PRESSIdeas July 2018 issue

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FROM THE EDITORS’ DESK.............................................................................................................................................................................................................6 The rise of print in India – a Kodak story..................................................................................................................................................................................8 Think out of the Box .................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14 S.E.M. and Koenig & Bauer enter alliance............................................................................................................................................................................. 19 A moment of pride for the Indian Graphic Arts Industry ............................................................................................................................................... 19 German Brand Award for Koenig & Bauer ........................................................................................................................................................................... 20 DPA launches its Website........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 20 dna – drupa next age................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 21 Guy Gecht to step down as EFI CEO....................................................................................................................................................................................... 21 Wallbox Home Eco from Heidelberg ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 22 Printall AS upgrades with new Q.I. Press Controls automation system..................................................................................................................... 23 Xerox’s latest Iridesse Production Press: Create more wow per page........................................................................................................................ 24 UrPrinters.com wins ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ ................................................................................................................................................................. 27 Konica Minolta India bags a Business Contribution award ........................................................................................................................................... 27 FINAT European Label Forum................................................................................................................................................................................................... 28 IST Metz creation gets nominated at German Design Award 2019............................................................................................................................ 30 drupa touchpoint packaging.................................................................................................................................................................................................... 31

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

Esko hosts 4th Flexible Packaging Honours Class ............................................................................................................................................................ 32 Baldwin launches Autotron 3600 at PackPlus 2018.......................................................................................................................................................... 34 Bosch to sell its packaging business...................................................................................................................................................................................... 35 Partnering with the Packaging Pioneers.............................................................................................................................................................................. 36 Firstan streamlines production processes with Esko-to-EFI integration................................................................................................................... 37 Hotter than lava flow .................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 38

Networking/ Hardware Consultant Sukhdeep Singh USA Correspondents Tensi M., Preeti

72 students and their parents attend the Orientation hosted at Manipal .............................................................................................................. 39 Successful PackPlus 2018 marks flourishing industry...................................................................................................................................................... 40 Konica Minolta India demonstrates Digital superiority ................................................................................................................................................. 42 Showcase of a customer centric approach ......................................................................................................................................................................... 42 Bobst Italia Coating Days ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 43 Xeikon showcases production possibilities of the Xeikon9800 .................................................................................................................................. 43

European Correspondent Rimi, Yadhu Morphine Production Thomas K Alex

Looking for BIG Opportunity in Graphic Communications & Specialty Printing................................................................................................... 44 1st European EFI VUTEk HS125 F4 Inkjet press installation........................................................................................................................................... 47 Labelexpo India to host industry forums across South Asia.......................................................................................................................................... 48 PRESSIdeas July 2018 Vol. 18, Issue 07 Printed by Jacob George and published by Jasmeet Singh on behalf of PRESSIdeas Publishing Pvt Ltd. Printed in India at Hues and Colors 363, Industrial Focal Point, Phase-IX Mohali, and published at PRESSIdeas, 437-A 1st Floor, Industrial Area, Phase-2 Chandigarh-160002 (India) Every effort has been made to ensure that credits accurately comply with information supplied.

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FROM THE EDITORS’ DESK Dear Readers, Predicted to grow at a rate of 8.1% per year between 2016 and 2021, India’s publishing printing market will surpass France and the UK in 2020 to become the 4th biggest publishing market by 2021 – adding $1.2bn of revenue during this time. The same goes for the country’s marketing & commercial printing market, expected to grow 7.7% p.a. - the second highest globally. Growth projections for packaging printing market are 12.5% between 2016 and 2020. This would make print packaging industry to become the 4th largest ($18.6bn) by 2020.

There are a number of key drivers behind India’s optimistic growth potential. A rapid rise in literacy rates and education levels, urbanization, commercial development and rising incomes, which sees a bigger investment in brands, are all contributing to the growth of the Indian print and printed packaging industry. The print industry is adapting to satisfy the requirements, including higher quality and efficiency. Kodak has long been seen as one of India’s top trusted print technology suppliers, and with the country’s exponential growth rate printers continue to choose Kodak’s hardware, consumables and KODAK PRINERGY Workflow software to provide the best return on their investment. Read the interesting Kodak story – The rise of print in India in this issue.

About 250 visitors from Asia Pacific regions joined the Packaging Day at Heidelberg Print Media Center in Shanghai. Under the theme “Think out of the Box”, they were able to see for themselves the latest Packaging Solutions from Heidelberg, which is aimed to help them stand out from the market competition, and continuously grow a profitable business and sustainable development in the digital era.

Xerox’s latest Iridesse Production Press is a solution that helps users create more wow per page. Balaji Rajagopalan, Executive DirectorTechnology, Channels & International Business, Xerox India, speaks about the Xerox Iridesse high-end Production Press which takes digital printing to a whole new level. The Press features an industry first in the world of print and is the only digital press that can print metallic gold or silver dry ink, CMYK and clear dry ink in a single pass, giving print providers an immediate competitive edge in the growing digital print enhancement market.

Sign, display, and specialty graphics are an attractive opportunity for print providers that are looking to expand into adjacent markets. Looking for BIG Opportunity in Graphic Communications & Specialty Printing is a research based report co-authored by Lisa Cross, Eve Padula and Steve Urmano. We have shared this time with our readers, the key findings of the report. Among other things, the findings include – sign, display, and specialty, graphics are important applications that can offer growth opportunities for commercial printers, sign shops, screen printers, and ad specialty providers.

In a major industry happening EFI’s (Electronics For Imaging) CEO Guy Gecht has expressed his intent to step down from his operating role. Guy Gecht retires after remaining for 19 years as CEO of this one of the leading global companies.

Along with all this, read many more reports, news and informative stories from around the world of Printing, Packaging, Signage, Labels and much more in the July 2018 issue of PRESSIdeas.

- Jasvinder Singh, Sub-editor

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The rise of print in India – a Kodak story The overall economic outlook for print is changing, and in a good way.

Recent industry reports indicate that confidence and investment in the specific print and packaging markets are returning in most regions around the world, while some of these regions – including India are already seeing exponential growth.

According to the NPES (Now rebranded as the Association of Print Technologies, or AP Tech) and VDMA’s Worldwide market for print 2.0: Global opportunities in publishing printing and marketing & commercial printing (2012-21) report, the Asia Pacific region is expected to outperform all other regions in terms of both the publishing printing and marketing & commercial printing industries, with India one of the key growth countries in this region.

Kodak’s global Print for Good campaign in support of increasing literacy, rallied employees in partnership with ‘Youth for People’ to distribute over 5,000 notebooks to 1,000 children based in the Nilmati province in 2017. The activity will be replicated again this year.

Key Notes : > India to surpass France and the UK to become the 4th biggest publishing market by 2021. > Making a difference in the Indian community is very important to Kodak. > Will continue to play a key part in the country’s print and printed packaging industry which has a bright future.

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Predicted to grow at a rate of 8.1% per year between 2016 and 2021, India’s publishing printing market will surpass France and the UK in 2020 to become the 4th biggest publishing market by 2021 – adding $1.2bn of revenue during this time. The same goes for the country’s marketing & commercial printing market, which is expected to see a compound annual growth rate in local currency of 7.7% - the second highest globally – which will see revenue growth of $957m by 2021.

Growth projections for the packaging printing market

is equally favourable, with India expected to top the growth rate charts at 12.5% between 2016 and 2020. This will see the country climbing the ranks of the print packaging industry to become the 4th largest ($18.6bn) by 2020, according to NPES in the Worldwide market for print 2.0: Packaging (20112020) report.

“The labels market in India is definitely growing at a much faster rate compared to the rest of the world, and it’s good to see how print service providers are embracing this,” comments Rajesh Nema, Honorary Secretary of the Label Manufacturers Association of India. “Our members are still investing in conventional printing devices that offer better productivity and connectivity, and flexo is growing in the label as well as folding carton and flexible packaging markets.

Digital printing, in my opinion, will still take time to establish itself properly in the Indian printing market as it is still more cost effective to use traditional printing methods.”

Rajesh also says that with a rapidly growing market poses a couple of concerns: “With practically no market entry barrier, we are seeing too many PSPs entering the field, which in turn is creating unhealthy price competition and a great need for thought leaders to impart their knowledge. It is therefore the

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industry associations’ duty to ensure we educate the market, including our members, on the dangers of reverse auctions where the winner really is the biggest loser.”

Drivers for growth There are a number of key drivers behind India’s optimistic growth potential. A rapid rise in literacy rates and education levels, urbanization, commercial development and rising incomes, which sees a bigger investment in brands, are all contributing to the growth of the Indian print and printed packaging industry.

Komal Sharma, Regional Director for the Middle East, Africa and South Asia, Kodak, comments: “Population and economic growth has fostered urbanization in the country and the number of urban towns and cities has drastically increased. This means that more people than ever have the economic ability to invest in brands and premium products, and the print industry is adapting to satisfy the requirements, including higher quality and efficiency associated with it.”

Various governmental and non-governmental literacy and education programs, which included several Kodak initiatives, have contributed to the rapid rise in literacy rates in India – confirmed at 74% after the 2011 census. This, together with a fast-growing population and urbanization, result in news and other content becoming more localized in regions, in turn demanding more versioning and different print runs from service providers.

Indian printers and printed packaging service providers are placing their trust in Kodak when they make new investments, and they are reaping the benefits of delivering higher quality and achieving high level of efficiency in doing so.

Kodak technologies offer host of benefits for PSPs Kodak has long been seen as one of India’s top trusted print technology suppliers, and with the country’s exponential growth rate printers continue to choose Kodak’s hardware, consumables and KODAK PRINERGY Workflow software to provide the best return on their investment.

As the number one choice for printers when

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investing in thermal CtP equipment, the KODAK ACHIEVE Platesetters and KODAK TRENDSETTER Platesetters are not only chosen for their reliability, productivity and accurate imaging, but also for their reduced footprint and the up to 80%-95% reduction in energy usage compared to similar offerings.

Kodak’s variety of plate offerings are also proving popular amongst Indian commercial and newspaper printers. The company’s KODAK SONORA Process Free Plates, which completely eliminate the plate processing step, are increasingly popular – having seen a growth of 9% worldwide over the past year – as more and more printers are focusing on green credentials and water, chemistry and energy savings. With the latest introduction of SONORA X Plates, which enable much longer run lengths, faster imaging speeds, and more robust handling capabilities, up to 80% of offset printers can benefit from the sustainable and economic benefits the SONORA Plate portfolio offers.

Surat-based Progressive Printing Press, one of India’s leading commercial print service providers, has made great strides in improving productivity and the quality print they produce by utilizing Kodak’s SONORA Process Free Plates and KODAK TRENDSETTER Q400Platesetter equipment.

Imaging an average of 7,000 plates/month, the company is one of the largest SONORA Plate users in India.

“As we solely produce high end fashion catalogues, print quality is naturally one of

our key concerns. SONORA Plates deliver the best quality of all plates we’ve looked at,” explains Latif Sanchawala, Director at Progressive Printing Press. “Furthermore, by using process free we not only do what every printer should be doing to be as environmentally responsible as possible, but it also gives us a great boost in productivity.

With SONORA Process Free Plates, we’ve increased plate-making productivity by 60% - a huge benefit for us. That is why I recommend Kodak and SONORA Process Free Plates to all my industry peers.”

Raju Hiremath, Assistant General Manager at VRL Logistics, adds: “By switching to KODAK SONORA Process Free Plates, we’ve had substantial savings. We’ve been able to remove 20 plate processors, which in turn allows us to save around 440 liters of water per day. Furthermore, we save around 820 kWh of energy per day, as well ongoing processor maintenance and additional spare parts. This is not only a great economic benefit for us, but an environmental one too.”

India has also experienced an increase in the number of flexo presses installed. This is indicative of what was reported in the drupa 5th Global Trends report, which stated that flexo is the most popular investment choice in packaging for 2018. The FLEXCEL NX System has captured the attention of a great number of Indian flexo pre-press providers and printers – including those looking to convert gravure print production to flexo.

Flexo benefits include greater substrate flexibility, including printing on lightweight

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films, and shorter lead times – and the KODAK FLEXCEL NX System ensures there is no compromise when it comes to print quality.

“As our trusted partner and long-term thermal imaging technology supplier, Kodak’s FLEXCEL NXSystem was a natural choice for us when we expanded into the flexible packaging and label market,” says Tarun Katyal, owner and director of Delhi-NCR based pre-press bureau Anupama Printing Solutions. “Our customers were immediately impressed with and are now insisting on the FLEXCEL NX Plates, which allow them to achieve deeper solids and crisper text, while the speed of the FLEXCEL NXSystem has also allowed us to maximize productivity.

When we expand our flexo business with the addition of another imager later this year, there is obviously only one choice for us and that is Kodak.”

Ahmedabad-based Pinmark, the first Indian trade shop to install the FLEXCEL NXSystem, chose Kodak for the exceptional quality and the wider colour gamut that can be achieved.

“With theFLEXCEL NX System, we have a very powerful technology that delivers the best possible quality –various awards won by our customers are testimony to this. Most of our customers now insist on FLEXCEL NX Plates,” explains Rutul Zaveri, Partner at Pinmark. “We’re continually working with Kodak to upgrade our equipment and stay ahead of our competitors and are looking at the new developments in Flexo that Kodak continues to be working on. We’ll be ready to implement it at Pinmark once it’s available.”

Kodak’s digital printing technology is also helping Indian print and printed packaging service providers to stand out from their competitors. The KODAK NEXPRESS Press, Kodak’s sheetfed electrophotographic printing (EP) offering, is utilized by PSPs across the country for a variety of applications, including Aadhaar (UIDAI) cards, textiles, promotional brochures and pamphlets.

K L Hi-Tech, based in Hyderabad, India, utilizes their NEXPRESS Press to produce almost a third of India’s Aadhaar cards – a compulsory identity card with a unique 12-digit identification number for all residents.

Since the company started production of the cards in 2012, it saw print volumes of

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500,000 and upwards, which the NEXPRESS Press has continued to deliver on without a hitch.

Also commenting on the NEXPRESS Press, Latif Sanchawala adds: “The NEXPRESS Press covers customer emergencies and shortrun jobs of between 50 and 200 catalogues.

As it’s calibrated with our offset press, we can deliver virtually the same print quality as offset, a great benefit for us and for our customers.”

And, while the Indian print market has been slow in the adoption of inkjet up to now, many PSPs believe that the time to invest in inkjet production presses is here. Repro India revolutionized the Indian publishing market after it invested in a KODAK PROSPER1000 Press from Kodak over five years ago. They have not looked back since.

Rishi Kharalkar, Head of Supply Chain & Operations, Repro India, comments: “Kodak’s PROSPER 1000 Press is the perfect device for shorter print runs of 30 – 2,000 pages and has enabled us to bring together a range of India’s biggest publishers through a large database and digital storefront. It now produces an average of 70 million A4 pages per month, no mean feat by any standards.”

There has also been a big uptake on Kodak’s PROSPER S-Series heads for packaging, labeling and security printing applications, installed onto conventional presses to allow for a hybrid printing option. The imprinting systems has proved ideal for the production of lottery tickets (6.2 million tickets per day) and promotional or loyalty customer programs.

Finally, over 700 Indian commercial printing and printed packaging service providers are benefiting from KODAK PRINERGY or PRINERGY EVO Workflow Software. This number continues to rise as more and more digital print service providers are now also adopting and investing in this trusted KODAK Technology.

Taking it further – beyond print Making a difference in the Indian community is very important to Kodak, and the company is involved with a number of programs.

Kodak’s global Print for Good campaign in support of increasing literacy, rallied employees in partnership with ‘Youth for People’ to distribute over 5,000 notebooks to 1,000 children based in the Nilmati province in 2017. The activity will be replicated again this year.

Kodak will this year also establish a new partnership with Room to Read, a global non-profit organization focused on literacy and girls’ education in low-income countries.

Working with Room to Read, Kodak will support the establishment of Room to Read’s Literacy Program at a primary school in Rajasthan, India, bringing the community access to a safe and child-friendly learning environment, with books in the children’s local language, as well as teachers and librarians who are trained in the best practices of reading and writing instruction.

The future for Kodak in India Komal Sharma concludes: “The print and printed packaging industry in India has a bright future, and Kodak will continue to play a key part in it. Printers are diversifying and aligning with trusted global technology partners with offerings that allow them to differentiate themselves and deliver economic benefits. Our commitment to our customers in India has stood the test of time and we will continue to bring leading, cuttingedge technology enabling them to meet their respective customers’ evolving needs and demands efficiently for years to come.”

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Think out of the Box About 250 visitors from Asia Pacific regions joined the Packaging Day at Heidelberg Print Media Center in Shanghai.

On May 23rd and 24th, more than 250 visitors from Greater China as well as from Asia Pacific regions joined the Packaging Day at Heidelberg Print Media Center in Shanghai, China. Under the theme “Think out of the Box”, they were able to see for themselves the latest Packaging Solutions from Heidelberg, which is aimed to help them stand out from the market competition, and continuously grow a profitable business and sustainable development in the digital era.

Heidelberg offers solutions for consistent Packaging Workflow with complete end-to-end box production.

All presentations and demos showed the visitors the complete process chain until the finished box. Also seamless integration of die cutting, inspection and folding carton gluing are all essential for an effective packaging production.

Packaging printing market is promising

The “Thank you box” was the central theme of the Packaging Day and its production was shown from the intro presentation until the finished box as a customer gift.

There is huge potential on the Packaging printing market. In the next five years, Asia Pacific region will come out at the top of the list in terms of market size and market growth rate of packaging printing.

class in China, continuous demands for packaging printing products will be driven forward.

“In fact, the packaging printing market in China is facing some challenges similar to those encountered in developed countries, e.g. increasing demands for spot color and special effects, higher demands for standardized production, diversified job orders with increasingly shorter run length and faster delivery time, higher requirements on flexibility and OEE (overall equipment effectiveness). It is time ‘to think out of the box’”, explained Benny Huang, CEO of Heidelberg Greater China, in his opening speech.

Heidelberg provides suitable solutions to address the above issues. With the “Smart Print Shop” concept, print shops are able to use smart, intelligently networked production environments to achieve an outstanding performance. Thus the way is paved for navigated and autonomous printing, with efficient production and completing ever shorter job runs profitably, as well as much less manual interventions, lower error rate and lower waste.

Highlights of the Packaging Day In China, the overall market development potential remains promising in the coming years. Thanks to the process of urbanization and the expansion of middle

The foundation for “Smart Print Shop” concept is the Prinect workflow, which was presented on the event in the first place. Thanks to Prinect, the live

Key Notes : > Heidelberg shows packaging solutions for the digitized future in China for Asian Market. > Highlights digital workflow with Prinect, Lifecycle solutions and tenth anniversary of Saphira. > Delivery ceremony of the Speedmaster CD 102-7+L with press number 888.

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Heidelberg Greater China CEO Benny Huang welcomed more than 160 guests from China to join the Packaging Day at Heidelberg Shanghai PMC, on the Chinese Day.

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measuring system, print shops are able to measure and control opaque white using a completely standard quality control strip for the first time. Press operators can now save and access the target color values more easily and Prinect Image Control 3 ensures reliable control of day-to-day print production. In the meantime, DripOff varnishing application was processed in one pass. In a further step additional embossing was done by a die cutter.

Speedmaster CX 75, the multitalent, entrypackaging-machine, also produced two jobs showing the customer benefit in packaging printing: quick and easy job change as well as user friendlyness.

Stephan Plenz (right), member of Heidelberg Management Board and Thomas Frank, Head of Heidelberg Asia Pacific welcomed around 100 customers from all over Asia Pacific to the Packaging Day at Heidelberg Print Media Center in Shanghai, on the International Day.

demonstration machines and processes have become so intelligent that the upstream process all the way to the press has been fully networked and automated, which quite impressed the guests.

The Prinect Packaging Designer software was introduced to the guests in particular.

Packaging print shops can benefit from its extensive library with more than 1,800 scalable designs and components, which enable them to draft folding cartons and create the corresponding layouts in a very simple way.

The Speedmaster CD 102-7+L and Speedmaster CX 75-4 played a key role during the live demonstrations, which attracted many visitors’ attention.

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and its production was shown from the intro presentation until the finished box as a customer gift. This box printed on CD 1027+L showcased the Heidelberg Multicolor solution, which is the color substitution to Pantone as well as enlargement of color space. Using Multicolor solution print shops could benefit from reduction of washing and make-ready times and enormous potential for material savings. The box was finished with Masterwork Postpress Solutions, die cutting with Easymatrix 106 CS, inspection with Diana Eye and folding carton gluing with Diana Easy.

Another demo job of CD 102-7+L was a cosmetics box. The most challenging applications on this job was the opaque white on silver board, and the Prinect Image Control 3 was the perfect solution here.

With the Image Control 3 quality and color

Speedmaster CD 102-7+L printed the “Thank you box” and showcased the Heidelberg Multicolor solution.

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Lifecycle Solutions with the components Saphira consumables and services are an essential part of Heidelberg’s solution offering to customers for achieving top quality, productivity, and production reliability.

The up-to-date Lifecycle Solutions were integrated in presentations of CD 102 Job 1 – CX 75 – CD 102 Job 2. After printing demo the Multicolor Job was directly reference to Lifecycle with Multicolor Kit from Saphira. At the same time, Heidelberg also celebrated the tenth anniversary of the “Saphira” brand. With Saphira, Heidelberg offers an extensive portfolio of high-quality consumables, both for everyday print jobs and special applications, as well as all production requirements for prepress, press and postpress.

Packaging Printing solutions for whole Asia On May 24-25th, the “Think out of the Box” - Heidelberg Packaging Day also received guests from print shops in other countries in Asia Pacific region. Stephan Plenz, member of Heidelberg Management Board reponsible for Digital Technology welcomed all the guests and strengthened customers‘ confidence in Heidelberg Packaging Solutions. “With our comprehensive packaging printing solutions that combines efficiency and cost-effectiveness with consistent quality, we help customers make more business and profit. The show today will provide you with new ideas and inspiration to boost up your business“, explained Stephan Plenz in his welcome speech.

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Over 70 customers from Asia visited the factory of MK Masterwork in Tianjin, where the the Easymatrix 106 FC and Powermatrix 106 CSB are manufactured.

Thomas Frank, Head of Heidelberg Asia Pacific summarized: “Packaging Printing in Asia is changing dramatically. The challenges for the printers are manifold.

But there are solutions such as our Prinect workflow. With Prinect Multicolor workflow, Saphira consumables and a high performance 7-color Speedmaster print shops can boost their productivity and cut the costs significantly. This is what we can demonstrate in our demo center in Shanghai.

The showroom is taylormade for the needs of Asian printers. Apart from our workflow software, digital and offset presses we now also have the full range of Postpress equipment on display, for both Packaging and Commercial Printers.”

Delivery Ceremony of the Speedmaster CD 102-7+L with press number 888 On May 23rd, visitors attended a delivery ceremony in Qingpu factory in Shanghai, where a Speedmaster CD 102-7+L with its press number 888 was delivered to the enduser Dongguan New Island Printing Co. Ltd. New Island Printing Co. Ltd., started as a family-sized print shop in Hong Kong, has become one of the leading and reputable printing and packaging companies in Hong Kong and mainland China. Today they mainly produce high quality packaging and paper

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products with the capability to cater for various industries worldwide. The Dongguan site is the largest manufacturing plant of New Island Printing Group. A start-to-finish service is provided to serve mainland China as well as foreign markets, with their prepress facilities, seven and eight color Heidelberg sheetfed presses, converting lines as well as automated and manual-assembly lines.

Guests also visited workshop of Heidelberg Qingpu factory and had a closer look at Heidelberg´s equipment on the assembly line and the final testing area. They were impressed by the high level of automation in Qingpu factory.

Qingpu is the production site of Heidelberg Group in Asia. There is the assembly of small-, medium- and large-format presses mainly for the Chinese and also the other Asian markets. The assembly commenced in 2006. Qinqpu plant is part of the Heidelberg production network. It has 450 staff for production and 150 for sales and service in the Shanghai area.

Masterwork in Tianjin, some two hours’ drive south-east of Beijing. They were impressed by the factory tour, the presentations of the Easymatrix 106 FC and Powermatrix 106 CSB and the company own graphic museum.

Since four years Heidelberg established a cooperative agreement with MK Masterwork.

The two manufacturing giants have been working hard to build a cohesive sales and support programme for their combined range of printing and converting technology. The current product portfolio includes die cutters, foil stamping machines, sheet inspection technology, and folder gluers.

Over 700 people are working in a 150,000 sq/m facility – it represents the equivalent of 18 soccer pitches.

Asian customers impressed by visit of MK Masterwork factory In connection with the visit of Qingpu over 70 customers from Indonesia, India, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines also took the chance to visit the factory of MK

The “Thank you box” was the central theme of the Packaging Day and its production was shown from the intro presentation until the finished box as a customer gift.

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S.E.M. and Koenig & Bauer enter alliance Koenig & Bauer expands its service product portfolio.

Koenig & Bauer is expanding its product portfolio in response to service business expansions and strong customer demand. In cooperation with S.E.M. Servicegesellschaft, the press manufacturer will offer almost all services concerning printing presses to customers in the future. “We have worked well and successfully with S.E.M. in the past and building on this partnership was the next logical step. Our customers want the opportunity to have one contact person for their entire print shop. We can now offer this together with S.E.M.,” says Thomas Potzkai, head of service at Koenig & Bauer.

This alliance of both companies is geared towards longer-term commitment. Achim Trenkner, managing director of S.E.M. Servicegesellschaft: “The goal of our alliance is clear – we want to work the market proactively together, with services ranging from general upkeep, maintenance and technical press cleaning. Together we now see ourselves as a full-service provider.“ The fields of activity of both companies are clearly

separated from each other and complement each other in an ideal way.

S.E.M Servicegesellschaft für Elektrik und Mechanik GmbH was founded in Ludwigshafen, Germany, in 1979. The company expanded beyond Ludwigshafen for the first time in 2006. It won jobs in Bremerhaven, Crailsheim, Minden,

Darmstadt, Regensburg and many other German cities. In the meantime, S.E.M. has developed into a nationwide company with almost 300 employees and several locations. The company offers maintenance, electrotechnical installations in the industrial and commercial sector as well as technical machine cleaning.

A moment of pride for the Indian Graphic Arts Industry Mr. S. Dayaker Reddy nominated as the Vice President of Global Print Meet.

The Indian Printing Packaging & Allied Machinery Manufacturers’ Association (IPAMA) has been playing a pivotal role for promoting the Graphic Arts Industry globally.

The Association has provided number of office bearers and senior functionaries, on a number of occasions, to international Associations. During the meeting of Global Print Meet held in Tokyo on 27th July, 2018 during IGAS 2018, Mr. S. Dayaker Reddy was nominated as the Vice President of Global Print Meet. It is a moment of joy and pride

not only for IPAMA but also for the entire Indian Graphic Arts Industry as also printing fraternity.

Mr. Reddy is an engineer by profession and highly experienced personality in the field of manufacturing of different types of print related machinery and allied products. He is also a marketing expert. After having a long association with a number of reputed Indian companies, in different capacities, Mr. Reddy established his own manufacturing units in Andhra Pradesh (now Telangana) a few years back. Presently, he is the Chief Executive Officer of M/s Gutenberg Machinery Manufacturers and Managing Director of M/s Omsri Saivani Secure Print.

He is also the Director in two more firms of repute. Apart from these assignments, he is also associated with number of educational and social institutions.

Mr. Reddy is the present President of Asia

Print, President of IPAMA, GC Member of AIFMP, Co-ordinator for Telangana Offset Printers Association (TOPA), Mentor for Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust (BYST), Hyderabad, Expert Committee Member for Community Colleges – Government of Telangana and Syllabus Committee Member for Govt. Institute of Printing Technology (GIPT). He is also the President of GIPT Alumni Association.

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German Brand Award for Koenig & Bauer Koenig & Bauer receives high accolade for brand management in press manufacturing.

Koenig & Bauer was one of the winners of a German Brand Award 2018. This prestigious prize was awarded for the third time by the German Design Council and the German Brand Institute. It recognises innovative brands, consistent brand management and sustainable brand communication. The aim of the award is to discover and present new brand trends.

The press manufacturer with headquarters in Würzburg won the jury over with the Koenig & Bauer brand’s traditional-modern central theme – factual and modern in appearance, but also a reminder of the company’s two founding fathers, who laid the foundations of press engineering more than 200 years ago.

“We are proud to have received this high distinction,” says Dagmar Ringel, director of corporate communications and marketing at Koenig & Bauer. “Our cutting-edge umbrella brand shows clearly what our company stands for – the union of tradition and innovation in press engineering.”

Initiator of the German Brand Award is the German Design Council which was founded in 1953 based on the initiative of the German Bundestag by the Federation of German Industries and some leading companies as a foundation to promote the competence of the German economy in design issues.

Together with brand consultancy GMK Markenberatung this resulted in the German

Brand Institute, which awards the coveted prize annually. The award recognises the commitment to the competitiveness of strong brands and is intended to raise awareness of brand management and brand communication as entrepreneurial success factors.

The German Brand Award honours the contributions of outstanding brand management and brand communication in the competition categories “Excellence in Branding”, “Industry Excellence in Branding” and “Excellence in Brand Strategy,

Management and Creation”. All award winners were nominated in advance either by the German Brand Institute, its brand scouts or a panel of experts. The interdisciplinary jury is made up of representatives from the fields of business and science.

Koenig & Bauer received a so-called special mention in the category “Industry, Machines & Engineering” for its new brand relaunch implemented in autumn 2017 on the occasion of the traditional company’s 200th jubilee. The prizes were awarded at an official gala ceremony on 21 June 2018 in Berlin.

DPA launches its Website Delhi Printers’ Association (DPA) has launched its new website ‘delhiprintersassociation.org’ during its Executive Committee meeting held on 26th July 2018. All information and updates of DPA are now available on digital platform for access by those who need.

In order to keep pace with the demand of time, the association has launched its new website that throws light on the history, birth, growth and major activities of the association. It provides information related to DPA, including photos of former presidents along with their tenure, present office bearers, latest events, current issues

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of DPA’s publications viz. Delhi Printer and Masik Samachar Partika, contact details along with route map and photos of events hosted by DPA from time to time.

The launch function was graced by the presence of former presidents, Vice Presidents General Secretary and Joint Secretary. Also present were Executive Committee members.

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dna – drupa next age “dip!” becomes “dna – drupa next age”.

Something new is produced by genetic reshuffling. This basic principle of evolution also holds true of technology as an unconventional synthesis of existing approaches leading to innovation. Things become particularly productive when great minds that otherwise have little in common swap ideas.

A world’s leading trade fair such as drupa in Düsseldorf starting 16 June, 2020, is an ideal meeting point that brings the crème de la crème of the printing and packaging industry together. We are creating a new special area to attract the right experts: dna – drupa next age. This special show-in-show will focus on content that is relevant for the industry’s

future and will encourage a productive exchange between global players, start-ups and innovative SMEs. dna – drupa next age itself is the result of an evolutionary process. Embedded in a new hall concept, this special area builds on the start-up section that our drupa innovation park (dip!) represented in the past. dna will give new innovators the chance to present ideas for new products, services and new approaches in relevant interdisciplinary technologies – either as best practices or business cases.

Participants will contribute their DNA and enrich the technological gene pool of

the printing and packaging industry and thus continually feeding its progress. We are convinced that this meeting point will become a nucleus for new technologies and innovation, because swapping ideas, fusing know-how and the smart integration of new technologies always begins with encounters between people. These encounters will have a new home at drupa 2020: dna – drupa next age.

Guy Gecht to step down as EFI CEO - to remain CEO until successor is identified; search process underway.

Electronics For Imaging, (EFI) has announced that CEO Guy Gecht has expressed his intent to step down from his operating role. Guy has informed the Company’s Board of Directors about his decision to step down from his present role with the naming of his successor. The Board retained Spencer Stuart, a leading global executive search firm, to assist in a thorough search process that includes both internal and external candidates.

Mr. Gecht will continue to serve as CEO until his replacement is named, and to work closely with the new CEO ensuring a successful transition. Gecht will remain as a member of the Board of Directors following the CEO change.

“Stepping down as the leader of a great company is never an easy decision. With vast market opportunities, loyal customers and a robust product roadmap, reinforced by the unprecedented interest in Nozomi, EFI has never been better positioned for continued growth and success,” said Guy Gecht, CEO of EFI. “I think this makes it the right time, after 19 years as CEO of this unique company, for me to hand the reins to the next leader. I will stay fully focused on

leading the outstanding EFI team during the search period, and will assist in ensuring a smooth transition once the new CEO is in place. As a shareholder, Board member and a lifelong fan, nothing will be more gratifying for me than to see my successor leading EFI to achieve its full potential.”

“We are grateful for Guy’s 19 years as CEO of EFI,” said Gill Cogan, Chairman of EFI’s Board. “Together with his team, Guy transformed EFI from a single product line and OEM business model to a diverse,

worldwide leader driving the transition from analog to on-demand digital imaging in industries that touch our lives every day. He led the expansion into Productivity Software and Industrial Inkjet, which drove EFI’s rapid growth to over $1 billion in annual revenues.

Guy is only EFI’s third CEO in its 30-year history, which has brought a unique stability that the Board truly appreciates. As a global company with industry-leading technology and products, there is an unmatched opportunity for a new CEO to lead the charge in the years ahead.”

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Wallbox Home Eco from Heidelberg Heidelberg uses DOCUFY COSIMA go! and Heidelberg View2Connect software solutions to generate customer and spare parts documentation for Wallbox Home Eco. Wallbox Home Eco from Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) is a highperformance charging device for electric cars. As a stationary system mounted directly on the wall, it can be used to recharge any electric car battery quickly and easily. Development and production operations for the charging device take place at Heidelberg in Germany. Even the associated technical documentation is produced in-house – by DOCUFY, which has been part of the Heidelberg Group since May 2017 and is regarded as an industry leader in technical documentation thanks to its COSIMA go! software. Heidelberg now also uses DOCUFY systems for its own documentation, with Wallbox Home Eco benefiting from innovative customer and spare parts documentation generated from COSIMA go! and View2Connect.

Can be accessed on the move using a smartphone, if necessary, and – in a first for the market – is linked to the Group’s View2Connect software, which generates 3D spare parts documentation.

For many years now, Heidelberg has been a reliable and highly innovative partner for the global printing industry. The Group’s Heidelberg Digital Platforms division, which DOCUFY GmbH joined in May 2017, targets new branches of industry outside this sector. The extent to which the Group is spreading its wings beyond conventional print shop business and venturing into new areas is demonstrated by the new Heidelberg Wallbox Home Eco charging

system for electric cars, which can be ordered online via Amazon or Euronics in Germany. The system is aimed at individuals and also at businesses and local authorities that want to use the charging station to recharge the electric vehicles in their own fleets as well as those of customers and visitors.

State-of-the-art product and documentation Although the plug & play Wallbox Home Eco is easy to use, technical user documentation is still a must and this documentation is now exactly what you would expect from a digital pioneer. It is state of the art in terms of technology and design, boasts optimum visuals, can be accessed on the move using a smartphone, if necessary, and – in a first for the market – is linked to the Group’s View2Connect software, which generates 3D spare parts documentation.

Innovative link between COSIMA go! and View2Connect DOCUFY’s COSIMA go! editorial system provides the content of the technical documentation. Thanks to its intuitive operation, Heidelberg has been able to introduce the system and put it to productive use for the Wallbox in a very short space of time.

Key Notes : > A high-performance charging device for electric cars. > Even the associated technical documentation is produced in-house –

by DOCUFY. > COSIMA go! editorial system provides the content of the technical documentation.

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(DOCUFY GmbH): Customer and spare parts documentation for the Heidelberg Wallbox with COSIMA go! and a link to View2Connect

Linking COSIMA to the Heidelberg platform solution View2Connect, which greatly simplifies business processes in mechanical engineering, enables the simultaneous creation of an interactive 3D spare parts catalog and 2D/3D servicing instructions.

View2Connect helps ensure an end-toend digital PLM process chain by creating an intuitive and sustainable collaboration and communication platform based on 2D/3D product data. 3D development and production models are used for this purpose.

Customer and spare parts documentation from a single source for more efficient technical content creation “The Wallbox documentation work has shown how beneficial DOCUFY’s integration into the Heidelberg Group is proving,” says Professor Ulrich Hermann, Member of the Management Board and Chief Digital Officer at Heidelberg. “We’ve created a completely new combination of descriptive and 3D spare

parts documentation from a single source.

That’s unique and, in addition to giving Wallbox customers high added value, it also offers huge potential for boosting the overall efficiency of technical content creation at Heidelberg,” he adds.

DOCUFY Layouter is a cloud solution that can be put to immediate use to design, save, and adapt output layouts independently.

The user-friendly web interface benefits from intuitive operation and the layouts produced can be loaded directly into COSIMA or TopicPilot.

DOCUFY’s software solutions COSIMA go! is a sophisticated editorial system that can be put to immediate use and adapted to customer needs as and when required for all documentation processes in mechanical and plant engineering, instrumentation and control technology, medical technology, and software applications.

COSIMA enterprise is DOCUFY’s tried-andtested standard editorial system. This flexible system can be adapted and extended in line with the relevant requirements.

Customer-specific information models can be configured with ease, simply adopting inventory data and existing data structures.

DOCUFY Machine Safety is the company’s specialist software for ensuring optimum efficiency in complying fully with the requirements of the Machinery Directive.

It simplifies, speeds up, and improves the legally compliant preparation of CE mark risk assessments.

TopicPilot is an out-of-the-box solution that makes it easy to publish all information available throughout a company on mobile end devices, on the intranet, and online. It can be used immediately with pre-existing data. One of the application’s key features is a powerful full-text search.

Printall AS upgrades with new Q.I. Press Controls automation system The company decides in QIPC system’s favour for its being quicker and more reliable than their current automation system.

The Estonian-based printing concern Printall AS is set to intensify its collaboration with Q.I. Press Controls (QIPC), the Dutch specialist in measurement and control systems for the printing industry. The Koenig & Bauer Compacta heatset printing press in its Tallinn plant is to be equipped with a new automation system supplied by QIPC.

Reliable partner Cooperation between Printall AS and QIPC is not new: in 2003 an IRS system for cut-off control was installed on a Koenig & Bauer Continent press in Estonia. “Over time, we have come to know QIPC as a reliable partner,” says Andrus Takkin, Chairman of the board at Printall AS, when asked about his experiences with the Oosterhout-based company. Printall AS has been able to witness for itself exactly why QIPC systems on Koenig & Bauer presses have such a good reputation worldwide. “Our relationship with both Printall AS and Koenig & Bauer is very good,” explains Erwin van Rossem, Head of Sales at QIPC. “In fact, Koenig & Bauer recommended our automation solution to Printall AS. It was partly on the basis of

this and their own experience that they were then able to take a well-considered decision.

A fact-finding visit to Drukkerij Em. De Jong in the Netherlands helped confirm Printall’s expectations of the system.”

that from 1000 to 1200 revolutions on startup, we can get to 1000,” explains Erwin van Rossem. “What’s more, we can look forward to 15% savings in waste.”

15% savings in waste

High expectations and major opportunities

The Koenig & Bauer Compacta is now being installed with the mRC-3D and IDS-3D system for register, cut-off and colour control.

“This system will work more effectively and reliably than the current automation on the press,” Andrus Takkin reports. “In terms of price and functionality, QIPC’s quote was the most attractive alternative.” In total, five motorised mRC-3D cameras and two IDS3D cameras are being installed in Tallinn.

In addition, Printall AS also need a smaller colour bar than normal. For that reason, QIPC is supplying a 2-mm high colour bar with an integrated register mark. “Our expectation is

Printall AS, founded in 1971, is one of the largest printing companies in the Baltic states. The plant in Tallinn produces all kinds of printed matter, from newspapers to brochures. This intensive cooperation with QIPC is generating high expectations and will lead to major opportunities. “We already had automation systems on all our presses,” explains Andrus Takkin. “But soon we will have the latest and most efficient control system.” Erwin van Rossem is optimistic: “This provides our systems with an opportunity to prove themselves on the Baltic market.”

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Xerox’s latest Iridesse Production Press: Create more wow per page Balaji Rajagopalan, Executive Director- Technology, Channels & International Business, Xerox India, speaks about the Xerox Iridesse high-end Production Press which takes digital printing to a whole new level.

Xerox’s latest offering is the Iridesse Production Press. The Xerox Iridesse Production Press is a high-end production-colour press which takes digital printing to a whole new level, creating stunning results. It offers all the hallmarks of a digital press – personalization, economical short runs, and agile production – enhanced by new high-value inline capabilities that allows users to combine stunning four-colour imagery with up to two Specialty Dry Inks in a single pass. This enables them to create lucrative applications with spot colours, metallic and mixed metallic gradients, and specialty enhancements.

Gold and silver dry metallic inks can be used on their own or layered under or over CMYK to create unique iridescent palettes. A layer of clear dry ink can be added for an extra touch of dimension or texture.

Xerox Iridesse Production Press, an industry first in the world of print, is the only digital press that can print metallic gold or silver dry ink, CMYK and clear dry ink in a single pass, giving print providers an immediate competitive edge in the growing digital print enhancement market.

Key Notes : > Enhanced by new high-value inline capabilities. > Allows users to combine stunning four-colour imagery with up to two Specialty Dry Inks in a single pass. > Easy to create high impact prints – more results-driving, “wow”/ excellence per page.

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Iridesse, the name, is a play on the word ‘iridescence’ – meaning the phenomenon of certain surfaces that appear to gradually change colour as the angle of view or the angle of illumination change.

It is synonymous with visual effects beyond CMYK that amplify page content and captivate recipients – all delivered with flexible, single-pass printing.

Broadening horizons with a vast colour palette, wide media flexibility and high value inline finishing, the

Iridesse press is synonymous with new capabilities and new levels of production confidence. Since, it comes standard with Color FLX Technology, customers can achieve the kind of flexible spot and mixed specialty effects that meets the growing demand, hence making it easy to create high impact prints – more results-driving, “wow”/excellence per page.

Additionally, Xerox FreeFlow Core’s pre-built workflows enable print providers to automatically and selectively transform text and graphics for printing gold and silver without editing the source documents.

This simplifies enhancing existing applications with high-value embellishments.

Printing at speeds up to 120 pages per minute, the press can run stocks from 52 -400 gsm. Additional press features include: • The High Definition Emulsion Aggregate (HD EA) Toner process results in the optimal particle size to deliver lower gloss, smooth tints and fine detail more consistently • The Xerox EX-P 6 Print Server by Fiery® enables customers to create customized workflows for metallic applications with advanced RIP

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capabilities and color management tools Two Dual Advanced High Capacity Feeders, Bypass and Inserter options let customers run up to eight different stocks in a single job, or do production runs with a total of 12,500 sheets A variety of finishing options are available including the new Xerox Crease and Two-sided Trimmer, which creates a durable crease fold and gives booklets a premium quality edge when used with the Xerox Production Ready Booklet Maker Finisher and Xerox SquareFold Trimmer Modules.

Creating more opportunities for print Xerox Iridesse, a one of its kind press, with robust production capabilities, enables its users to take on complex jobs, irrespective of tight deadlines, non-traditional stock sizes, weights, and embellishments. “We believe that it is capable of expanding capabilities while simultaneously simplifying production,” says Balaji Rajagopalan, Executive DirectorTechnology, Channels & International Business, Xerox India. The automated, advanced technologies combine to take costly human touch out of press setup and the complementary workflow solutions further simplify key processes, making it an incredibly smart business Investment.

Combined with a robust print path, versatile finishing options, and up to 120 pages per minute, this all will add up to brilliant new opportunities for high-value print production and create new revenue streams.

Here are few examples of how people across fields are made capable of giving each job a brilliant finish, with the new Iridesse press.

• For a designer, vibrant colours, high quality and intricate details are absolutely critical. This device makes designing and printing of high-value jobs cost-effective. Its ability to lay metallic sheens over normal colours and create beautiful iridescent effects, adds a new level of intensity to normal jobs.

• For a marketer, it is important for the products to look their best in printed materials. Adding silver, gold or enhanced imagery, gives the products a competitive edge and attract more customers.

Color FLX Technology with EZ Swap allows printing beyond CMYK Color FLX Technology with EZ Swap allows printing beyond CMYK with vibrant iridescent palettes and “spot on” registration.

“The FLX technology provides a unique flexibility, wherein the customer can choose from different types of overlay and underlay that can be printed with CMYK to create variety of effects like, spot, glitter, shine, iridescent etc. The customer has a choice to underlay silver and overlay it with clear ink or gold. Alternatively, he can choose to underlay gold and overlay with clear or silver. All these examples have CMYK printing between the 2 layers. However, this technology also provides a unique flexibility that can expand the application horizon – it allows the customer to just print gold and silver,” explains Balaji.

Specialty Dry Inks help customers outshine their competition Xerox Specialty Dry Inks — including Metallic and Clear — help customers outshine their competition by adding incredible value to their digital prints. The newest Specialty Dry Inks allow users to migrate more jobs to digital, creating silver and gold metallic effects with images, artwork, logos, text, seals, and personalized communications. “It enables them to highlight logos and graphic elements with stunning metallic effects, enhance the look of photos and collateral with metallic image overlays and bring the eye-catching value of metallic inks to personalized communications to add even more pop to their jobs. On the other hand, the Xerox Clear Dry Ink allows our customers to add new dimensions to output using spot, flood, or textured effects,” adds Balaji.

Across the industry, most people who provide print, design and marketing services, aspire to work on projects that involves specialty effects, however, the added cost and time is usually a deterrent. With the Xerox Iridesse Production Press, Xerox aims to change that perception and to offer customers the embellishments they want, cost-effectively, with the speed, personalization, and turnaround advantages of digital print.

Customers benefit from Mixed Media Xceleration of Iridesse Mixed Media Xceleration (MMX) of Iridesse

delivers maximum productivity and performance for high-value, mixed stock and mixed embellishment jobs. Technologies integrated throughout the press ensure superior performance for mixed or specialty stock jobs up to 400 gsm. This capability ensures our customers are ready for the most challenging job requests. Two chained Dual Advanced High Capacity Feeders, coupled with our Bypass and Inserter options, lets our customers run up to eight different stocks in a single job – or a maximum of 12,500 sheets. The press has been designed to handle multiple stocks, imaged with up to six colours, and finished at rated speed so they can offer complex digital embellishments with supreme confidence. Xerox will provide direct service support for Iridesse in India.

The Xerox Versant 180 and its growth path According to latest IDC report (2018), Xerox market share has grown 19% 2018 Q1 YoY and 26% 2018 Q1 vs. Q4 2017 in the production printer market. This talks volumes about Xerox dominance in the production space. The launch of the new Versant 180 powered with Performance pack is in continuation to the tremendous success of Versant family. These mid-production-colour presses consist of a unique combination of higher image quality, greater media latitude and higher duty cycles for more productivity and performances.

“With the Versant 180, Xerox clients have been able to advance and automate, allowing them to do more. From press maintenance to job delivery, the Versant 180 has been delivering class-leading performance for in-plant and on-demand print shops,” informs Balaji.

“Since, the Xerox Versant family has already established a merit in productivity, automation and media flexibility and we have seen a great response in the market, we are excited to launch the Xerox Versant 180 press powered with Performance Pack enables fully productivity with an ability to print at rated speed up to 350gsm. In addition it has an Automated Color Quality Suite (ACQS) powered by X Rite that helps in better color consistency. It also gives 25% faster speeds on stocks up to 350 GSM,” he continues.

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Performance Package of Versant 180 It is another variant of our very successful Versant series, where the customer has the ability to print rated speeds (Speed does not drop and you get superior performance) and has an inline spectrophotometer for automatic calibration. Additionally, the machine comes with an external fiery FS 200 pro for better colour management and performance. The production ready finisher helps finish the jobs into stapled sets. It also has a strong decurler that straightens the paper after it has run through the fuser.

All these features boost performance and productivity.

Digital inkjet vs. Toner based technology “Inkjet technology is still at its nascent stage when compared to toner technology,” believes Balaji. “The full utilization of inkjet will come into being when we can have more substrate compatibility on high speed inkjet devices without the need for any coating on the paper. The inkjet technology has viable benefits in terms of operating costs on low color coverage area jobs. Also, the quality of high speed inkjet devices have to walk some distance before they match the quality of toner presses which has evolved over the years,” he adds.

The digital printing market in India has evolved over the years and there are several drivers contributing to this growth: the rise of applications and solutions; increased versioning and personalization to make targeted printing for end-users; improved levels of service to customers; and providing new opportunities to help customers grow their business. Also, the digital presses with the technological advancement ensure ease of printing as well as space and cost effectiveness. These days doing business on the go is the need of the hour. Innovation being the backbone of digital presses, the feature of remote printing has been very well accepted by the customers and this has surely led to a spike in their adoption.

“Xerox sits at the intersection of analogue and digital and we are in a position to witness and impact several profound shifts in the way the world interact. Our ability to combine hardware and software has never been more valuable than in today’s world where digitization is blurring the lines between

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hardware and software, and connecting the digital and physical worlds to transform industries. For example, if you see our digital presses, they are segmented in a way that customers can customize digital and analogue settings based on their business needs, enabling the machine to add value to their business,” emphasises Balaji.

The fundamental principal of all Xerox devices is its ease of usability. “Xerox takes care of imparting trainings to the operators and gives advanced level of support for creation of new jobs, ensuring the customers are comfortable with the device and its applications. Our production ethos is to get great quality as quickly as possible. To meet this requirement, a variety of automation tools are added on the press in addition to a control centre, which allows easy management of the jobs. This includes jQuick job set ups, pre-press caches and a superior RIP that can be handled via simple commands,” elaborates Balaji.

Iridesse as an digital enhancement press Xerox launched the new Iridesse Production press at PrintExpo in June 2018 and the response received has been overwhelming.

In fact, we installed the first machine within the launch month and closed another order at the Expo. With capabilities like high speed, six station colour press that combines four-colour printing with up to two specialty dry inks in one printing pass, makes the Xerox Iridesse Production Press an industry first in the world of print. It is the only digital

press that can print metallic gold or silver dry ink, CMYK and clear dry ink in a single pass, giving print providers an immediate competitive edge in the growing digital print enhancement market,” explains Balaji.

The digital enhancement (CMYK +) market is expected to reach a volume of 25 Billion A4 impressions by 2020. More importantly, the consumers in this market are ready to pay a premium ranging between 24% to 89%, thereby increasing the profit potential of the PSP by 400%. “Currently, this embellishment is done by multiple processes. For example, you print the sheet digitally or on an offset press and then use another digital or embellishment machine for the post processing. Today, the Xerox Iridesse Production press is an industry first – it prints CMYK and does the embellishment in one pass without the need for any change or stopovers, all at a speed of 120 PPM. No other press can give this application versatility and flexibility. It saves you time, effort and a lot of money,” concludes Balaji.

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UrPrinters.com wins ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ The award was presented at the Entrepreneur Magazine’s 8th Annual Entrepreneur Awards’18 held on 16 July 2018 in New Delhi.

UrPrinters.com, India’s first B2B marketplace, is an ecommerce platform for printed products, managed by Gurgaon based Qurio Solutions, has recently won the ‘Entrepreneur of the Year award.’

“We owe this award to the Indian printing industry, and thanks to all Customers, Printers and our team,” said Avijit Mukherjee Co-Founder of UrPrinters.com.

UrPrinters.com is a print B2B marketplace which allows print buyers and printers get hooked each other for a print deal. The printed products that are available for deal are broadly divided into: Marketing Solutions, Office Stationery Solutions and Publishing Solutions.

“Our Focus is utilize the existing Printers capacity to offer better solution. For the customers, we want to decrease the logistics cost and cost of printing. Today we can

leverage technology to solve interesting problems as these,” adds Avijit, co-founder (the other founder being Arghya Chakravarty). He is a veteran of Indian Print Industry and also headed Distributor business for Ricoh Asia Pacific from Singapore. Arghya earlier served as Business Head of Snapdeal and has marketing experience across the globe.

It’s Uber for Printing. The company is focused on facilitating printing service to print buyers according to their printing needs, budget and delivery time, thus enabling them save on their current printing cost. UrPrinters. com registers members (qualified printers) based on fixed parameters, thus facilitating high quality printing service to the customers of the ecommerce portal. UrPrinters.com

offers services to its B2B customers who are offered to make their choice. At the platform, Printers deliver the best possible printing solutions as per print buyers’ budget, at any place across India. In turn, customers can order, check prices and track their orders at any time.

Konica Minolta India bags a Business Contribution award KMI gets awarded at the Annual Assessment of the Konica Minolta Group.

Konica Minolta Business Solutions, the India arm of Konica Minolta, global provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies, was recently felicitated by its parent company at the Group’s Annual Assessment. With entries from various Konica Minolta functions in more than 150 countries, Konica Minolta India won the Silver award in the Business Contribution category.

The award recognises the Indian arm’s superlative performance in the Production Printing business.

The assessment is a yearly roundup of the Group’s global business. A total of 20 awards were presented in two categories, Transformation and Business Contribution, at the high-profile event hosted on July 6, 2018 by Konica Minolta Group President and CEO, Mr. Shoei Yamana. Participants in the Transformation category were gauged on the level of transformation driven by a strategic business process change and the

improvement that it facilitated on a larger scale within the organisation. Those in the Business Contribution category were appreciated for their contribution to the endcustomer business, as well as for driving the continued growth for the Group.

All finalists were given an opportunity to present their proposed accomplishments and/or innovations in front of a jury comprising senior leaders within the Konica Minolta Group. Konica Minolta India presented its success story in the country’s Production Printing space and highlighted the efforts that it has made to ensure sustainable and robust future growth for the Group’s business in India.

2017. Package printing is also estimated to comprise 43% of the overall print product sales in 2017, with a market outlay of INR 77,714 crore. Konica Minolta India has been tapping into this lucrative market opportunity through its innovative digital print and printing solutions, and have established itself as the clear Leader in the Indian production printing segment with more than 50% of the total market share in 2017. Having achieved an annual revenue milestone of INR 500 crore, the company is now aiming to become an INR 1,000 crore business by 2022.

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FINAT European Label Forum Harnessing tomorrow’s label converter leaders today.

Developing ways to harness the skills of tomorrow’s label converter leaders, driving industry efficacy, and understanding the major changes across the print technology base were the overriding themes of this year’s international labelling association FINAT held its fourth European Label Forum in Dublin in June.

The President’s address The top 15 label market countries in Europe represent a massive 90% of the total business, and the statistics affirm that Turkey, Poland, and Italy have enjoyed the largest increase in absolute volumes between 2010 and 2017.

Key Notes : > FINAT celebrating 60th year this year. > Gavin Killeen reminds Ireland’s strong history in selfadhesive labelling. > The association’s data confirms healthy 4.7% industry growth in 2017 over prior year.

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FINAT is this year celebrating its 60th year and FINAT President Chris Ellison, Managing Director of a true family label company, OPM Group welcomed delegates noting that the association’s milestone, pales into insignificance if compared to that of Arthur Guinness, whose central Dublin brewery was opened in 1759 – with a 9000-year lease. A visit to the Guinness Storehouse followed that evening.

The working agenda began with keynote speaker, Alastair Campbell – writer, TV commentator, author and strategist, and well-remembered as UK Prime Minister Tony Blair’s director of communications. His headline topic for this multinational meeting was ‘The Elephant in the Room’ – Brexit and implications for EU/UK B2B relations.’ The extant lack of clarity on the UK’s final proposals for its departure, and the likely situation that might follow the UK’s exit from the European Union, were shared in an address that explored all the options, all the possibilities, and all the shortcomings. Afterwards, participants were able to share their own views on the topic with coffee around the extensive tabletop exhibition.

Gavin Killeen, Managing Director of Nuprint

Technologies Ltd – leading Northern Ireland suppliers of labels and packaging print – reviewed the current Irish marketplace and showed that Ireland’s strong history in self-adhesive labelling, remains lively today.

He underpinned its commitment to the industry by sharing its strong programme of staff training and apprenticeships, R&D and technology support, including the EU-funded PhD project with Glasgow University investigating printed conductive inks and related opportunities.

European label market data FINAT MD Jules Lejeune provided an update on the broader European label industry picture, which has exhibited a strong recovery since 2012. The association’s data confirmed healthy 4.7% industry

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addressed by a multi-discliplinary panel of industry experts – Jakob Abilgaard, of Dan Labels Flexible Packaging Division; Robert Rae, of GEW; and Niklas Olsson, Flint Group Narrow Web and also chairman of the ELF’s overall programme committee.

growth in 2017 over prior year (which, however, was below the average growth rate of 5.4%, 2013-2016), with film-based labelstocks growing at an even higher rate – 8.2% over prior year. The top 15 label market countries in Europe represent a massive 90% of the total business, and the statistics affirm that Turkey, Poland, and Italy have enjoyed the largest increase in absolute volumes between 2010 and 2017. Again, the influence of Brexit has made itself felt in the UK, with consumption in decline since Q3 2017, unlike the other top-performing European country markets. He also discussed the recent issue of FINAT’s regular member publication, RADAR.

The future landscape Andy Thomas-Emans, Strategic Director, Tarsus Labels &Packaging Group, went on to map out the evolving current industry landscape and the next five years, examining in particular the growing crossover for label converters between label print and other packaging print options. The FINAT RADAR research, he referenced, indicates that the production of flexible packaging pouches is already an additional capability for 19% of label converters; sleeves for 31% of survey respondents; and other flexible packaging items for 27% of them. He went on to highlight issues and opportunities in converting; the health and safety problems around solvents; energy-efficient UV flexo print; and, of course, digital print. He also introduced the industry’s groundbreaking UVFoodSafe group, embracing major suppliers and related professional associations across the converting value chain, who are committed to making UV and UV/LED curing fully appropriate for food packaging print. He concluded with confirmation that Labelexpo has expanded to become a package print show.

A novel approach to on-pack promotion Packaging professional and author Keran Turakhia gave an offbeat and thoughtprovoking presentation looking at the ways converters and their clients can benefit financially from thinking outside – and inside! – the box, to create innovative messaging opportunities. With real-life case histories, he showed how his own thinking has successfully changed packaging from just being a cost, to helping a brand to take advantage of new on-pack promotional opportunities, particularly with digital print.

‘Rethink packaging’ is the motto of rlcPackaging, whose managing director, Marc Büttgenbach, moderated an expert panel discussion featuring all the morning’s industry presenters, enabling delegates to explore the topics in further detail.

Hands-on business learning sessions A networking lunch preceded an interesting afternoon of concurrent ‘hands on’ ‘business learning sessions’ on different and important aspects of today’s market. Jennifer Dochstader and David Walsh of marketing researchers LPC Inc looked at how ‘going digital’ has impacted both converters and brand owners, updating the findings of their FINAT-commissioned report on digital label printing.

James Bevan, founder and director of specialist product authentication and security consulting house Vandagraf looked at the latest trends and developments, focusing on taggants and forensic solutions.

Food safety and migration issues in the wider world of labels and flexible packaging were

Sean Smyth, print consultant at Smithers Pira, discussed the total cost of ownership of ‘alternative’ label printing technologies.

Business marketing strategist Bert van Loon guided his audience through modern ROI methods for marketing to deliver improved results in online B2B marketing; and Dieter Moessner, project engineer, pharma, at Edelmann, examined compliance with the new EU Falsified Medicals Directive which comes into effect in February 2019, in terms of serialization and tamper-evidence.

Profiling the upcoming generations For an audience composed of leaders across the packaging print value chain, the second day’s programme was strongly and appropriately focused on management issues, and opened by best-selling author and CEO of XYZ University Sarah Sladek, who deliberated on the key label industry topic of driving stronger engagement with the younger generations in the quest for new, young business talent. Since, between 2010 and 2020, 78% of the ‘baby boomers’ will turn 65, and 25% of ‘millennials’ will move into leadership roles, the need of their younger-generation successors must be met because there has, as she showed, been more in change in lifestyle and attitudes in the last few decades than in the whole of history. This state of affairs has created, and continues to create, many workforce issues– not the least of which are the availability of skilled labour; retiring company founders; and leadership change. Little is being done to control and manage these issues – and a completely new approach from employer organisations is needed, because today’s most successful, engaging leaders have the same three special traits in common: passion, humility, and urgency.

Generational handover, familyowned companies Bert van Loon carried the topic further, leading a lively debate on the next-generation challenges for, specifically, label converters in Europe because, he said, ‘the label industry has a vast interest in successful

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generation handover of family-owned converter companies’. Would the alternative to successful generation change be more consolidation, with resultant reductions in innovation?

The power of Guinness The audience then welcomed Emma Rochford, Global Marketing Manager for Guinness, and Kathryn Wilson, Design Lead for Guinness and Baileys at Diageo. The trend for premium and craft beers is creating a pressing need for high-quality branding and, while Guinness is a global brand with local flair, Rupert Guinness was right to say, back in 1929: ‘the quality of our advertising must equal the quality of our beer!’. FINAT delegates were then invited to contribute to the future embellishment and sustainability of Guinness’s packaging.

Eyes wide open In the conference’s final keynote, business guru, writer, and broadcaster Prof Noreena

Herz delivered an eye-opening seminar on ‘how to make smart decisions in a complex world’. In this age of disruption - which includes the potential effects of Brexit.

She shared insights into the upcoming new generation of potential employees, generation K - 15 to 24 year olds - and profiled what they care about, how they behave, what they want, and how they consume plus just how different they are to millennials. She left the audience with thoughts on how her insights can improve their businesses.

‘A bright future’ FINAT President Chris Ellison closed the event stating: “We are an industry that has such a bright future, and we don’t always realise it’. We’re also a very, very, very passionate industry!”

The forum also hosted the formal FINAT General Assembly and the FINAT Label Awards Ceremony which celebrated worthy

winners in this year’s well-supported label printing competition and its associated recycling and sustainability award. Vlad Sljapic, Xeikon’s Vice President, Global Sales, was Master of Ceremonies. A networking dinner followed, bringing together key players from the international labels & packaging print sector.

The next FINAT European Label Forum will take place in June next year in Copenhagen, from 5-7 June.

FINAT, founded in Paris in 1958 with headquarters in The Hague (The Netherlands), is the worldwide association for manufacturers of self-adhesive labels and related products and services. With more some 550 members in over 50 countries around the world, FINAT has much to offer to label converters and all suppliers to the labelling industry in terms of information exchange and in terms of international networking.

IST Metz creation gets nominated at German Design Award 2019 UV printed and finished paper guitar from IST Metz nominated for German Design Award 2019.

A UV printed and finished paper guitar by IST Metz was nominated by the international jury for the German Design Award 2019 in the “Excellent Communications Design” competition category. “Integrated Campaigns and Advertising” is the sub-category in which the print gimmick is a candidate for an award.

The printed and live finished paper guitar combines sheet-fed offset, digital and 3D printing and was a customer present at the in-house exhibition of the UV specialist.

The impressive integrated product concept features a 3D-printed holder into which a smartphone can be clamped and then pushed into the guitar’s head. By means of an app, the cardboard guitar can be played digitally. The guitar can also be used as a loudspeaker. A pattern lasered into the front of the body acts as a resonance body when the music is switched on.

International jury decides on nominations and winners The German Design Award is a restricted competition and therefore not an open one.

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hurdle with the paper guitar – it has been officially nominated and is thus admitted to the competition. In August, the international jury will decide the winners during the jury meeting and in camera.

IST METZ GmbH is an international mechanical engineering company with operations based in Nürtingen, Germany.

With about 550 employees today, for more than 40 years the company has been

producing systems for curing print and coatings using UV light. The UV systems by the company are curing inks, varnishes, silicones, adhesives, resins and other materials in fractions of a second. The group offers its customers a large product portfolio of high-performance UV lamp and UV LED systems. The range of services is supplemented by hot-air/infrared drying systems and excimer technology.

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drupa touchpoint packaging The intent is not to predict the packaging future but to enable it. drupa has recently announced the partners who will contribute to the touchpoint packaging 2020 steering committee. After a successful premiere at drupa 2016, touchpoint packaging will once again be the place to be for converters and brand owners involved within the packaging industry. The representatives cover the full spectrum of packaging: Agfa, BOBST, Danone, ESKO, Heidelberg, HP Indigo, Kurz, Nestlé and Siegwerk.

All members of the drupa touchpoint packaging 2020 project, printing and converting industry manufacturers and international brand owners will closely work with packaging designers and students bringing to life the latest possibilities in packaging.

The objective of the committee is to understand how the mega trends shaping our society will influence the packaging production. From new substrates, customisation, reduced environmental impact, connected packaging and more, the drupa visitors will discover amazing solutions. The intent is not to focus on what is already being done but to showcase inspiring new cases addressing brands challenges and pointing out meaningful directions where packaging can go.

All members are engaged with this topic and they all want to contribute to a better world with a better packaging production. BOBST as a packaging pioneer and innovator is “proud to partner with drupa, giving printers, converters and brand owners the chance to experience the future of packaging in a very engaging way across all types of applications from design to printing and finishing.” HP Indigo added, “innovative printing technologies have the power to use packaging to inform customers, convey new ideas and support causes. It’s changing the relationship between a brand and its customers”.

According to Esko, “the packaging production process today is connected, digitized and automated and touchpoint packaging is a platform to demonstrate how

packaging solutions support and connect the entire supply chain effectively”. Agfa developing innovative, smart packaging printing solutions commented that “touchpoint packaging will enable brand owners to increase efficiency and security, as well as grow their business with better conceived packaging”.

Heidelberg, as a major industry player joined the committee with the intent “to show the vision of the future, along with new challenges in the market”. Siegwerk, as global leader of inks for packaging applications commented that the collaboration among all the members in the project will “address promising trends and visions of future packaging that meet future requirements of packaging in a fast-changing world”.

Last, Kurz, an expert for decorative and functional coatings, has always regarded packaging design as “a connecting element and decorative and functional surface finishes as a sensory contact between the product and the consumers, between technology and aesthetics; between manufacturing and marketing; between protection and decoration; reflecting the true product’s soul”.

2020 will display the latest solutions and applications and show how future packaging and design will deliver additional value, stimuli and growth opportunities in a fastchanging world.

International brand owners are going to play a major role. Nestlé commented, “touchpoint packaging is a unique opportunity to showcase solutions addressing the needs of our consumers and societal impact of packaging in an everchanging environment”.

Danone added, “the steering committee in a team of interdisciplinary experts of the brand and packaging business can contribute to creating the future of packaging.”

Packaging is the largest printing market and is growing. Brands invest heavily in new designs and customer experiences.

Packages are the brands preferred customer touchpoint. The global population enrichment and growth, the new customer living styles and expectations for more relevant packages, the growing requirements for reduced environmental impacts and the digitalization of all kinds are all forces driving and shaping the packaging evolution. The drupa touchpoint packaging experience will be a drupa 2020 must see with guided tours, short lectures and samples to collect.

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Esko hosts 4th Flexible Packaging Honours Class The class shared know-how with international group of young graphic arts graduates.

Esko has shared its know-how for flexible packaging with an international group of young graphic arts graduates during the fourth annual Flexible Packaging Honours Class.

The two-week initiative, developed by the university’s Graphical and Digital Media department, is designed for students at the top of their university class. It focuses on the production of flexible packaging, including design, prepress, file handling and plate making operations. The course was held at Esko’s headquarter offices in Ghent, Belgium, June 18 to 29.

During the detailed and professional training, students got to grips with the technological and practical aspects and learnt how to streamline packaging production from design to printing plate.

The group of students is composed from Artevelde University College in Ghent, as well as peer students from the School of Engineering and Management, Switzerland, and both Seneca College and Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada.

A mix of theoretical classes, hands on workshop and customer production environment visits give the students an in-depth 360 view on flexography.

Key Notes : > The two-week initiative, developed by the university’s Graphical and Digital Media department. > Designed for students at the top of their university class. > Focuses on the production of flexible packaging, including design, prepress, file handling and plate making operations.

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Jan De Roeck, Director Solutions Management at Esko explains: “We were very proud to welcome the most ambitious and most talented students

of international packaging universities for the fourth time. As leaders in the packaging industry, we are investing in the future by supporting the professional education of these young graduates. A mix of theoretical classes, hands on workshop and customer production environment visits give them an in-depth 360 view on flexography.”

Building for success The Honours Class is designed to inspire and engage students. This approach worked well with the former attendees that now work in the industry.

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Bastiaan Heyse, order guidance and calculation (internal sales) in the flat cardboard department, St-Luc, comments: “after an internship at St-Luc Labels & Packaging, it seemed like a great opportunity to learn more on the packaging industry during this Honours Class. I found the company visits and learning more about the Esko solutions very interesting. We could see how everything fits together and works in a real business.”

Jochen Verbrugghe, Commercial Assistant at Crea Print Group, says The Honors Class gave him the opportunity to get to know Esko’s tools more intimately including WebCenter Automation Engine and Studio Visualizer: “The packaging industry is very diverse and work is never the same. Meeting deadlines, supporting customers with optimization and streamlining packaging set up requirements are just of few of the processes you can manage smartly while offering added value to the customer.”

Applying for the Honour Class Students in the academic year prior to graduation are welcome to apply for one of the 20 Honours Class seats. To be accepted, students must have a mastery of Adobe Creative Suite applications and a general understanding of prepress production steps, processes, and functions. Students who are

approved for the program, will be invited to complete and submit preparatory work in

At the end of the training, students received a certificate of participation, a valuable

order to fully prepare for the program.

advantage when applying for a job in this sector. In some countries, students can also receive training credits by attending the Honours Class.

Luc Berth, lector at the Artevelde University College Ghent and mentor of the Honours Class concludes: “The Honours Class is a great platform for both technical as well as cultural and social experiencebased learning. The students deepened competences relevant for a competitive and rewarding career in the packaging industry and learned how to cooperate in an international context. They exchanged knowledge and best practices in an open and friendly atmosphere.”

Adds Berth: “Apart from the broad and basic training, students receive via their regular curriculum the value of the Honours Class in Flexible Packaging can’t be underestimated.

Forty percent of the participating students of Artevelde University College start building a career in a packaging company right after receiving their certificate.”

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Baldwin launches Autotron 3600 at PackPlus 2018 New colour sensor combined with latest scanning technology provides greater sensitivity and register control.

Baldwin Vision Systems, provider of automated colour management, register control, and inspection technology, has launched Autotron 3600 at PackPlus 2018, New Delhi.

be extremely reliable and robust, providing the quality, accuracy and waste savings these customers required for over 20 years,” Hemant Desai, General Manager, BALDWIN Vision Systems India, explains.

This next-generation register system builds on the highly-robust Autotron 2600 with ClearLogic and enables packaging converters to offer increased quality with greater sensitivity and control over register errors. In addition, the Autotron 3600 has been designed as a “plug and play” system, requiring minimal installation time and operator training. The modernized system ensures a seamless transition for printers looking to benefit from the latest in print register technology.

Making its industry debut in India, the Autotron 3600 is set to address the demands of BALDWIN Vision Systems’ current and prospective customers in one of the largest and fastest-growing packaging markets in the world.

“As such, we will continue to support and sell the Autotron 2600. However, we recognized the need to offer another product tier, and to add a number of developments that would future-proof our customers’ investment.

These include higher sensitivity with the new fiber optic colour sensor, enabling users to read any type of mark or colour variation with increased accuracy, and automated light intensity to better manage inspection of challenging substrates, such as metallics.

The new scanning technology also enhances performance and enables the operator to react faster to register errors or any changes on the press. These latest developments combined with simplified installation ensure the Autotron 3600 will help our customers deliver even higher quality packaging, and maintain their competitive edge.”

“Many customers in India have installed our Autotron 2600 with ClearLogic. The architecture of this product has proven to

As a new business unit formed by Baldwin Technology Company, Baldwin Vision Systems strategically combines the

businesses and technology of QuadTech, PC Industries, and Web Printing Controls to form the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio available for print process automation, inspection, and related services. With an aim to create a new “print technology powerhouse,” BALDWIN Vision Systems offers complete software and hardware solutions, and the ability to connect data throughout the overall process and workflow with automated tools for pre-press, press, and post-press.

Isaam Lutfiyya, Baldwin Vision Systems’ Director of Global Sales & Marketing, comments, “This combined expertise and collection of resources is unique to Baldwin Vision Systems and provides an additional benefit to those looking to install the Autotron 3600. The option to tie in data and products from one leading supplier maximizes our customers’ investment and provides a more streamlined, coherent solution to meet demand for accuracy and increased quality control within the shortest possible timeframe.”

Lutfiyya concludes, “The launch of Autotron 3600 in India is the first significant phase in our sales strategy for this product. We intend to announce worldwide availability of Autotron 3600 later this year and introduce further enhancements over the next three years. This approach forms part of our ambitious, long-term plan to bring the latest in register control innovations to the global packaging market, ensuring we continue to support our valued customer base and maintain our position as industry leaders for the foreseeable future.”

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Bosch to sell its packaging business New owner sought for further growth. Faced with the need to transform, Bosch wants to focus its resources.

Bosch has decided to look for a buyer for its packaging machinery business (PA), more specifically the pharmaceuticals and food units of the Packaging Technology division.

Eyeing strategic transformation, the Bosch finds Packaging technology is not part of the group’s core business. PA is involved in project business relating to specialized areas of the packaging industry. Bosch believes its packaging technology operations need to be put on a different footing that will allow them to react more flexibly to the specific requirements of the packaging machinery market. The company’s special-purpose machinery manufacturer Robert Bosch Manufacturing Solutions GmbH is a separate entity, and will remain part of the Bosch Group. and its efficient team behind it.

“This decision will allow Bosch to narrow its focus on issues of importance for its future, such as the transformation of the Bosch Group and its future digitalization strategy, including the internet of things, and to pool its resources accordingly,” says Dr. Stefan Hartung, the Bosch board of management member responsible for the Energy and Building Technology and Industrial Technology business sectors.

“Both PA and Bosch will benefit from this decision. A reorganized packaging technology business will be able to adapt more flexibly to the diverse requirements of this typically SME market, while Bosch will be free to focus its attention entirely on the group’s impending profound transformation,” Hartung adds.

Good products and rising demand Enjoying technologically excellent reputation in various industries, Bosch packaging machinery is known for its novel approaches

“My colleagues in PA executive management and I are confident of future business success. We’re one of the biggest companies in our industry, and the path we have chosen is clearly the right one. We will stay together as a strong and stable unit.

Under new ownership as well, our tried and tested team will continue to provide our customers with excellent manufacturing solutions and services,” says Dr. Stefan König, chairman of the managing board of Robert Bosch Packaging Technology GmbH. “PA has always led a largely independent existence within the Bosch Group, and will in the future be able to respond even better to the requirements of the packaging industry.

Our customers will benefit from this.”

Presently, under new management, the PA units are in a good position to serve the growing market. In the years ahead, the company expects to see increasing demand. With its many technological USPs, the pharmaceuticals unit is developing

encouragingly and growing. The food unit has strengthened its core areas, and intends to further expand its market position.

PA currently employs some 6,100 associates in its global packaging technology operations. Its aim is for all its associates and locations to be retained by the eventual buyer.

The Bosch Group employs roughly 402,000 associates worldwide (as of December 31, 2017). The company generated sales of 78.1 billion euros in 2017. Its operations are divided into four business sectors: Mobility Solutions, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology.

The Bosch Group comprises Robert Bosch GmbH and its roughly 440 subsidiary and regional companies in 60 countries. Including sales and service partners, Bosch’s global manufacturing, engineering, and sales network covers nearly every country in the world. The basis for the company’s future growth is its innovative strength. At 125 locations across the globe, Bosch employs some 64,500 associates in research and development.

The company was set up in Stuttgart in 1886

by Robert Bosch (1861-1942) as “Workshop for Precision Mechanics and Electrical Engineering.”

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Partnering with the Packaging Pioneers During the in house show, ONTEX visits OPTIMA nonwovens that develops future technologies together with customers.

To engage in dialog with customers at the earliest possible stage. To get feedback.

To find out whether you are on the right track with your thoughts and developments for the future. This is what the in-house exhibition “Partnering with the Packaging Pioneers” at Optima Nonwovens is all about.

From June to August 2018, customers learn about cutting-edge technologies and the latest solutions in Schwaebisch Hall.

They gain inspiration in the fields “next level of modularity”, “reduction of the last user interface through automation” and “communication and service in the context of digitization”. The feedback from exhibition visitors will have a decisive influence on further developments.

Very impressed by the Cobot Early visitors were impressed by the exhibition concept: “I highly recommend in-house exhibitions, as the focus is more on the customers and their needs than on trade shows, where you can just have a quick hello and not really go deep,” said Martin Gärtner, Group Manufacturing Director at Ontex, a leading manufacturer of hygiene products.

Over the coming months and years, he wants to pursue some of the approaches he learned about at the exhibition. “It is always interesting to be inspired by new ideas,” said Martin

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Gärtner. He was particularly impressed by the Cobot in action – an approach worth considering in times of rising labour costs.

OPTIMA nonwovens – technologies for packaging paper hygiene articles Optima Nonwovens develops leading-edge technologies for packaging paper hygiene articles. The packaging lines take over diapers, sanitary napkins and bathroom tissue rolls from the production machines in a synchronous manner and package them in plastic film. The flexible systems can

accommodate everything from the smallest packages to jumbo packs. Inspection functions and secondary packaging capabilities are integrated to achieve automated complete lines. In addition to high-volume systems, the product range also includes machines of small to medium capacity. The division guarantees quick, professional service with 14 international locations. OPTIMA nonwovens GmbH is a member of the OPTIMA packaging group GmbH (Schwaebisch Hall), which employs a workforce of 2,250 around the globe.

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Firstan streamlines production processes with Esko-to-EFI integration New solution addresses key market pressures by reducing errors and increasing efficiency for a Packaging Connected workflow.

Firstan has successfully piloted a newly developed interface between Esko’s Automation Engine Connect and EFI’s Radius software applications.

The pilot at one of UK’s leading independent pharmaceutical packaging and food packaging manufacturers comes two years after Firstan’s £7m investment in two Komori 18,000sph presses – a six-colour Lithrone GLX640 and a multi-unit Lithrone GLX40RP, and a Bobst Expertcut die cutting blanking machine.

Established in 1976, Firstan employs 140 and has a turnover of £24m. The company produces one billion cartons a year and has two main divisions – Firstan Pharmaceutical, which develops and manufactures pharmaceutical and healthcare packaging, and Firstan Quality Packaging, which supplies food, confectionery, cosmetics and beverage cartons and sleeves. It prides itself on its award winning in-house design and repro studio, and utilises the latest production machinery. It has an optimum factory workflow, and, with the combination of Esko’s Automation Engine and EFI’s Radius packaging MIS solution, delivers marketleading quality and service.

The company was also the first UK packaging printer to become a press SIGN Offset Standard (POS) certified printer, which signifies it has the skills, equipment and knowledge to produce consistent colour quality. It was also the first in the UK to achieve PS9000:2010 for the supply of pharmaceutical packaging. It was ISO 14001 certified in 2012.

Esko and EFI joined forces for the benefit of their mutual customers such as Firstan to develop a solution that would enhance functionality for the label and folding carton market segments. “There were two primary drivers for our discussions,” stated Lieven Plettinck, Esko’s Director Software Engineering, “process efficiency and error reduction.”

many companies experience excessive administrative overhead that negatively affects profitability and can even cause more time to be spent on administrative tasks than actual print production. By optimizing processes so data is only entered once, flowing automatically from the MIS system to prepress, not only are administrative processes more efficient, but there is also much less opportunity for human error.

“By addressing these two drivers simultaneously in partnership with EFI, we have been able to address these challenges more rapidly, with development taking only four months,” Plettinck added. The result is a bundled solution that can be deployed in just five days, as proven by the Firstan pilot project. We appreciate the effort Firstan put into the pilot project. Their insight and guidance was invaluable.”

Since every company has different needs, Plettinck was quick to highlight that the bundled solution can also be easily modified to address individual and specific needs, as was accomplished for Firstan.

Dean Murden, Firstan’sIT Manager, confirmed the value of the integration, saying,“This was essentially a time saving and risk reduction exercise. We had duplicate data entry going on across both Esko and EFI Radius systems. They were effectively siloed solutions. Formerly, artwork approval status required manual updates in Radius.

This integration enables us to make use of a much more automated workflow, from receipt of artwork through to step and repeat, whilst also reducing risk due to data entry error.”

Hazel Hocknell, Firstan’s Pre-Press Manager, adds, “We’re still in the trial stages with the pilot project, but we are confident that this solution will ultimately enable our prepress department to become fully automated.

This is a massive step towards a paperless workflow that will make a huge difference for our business.”

collaboration, including frequent progress updates and an openness to taking Firstan’s feedback into consideration during the development process. “Teams from both companies are knowledgeable, efficient, and have collaborated in an extremely open and positive way to develop a workflow that meets our specification,” he remarked.

Kevin Blakey EFI Product Director, Packaging adds: “EFI hasenjoyed a highly positive relationship with both Firstan and Esko for a number of years, and this project represents an exciting step forward for the packaging industry. We are very proud to have been part of this project to deliver a highly optimized print production workflow.”

With the integration of Automation Engine with EFI Radius, Esko has taken another important step toward creating a Packaging Connected workflow that will help move the packaging industry into a more automated future. Seamlessly connecting the workflow and power of Automation Engine with EFI Radius through an out-of-the-box approach to implementation enables rapid deployment and speedy return on investment through increased time savings and reduced errors.

This standard integration solution is now commercially available.

Packaging Connected Plettinck points out that with print runs getting shorter and cycle times getting tighter,

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Hotter than lava flow – this printing ink can withstand 1000° C. A stream of red lava can run as high as between 600 and 900 degrees. And things can get even hotter in industrial settings – for example, in a ceramic furnace. Only very few inks for component-marking with CIJ printers can withstand these extreme temperatures.

With this in mind, marking and coding specialist Paul Leibinger GmbH & Co. KG from Tuttlingen has introduced a pigment ink to the market, which allows a clear typeface even at 1000° C. Summer in Germany is well underway.

And the thermometer has already cracked the 30 degree mark on several occasions.

But this is nothing compared to a furnace where ceramic components for industrial applications harden – such as spark plugs, insulators and cutting tools. Inside, temperatures of up to 1000 degrees Celsius are reached – even hotter in fact than a stream of red lava with temperatures of between 600 to 900 degrees Celsius.

Leibinger developed a heat-resistant ink for the JET3up PI. The CIJ printer marks products without touching them.

These high temperatures represent a real challenge for printing inks with which manufacturers mark the components even before firing. “The danger is that the ink burns in the furnace and dissolves into soot. The typeface, such as a model number, would no longer be readable, so the component would be rejected,” explains Christina Leibinger, Managing Proprietor of Leibinger. “That’s exactly why we developed a new ink for our JET3up PI CIJ printer, which ensures a reliably readable typeface with high contrasts even at temperatures of up to 1000° C.” Not only ceramics can be printed, but also metal and glass; for example, in the production of light bulbs and halogen lamps. The printing ink is now available and compatible with the Leibinger JET3up PI CIJ printer.

Ink consists of floating, heatresistant paint particles Heat-resistant ink is a pigmented ink. Black color particles float in a medium – unlike a dye ink in which the dye is dissolved in the medium and evaporates immediately

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at extreme temperatures. The experts succeeded in modifying the pigment ink’s particles and medium in such a way that they can withstand heat of up to 1000 degrees Celsius – unscathed. They also found a way to keep the particles in suspension through chemical stabilization. This slows down the so-called sedimentation process, in which the pigments settle. Additionally, the JET3up PI CIJ printer incorporates a stirring mechanism that continuously mixes the ink.

“The combination of chemical stabilization and stirring mechanics ensures a reliable and low-maintenance labeling system.”

Up to 120 million characters per tank filling The heat-resistant pigment ink is designed for the JET3up PI – a printer that marks products without contact using the socalled Continuous Inkjet (CIJ) technology. In the printhead, an ink jet, consisting of up to 96,000 electrically charged single drops per second,

shoots through a nozzle. When printing, a high-voltage field changes the trajectory of individual drops, so that they end up as pixels on the product surface. The remaining drops fly into a catcher tube, and are sucked back into the continuously circulating hydraulic circuit and used there. The printing technology is fast enough to keep up with conveyor belt speeds of up to 10 m/s and is also extremely cost-effective. The CIJ printer can print up to 120 million letters with one single liter of ink.

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72 students and their parents attend the Orientation hosted at Manipal Media Technology Department Orientation and Wisdom lamp lighting ceremony 2018.

The 26thOrientation and Wisdom lamp lighting ceremony program of Media Technology Department was held on 18th and 19th, July 2018 at Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal. 72 students and their parents attended the Orientation which was hosted on campus by the Department.

The Department was instituted in 1992 to meet the growing demand of Print and Electronic Media. The aim of this program is to foster dynamic and transformative students to Media industry.

Print media focuses on conventional and modern Printing technologies like 3D Printing, Smart Packaging, Printed electronics and related fields, whereas Electronic media emphasizes on Multimedia, Sound Engineering, Videography, Digital photography as well as Film Production.

Wisdom Lamp was lit by Mr. T Gautham S Pai, MD, Manipal Technologies Ltd., Manipal.

While congratulating all first year students for getting into Media Technology, he insisted the budding engineers to focus on the technological transitions taking place both in Print and Electronic Media like Printed electronics, Augmented Reality, Smart packaging, VFX etc. He also averred that the engineers must be able to provide solution based business to the customers.

Dr. Gicy Kovoor, Associate Director (Academics), MIT in her message gave an introduction ofour University, as well as going into a little bit in depth on prioritizing academic performance and the importance of tracking the Academic Calendar 2018 -

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The students were academically engaged on the 2nd day of orientation with talks, presentations, and industry visit. The program opened with a special lecture by Mr. Ramesh Chandran, Deputy Director (Engineering), All India Radio, Mangalore on the topic “Importance of Mass Communication in Electronic Age”. In his talk he briefed on Telecasting network and Signal processing, News room technologies, Studio set up as well as Sound Engineering. He overviewed Electronic media’s impact on the life style of younger generation in a positive way.

Speaking on behalf of Science and Research Opportunities in Print Media under the title “Innovations in Print”, Dr. Shivananda Wagle, GM, R&D division of Manipal Technologies Ltd., brought light to Modern printing technologies like Dynamic information in Digital card technologies, Interactive

Smart packaging, Solution based emission testing management systems and Illuminant displays.

Afterwards, they were accompanied by teachers of Department in 2 batches to see and experience the shop floor of Unit 5 (Commercial Print Division of MTL), one of world’s top class modern print factory.

They snapped pictures in front of the factory and then were free to make their way to MIT campus. It was heartwarming to see how fast these students who were strangers 24 hours prior came together by the end of the day.

One would suspect they were lifelong friends.

Mr. Nithesh Kumar, Asst. Professor thanked Management MIT, MTL and all well-wishers of our Department, without forgetting to mention the support and encouragement of parents and students who opted Media Technology as their profession. Our 2ndyear student Ms. Shifana Mastered the Ceremony.

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Successful PackPlus 2018 marks flourishing industry Surpassing all previous records, PackPlus 2018 - The total packaging, processing & supply chain event, concludes at at PragatiMaidan.

“We have participated in PackPlus for the first time and it has worked well for us. We have networked with more than 150 quality visitors already and any of these are soon to be converted into clients,” said Vaishali Sharma from DNV Industrial Systems.

“The best part of the Show is the large gamut of LIVE running machines, which becomes a huge attraction for business visitors. We received a very good response,” stated Rakesh Jain from Maa Shakti Corporation.

All about business

The printing and packaging fraternity enjoyed the monsoon showers while they shared the PackPlus 2018 platform with over 400 exhibiting companies and more than 20,000 visitors.

The prevalent sign of flourishing industry was seen at PackPlus this year. Keeping exhibitors busy from the first to the last hour of the event, the Show witnessed a huge flow of visitors from all parts of country.

The exhibition that has over the years evolved to cover the segments of end user packaging, supply chain, flexible & carton packaging and finished packaging products was spread across ten halls of Pragati Maidan, New Delhi and saw a growth in all the sections.

New in the League Several new companies had joined the PackPlus exhibitor list this year, and the results had surpassed their expectations.

PackPlus reported a series of business deals and sales, especially on the second and the third day of the exhibition. To name a few, Vardhman Enterprises sold its fully-automatic high speed paper cup machine to Delhi based Ginny International; Ample Graphics sold its multi function automatic box making machine to Bahadurgarh based Azure Press; Accuweb Enterprises received order for its narrow web slitting machine as well as the inspection machine and Vijaya Grafiks sold carton folder gluer for lock bottom cartons to a Jaipur based company.

Visitors’ Comments “We are into food processing and have visited the event basically to find pickle filling lines. We met several companies and got a chance to see and compare several machines here. So, yes, it has been a fruitful experience for us,” said Sunil Kumar, Amrapali Biotech India, Bihar.

“We deal in PP printed bags and rolls. We are glad we decided to visit the exhibition as it is a wonderful show. We have already placed orders of bags with a company in the PackSol segment of the event,” said Ashok Kumar Garg, Salasar Poly Bags, Bhilwara.

Conclave, this year!

The International Packaging Conclave 2018 was held concurrently on 27 July at the Business Lounge of Pragati Maidan. The event delved deep into the implications of the new regulations on food packaging and featured panel discussions & case studies by brand owner company experts.

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The Conclave was attended by more than 225 brand owners, convertors, raw material suppliers, packaging technologists and consultants. “The conclave has been very helpful in sharing as well as understanding how food safety is a part of packaging.

We explored how coming together with other stake holders safe packaging can be achieved and what are the challenges and opportunities before us,” said Mr. Barun Banerjee, Corporate Packaging Manager, Nestle India

Organisers Speak “We are elated with the huge response PackPlus has received this year. It has been a win-win situation for everyone. We are glad that the industry is growing and opening doors to new technology, assigning PackPlus an important role of providing a presentation platform to these innovations. Several exhibitors have already booked their stalls for the next edition and we target to break these record again next year,” said NeetuArora, Director, Next Events, the organisers of the Show.

PackPlus 2019 is slated to be held from 2831 August at PragatiMaidan, New Delhi.

Packaging – a key attraction The growth being experienced in the industry in the Packaging field was quite evident at PackPlus. Many domestic and international machine manufacturers and solutions providers were present with Flexo being a key attraction. NBG Printographic Machinery highlighted the Star Flex press for labels, stationery products and flexible packaging. Thi star attraction at Printographic stand boasts of a first-of-its-kind modular design with stack type arched bridge.

Naph Graphics’ Slitline 35 was on display at the company stand. The high speed slitter rewinder can handle a wide variety of substrates from 12-200 microns to boards of 40-200 gsm and supports a maximum width of 1300mm.

Hongming – its rigid box making machine, represented by NBG Graphics in India.

Zongke India had on display its rigid box making machines along with automatic paper bag making lines showcasing at the event.

Ample Graphics, which has an installation base of over 165 installations of various machines from China in India, displayed Lishunyuan’s latest multi-function visual position system in their new line of rigid box making line. Also, KGK Jet, a Japanese company displayed its drop-on-demand marking and coding inkjet devices at the show.

Advanced Graphic Systems (AGS) was present at the show with its range of products for the Graphic Arts industry with the highlighted product being its new addition – the SHCC Flexo Machines for high

speed printing on Corrugated Boards.

An interesting attraction was the Enterprise software by Flexibiz catering to production environments engaged in flexible packaged items, collapsible tubes and bags and retort pouches.

We find quite a few exhibitors who had on display their paper cup making machines and we saw the show showcasing thousands of eye catching packaging technology, machines, materials and solutions all around the display area.

Orange-O-Tec showed its digital cutting system KoloRado IO-5 with a cutting area of 1700x1300mm. Huber group displayed its solutions at a very large stall. The key Huber attractions were food grade inks and the display theme was ‘safety and sustainability’.

With the recognition of new environmental villain, plastic bag, by the government and also a large section of society, woven bags printing attracted a sizeable interest at the show. We saw a surge of interest for machines showcased by Flexituff International and Bankey Bihari.

Few more interesting machines, in the rigid box making category were those from

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Konica Minolta India demonstrates Digital superiority Apart from AccurioLabel and MGI JETvarnish, KMI showcases innovative label, packaging, and print enhancement solutions at Pack Plus 2018. wastage, low power consumption, and compact design.

Konica Minolta Business Solutions, provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies, highlighted its technological superiority in digital printing domain at the recently-concluded Pack Plus 2018. Konica Minolta impressed the PackPlus attendees with its wide range of innovative label, packaging, and print enhancement solutions.

Amongst the various solutions showcased at the event by Konica Minolta were the

AccurioLabel 190 and MGI Jet Varnish, two of the most cutting-edge industrial printing solutions. Konica Minolta demonstrated how these innovative label printing & embellishment solutions provide for best-in-class printing speeds, performance, productivity, and image stability. The demonstration also underlined the AccurioLabel 190’s high-precision image processing and formation process capabilities, as well as its minimal paper

Konica Minolta also took the opportunity to showcase the award-winning MGI JETvarnish at Pack Plus 2018. The state-of-the-art UV spot coating solution enables increased throughput for flat spot UV jobs and also provides amazing 3D raised effects, making it particularly well-suited for embellishments and print enhancements. All of the solutions showcased by Konica Minolta were appreciated by senior industry experts, corporate print buyers, and packaging and commercial customers for their novelty and applicability in new-age printing requirements. Samples demonstrated at Konica Minolta booth, were prepared by Konica Minolta customers, Printology Xperts and Hora Arts, on their respective Jet Varnish and Label equipment’s. By participating at the event, the brand further strengthened its domain leadership and highlighted how its cutting-edge solutions can help in unlocking better business opportunities for the entire print and printing value chain.

Showcase of a customer centric approach What intrigued us most at the Konica Minolta stand was the display of the company’s customers’ capabilities. This was unlike what we are used to of witnessing at trade shows generally – like machines, samples, brochures and literature, electronic and live shows etc.

Vijay Kamat, national product manager, industrial print, Konica Minolta calls it

‘holding the hand’ while assisting businesses take off the latest acquired technologies.

“Our purpose is not,” he explains, “just to sell a box to our customers. But, we rather support them in their business endeavours with presence at exhibitions for achieving better return on investments at a much faster pace. A little ‘hand holding’ goes a long way in not only winning customers’ trust but also optimizing business for them and spell success for us too.”

“We are displaying prints and enhancements enabled by KM machines installed at our customers – Printology Xperts of Okhla, New Delhi (MGI) and Hora Arts of Noida, UP (AccurioLabel 190) – at this show. This demonstrates the prowess of KMI technology and also provides a vast platform for end customers to see exact results that our customers can produce. This helps our

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customers a lot. This makes the effort doubly productive – for our esteemed customers as well as their customers. MGI, with all its virtues, is an incredible weapon assisting a creative hand!” emphasises Shayak Mukherjee, Business Consultant – R2R Sales Division at Konica Minolta.

Ravinder Kumar of Printology Xperts, who own an MGI says, “The machine has limitless capabilities and just needs design and creativity to get the best out of it.”

Konica Minolta AccurioLabel 190 is a rollto-roll label printer which is not only easy in operations (existing operator with minimum additional training can effectively operate it as well) but also comes at a very attractive price as compared to similar products available in the market.

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Bobst Italia Coating Days - presents innovative advances in Silicone Coating and Film Barrier applications at the event.

Taking advantage of the opportunity provided by two impressive BOBST CO 8000 coating lines currently in its production facility, waiting to be dismantled for shipment to the new owners, Bobst Italia held a two-day coating event at its site in San Giorgio Monferrato, Italy, on 25 and 26 July 2018. The lines were dedicated to silicone coating for release liners and film barrier coating applications respectively.

technologies for evolving market demands, is truly remarkable and continues unabated,” explains Detlef Merklinger, Head of the Product Line Coating. “As a result of our commitment, leveraging the performance of our latest products and installed customized solutions, we continue to introduce new developments and make inroads into different segments of the worldwide coating market.”

“The extent of the investment program that BOBST has committed to in recent years, in the development of innovative coating

Under the banner of excellence in engineering the most efficient and best output quality solutions for substrate functionality, the Coating Days program lined up keynote speakers and brought together leading companies to share with participants the evolution, opportunities and challenges of two major segments of the coating market: silicone coating for release liners and barrier film applications.

The seminar sessions took place in the afternoon of 25 July and in the morning of 26 July at a conference venue in the hills of Monferrato close to Bobst Italia’s facility.

After lunch, the event moved to Bobst Italia’s production plant to see the two coating machines.

The CO 8000 silicone liner machine was presented in dry run demonstrations. It featured the most recent advances in silicone coating innovation, including BOBST’s innovative 5-roller coating technology, trolley type. The unit had a design speed of 1’000 m/min (3’200 fpm), which allowed converters to reach unparalleled productivity levels.

The CO 8000 for barrier film applications was shown in static mode. The line, exhibiting the innovative BOBST pressurized chamber, has been developed to process the latest generation of films and coatings for the growing barrier packaging market.

Both machines highlighted their unique web handling performance, which is the hallmark of BOBST technologies across a wide range of applications and printing and converting technologies.

Xeikon showcases production possibilities of the Xeikon9800 At IGAS 2018, Xeikon’s benchmark quality and versatility for graphic arts was in the spotlight.

Xeikon showcased the business production capabilities and door opening opportunities presented by the Xeikon 9800 digital press at IGAS 2018, Tokyo, Japan.

On booth no 4- 24, Xeikon highlighted how the benchmark for quality and versatility in digital document and commercial printing can print on a wide range of untreated substrates ranging from 40gsm to 300gsm.

In addition, it showed how it is ideal for high quality direct marketing jobs when integrated with variable data capabilities of the Xeikon X-800digital front end. Its uniquely adapted Xeikon QA-CD toner and high-quality imaging system deliver a print resolution of 1200x3600 dpi with variable dot density for unmatched printing quality.

At the show, the Xeikon 9800 digital press was equipped with a large-roll unwinder, a

variable width stacker and a Web Finishing Module (WFM) for extra protection of the prints.

Available QA-CD toners include CMYK, Red, Green, Blue, Extra Magenta and SuperBlack as well as White and Clear (UV reflecting) toner. Also available on request special colours specified by printers and their brand owner clients.

It delivers outstanding print quality at speeds up to 21.5 meters per minute at reduced consumables cost. This makes it the most productive digital colour press in the Xeikon portfolio with 5/5 single-pass duplex printing.

Xeikon also presented the possibilities delivered by its labels and folding carton digital production solutions.

Bent Serritslev, Xeikon’s General Manager Asia, concludes: “IGAS is for a long time the reference show in Asia and brings in a lot of international visitors. The past few years, Xeikon has been investing heavily in developing a full team of experts to support this growth. The team, coming from India, SEA, China and Japan, was present at IGAS 2018 to welcome visitors and discuss their business needs.”

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Looking for BIG Opportunity in Graphic Communications & Specialty Printing ISA White Paper

Looking for BIG Opportunit y in Graphic Communications & Specialt y

KEY STUDY TAKEWAYS 1. SIGN & DISPLAY GRAPHICS IS A GROWTH MARKET

A key finding from the research study is that wide format print is a growth market. Overall, the majorit Sign, display, and specialty graphics are an attractive opportunity for print providers that are looking to respondents reported that their wide format print volume was increasing (Figure 1). In fact, responden expand into adjacent markets. reporting increases in wide format volume outnumbered those reporting decreases by 17 to 1. In addition, survey respondents expect wide format print volume to grow 31% annually.

Many providers have already invested in digital wide format printing devices capable of producing those applications or are considering doing so. By adding sign, display, and specialty applications to the product mix, providers can broaden their service offerings, stand out from the competition, increase revenues, and improve customer satisfaction.

Do you have the capacity?

Can you drop your margin and still be profitable on a job? Software tools will become even more indispensable going forward! Wide format shops that do not modernize their operations, including their business workflow, are sabotaging their future success.

Key Notes : > Graphic communication providers are investigating new ways to grow their businesses. > Growth opportunities for commercial printers, sign shops, screen printers, and ad specialty providers. > Ongoing market changes and new developments in material science forever changed the technology landscape.

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Figure 1: Wide Format Print Volume is Increasing How would you describe your overall wide format volume trend?

Decreasing 3.6%

Staying the Same 27.6%

Increasing 68.8%

To learn more about print providers’ wide format investment plans, business priorities, workflow challenges, media/substrate usage, and application growth, Keypoint Intelligence – InfoTrends recently surveyed more than 300 companies, including commercial printers, sign shops, digital print specialists, screen printers, and ad specialty providers. The key findings from that research:

N=304 Total Respond Source: Looking for BIG Opportunity in Graphic Communications & Specialty Printing; Keypoint Intelligence – InfoTrends 2

The firms that reportedinvestments increasing print volume growthproviders had the following software for print to similarities:

They were expanding the applications produced to appeal to new markets. support the growth of the they current application mix They were adding services become application one-stop providers. and expansion intoto other areas or • markets.

They were focusing their marketing efforts on vertical industries.

According to surveybest data, some of the keyfor industries that purchase digital wide format printing include • Define practices business growth. retail, advertising, education, real estate, construction, restaurant/food service, manufacturing, person • Identify the tools and information that wide services, healthcare, and non-profit. format graphic providers require from equipment When respondents were asked to identify key factors that were driving investments, the top response and supplies manufacturers to products, grow their wide were expanding business, customer demands for new upgrading/replacing older equipmen reducingformat costs, andbusinesses. adding capacity.

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The survey captured 304 responses, distributed as follows: • Sign & display shops (38%) • Commercial printers (16%) • Digital printing specialists (16%) • Advertising specialty (15%) • Screen printers (15%)

Sign & Display Graphics is a growth market ….…………………………………………… © I n twide ernational Sign Association A key finding from the research study is that format print is a growth market. Overall, the majority of respondents reported that their wide format print volume was increasing. They said the applications they produced expanded to appeal to new markets.

Additionally, they added services to become one-stop providers and also focused their marketing efforts on vertical industries.

The study’s primary objectives were to: • Identify key equipment investment and market trends to pinpoint new opportunities for print providers and technology suppliers.

• Uncover the key reasons print providers are purchasing devices, software, and media products.

• Determine the best actions and hardware/ ISA White Paper

According to survey data, some of the key industries that purchase digital wide format printing included

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Figure 2: Wide Format Print Investment Drivers What are the key factors driving your investment in digital wide format devices?

Expanding business

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2. INCREASING DEMAND FOR SHORT TURNAROUND

Job turnaround requirements for wide format print work are becoming shorter and shorter. For all company types surveyed, the majority of wide format work is produced in less than 24 hours. In addition, respondents expected the demand for fast turnaround to increase.

retail, advertising, education, real estate, construction, restaurant/food service, manufacturing, personal services, healthcare, and non-profit.

Figure 3: Increasing Demand for Shorter Turnaround How are demands for shorter turnaround changing?

Decreasing 1.3%

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The key factors driving investment were – expanding business, customer demands for new products, upgrading/replacing older equipment, reducing costs, and adding capacity.

Increasing demand for short turnaround Job turnaround requirements for wide format print work are becoming shorter and shorter.

The survey reveals that the majority of wide format work is produced in less than 24 hours. Interestingly, the demand for fast turnaround is expected to increase.

Many key wide format buying industries (e.g., retail, advertising, events, and real estate) require fast turnaround because they are faced with staff constraints, compressed communication production cycles, and short delivery windows for finished signage.

Moreover, digital wide format printing has changed print buyers’ expectations for fast turnaround. While certain types of wide format jobs (e.g., store remodels, large regional/national promotions, or events) have a long sales cycle, they will tend to have a short production cycle. Print buyers want to see the effects of their campaigns and change out signage more frequently as a result.

Top applications by technology The report reveals that wide format applications are becoming increasingly diverse, providing many opportunities for new entrants that are hoping to expand their offerings as well as for established sign, graphics, and visual communications companies that want to increase their market share. Banners, vehicle graphics, signs, and wallpaper/interiors have been identified as the most profitable applications in the survey.

Increasing 78.6% N=304 Total Respondents Source: Looking for BIG Opportunity in Graphic Communications & Specialty Printing; Keypoint Intelligence – InfoTrends 2017

Many key wide format buying industries (e.g., retail, advertising, events, and real estate) require fast

most commonly used paper and banner turnaround because they are faced with staff constraints, compressed communication production cycles,

Media Trends and short delivery windows for finished signage.

A key benefit of wide format devices is they can print on a wide variety of media types. This is especially true for flatbed printing devices, as they can print directly on materials like wood, metal, plastic, glass, fabric, and many other options. Wide format media is either flexible or rigid. According to our survey respondents, 76% of wide format output was produced on flexible media and 24% was on rigid media.

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Sign and display providers and screen printers were more likely to print on pressure-sensitive vinyl and banner ….…………………………………………… © International Sign Association vinyl.

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Across all company types, coroplast was the most frequently used rigid media. Rigid PVC was also popular across a variety of provider types.

Workflow: The Untapped The survey then asked respondents about Opportunity the percentage of their work that was Workflow represents an untapped produced on various flexible substrates, opportunity in the wide format production including paper, film (excluding vinyl), banner process as many survey respondents have vinyl, pressure-sensitive vinyl, canvas, fabric/ not yet invested in workflow tools to improve I S A textiles, W h i t e Pand a p epolycarbonate. r L o o k i n g Overall, f o r B I G pressure O p p o r t u n i t y i ninefficiencies G r a p h i c C oand m m uautomation. n i c a t i o n s &However, Specialty Printing sensitive-vinyl (33%) was the used high ownership ofturnaround. colour management Digital wide format printing hasmost changed print buyers’ expectations for fast While certain media, by banner vinyl (29%) and large regional/national software were promotions, reported, likely because types offollowed wide format jobs (e.g., store remodels, or events) havecolour a paper (21%). profiling is essential given the wide rangeofof long sales cycle, they will tend to have a short production cycle. Print buyers want to see the effects substrates that are used. their campaigns and change out signage more frequently as a result.

According to the study, the most commonly used flexible media types varied company.

Workflow management is an important 3. TOP APPLICATIONS BYby TECHNOLOGY Specifically: software category is largely for overlooked Wide format applications are becoming increasingly diverse, providing manythat opportunities new • entrants Commercial printers, digital their printofferings as wellinas this most operations do not own that are hoping to expand forindustry; established sign, graphics, and visual specialists, and ad specialty providers workflow management software.

Commercial communications companies that want to increase their market share. Respondents identified banners, vehicle graphics, signs, and wallpaper/interiors as their most profitable applications.

Figure 4: Most Profitable Applications How would you describe each of the applications that you regularly produce in terms of profitability? (Top Responses) Highly Profitable Banners

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UV flatbed, solvent, and eco-solvent devices topped the list of most ownership. Though aqueous devices were more common among commercial printers, digital print specialists, screen printers, and ad specialty providers; commercial printers, sign and display shops, and digital print specialists invested the most in latex devices.

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5. WORKFLOW: THE UNTAPPED OPPORTUNITY Workflow represents an untapped opportunity in the wide format production process as many survey

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respondents have not yet invested in workflow tools to improve inefficiencies and automation (Figure 5).

Respondents reported high ownership of color management software, likely because color profiling is essential given the wide range of substrates that are used.

Workflow management is an important software category that is largely overlooked in this industry; most operations do not own workflow management software. Commercial printers and ad specialty providers were more likely than the other company types to report owning workflow. It is worth noting that workflow software is firmly entrenched among commercial printers, largely because it is required for efficient production of the products that these companies offer.

printers and ad specialty providers were more likely than the other company types to report owning workflow. It is worth noting that workflow software is firmly entrenched among commercial printers, largely because it is required for efficient production of the products that these companies offer.

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Figure 5: Software Ownership How would you describe your ownership of the following software solutions?

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Although the wide Currently Own (from Commercial Vendor) Currently Own (Home-Grown) Don't Own, but Considering Purchase Don't Own, No Plans to Purchase Don't Know format signage and Color Management graphics market is 47.0% 9.9% 12.8% 22.7% 7.6% Variable Data Graphic Arts 25.0% 5.9% 11.5% 44.4% 13.2% expanding, the firms Print MIS 24.0% 7.2% 14.8% 41.8% 12.2% that serve it must Workflow Management 23.4% 12.2% 16.1% 39.5% 8.9% uncover and implement Digital Asset Management (DAM) 13.8% 9.5% 10.9% 52.3% 13.5% strategies to ensure Web-to-Print (W2P) 13.8% 5.3% 26.3% 42.8% 11.8% ongoing growth.

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% N=304 Total Respondents Business growth is Source: Looking for BIG Opportunity in Graphic Communications & Specialty Printing; Keypoint Intelligence – InfoTrends 2017 critical to a firm’s Workflow management software automates production processes, and it is needed to process an printers, signordering. shops, andinad increasing number of jobs and efficiently support online As screen wide formatprinters, printers increase long-term success, but prepress and finishing are often the workflow bottlenecks. A key remaining bottleneck in prepress specialty providers. Many providers are also print service providers in thespeed, wide format is file handling, which is often completed by hand. considering expanding into adjacent service segment are being pushed to pursue new Shops must automate to improve their customer experience and remain competitive. Online ordering markets where they can leverage their applications, services, and customers. existing operational knowledge. To that end, Successfully growing and expanding wide firms are investing in wide format printing ….…………………………………………… format service capabilities starts with building © International Sign Association devices, software, and media/substrates to on current capabilities and customers to further differentiate from competitors, grow develop new applications. revenues, and improve efficiency. Ongoing market changes and new developments in Target marketing is another important material science have forever changed the strategy for consideration. An interesting technology landscape. Many new avenues finding from the study was that many for revenue are surfacing as providers providers are embracing a vertical market look to take advantage of innovations and strategy. Firms with a strong vertical focus leverage existing investments. Sign, display, can capture more attention in the market, and specialty graphics represents a solid become viewed as experts within their business opportunity for a variety of print segments, market more effectively, and service providers, including commercial productively sell to a targeted client and printers, digital print shops, screen printers, prospect base. sign shops, and ad specialty providers.

Savvy printers are finding that adding Automate and Optimize wide format applications to their existing Operations offerings can enable them to grow sales with Many providers have not invested in workflow existing customers, strengthen customer software, so there is an untapped opportunity relationships, and generate additional to automate production processes to revenues. In addition, firms that are already improve the customer experience and remain offering these applications are investing competitive in this ever-expanding market. in additional devices to expand growth, In addition, real-time information is critical better meet customer demands, upgrade to daily business decisions. Do you have their offerings, improve efficiency, and add the capacity? Can you drop your margin capacity. For existing players and new and still be profitable on a job? Software entrants alike, investing in wide format tools will become even more indispensable devices can deliver big opportunities! going forward! Wide format shops that do

Consider adding or expanding offerings

not modernize their operations, including their business workflow, are sabotaging their future success.

Workflow management software automates production processes, and it is needed to process an increasing number of jobs and efficiently support online ordering. As wide format printers increase in speed, prepress and finishing are often the workflow bottlenecks. A key remaining bottleneck in prepress is file handling, which is often completed by hand.

Shops must automate to improve their customer experience and remain competitive. Online ordering with automated passthrough to the rest of production is key.

Resources (materials, machines, and people) must also be optimized. Sheet optimization via nesting/ganging of work to save material costs and production times offers quick cost savings that typically range from $8,000 to $13,000.

Another software category that many wide format providers are ignoring is the print management information system (MIS).

A print MIS is the single system of record used to store and share business-critical information within the print shop as well as to all external constituents in a timely and efficient manner. A properly implemented print MIS solution functions as the pulse and brain of a print shop. Using an MIS system offers many benefits, including more accurate estimates, better job tracking, and identifying areas that need improvement.

Sign and display graphics is a growing market that offers many opportunities across a variety of industries. Print providers that are seeking to expand their product offerings should consider offering sign and display graphics, and companies that are already offering these products may have an opportunity to increase their market share by expanding their product lines or entering new market segments.

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Conclusion Graphic communication providers are investigating new ways to grow their businesses. Increased competition has many firms looking to offer new products and services to increase business from current customers while also attracting new ones. Sign, display, and specialty graphics are important applications that can offer growth opportunities for commercial

Credits: Research Report by ISA (the International Sign Association). Authors include: • Lisa Cross, Associate Director for Keypoint Intelligence – InfoTrends’ Business Development Strategies service.

• Eve Padula, Senior Research Analyst for Keypoint Intelligence – InfoTrends’ Business Development Strategies, Customer Communications, and Wide Format Consulting Services.

• Steve Urmano, Director of InfoTrends’ Wide Format Printing Consulting Service.

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1st European EFI VUTEk HS125 F4 Inkjet press installation FLYERALARM extends product portfolio with increased flexibility, speed and quality for digital large-format printing.

Electronics for Imaging has installed Europe’s first EFI VUTEk HS125 F4 hybrid flatbed/roll-to-roll inkjet press at FLYERALARM GmbH in Würzburg, Germany.

The press will give the print service provider more flexibility in responding to customer requests.

FLYERALARM, one of the largest online printing companies in Europe, is expanding its already extensive product portfolio with the new hybrid press and is increasing its productivity in the large-format printing (LFP) sector. “Thanks to the great flexibility of the machine with regard to the range of materials, we will now be able to offer our customers additional and even more personalised products,” said Igor Zanovskiy, managing director of the Large Format Printing department at FLYERALARM.

High-speed printing with stateof-the-art technology FLYERLARM is using the state-of-the-art technology in the VUTEk HS125 F4 to satisfy the demand from the high number of LFP customers as quickly as possible. The company sends out approximately 3,000 packages per day to the LFP sector alone.

The products, which are primarily ordered online via the FLYERALARM web shop, include awnings, banners, roll-ups, displays, sheets, signs, exhibition equipment, car wraps, adhesive foils and more.

With its eight colour channels arranged in a dual CMYK configuration, the new VUTEk HS125 F4 can reach output speeds of up to 225 boards per hour, increasing FLYERALARM’s productivity.

Company executives remark that the press offers excellent print quality. “Using greyscale printing with variable droplet size, we can offer our customers a quality advantage,” said Zanovskiy. Even fine-art quality printing is possible with the EFI VUTEk HS125 F4 in slower printing modes.

Individual products in focus Another important considered feature when purchasing the press was its excellent flexibility. For example, it can print on a range of different media. In the future, FLYERALARM plans to offer even more bespoke products alongside its standard products to customers, 90 percent of which come from the B2B sector.

“Our bespoke department already deals

with our customers’ special requests.

With the new EFI machine, we now have the opportunity to gradually expand this service and to expand the range with many new products at the same time,” said Igor Zanovskiy.

FLYERALARM is further accommodated by the fact that the new machine has very short set-up times, so substrates or print settings can be changed rapidly if required. As a result, the company can produce very small quantities and even bespoke jobs profitably.

EFI as a strong partner The online printing company was founded in 2002 and is active in 15 countries in Europe and has more than 2,000 employees. It has been providing products to the LFP sector for ten years. In 2012, FLYERALARM invested in its first large- format digital printing system from EFI, a VUTEk printer that is still in use every day.

Installation of the new VUTEk press went smoothly – “As with all EFI systems in the company,” said Zanovskiy. As FLYERALARM works around the clock, the company places a high value on having robust digital printing systems. The new VUTEk machine is perfect for long-term and continuous operation and is equipped with the early warning and detection systems to minimise downtime and scrap.

EFI’s strong service offering was another key factor in FLYERALARM’s decision to add another VUTEk. “The fact that we have already invested in a fourth large format printing system from EFI speaks for itself,” said Zanovskiy. “With EFI, we have a strong and reliable partner by our side, who also knows what is important for print service providers like us.”

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Labelexpo India to host industry forums across South Asia The organizers of Labelexpo India 2018 are hosting a series of evening forums across South Asia during late August to late October in conjunction with several industry trade bodies representing the package printing industry. Held in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, the seven events are aimed exclusively at offset printers who are thinking about diversifying their businesses into label and package printing.

The forums, ranging in size from 60 to 200 attendees, will give printers unique regional opportunity to find out what label printing and attending Labelexpo India has to offer their business. Each event will feature a tailored seminar given by expert speakers from Labelexpo India’s industry partners and supporting organizations. Labelexpo India will present the latest global and regional trends, while speakers from exhibitor companies will share customer case studies and top tips on realizing and maximizing the commercial benefits of offering label printing.

This will be followed by a networking dinner.

The forum dates and locations are as follows: • 24 August - Colombo, Sri Lanka; in partnership with Sri Lanka Association of Printers (SLAP) • 8 September - Dhaka, Bangladesh; in partnership with Printing Industries Association of Bangladesh (BMSS)

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5 October - Rajkot, Gujarat, India; in partnership with Rajkot Printing & Packaging Association 6 October - Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India; in partnership with Ahmedabad Printing Press Association (APPA) 13 October - Kochin, Kerala, India; in partnership with Kerala Master Printers Association (KMPA) 20 October - Jammu, Jammu & Kashmir, India; in partnership with J&K Offset Printers Association (JKOPA) 26 October - Pune, Maharashtra, India; in partnership with Poona Press Owners Association (PPOA).

Jade Grace, Labelexpo India 2018 event director, said: “We are delighted to be able to offer almost double the number of similar regional events we hosted in the 2016 run-up to our last Labelexpo India, and across three countries. This is testament to the rapid development we have seen in the printing industry in South Asia over the last two years.

As the appetite for labels and package printing continues undiminished and innovations in technology develop apace, it has become the biggest growth market. The forums are a unique opportunity to gain a taster of what Labelexpo India 2018 holds in store, and for printers across the region to learn from, and collaborate with the experts.

We strongly recommend early booking for

these events as places are strictly limited.”

Labelexpo India will run 22 to 25 November at the India Expo Centre & Mart in Greater Noida (Delhi NCR). Labelexpo India provides the largest label and package printing platform in South Asia. With 250 industryleading exhibitors, Labelexpo India offers highly valuable networking opportunities for visitors and exhibitors alike, bringing together the entire supply chain with machinery, ancillaries, substrates and ink suppliers all under one roof. It is supported by the Label Manufacturers Association of India (LMAI), All India Federation of Master Printers (AIFMP), Delhi Printers Association (DPA) and Authentication Solution Providers’ Association. The show is also supported by the Sri Lanka Association of Printers (SLAP), Printing Industries Association of Bangladesh (BMSS) and Federation of Nepal Printers Association (FNPA).

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LABELEXPO INDIA 2018

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