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Rave takes to Packaging ...........8 Ipex 2014......................................12 drupa Global Trends.................16 BenQ Monitors...........................18

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Cover : Mr. Shiv Bhatnagar of Rave takes a leap into the packaging arena. See report on page 08

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Contents

Jasmeet D. Editor & Publisher (jasmeet@pressideas.com)

FROM THE EDITORS’ DESK.................................................................... 6

2013 L9 World Label Award Winners .............................................33

Rave takes a plunge into the Packaging stream.......................... 8

Skanem Willich and Gallus.................................................................33

Wikipedia to have a 1,000-volume print edition? .....................11

Modular and flexible Bosch ..............................................................34

Ipex 2014 – blueprint for the future...............................................12

New Esko Store for bits, blades and parts opened!..................35

KBA Rapida 205 at Tempt...................................................................14

Digital Label Printing by Rajeswari.................................................35

Exports support the growth of the Italian graphic and

Morsef Machines to represent

paper machinery industry..................................................................15

two Chinese equipment suppliers .................................................35

SUBSCRIBE TO ........................................................................................15

Studio, a unique set of tools for 3D packaging design............36

PRESSIdeas...............................................................................................15

Equipped for the Future:.....................................................................38

See Page 6................................................................................................15

Peninsula Print & Design embraces new

drupa Global Trends report...............................................................16

packaging opportunities with FFEI’s RealPro Toolkit...............40

BenQ introduces Pro Graphics Series ............................................18

Pramod Engineering announces four

BenQ PG2401PT at a glance:.............................................................18

machine installations...........................................................................41

QuarkXPress 10.1 is now available..................................................19

HI-TECH crosses another mile stone

Two KBA companies with production facilities in China .......20

with its 500th customer......................................................................41

Heidelberg India’s Kochi Seminar focuses on

Flint adds new plate to the portfolio.............................................41

‘Maximum Productivity with Minimal Downtime’ ....................21

Skanem Willich and why screen printing

Web to Print now goes B2B...............................................................22

is indispensable.....................................................................................42

Konica Minolta launches Business Innovation

Collaboration and Globalisation

Centers across the world ...................................................................23

gather momentum at PACE...............................................................43

Glimpses of Decoding Colors Conference

Epson demonstrates digital printer versatility

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Mumbai on 7th of March 2014.........................................................25

at IPEX 2014.............................................................................................44

An affordable ‘Made-in-India’ Labels solution from Creed.....26

Agfa Graphics solutions for inkjet printing

Glimpses ........ contd.............................................................................26

at InPrint 2014........................................................................................45

Xerox iGen® 150 Press and Xerox Wide Format IJP 2000

Esko displays versatile digital finishing solutions

to take centre stage on Xeretec stand...........................................26

at Media Expo.........................................................................................46

It’s another Scodix for Zoom Digital Press....................................26

Monotech Systems bagged nine orders

Sir Speedy partners with Xerox........................................................26

at Media Expo 2014..............................................................................47

Scodix announces winners of first

The JV33 just got faster: Mimaki delivers

Scodix Customers Job Awards..........................................................27

another innovation at C!Print...........................................................48

Xeikon specialty Suites bring innovation to Ipex 2014...........28

X-Rite Pantone appoints .........................................................................

HP demonstrates high-value applications for converters .....29

Corpora as authorized service center for Light Booths ..........49

appadda makes worldwide debut at

SAi PixelBlaster 3.0 offers ........................................................................

Mobile World Congress.......................................................................29

increased performance, throughput and ease-of-use............49

Driving the future of global automotive technology ..............30

FESPA Digital 2014................................................................................50

PrintWel International installs a GUK commercial folder........32

Vineet K G. Associate Editor (vineetkg@pressideas.com) Jasvinder S. Sub-Editor (jasvinder@pressideas.com) Jacob George Marketing and Sales (jacob@pressideas.com) M.S. Mukundan Advertising and Sales Southern and Western India (aims@pressideas.com) Graphic Designer Anil Kumar

Networking/ Hardware Consultant Sukhdeep Singh USA Correspondents Tensi M., Preeti European Correspondent Rimi, Yadhu Morphine Production Thomas K Alex

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FROM THE EDITORS’ DESK Dear Readers, When one of the largest Commercial Printing players of India decided to step into Packaging Printing, it had just two things in mind – to utilize the existing extra capacity and do something new with a bigger market. With the opening of an exclusive unit adjoining their commercial printing unit at Gurgaon, Rave India can now meet the constantly growing demand for printed paperboard packaging. And with machines such as Emmeci SpA (Italy) rigid box making (the first machine of this configuration in India equipped to produce 25,000 complete cartons daily), BOBST (Switzerland) NovaCut for die cutting and a BOBST VisionFold folder gluer, Rave now offers mono cartons, multicolour corrugated cartons, window patching cartons on paper & board with special effects and impeccable rigid boxes for perfumes, shoes, sweets, gifts, puzzles and premium mobile box industry etc. The above machines perfectly compliment their earlier fleet of commercial Heidelberg printing machines led by the workhorse Heidelberg XL105, which is one of the priciest possessions of Rave and can run at a mind boggling speed of 18,000 sph. The lineup is flaunted by two, four, five and eight colour Heidelberg CD and SM 74 Offset machines. We had a talk with Mr. Shiv Bhatnagar on the latest happenings at Rave and the future plans. The cover story on Rave includes what Shiv has to share with our readers.

For projects that rely on soft proofing alone, monitor accuracy becomes quite indispensable. The newly introduced BenQ Pro Graphics Series PG2401PT is a self-calibrating, professional colour management monitor which supports cloud-based colour proofing systems and features one-click proofing capabilities. The G7, Fogra and other ISO standard print quality certified monitor ensures the most accurate colour reproduction with 100% CMYK colour space and 99% Adobe RGB colour space. Delta E≤2 ensures colour accuracy throughout project workflow, providing viewers with the truest impression of the original image. Read the complete details on this efficient soft proofing solution in the inside pages. Quark Software has announced QuarkXPress® 10.1, a major update to QuarkXPress 10 that is available free of charge to all version 10 users. It delivers a powerful package of new and improved features based on customer feedback including 8000% zoom and dynamic guides.

Bosch has further amplified its operations in India by inaugurating a Research & Technology Center and announces a planned investment of Rs.1200 Crores for 2014. The planned investment for the year will be directed towards capacity expansion across Bosch India like building of new facilities, augmentation of existing production lines and research & development. The inauguration of the new Research & Technology Center (RTC) in Bangalore is a step in this direction. At Interpack 2014, Bosch Packaging Technology presents the new CUT 1405 cartoning machine, a consistent advancement of the CUT 120 which has proven successful for many years. The new horizontal cartoning machine offers higher flexibility as well as the latest servo and safety technology at reduced costs. Also know about Esko Studio, a unique set of tools for 3D packaging design. Of interest to our readers would be a piece on development of new strategic initiatives by Labelling Association, FINAT to create a roadmap for success in a changing world. Find all this along with the latest happenings from across the industry.

- Jasvinder Singh, Sub-editor

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Rave takes a plunge into the Packaging stream India’s Commercial Printing stalwart, Rave India has stepped into the Packaging production business. Mr. Shiv Bhatnagar talks about their new venture and future plans.

Established in 1993, Rave India is a name synonymous with quality and service in the Indian printing industry. Offering a wide range of printing services, Rave has one of the most modern set ups with latest technology machines and equipment with advanced automation. With thestate-of-the-art Heidelberg range of presses and in house pre-press and finishing capability, it meets the diverse printing needs of customers across the country.

From high – tech pre-press equipment, latest printing machines and wide ranging post-press auxiliary machines, Rave has the optimum infrastructure.

Pre-Press

Since folders, gluers and die-cutters are everywhere, Rave decided on EMMECI which would benefit them in future by being different and capable of doing wonders with technologies like MET PET, being superior in terms of speed and quality as well as possibilities for several attachments.

Key Notes : > The Commercial printing giant diversifies into Packaging printing. > EMMECI is the first machine to shoulder the Packaging responsibility at Rave. > To gradually add advanced setup to the already established strong base.

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With two CTP’s in the pre-press department, Rave accepts customer jobs as digital files in storage media or transferred directly through dedicated FTP server. The accomplished jobs get delivered through freight, courier or through FTP server as per customer preference.

Press One of the best equipped presses in north India, Rave houses some of the fastest presses at its facility.

The setup includes a fleet of Heidelberg presses led by the workhorse Heidelberg XL-105, which is one of the priciest possessions of Rave and can run at a mind boggling speed of 18,000 sph. The CD’s and SM 74’s of two, four, five and eight colour offset machines handle the most intricate and sensitive quality colour print jobs with ease and perfection.

Using world class technology, it offers various services that include designing, full colour printing and finishing of diverse printing products.

Post -Press The post press has facilities ranging from saddlestitching to thread sewing, spiral/ wiro binding, lamination, foil stamping and case making, Rave has a large bindery capable of all kinds of finishing using wide range of post press equipments. Another addition is the Sakurai Screen Printing machine – a marvel which gives design a completely new dimension by making it attractive with value added effects like UV, glitter, abrasive and aroma printing etc.

From Commercial to Packaging Backed with an experience of over two decades in the printing industry, Rave has now added the latest in Packaging.It has, to start with, installed a couple of high-end machines and equipment to cater to its Packaging customers. The machine lineup for Packaging segment is led by the global known brand EMECCI. We recently had a meeting with Mr. Shiv Bhatnagar, the young COO of the company and the person responsible for technical aspects of business at Rave. He shares with us their latest entry in Packaging and other details about the new business in particular and Rave in general.

Rave started as a Pre-Press House today is one of the top players in the Commercial printing sphere in India. Quality and service are the characteristic identity associated with Rave in the printing market.

They have etched a name for themselves with impeccable customer satisfaction and commitment towards quality. Always on a lookout for newer avenues to bring growth to their organization, the people at the helm of affairs have timely added

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value added services in their business for the benefit of their customers. After excelling as the top Pre-Press House they diversified into Printing and became one of the largest Printing Presses of the country.

With the world turned digital, the next step of growthwithin the related industry was Packaging.

Consequently, Shiv along with his father Mr.Rakesh Bhatnagar and uncle Mr.BhuvneshKanwar, decided to take on the promising Packaging segment. When we ask Shiv about the decision, he says, “We were witnessing that Commercial was coming towards stagnation for us. We already had extra capacity and Commercial was not likely to fully utilize it in the near future. We were thinking about expanding that capacity for new applications and considering stepping into new segments of printing.”

Rave had seven Heidelberg machines and six out of them were brand new bought after 2005. They surely had plenty of capacity which could be utilized for expanding into newer segments. “We had three fully-

equipped machines especially capable of as well as best suited for Packaging printing.

These were two Heidelberg CD machines and the Heidelberg XL which is considered the best machine for Packaging,” says Shiv.

That’s why converting for them in terms of printing was not a big issue, rather the major step, according to Shiv, was binding.

“With this capacity, instead of investing furthermore in Book printing or Commercial printing, we thought why not do something which has a bigger market,” he adds. During the decision making process, they even considered installing something to produce hard-bound books. The idea got changed because electronic shift was becoming more evident in the books and Commercial sphere. “There were e-books starting coming up, there were brochures being replaced by soft copies available online and there were other similar developments,” says Shiv. “On the other hand, in the Packaging field there was no such issue. It was not only there to stay but the segment was having a huge potential because of retail boom. Eventually Packaging was chosen so that we can utilize our capacity as well as do something new,” he reveals.

With the opening of an exclusive unit adjoining their commercial printing unit at Gurgaon, they can now meet the constantly growing demand for printed paperboard packaging. And with machines such as Emmeci SpA (Italy) rigid box making (the first machine of this configuration in India equipped to produce 25000 complete cartons daily), BOBST (Switzerland) NovaCut for die cutting and a BOBST VisionFold folder gluer, Rave now offers Mono cartons, multicolour corrugated Cartons, window patching cartons on paper & board with special effects and impeccable rigid boxes for perfumes, shoes, sweets, gifts, puzzles and premium mobile box industry etc.The above machines compliment our earlier fleet of commercial Heidelberg printing machines.

Other machines for the new Packaging setup Before joining the business, Shiv undertook training in Germany in two specialist areas; one was for Commercial and Book Printing and the other was focused on Packaging.

The Packaging Training constituted four internships, three out of which were at Packaging Printers. “I learnt various concepts of Packaging there,” he says. When he joined Rave, at least for six months he kept researching how he could put those concepts to use in India. It put a lot of challenges before him because according to Shiv, “There is a marked difference between India and Germany vis-à-vis market, demand, work culture, products and value addition etc. What’s value addition in India was a routine for German printers. They were of the view that Indian printers were doing outdated things.”Shiv, along with his father, who was equally keen, worked on the project and decided on what and how they could start. “Initially we thought of putting three

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Customers give a positive feedback “It entails a huge learning curve for us because it is the first of its kind machine in India. However, it’s not new for us – we already had the Heidelberg XL which was the first in South East Asia. The cartons we have produced recently have been of the finest quality and customers have given a very positive feedback to it. Within a few months of the installation, we have been able to get a good customer reaction,” emphasizes Shiv.

machines. We decided to install a Novacut with stripper because it could be extremely useful in the long run. We also planned a Visionfold, an EMMECI, Esko Workflow with RIP and Kongsberg table. The plans to investin other advanced machines including Asitrade were put off due to liquidity crunch caused by the economic slowdown;the economy was in very tough phase andwe decided to wait for the economy to flourish for heavy investment,” relates Shiv.

The magnificent EMMECI gets complemented by impressive Sakurai When Rave was considering the entry into Packaging, they would get a general industry feedback that without value-addition, Packaging can’t succeed. The whole project of entry into Packaging field involved a lot of research work in market, machinery, customers, products etc. “The project took us whole two years which was way more than our other earlier projects. We actually wanted to start with a solid base to come in a big way,” reasons Shiv. We also thought about a six-coater UV,but we wanted the coater or UV to complement our machines because folder, gluers and die-cutters are everywhere. That’s why we decided on EMMECI which could benefit us in future by being diverse and capable of doing wonders with technologies like MET PET,” he explains. They had almost finalized MC 92 from EMMECI – a lower version than their present machine. However, they decided in favour of the present machine because of its future readiness, superiority in terms of speed and quality as well as possibilities for several attachments.

The other machine with exciting capabilities

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is the Sakurai flat-bed screen printing machine. The Sakurai at Rave is equipped with IR and UV lamps and can be termed as a true value addition machine with innumerable possibilities with UV coatings and UV inks. The value addition by way of velvet touch, smell, glitter, texture effect or different structure is over and above normal value addition through Spot UV. With addition of extra lamps one can increase the finishing possibilities even further. The superior value addition with Sakurai is done on occasional special occasions by Rave. The machine presently runs a 12-hour shift and Shiv, like with his other machines, soon plans a 24hour shift for the Sakurai. The machine has unique abilities and features which make it stand apart from many other machines available in the market. Should Rave have increased demand, Shiv says that he would rather go for another Sakurai machine. He is pretty impressed with the machine,“It is a phenomenal machine with extremely easy operation, low maintenance and user friendly handling. It can easily handle job runs ranging up to a couple of lakhs. We are using the machine only for very special effects.

These types of effects are demanded only by a few high-end customers as there is also obvious cost difference in such effects from regular effects.” This machine complements the EMMECI at Rave. “The customer who can afford high end cartons – usually the EMMECI handles certain standardized rigid cartons – can certain pay for high-end effects of Sakurai. This way our total setup works in a streamlined workflow with all equipment complementing one another in one way or the other,” says Shiv.

The new Packaging unit of Rave spans around 70,000 sq.ft. with around 30,000 sq.ft. Post-Press area. At the new unit, Rave’s primary focus was to install an EMMECI and a Die-Cutter. They have a Bobst NovaCut Die-Cutter. They also have a VisionFold which complements the customers to have a one-stop solution for their key demands.

The high-pressure glue guns option on the machine makes it a high capacity upgrade ready machine. “We are absolutely upgrade ready at any time to a system with automated features with least manual intervention like barcode reading, colour detection, missing text detection and carton rejection etc.,” informs Shiv.

Targeting quality with quantity in Packaging “We entered the Packaging stream when there were already big players present in the market. Our strategy was to first learn the market with minimal investment and customer feedback,” says Shiv. They studied customers’ Packaging demands and their best options to efficiently meet those demands. Starting with an EMMECI is a very advanced concept and Shiv says that the decision on more innovative setups shall be based on their observation of the market.“We want to eventually become a quantity as well as quality player. If it were quantity, we could have got it by increasing the number of Die-Cutters, Folders etc. But for quality we decided in favour of 100% quality-dedicated EMMECIthough we could have saved a lot with Chinese and a few other brands,”claims Shiv. Same holds true for their choice of other equipments; whenever they went for a Die-Cutter, they always opted it with stripper; their VisionFold is pre-equipped with provision for inspection system; and as opposed to general practice of installing only Workflow, they went for the Esko Workflow with RIP. “The main reason to go for Esko RIP was because of its many features which

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backbone of their Packaging business and says, “It’s because of Commercial that we are into Packaging. We love Commercial printing and are dedicated towards meeting our customers’ demands,” he states.

are specifically designed for Packaging,” says Shiv. He adds that since it can read barcodes, missing text and give warnings online, it is a superior RIP. They have a dedicated Esko Kongsberg XE Cutting Table for sampling needs though occasionally used for Commercial products as well.

Future Vision Shiv wants to give the Indian market something which the European market is already doing. “We have to rise above from being just followers of European trends. All Printing fraternity should join hands so that we are known for our quality. Today what we hear is, ‘If you want volumes, go to India.

There you will save costs.’ But if anybody wants quality, he goes elsewhere. This is a sad state. We should bring quality and technology adoption on par with Europe,” he recommends.

With a present turnover around Rs.100 Cr.

this year, Shiv has a target of around Rs.175 Cr. for next year. He plans to take on the Rigid Box market in an aggressive way in future. He also wants to target Microflute. He says that an ideal setup for him would be to have two-three units. He wants a dedicated unit for Bobst Asitrade which he thinks is the best laminator in the world. The other two units would house five to six EMMECI machines, he says.

Shiv is totally dedicated towards his new Packaging business. This doesn’t mean any less for his Commercial business - he has kept both the businesses separate. The setup is separate, the machines are different and both have their own plans and targets.

Though he has no immediate plan to invest in his Commercial printing segment, he has specifically ensured that all the resources are put to best use in the best interest of his customers. Moreover, he considers the Commercial printing business as the

Shiv acts as the researcher for his company.

He does his research on expansion projects, infrastructure, machine and equipment. He visits plants world over, sees equipment running in real life conditions, prepares his report and submits to his father and uncle who are at the helm of the decision making at Rave. Together they discuss the possibilities, the budget, the market and everything related and only then decide on policy matters. In other words, the technical aspects of the business are left to Shiv by his uncle and father. So, he is the key person at Rave who decides on the technical parts of the equipment, what features the machines should possess and what would be the target market and ROI etc.

Today the Packaging business has taken a fine start with a solid base and a viable plan to guide it along the path. The marketing part will be handled by the existing team of over sixteen well trained people. Shiv doesn’t find any immediate need for appointing new people for his Packaging products because most of his customers have a mixed demand of Commercial and Packaging products. As the business gains pace and adapts more to the new shift, which he expects in a couple of months, he will be ensuring that his capacity quickly reaches optimum level and will also be working towards his set long-term targets.

We wish him our best for his success!

Wikipedia to have a 1,000-volume print edition?

The popular online portal Wikipedia featuring 2.6bn words and 4m articles by 20m volunteers is planned to be put into 1000-volume print edition to run over a million pages. The record breaking project has been launched on Indiegogo, an international crowdfunding site where anyone can raise money for film, music, art, charity, small businesses, gaming, theatre, and more.

at publisher PediaPress, the Indiegogo fundraiser is looking to raise $50,000 (£30,000) to bring Wikipedia into print.

Conceived by the team who work on the open source book tool for Wikipedia

They envisage the books fitting on a 10m-long book case, which they would

The team, PediaPress’s Heiko Hees, Christoph Kepper and Alex Boerger, believe the complete English Wikipedia would fit into approximately 1,000 books, with 1,200 pages each.

hope to display at the Wikimania conference in London this August, alongside “live updates (printed) on continuous paper” to show the update frequency of the website, as “obviously a printed Wikipedia will be outdated within seconds”.

Then, if enough money is raised, they hope to send the exhibition on an international tour, before donating it to a large public library. “To later generations this might be a period piece from the beginning of the digital revolution,” they say.

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Ipex 2014 – blueprint for the future Informa’s commitment to the global print community will be realised at Ipex 2014 and beyond

Ipex 2014 (24 – 29 March, ExCeL London) will provide the print industry with the tools, knowledge and inspiration to turn today’s challenges into tomorrow’s opportunities. Responding to independent research and extensive industry wide consultations, Informa has maintained the event’s print-centricity, but developed the event to reflect the evolution of the global communications landscape. With just days to go, Ipex is poised to help print emphatically stake its place in the communications mix.

Ipex visitors will discover the latest global technologies and solutions to produce quality print applications.

These technologies cover the entire print production workflow, from concept right through to the finished product, with suppliers from the UK and countries from across the globe.

Key Notes : > An informative and engaging event that addresses every level and component of a print company. > The first international print-centric event to help printers be a success in the modern marketing communications world. > The Masterclasses to aim at print business owner – practical sessions tackling real life, day-to-day issues.

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“Events are evolving, especially in B2B industries that are undergoing widespread changes like the print industry. It is critical for organisers to adapt their events to reflect these changes so that they deliver a wide range of benefits – including the all-important ROI – for exhibitors and visitors alike,” says Peter Hall, Managing Director, Informa.

“We have worked collaboratively with the international print industry and the markets that serve it to understand what Ipex needs to deliver. The result is an informative and engaging event that addresses every level and component of a print company through hundreds of international exhibitors showcasing their latest products and technologies, a comprehensive content programme, compelling features and the allure of London at the state-of-theart ExCeL centre.”

“Ipex will be the first international print-centric event that doesn’t just look at the technologies to create quality print and the strategies and practices to harness its power, but one that reflects, analyses

and provides proven solutions to help printers be a success in the modern marketing communications world. We have laid the groundwork to deliver a mutifaceted event that will support the industry now and in the coming years.”

New technologies and product launches Ipex visitors will discover the latest global technologies and solutions to produce quality print applications. These technologies cover the entire print production workflow, from concept right through to the finished product, with suppliers from the UK and countries from across the globe, notably from Belgium, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, The Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the USA. In addition to a raft of upcoming and innovative suppliers exhibiting for the first time, there will be a host of new technologies launched, with more scheduled to be announced in the lead up to Ipex and at the event itself.

For pre-press, there will be new market software solutions for colour management, variable data printing, web-to-print, integrated communication solutions and design. On the print production side, there are digital printing product launches for inkjet, inkjet label, inkless photo and 5-colour LED A3 printing, as well as new document mailing solutions and converting and feeding technologies. New systems will also be showcased for the full range of finishing techniques, including laminating, foiling, folding, booklet-making, binding, cutting and more, in addition to new solutions for machine maintenance

and consumables, with a wide range of new inks and substrates being showcased.

Global Community Spirit Ipex will appeal to all communities within the print and media landscape. Dismantling the silos between printers, marketers, brand agencies, specifiers and publishers, visitors will be able to engage with the technologies, solutions, issues, opportunities and personnel that make the communication industries tick. Ipex will also host a plethora of events within the ExCeL, including B51/ISO Standard Global Gathering, an EFI User Group, and the PODi (Digital Printing Initiative) European Forum, further establishing Ipex as the heart of the print community.

Content programme and features Ipex has been refined to be the definitive information source for the print industry in 2014 via the event’s comprehensive and relevant content programme, demonstrating to visitors how best to utilise and market print in the modern multi-media mix. Whether it’s understanding the trends that are shaping the industry, discovering new technologies and applications, developing robust business practices or honing operational skills and techniques, visitors from all corners of the print industry will find a practical takeaway, new idea, skill, solution or mind-set that will boost the performance of their company – for free.

The World Print Summit, a senior-level strategic thought leadership programme, will deliver a world-class line-up of speakers from the print, business, marketing and creative industries. An invaluable opportunity for business owners and managers, this forum will give them exclusive access to previously unheard content that will deliver the leading insights into the evolving role and power of print. Sessions will cover ‘How To Future-Proof Print in a Digital Age’, ‘Print: Doomed or on the Verge of a Digital Renaissance’, ‘Sustainability – So What? An Audience with Publishers and Printers’, ‘A Culture Shift Within The Print Industry’ and ‘The Evolving Role of Print for Consumer Marketing – Changing Attitudes to Print’.

Speakers include Barry Hibbert (Polestar Group), Benny Landa (Landa Corp), Professor Emeritus Frank Romano (RIT), Rory Sutherland (OgilvyOne London and Ogilvy & Mather UK), Clive Humby (Starcount and

developer of Tesco Clubcard), Patrick Martell (St. Ives Group and Ipex 2014 President), Richard Watson (acclaimed futurologist and author of Future Files), Kathy Woodward (BPIF) and Chris Jones (Novalia).

This programme is complemented by the Future Innovations zone, which looks at the printed products and technologies that are set for rapid expansion over the next few years across three sections – covering 3D printing, printed electronics and photobook products. This will include a daily live demonstration of how to produce photo products from concept to end product.

The Masterclasses – organised by Print Future’s Neil Falconer – will focus on business growth and production efficiency for SME printers. Aimed at the owner of a print business and his sales and production teams, these practical sessions will tackle real life, day-to-day issues and look at how best to solve them to streamline production and support business growth. There is an eclectic assortment of engaging topics within the Masterclasses, including the ‘Evolution of a commercial printer’, ‘Five cost saving tips for better margins’, ‘New age of Print – strategic marketing, creative and great design’, ‘Changing sales and marketing habits to sell more print’, ‘Attracting and retaining the right staff to grow a print business’, ‘Where printers go wrong with colour management’ and a host more.

Meanwhile visitors will be drawn to Inspiration Avenue, three galleries along the ExCeL’s Boulevard, celebrating powerful print opportunities, impact statements and case studies that demonstrate the crucial role of print and its versatility across a number of major themes, including retail, interactive, automotive, sports, education, design and creative, and electronics. The Eco Zone – sponsored by Komori – will incorporate a gallery that will illustrate the eco-credentials of a number of Ipex exhibitors.

For print service providers looking for the tools and know-how to evolve into a full marketing service provider, Cross Media Production’s three theatres (running from 25th to 27th March) – covering brand management, 121 digital, data and direct marketing, and publishing – will focus on how to effectively implement communication strategies across multiple platforms. The

Cross Media Production seminar programme features presentations, case studies and panel discussions on such topics as ‘Expanding Marketing Services to Deliver Cross-Channel Campaigns’, ‘Developing Transformation Strategies from Print to Cross Media’, ‘Increasing ROI Using Customer Insight Programs & Web2Media Platforms’ and ‘Managing Operational & Structural Change in Organisations’.

Ipex has also put an emphasis on the importance of injecting young blood into the industry. Designed specifically for students from secondary schools, colleges and universities, an exciting Youth in Print programme will run on the last day (29th March) – in and around the World Print Summit – that features presentations on the power of print from past students of the industry, a tour of Ipex, practical workshops and career advice for students.

At the Wide Format Zone, visitors will see a range of devices and ancillary services being showcased by Epson, Screen, D&K, Grafityp and M Partners, among others.

Trevor Crawford, Ipex 2014 Event Director, comments: “With only a month to go, everything we have worked towards is falling into place. By consulting the print industry, we have created an event that is inspiring, thought-provoking and relevant to the needs and requirements of print and media enterprises over the long term. Ipex is much, much more than an exhibition, and we can’t wait to demonstrate that in March when we open the doors at its new home at the ExCeL London.”

New home, new vision All this takes place under one roof at Ipex’s new home at the ExCeL London, where visitors and exhibitors will be able to immerse themselves within a state of the art venue in one of the greatest business capitals in the world, as well as embracing London’s iconic culture and world famous nightlife – making Ipex much more than just a vital business trip.

Begin your Ipex journey Visitors can pre-register for free via www. ipex.org, and are encouraged to keep upto-date with the Ipex content programme via the website to enable them to plan their schedule, arrange travel and accommodation and make the most of their time at the event.

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KBA Rapida 205 at Tempt World’s largest sheetfed press to be installed at Tempt In-Store Productions

Tempt In-Store Productions, a Quad/Graphics company, will be installing a new KBA Rapida 205, the world’s largest sheetfed press, at its New Berlin, Wis., facility, in the summer of 2014.

asset will provide Quad with a competitive edge well into the foreseeable future thereby providing a most comprehensive in-store marketing solution for its customers.”

The new super-large-format press is capable of printing POP, signage, posters, displays and graphics of all kinds up to 81 inches by 59 inches (1.51 x 2.05 meters) in size. Equipped with a wide range of automated technologies such as automatic plate changing and UV drying capabilities that allow for printing on almost any substrate, the press delivers extremely high print quality with low makeready times.

The new press complements Tempt’s existing KBA Rapida 64-inch sheetfed press and represents the latest step in Tempt’s mission to build a nationwide in-store marketing platform that delivers the best possible solutions with the latest technology. In 2013, Tempt added a new Inca S50i large-format digital UV flatbed press at its New Berlin, Wis., facility, and a new Inca Q40i large-format digital UV flatbed device to its Southern California operations in Huntington Beach. The company also serves international customers by utilizing the large-format printing capabilities of Quad/Graphics’ plants in Europe and Latin America.

“At Tempt we are committed to using the highest level of technology in order to minimize cost and turnaround time for our customers,” said Mike Draver, president of Tempt. “We are serious about providing the broadest range of in-store marketing solutions that help retailers and marketers achieve their business goals.”

New KBA Rapida super-large-format press reaffirms Tempt’s commitment to providing widest range of solutions for retailers, brand marketers.

The new KBA Rapida 205 81-inch sheetfed press, awarded the prestigious PIA InterTech award, features a maximum sheet size of 59.5” x 81” running at a speed of 9,000 sheets per hour (sph). Its range of features include a fully-automatic plate changer with lifting facility for loading and unloading of the plate holders on the tower guards, automatic blanket and impression cylinder washing systems, an in-line anilox coating system and IR, UV, or hybrid drying options.

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It also includes KBA’s Densitronic quality control system. The ACR automatic camera register control system provides a simple method for operators to obtain fast color registration. The camera is used to determine any register differences, and calculated correction values are then transmitted to the lateral, circumferential and diagonal register systems on the individual printing units.

> The Quad/Graphics company to install world’s largest at its New Berlin falility. > Printing POP, signage, posters, displays and graphics up to 81 inches by 59 inches in size. > 9,000 sph press features automatic plate changer, cylinder washing, in-line anilox coating and IR, UV, or hybrid drying options.

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“We commend Quad/Graphics for this important capital equipment investment in this new super large format 81” KBA offset press,” says Steve Korn, director of national and key accounts for KBA North America. “This 81” KBA press will enable Quad’s Tempt division to provide the highest quality super large format offset printing on paper, board, and plastic all with ultimate ease. Accompanied by a high level kit of purpose-chosen KBA technology, this

Tempt™ In-Store Productions is a Quad/Graphics company that provides in-store marketing materials and programs for many of the nation’s leading retailers and brand marketers. Tempt offers extensive production expertise and resources to develop attention-getting, sales-driving shopper marketing programs in conjunction with other Quad/Graphics solutions. From design and prototype services through large-format printing, finishing operations and customized kit packing, Tempt works with customers to create a destination in-store.

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Exports support the growth of the Italian graphic and paper machinery industry Acimga’s market survey for the IV quarter 2013-I quarter 2014 reveals optimism from market players but also emphasizes the stagnation of the domestic market.

Exports are at risk for the growing eurodollar exchange rate and for Germany’s increasingly aggressive competition.

It’s too early to talk about recovery. However, in a scenario where the domestic market is stagnant and international competition is increasingly aggressive, the predominant outlook for the graphic and paper machinery industry – one of the leading segments in Italy’s instrumental mechanics industry – is optimistic.

Exports and export-generated revenues are growing, thus offsetting the protracted difficulties in the domestic market and keeping employment levels stable. In addition, expectations for the first quarter of this year are positive. This in sum is what emerged from the market survey performed by the research department of Acimga – the Italian manufacturers association of machinery for the graphic, converting and paper industry – with regard to market performance in the IV quarter 2013 and forecasts for the first quarter 2014.

Acimga represents a sector producing over € 2 billion in revenues, 83% of which are generated by exports; it employs 7,000 people in about 150 companies, 90% of which are small- and medium-size.

The qualitative market survey, conducted on a representative sample generating 82% of total revenues, clearly shows that exports as companies’ main strength: 48% of companies report an increase in exports in the fourth quarter of 2013, 40% report stability and only 12% report a drop. These results are expected to replicate in the first three months of 2014, with substantial stability (48%) and a greater number of companies expecting growth (32%) compared to those expecting a decrease (20%). This data is supported by order performance on foreign markets, which shows an upward trend at the end of 2013 and is expected to remain stable (48%) in the I quarter of 2014 with a clear predominance of positive forecasts (44% compared to 8%)

from market operators. The international scenario, traditionally very receptive to Italian products, looks interesting for the coming months especially in Far East markets, in Middle-East countries like Iran and in the recovering U.S. market. Conversely, it is less promising in Latin American countries compared to the past.

Export performance offsets a critical domestic market, curbed by the liquidity crisis which causes even those companies interested in investing to be extremely cautious. The domestic market was substantially stagnant in the last portion of the year (46% of companies report stability, the remaining sample is equally divided between increase and drop) with optimists having a slight margin in the forecasts for the I quarter 2014. The same holds true for domestic orders, again with a predominant positive outlook for the beginning of 2014.

Nearly 80% of sample companies report stable employment levels.

“Our companies represent an industry segment capable of reacting to difficulties and having with a strong presence on global markets – says Acimga president Marco Calcagni – as clearly evidenced by the results of the market survey. However, we cannot overlook important signs like the stagnation of the domestic market, slowed down by a liquidity crisis banks do little to mitigate. Also, we need to pay close attention to the international market, where competition is increasingly fierce. German manufacturers are gaining ground on Italian companies, accompanied beyond their national borders by a more efficient financial and banking system. This – says Mr Calcagni – coupled with the overvaluation of the Euro vs. U.S. Dollar signals the need for greater, more effective support to the ‘Italian systems’ on international markets”.

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drupa Global Trends report Global investment in the print industry will be stronger in the next 12 months as confidence returns.

The first drupa Global Trends report provides analysis of the printing and media sector worldwide. drupa will publish two report series entitled “drupa Global Trends” and “drupa Global Insights,” that will study for the first time the trends and major changes in the international print and media sector at both global and regional levels. The results will be based on answers provided by a representative panel consisting of leading executives from printers, suppliers and print purchasers from around the world, recruited primarily from the drupa 2012 visitor and exhibitor database. Messe Düsseldorf, in its role as drupa organiser, has appointed two independent consulting and market research companies Printfuture (UK) and Wissler & Partner (Switzerland) to conduct these two report series. The first “drupa Global Trends” report is now published.

New KBA Rapida super-large-format press reaffirms Tempt’s commitment to providing widest range of solutions for retailers, brand marketers.

Key Notes : > The Quad/Graphics company to install world’s largest at its New Berlin falility. > Printing POP, signage, posters, displays and graphics up to 81 inches by 59 inches in size. > 9,000 sph press features automatic plate changer, cylinder washing, in-line anilox coating and IR, UV, or hybrid drying options.

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Despite reporting significant regional variations, the “drupa Global Trends” report does reveal a number of critical – and sometimes surprising – trends that are shared by all economic regions and across print segments (Publishing Packaging and Commercial).

As was to be expected, the report confirmed that the global printing industry’s structural transformation is still ongoing, with increasing costs coupled with declining prices and shrinking margins. However, three other major findings of the study are more pivotal: 1. There are clear signs that economic conditions are improving. As a consequence the printing industry globally is planning increased investment over the next twelve months.

Efficiency gains and the development of new services are driving investment in the industrialised countries. North America is leading the way by gearing up for major transformation with high levels of investment in printing technology, IT and new services. In the emerging countries growing demand is the main driver.

2. The printing industry is in the midst of a transition from a product-driven industry to a service-driven one. The demand for new solutions and business models that better reflect the customer needs is clear.

3. As expected, digital printing plays an increasing role in the technology mix deployed. Among print services providers, 65% produce using both conventional and digital methods and one-third of commercial printers already gain

a quarter or more of their turnover from digital printing. But conventional printing (especially sheet-fed offset) continues to be an important pillar for the print sector. Planned investment reflects this point as 29% of all printers say they intend to invest in sheet-fed offset printing.

“Thanks to these two report series, drupa is able to offer first-rate, representative market data and information that will enable the market players – be they providers of print services, suppliers or print purchasers – to make better strategic decisions. In addition the reports will allow variations between the world’s major economic regions to be analysed.

Finally the insights gained will serve to further improve drupa’s positioning,” says Werner M. Dornscheidt, the President and CEO of Messe Düsseldorf.

This first drupa “Global Trends” report provides an initial assessment of the state of the global print industry In order to monitor the trends going forward, the survey will be repeated in the fourth quarter each year. In parallel drupa will publish a series of “Global Insight” reports that will offer detailed analysis into specific industry-relevant topics. An “Insights” report on “The Impact of the Internet on Print” will kick off the series in June of 2014. The objective will be to show the effects of the Internet on e-commerce, digital marketing, mass customisation and IT on the world of print and illustrate how future strategies and business models need to adapt.

Some 2,500 decision-makers from across the globe (119 countries) participated in the survey in the fourth quarter of 2013 and answered the extensive questionnaire. The majority (58%) came from print services providers, followed by suppliers (21%) and print purchasers (21%).

An executive summary of the survey results (in German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian and Chinese) is available as a PDF download at Messe Duesseldorf Website.

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BenQ introduces Pro Graphics Series Self-calibrating, professional colour management monitor PG2401PT supports cloud-based colour proofing systems and features one-click proofing capabilities.

Colour proofing does not have to be a beast of a job The strict colour quality expectations of art, design, photography and print-making professionals are a constant challenge for printers. As a result, quality and accuracy are necessary to efficiently manage the proofing process. Traditionally, soft and hard proofing have been standard steps in the colour proofing process. But with better technology available, some projects are being produced with soft proofing alone. Therefore, monitor colour accuracy is the key factor in reliable soft proofing.

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G7, Fogra and other ISO standard printquality certifications for print-perfect proofing efficiency and lowered total cost of ownership 100% CMYK colour space and 99% Adobe RGB colour space to ensure the most accurate colour reproduction A 10-bit display panel for the smoothest shading and colour transitions in natural gradations 14-bit 3D Look-Up-Table and processing for improved RGB colour blending accuracy, resulting in flawless colour and gray tone reproduction Delta E≤2 to ensure colour accuracy throughout project workflow, providing viewers with the truest impression of the original image while them saving time and money Hardware calibration support that stores calibration data generated by the calibrator directly on the monitor’s IC to safe keep the most authentic and accurate calibration results Brightness uniformity support that balances brightness and chromaticity for consistent image viewing across the entire display Palette Master Software co-developed with X-Rite, is bundled colour calibration software that can validate calibration according to G7/Fogra/Ugra criteria, making it easy to verify for international printing standards.

BenQ steps ahead in soft proofing efficiency with new PG2401PT Among professional colour monitors, BenQ PG series monitors stand out for their colour reproduction. With Delta E lower than two, these monitors are rigorously tested against standard printing colour charts and real printing house results to meet the entire tonal range and challenging aspects of colouration. The latest addition by BenQ is a further step in soft proofing efficiency.

The company has recently launched its new Pro Graphics Series professional colour management monitor, PG2401PT. Featuring Fogra and other printing-industry colour certifications of international ISO standards, 100% CMYK colour space, 99% Adobe RGB colour space, 14-bit 3D Look-Up-Table and processing Delta E≤2 and brightness uniformity function, the monitor is designed to meet the demanding colour quality expectations of art, design, photography and print-making professionals during the process of colour proofing.

Soft proofing precision and total interoperability Made specifically for creative professionals such as photographers, graphic designers, colour re-touchers, and printers requiring accurate and consistent on-screen colour matching, the new device provides reliable, printing-certified soft proofing precision.

With Palette Master and X-Rite, the monitor effectively improves design and proofing efficiency and lower the total cost of ownership, making it the ideal choice for system houses seeking the perfect hardware and software solution for their clients and printing houses. For content creators, the new Pro Graphics Series would also make a great work companion, enabling an effective digital workflow with absolute content colour consistency from designing to printing.

To enable total interoperability, the PG2401PT provides dynamic connectivity options via input ports, which allow users to switch easily between different connected devices. This allows professionals to connect their PG monitor directly to a PC via DVI-D, HDMI®, or DisplayPort, while Mac® users can utilize a

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Mini DisplayPort to connect with the displays.

A USB3.0 port/card reader is also available to facilitate fast file transfers. To further simplify operation and increase comfort, the monitors are ergonomically designed with a wide adjustable stand, and an on-screen display allows automatic rotation to either portrait or landscape mode. To ensure smooth proofing, the monitor comes equipped with a shading hood that eliminates distracting glare effects.

About BenQ Founded on the corporate vision of “Bringing Enjoyment ‘N’ Quality to Life”, BenQ Corporation provides a broad portfolio of products and technologies spanning digital projectors, monitors, interactive large-format displays, digital cameras and camcorders, mobile computing devices, and lighting solutions.

The $20+ billion BenQ Group is comprised of 15+ independent companies operating in over 30 countries across numerous industries with a combined workforce of over 100,000 employees. The Group delivers critical components and world-class solutions in the following industries: TFT-LCD, green energy, fine chemicals and advanced materials, lighting, IC design, precision components, system integration, branded business, and service.

BenQ PG2401PT, is available in India at Rs.1,15,000/- For more information visit www.BenQ.co.in.

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QuarkXPress 10.1 is now available Free QuarkXPress 10 update boosts performance, offers best-in-class 8000% zoom and more Quark Software has announced QuarkXPress® 10.1, a major update to QuarkXPress 10 that is available free of charge to all version 10 users. It delivers a powerful package of new and improved features based on customer feedback including 8000% zoom and dynamic guides.

The new update adds HTML5 animation capabilities to App Studio layouts within QuarkXPress and provides version 10 support for Quark Publishing Platform.

distance to other items to help evenly distribute elements.

• Available as a perpetual license, customers can rely on ongoing value from their investment in QuarkXPress 10. No subscriptions are necessary and users can take advantage of affordable support programs and dual activation, plus free upgrades throughout each version cycle.

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HTML5 Animations: Use QuarkXPress to easily create HTML5 animations such as slide-in from the side, fade or grow elements. Use these animations in App Studio to easily add interactive animations to app content.

What’s new in QuarkXPress 10.1: 8000% Zoom: Designers love details. That’s why QuarkXPress now offers the deepest zooming options available in leading layout and photo tools so that designers can, for example, position images as precisely as possible.

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The new, rebuilt book feature now works seamlessly with projects and layouts so users can specify one or more layouts for inclusion in a single book. Books can sync indexes, table of contents and other design elements, such as colours

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and stylesheets, and can be exported to one or multiple PDFs. This new flexible approach is also an ideal way to create publications that contain multiple page sizes.

Export as Image: Simply export boxes, partial pages or whole pages as static pixel based images (PNG, JPG).

Custom Color Schemes: Now you can create your own user interface colour settings in the preferences menu. *Mac only

QR Code Enhancements: Change URL and other content on existing QR codes and create pixel or vector-based codes.

QuarkXPress 10.1 supports Mac OS X Lion, Mountain Lion and Mavericks as well as Windows 7, 8 and 8.1. It can be downloaded at the company’s Website. For users who already tested QuarkXPress 10.x, the Test Drive will be reset when QuarkXPress 10.1 is downloaded, giving designers an additional 30 days to try it out.

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Two KBA companies with production facilities in China China has been the largest single market for printing presses from the Koenig & Bauer group for a number of years. It is already more than 20 years ago that KBA established its first local presence on this enormous market, where the current sales and service network comprises KBA Printing Machinery (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., further branch offices in Beijing and Guangzhou, and KBA (HK) Co. Ltd. in Hong Kong. More than 170 staff at KBA China provide professional and allembracing customer services for Chinese users of sheetfed offset, web and special presses.

Speciality sheet feeders: KBA Machinery (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. It is possibly less well known that there are also KBA companies manufacturing and assembling press equipment in China. In 2010, for example, Koenig & Bauer AG 2010 acquired an 80% majority interest in MABEG Machinery (Shanghai) Co. Ltd (MMS).

The company’s 63 employees produce mainly sheet feeders for Chinese die-cutter, laminator and sheetfed printing press manufacturers, but at the same time also a variety of parts and components for the European supplier industry.

With effect from 01.04.2014, MMS will be operating under the new name KBA Machinery (Shanghai) Co. Ltd (then KMS for short). As chairman of the Chinese subsidiary, Herbert Nadj has already been reporting to KBA executive vice-president for production Michael Kummert since

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July 2013. With his background in power electronics, Nadj travelled the world between 1986 and 1998 as a service technician and project manager for screen printing machines. From 1998 to 2008, he then contributed decisively to development of the Chinese subsidiary MMS as plant, installation and service manager for Mabeg Maschinenbau GmbH & Co KG, before moving on to Rudolf Fritz GmbH & Co. KG, where he served as technical manager until January 2013. Nadj joined KBA in February 2013 and was appointed chairman of MMS / KBA Machinery (Shanghai) in the following summer. He now plans to expand business relationships to local suppliers in the upper market segment and in this way to win new customers. Given the ever higher quality of production, he also sees a good chance to expand deliveries of components to Europe.

Speciality marking and coding: KBA-Metronic Hangzhou Co., Ltd. The Binjiang district of Hangzhou is an upwardly striving high-tech location. A modern high-speed train connects the area with Shanghai, approx. 200 km to the northeast. It was in Hangzhou that KBAMetronic GmbH and partners founded KBA-Metronic Hangzhou Co., Ltd. as a further sales and manufacturing company in summer 2013. The KBA specialist for industrial marking and coding systems, which has its main offices in Veitshöchheim near Würzburg, expects this investment to give a further push to international growth.

Alongside KBA-Metronic, as majority shareholder, the remaining shares are held

by In-Dun (HQ) Holding Inc. and In-Dun Co. Ltd. KBA-Metronic and In-Dun can already look back over a long partnership. In-Dun has represented KBA-Metronic in Taiwan since 2005, and in China since 2006. An assembly line for alphaJET inkjet printers is currently being set up at the Chinese factory.

Know-how and certain key components, however, are to remain the responsibility of the German headquarters. A total of 23 employees will initially be handling manufacturing, sales and service for China and Taiwan. Additional sales offices are to be opened in Zhejiang and Guangdong.

Expansion to supply the rest of the Southeast Pacific region is planned for the future.

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Heidelberg India’s Kochi Seminar focuses on ‘Maximum Productivity with Minimal Downtime’ Heidelberg India, conducted a one-day seminar on January 11 2014, in Kochi, partnering with the Kerala Master Printer Association. The seminar titled, “Key Maintenance and Advanced Trouble Shooting Techniques in Sheet-fed Offset Printing” focused on how to get the most of your printing equipment to reach the highest levels of productivity. The seminar witnessed strong attendance from the printing fraternity across Kerala, in addition to participation from the members of the Kerala Master Printer Association (KMPA). Over all, more than 100 participants were present at the event. In a highly competitive and fragmented printing environment, the primary objective of every print-shop is to boost profit margins, while keeping production costs down. Aware of this need, Heidelberg India took the initiative to educate printers on how to use their printing machines to the optimum capacity with minimal down-times.

“Kerala has always been an important market for us. Such technical sessions help us share our expertise with our customers, to equip them face today’s print buyers who are more conscious about quality printing at nominal rates”, commented Venkataraman, Regional Sales Manager who handles the Kerala region for Heidelberg.

In a session on “Benefits of Maintenance”, Haribabu, Head of Customer Service,

(From Left) Mr. Hari Babu, (Heidelberg India) receiving memento from Mr. Joseph Muttathottil President – KMPA.

addressed the audience on regular maintenance activities required for a printshop, and how such efforts promote best results in print production.

Commenting on the current print industry trends, Haribabu said, “Today, the market demands a combo of high quality, low price and faster delivery. Present-day equipment’s are automated and supported by high-

end electronics that we need to be trained to utilize the equipment fully and more efficiently.”

He also emphasized the necessity of periodic maintenance that would lead to cost savings, better productivity and high quality, citing various maintenance activities for real-time issues.

Joseph Muttathottil, President of Kerala Master Printer Association, said, “It is indeed a great opportunity for KMPA members to learn about maintenance benefits from the experts at Heidelberg. We look forward to more such sessions.” Anoop from Anaswara printers said, “The session was very useful.

Today’s competitive environment demands more value-added services from printers and we need to be better equipped to cater to print-buyers.”

Heidelberg India is strongly committed to fostering the growth of the Indian Printing Industry and runs various campaigns and programs through the year to complement this mission.

Mr. Venkataraman, Regional Sales Manager (Heidelberg India) addressing the Audience

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Web to Print now goes B2B PrintBindaas-Xerox deploys Cloud solution for Su-Kam.

“With our association with PrintBindaas, we became the first company in the power back up industry in India to have introduced an easily accessible online platform for our internal stakeholders to procure marketing collateral.”

- Mr. Kunwer Sachdev, Su-Kam

Key Notes : > Premier web based printing solutions provider deployed B2B Ecommerce platform on cloud. > Helps in faster and cost efficient management of print and merchandise inventory, reporting, approval workflow etc. > Allows to place an order from anywhere in the country and ensure quick delivery through Xerox channel partners spread across the country.

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Powered by Xerox production equipment, PrintBindaas, a premier web based printing solutions provider deployed B2B Ecommerce platform on cloud for Su-Kam Power Systems Limited, a power solutions provider, to manage their merchandise and marketing collaterals. The platform developed by PrintBindaas reflects the growing trend of web based printing moving towards a B2B model.

etc. even in remote areas. It also provides greater transparency and accountability in the system by decentralizing the decision making process and enabling regional/local heads to evaluate their budgets and thereby monitor their spends according to their requirements. Going forward we plan to extend the platform and open it to our esteemed channel partners.”

The solution helps Su-Kam in faster and cost efficient management of their print and merchandise inventory, reporting, approval workflow, leading to greater control & transparency. It allows Su-Kam employees to place an order from anywhere in the country and ensure quick delivery through Xerox channel partners spread across the country.

Mr. Suraj Goyal, CEO, PrintBindaas commented, “We are pleased to be working with Su-Kam and believe that our solution would provide cost savings, quicker turnaround time and 24/ 7 access to marketing collaterals from anytime anywhere.”

Mr. Kunwer Sachdev, Founder & Managing Director, Su-Kam commented “We are pleased to employ the services offered by PrintBindaas. It enables us to save on our resources while efficiently outsourcing print and merchandise through a reliable vendor. With our association with PrintBindaas, we became the first company in the power back up industry in India to have introduced an easily accessible online platform for our internal stakeholders to procure marketing collateral. This has helped in smooth functioning of various verticals by increasing speed of execution as once the material is ordered online, it is delivered ® ® iGen 150 Press at the Xerox requisite doorstep timely thereby helping our Overview sales force to overcome various challenges like lack of standardization, logistics, budgets over-runs

“We would also like to take this opportunity to thank Xerox for their constant technology backing on all our endeavors and helping us make inroads in the B2B market space,” Suraj added further.

Mr. Vipin Tuteja, Executive Director, Technology, Channels & International Business, Xerox India said, “PrintBindaas has been catering to a wide range of audience in the web-to-print space and has been delivering innovative and personalized products to B2C audience since its inception. They foresaw the shift in ecommerce trend from a B2C to a B2B model and we are happy to having assisted them on their journey.”

The consumer side of web to print business has

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been in existence in India for quite some time now; wherein consumers can select collateral designs based on the industry or merchandise, upload logos or pictures, make the requisite payment post which the order is delivered at the desired location. However in this association of PrintBindaas and SuKam; it is an interesting B2B engagement wherein it is a win-win for everyone. SuKam needs to effectively manage print and merchandise supply to their sales teams and dealers, while minimizing the time to service, cost and inventory. PrintBindaas gets online orders from branches and creates a landmark in B2B Web to Print and Xerox gets to print desired collaterals at the nearest production partner location.

Su-Kam Power Systems Su-Kam is India’s most admired power solutions provider, with growing presence across India and over 70 countries worldwide covering the major expanse of Africa, Middle East Regions, South East Asia, Latin America etc. A truly knowledge driven

company, with innovation at heart, Su-Kam develops intelligent power back-up solutions, engineered to be energy efficient and thus reduce the user’s carbon footprint.

Headquartered in Gurgaon and with 6 stateof-the art manufacturing facilities certified under OHSAS – 18001, this ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certified company leads the market with its product innovation, design sensibility and a large and widespread sales distribution network. The company has over 30000 dealerships in India.

Su-Kam is the only power back-up company to be recognized for its R & D by the Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi. The company is credited for filing the highest number of patents in the Industry with an average of 2 patents every month. The company has received several prestigious awards like Asia’s Most Promising Brand Award 2013, Market Leadership Award in Africa 2013, Asian Leadership Award 2013, Business Superbrand 2008, Selected

Superbrand 2009, Powerbrand India 2010, National Award for quality Product from Government of India etc.

Working further towards a cleaner, greener planet, Su-Kam is branching out towards eco-friendly inexhaustible energy solutions like solar power. For more information, please visit www.su-kam.com.

PrintBindaas is a web based printing solutions provider, making available a one click solution through printbindaas. com for diverse industry needs including business stationary, marketing collaterals, merchandise.

Xerox is a global player distinguished for providing solutions in business process and document management, helping organizations in becoming more efficient.

It is headquartered in Norwalk, Conn., and serves clients in 160 countries with more than 140,000 employees.

Konica Minolta launches Business Innovation Centers across the world Konica Minolta has announced that the company is establishing Business Innovation Centers (BICs) in 5 major regions around the world to develop new businesses responding to regional customer needs and markets.

Konica Minolta has been vigorously driving transformation of its core Business Technologies Business by shifting from traditional business models based on sales of MFPs (multi-functional peripherals) to provision of services which assist the customers in improving and innovating their business processes by utilizing ICT. The company plans to establish BIC in each of its 5 key regional markets of North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, China and Japan in order to develop solutions in the customers’ business environment, further supporting the needs in the specific market.

Each regional BIC will focus on gaining a deeper understanding of customer needs to develop new services, as well as manage the entire lifecycle of new service business development, from ideation to actual business deployment activities, at faster time to market.

The BICs will be closely collaborating with a

diverse range of entities, such as research institutes, partner companies, and startups during the development process. At every BIC in the 5 key regions of the world, its top management and core staff are locally employed best talent, as their wealth of knowledge and understanding are essential to drive businesses specifically tailored for the region.

Capitalizing on those advantages, each BIC will develop new services through marketing initiatives including analysis of customer needs and research on technical trends and valuable services and products in the regional market. The BICs will primarily focus

in the ICT services field. In the future, they will expand their business fields to develop new innovative products and solutions.

Based on the above mentioned strategic plan, the first BIC for the Asia Pacific has launched in Singapore. Singapore was chosen as the development headquarters for services business in the Asia Pacific region because of its central location and strong support network. In the initial phase, the Asia Pacific BIC will be focusing on development of cloud-based service offerings such as software-as-a-service (SaaS) and business process-as-a-service (BPaaS) to add to Konica Minolta’s Intelligent Office service offering. The center will also be working closely with customers to develop industryspecific cloud-based solutions. By providing the services through the Konica Minolta cloud infrastructure, Konica Minolta will deliver the economies of scale and savings and agility to the customers.

Under the communication message “Giving Shape to Ideas,” Konica Minolta has been aiming to contribute to a better society and grow as company worthy of support and trust of society by creating and delivering new services and values to customers.

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An affordable ‘Made-in-India’ Labels solution from Creed “The Vinsak LSR continues to offer discerning value to the Indian Label Printer for the finishing of Labels,” says Mr. Ranesh Bajaj, Director, Creed Engineering Pvt. Ltd. With already a couple of machines being successfully installed in India and overseas, the machine is a cost-effective domestic solution for Indian customers looking for international quality standards. The machine has integrated Camera Systems. As an entry-level solution, it can be used as an MLD system and can also be an ideal solution as a high-end system. “We proudly announce this “Made in India” offering for our customers, who have been looking for an international quality labels solution at domestic price,” says Mr. Ranesh Bajaj. “It is

our little effort to save the country precious foreign exchange and contribute to the domestic industry in India,” he concludes.

VINSAK provides innovative and business oriented solutions enabling businesses succeed with VINSAK’s well integrated and supported customized solutions. VINSAK solutions are provided to manufacturers of print of every scale.

Xerox iGen® 150 Press and Xerox Wide Format IJP 2000 to take centre stage on Xeretec stand Informa Exhibitions has announced that Xeretec has confirmed its presence at Ipex 2014 (24-29 March, ExCeL London). The company, a strategic partner for Xerox production technology and Top 5 European integrator of managed print services, will showcase the flagship Xerox iGen 150 Press and Xerox Wide Format IJP 2000, while it will also inform visitors about its comprehensive range of other print-related services and solutions for various industries.

“The success of Xeretec continues to be built on long lasting customer relationships,” says Warren Beard, Produstion Director.

It’s another Scodix for Zoom Digital Press

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Zoom Digital Press, the Vishakhapatnam based digital printing firm has added another Scodix to enhance its digital printing capabilities. The latest Scodix S75 is the firm’s second Scodix press. Monotech Systems, the Indian representative of Scodix has installed the press to Zoom which is one of the leading names in the photo-album production sphere of Vishakhapatnam. It is known for its specialised photo applications and went for its second Scodix to meet the increasing demand of photo enhancement.

The press is owned by M Krishna Chaitanya and also runs a facility in Hyderabad.

Sir Speedy partners with Xerox Sir Speedy India has entered into a strategic partnership with Xerox to expand its footprint in India. Sir Speedy, one of the world’s largest franchised network of printing and marketing service providers, also plans to open 20 outlets in India by 2015.

Xerox has been globally associated with Sir Speedy for 30 years. Presently, Sir Speedy has presence in Hyderabad and Bangalore at four outlets.

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Scodix announces winners of first Scodix Customers Job Awards Entries from around the world judged for design quality, production complexity, and overall appearance.

Scodix recently announced the winners of the company’s first Scodix Design Awards competition. With over 50 submissions from users worldwide, Scodix enlisted the keen eyes and technological understanding of five of the industry’s finest to judge each entry on the floor of the PRINT 13 show.

The distinguished panel of judges rated each entry for design quality, production complexity, and overall appearance.

Applicants represented every continent and just about every segment of the market, including direct mail, product packaging, fine arts, and commercial printing.

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This year’s applicants displayed work that covered a wide realm of projects, including augmented reality items, braille books from Korea, wedding albums from India and much more. All of the submitted entries projected professionalism, creativity, and a superior understanding of the power of the Scodix technology. The best of the best are: •

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Glittering Category: The winners are SKAG of Greece for their Calendar, and Tukaiz of the United States for their Magazine Cover; Metallic Category: The winner is

Pressing of Spain for their Cocktail Menu; General Commercial Category: The winners are Acculink of the United States for their Brochure, and GZD of Germany for their own Brochure; Direct Mail Category: The winners are Curtis Packaging of United States for their US Open Ticket Pouch, and PM Digital of India for their Greeting Card; Packaging Category: The winners are Chanakya Mudrak Pvt. Ltd. of India for their Orange Box, and Acculink for their Sun Glasses Packaging; Restaurant Menu Category: The winners are Copiadora Nacional of Brazil for their Restaurant Menu, and Xicailons – Jing Ping Dao Yuan, for their Chinese Restaurant Menu;

what their clients were thinking when they saw their projects come to life so vividly. It’s magic!”

PBBA Director and competition judge Vince Mallardi added, “I thought I was impressed by the Scodix work I had seen at previous shows. Seeing actual commercial work of this caliber is on a whole new level. I am telling our printer and broker members that they need to ‘stand out’ by offering print that ‘stands out’ with Scodix. What a market differentiator.”

“The applied creative wizardry in conjunction with the Scodix enhancement capabilities, produced some of the finest real-world projects I’ve ever seen,” notes competition judge Frank Romano. “While we’ve see some amazing eye-catching samples coming from the Scodix booth at every trade show, it’s always amazing to see how production professionals can take their technology to a whole new level of impact. I can only imagine

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Xeikon specialty Suites bring innovation to Ipex 2014 Advanced digital printing technology offers end-to-end productivity, quality and efficiency

Xeikon, an innovator in digital colour printing technology, will be showcasing a host of market-leading solutions at Ipex 2014.

Located on stand S1-E090, the company will demonstrate its integrated hardware and software solutions specifically developed to help customers raise the bar in digital print quality and productivity for a wide range of applications. Ipex is taking place March 24 to 29 at the ExCel in London.

the star model in Xeikon’s Folding Carton Suite, producing personalized short-run folding cartons. Combined with solutions from Xeikon’s Aura Partner Network, the Folding Carton Suite enables a highly automated short-run manufacturing process,

“Xeikon has been and continues to be a supporter of Ipex and we are excited to be part of the show at its brand-new location,” says Patrick Van Baelen, VP Marketing at Xeikon. “In addition, the UK is an important market for us, and Ipex provides good access to UK printing companies. As such, it is the ideal platform to showcase the capabilities of our digital printing solutions and revealing more details on our Suites.”

Focused end-to-end solutions At Ipex, Xeikon will be demonstrating its Suites that include not only an outstanding digital printing press, but also the software and workflow, consumables and tools, recommended print media, and equipment that are required for a true end-to-end digital printing solution. “We have made a number of enhancements to our Folding Carton Suite, and are introducing dedicated Suites for commercial print and book printers,” comments Van Baelen. “Visitors to our stand will be able to see live production and speak to Xeikon experts about how their businesses can benefit from implementing these unique configurations.”

The Future of Folding Cartons On show will be Xeikon’s enhanced Folding Carton Suite and Xeikon 3500 digital press,

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covering the entire flow from design to finished box. It includes dedicated workflow and software components, applicationspecific toner and consumables and a full library of approved conventional and specialty cartonboard without any precoating required.

“While demand for conventionally produced folding cartons will remain, brand owners also need to produce a greater variety of products in smaller quantities and with faster time-to-market. And they need the ability to do intensive test marketing affordably,” marks Van Baelen. “Digital printing technologies are proven to be the most effective means of meeting these evolving requirements. Xeikon has been delivering digital folding carton manufacturing solutions since 1998. Visitors at Ipex will see that we continue to enhance these solutions as market conditions and technology evolve.”

Books and Documents Ipex will also mark the introduction of the Document Production Suite and Book Production Suite, that address the evolving needs of commercial, document and book printers in new and innovative ways.

“Customer feedback tells us that these application-specific Production Suites add significant value to printing operations across a broad spectrum of segments,” adds Danny Mertens, Director Segment Marketing & Business Development Document Printing.

“They make it easy for conventional printers to add digital capabilities to the mix, while digital printers can easily integrate with existing environments.”

Full details about all of the Xeikon Suites will be revealed during a press conference, scheduled on the first day of the show.

Xeikon will also be demonstrating its digital printing creativity at Ipex’s new Future Innovations Zone created to highlight printed products and technologies that are set for rapid expansion over the next few years.

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HP demonstrates high-value applications for converters HP showcased the latest HP Indigo and Scitex-printed packaging solutions at the Packaging Innovations in Birmingham.

On its booth, HP demonstrated a broad range of high value, cost effective digitally printed flexible packaging, folding carton, shrink sleeve, and label applications. These samples were exhibited on HP’s ‘Digitally printed Supermarket’ themed stand inspiring packaging professionals across the supply chain. Visitors saw how special printing effects, personalisation and high-quality colour reproduction can be combined with the unique production benefits of digital printing. For example, how short-runs and quicker response times add value and differentiate packaging in an increasinglycompetitive retail environment.

“Packaging converters are under pressure to offer smaller quantities, and deliver products faster and more efficiently, while maintaining high quality standards,” explained Julia Cole, UK & Ireland marketing manager, HP Indigo.

“The latest HP Indigo solutions address these challenges. They cost-effectively enable converters to operate affordable and profitable cost models. Brands can also take

advantage of streamlined supply chains, reduced inventories, quicker timeto-market and increased promotional capabilities through personalisation and mass customisation.”

She added: “Packaging Innovations provides the perfect platform to ensure these benefits are understood throughout the supply chain.

It’s a great opportunity for HP to further develop the dynamic relationship it has with its customers and major brands.”

Examples of retail packaging and other corrugated applications produced on the HP Scitex FB10000 Industrial Presses were also displayed on the stand. Today’s retail market not only requires short-run, fastturnaround services, but also new products including full-colour retail-ready packaging, co-packing POP/POS displays, and justin-time deliveries. These HP Scitex presses enable corrugated converters to streamline production and help enable them to meet

those demands.

In addition to the HP booth, HP hosted a LearnShop on 27 February in the Print Innovations Theatre. The seminar, entitled “How Brands Can Get Up Front and Personal,” was presented by Julia Cole, HP, and Trevor Smith, managing director, Amberley Labels, a long-standing HP Indigo customer. Visitors discovered how HP digital printing solutions can help them to add value to labels and packaging to better meet today’s marketing trends.

appadda makes worldwide debut at Mobile World Congress Winjit Technologies had the worldwide launch of appadda in the What’s Next Pavilion at Mobile World Congress, 24 - 27 February. A revolutionary concept, appadda enables the monetisation of digital content that can be downloaded or streamed to mobile devices where Internet connections are unavailable or too expensive. “appadda brings fast, easy and affordable content download services to developing countries where people have mobile devices, but limited or unstable internet access,” said Abhijit Junagade, co-founder, Winjit Technologies. “In the developed world, appadda presents a unique opportunity for businesses to provide internet access and easily accessible digital content, including music, games, apps and films. This is an exciting, wholly new opportunity for all kinds of businesses to enhance and add value to their services and create new revenue streams.”

Content is purchased via vouchers sold at

appadda enabled locations. This groundbreaking new platform is ideal for use in shops, restaurants, hotels, on public transport and many other public places.

connections and app monetising solutions, to sophisticated content aggregation across different media and sources, WEMF offers a solid platform for a tailor-made solution.

More than just a source of digital content, appadda is a brand new distribution channel enabling app developers, publishers and other content providers to share and sell their products without previous connectivity barriers.

Also shown on the appadda stand was Winjit Technologies’ one-stop solution Enterprise Mobility Framework - with applications that enable individuals to keep in touch with the essential functions of their businesses while away from the office.

Winjit Enterprise Mobile Framework (WEMF) offers a framework for businesses to seamlessly adopt a mobility system that helps to enhance productivity, increase revenue and reduce cost. From secure web

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Driving the future of global automotive technology Bosch inaugurates world-class Research & Technology Center in Bangalore

The planned investment for the year will be directed towards capacity expansion across Bosch India like building of new facilities, augmentation of existing production lines and research & development. The inauguration of the new Research & Technology Center (RTC) in Bangalore is a step in this direction.

The research focus of RTC will be in the area of Internet of Things and Services (IoTS), System & Software Engineering for engineering methods, data and cutting-edge technology areas of computer vision and image processing. Bosch believes that as early as 2015, more than six billion ‘things’ which include vehicles and smart phones as well as containers and machines will be connected to the internet, making the IoTS a reality. Entirely new services will emerge that will transform people’s everyday lives and open up new business opportunities. Keeping this long term vision in mind, the RTC will focus on technologies for smart networking of devices and systems with enhanced reasoning and assistance capabilities. The technologies developed in the domain of IoTS also aim to address India centric challenges, as Bosch believes that the country can achieve a strategic edge by becoming an early adopter of IoTS systems.

A new Research & Technology Center to foster high-end innovations

India remains a region of opportunities but also with challenges

Present only in four other international Bosch locations, this prestigious high-end innovation center in India is part of Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions (RBEI) – the largest software development center of Bosch, outside Germany. It aims to engage with the finest academic research community and work with some of the best technical talent pool in India.

Commenting on the current economic situation in India, Mr. Tyroller added: “Though the current economic environment poses challenges, we are convinced that India’s consumption story remains positive and retain a bullish outlook for our mid- and long-term growth prospects”. By 2020, as forecasted, every second vehicle will be produced in the emerging markets and India would be the 5th largest car manufacturer in the world.

Bosch, global supplier of technology and services, further amplifies its operations in India by inaugurating a Research & Technology Center and announces a planned investment of Rs.1200 Crores for 2014. “India continues to play a pivotal role for the Bosch Group, and we are committed to expanding and strengthening our already broad-based footprint in the country in the years to come despite the prevalent economic situation,” stated Peter Tyroller, member of the board of management, Robert Bosch GmbH, responsible for Asia Pacific at a press conference in Bangalore.

“Though the current economic environment poses challenges, we are convinced that India’s consumption story remains positive and retain a bullish outlook for our mid- and longterm growth prospects”.

- Mr. Tyroller comments on the current economic situation in India

Key Notes : > Research & Technology Center to focus on Internet of Things and Services (IoTS) development. > Plans investment of Rs.1200 Crores for 2014. > Strengthens product development competency across automotive business verticals meeting global and Indian requirements.

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Technologies for driver convenience and comfort

During these testing times, adequate measures were taken to retain profitability and competitiveness with effective cost rationalization measures and optimum utilization of resources. On the other hand, over the last two years, Bosch strengthened its presence in India by setting up new facilities in Verna (Goa), Chennai and Sanand (Ahmedabad) for its Packaging, Electrical Drives and Drive & Control businesses respectively. The relocation project of the manufacturing unit based at Adugodi, Bangalore to Bidadi is currently in progress.

Technology showcase during the 2014 Auto Expo Bosch India has adopted a new approach to showcase and discuss its latest technological offerings to the Indian and International OEMs during the 2014 Auto Expo in a new format at a private venue near the OEM show. Customers will be invited to visit the venue and interact with Bosch technology experts. This format reaffirms the company’s commitment and focus to work closely with its customers in India.

Key technology highlights of Bosch As the country continues to grow and evolve with its mobility requirements, the demand for safety and comfort features in driving is gaining increasing importance. Be it in two-wheelers, three-wheelers, passenger cars or commercial vehicles – customer demand and government legislations have pushed technology providers to step up and provide solutions that are available in mature international markets. In India, Bosch has been from the very beginning at the forefront of these technological innovations and has been offering customized global solutions as well as developing cost effective yet sophisticated technologies specifically for the local market.

Ensuring safety on wheels Global research statistics show that India has the highest number of road accidents in the world. As per data released by Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH), in 2012 more than 490,000 accidents were reported, leading to 138,000 fatalities.

Of these fatalities, 17 percent involved passenger cars and 26 percent involved motorcycles. One of the measures to counter this critical situation is the deployment of crash avoidance technologies like Antilock Braking System (ABS) and the Electronic Stability Program (ESP®) in all vehicles plying on Indian roads.

For several decades, Bosch has been developing and providing safety technologies for automobiles and has recently introduced this in India in the two-wheeler segment as well. This is the first two-wheeler ABS, specifically developed for motorcycles and not derived from the passenger car ABS.It is the smallest and lightest motorcycle ABS in the world. Bosch ABS Generation 9 comes with a modular configuration and its variants can meet the entire gamut of two-wheelers.

For a country like India, Bosch has also developed the Single Channel ABS 9 system which offers ABS functionality for bikes with only one disc brake at the front wheel. This is particularly important as a sliding front wheel leads to accidents in many cases.

The latest break-through safety technology from Bosch – MSC or Motorcycle Stability Control – offers the most advanced level of safety for motorcycles. It provides comprehensive data on current riding conditions and can use this data as a basis for adjusting engine and braking-power during acceleration and braking to keep the motorbike stable. For the first time ever this allows braking even in curves and bends which are highly accident-prone spots.

The latest Bosch technological offerings provide convenience and comfort in mobility by assisting the driver in a wide variety of tasks and furthermore providing entertainment. One example is mySPIN, a highly appealing smartphone integration solution by Bosch which creates a perfect device-vehicle link and ensures safe and reliable in-car use. It allows users to continue using their preferred apps on their iPhone® or Android smartphone in the way they are accustomed to and without compromising safety.

Another highlight is the fully automatic parking technology that utilizes ultrasonic sensors as well as cameras that improves visibility for drivers and reduces their workload with intuitive displays. The Bosch automatic parking assistant system allows for complete automatic parking into and out of selected parking spaces, helping drivers to focus solely on controlling the process.

Drivers can get out of their car in front of the selected space and start the parking maneuver remotely by pressing a button on their car key or smartphone.

Efficient technology that reduces emission Under its ‘clean and economical’ technologies, the highlights are a lowcost exhaust gas after treatment solution, electronic fuel-injection for two-wheelers, solutions to meet future evaporative emission norms and CNG offerings, e.g. the world’s smallest gas injectors. As the next step in world-wide emission legislations a diagnosis system for comprehensive exhaust-gas treatment is introduced in order to ensure compliance with emission targets over the vehicle’s lifetime.

Adherence to stringent emission norms is possible through high precision control systems including locally produced components and locally programmed software. Keeping in mind the emerging markets’ special requirements and cost targets, electronic control units (ECU) for different applications including powertrain are locally developed in India.

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electrification, automation and connectivity are the main trends and Bosch is at the forefront of innovation in all three areas.

Automation is coming step by step, and with it, increased safety and comfort on the road. Although fully-automated vehicles are still at least a decade away, an increasing number of automated safety and assistance functions are already putting us closer to our goal of accident-free driving. An important prerequisite for full automation is connected driving. Bosch puts a focus on car-to-cloud connectivity, which will see vehicles maintain constant connections with high-speed mobile data networks. By 2025, Bosch expects that in many markets worldwide nearly every

new car sold will be capable of this. The innovations Bosch is developing in India, such as automotive apps and connected solutions using the vehicle as a connected internet node, set a basis for these future trends. This makes the country an important R&D base for new technology development also for the Bosch Group.

Bosch in India In India, Bosch is one of the leading suppliers of technology and services in the areas of automotive and industrial technology, consumer goods and building technology.

Additionally, Bosch also has in India, the largest development centre, outside

Germany, for end to end engineering and technology solutions. The Bosch Group operates in India through six companies, viz, Bosch Limited, Bosch Chassis Systems India Limited, Bosch Rexroth India Limited, Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions Limited, Bosch Automotive Electronics India Pvt Ltd, Bosch Electrical Drives India Pvt Ltd. In India, Bosch set up its manufacturing operation in 1953, which has grown over the years to include 10 manufacturing sites and 7 development and application centers Bosch Group in India employs over 26,000 associates. In India it generated consolidated revenue of nearly ₨12,900 crores in 2012.

PrintWel International installs a GUK commercial folder Printwel International, one of the largest integrated printer exporters from Marathwada region, has acquired a GUK K74/6 KTL automatic folding machine from Welbound. The product has been a result of the cooperation between GUK of Germany and Welbound.

machine and it is already proving that our decision was right. GUK is probably well known for the very high end pharmaceutical insert and outsert folding machines, but their commercial folders are also a class apart. It’s difficult to source a pre owned one.”

PrintWel has recently gone in for a major expansion drive, including the investment in a brand new Ryobi 4 colour sheet feed offset. “Having the state-of-the-art post press to match a new printing machine is a must: otherwise, you won’t be able to exploit the full extent of the printing capabilities,” says Pradeep Shinde, Director of Printwel.

“We looked at various options, including Welbound’s own Diploma folder, which could have done the job. But then we always wanted to own a brand new German folding

The GUK K 74/6 KTL machine has a flat pile feeder, transport table, folding station with 6 buckles, a cross knife and a parallel knife.

The machine has a speed of 180 meters per minute and folds out various formats from a4 size, with an incredible level of accuracy.

GUK is known for the high engineering standards that produce highly specialized folding rollers that are responsible for the accuracy levels. For the pharmaceutical market, GUK produces machines that fold a news paper

sized sheet to one that fits the small cap of a bottle.

“GUK and Welbound have a strong relationship since 2004. We have been their sales and service partners for both commercial and miniature folding machines. We are exploring possibilities of enhancing this relationship to look at assembly of commercial folders in India. The machine supplied to PrintWel has the complete electricals, including the servo drives for knives, designed and assembled by our team in India,” says K C Sanjeev managing Director of Welbound.

World over, faster and newer folding machines have replaced older ones on a scale of 1 new machine for two old ones. This is probably the reason a lot of used folding machines find their way to India. It is important that the print houses realize that to do the jobs faster, accurately, within the minimum foot print with optimum utilization of manpower is very important, to remain profitable.

The cost of used equipments is much higher than the new ones, and this is more so in the case of post press equipment.

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2013 L9 World Label Award Winners The L9 associations have announced the results of the 2013 L9 World Label Awards competition during Labelexpo in Brussels in September 2013. The L9 is the alliance of global label associations, formulating policies and strategic information in connection with global matters affecting the worldwide label industry.

The new class structure introduced in 2012 was implemented again with no changes to the 22 classes covering all the main printing processes and markets. The results are listed in class order with the winners announced first followed by the Honourable Mention (HM) awards.

“This competition serves to show the world the best labels from international associations worldwide. The quality of the submitted labels each year continues to amaze the judges with this year being no exception. The level of technical skill shown by the entrants is exceptional”, said Tony White, chairman of the judging panel. “The competition culminates in the new Best of the Best awards which are selected from five of the main stream printing processes.”

The associations taking part were: FINAT (Europe), JFLP (Japan), LATMA (Australia), ABIEA (Brazil), SALMA (New Zealand), and TLMI (North America).

Winners Honourable Mention Total JFLP 9 3 12 TLMI 6 1 7 FINAT 4 6 10 LATMA 3 2 5 SALMA 1 2 3 ABIEA - - Total 23 14 37

Best of the Best In addition to the awards mentioned above, 5 new L9 Global awards representing the “Best of the Best” will be presented later in the year at an event to be agreed in Chicago.

The winners are selected from the winners of the L9 World label Awards competition within the following Classes: Flexo, Letterpress, Offset Litho, Combination and Digital. The identities of the winners will be revealed at the awards ceremony and are deemed to be the “Oscars” of the label industry.

The judging for the 2014 L9 WLA competition will take place before the start of the 2014 Labelexpo event in September in Chicago.

India’s Pragati Pack (India) Pvt. Ltd. is the winner in Class 1: Flexo – Line. The company won for Security label excise seals country liquor.

Skanem Willich and Gallus Skanem Willich GmbH decided to switch from letterpress to flexographic presses with the screen printing and embossing options in 1999 as part of a drive to increase production efficiency, since flexographic printing enabled the company to print highly attractive labels

faster and at lower cost. This decision was embraced by Skanem’s customers and production was thus subsequently focused almost exclusively on flexographic printing.

Yet whenever high coverage, precise detail and colour intensity are needed, screen

printing is more suitable than flexographic printing. This printing process had long been extremely costly for Skanem Willich due to the need to have screens manufactured by external service providers and was only used at the express request of customers.

However, Skanem wanted to get away from the escalating interchangeability of label printers and be able to offer its customers higher quality labels to give them a competitive edge. A more cost effective solution for screen manufacture thus had to be found and, after considerable deliberation, Skanem opted for in-house screen production.

In 2009, Gallus Ferd. Rüesch AG supplied the necessary equipment to manufacture Gallus Screeny screen printing cylinders using Gallus Screeny materials and ensured that Skanem Willich GmbH could also use Gallus Screeny screen printing plates on non-Gallus machines.

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Modular and flexible Bosch The company presents new CUT 1405 cartoning machine featuring safe processes and quick format changes.

At Interpack 2014, Bosch Packaging Technology presents the new CUT 1405 cartoning machine, a consistent advancement of the CUT 120 which has proven successful for many years. The new horizontal cartoning machine offers higher flexibility as well as the latest servo and safety technology at reduced costs. “With the new CUT 1405, we are demonstrating our expertise in the area of secondary packaging,” explains Daniel Sanwald, product manager at Bosch Packaging Technology. “As with all our cartoning machines, this new development is based on standard modules that can be flexibly combined, depending on product and packaging type. At the same time, line suitability is granted.”

High flexibility for various products

“The new development is based on the established and proven technology of our CUT 120 horizontal cartoning machine which we have upgraded with the latest state-of-the-art sensor, software, servo and safety technology as well as other features, leading to significant cost reductions for our customers.” - Daniel Sanwald.

Key Notes : > Intermittent horizontal cartoning machine for diverse products. > Equipped with the latest servo and safety technology. > Proven technology with reduced investment.

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The new CUT 1405 is characterized by a flexible choice for the appropriate in-feed systems, formats and closure options. It can safely and gently handle different carton sizes and packages a wide variety of primary packaging such as bottles, vials, syringes, ampoules, tubes, blisters and trays as well as bags, stick packs and sachets in folding cartons. Inserts to single and combination products such as spoons or outserts can also be integrated into the modular in-feed system. With its quickly exchangeable modules for tuck-in, glue and combination closures, the machine can be flexibly used for various products and line combinations. In addition to pharmaceuticals, the new CUT 1405 is also especially suitable for the packaging of cosmetic and food products.

New in-feed modules and optimized conveyor technology The intermittent cartoner can be equipped with diverse in-feed systems, ensuring maximum flexibility for customized line concepts as well as the packaging of different products and product combinations. The CUT 1405 further features an optimized conveyor technology of the folding carton magazine. To prevent the cartons from getting caught, they are transported into the magazine by a lifting motion of the rake. Thanks to the patented folding carton carrier, the individual cartons maintain their shape as the intermittent transport system moves them through the machine. This prevents damage to the product and ensures precise packaging results.

A mechanical gripper arm carries out leaflet in-feed, which is directly assigned to each product. A shift register checks and follows all products, to ensure that leaflets are only processed further if the outcome of all test results is positive. “This technology has been successful for over ten years and was further optimized for the CUT 1405,” says Daniel Sanwald.

Thanks to excellent accessibility, the folder unit can be conveniently operated from the front and, if required, also swivelled out.

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the new servo technology reduces the need for maintenance while the HMI (Human Machine Interface) allows for easy handling.

The operator can quickly localize machine disorders via error messages and resolve them using the automatic troubleshooting guide. All format data is individually stored, enabling easy and quick format changeovers and a safe re-start of the machine. With its wide choice of in-feed systems, the new

Bosch cartoning machine can be flexibly adapted for all packaging formats for the pharmaceutical, cosmetic and food industries. Optional serialization, aggregation and tamper-evident modules ensure additional safety, taking into account current guidelines and safety standards.

“The new development is based on the established and proven technology of our

CUT 120 horizontal cartoning machine which we have upgraded with the latest state-of-the-art sensor, software, servo and safety technology as well as other features, leading to significant cost reductions for our customers,” Daniel Sanwald concludes.

Bosch’s technologies are on display at Interpack 2014, Duesseldorf, Germany, from May 8 to 14, booth A31-C58.

New Esko Store for bits, blades and parts opened! Digital Label Printing

by Rajeswari Rajeswari Infrastructure has inaugurated its new digital label printing operation at Ekkatuthangal, Chennai. The operation will be using a Colordyne Technologies press CDT 1600-PC Sprint to produce high-quality prime labels. The press powered by Memjet Technology is complemented by a Ricoh printer, finishing equipment from Cartes and facility for hot stamping, screen printing, embossing and die cutting etc.

Esko has announced the opening of its unique online store with intelligent storefront that simplifies the bits, blades and underlays purchasing for users of Kongsberg cutting tables and the consumables purchasing for CDI flexo platesetters. Esko Store, currently available in English, is located at www.esko. com/store and is publicly available for new and existing Esko customers around the world.

“Come shop with us!” says Christian Korte, Esko Senior Vice President Sales, “Our intelligent storefront features a state-of-theart shopping experience that makes it easy to find the right bits, blades and underlays quickly and easily. This is a unique capability among digital cutting table suppliers, again demonstrating Esko’s leadership in this field. Visitors to the store will find not only the best materials, but also the best know-how, service and shopping experience.”

“Built-in intelligence is especially useful when searching for Kongsberg accessories using the Kongsberg bits and blades finder,” adds Kenny Van Bogaert, Esko Business Development Manager e-commerce. “Find the best bits and blades for a specific job by entering material, quality and finishing

method specifications. And for each bit and blade, the Esko Store advises the set-up you require on site, including which Kongsberg table, tool insert and adapter you need. In My Store Account, customers will see the Kongsberg table(s) they own.

Simply selecting a specific Kongsberg table provides immediate access to ordering underlay fittings for that table. Our customers pointed out the value of this new capability and for further improvements of the store we will continue to take suggestions from visitors into account.”

The Esko Store features advanced filtering options that allow visitors to narrow their search when browsing a specific category as well as a compare functionality that enables side-by-side comparisons of products within the same category. Visitors can use the one-step search by product code or name to quickly reach a detailed product page.

With the recently viewed items feature they can quickly access previously visited product pages. While browsing the site, visitors also get an immediate indication whether or not an item is in stock. Finalizing the order, multiple shipping methods and accurate tax calculations are available at check-out.

The CDT 1600-PC Sprint prints at 160ft/min, full colour and 1600 x 1200dpi. The machine also features laser enabled cutting and perforation.

Morsef Machines to represent two Chinese equipment suppliers

Morsef Machines will be representing WanJie Printing Machinery and Liaoning Tianyi Machinery – both from China. Morsef has recently entered into a distribution agreement with the Chinese players.

Morsef Machines, manufacturer of special purpose machinery catering to the labels and packaging industries was earlier providing equipment from WanJie and Liaoning on commission. It’s now the authorized distributor for the companies’ products.

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Studio, a unique set of tools for 3D packaging design GROUP360 Worldwide® uses Esko Studio Toolkit for Shrink Sleeves to help accurately predict artwork distortion.

GROUP360 Worldwide has been using a number of Esko design tools to build virtual 3D models of packaging – much faster and less expensively than physical prototypes – for customer reviews, and to create accurate artwork for shrink sleeves.

GROUP360 Worldwide is a full-service marketing communications organization with well over 400 associates and 20 offices worldwide. Their impressive client list is a virtual ‘who’s who’ of Fortune 100 companies that market some of the world’s most iconic consumer brands. Over the past 6 years GROUP360 Worldwide has been on a mission to redefine the role of marketing agencies on a global scale by providing fast-moving consumer goods marketers a true, fully linked, integrated, strategy to shelf marketing solution.

Esko Studio 3D modeling process is significantly faster than creating physical prototypes.

Key Notes : > Studio Toolkit for Boxes, a version of Studio specifically for boxes. > Studio Toolkit for Flexibles – make flexible packaging shapes quickly. > Studio Toolkit for Shrink Sleeves can simulate a virtual shrink sleeve around an object.

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GROUP360 Worldwide’s unique, all in-house solution has proven to help brand owners get their products to the shelf and their messages to the marketplace better, faster and more financially intelligent than ever before. They do this by seamlessly linking together strategy, creative and execution, which includes all required marketing and production disciplines, each executed at best-of-class standards. Every one of these key disciplines are driven by proprietary processes, technology, custom SOP’s, and highly experienced leadership, who bring decades of experience as national brand marketers, agency executives, and production specialists from around the globe.

Finding a better process to predict shrink sleeve distortions Unlike many companies, GROUP360 Worldwide does not use a heat process to determine shrink sleeve distortions. At times they may get specifications with product grids from the converter. While they could create good designs, the process of creating distortions for artwork required some calculations along with some guesswork. Their measurements were quite accurate, but they wanted to predict shrinkage even better. At the same time they wanted to create 3D renderings, show them to the client, and demonstrate how certain objects in the artwork could react to counter distortion. “For the most part, we wanted to eliminate the guesswork of printing and reprinting design scenarios,” says Mark Meyer, Workflow/R&D Director - Application Development.

GROUP360 Worldwide had used ArtPro PowerWarp, which helped to counter distortions created by physical shrink sleeves. After Artwork Systems merged with Esko, GROUP360 Worldwide transitioned from PowerWarp to Studio Toolkit for Shrink Sleeves kit about two years ago. It allowed them to easily work with regular shapes created in Studio Toolkit and irregular shapes created in other 3D applications, rather than just simple cups or bottles.

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server with dynamic workflows that are easy to set up and operate.

Studio, a unique set of tools for 3D packaging design Studio Toolkit for Boxes, a version of Studio specifically for boxes, using technology from ArtiosCAD, a structural design package, and several tools to handle the complexity of panels.

Studio Toolkit for Flexibles, providing design tools to make flexible packaging shapes quickly.

Studio Toolkit for Shrink Sleeves, which can simulate a virtual shrink sleeve around an object.

Designers instantly see what artwork elements suffer from the distortion in 3D. It can handle round objects, asymetrical objects and even multi-packs.

GROUP360 Worldwide needed the ability to work with irregular shapes. “We work with many unusual containers, such as flavored water bottles for example. We will design the shape with a 3D modeling program and import it into Studio Toolkit for Shrink Sleeves. From there creating the label is pretty easy,” explains Meyer. “Virtually any packaging structure can be used to create a shrink label, and artwork wrapped around that. The interface is very simple and there is not much to adjust. Studio Toolkit for Shrink Sleeves is also very helpful when creating basic assembly models – for example, when we want to show what it will look like to wrap a shrink sleeve around a case of soft drink cans or bottles. Or, there are times when we will show a customer a scene of what it will look like to use a shipping box as a display. We can show the tear-out of the box, exposing the product inside. In that case, we use Studio Toolkit for Boxes and Studio Toolkit for Flexibles.”

By using Studio with Automation Engine, GROUP360 Worldwide is able to create a model and distribute the files to operators to place graphics on the structure in Adobe® Illustrator®. From there they use the Automation Engine workflow to create the final rendering. “Studio Toolkit for Shrink Sleeves is great for design work. We will use it to create a rendering for artwork, making adjustments based upon production needs – mostly for brand integrity,” adds Meyer. “Most clients are given a flat template, but rarely a digital prototype. Many do not have a good

idea of what it will look like in the final form. For example, there could be a square logo near the neck of a bottle which will get pinched in. In the end, it could look like a rectangle or another unacceptable shape.

Or, a round logo could look like an egg. On a regular basis, we will pre-distort the artwork and show the brand owner what it will look like. Ultimately, the client will decide to alter the artwork or move the logo away from a high-distortion area to somewhere that is safer, giving them a more consistent, branded product. We can use Studio as a quality control tool offering a prediction of distortion. From my point of view, that is much easier than going to press and heat tunnels.”

There is a big time difference between creating a high-end 3D rendering and creating a rendering on Automation Engine.

“We can spend an hour or more in a complicated 3D design application to render a file. But once we have a good model, it could take us only 30 seconds in Automation Engine to create the final rendering. It cuts down production time exponentially – perhaps ten times faster or more. Once we have an approved carton model, it could be as much as fifty times faster. I can produce in 15 seconds what it might take the production department 15 minutes to determine acceptable artwork,” calculates Meyer.

“There is a significant cost savings by using Studio for prototypes versus going to press.”

what was not going to distort,” remembers Meyer. “It allowed us to experiment with many styles and sizes and quickly render the packaging for each container. In combination with our workflow server, Esko Automation Engine, 3D work can be passed from our operators’ desks to a final rendering in a very efficient manner.”

“Studio Toolkit for Shrink Sleeves is a valuable product for very specific needs,” he adds. “If you have a specific purpose for shrink sleeves, Studio Toolkit for Shrink Sleeves is simple to use and is up and running quickly. As far as I know, it’s the only product that accurately mimics the prediction of shrinking.”

For some clients a virtual 3D model is fine.

In fact, a few of GROUP360 Worldwide’s customers are using the 3D renderings for sales and premarketing. Other clients require a physical mock-up, which GROUP360 Worldwide also produces or offers through a variety of its partners. However, the price tag can be up to five times more for a physical mock-up than it is for a 3D rendering counterpart.

“We were creating shrink sleeves for 300+ variations of packaging for a recent project.

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Equipped for the Future: Labelling Association, FINAT develops new strategic initiatives to create a roadmap for success in a changing world

Kurt Walker, second-term President of FINAT, the international association promoting labelling and its key role in the world of packaging and FINAT’s Managing Director, Jules Lejeune, tell how the association plans to achieve the challenging agenda to lead its members securely into the future.

‘What use is an association if it doesn’t map out the path that will lead its members securely into the future?’ asks Kurt Walker, President, FINAT.

Key Notes : > Need for a collective infrastructure that can create a flow of shared information and promote the industry > Actively encourage individual member companies’ creativity and success’. > Since its early days, FINAT’s mission has been to provide a sound and solid knowledge base on which the whole industry can depend.

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As an active participant in the labelling industry in label converting – the sharp end – Mr.Walker is a keen supporter of the need for a collective infrastructure that, he says, ‘can create a flow of shared information, promote the industry, identify and inform members of relevant technology developments, and at the same time actively encourage individual member companies’ creativity and success’. Jules Lejeune – himself a second-generation participant in the association’s Secretariat -- echoes this sentiment.

‘Since the early days of FINAT in the 1950s and 1960s, when the whole concept of packaging and labelling was growing fast, along with the explosion in supermarketing’, he remarks, ‘it has been FINAT’s mission to provide a sound and solid knowledge base on which the whole industry can depend.’

Membership profile

‘Unusually’, Jules Lejeune adds, ‘our membership spans the entire supply chain, so our association’s remit is particularly broad. But our members tell us that FINAT’s ability to cover the self-adhesive label industry as a whole, from raw material suppliers to printers, is a real help in planning for the future. This is particularly true today, in our changing business world and in the face of advancing technology – not only in labelling, but in communications, sales platforms, and consumer demand.’

Developing the strategy With the FINAT Board and Secretariat, President Walker has been hard at work developing the strategy for the association to the year 2020, with associated tactics that will indeed leverage the industry’s combined interests – ‘not only in Europe’, he says, ‘but in concert with our counterpart associations outside Europe and with the regional label associations that are the heartbeat of our industry.’

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who were clever enough to embrace the technology’s potential back in the 1970s and 1980s. Says Jules Lejeune: ‘Those companies are no longer little. Many are not even just local or even just regional, and there has been much merger and acquisition activity. Now it’s time for their founders – reallife baby boomers – to retire, and make way for the new generation’s vision and values.’

Looking forward ‘Not only that,’ adds Kurt Walker. ‘The world of labelling and packaging is of course changing right at its base – in technology and scope. It’s sometimes difficult to differentiate today between a label and the pack it’s applied to. Current pre-press, printing and finishing technologies can accommodate many more options than the sturdy rotary letterpress machines that originally set selfadhesive labels on their feet. The context has changed completely, and, as prime supporters of this broad-ranging industry, we need to move the goalposts.’

is strategically making the change from a passive to an active role in driving our industry’s future success.’

Kurt Walker adds: ‘We have begun with infrastructure – and designed a programme for our members that includes an up-tothe-minute online reference source as well as a forward schedule of expert webinars and face-to-face workshops and seminars on key aspects of future developments and directions.’

The need to co-ordinate the collection and dissemination of technical updates across the label industry’s vertical supply chain is one of FINAT’s key objectives, as well as to draw in to its knowledge hub the expertise of other organisations and partner industries which affect the activities of FINAT member companies. ‘This’, says Jules Lejeune, ‘can be difficult for individual companies to achieve within their full business agendas, so it is an ideal task for a pan-industry association like FINAT.’

‘Leadership by knowledge’ Taking this as the basis for discussion, we asked Jules Lejeune how, in practical terms, FINAT can really expect to continue to offer its membership ‘leadership by knowledge’.

‘We have the benefit of a truly global base of converting technologies and print consumables, and an ever-strengthening customer base of international brand owners and other label user customers. FINAT continues to strengthen its position as the recognised umbrella for the European industry because it now sensibly reflects the broader portfolio of label types our converter members can offer,’ he says.

‘And importantly,’ he adds, ‘the association is actively “looking over the fence” at new and emerging opportunities such as printed electronics, direct-to-pack print, QR codes and advanced security/track-and-trace print, which are even now extending the definition of a label. It’s our job to make our members aware of the possibilities for expanding their business platform, both today, and for the future. We also track advances in materials, which are also redefining the nature of a label or pack.

Then there are the game-changing opportunities that information technology and the digital revolution, in all its roles, has brought to labelling and packaging around the world. So, across the board, FINAT

Attracting a broader member base Knowledge and education are not the only fronts on which FINAT is developing major projects. ‘To represent the European label industry successfully,’ says Kurt Walker, ‘FINAT’s membership really needs to be inclusive. Present membership is very much western-European based, but we are actively engaged in projects to further raise FINAT’s profile and create added interest in the value of membership – particularly in countries to the east of our region. This is a very dynamic part of the world, and the many new entrants to our industry there can really benefit from FINAT’s international profile, and – in a spirit of mutual learning -- bring new visions and values to the association. We’re targeting converters and both direct and indirect suppliers and developing a Road Show.

Our partners in this are, in particular, our Young Managers Club (established not long ago to mentor the upcoming generation of managers in our industry, and now the source of huge energy and ideas!), and of course our friends in the established national label associations, who, with their local knowledge and local language capabilities, are key players. This is just the start of an energetic programme of events.’

Infrastructure redefined

This focus on outreach is matched in the new FINAT strategy with an adaptation of its day-to-day organisational structure to reflect leading-edge business practice in a world that simply will not stand still, as Kurt Walker explains. ‘FINAT is not just a passive “in-box” for information on technology developments, geographic change, and legislative and political issues. Its remit today is to actively help to drive that change in our industry, both within our supply chain and through creating an interface with our end users. This is an exciting mission!’ he says.

The important volunteer force As well as strengthening partnership with the regional European label associations, FINAT will also collaborate actively with the global label associations, with whom the association already has strong links, and reposition its approach to its highly-important volunteer force – the key to driving forward this ambitious strategy. ‘We depend enormously on our volunteers’, says Jules Lejeune, ‘and we want to encourage even more of them to come forward – but in a way that does not represent an obstacle in the execution of their activities in the companies for whom they work. We believe we can better attract participation in limited-life projects rather than in long-term infrastructure management – and I am sure this approach, while it’s a major “redesign”, will certainly stimulate members’ commitment. Of course, the FINAT Secretariat will continue to provide a solid infrastructure platform, as well as a flexible and responsive pathway to expert professional support wherever it’s needed.’

In-depth industry trends 2014/15 strategic projects already underway or in the practical planning stage include the launch of a new, wide-ranging half-yearly professionally-conducted Industry Trends Report, exclusively for FINAT members.

On-site industry trends seminars and round tables will brief (and debrief) members around the region, and will be complemented by regular webinars so that members can keep their fingers on the industry’s pulse without leaving their workstations.

FINAT Congress – a new profile Perhaps the jewel in the crown of FINAT’s events programme is the annual FINAT Congress – and, says Kurt Walker, ‘here, too, we are redefining the agenda to better reflect members’ needs. Rather than deliver

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already resulted in a respected presence in EU debates on packaging legislation. The association’s continuing strategic actions begin, in partnership with the regional label associations, with the creation of a central knowledge base comprising opportunities, issues, legislation, and extant infrastructure in a global context. ‘Sustainability is another arena of critical member interest where our association can helpfully collect and share knowledge on a regular basis with members’ says Jules Lejeune. ‘But our key global focus,’ he emphasises, ‘moves forward from that base. From our strong starting position, we are taking positive action in the environmental arena to encourage the international harmonisation of sustainability standards relevant to the label industry.’

An association with a real, practical mission a straightforward industry “get together”, Congress is now being repositioned as a top-level industry forum. We will roll out the new format in 2015, when the event comes to Amsterdam. As well as featuring top international speakers on management interests and challenges, it will be much more highly business oriented, and will provide much more opportunity for delegates

to interact, network and participate in breakout discussions.’

Sustainability – a true action agenda No consideration of future vision and values would be complete without adding sustainability to the agenda. This is a field where FINAT’s responsible stance has

Today’s FINAT is certainly preparing the way for its members. Its 21st century vision is to empower the labelling industry to define and achieve its long-term goals, and, as we heard in our interview with FINAT’s flag bearers Kurt Walker and Jules Lejeune, to successfully make the quantum leaps that a changing business world and advancing technology will for certain continue to demand in the coming years.

Peninsula Print & Design embraces new packaging opportunities with FFEI’s RealPro Toolkit Commercial print company Peninsula Print & Design has significantly improved productivity and job accuracy since introducing FFEI’s RealPro Toolkit into its packaging prepress cycle.

According to Neil Frazer, Peninsula Print & Design, General Manager, the company moved towards FFEI’s innovative software to help grow its packaging division by automating a series of pre-press tasks that were affecting productivity and accuracy: “We set up the new packaging division 2 years ago to address the growing need for shorter packaging print runs. In the early days we were happy to spend the time manually completing pre-press tasks, but as the business grew we needed to automate these tasks - RealPro Toolkit was exactly what we needed,” says Neil.

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RealPro Toolkit is a feature-rich software suite of tools designed to overcome the challenges of labelling and packaging prepress tasks. Consisting of over 12 modules, the software addresses specific pre-press workflow requirements such as nesting, file editing and preparation, colour management, trapping and step and repeat tasks.

Aaron McBride, Pre-press Manager at Peninsula Print & Design, tested the software with a free, 30 day license. “I was impressed by how user friendly the software was. Following just a 15-minute online demonstration, I was able to confidently start using it. As an Adobe Illustrator plug-in it is very user friendly - no training required and works seamlessly with our Agfa system.”

Aaron continued. “Toolkit also offered great value for money compared to alternative products, as we could pick and choose the modules we needed, such as nesting.

Our operators can now quickly, easily and accurately nest a number of jobs onto an B2 sheet ready to print.”

FFEI demonstrated RealPro Toolkit and RealVue 3D Packager at the Packaging Innovations show, at Birmingham from the 26th-27th February.

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Pramod Engineering announces four machine installations Pramod Engineering has announced that it has installed four machines to its three new clients. The manufacturer of post press (binding) machines has supplied the custombuilt machines to customers in India and overseas.

Two web-stackers were installed at Seculo Triweb Printers Ltd., Ormonde, South Africa – the printers of South Africa’s only leading Portuguese newspaper. Also one Glory Side Gathering machine with 12-stations is installed at the Directorate of Printing and Stationery Assam Government, Guwahati.

One Glory Side Gathering Machine with 9-stations has been installed at Kapur Press, Jaipur.

Seculo Triweb has configured the stackers with their high speed web machines and is successfully running these machines at 75,000 pph. Kapur Printers has attached Hitachi Laser operated Ink-jet system with each gripper of its Glory Side Gathering machine for their security printing jobs. Kapur is already using similar device successfully on their earlier 6-station Glory Side Gathering machine. Directorate of Printing and

Stationery, Assam Government, Guwahati are going to use G-12 Glory Side Gathering Machine mainly for Text Book production and Annual Reports etc.

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run up to 5,000 collected books, magazines etc. per hour online stitching up to 1 inch (with 21-26 gauge wire) PLC operation and rejection of bad copies

HI-TECH crosses another mile stone with its 500th customer Jerry’s Print Shop in Ernakulum recently installed the much sought after Business Card Cutter (Visiting Card Cutter) from Hitech and enhanced their ability to deliver visiting cards in less than 2 minutes to their customer.

Jerry’s Print shop has already been Hitech’s customer and this was the 3rd purchase from Hitech. With this installation Hitech has crossed another mile stone and now has 500 customers on its elite list of customers. This list includes the who’s who of digital printers, photo album maker and offset printers.

With recent spate of installations Hitech has also crossed 1200 machines installation mark across the country. Its unique initiative of providing excellent after sales service has

resulted in high percentage of repeat orders with more than 120 customers applauding Hitech’s products and services with appreciation letters.

Flint adds new plate to the portfolio During the past years, the demands for a flexo printing plate have changed significantly; the plates have to be more and more specialised and adapted to the substrate as well as inks. Flint Group Flexographic Products meets these requirements by introducing the high durometer flexographic printing plate, nyloflex® ACE UP Digital. The new plate is especially designed for use with water based inks in corrugated preprint and aseptic packaging printing, and it’s also suitable for UV flexo printing.

Extensive field tests have demonstrated that the new printing plate provides a superior printing quality. The excellent ink transfer,

especially on paper and rough substrates results in high ink density and homogenous, smooth solids. Defined highlight areas, text and line work as well as barcodes are sharply defined. The plate displays a long run life and stability in printing, which results in a significantly increased efficiency. The low surface tack ensures a reduced attraction of paper dust and dirt, enhancing productivity and durability of the plate. It also allows stacking of the clichés without interleaves, thus further improving the storage properties.

The new digital photopolymer printing plate, nyloflex® ACE UP Digital is expected to be available to the market from this month.

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Skanem Willich and why screen printing is indispensable Skanem Willich GmbH knows how to harness the added value from screen printing and has cut costs by bringing standardized and automated screen manufacturing in-house.

Skanem Willich GmbH, based in Willich, Germany, is part of the Skanem Group, which was founded in Norway in 1905 and is now the largest European printshop group for selfadhesive labels. The company in Germany uses state-of-the-art narrow-web, reel-fed presses equipped with flexographic printing units and embossing and screen printing finishing options to produce highquality labels for bodycare, household, car maintenance and other care products.

Skanem Willich GmbH decided to switch from letterpress to flexographic presses with the screen printing and embossing options in 1999 as part of a drive to increase production efficiency, since flexographic printing enabled the company to print highly attractive labels faster and at lower cost. This decision was embraced by Skanem’s customers and production was thus subsequently focused almost exclusively on flexographic printing.

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extremely costly for Skanem Willich due to the need to have screens manufactured by external service providers and was only used at the express request of customers.

However, Skanem wanted to get away from the escalating interchangeability of label printers and be able to offer its customers higher quality labels to give them a competitive edge. A more costeffective solution for screen manufacture thus had to be found and, after considerable deliberation, Skanem opted for in-house screen production.

In 2009, Gallus Ferd. Rüesch AG supplied the necessary equipment to manufacture Gallus Screeny screen printing cylinders using Gallus Screeny materials and ensured that Skanem Willich GmbH could also use Gallus Screeny screen printing plates on non-Gallus machines. Yet at that time screen manufacture still took over half an hour, manual washing out and the lengthy drying process often produced unsatisfactory results, and the follow-up costs if the processes were not carried out exactly were extremely high.

However, the Gallus wash-out machine, which was launched three years ago, solved these problems almost entirely and also reduced the employee skills required for manufacturing screen printing plates. It rinses Gallus Screeny screen printing plates perfectly in a single pass and sends them dried to the delivery after just four to five minutes. The integrated solution from Gallus enables Skanem Willich to manufacture Gallus Screeny screen printing plates in an industrial, automated and standardized process in line with that used for its flexographic printing plates and led to improved product quality and significant cost reductions.

The ease of manufacturing a Gallus Screeny screen printing plate convinced even the most sceptical employees. The length of exposure in the contact frame and the correct

settings for the required washing out times, depending on the specific screen printing plate, can be easily read from a table.

Prepress staff have been trained to produce both screen printing and flexographic printing plates. If a screen printing cylinder needs to be replaced at three o’clock in the morning, a new one can be produced in less than half an hour. No printer would manage to change over a 10-colour press in this short time. Gallus Screeny screen printing plates are therefore now produced, printed and stored in-house at Skanem Willich.

The reusage concept developed by Gallus enables screens to be archived and reused for reprints.

Skanem Willich GmbH is now once again using screen printing for over 25 percent of all labels, particularly for transparent self-adhesive labels. Only with this printing process is it possible, for example, to underlay a motif with white that is as opaque as possible with four to eight grams of ink per square metre or to produce a very small wordmark that is sharp, rich in contrast and clearly legible. While many of Skanem Willich’s competitors are on a seemingly unavoidable downward spiral in the price war, much of their product quality is falling by the wayside. Skanem Willich, on the other hand, can supply its customers with labels that pass the “first moment of truth” test on a supermarket shelf with flying colours and thus offer probably the most convincing arguments for investing in screen printing – standing out from the crowd and premium quality. These are the crucial factors for every label producer to enjoy long-term success on an ever fiercer market.

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Collaboration and Globalisation gather momentum at PACE Key trends highlighted by Packaging and Converting Executive Forum Collaborative innovation, globalisation, a changing distribution model and sustainable development were the four major trends influencing and impacting today’s packaging arena highlighted by the successful ninth annual Packaging and Converting Executive (PACE) Forum, held recently in Brussels.

Michaël Nieuwesteeg, Managing Director NVC Netherlands Packaging Centre, chaired the event. He presided over a packed agenda of visionary keynote speakers that included Marta Pazos (Decorative Finishes & Materials Senior Scientist, Procter & Gamble), who discussed low volume/high margin product packaging development, Arno Melchior, (Global Packaging Director, Reckitt Benckiser Group), addressing the ROI of sustainability and Aline Clavellina (Marketing Vice President, Grupo Bimbo) who detailed successful ways to fund innovation.

From these discussions, four trends could be pinpointed: collaborative innovation, globalisation and flexibility supported by workflow management and digital printing, the changing distribution model and sustainable development. As a global theme, the event was all about interaction, with brand owners, packaging and technology suppliers, sharing and finding ways to collaborate and innovate effectively together.

on the future of digital printing, sharing a vision of delivering more agility to retail and their packaged products suppliers together.

As for changing distribution models, keynote presenter Aline Clavellina, Marketing Vice President Grupo Bimbo presented unexpected success following a promotion campaign with Justin Bieber eating one of their snacks. As the Justin Bieber global fan base started ordering their hero’s snack, Grupo Bimbo did not have a distribution channel in place and turned to Amazon.com to fill the gaps. The lesson is that packaged product manufacturers have to prepare for Web Retail Packaging (WRP) ensuring that they can meet global online demand also via new distribution channels.

The final trend identified was sustainable development in packaged products: “Recyclability of the empties package is important but how often can packaging materials be recycled and at which cost?” asked Mr Nieuwesteeg. “Today we don’t think long term enough. We try to recycle once, but what happens next? It is better to think about sustainable development from conception all through the entire supply chain.”

Mr. Nieuwesteeg also facilitated a highly valuable networking experience that saw

senior decision makers from the world’s leading FMCG manufacturers interact with each other and with experts to more effectively address industry challenges as they arise.

“The interaction with the brand owner community presented by this networking forum was highly valuable,” commented guest speaker and 7th year in the row delegate Arno Melchior, Global Packaging Director, Reckitt Benckister. While first time attendees Nicolas Egri, Senior Packaging Engineer, Godiva Belgium, was particularly interested in hearing about the new products on the market and Laura Catala, R&D Research Technician Packaging, Gallina Blanca, took the opportunity to learn more about the challenges and trends in packaging and to search for new solutions to optimize her business and make it more profitable.

Mike Horsten, Marketing Manager EMEA Mimaki, was another first time attendee.

The company is looking at the opportunities presented by the packaging market and how to build more visibility and brand recognition: “These kinds of events are perfect launch platforms to get acquainted, explore and discuss new application possibilities,” he concluded.

Mr. Nieuwesteeg commented: “Globalisation is making packaging design more challenging. Regional differences and regulations must be dealt with, however at the same time the internet exposes any mistakes or inconsistencies immediately.

Managing brand consistency and quality standards has become extremely complex, creating the necessity for cloud-based intelligent graphic workflow management.”

The session on how to build a brand using exciting integrated cross-media and packaging campaigns touched on the much-publicised Coca Cola campaign in Europe that used personalised labels and a discussion of Heineken’s customer engagement strategy. All suppliers of digital printing equipment, including HP, Océ and Mimaki pooled their resources in a workshop

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Epson demonstrates digital printer versatility at IPEX 2014 Cost-effective, quality POS, signage, apparel, interior décor, t-shirts and labels applications open up new opportunities for PSPs Epson will showcase its latest range of inkjet large format, dye-sublimation, direct-to-garment, label and proofing printers, and the digital label press at IPEX 2014 (24th-29th March, ExCel, London). Visitors to the Epson booth (S1-F089) will be able to browse a wide range of new products on show for a wide range of applications spanning proofing, signage, POS, car wraps, décor, textiles for soft signage and apparel, promo products, t-shirts and quality labels.

Over the last two years Epson has launched several new-generation large format SureColor inkjet printers designed to deliver maximum quality, productivity, flexibility and low Total Cost of Ownership. These printers will be demonstrated together at IPEX and include: three 64-inch SureColor SC-S wide format printers; two SureColor SC-F dye-sublimation printers (44 and 64-inch), and the new SureColor SC-F directto-garment t-shirt printer.

“With its unique spectrum of products, Heimtextil gave the international sector a comprehensive overview of the latest trends and innovations.

Product designers and visitors interested in trends were able to gain lots of inspiration for the new furnishing season”, says Olaf Schmidt, Vice President Textiles & Textile Technologies, Messe Frankfurt.

Key Notes : > The trends: lively colours, shimmering lustre, Baroque inspirations. > Digital printing opens up new design opportunities. > The next Heimtextil in Frankfurt am Main will be held from 14 to 17 January 2015.

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Following its highly successful appearance at Labelexpo, Epson will also be showing the versatile SurePress L-4033AW digital label press with white ink, and demonstrating colour managed proofing on its flexible Stylus Pro wide format printer.

Signage & Décor A variety of high-impact, high-quality and durable POS, signage, and wallpaper graphics will be printed by three 64-inch SureColor SC-S printer models

offering a choice of productivities and from 4-10 colours including white and metallic. These SureColor printers will demonstrate cost-effective, high-speed productivity printing onto a range of materials, including vinyl, window film and recyclable stock.

Textile and t-shirts On the booth Epson will display apparel, soft signage and t-shirts, alongside customised giftware, gadgets and décor items to demonstrate the flexibility of the SureColor SC-F6000 and SC-F7000 dye sublimation printers, and the SureColor SC-F2000 direct-to-garment printer. These are the first printers in this sector in which every component, from ink and printhead, to printer chassis and optional accessories, are all designed and manufactured by one company. As a result, quality, performance and reliability are all optimised for maximum productive uptime and profit. These printers use Epson UltraChrome ink, with specially-developed new dyesublimation and aqueous pigment ink formulations, which produce outstanding images with vibrant colours, intense blacks, sharp contours and smooth gradations.

Online t-shirt shops, production t-shirt printers and copyshops will benefit from the SC-F2000’s revenuegenerating features. Epson will demonstrate how users can configure the system to suit their needs by choosing from two sets of CMYK ink for white

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garments or CMYK with up to four white inks for coloured garments. Combined with high performance, low maintenance and running costs, it enables businesses to offer a new t-shirt design and print service.

made easier and more efficient, even on clear and metallic substrates, which enables label converters and commercial printers the opportunity to expand their service offering and improve profitability.

Dye sublimation is ideal for printing and transferring scratch-resistant, photographic quality images onto a wide range of polyester-coated substrates which are difficult to print onto directly e.g. aluminium, steel, plastics, MDF boards, ceramic tiles, etc. As a result print service providers can not only expand their range of products, but also develop new creative value-added applications.

Phil McMullin, UK Sales Manager, ProGraphics, Epson UK says: “IPEX

2014 is an ideal opportunity for Epson to showcase our latest range of large format, dye-sublimation, direct-to-garment, label and digital proofing printers. There will be something for everyone and visitors to the stand will be inspired by the diverse range of new products on show for a wide range of applications.”

Labels Epson will show how exceptional print quality and accurate colour reproduction on a wide variety of standard label substrates can be achieved with the SurePress L-4033AW 7-colour, inkjet digital label press with white ink. High-quality, short-run label printing is

Agfa Graphics solutions for inkjet printing at InPrint 2014 At InPrint (Industrial Print Show - Hannover, Germany April 8-10, 2014), Agfa Graphics addresses new industrial print applications with its industrial inkjet inks and inkjet printing systems, hardware as well as software, thereby using its experience with UV inkjet ink formulations that can be tuned to specific applications.

“Agfa Graphics will be exhibiting at InPrint 2014 in Hannover as a founder sponsor.

This underlines how important the industrial sector is as an area for innovation and future growth,” said Tom Cloots, Industrial Print Marketing Manager, Agfa Graphics. “The co-location with the Hannover Industrie

Messe truly provides an excellent opportunity to connect with a community of industry leaders. Our industry specific UV ink formulations are the cornerstone of our new business offering, and we look forward to connecting with new manufacturing decision makers at InPrint 2014.”

Thanks to its versatility, inkjet technology enables businesses to integrate printing technology into their industrial manufacturing lines, to assist the function, decoration or manufacturing of the device.

Think of applications such as decor and laminate, printing on glass, appliances and

objects, cars, textiles, that all impose specific characteristics on the ink and the printing system.

Agfa has become an important ink supplier to integrators that offer such production systems including inkjet printing. Agfa’s position in the industrial print market benefits from its long-time and vested position in digital printing. Agfa Graphics’ workflow management solutions also play a major role in the production processes, especially with respect to color management, variable data printing and pre-flighting.

Agfa Graphics will be present at InPrint, Hall 21 booth D10 on April 10. Marc Graindourze, Marketing Manager Industrial Inks, will speak about Agfa Graphics’ industrial inkjet inks for industrial applications, in particular concerning direct printing on objects and packaging using low-migration inkjet inks.

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Esko displays versatile digital finishing solutions at Media Expo Esko is a global supplier of integrated solutions for the packaging and labels, sign and display and POP industry. At Media Expo, Mumbai – from February 14th to February 16th – Esko showcased i-cut Suite and ArtiosCAD software and a Kongsberg XN digital cutting table. The entire workflow – from design to prepress to versatile finishing – could be witnessed live at Esko’s partner booth # 73A – Global 5 Technologies.

Kongsberg cutting tables provide versatile digital finishing Esko’s range of Kongsberg tables brings world class solutions for cutting and creasing and short-run converting for the packaging, label, sign and display industries.

The Kongsberg cutting tables are the first choice for die-less digital finishing. They are known for their robust build, precise and fast performance, and smooth integration with Esko production software. Featuring a large number of options and a variety of tool heads it has smart workflow tools which ensure perfect finish for a wide range of applications.

The Kongsberg XN is a versatile and upgradeable digital finishing table which can be configured for various applications.

The Kongsberg XP is among the fastest digital finishing tables and is designed to handle continuous, high-speed production on the most demanding materials. Esko has more than 60 installations of Kongsberg tables all over South Asia.

i-cut Suite software supports the large format industry Esko’s i-cut Suite is ideally suited for streamlining the sign and display workflow.

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i-cut Suite is a collection of pre-production software targeted specifically at large format digital printers and users of digital finishing systems. It eliminates errors, saves time and reduces waste. The different modules of i-cut Suite provide optimal efficiency and productivity, regardless of the type, source and variety of the incoming job information.

NEW demo facility in Bangalore Esko recently inaugurated its demo facility at its new office in Bangalore. The demo facility has a fully configured Kongsberg XN24 table with all possible tooling. It demonstrates a range of applications from kiss-cutting to packaging mock-ups, heavy-duty milling and simple to complex flexo plate cutting with ID marking.

Shrihari Rao, Sales Director of Esko South Asia states, “The versatility that Esko’s digital finishing solution offers with i-cut

Suite and ArtiosCAD software alongside the Kongsberg XN series is exactly what the growing Retail and Signage market in India needs. Quality and on time delivery are the key to success. Retailing in India is one of the pillars of its economy and accounts for 14% - 15 % of its GDP. The Indian Retail market is estimated to be US$ 500 billion and one of the top five retail markets in the world by economic value. India is one of the fastest growing retail markets in the world, with 1.2 billion people. Esko has invested in the digital finishing excellence centre with equipment and trained staff and has nearly 100 Installations in the region addressing various applications”

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Monotech Systems bagged nine orders at Media Expo 2014 Monotech Systems bagged nine orders for its Pixeljet Wide format Solvent and Eco Solvent Printers. The company displayed with its own branded products Pixeljet Eco Solvent, Pixeljet Konica Head and Pixeljet Xaar Proton head printers in the exhibition.

Mr. T.P Jain, Managing Director, Monotech Systems says, “This was a good opportunity and our motive to participate in this exhibition was to explore the commercial and signage market of western part of India. We also displayed Konica Minolta C6000 which was

also a product of attraction at the show.

This was great to see the good crowd and response of the visitors. The Pixeljet products were liked and appreciated by the visitors.

Apart from confirmed orders we have received more than 100 enquiries for the products displayed.�

The Pixeljet wide format printers offered

by Monotech Systems are acknowledged for high speed and quality printing. These products enjoy a huge success and already have more than 400 installations

across the nation. The range of Pixeljet large format printers are suitable for small as well as high scale business purposes and can be used for printing color as well as black & white line drawings, outdoor advertising, signage, maps, presentations, etc. Further, these are available in different models and specifications to suit the diverse requirements of clients.

The Pixeljet printers are controlled by high speed servo drives for consistent long prints and offer negative or positive ink flow system.

FPGA high speed raster control system with encoder ensures good printing speed and high precision printing. The printers are also equipped with highly efficient hot air drying system and are upgradable to higher models in their category.

Monotech Systems Ltd is a manufacturer and supplier of high end, high performance and reliable products and solutions for printing, packaging and publishing industry.

The company is backed with high skilled and committed employee base to achieve total customer satisfaction by providing efficient, superior products and solutions with customer friendly services.

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The JV33 just got faster: Mimaki delivers another innovation at C!Print Mimaki Engineering, manufacturer of wide format inkjet printers, introduced the enhanced version of the JV33 series at C!Print in Lyon, France. Focused on bringing new ideas, new applications and new markets to providers of printing services, the show was held from 4 through 6 February.

In the run up to FESPA Digital 2014, Mimaki also presented the French market with an exclusive launch of the enhanced solvent JV33, Mimaki’s work horse in its solvent inkjet product line.

“Salon C!Print is co-located with CTCO for promotional products and promotional textiles,” said Mike Horsten, General Manager Marketing EMEA, Mimaki Europe B.V. “At the C!Print area, visitors to our booth found solutions that are applicable to promotional products and textiles as well. But above all, we’re very excited about introducing the updated version of our industry leading JV33 solvent inkjet printer, which will give our customers more speed and quality for the same price.”

Mimaki also participated in NOVA Live, located at the centre of the hall. NOVA Live showcased live technical demonstrations and many applications created by the exhibitors. Mimaki printed with its TS341800A dye sublimation printer on sublimation paper which was then further processed by other exhibitors to create a finished product.

“We always find that these multi-vendor live demonstrations draw a great deal of attention at shows,” Horsten added. “Attendees almost always work in a multi-vendor environment, and demonstrations such as these allow

them to see the production of an application from end-to-end as though it were being produced in their own shop.”

Better and faster - JV33 series The new JV33 is an updated version of Mimaki’s top selling JV33 roll-to-roll series of solvent inkjet products. With the exclusive launch of this new development at C!Print, the show attendees were the first to view this exciting new product.

A key enhancement is the addition of Mimaki Advanced Pass System (MAPS) technology, which is an innovative approach to discharging ink droplets to minimize, or even eliminate, banding in high production mode.

MAPS is highly configurable to adjust the jetting process to meet specific production needs including adjustments to print speeds.

The MAPS system will allow at least a 10% speed increase to the already fast printing solution and will function with all ink sets.

Mimaki JV33 is available immediately in the EMEA region for distribution.

Personalising Promotional Products Mimaki also demonstrated the personalisation of promotional products at the show. This includes personalisation of promotional products using Mimaki’s UJF-3042 and UJF-6042. These UV flatbed printers with LED curing and multiple ink options print in near photo quality directly on substrates up to 150mm thick with a precise and vivid image quality that is normally only found in more costly printers. These printers support 6 colors and white ink.

X-Rite Pantone appoints X-Rite customers in North India can now take advantage of the expertise and service support that Corpora Consultants provides locally X-Rite has announced the appointment of Corpora Consultants Pvt. Ltd. – Delhi as Authorized Service Center to provide local support to the customers in North India.

Corpora Consultants Pvt. Ltd., a Gurgaon based company specializing in the distribution of colour management solutions, has been appointed by X-Rite as an Authorized Service centre for Light Booths, which are part of the industrial device offerings, for Northern India. The new service center status for its Gurgaon location will offer clients with Light Booths a convenient one-stop center for all their Light

SAi PixelBlaster 3.0 offers SA International (SAi), provider of solutions for the professional signmaking, large format digital printing and CAD/CAM for CNC machining industries, has released PixelBlaster 3.0.

Launched in 2012 and upgraded in 2013, the award-winning SAi PixelBlaster production software is a modular and scaleable end-toend system covering preflight to production.

Using a PDF-based RIP, PixelBlaster delivers a customer-selected suite of workflow applications that can drive an extensive line-up of large format printers, regardless of supplier. A key feature is its ability to standardize colours based on industry accepted profiles, including GRACoL, Euroscale and FOGRA. PixelBlaster is specifically designed to meet the needs of users in super-wide format, high volume print production environments, as well as the increasingly important specialty

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Corpora as authorized service center for Light Booths Booths (SPL/ SPL –QC/ Judge-II) service requirements.

Corpora Consultants (CCPL) has signed up last year to distribute the X-Rite Pantone’s (formerly Gretag Mcbeth) industrial solutions.

The Authorized Service Center has a team of well trained licensed technicians that have experience of working with the X-Rite solutions.

Francesco Tomasello, Vice President Sales for EMEA, INDIA & BPS commented, “We remain resolute in our commitment to develop the best in class colour management solutions where colour is important and critical. By appointing CCPL as our Authorized Service Center for Light booths in Northern India, we have ensured that X-Rite customers and partners get the very

best levels of service, product knowledge, responsiveness and understanding of local market conditions.”

Mr. Naveen Juneja, Director at CCPL stated, “The entire CCPL team is very excited to strengthen our business relation with X-Rite.

We are dedicated to supporting customers in need of service, thus we are looking forward to expanding these service offerings to our local customer base.”

CCPL has been involved in sourcing and offering technology solutions and products related to colour such as dyes, chemicals and textile processing machines. CCPL has been the agents and distributor for Huntsman Specialty Chemicals Pvt Ltd and some state of the art Textile Processing machinery companies from Europe and Asia.

X-Rite, along with its wholly owned subsidiary Pantone LLC develops, manufactures, markets and supports colour solutions through measurement systems, software, colour standards and services.

Headquartered in Grand Rapids, Mich., X-Rite helps customers with a full range of colour management systems and solutions offered through dealers and more than 20 company-owned manufacturing facilities, sales and service offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia. X-Rite serves a range of industries, including printing, packaging, photography, graphic design, video, automotive, plastics, paint, textiles, dental and medical.

increased performance, throughput and ease-of-use printing sector which embraces substrates such as glass and ceramics. The software provides flexibility and versatility to help users respond to customer requests and balance their workloads to accommodate demand levels and equipment availability.

PixelBlaster Layout: With the new Layout feature, PixelBlaster will be integrated into even more workflows, producing a wider variety of printed products.

Functions available in Layout include: true shape nesting, manual job positioning, double-sided printing, white handling and cutting. PixelBlaster Layout also replaces the existing “Add Job” dialog of PixelBlaster Engine and the “Submit Job” dialog commands of PixelBlaster Central.

PixelBlaster Library: With a new user interface, Library now incorporates PixelBlaster Profile to make

it even easier to achieve outstanding color results. It is one complete software application to create all profile components: print mode, ink splitting, calibration and profile.

A new integrated media manager offers a streamlined overview of every profile, including spot colour edits. A new test chart generator recognizes the defined media width and measurement devices. With the full support of external measurement devices, like the Barbieri Spectropad, PixelBlaster Library now offers internal devices like those found in HP Designjet and Epson Stylus Pro printers.

Double-sided printing: PixelBlaster 3.0 fully supports a wide variety of double-sided printing applications, which, importantly, are not limited to printers offering dedicated registration marks. This feature can be used for jobs using both manual and automated file processing.

Improved RIPping performance and quality:

already high performance has been further optimized. Processing of some types of input files (e.g., complex PDF files) has been improved by up to 200%. This drastically reduces RIPping time to enhance productivity and workflow. Additionally, new rendering parameters deliver significantly improved sharpness, when needed.

Improved queue handling: Using the added function of a “Cut” tab in the queue function, it is now possible to define printing and cutting parameters for jobs in the same queue, improving both performance and use.

This new tab offers all tools that are needed to combine printing and cutting into one fully automated production workflow.

“PixelBlaster 3.0 offers customers new features, a time-saving internal structure and improved ease-of-use to deliver greater performance levels and streamlined print preparation,” said Eyal Friedman, Vice President, Technical Services, SAi. “It also demonstrates our commitment to the continuous development of this solution in order to help our customers meet the demanding challenges of their markets.”

PixelBlaster 3.0 is now available in 14 languages from SAi dealers worldwide.

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FESPA Digital 2014 With a significant number of new and existing exhibitors requiring more space at FESPA Digital 2014 (20‐23 May 2014, Messe Munich), FESPA has increased the show floor plan by 4,000 m2. 2014 is the biggest

FESPA Digital to date and the additional floor space will increase the footprint considerably.

FESPA has now extended the gross exhibition space to 37,000 m2.

FESPA CEO Neil Felton comments, “FESPA Digital 2014 is our biggest Digital event yet.

This landmark underlines the positive trend towards suppliers taking larger stands to showcase an even wider range of product innovations to FESPA visitors.”

He adds, “On the back of a phenomenally successful FESPA 2013 in London, and with a long track record of high‐performing FESPA events in central Europe, we believed that our return to Munich would attract a great deal of interest from suppliers, and we’re delighted that the take‐up is set to exceed our expectations.

Print services providers will have the opportunity to view new product launches, test drive machinery and technology to service the print market. With its focus on the signage industry, the Signage Theatre, co-located in the European Sign Expo, will offer market research and presentations on channel lettering, sign installation best practices and soft signage.

The Digital Hub by Mimaki and the Fabric Hub is sponsored by Kornit Digital and will feature live demonstrations of the technology and applications. Industry’s leading names will be exhibiting their latest solutions to an international audience.

The shortlisted entries of Fespa Awards 2014 will be showcased for visitors.

FESPA Digital is the largest focused event for Digital Wide Format Print and will stage 400+ innovative global brands and manufacturers.

Events Calendar GLOBOLOCAL 2014

IPEX 2014

Eurasia Packaging Fair 2014

Date: 13 FEB-14 to 14 FEB-14 Venue: New Delhi

Date: 24 MAR-14 to 29 MAR-14 Venue: ExCel, London London, UK

Date: 18 SEP-14 to 21 SEP-14 Venue: Tüyap Fair Convention and Congress Center Istanbul, Turkey

Digital Media India 2014 Date: 05 FEB-14 to 06 FEB-14 Venue: Chennai

DECODING COLORS 2013 (Mumbai) Date: 08 FEB-14 to 08 FEB-14 Venue: Venue to be announced soon.

Media Expo 2014 Date: 14 FEB-14 to 16 FEB-14 Venue: Bombay Exhibition Centre Mumbai

PRINTEX 2014

PRINTPACK ARABIA 2014 Date: 07 APR-14 to 10 APR-14 Venue: Expo Centre Sharjah UAE

Interpack 2014

Date: 07 APR-15 to 12 APR-15 Venue: Guangdong Modern International Exhibition Center Guangdong, China

Date: 08 MAY-14 to 14 MAY-14 Venue: Dusseldorf, Germany

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AutoPack India 2014

Date: 31 MAY-16 to 10 JUN-16 Venue: Dusseldorf, Germany

Date: 09 MAY-14 to 09 MAY-14 Venue: Hilton Mumbai

FESPA Digital 2014

Date: 14 MAR-14 to 16 MAR-14 Venue: Bombay Exhibition Center Mumbai

Date: 20 MAY-14 to 23 MAY-14 Venue: Munich Exhibition Centre Munich, Germany

Printing Summit 2014

Screen Print India 2014

Date: 19 MAR-14 to 20 MAR-14 Venue: Munich, Germany

Date: 18 SEP-14 to 21 SEP-14 Venue: The International Centre, Dona Paula, Goa

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