options, offering converters and brands unmatched application possibilities at faster speeds.

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"Leading brands are increasingly leveraging HP Indigo labels and packaging solutions to engage with consumers in targeted, meaningful and measurable ways," said Alon Bar Shany, general manager, Indigo division, HP. "With today's announcement, converters are uniquely positioned to redefine labels and packaging standards with greater productivity, versatility and turnaround times for a wide range of applications."

High-value, high-quality label applications now enabled at faster speeds

efficient all-digital workflow as well as real-time quality assurance, using AVT inspection technology.

Setting a new productivity benchmark in digital narrow web printing, the HP Indigo 8000 Digital Press offers highvolume converters end-to-end label production at doubled speeds up to 80 meters per minute or 262 feet per minute.(2) Working in-line or off-line with an ABG FAST Track semi-rotary die cut unit, the press provides an

The HP Indigo 8000, WS6800 and 20000 Digital Presses support HP Indigo ElectroInk Premium White, a versatile new ink that helps converters deliver a wider range of opacity levels.

Additionally, the HP Indigo 8000, WS6800 and 20000 Digital Presses feature a new color automation package that perfects color accuracy,

The HP Indigo 20000 now features a fully upgraded package

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Digital Technology Designed especially for in-line finishing with the HP Indigo 30000 Digital Press, the TRESU iCoat 30000 now offers protective and spot varnish in one pass as well as new embellishment capabilities with gold, silver and other high-viscosity flexo inks. The HP Indigo 30000 Digital Press is also compatible with HP partner converting solutions for inspection, creasing, folding and gluing. Integration with AVT's inline inspection system ensures error-free production, automatically ejecting defective sheets.

consistency and repeatability, enabling converters to reach any brand color in minutes.

Next-level flexible packaging options open new business opportunities The HP Indigo 20000 Digital Press now features an upgrade package that enables: Compatibility with new substrates, such as polyethylene and stretchable materials, for a wider range of highvolume flexible packaging, shrink sleeve, and in-mold and pressuresensitive label applications, including lids and laminated tubes.

New color capabilities, allowing advanced color matching and color consistency across jobs, presses and sites.

Faster turnarounds than previously possible with HP Indigo Pack Ready Lamination, which eliminates cure time, enabling immediate time to market.

Support for the new HP Indigo

ElectroInk Premium White in highconcentration 20-kilogram ink pails for industrial-scale productivity.

Additionally, optimized converting solutions from Comexi, AB Graphics, Karville and other partners provide faster near-line and in-line finishing as well as reduced waste and shorter setup times.

Higher productivity and new substrates deliver exceptional folding carton possibilities The HP Indigo 30000 Digital Press upgrade package increases productivity up to 30 percent and enables dozens of folding carton jobs per day.(3) The press allows new high-margin opportunities with synthetic media as well as metallized boards, polyvinyl chloride, polypropylene and polyethylene terephthalate materials. The HP Indigo 30000 Digital Press also provides new and improved security features, such as micro text and barcodes.

Availability The HP Indigo 8000 Digital Press and the HP Indigo WS6800, 20000 and 30000 Digital Press upgrades will be commercially available in 2016. All HP Indigo digital presses offer HP PrintOS connectivity, allowing customers to monitor print status remotely as well as track and improve production performance over time. HP PrintOS is expected to be available for customers on May 31, 2016.

HP at drupa 2016 HP will demonstrate the new solutions May 31 - June 10 in Hall 17 at drupa 2016 in DĂźsseldorf, Germany. HP is also showcasing these solutions at Dscoop Tel Aviv and Dscoop San Antonio in April.

Since drupa 2012, HP customers have more than doubled HP Indigo WS6000 series Digital Press installations to 1,000+ units and have installed more than 80 HP Indigo 20000 and 30000 Digital Presses.

1. The HP Indigo 8000 Digital Press is the most productive digital narrow web press in the market according HP Internal and independent market data.

2. Compared to the HP Indigo WS6800 Digital Press.

3. Based on HP Internal research as well as customer validations.

The HP Indigo 30000 Digital Press upgrade package increases productivity up to 30 percent

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Say yes to 98% of commercial jobs, produced cost-effectively with no compromise on quality or media range Introducing the latest ground-breaking innovations from HP Indigo. Faster, smarter and more profitable, this new line-up is changing the rules of the game.

It includes the HP Indigo 5900 and 7900 digital presses, as well as the B2/29 inch HP Indigo 12000 Digital Press – all you would expect from an Indigo press, but in a wider format. It’s a game-changing portfolio that’s redefining what’s possible with print.

With thousands of digital sheetfed presses in operation, as well as partnerships with leading vendors for end-to-end solutions, HP Indigo is the proven choice for profitable growth.

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Konica Minolta announces Digital Workhorse – bizhub PRO 1100 Konica Minolta Business Solutions Asia (BSA) announced that the bizhub PRO 1100 series, the company’s latest production printer, will be officially launched in the ASEAN region at the company’s upcoming Connect 2016 conference on May 25, 2016. (ppm) with high print quality of up to 1,200 dots per inch (dpi). The machine can handle expected average volumes of between 150,000 and 300,000 prints and peaks up to 2.2 million black and white prints per month. This puts the printer at the top tier range of LPPs in the market for an entry level price.

In addition, bizhub PRO 1100 comes equipped with a simultaneous doublesided colour scanning technology able to scan up to speeds of 180 opm (originals per minute).

The bizhub PRO 1100 series is a workhorse monochrome digital printing press, ideal for central inhouse printing departments, external print-for-pay services, education, government agencies and high volume statements and bills printing.

“Konica Minolta is a leader in Color Digital Production Printing Press with a broad range of Color and solutions offerings”, said Jonathan Yeo, general manager, Konica Minolta BSA. “Launching the bizhub PRO 1100 series will complement our range of Color Digital Printing Systems and capitalise on the rising demand for efficient high speed Print-On-Demand print systems.”

He added: “On top of providing greater productivity, durability, print quality and printing accuracy, the production printer includes a Dual Colour scanner in response to growing

market demand for double-sided, simultaneous scanning.”

Printing and scanning efficiently Featuring a fast, high-productivity system for a quick turnaround of large jobs, the bizhub PRO 1100 is capable of printing 100 pages per minute

Future-proof developer platform The bizhub PRO 1100 is the first production printing device from Konica Minolta to support the bizhub OP (Open Platform) technology. It is a new user-friendly open developer platform that contains an OpenAPI communication system, allowing application developers to create applications that communicate with the bizhub PRO 1100. The platform allows the use of third-party applications for accounting, authentication or scanrouting applications.

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The drupa 2016 Preview – What to Expect Part 2 This is the second instalment of drupa 2016 highlights. By Sha Jumari.

In addition, Esko will launch a fully enhanced digital finishing offering, beginning with two new table families, Kongsberg X and Kongsberg C. The Kongsberg line of cutting, creasing and milling tables will be presented in a new simplified platform choice, complete with fully integrated software solutions.

Esko (Hall 08b) Together with sister company X-Rite Pantone and subsidiaries Enfocus and MediaBeacon, Esko will be showcasing a wide range of innoations at its 900-square-meter stand. The theme for the stand will be ‘Packaging Simplified’, and Esko intends to take visitors through each step of a typical packaging production workflow with six zones. Each zone will feature solutions and key innovations from exhibiting companies.

Esko has completely updated its software solutions and relaunched them under the umbrella brand name “Esko Software Platform”. The full range of innovations and integrations of the enhanced Esko Software Platform will be demonstrated for the first time at drupa 2016, and will be commercially available beginning of June 2016.

Highlights of the drupa release of the Esko Software Platform include more software modules made available as Software as a Service (SaaS) and subscriptions, and improved 3D support, especially when viewing objects in WebCenter and on mobile devices.

Esko will also be introducing a new

flexo plate UV LED exposure device.

This device combines UV main and back exposure in a single operation: the XPS Crystal 5080. A new digital flexo plate imager, based on CDI technology, will also be introduced: the CDI Crystal 5080. Both devices can be connected as one single device, the CDI Crystal 5080 XPS, thus combining plate imaging and exposing into a single operation. This solution supposedly cuts the number of manual handling steps by 50% compared to other technologies and reduces the time needed to produce a press-ready plate by almost 70%.

Enfocus (Hall 08b) Enfocus recently announced the availability of the Enfocus Appstore, a co-creation platform where users and developers of Enfocus Switch could share their knowledge and work. At drupa 2016, Enfocus will be demonstrating the range of flows that can be created using apps from this community-created resource.

The Switch Community is comprised of Switch specialists, including users, integrators and Channel Partners, from around the globe. If a user is interested in an app, he or she can download it and try it free for one month. If he or she likes the application, it can be purchased on a subscription basis.

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Management/General Appstore, dozens of new app creators have been in contact with Enfocus and more apps are being introduced each day.

“Users of Enfocus Switch now have a valuable resource where they can exchange ideas and technology to improve their businesses – and they have themselves to thank for it. We always knew this was a powerful, connected group of users and the pace of activity at the Enfocus Appstore clearly demonstrates that point,” said Bjorn Willems, director of product management, Enfocus. “By drupa, the Enfocus Appstore will host close to 50 apps, each providing a solution to a specific business challenge.”

CHILI Publish (Hall 07A / Enfocus at Hall 08b) CHILI publish will be using drupa as a launchpad for CHILI rendro. CHILI rendro is a rendering solution that is able to provide true, accurate renderings of PDFs on an HTML5 canvas. When files require urgent approval, consultation or editing, CHILI rendro ensures there are no barriers to fast, accurate communication and collaboration.

In collaboration with Enfocus, CHILI Publish recently announced its first OEM deal for CHILI rendro 1.0 release. By integrating CHILI publish’s new technology for viewing PDFs on the web with Enfocus’ PDF quality control and workflow expertise an add-on module for Enfocus Switch has been created: Switch PDF Review Module.

Enfocus has integrated CHILI rendro into their technology to create the

Switch PDF Review Module. This Add-on Module for Enfocus Switch gives users an HTML5 Browser based PDF review tool. This new module combines the flexibility of the browser with the powerful “PDF Inspect” features of the Switch solution.

time. In addition, colour fans would be excited to browse through Pantone’s newly launched 112 Pantone Colours for the graphic design community. The addition brings the total colour count of their graphic design Pantone Plus Series to 1,867 colours.

The company will also showcase CHILI publisher 5.0, the next generation of its online editor. This release includes a range of new features, including a new user interface that aligns with the way users are editing documents today.

CHILI publisher 5.0 also includes support for Asian languages, reflecting the company’s expansion into the Asian marketplace.

The X-Rite exact Xp, a new option in the company’s eXact spectrophotometer platform, is designed to help package printers and converters more accurately measure color on flexible film materials. The eXact Xp is designed to help package printers and converters more accurately measure color on flexible film materials. Printers, ink and premedia suppliers, and brands will be able to use this new handheld device to better understand, control, and manage colors on flexible film materials across the entire packaging supply chain.

X-Rite (Hall 08b) X-Rite will showcase new tools that allow brand owners to select and communicate colour so that it can be consistently achieved across multiple substrates, printing processes, and locations, including its PantoneLIVE Private Cloud, which is a secure, cloudbased repository that allows packaging converters and commercial printers to easily store and share existing proprietary colour libraries across the colour supply chain.

The Private Cloud is part of the PantoneLIVE ecosystem designed to digitally communicate colour accurately between brand owners, designers, premedia, ink suppliers and printers.

It removes any ambiguity when communicating color specifications across the workflow process. This enables converters and printers to deliver consistent color and meet customer expectations each and every

Cerm (Heidelberg Hall 01 / HP Hall 17) MIS-vendor Cerm will be releasing a new version of its digital shopfront, Web4Labels (W4L). According to Cerm, the existing tool was entirely re-engineered from scratch, based on remarks of the W4L user group. New features include flexible information grids will give the printer the possibility to customise the information for every individual customer. Responsive Web Design will additionally enable the use of any device: mobile phone, tablet, portable or desktop computers. These features will lower the threshold for customers to participate in the printers’ workflow via the Web. Since Heidelberg acquired Cerm in 2011, the Cerm software has been rebranded as Prinect Business

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new Azura TU VLF chemistry-free plates for very large-format offset applications in combination with the new Azura CX150 clean-out unit, and the Azura TE direct-on-press plates, that feature image contrast as well as daylight stability and fast roll-up.

standardised way to send and receive files including secure back-ups of production databases, all seamlessly integrated with the Apogee, Arkitex and Asanti workflow software. Other new cloud solutions include the new Apogee 10 and Arkitex Production 2.0.

Agfa Graphics (Hall 08a) On the offset front, Agfa will be introducing the ECO³ in prepress, described as the “new generation of eco-friendly, economical and extra convenient CtP solutions for commercial, newspaper and packaging printers.

For drupa, Agfa Graphics also adds the Avalon N8-90 CtP to its family of thermal computer-to-plate systems, and the new Energy Elite Eco printing plate. The latter is said to be both mechanically and chemically compatible with today’s needs in sheetfed and heatset applications.

Recent improvements for chemistryfree applications include the Attiro VHS clean-out unit with the N95VCF (violet chemistry-free) printing plates for the newspaper industry, the

Cloud printing is on the agenda too, as Agfa announced PrintSphere, which offers print service providers a cloud-based solution for online data exchange. PrintSphere provides a

With its Eversify mobile content publishing software, Agfa Graphics addresses magazine and newspaper publishers that seek a solution to diversify their content to a wide range of devices (smartphones, tablets) at any moment of the day in an automated way.

The SaaS solution can be integrated in any editorial, content management or InDesign-based layout system. Eversify is scalable to allow operations to grow their use of the solution in line with demand.

At drupa, Cerm’s MIS innovations can be experienced at partner stands Heidelberg and HP.

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Innovations in digital, flexo, offset and new services Print is a part of our daily lives in all its variations. The KBA Group contributes to this spectrum of print products with its broad portfolio for numerous print markets ranging from the banknote, via cardboard, film, metal and glass packaging up to book, display, coding, magazine, commercial and newspaper printing.

Under the banner “Add more KBA to your day” at drupa 2016 KBA will be in its usual place in hall 16 showcasing innovative products and processes in digital, flexo and offset printing. On top are new products for offline postpress and finishing as well as services and workflow solutions under the brand KBA 4.0.

Rapida 145 with new features: largest sheetfed offset press at drupa The largest sheetfed offset press at drupa, an over 30m-long (98ft) Rapida 145-6+L FAPC ALV3 + SPS-Logistics, will be printing live on the KBA stand.

The six-colour press with coater, triple delivery extension and double-pile delivery is raised for packaging printing

The over 30m-long Rapida 145 with double-pile delivery and automated logistics is expected the be the longest sheetfed offset press on show at drupa 2016 and is equipped with a new automatic pile and palette logistic system. Some of the Rapida 145’s new features include pneumatic plate stretching, automatic quality control with QualiTronic PDF, press operation via tablet and an increased production speed of up to 18,000sph.

Rapida 106: makeready world champion with LED-UV Known as the makeready and speed world champion with speeds of up to 20,000sph, at drupa the Rapida 106 will be displayed as a long perfector for 4-back-4 printing with coater, double delivery extension, simultaneous plate change and LED-UV curing. Energysaving LED-UV printing permits the

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immediate post-press of print products and impresses with brilliant colours, even on uncoated stock. KBA is a trendsetter in this relatively young field.

The Rapida 106 at drupa is extensively automated. Its features include new TouchTronic operation with One Button Job Change and QualiTronic PDF before and after perfecting. It is embedded in the KBA stand’s network via LogoTronic Professional.

Rapida 105 PRO with cold-foil finishing A five-colour Rapida 105 PRO with coater and the new KBA CF Optima cold-foil module for the high-quality inline finishing of folding carton with cold foil will be exhibited directly next to KBA on partner Vinfoil’s stand. The new module allows the multiple use of the cold foil thus saving costs. The

medium-format press that was added to KBA’s portfolio in 2015 features numerous automation components and is connected to the KBA workflow via LogoTronic Professional.

New Rapida 75 PRO in half format The new Rapida 75 PRO (format 520 x 735 mm / 20.4 x 28.9in) will celebrate its premiere as a five-colour version with coater at drupa. It closes the gap between the Rapida 75 and the highly automated Rapida 76 in terms of its printing speed of up to 16,000sph.

The ErgoTronic console with TouchTronic operation is a standard feature. Automatic plate change and One Button Job Change are just two of the many options to choose from. The Rapida 75 PRO is available with up to ten printing units and perfecting, and will also feature LED-UV.

The Rapida 106 will be presented as a highly automated perfector with LEDUV at drupa RotaJET L for commercial and industrial printing KBA-Digital & Web will showcase the redesigned RotaJET L series which has a flexible modular design with new 1,200 dpi Piezo inkjet technology for printing widths from 77 to 138cm (30.3 to 54.3in) and speeds of 150m or 300mpm (492 or 984fpm) depending on resolution. The goals of this development were optimum print quality, even on coated stock, maximum flexibility for all relevant applications in the field of commercial and industrial printing, and the highest level of productivity. The RotaJET L series is the only inkjet press that can

The Rapida 75 PRO closes the gap between the Rapida 75 and Rapida 76

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The redesigned RotaJET L series is extremely flexible for commercial and industrial printing (3) be upgraded on site at a later date with regard to printing width, colour content, output quality and speed. It can handle huge volumes with a maximum web width of 138cm (54.3in) and automatic reelstands.

KBA-Digital & Web offers the RotaJET L in suitable configurations for commercial, book, publication and industrial printing. A 4/0 version of the RotaJET 77 will be presented live in Düsseldorf printing on various substrates for the packaging, publishing and target communication segments, as well as industrial applications. The advanced polymer pigment inks in connection with the new 1,200dpi inkjet head technology result in an excellent print quality even on coated offset stock.

Flexible NEO XD LR from KBAFlexotecnica Italian subsidiary KBA-Flexotecnica will be present on the KBA stand for the first time at this year’s drupa. The new NEO XD LR CI web press will be exhibited as an eight-colour press with low-migration, water-based ink for film printing. The NEO XD LR is designed for printing with solvent- and water-based ink as well as radiationcured ink, such as UV-LED and EB. With up to twelve colours, print lengths from 400 to 1,200mm (15.7 to 47.2in), a maximum web width of 1,650mm (65in), maximum speeds of up to 500mpm (1,640fpm) and practical automation, it is suited to a raft of applications in the field of flexible packaging printing.

Rapida RDC 106 rotary die-cutter The KBA Rapida RDC 106 rotary diecutter, developed by KBA-Sheetfed for print finishing, will also feature on the KBA stand. The rotary die-cutter which will be presented in connection with sheetfed offset presses producing packaging can handle stock at speeds of up to 14,000sph.

Rapida RSP 106 rotary screen press at Kolbe-Coloco A further offline machine based on the Rapida platform for especially high-quality printwork finished with coating or metal pigment inks (sales folders, brochures, special effects cards, promotional material, displays, packaging etc.) is the Rapida RSP 106 rotary screen printing press. It can be

viewed by visitors at KBA user KolbeColoco in Versmold.

Workflow, energy efficiency and digital transformation Workflow solutions for networked printing plants, a new system for enhanced energy efficiency in a printing company (KBA VisuEnergy), and special applications from KBAMetronic and KBA-NotaSys round off KBA’s presence at drupa.

The new NEO XD LR CI web press is engineered for all ink systems currently popular in flexo printing

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Showcase trailblazer at Drupa 2016 Manroland Sheetfed will be showcasing its latest innovations at Drupa, the print industry’s leading trade fair, taking place from May 31 to June 10 in Düsseldorf, Germany. The centrepiece will be the outstanding ROLAND 700 EVOLUTION, the press which is helping usher in new standards in global offset print technology.

Developed in response to the increasingly complex challenges facing printers today, EVOLUTION’’s unparalleled flexibility and premium print quality have kept it in constant demand around the world. Its sleek, futuristic design also won it the 2015 Red Dot Design Award in 2015.

Drupa will provide opportunities for visitors to experience the ROLAND 700 EVOLUTION’’s many cuttingedge features, including Simultaneous Plate Loading (SPL) for shorter make-ready times, Quick Start Plus for significant reduction of start-up waste, Ultima press configuration with InlineFoiler and InlineCoating for easy order processing and LED drying technology for shortened lead times with more eco-friendly production.

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components, from pressroom to prepress.

Rafael Penuela, CEO of Manroland Sheetfed, said: “Visitors to our stand will see the efficiency of Manroland Sheetfed solutions and how they can help printing companies face the many industry challenges today and tomorrow.

“We’re here to offer the most innovative and productive sheetfed offset solutions in the industry. We want to help customers future-proof their businesses and meet or exceed their expectations for excellence, both with our products and services. It’s just as our motto says: Evolution in Print.”

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The last printed issue of The Independent The final print edition of The Independent has been sent to press, as the title moves to a digital-only format.

The Independent on Sunday launched in 1990, with Stephen Glover as editor.

The final Sunday edition was published last week.

They are part of the group owned by the Lebedev family, who have other media assets including the Evening Standard and local TV station London Live.

Current paid circulation at the daily title is just over 40,000 while its Sunday sister sells just under 43,000 copies.

The paper's last front page features an exclusive story about a British connection in a plot to kill a Saudi king and a striking image of train passengers being evacuated during an anti-terrorism operation in Brussels.

Inside the paper, which was founded in 1986 under the slogan "It is. Are you?", four special-edition magazines look back at its history.

Copies of the final print edition of The Independent on Sunday sit on a stand outside a newsagents in Soho, London, on March 20.

Journalists for the daily paper posted photos of their final hours working on the print edition and showed editor Amol Rajan giving a speech to a crowded newsroom after it was sent to press for the last time.

Owners Alexander and Evgeny Lebedev announced last month that The Independent and The Independent on Sunday would drop their print versions.

The Independent was launched by a group of journalists led by Andreas

Whittam Smith in 1986. It enjoyed initial success rising to a circulation passing 400,000 by 1988, and claimed it was free from proprietorial influence.

Defunct newspapers of the United Kingdom National Dailies British Gazette British Worker The Bullionist Daily Chronicle Daily Citizen The Daily Courant Daily Dispatch Daily Express Daily Gazette Daily Gazetteer Daily Herald The Independent Daily News Daily Sketch Daily Sport The Day Financial News Financier and Bullionist Greyhound Express The Hour Indicator Jewish Times The Morning Chronicle Morning Herald Morning Leader The Morning Post Morning Standard Morning Star New Daily The New Day News Chronicle The Post Sporting Chronicle Sporting Life The Sportsman (1865) The Sportsman (2006) Today Sundays Empire News Independent on Sunday Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper National News News of the World News on Sunday The Planet on Sunday Reynold's News Sunday Business Sunday Chronicle Sunday Correspondent Sunday Dispatch Sunday Evening Telegram Sunday Graphic Sunday Illustrated Sunday Referee Sunday Special Sunday Sportsman Sunday Today Sunday Worker Weeklies Athletic News The Age Early Times The Era The European The Examiner The Graphic The Illustrated London News The Leader Mark Lane Express The Sphere The Weekly True Sun

The cut-price national newspaper i, bought by Johnston Press for about £24 million ($45 million) in February, has a circulation of 275,000 and reported profits of £5.2 million last year.

Regional London evening newspapers The Echo Evening News Evening Post Evening Times The Globe Jewish Evening News London Evening News London Evening Post London Lite Pall Mall Gazette St James's Gazette The Star The Sun True Sun The Westminster Gazette Whitehall Evening Post Dailies Birmingham Evening Despatch Bristol Mercury Bristol Evening World Burnley Evening Star Chatham Evening Post Chelmsford Evening Herald Daily Post Darlington Evening Dispatch Doncaster Evening Post Edinburgh Evening Dispatch Evening Citizen (Glasgow) Hereford Evening News Huddersfield Daily Chronicle Eastern Morning News (Hull) Glasgow Evening News Jewish Post and Gazette (London) Jewish Times (London) Kent Today Leicester Daily Post Leicester Evening Mail Liverpool Courier Liverpool Daily Post Liverpool Evening Express London Daily News The London Paper Luton Evening Post Manchester Evening Chronicle Northern Whig (Belfast) Nottingham Daily Express Nottingham Evening News Nottingham Journal Scottish Daily News Shields Evening News Southern Daily Mail (Portsmouth) Slough Evening Mail Surrey Daily Advertiser Watford Evening Echo Yorkshire

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Look to the Future with Muller Martini Hybrid print products are the future. That is why Muller Martini, in line with the buzzword of Finishing 4.0, will demonstrate live at its drupa booth in Hall 2 how variable magazines and books are produced using a fully connected, highly automated machine line-up consisting of sheetfed offset, web offset and digital printing elements.

Offset and digital printing of magazines and books is one thing, the efficient print finishing of hybrid products is another. With its key drupa topic of Finishing 4.0, Muller Martini will demonstrate in Düsseldorf how signatures from both printing methods can be processed according to a smart workflow on a day-today basis. Hundreds of copies of over 20 different print products will be produced live each day using no fewer than nine connected systems to demonstrate the concepts of smart automation and touchless workflow.

To enable hybrid products, the print finishing systems must naturally be digital ready. Muller Martini systems have met that requirement for many years. Numerous further developments and new developments will be presented at drupa in all segments (saddle stitchers, perfect binders, thread sewing machines and booklines), such as a brand-new solution for the three-sided trimming of softcover books in ultra-short runs.

That will underline Muller Martini’s

position as a market leader and innovation leader, and provide visitors to the booth with a glimpse of the future of print finishing.

With Finishing 4.0, Muller Martini will demonstrate at drupa 2016 in Hall 2 at Booth A49 how variable magazines and books can be produced using a fully connected, highly automated machine line-up consisting of sheetfed offset, web offset and digital printing elements.

The complex hybrid products at the Muller Martini booth will include a bilingual “in-flight magazine”, which will be produced sequentially in sets of four copies, with varying page counts, in A4 size using the Presto II Digital saddle stitcher. Since hybrid products are not limited to saddle stitching and are gaining in importance in the softcover segment – especially when it comes to high-quality customized business reports and school materials in the B2B segment – Muller Martini will also present the relevant perfect binding solutions. For instance, a

digitally printed book block will be produced using the SigmaLine and fed using the book block feeder to the Alegro perfect binder, which will be showcased in a new digital version at drupa. The hybrid softcover product will be finished with offset signatures that are fed via the gathering machine.

Muller Martini will also be represented at the drupa booths of two digital printing press manufacturers. Two identically configured Presto II Digital saddle stitchers, each with an unwinding system, cross cutting unit (both from Hunkeler) and pocket fold unit (from Heidelberg), will be used at the booths of the Muller Martini partners Canon Océ and Xerox to stitch several of their trade fair products live.

The U.S. company DS Graphics, a Muller Martini customer, which specializes in Variable Data Print (VDP) and uses a Primera Digital saddle stitcher for that purpose, is proof that customized and personalized magazines, brochures and catalogs result in a win-win-win situation. “The publishers save money because they can save distribution losses by using targeted print products, the end customers save time because they only receive products that they are genuinely interested in, and it’s an attractive business model for our company,” says DS Graphics President and CEO Jeff Pallis.

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Print Service Providers’ Profitability with New Latex Printers HP Inc. today introduced the HP Latex 500 Printer series and HP Latex 1500 Printer, helping medium-to-large sign and display print service providers (PSPs) enhance productivity and pursue application growth areas at an affordable cost of entry.

The HP Latex 1500 Printer, helping medium-to-large sign and display print service providers (PSPs) enhance productivity "Many medium-to-large sign and display print providers are looking for solutions that can handle higherproduction volumes and enable access to profitable applications," said Xavier Garcia, general manager, Large Format Printing division, HP Inc. "The HP Latex 500 series and 1500 Printer set

new performance thresholds at a lower upfront investment, helping customers meet peak production demands to keep jobs in-house as well as capture growth application opportunities such as indoor and outdoor backlit signage."

New HP Latex 500 Printer series: higher productivity for growing businesses Designed for medium-to-large PSPs with increasing print volumes, the new 64-inch HP Latex 560 and 570 Printers enable customers to manage a variety of print jobs and peaks in production at a low upfront investment. New features include: More unattended printing with a new spindle-less pivot table and automatic skew adjustment to load rolls in one minute or less, heavy-duty roll handling of rolls up to 55 kg (121 lbs.), as well as a status beacon for realtime production monitoring from a distance.

Print speeds up to 23 m2/hr (248 ft2/ hr) at indoor mode for cost-effective production of high-quality jobs at fast turnaround times.

Highly-saturated prints using new vivid print modes with 50 percent more ink density, also featuring a new wiper roller accessory for high-quality results on low cost banners and selfadhesive vinyl.

The ability to perform all tasks in front of the printer, including media and ink cartridge changes, doubling available workspace.(1) Easy integration into a larger HP Latex fleet with color emulation capabilities.

(2) HP Latex Mobile also enables customers to manage jobs remotely for more unattended production such as overnight printing.

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Wide Format / Proofing Technology an optical media advance sensor (OMAS) as well as an embedded spectrophotometer. The device also features the productivity benefits of third generation HP Latex technology, delivering prints that are completely dry and scratch-resistant immediately after printing.(7) Additionally, the HP Latex 1500 Printer helps PSPs reduce running costs and stay in control for both long and short runs, achieving more unattended printing with cost-effective 5-liter HP ink cartridges, an accessible print zone that features LED lighting for easy loading, as well as an internal print server and a status beacon that enables at-a-glance production monitoring.

An ink collector kit for porous substrates such as textiles and mesh banner

Customers can also select from a variety of add-on options with the flexibility to only install the features that address their business needs.

Options include: A dual-roll kit,(8) which maximizes productivity and unattended production on vinyl and other media up to 1.6 meters (64 inches).

Founded in 1886 in the Netherlands, PPP Nederland (PPP) operates with a commitment to delivering its customers high-quality service at a competitive price point. In 2014, the company transitioned from existing solvent technology to become a Latex-only facility, both to keep up with increasing production volumes as well as a growing desire from end-customers for environmentallycertified solutions and finished prints with GREENGUARD GOLD and UL ECOLOGO®-certified HP Latex inks.(3)(4) Looking to increase capacity and achieve faster turnaround times, PPP recently made the decision to expand its HP Latex portfolio with the new HP Latex 570 Printer, with a specific interest in the device's capabilities that combine the flexibility of its existing HP Latex 370 Printer with industriallike productivity features.

"In our market, superior productivity is the key to sustainable growth," said Rogier Schrijer, CEO, PPP Nederland.

"Since transitioning from screen and

solvent technologies to HP Latex, our company has started to see remarkable growth, achieving 30 percent growth in 2015 alone and, with the new HP Latex 570 Printer, we have already seen a 35 percent increase in print production without increasing labor costs, driving even higher productivity when we print overnight."

Fast, affordable, super-wide production with the HP Latex 1500 Printer Building on the success of the proven HP Latex 3000 Printer series, the 126inch (3.2-meter) HP Latex 1500 Printer offers a robust, affordable superwide printing solution, providing fast turnarounds on a broad range of indoor and outdoor applications, including PVC banners, self-adhesive vinyl, textiles and double-sided prints.

(5)(6) Printing at speeds up to 74 m2/hour (800 ft2/hr) in outdoor production mode and up to 45 m2/hour (800 ft2/hour) in indoor mode, the printer maintains quality print after print with 1200 dpi HP Thermal Inkjet printheads, auto nozzle replacement,

In-line slitters that simplify postprocessing by slitting output while printing.

A roll-to-freefall kit,(8) which allows users to start finishing initial prints while the job is still in progress.

A double-sided day-night kit that enables users to automatically print double-sided backlit applications for color-accurate outdoor advertising displays in any light, frontlit or backlit.

(6) An ink collector kit for porous substrates such as textiles and mesh banner.(5) Availability The HP Latex 1500 Printer is expected to be available by July 2016, and the HP Latex 500 Printer series is expected to be available by August 2016.(9) HP at drupa HP will demonstrate the new HP Latex printers alongside its broad portfolio of large-format and sign and display solutions on May 31 - June 10 in Hall 17 at drupa 2016 in Düsseldorf, Germany.

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New stretchable ink expands Wide Format possibilities LUS-350 ink stretches up to 350% for high quality, durable thermoformed applications with great adhesion and no cracking as car parts, mock-ups, moulded signs, kiosks and more.”

The details Mimaki LUS-350 ink will stretch up to 350% when heated to between 120deg C and 200 deg C. After cooling to room temperature, the ink’s rigidity is restored, while securely adhering to the moulded product without cracking or peeling.

Thus, the ink is unique in providing rigidity, durability and stretchability to serve a broad range of applications with no-compromise image quality.

Images are printed on flat substrates using specialised imaging software and then formed into the desired shape using vacuum, thermoforming or other moulding techniques.

Mimaki, a leading global manufacturer of wide-format inkjet printers and cutting plotters for the sign/graphics, textile/apparel and industrial markets, today announced that it will be making a brand-new ink available in Summer 2016. Mimaki LUS-350 is a unique, stretchable ink suitable for a wide range of thermoforming applications, especially those requiring exceptional hardness and durability such as automotive parts. Mimaki LUS-350 ink is compatible with the Mimaki UJF7151plus and JFX200-2513 printers and will be available in CMYK, white and a unique clear ink.

“This new ink will change the way vacuum moulded – or thermoformed – applications are created,” says Mike Horsten, General Manager Marketing EMEA at Mimaki Europe. “It brings the benefits of digital printing to this segment of the market, addressing requirements for fast turn, short-run

moulded objects with exceptional graphic quality. Previously, objects had to be formed and then have the images applied manually or with screen printing, a time-consuming and expensive process. Now thermoformed objects can be imaged before forming, using Mimaki digital printers with an ink that will not crack or otherwise be damaged during the heat-based forming process. It will provide a beautiful finish for applications such

“The beauty of this ink when used in the thermoforming process,” Horsten adds, “is that intricate textures and designs in fine decorative prints are retained even after moulding. What’s even more exciting is the ability to apply multiple layers of ink to create raised areas in the image for further enhancement, without worrying about cracking or the quality of the adhesion.”

Mimaki’s LUS-350 clear ink is also unique in the market, adding texture or a glossy finish that can’t be achieved with coloured ink alone.

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Canon hosts first Photo-to-Print Seminar in Asia The seminar is the first of its kind in Southeast Asia that caters specifically to photolabs in the region. Sha Jumari reports.

Canon Singapore recently concluded the Photo-to-Print Seminar targeted at printers specialised in the photo printing space. Held at its regional headquarters in Singapore on 14 April 2016, the event attracted visitors all across the Southeast Asian region. At the close of the event, Canon reported an impressive attendance of 65 visitors from the region, including Vietnam, Indonesia, Brunei, Myanmar, Malaysia, Philippines and Singapore.

“This is the first time in the region that we’re holding such an event for photolabs. We don’t talk too much about our products, we present more on the current print markets and

trends, because this is what the visitors want,” said Bob Endert, senior director for Canon’s professional production printing division.

The seminar followed the success of Canon’s Asian edition of the Book Publishing Forum, which wrapped up a couple of months back. This time round, the one-day event focused on helping photolabs explore new business opportunities.

Amongst seminar highlights include presentations on key industry trends and findings in the photo printing and commercial printing areas. Thanh Thanh Photo, a Vietnamese photolab, also took the stage to present its journey from silver halide to digital printing.

“I think that’s what makes this event a success. It’s all about sharing data and knowledge that Canon has access to with the customers so that they can make better business decisions,” Endert continued.

The seminar included a presentation of the Amendo software from OneVision Software AG Germany, which specialises on providing maximum automation in photo optimisation and workflow. A quick demo of the Amendo software showcased its ability to enhance images in just four seconds.

Live demos of Canon’s presses were also organised, with special attention on the Canon DreamLabo 5000, the company’s flagship press for high definition production photo printing.

4R photo printing used to be the crux of a photolab’s business model.

With the advent of technology and social media, the 4R photo method of collecting memories became obsolete.

That is, until photobooks for the masses gained traction, and presented a whole new way of reliving experiences. As cameras improve, customers become more astute and demand more out of photo print quality.

“There’s an opportunity in the photo printing industry and it’s important to realise what’s going on in the market.

For photolabs all over the world, 4R printing is declining. Those who don’t change their business will eventually experience this decline. However, there are opportunities elsewhere, like in photobooks. This is where we come in,” said Endert.

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The event merged Canon’s digital presses with its other successful tangent – cameras. One of the highlights was a photography session to drive home the differentiating message of highdefinition photobook printing.

“The most important thing that we want our visitors today to takeaway is that we will have a very bright future, in our products and solutions. For Canon, this seminar is important to show customers new business opportunities, but it’s also important to follow up with the customers,” said Noriko Gunji, newly-appointed executive vice president of Canon Singapore.

The Canon DreamLabo 5000 will be on display at the Canon booth at drupa 2016. Canon will be organising activities at the booth for its Asian customers, as well as customer site visits in and out of Düsseldorf.

The Trendsetters: Thanh Thanh Photo Thanh Thanh Photo, a family-run photolab in Vietnam, started out with silver halide photo production.

Traditionally, the Hanoi-based company produced images for the wedding and baby photo industry.

In 2011, Thanh Thanh purchased its first Canon Arizona and successfully expanded their business to include school yearbooks and advertising printing. In 2015, Thanh Thanh invested in the Canon DreamLabo to produce its photobooks.

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materials,” Pham explained.

Van Pham, a hobbyist photographer, made the decision to invest in the Canon DreamLabo 5000 after being impressed by the image quality it could produce.

Since the company began marketing the new Dreamlabo print to their customers, Pham estimated about 100 of their existing customers have signaled high interest. Some customers have already switched to the new prints.

Noticeably, most of them comprise of younger customers in their early 20s to early 30s.

“In the last five years, the photobook industry in Vietnam has been on the rise. It’s a big market for Vietnam, where a lot of people are going for photobooks instead of 4R printing.

They’re finding that it is more convenient to do a photobook and the quality keeps getting better,” Pham said.

With the purchase of the DreamLabo, Thanh Thanh hopes to set the trend in Vietnam’s photobook industry by being the one of the first two to produce high definition photobook prints, particularly for weddings and yearbooks. Pham explained that typically, at the end of the school year, each student would receive the same yearbook. In Vietnam however, the trend is to have one personalised book for each class.

“As market leaders in Vietnam’s photobook scene, we see ourselves as trendsetters. Customisation is just one of the trends that we set in Vietnam.

Before us, there were not much options for customisation, so customers were not specifically asking for it. That is also the reason why we first purchased the Canon Oce Arizona, so that we could print on album covers, on wood, aluminium, and a variety of other

“Silver halide processes cannot do two-sided printing for photobooks. In addition, silver halide has environmental and quality issues,” said Pham Thanh Son, product manager, Thanh Thanh Photo.

“While the quality of smartphones and cameras is getting better, silver halide still remains the same. Our customers compare what they see on screen with what is being printed out and they are unhappy with the results. We promised to look for a solution and we found it in the DreamLabo 5000,” said Pham.

Thanh Thanh tested out several other presses, including those that are tonerbased. The company’s director, Quyet

Thanh Thanh Photo with DreamLabo

“In developing countries like Vietnam, the young population is growing and people are becoming richer. We see a new market growing in personalised yearbooks and baby photos with this set of customers demanding for higher quality products,” said Pham.

It helps that Thanh Thanh Photo is setting the price point of prints produced by the DreamLabo 5000 at just 10 to 20% higher than what it was before. Pham added that the price increase only covers the increase in production cost, and not to make profit. He hopes that this will help customers adjust better to the gradual price increase.

“It’s said that printing is a sunset industry. We don’t agree with this.

Photo printing is a sunrise industry,” said Pham. “We’ve seen an increase in total revenue from the customers and we have year on year growth of 10%.

With the Arizona and Dreamlabo 5000, we have managed to capture up to 90% of all high-end market in the wedding, baby and student photos.”

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HP Commits to 100 Percent Renewable Electricity HP Inc. bolstered its longtime commitment to sustainability by pledging to achieve 100 percent renewable electricity usage in global operations. As part of this goal, HP is joining RE100, a global initiative of top businesses committed to 100 percent renewable electricity. Led by The Climate Group in partnership with CDP, RE100 works with companies like HP to help businesses transition to renewable energy sources and accelerate the transformation of the global energy market to a low carbon economy.

As an important step to achieving this ambitious goal, HP plans to reach the 40 percent renewable electricity mark by 2020 in its global operations. This new goal reinforces HP’s dedication to integrating sustainability into its core business strategy.

“Joining RE100 represents a significant milestone for our company as we continue to move toward a business that is powered entirely by renewable electricity,” said Nate Hurst, HP’s chief sustainability & social impact officer.

“As we continue to reinvent a more sustainable business and society, both cost-effective and low carbon sources of energy are essential to the future and the growth of HP’s business. This commitment is guided by our belief in a world where technology and sustainability can combine to become a powerful force for innovation, helping reinvent how businesses, communities,

“We’ve worked closely with HP and the company’s dedication to building sustainability into the business is clear,” said Amy Davidsen, executive director, North America at The Climate Group.

“We welcome HP’s leadership following the COP21 climate change negotiations and its commitment toward driving forward the clean revolution – benefiting both the environment and the economy."

HP Inc. is applying a three-phase strategy to reach this goal: 1. Aggressively reduce energy consumption by optimizing operations/ building efficiency and implementing new efficiency projects.

2. Increase the use of on-site renewable power.

3. Acquire or generate off-site renewable power to offset brown power emissions, including the use of renewable energy credits (RECs) and power purchase agreements (PPAs).

HP was one of the first technology companies to measure and publish its complete carbon footprint, and set carbon reduction goals across its entire value chain including its operations, products and supply chain. For more information, please visit www.hp.com/ sustainability.

EFI Demonstrates Commitment to the APAC Region Electronics For Imaging showcased its broad, innovative portfolio responsible for driving its customers’ continued success in China, exhibiting new print technologies at the Shanghai International AD & Sign Expo and at a

customer open house to introduce print professionals to the new regional EFI™ Customer Experience Centre.

EFI’s exhibit at the exhibition included the first showing in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region of the 3.2-meter EFI VUTEk® LX3 Pro hybrid roll/flatbed LED inkjet printer, a device that is a leading production-class LED inkjet graphics printer with fast throughput of up to 3420 square feet per hour.

The printer also offers high-resolution greyscale imaging. Plus, the printer’s greener, “cool cure” LED technology significantly reduces energy usage and costs while giving users the ability to print on a wider range of media, including substrates that cannot withstand the heat of other curing or drying methods.

The newest-version EFI Fiery® proServer driving the VUTEk printer at the exhibition boosts productivity and quality well beyond a typical printer RIP. This upgraded Fiery digital front end platform gives customers the power to process print files 60% faster than earlier versions of the proServer.

EFI Reggiani print samples also are on display at the exhibition, highlighting the important new opportunities printing companies can capture using digital textile printing as a cost-effective, eco-friendly alternative to other textile imaging processes. The EFI Reggiani printing display – which is presented

by EFI distribution partner Chemtax Industrial in the north hall, stand NH-0187 – represents the quality and versatility possible with EFI’s newest fabric soft-signage printers and industrial printers for décor and apparel applications.

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technologies take the finite resource of time and multiply it for you. You get more out of every shift and enhanced relationship with your clients.

The Versant™ 2100 Press allows you to manage colour more easily and simply with automated calibration and proofing. The result is higher quality without operator involvement, a positive impact on your productivity as well as your print output.

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Another new product, the EFI Matan 8QW printer, is being shown in China for the first time. It is an advanced rollto-roll inkjet product that gives users the ability to create beautiful images for indoor and outdoor applications with patented, seven-color Parallel Drop Size technology and white printing. The 5-meter printer runs at speeds of up to 3800 square feet per hour, offers highquality imaging at 600 dpi, and features advanced, optional features that increase productivity, minimize waste, reduce labor and provide unrivalled ease of use.

“EFI customers in China are constantly redefining the ways our inkjet technologies can help develop new services and drive growth for printing companies,” said Stephen Green, EFI’s APAC vice president of sales. “EFI is again demonstrating its strong commitment to this region, with increased technology and infrastructure investments, as well as new product launches. This is a vital market for us, and we are excited about the opportunity to showcase what we have to offer to the region’s growing base of innovative print entrepreneurs.”

Brand-new Shanghai Facility A short distance away from the exhibition, EFI hosted printers at a open house to introduce the industry to its new APAC regional headquarters and Customer Experience Centre in Shanghai.

The new facility, located in the Caohejing Pujiang Hi-Tech Park in Shanghai’s MinHang District, features many of EFI’s top technologies for printing companies, including 2-, 3.2- and 5-meter EFI VUTEk HS and GS series printers, new EFI SuperRange ink for high-end, out-of-home and display roll-to-roll applications, and the top-selling EFI H1625 LED 1.65-meter hybrid roll/ flatbed printer.

The Customer Experience Centre also

features an end-to-end EFI Fiery digital print workflow installation with Digital StoreFront® Web-to-print software and integrated EFI Fiery Command WorkStation®, Color Profiler Suite, JobFlow™ management and automation technologies. Open house visitors can also view cloud-based EFI PrintSmith™ Vision MIS software and multi-channel campaign management and variabledata personalization available with EFI DirectSmile™ Cross Media software.

The Customer Experience Centre and the Shanghai AD & Sign Expo both have sample displays of EFI’s highquality Cretaprint™ and Reggiani print offerings, which are among the top digital production platforms for the APAC region’s important ceramic tile and industrial textile industries.

Specialised sign making company carries out global wrapping project Over 20 classic Volkswagen campervans have been wrapped with bespoke retro 70s designs using Arlon DPF 6000XRP vinyl supplied by Spandex.

Cambridge-based Iconic Signs, a well-established full signage company dedicated to vehicle graphics and restaurant signage, took up the challenge to design and wrap campervans for pioneering holiday rental company, Wedubyou. The initial project will complete with the wrapping of approximately 60 vans, which will be available for rental in France, Spain and New Zealand.

Iconic Signs has worked with Burwellbased Type 2 Detectives, who specialise in classic Volkswagen restoration, for many years. So, when WeDubYou commissioned Type 2 Detectives to

source all of the classic vehicles for its new business venture, it was only natural that they turned to Iconic Signs for help.

Mike Swift, owner of Iconic Signs and Spandex customer for five and half years, describes his enthusiasm for the project: “When Type 2 Detectives contacted us about this project, we jumped at the opportunity to get involved. We worked closely with Type 2 Detectives who carried out all the necessary vehicle repairs such as mechanical functionality and trimming the interiors. We then created the full wrap project, from the design and artwork, to the wrap itself.

The intention is to be as loud and vibrant as possible.”

The team at Iconic Signs considered everything from quality and durability to the cost and customer service when considering the Arlon DPF 6000XRP vinyl and colour change Arlon Ultimate PremiumPlusTM films. “We chose Arlon DPF 6000XRP because of its excellent print quality and conformability, both huge factors when working with vehicle graphics. The matching 3210 laminate series also offers the perfect gloss finish.

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in this area and we know Spandex will deliver the materials we need, when we need them,” concludes Mike.

Looking to simplify it's productionprocessand improve profitability of its short run work Based in Czarnków, Poland, Interak is a full service, print solutions provider with a proud 27-year history. Producing a huge range of books, magazines, catalogues and instruction manuals, Interak has an annual turnover of more than €25 million and serves a variety of customers from major corporations to individuals, across 11 European countries.

Already one of Poland’s largest and most technologically advanced print houses, Interak is continually on the lookout for ways in which to develop and grow its business. To that end it has been steadily expanding its portfolio of digital platforms in order to provide a wider range of products with much shorter lead times. It has also introduced a web-to-print service and offers print on demand books – even down to orders of a single copy. The Fujifilm Jet Press 540W, installed in December 2015, has proved the perfect investment to help to grow this side of the business.

The investment came after more than a year spent testing a variety of machines from a range of suppliers. “We weren’t just looking for a new press,” explains Szymon Symonowicz, Interak’s Technical Director. “We wanted an ongoing partnership with a supplier to help drive our business forward. It was the confidence we felt in Fujifilm’s ability to meet those requirements as much as the capabilities of the machine itself that led us to make the decision we did. On both counts we’ve been very impressed – Fujifilm’s ongoing service since installation has been exemplary and the

machine has more than lived up to the promise it showed during our trials.”

Unlike a conventional web offset press, where printing sizes are limited by the size of the plate cylinder, the Fujifilm Jet Press 540W uses direct data printing, so there is much more flexibility in the cut-off size of the paper. It can accommodate a wider variety of jobs, while remaining highly efficient for standard jobs that utilise the same paper size.

Driven by XMF workflow, one of the most comprehensive and advanced production management systems on the market, the Jet Press 540W can be easily integrated with a range of post-press solutions. It also opens up a range of new business opportunities by enabling the combination of short-run and variable data capabilities, making it ideal for the production of leaflets, magazines, educational textbooks, manuals and newspapers.

Symonowicz agrees: “It’s an excellent machine for printing both roll to roll and roll to sheet. Its productivity, at 127 metres per minute, is superb, and we have found it remarkably easy to operate.

It is also ideally suited to low-volume book printing – an area of the business we expect to grow even more rapidly in the coming years, and it has freed up a lot of space on our litho platforms, significantly increasing our capacity across the business as a whole.”

Fujifilm has used all its knowledge and experience to develop inks for use with this press which, when combined with its ultra-compact footprint, maximise the application flexibility and versatility of the machine. The VIVIDIA WP-S pigment ink range features a wider colour gamut, suffers from less 'see through' on the page and can be used in nearly all graphic applications, using either normal

offset or inkjet optimised paper types.

This ink range, developed specifically to deliver superb image quality, allows high-density images to be printed at high speed, with reduced ink transfer from sheet to sheet, and with high-quality reproduction possible even on thin paper. The Jet Press 540W also utilises Fujifilm’s own screening technology, based on FM screening, which delivers smooth colours and sharp text.

“We’ve found the quality of the Jet Press 540W to be exceptional,” says Symonowicz, “I think a lot of people have yet to realise just how far inkjet technology has come in the past few years. There is still a tendency among some to presume they will always get better quality with offset – but when it comes to a machine like the Jet Press, that isn’t necessarily the case anymore.

The feedback we have received for the jobs printed on this machine since installation has been very positive indeed.

Inkjet is the future, we’re certain of that, and our customers are increasingly coming to that view as well.”

Says Wieland Schwarz, Marketing and Sales Manager at Fujifilm: “We’re delighted that Interak selected Fujifilm as a partner for this investment. We’ve worked very closely with them to understand their requirements and their future plans. Our goals here are very much the same, as Interak grows, we know that we can help and support their growth too.”

QuadTech to unveil new products at drupa 2016 and host industry “allstar” Print Performance Speaker Series QuadTech, worldwide leader in color and inspection technology for the printing industry, will debut four new product offerings at drupa 2016 (Hall 15, Stand D50, Düsseldorf, Germany, May 31-June

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10). The company has also secured leading industry experts to participate in a Print Performance Speaker Series at the QuadTech booth, to help printers achieve superb print quality and consistently meet the demands of their customers.

New products QuadTech will host four product unveiling events at the show, all beginning at 10:30 AM: Tuesday, 31 May—New color quality product for Packaging & Converting that will allow press operators to collect and process color measurements, and will facilitate the correction of ink formulations. A live demonstration of the system will be available throughout the show.

Wednesday, 1 June—New defect detection product for Packaging & Converting that will facilitate fast detection and disposition of the tiniest defects. This ensures that defective product will not go out the door.

Thursday, 2 June—New color measurement product for Packaging & Converting that provides accurate inline L*a*b* measurements, which reduces make-ready time and ensures all printed products are within your customer’s color specifications.

Friday, 3 June—New color-to-color register product for Newspaper printers that will simplify operation and provide a high quality, low-cost solution.

Proven performance “QuadTech has earned its reputation as a leading designer and manufacturer of advanced press control technology,” said QuadTech president Karl Fritchen.

“Rather than rest on the success of our color, register, and defect detection technology, we have invested heavily in raising the bar for functionality, efficiency and reliability. We can’t wait

to unveil exciting new additions to our stable of proven AccuCam, MultiCam, SpectralCam, Autotron and Inspection products!”

Print Performance Speaker Series Mr. Fritchen continued, “We are extremely excited to present the best and brightest minds in the printing industry—an ‘all-star roster’ of experts will share their extensive knowledge of color science, and their print performance expertise. These presenters bring a wealth of experience and understanding of today’s increasing demands for print quality.”

Scodix unlocks new enhancement and profit-generating opportunities Scodix, a leading provider of enhancement solutions for the graphic arts industry, today announces the launch of its breakthrough Scodix E106 enhancement press for the folding carton market.

Making its debut at drupa 2016, the Scodix E106 is a digital press delivering enhancement solutions for printers in the packaging sector. Offered in a B1 (1060x760mm) format and enabling ultra-fast production (up to 4,000 sph) the press makes medium to short run lengths viable that were previously unachievable. This unique combination of features, exclusive to Scodix technology, provides clear benefits for folding carton printers and converters to differentiate their offering and boost profit margins.

"We expect the Scodix E106 to be highly disruptive in the packaging sector.

Despite not being officially launched before today, we have already taken eight press orders from prospective customers - many claiming that this was the kind of unique capability they urgently needed," states Roy Porat, CEO at Scodix, Porat continues, "Print embellishments provide an opportunity for converters

to add value to products, when there's often little scope to do this elsewhere in the converting process. As average run lengths decrease, Scodix digital enhancement presses - with no tooling costs and next to no set-up - become an undeniably attractive option to replace analogue equipment. Converters investing in the Scodix E106 will be able to offer shorter run lengths profitably, new products, enter new markets and fundamentally, clinch a competitive edge in tough market conditions with value-added services that truly empower brands."

Scodix partnered with world-leading expert in paper handling solutions, MABEG Systems GmbH, to design and produce the Scodix E106 paper handling system. Consequently, the digital enhancement press is proficient with a wide range of substrates from paperboard to plastic and metalized boards, as well as offset and digital prints and even WB coated and a wide range of laminated products.

Using the Scodix E106, folding carton converters and brand owners will now be able to create impact and maximise shelf appeal for a wide range of consumer products.

Porat concludes, "The new Scodix E106 extends the capabilities of our Scodix Ultra Series and Scodix S Series, using proven technology to deliver digital enhancement capabilities in a B1 format - typically used by the folding carton market and therefore integrating seamlessly into existing production lines.

Now brand owners can create stunning new products using foil over foil, adding Scodix Sense effects over foil, or personalising with Scodix Variable Data Sense or Scodix Variable Data Foil effects that were previously unachievable in this market. The Scodix E106 delivers the perfect mix of size, speed, and striking quality, while saving cost."