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FROM THE EDITORS’ DESK...........................................................................................................................................................................................................6 The Future of Print.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................8 Nutech acquires Baba Barkha Nath Printers...................................................................................................................................................................... 12 Hand in hand: HEPACK with Heidelberg ............................................................................................................................................................................ 14 ContiTech brings something new to the market............................................................................................................................................................. 16 New EFI Fiery products bring the latest DFE Technology to Konica Minolta bizhub PRESS Engines........................................................... 17 Heidelberg PMC Commercial in Wiesloch-Walldorf marks the start of the run-up to drupa in 2016........................................................... 18 Enfocus announces partnership with e-Cervo................................................................................................................................................................. 21 PrintWeek India announces seventh edition of PrintWeek India Awards .............................................................................................................. 21 Heidelberg assumes new strategic alignment................................................................................................................................................................. 22 The visit of Indian Delegation to Printex 15 ..................................................................................................................................................................... 24 Adobe Stock launches worldwide......................................................................................................................................................................................... 26 ISO Committee Adopts X-Rite’s CxF format as industry standard............................................................................................................................. 27 Autoprint conducts Affordable ‘Automation in Printing Press’ seminar.................................................................................................................. 27 Xerox: Converting Challenges into Opportunities.......................................................................................................................................................... 28 Print Expo 2015............................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 28 SLKCG focuses Packaging Printing products.................................................................................................................................................................... 30 Electromech Industries focuses Casemaking machines .............................................................................................................................................. 31 Esko presents the value behind its solutions.................................................................................................................................................................... 31 Param ERP Solutions.................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 32 Konica Minolta has first time direct participation........................................................................................................................................................... 32 Autoprint receives good response for Repetto................................................................................................................................................................ 33 Canon India displays C600 Digital Press............................................................................................................................................................................. 33 Monotech introduces Highcon Euclid Digital Cutting and Creasing Production System................................................................................ 34 VINSAK brings Synchroline ‘game changer’ ...................................................................................................................................................................... 35 World Press Trends: Newspaper revenues shift to new sources................................................................................................................................. 36 International Newspaper Color Quality Club seeks new members.......................................................................................................................... 38 Al-Qasswa new agent for QIPC – EAE in Saudi Arabia................................................................................................................................................... 38 Agfa Graphics launches the Advantage N TR VHS Platesetter for high-volume newspaper printers .......................................................... 39 World News Media Congress in 2016................................................................................................................................................................................... 39 The Dscoop Open ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 40 Xerox expands EA Toner poduction in Western N.Y. manufacturing plant............................................................................................................ 41 Telrol adds Xeikon Cheetah to its digital portfolio ......................................................................................................................................................... 42 Delhi’s Artize-Die Makers expands capacity...................................................................................................................................................................... 43 FINAT’s seal of approval for tesa tape.................................................................................................................................................................................. 44 Xeikon brings next-generation VariLane to Labelexpo Europe ................................................................................................................................ 45 RR Donnelley completes acquisition of Courier Corporation..................................................................................................................................... 45 Henkel builds new adhesives factory in India.................................................................................................................................................................. 46 New Harlequin Flexo Screens give premium print quality.......................................................................................................................................... 47 Pragati Pack orders third MPS label press.......................................................................................................................................................................... 47 Forming, filling, sealing with outstanding efficiency..................................................................................................................................................... 48 Asahi Photoproducts AWP-DEF PTD Plate Technology ................................................................................................................................................ 49 The 35th Annual FINAT Label Awards crosses new frontiers....................................................................................................................................... 50 Soma to exhibit at Labelexpo Europe 2015....................................................................................................................................................................... 51 Gallus makes quick inroads into Indian market .............................................................................................................................................................. 51 Labelexpo Europe 2015 ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 52 POLAR Mohr expands its product portfolio...................................................................................................................................................................... 53 PolyOne celebrates grand opening of new Asia Innovation Center........................................................................................................................ 53 A new Scodix offers latest enhancements to Aggarwal Digital Studio................................................................................................................... 54

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FROM THE EDITORS’ DESK Dear Readers, Print Industry major Heidelberg expects future growth to be generated primarily in the services and digital sectors. It largely completed the Group’s strategic reorientation in financial year 2014/2015 and continued to strengthen the services sector in the past financial year through acquisitions (BluePrint Products, Printing Systems Group, Fujifilm Sverige). The Heidelberg Group’s position in the growth segment of digital printing was also strengthened with the complete takeover of Neo7even and the Gallus Group and the launch of a digital label printing machine. “We’ve made Heidelberg fit for the future,” said Gerold Linzbach, CEO of the company. “The reorientation will enable Heidelberg to enjoy sustained profitable growth in the future.” The company has assumed new strategic alignment and for future growth, has invested in services, consumables and digital printing.

Print Expo 2015 recently concluded at Chennai. The event took place from 12th to 14th June. This edition of the show had slightly less enthusiasm than what was seen previously especially the last edition of the show. The June event saw lesser number of stalls compared to the previous show.

Visitor footfall also saw a decline this year. However, the quality of visitors improved, according to the exhibitors who were mostly happy with visitors’ profile. The Event Review section presents the offerings by some of the key exhibitors at the expo. The coverage is based on our exclusive talk with exhibitors and others on the show floor. This year’s Printexpo edition was dominated by Digital Printing with Xerox, Canon, Konica Minolta and HP directly participating in the show. Konica Minolta and Monotech were the key sponsors for the show. Other key participants included Line-O-Matic.

Insight Communications, Autoprint, Grafica Flextronica and Kapoor Imaging. The recent member in Xerox family, Xerox 1000i has received good response across markets. The first machine has been sold to a Tamil Nadu customer. It is also the preferred machine for specialized value added printing. Xerox had the machine on display at Printexpo. SLKCG focused on its range of Packaging Printing products at Printexpo. Esko presented the value behind its products. On demonstration at its stand was Kongsberg table – a combination of both hardware and software solution – right from the design of a carton to making a mock carton using the table. Param ERP Solutions launched its latest solution for the corrugated industry.

The Printexpo show saw first time direct participation by Konica Minolta Business Solutions. Earlier the company had participated through its channel partner Monotech. Autoprint displayed its Dion 450 four colour press and Repetto Die Cutting machine for which it received good visitor response. Canon India had on display its C600 Digital Press. The machine had its first show in south India. Monotech introduced Highcon Euclid Digital Cutting and Creasing Production System. Electromech Industries focused on its Casemaking machines at the show.

Other topics of interest include: Newspaper revenues shift to new sources; Lombardi Synchroline with 3-motors fully servo press by VINSAK; new adhesive factory in India by Henkel; and Gareth Ward discussing ‘The Future of Print’. Find more on installations, new technological innovations, events and other latest happenings in the industry in the June issue of PRESSIdeas.

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The Future of Print Gareth Ward says that “The future of print is here today”; and that we can touch and grasp it with both hands… at drupa 2016!

Consumers are reaching out to purchase the latest products in consumables, pharmaceuticals and decoration. The drive for goods with desirability, branding and quality is impacting the industrial, packaging and print industries.

The upsurge in interest in 3D printing, printed electronics, RFID, coding and mobile applications is taking the concept of communication into a new space. Here Gareth Ward offers his view on the future of print. According to Gareth we need to embrace the trends and all the developments affecting our world.

We also need to face the challenges and use our creativity. The future of print is here today – we can touch and grasp it with both hands… at drupa 2016!

Smarter print to market

Consumerism, an increase in global populations, the effects of the Internet and e-commerce – all of these developments are impacting our world, changing forecasts for the future and having a huge impact on the evolution and survival of print.

Key Notes : > Print companies have to acknowledge change and embrace it. > “The connection between print, online and mobile activities will grow stronger,” says Claus BolzaSchünemann. > “Print can still create emotions and print lasts, preserving moments and memories,” says Alon Bar-Shany.

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The successful printer of the future will deliver customers a full service offering that extends well beyond printing and finishing. The exact mix of digital communications, value added print, data manipulation and logistics will depend on the customer base and how the printer positions himself, or perhaps how he forms partnerships with others with expertise in these areas. But what is going to make print a successful communications medium in the next decade is already clear: print has to be relevant.

This was not necessary when print was the prime channel for advertising, information, communication with government and so on. Much of this mundane printing has transferred to digital and will never come back, but print is not shrinking. It is evolving into something smarter, more versatile and above all more relevant to those who receive it.

If a printer is not part of this development, the only option is to sell print services as cheaply as possible and this is no way to build for the future nor to create enduring partnerships with customers. Unfortunately there are many printers that lead with price and face the same inevitable fate as the wooly mammoth: extinction.

IT drives print relevance Tomorrow’s printer must become as comfortable with IT as he is with offset litho. That can stretch from operating a website to harvest jobs, to creating automated workflows that minimise touch points

where errors can be introduced, using management systems - MIS to record and present up to the minute details of how a company is performing through to data handling to create personalised communications for customers to talk to their customers in the most relevant way. If that means using social media alongside print, the new print house has to deliver.

The problem here is that printers continue to prefer to invest in a new printing press rather than in IT. It is as if the press is tangible and understandable. If it runs at 18,000 sph (and machines at drupa 2016 are likely to hit 20,000 sph) this is 20-30% faster than their current machine, so must make sense. But few give due thought to how jobs are to be processed either before reaching the press, or once printed. Across the globe, print runs are falling and time allotted is shrinking. A faster press magnifies the problem of handling more jobs in less time without introducing errors. In addition, too few consider training for their staff to be an investment rather than an imposition.

IT knowledge is key for automation at the process level. Those supplying software to the industry take it as read that JDF compliance is essential. Workflows have to become more sophisticated. Producing an

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eight page section on standard paper is simple, but tomorrow’s customers will want something far more than this. They will want their printed products to stand out, to have the impact to cut through the thousands of marketing messages that are received each day. drupa President and CEO of KBA Claus Bolza-Schünemann predicts: “In some years from now there will be fewer printing companies but they will be larger and more industrial with a broad service range. In the commercial sector printers will turn into marketing service providers for print and online services.”

The transition is in its infancy. A well known commentator on advertising and the internet The first drupa ‘Global Insights Report’ published in October 2014 highlighted this: “Only 23% of the drupa expert panel report an increase in IT spend in the last five years, and virtually all decision makers stated a lack of IT specialists. This is a major challenge for printers,” says Sabine Geldermann, Director of drupa 2016. pointed out last year that consumers spend vast amounts of time with their smartphones, but these only take a small proportion of the overall marketing spend, whereas the fast shrinking newspaper sector receives a disproportionate amount of advertising spend. One must shrink its share while the other one grows – unless the newspaper becomes more relevant to its reader. This means hyper local sections, printed digitally with targeted advertising.

Revalidating print in a digital world The same can be noticed in magazines where the mass circulation titles that used to be printed gravure are losing circulation while magazines that focus on the special interests of readers remain healthier. There will be fluctuations across national boundaries and as fashions change, but the magazines that focus on this sort of reader will not

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be displaced by digital delivery of content because reading a magazine is so much more than the information presented.

A decade ago it was predicted that with the growth of the internet, video on demand and the ability to interact with websites, fashion magazines must disappear because websites can show clothes being worn, have links to prices and instant ordering.

But fashion magazines are stronger than ever because possession of Vogue makes a statement about the women carrying it.

Online fashion websites like ASOS and Preta-porter have launched printed magazines because of this phenomenon.

The doomsayers who predicted the same fate for catalogues have also been thwarted by human nature. We like to browse a catalogue or holiday brochure. They spark our imagination in a way that digital fails to do. And retailers that either exist only online or else which dropped their print catalogues are returning to print to remind customers to visit their websites to complete a purchase.

If online shopping is going to grow, (though it remains only a relatively small share of consumer spending even in the industrialised countries) more and more print is going to be needed.

But it is not going to be the same sort of print as of old. Why send someone who always takes a vacation in Mexico details of holidays in Canada for example? Instead the holiday company, with the help of the printer, can tailor a brochure that features the best hotels and resorts in Mexico. It will be a smaller publication with a shorter production run, but production standards can be higher in terms of print, paper and personalisation.

The printer must be ready to deliver this to his customers. It means investment in technology that can cope with shorter print runs. It means the ability to print on uncoated papers which are popular because of their tactile qualities, and this can be addressed through the new UV technologies that are spreading through the industry. It means being able to enhance the printed product using varnish, foils, raised print effects, die cutting and other processes that enhance the value of the printed product and make it more exciting and engaging to the consumer.

This can involve the inclusion of printed electronic circuitry to turn a printed page in a book or magazine into a loudspeaker to tell

“Large trade fairs, such as drupa, offer good chances to find out more about new technologies and future-focused business models and the appropriate path for a company.” says Claus Bolza-Schünemann. a story, the dashboard of a car which comes alive when various buttons and switches are activated, a printed label which can light up when a sensor detects movement.

Embedded codes within the printed page are scannable by smartphones to unlock digital information for the consumer, perhaps an offer to be redeemed in a certain store or restaurant, while providing the company making the offer with information about who has scanned the code, where and when. The printed poster or advertisement acquires a measurable value because it proved to be relevant to that consumer at that time.

Marketing innovation The sorts of high quality print and finishing effects that sell the premium bottles of spirits are finding their way to other types of packaging, especially as the movement for artisan produced goods gathers pace. While overall volumes are small, the value of the printed pack is that much more important.

And the printer can have far more influence on the quality than the company working for global brands with extensive product marketing teams forcing printers to toe the line.

However, even these global companies must become more flexible in order to match society’s craving for innovation and novelty. It means that printed packaging becomes a major marketing tool, consider the impact that Share a Coke has had for example. The printer must be able to help cut the time to market for new products, either through automated workflows or perhaps by also taking on prototype creation using 3D printing technology.

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There is room too for using the new inkjet technologies by printing directly to the bottle or package itself, what is called direct to shape printing. The printing system becomes part of the bottling or packing line and rather than printing and delivering labels, the print company’s task becomes managing this new technology and establishing a new workflow.

It is going to require a whole new approach to marketing what a printer is and can do, and this is very much unknown territory for many print service providers. The exceptions are the online printers that have grown rapidly in recent years, sweeping away swathes of small print businesses as they have done so. But even these rarely lead on price; they are selling convenience and ease of access and that is down to constant marketing and sponsorship to raise brand awareness.

Increasing the value Printers should focus on benefits such as personal service, same day printing, wide choice of substrates, design, fulfilment and so on. Even this requires marketing skills that need to be developed.

The answer will be different depending on the printing company says Claus BolzaSchünemann: “Every printing house knows its customers and its strengths best.

Therefore, it is of little help to simply copy the recipe for success of others. If every company offered the same this would automatically lead to over abundance in the market with the familiar consequences.”

Alon Bar-Shany, Vice President and General Manager of HP Indigo, agrees: “There is pressure to commoditise, options for lower quality and lower pricing, but that would spell disaster for the industry. The opportunity is for less pages but higher value ones.”

Printing will remain at the heart of it, but printers must become like project managers, shepherding the different aspects of the communication chain to achieve the result that the customers want, reaching a measurable return on investment. The focus on reducing overheads in the end to end supply chain has already transformed how books are printed and distributed; digital printing is starting to eat into packaging for the same reason. It is not the cost of producing an individual carton or label that is important, it is the overall cost of wasted materials and time in the supply chain that

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“Printers need first to acknowledge change and then embrace it. The industry needs to evangelise the inherent beauty and effectiveness of print in a digital world.” says Alon Bar-Shany. is important. Printers need to expand their thinking beyond the creation of the box.

For those companies that can do this, that become engaged with their customers and work together to find solutions that embrace print at some level, the future is bright.

Print is no longer the dumb sheet of paper that is recycled in moments. The smart printers are discovering this. Value now is a function not of scarcity but of relevance.

Executive summary drupa 2016 like all drupa exhibitions before it, will be a marker in the sand for the printing industry. Large trade fairs such as drupa offer the best chances to find out about new technologies and future focused business models. Never before has this been so important. The radical changes brought about by the internet, global demographics and macroeconomics are forcing printers to reassess company performance and review marketing based business models, database management, MIS systems, online communications and above all IT education.

There are now fewer print companies surviving, many swept away by online printers offering convenience and ease of access. The remaining print companies have to acknowledge change and embrace it. The successful printers of the future will have to become more like project managers

and bring added value to a mix of services.

The key to making print a successful communications medium in the next decade is already clear – Print has to be relevant!

Print for newspapers will live on but will become more relevant to the reader with hyper local sections, printed digitally with targeted advertising. Short run, high quality holiday brochures and catalogues will also survive as personalisation and tactility using varnishes and foils meets consumer demand. Fashion magazine publishers have turned back to print as they witness a phenomenal trend and desire by the consumer for hard copy which gives them an identity statement. We are also seeing the uptake of printed electronic circuitry and embedded codes which opens up a world of possibilities for packaging and label printers and brand owners to market their products.

The connection between print, online and mobile activities will grow stronger but the industry needs to evangelise the inherent beauty and effectiveness of print in a digital world and deliver a more rounded service offering which extends well beyond printing and finishing. As Alon Bar-Shany Vice President at HP Indigo says, “Print can still create emotions and print lasts, preserving moments and memories”.

About the Author Gareth Ward has been writing about print ever since. Today he edits and publishes Print Business both as a magazine and website. Gareth is also a popular speaker and moderator at industry events around the world, and writes guest columns for magazines and blogs.

Nutech acquires Baba Barkha Nath Printers Baba Barkha Nath Printers is not part of Nutech Print Services. Delhi-based Nutech Print Services has acquired Baba Barkha Nath Printers. Timmy Kuthiala, former MD of Baba Barkha Nath Printers is the new VP, Operations at Nutech Print Services.

Operating out of five plants, the Nutech Group is one of the top print services providers in India. With a battery of sophisticated machines and highly trained manpower, it is geared to handle highly specialised jobs, be it book printing, packaging or security printing.

ISO Certified with a four decade legacy, Nutech offers pre-press, press and finishing facilities to the publishing industry & commercial jobs to corporates.

Baba Barkha Nath Printers was founded in 1978 as a prepress unit with one of the first phototypesetting machines in India. Today it is catering to the publishers and exporters and serving clients in the Post-press for both paper-back and hard-case books. Following the acquisition, the company’s corporate office will be located at Okhla, New Delhi.

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Hand in hand: HEPACK with Heidelberg HEPACK druck+verpackung GmbH reorganizes production with Heidelberg.

Neuenstein-based HEPACK druck+verpackung GmbH (HEPACK) has invested around euro 12 million in overhauling its entire production and logistics operations. The construction work created an additional 5,000 square meters of space and the flow of goods was completely redesigned based on the lean principle. Production is now organized efficiently with two new large, format 6 presses from Heidelberg, a folding carton gluing machine, and three die cutters in a fully integrated Prinect workflow – a solution that is unique within the industry. In the first five months of the year, this resulted in a 10 percent increase in throughput despite the ongoing construction and installation work.

Around 80 percent of HEPACK’s production is accounted for by food and confectionery manufacturers with production sites in Germany and neighbouring countries, and approximately a fifth of its contracts fall under the general packaging segment. Its customers include companies such as Unilever, Dr. Oetker, and Südsalz.

In addition to requesting production that is appropriate to use with foodstuffs, customers are

making increasing demands when it comes to finishing the products. This includes a growing number of foil finishes, with gold foil particularly popular for confectionery packaging. The proportion of spot coatings with UV varnish is also growing.

Integration via Heidelberg workflow proved decisive “We opted for Heidelberg because the Prinect workflow and the ability to link it to our ERP system was the only way to take the complete integration of our redesigned production to a new level of performance,” says Peter Heim, Managing Director and owner of HEPACK. The link with the ERP system ensures that all the relevant data is accessible centrally at all times and can be used to further optimize processes.

The decision to opt for the two Speedmaster XL 1456+L presses from Heidelberg was based primarily on their high level of automation and a throughput of up to 18,000 sheets per hour. The presses’ mechanical stability and smooth running were also very much in their favour. What’s more, one of the two presses is equipped with a hybrid coating unit so it can

The decision to opt for the two Speedmaster XL 145-6+L presses from Heidelberg was based primarily on their high level of automation and a throughput of up to 18,000 sheets per hour.

Key Notes : > Total investment of euro 12 million. > Productivity up 10 percent even during the construction phase. > Production – new equipment, workflow, and services from a single source.

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The new hall provides plenty of space for the two new large-format presses from Heidelberg.

produce UV coatings, too. “When printing in large volumes, consistently high speed, availability, and quality are the most crucial factors. Thanks to the Prinect Inpress Control inline measuring and control system, we can control print quality at any press speed, thus saving time and boosting productivity.�

Heim has also worked with Heidelberg to address logistical processes within the company. The two presses were integrated into an automated pallet supply process, thus increasing efficiency, ensuring seamless workflows, and relieving the pressure on staff.

The final elements in this investment package were a Diana X115 folding carton gluing machine and three Dymatrix 145 die cutters.

Sustainability through intelligent ideas

Peter Heim, Managing Director and owner of HEPACK druck+verpackung GmbH, has completely reorganized production operations in his company.

By working with Heidelberg to redesign and restructure its production operations, HEPACK has also done much to optimize the energy balance of its folding carton production. An idea proposed by Heidelberg

made it possible to implement the concept of using waste heat from the presses and additional warm air from a wood-chip heating system and a cogeneration plant to preheat the process air for drying the print sheets. Cardboard is delivered to HEPACK on single-use wooden pallets, with a throughput of around 28,000 metric tons annually. The pallets are now processed to make wood chips for burning, reducing energy consumption in the print area by approximately 30 percent. The additional gas cogeneration plant also heats the production hall in winter. The technical outlay and installation of the wood-chip system pays dividends for the environment on a daily basis, with HEPACK saving around 100 kW per operating hour and press.

ContiTech brings something new to the market The company has developed new printing blanket made of glass beads

ContiTech has brought something new to the market for printing securities, high-quality film embossing (hot film/cold film) and sheet-fed printing – an enhanced printing blanket with a cover layer made of tiny glass beads. The Black Pearl glass bead printing blanket is extremely resilient and durable, as well as antistatic and ISEGA-certified. It is manufactured at ContiTech Elastomer Coatings in Northeim and is sold via ContiTech sales to printing shops all over the world – with fast, reliable, and straightforward service.

It was the first ever visit of any Indian Printers delegation to Australia.

During meeting with GAMAA leaders, Indian delegates discussed for the supply of machinery and equipment and discussed the possibilities of joint ventures.

Key Notes : > Suitable for security printing, high-quality film embossing (hot film/cold film), sheetfed printing. > Free of pollutants and non-hazardous to health according to ISEGA certificate. > Guarantees a smooth printing process and minimum downtimes.

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Whether it is hologram films for bank notes and certificates or embossed foils for high-quality Swiss chocolate: Instead of using printing ink in the hot embossing process, a thin plastic film is applied to the printing stock by means of pressure and heat.

The printing blanket plays a crucial role in this. On the one hand, it must have an ink-repellent surface so that no printing ink is smeared on the printed sheet or other guide elements of the machine. On the other hand, the printing blanket must withstand enormous press forces of up to 60 tons and therefore requires very high mechanical stability.

Firmly anchored: 7,000 glass beads per square centimetre In this small, yet extremely fine, niche market, ContiTech is the only manufacturer worldwide that can produce a precision printing blanket of this quality class. “Glass is antistatic and is also a material with a very high surface hardness. This makes glass the number one material for this special field of application,” explains Area Manager Michael Simm, responsible at ContiTech for the distribution of the new product. The secret lies in the extremely fine, uniform coating. Roughly 7,000 ultra-fine glass beads per square centimeter are anchored in the cover layer – each with the same exact diameter. The key is the completely uniform distribution of the glass beads and their special anchoring in the base.

Extremely fine, uniform coating: Roughly 7,000 ultra-fine glass beads per square centimeter are anchored in the cover layer – each with the same exact diameter.

to ensure they meet food law requirements. As a result, Black Pearl has been awarded with the ISEGA certificate, which verifies that it is free of pollutants and non-hazardous to health.

“We ensure the dependability of our precision printing blanket in strict quality controls. The blanket is assembled in our in-house format center or at one of our partners,” explains Simm, who puts the advantages of the blanket in a nutshell: “The Black Pearl guarantees a smooth hot or cold foil embossing process, and its high durability ensures minimum downtimes.”

Product information: The Black Pearl printing blanket is available in three thicknesses: 1.85 mm on 30 m roll 0.80 mm on 60 m roll 0.65 mm on 60 m roll Available in three widths: 870 mm 1060 mm 1440 mm

ISEGA-certified: free of pollutants and non-hazardous to health Black Pearl is resistant not only to enormous embossing pressure but also to temperatures of up to 160 °C as well as all printing chemicals, benzine, acetone, and oil. And because packaging is a particularly sensitive issue in the foodstuffs industry, ContiTech has all printing blankets for the packaging industry inspected by an independent testing institute Guarantees a smooth printing process and minimum downtimes: Area Manager Michael Simm introduces the enhanced printing blanket Black Pearl for printing securities, high-quality film embossing (hot film/cold film) and for sheet-fed printing.

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New EFI Fiery products bring the latest DFE Technology to Konica Minolta bizhub PRESS Engines EFI and Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., have announced the launch of three upgraded digital front ends (DFEs) for the Konica Minolta bizhub PRESS C1060, C1070, C71hc, C1085 and C1100 family of digital presses.

The new, version 2.0 EFI Fiery IC-415, IC-308 and IC-310 DFEs give in-plant and commercial print providers exceptional colour management capabilities and an expanded range of automated workflow advantages based on EFI’s most advanced digital print technology, the Fiery FS150 Pro platform. Konica Minolta bizhub PRESS customers can also use the Fiery IC-308 and IC-310 DFEs to extend their workflow even further by integrating with EFI’s industry-leading MIS and web-to-print products.

“KMBS works with best-in-class partners like EFI to ensure our customers have the power, performance and simplicity of operation needed to get the most out of their bizhub PRESS digital print investment,” said Kevin Kern, senior vice president, Marketing, Konica Minolta Business Solutions USA, Inc. “This new upgrade in EFI Fiery DFEs gives our customers some of the most innovative technologies available for advanced, digital printing workflows.”

The three new DFE versions are designed to meet the gamut of users’ low-, mid-and high-volume production needs. Konica Minolta bizhub PRESS C1060/C1070/C1070P/C71hc and bizhub PRO C1060L users can gain better, streamlined performance in light-production environments using new, embedded Fiery IC-415 DFEs. The external EFI Fiery IC-308 DFE drives Konica Minolta bizhub PRESS C1060/C1070/C1070P/C71hc/C1085/ C1100 engines for light- and mid-volume print operations. It also includes support for Adobe® PDF Print Engine 3.0, Adobe’s latest PDF-native rendering platform, and integrates with EFI MIS and web-to-print systems, as well as with third-party prepress workflow solutions such as Agfa :Apogee, Kodak Prinergy and Heidelberg Prinect.

Konica Minolta bizhub PRESS C1085/C1100 users requiring higher-volume production demands can use the Fiery IC-310 DFE, which also supports the Adobe PDF Print Engine 3.0 and integrates with third-party prepress workflows. Plus, the Fiery IC-310 delivers unique Fiery HyperRIP technology that speeds processing of graphic-intensive and variable-data jobs to minimize data spikes and avoid lost production time. HyperRIP processes individual multi-page jobs faster by splitting pages for parallel RIPing, improving performance by up to 55%.

This DFE is ideally suited for variable-data jobs and high-volume production. To streamline operations in those demanding environments, it also comes with time-saving, advanced makeready solutions, including: • •

EFI Fiery Impose and Compose software for streamlined imposition and document preparation EFI Fiery Graphic Arts Package, Premium Edition, a set of

professional color management, proofing and control tools that ensure the job is printed correctly the first time.

The DFEs announced have all the advanced imaging features that made the Fiery platform the first to carry a 100% perfect pass label from VIGC’s PDF RIP Audit. They also include many new performance- and imageenhancing features. As a result, users can have more confidence that their output matches the designer’s intent on the first print.

“Whether it is to produce higher-value, variable-data communications, produce more work per shift, or boost profitability by integrating digital presses in a plant-wide business management workflow, commercial printers and in-plant production operations are seeking every competitive advantage they can get in digital printing,” said John Henze, vice president, Fiery marketing, EFI. “We are helping KMBS customers move ahead in efficiency, capabilities and quality by bringing the EFI Fiery FS150 Pro DFE platform to the bizhub PRESS digital production engines lineup.”

The new Fiery DFEs are available from Konica Minolta and authorized Konica Minolta resellers.

Heidelberg PMC Commercial in Wiesloch-Walldorf marks the start of the run-up to drupa in 2016 New Print Media Center Commercial at Wiesloch-Walldorf site reflects strategic reorientation of Heidelberg with focus on customer benefits.

The transformation in the global printing industry has created new challenges for the entire sector. To meet customers’ current and future requirements and maintain its position as the a reliable partner, Heidelberg has undergone a transformation and reoriented its corporate strategy accordingly.

Heidelberg places the benefits to customers and their success at the center of all its activities.

Over 500 customers from across the world took part in the three days’ celebration marking the opening of the PMC Commercial – covering an area of over 4,700 m2, offering visitors practical demonstrations of integrated print production with a constant focus on customer benefits.

In addition to the traditional main markets of commercial and packaging printing, the product portfolio will also be geared further toward the global market’s future growth segments, especially digital printing, consumables, and services. This approach is now also reflected at the new Print Media Center (PMC) Commercial in Wiesloch-Walldorf and marks the start of the run-up to drupa in 2016.

“The focus is no longer simply on equipment, but far more on the integrated overall process and all the requisite components,” explained Heidelberg CEO Dr. Gerold Linzbach. “The benefits we offer our customers are always our key consideration, because our own success depends on that of our customers,” he added.

The reorientation essentially consists of placing

the core business of sheetfed offset printing on a profitable footing and providing further support in successfully establishing the growth areas of digital printing, services, and consumables on the market.

This new approach is also reflected in a modified brand image.

Over 500 customers came from all over the world for three days of celebrations to mark the opening of the PMC Commercial, which covers an area totalling over 4,700 square meters and offered visitors practical demonstrations of integrated print production with a constant focus on customer benefits. The centerpiece of the PMC Commercial is an innovative presentation platform that uses interactive media to illustrate the aspects of workflow, consumables, and services and highlight their role in the overall process from the customer’s perspective when it comes to delivering high-quality, stable production.

Together with the Print Media Center Packaging, Wiesloch-Walldorf now boasts the industry’s largest demonstration center for commercial and packaging printing anywhere in the world. The PMC Packaging opened in 2008 and covers an area of around 5,400 square meters. It demonstrates expert know-how in folding carton production, surface finishing, and

Key Notes : > Integrated process incorporating digital and offset printing, workflow, consumables, and services. > Combines with Print Media Center Packaging to form world’s largest demonstration center for commercial and packaging printing. > The focus shifting from equipment to integrated overall process and all the requisite components.

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Over 500 customers came from all over the world for three days of celebrations to mark the opening of the Print Media Center Commercial in Wiesloch-Walldorf.

The new Print Media Center Commercial covers an area totaling over 4.700 square meters.

Curtains up and start for the new Print Media Center in Wiesloch-Walldorf: (from left to right) Stephan Plenz, Member of the Board for Equipment; Roland Krapp, Head of Print Media Center and Harald Weimer, Member of the Board for Sales and Services.

all kinds of special applications. A total of 100 employees and 10 trainees work at the two Print Media Centers, conducting almost 1,200 customer-specific demonstrations in 2014. In addition to this, a total of nearly 2,000 visitors attended open house and other events.

The two PMCs form part of the global Print Media Center Network that also serves the American and Asian markets with centers in Kennesaw near Atlanta and Qingpu near Shanghai.

What are the challenges currently facing customers?

It is a well-known fact that print shops are facing ever greater competition. Prices are falling and delivery times are getting ever shorter. Runs are also steadily shrinking,

which means frequent job changes. To ensure their long-term profitability, customers need a comprehensive service offering for effective and reliable production processes, the right equipment representing the best possible investment, and extremely easy access to all the necessary consumables.

With its wide range of digital and offset presses, software modules, services, and consumables for all customer requirements, the Print Media Center Commercial offers highly concrete and practical support in this respect.

In addition to customer demonstrations and events, it also organizes application training for customers and the company’s

own instructors, sales staff, and application consultants. The demonstrations and events are aimed equally at customers making an actual investment and those looking for new ideas for business models who are keen to obtain an overview of future trends.

The regular Heidelberg Info Days cover every facet of activities – from digital, packaging, and UV printing to cost-efficient short-run production and the use of surface finishing to stand out from the competition. Heidelberg Open Days are held on the third Thursday of every month and provide customers with an overview of the latest solutions without them having to register in advance.

Visitors experiences practical demonstrations of integrated print production with a constant focus on customer benefits in the new Print Media Center Commercial.

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Practical demonstration of customer benefits The new Print Media Center Commercial devotes a great deal of space to ways in which customers can tackle their day-today challenges, including a comprehensive range of services that keep customers’ options open and are available 24/7. Remote Services, for example, can identify faults before they cause a production stoppage.

This has the benefit of maximizing customers’ production availability. Performance Services give customers access to the comprehensive expert knowledge of Heidelberg, enabling them to boost the overall efficiency of their production operations with the help of a tailored package. Heidelberg underlines its partner role by measuring the costs to the customer against the improvements achieved in practice.

The digital and offset presses on show support customers’ existing and future business models. In digital printing, Heidelberg is increasingly working with partners so as to give customers access to market-leading technologies while also being quick to offer innovative solutions.

Examples include entry-level solutions for commercial printing based on Ricoh toner technology, and Fujifilm’s inkjet technology for industrial-scale digital printing in the label and packaging market. In the case of offset presses, all the necessary dryer technologies and their specific applications are covered. In addition to conventional and UV drying, some presses are also equipped with energy-saving LED or LE UV dryers to support the widest possible range of surface finishes.

All equipment benefits from automated processes and extremely straightforward operation. No matter how many different operators are used, this ensures consistently high quality and production outputs.

Postpress equipment for cutting and folding puts the finishing touches to print products. This equipment can also be integrated into the Prinect workflow if required by the customer and, for example, adopt presetting data from the prepress and press stages

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along with operating data for an accurate costing.

The digital inkjet press for multidimensional printing is a highlight of the new PMC and just one example of the new business models available. It enables customized lettering and logos to be printed on three-dimensional items. This example from Heidelberg is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the new possibilities on offer. Technology is moving beyond the two-dimensional printing of flat materials that has been the norm over the past centuries.

It goes without saying that having the right consumables at the right time and in the right place is vital for customers. They can benefit from the wide-ranging application know-how of Heidelberg experts to obtain the appropriate consumables for their specific needs. The best available materials are approved in advance to give customers a comprehensive portfolio from a single source. Naturally, these materials are also available to order online to make life easy.

In the future, e-commerce will lead to the further expansion of the digital marketplace, including a chatroom as a platform for dialog with Heidelberg experts.

Technical equipment at the Print Media Center Commercial in Wiesloch-Walldorf • •

Prepress: Suprasetter A 75 DTL and Suprasetter 106 DCL Digital: 2 x Linoprint CV, Linoprint CP and Jetmaster Dimension

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Offset: Speedmaster SX 52-5-P+L with LE UV, Speedmaster SM 74-2+P, Speedmaster SX 74-5+L with LE UV, Speedmaster XL 75-6+L Anicolor, Speedmaster XL 75-5+L, Speedmaster CX 102-6+L, Speedmaster SX 102-8+P+L with LE UV and LED UV, Speedmaster XL 106-8+P and Speedmaster XL 106-6+L Postpress: Stahlfolder CH 56 and Stahlfolder CH 78 folding machines, Stahlfolder BH 56 folding machine, Stahlfolder TX 96 and Stahlfolder KH 82 folding machines, POLAR 56 ECO cutter, POLAR PACE System 200 (137) cutter, POLAR Cutting System Pro 200 (137).

Prinect workflow Consumables: Saphira, Saphira Eco and Saphira Starter Kit Services: Heidelberg Systemservice, Remote Services and Performance Services

For additional details about the company and image material, please visit the Press Lounge of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG at www. heidelberg.com.

Further information: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG Global Marketing & Communications Hilde Weisser Phone: +49 (0)6221 92-5066 Fax: +49 (0)6221 92-5069 E-mail: hilde.weisser@heidelberg.com

The centerpiece of the Print Media Center Commercial is an innovative presentation platform that uses interactive media to illustrate the aspects of workflow, consumables, and services and highlight their role in the overall printing process.

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Enfocus announces partnership with e-Cervo Enfocus has announced a technology partnership with e-Cervo. With this agreement, e-Cervo now includes PitStop as an embedded component of CervoPrint, its flagship web-to-print solution. Available as an option in its current version CervoPrint Gen4, PitStop will be included as a standard functionality in the upcoming new CervoPrint generation that is to be released in the last semester of 2015.

CervoPrint is a total solution that controls the printing jobs and the production management. CervoPrint meets the needs of companies that are eager to optimize the management of an integrated publishing center and of print service providers who wish to facilitate the relationship between their professionals and their current customers. CervoPrint is also available as a SaaS (Software as a Service) solution

through My-printshop.net and as a white label.

“A few years ago, converting source files to a PDF format was a problematic issue, whether being created by the print buyer, due to applications used within the printshop or generated within a web-to-print solution”.

Jean-Marc Goldstein, director of e-Cervo, recalls “Creating a PDF is now trivial even for a novice user. CervoPrint offers off-the-shelf online conversion solutions that allow endusers to easily create and share PDF files”.

One of the ongoing production problems for the CRD or for the external provider is the quality of the submitted PDF. By integrating Enfocus PitStop in our CervoPrint workflow, we bring a reliable answer that guarantees the exchanges between the client and the service provider.”

“Print buyers submitting jobs through a web-to-print solution expect fast delivery of the final product and often in the highest possible quality”, adds Angelo Manno, Global OEM & Strategic Accounts Manager.

“To avoid any costly production stops or print re-runs, it is therefore important that PDF files are created correctly so that the quality of the end product can be guaranteed. For this reason, e-Cervo has chosen to integrate our industry leading PitStop PDF preflight and correction solution in CervoPrint. Users now have the assurance that the PDF files that they receive from their print buyer through the web-upload in CervoPrint are automatically checked at the beginning of the workflow and before the files enter into the prepress.

For maximum productivity, users can also choose to have PitStop automatically correct the issues to avoid any stop in the workflow so they can meet the expected delivery time and quality.”

PrintWeek India announces seventh edition of PrintWeek India Awards PrintWeek India, the magazine published

by Haymarket Media India, has announced the seventh edition Awards show, PrintWeek India Awards 2015.

The 2014 edition saw 122 print companies submit 1,280+ samples through 320 entries.

These samples were judged by a 46-member jury.

“The PrintWeek India Awards is not just an award show, it’s our way of increasing awareness of the print industry among the community which buys and consumes print,” says Suresh Ramakrishnan, publisher at Haymarket Media India.

“The last edition was a great success, and we expect this one to be even bigger and better,” he adds.

The entries will be open to all Indian print companies for jobs printed from 1 April, 2014 onwards. The awards are categorised as the Performance Awards (six categories) and the Quality Awards (20 categories).

Early bird deadline is 18 July and Final entry deadline is 31 July. Early Bird Entry Fee is Rs 2000 per entry and Regular Entry Fee is Rs 2500 Per Entry

Award Categories The Performance Awards: 1. PrintWeek India Printing Company of the Year 2. Green Printing Company of the Year 3. Post-Press Company of the Year 4. Pre-Press Company of the Year 5. SME Printing Company of the Year 6. Student of the Year

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PUR-Book Maker of the Year Screen Printer of the Year Social Stationery Printer of the Year Wide-Format Printer of the Year

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Green Printing Company the Year – ITC PaperBoards & Specialty Papers Division (ITC PSPD) 2. Post-Press Company of the Year – Welbound Technical Services 3. Book Printer of the Year (Specialty) – Welbound Worldwide 4. Book Printer of the Year (Academic & Trade) – Welbound Worldwide 5. Fine Art Printer of the Year – Sona Commercial 6. Brochure & Catalogue Printer of the Year – Advanced Graphic Systems (AGS) 7. Innovative Printer of the Year – Advanced Graphic Systems (AGS) 8. Label Printer of the Year – Epson 9. Packaging Converter of the Year (General) – Pidilite 10. PUR-Book Maker of the Year – Henkel

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Heidelberg assumes new strategic alignment For future growth, the company invests in services, consumables, and digital printing.

Heidelberg largely completed the Group’s strategic reorientation in financial year 2014/2015. The focus during this process was on realigning the Group’s portfolio toward profitable areas of business and growth sectors. The corporate structures have also been adapted to dynamic changes in markets. This has had a further significant impact on sales and results and has provided the basis for profitable growth.

“We’ve made Heidelberg fit for the future,” said Gerold Linzbach, CEO of the company. “The reorientation will enable Heidelberg to enjoy sustained profitable growth in the future.”

“We’ve made Heidelberg fit for the future. The reorientation will enable Heidelberg to enjoy sustained profitable growth in the future.”

- Gerold Linzbach, CEO, Heidelberg.

Key Notes : > Operating margin (EBITDA margin excluding special effects) slightly higher despite comprehensive portfolio optimization. > Low leverage (<2) and long-term financing framework lay the foundations for further strategic reorientation. > Outlook for 2015/2016: Sales increase of 2 to 4 percent forecast, with target EBITDA margin of at least 8 percent.

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Heidelberg expects future growth to be generated primarily in the services and digital sectors.

Heidelberg continued to strengthen the services sector in the past financial year through acquisitions (BluePrint Products, Printing Systems Group, Fujifilm Sverige). The newly acquired companies are expected to generate sales of over euro 100 million from the current financial year 2015/2016 onward. The Heidelberg Group’s position in the growth segment of digital printing was also strengthened with the complete takeover of Neo7even and the Gallus Group and the launch of a digital label printing machine.

It aims to further improve profitability. The reorientation of unprofitable activities such as those in postpress, is expected to improve the result by approximately euro 30 million in the future. The structures for offset printing have also been adapted

to the market environment, thus enabling Heidelberg to respond more flexibly to market fluctuations and achieve cost savings in the low double-digit million euro range.

“From the current financial year onward, we expect to consistently achieve clearly positive net results,” added Linzbach.

2014/2015: Operating margin (EBITDA margin excluding special effects) slightly higher despite portfolio optimization Sales in the 2014/2015 financial year were euro 2.33 billion (previous year: euro 2.43 billion). The decline of around 4 percent was due to portfolio optimization, the associated sales of parts of the company, and the effects of the general slowdown in growth in China.

Heidelberg, however, reached its target of achieving higher operating profitability than in the previous year.

The operating margin was slightly up on the previous year on a comparable basis due to cost savings.

Net special effects of around euro 50 million, largely from reorganizing the company pension scheme in Germany, led to an improvement in EBITDA excluding special items to euro 188 million in the year under review (previous year: euro 143 million). At euro 119 million, EBIT excluding special items was thus also well above the figure for the previous year (euro 72 million). There were special items of euro -99 million for portfolio and restructuring measures in the period under review.

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Due to non-recurring expenses of around euro 25 million resulting from financing activities, the financial result was euro -96 million. Pressure on the financial result will ease significantly in the future due to lower interest payments for the new financing instruments. The net result after taxes was negative at euro -72 million (previous year: euro 4 million).

Equity was euro 183 million at March 31, 2015 (previous year: euro 359 million). A key reason for this decline was the rise in pension provisions due to the significant lowering of the discount rate for pensions in Germany from 3.50 percent in the previous year to 1.70 percent on the balance sheet date. In the year under review, the decline in equity was partially compensated by the reorganization of the company pension scheme in Germany, which was changed from a previously defined benefit plan to a defined contribution plan. The medium-term goal is to increase the equity ratio again by returning to sustained profitability.

and other instruments such as convertible bonds. The net debt of euro 256 million is covered by basic funding until 2022.

Heidelberg currently has total credit facilities of around euro 750 million.

Outlook for 2015/2016: Sales increase of 2 to 4 percent forecast, with target EBITDA margin of at least 8 percent For the current 2015/2016 financial year and in the medium term, Heidelberg is striving for annual sales growth of 2 to 4 percent.

As in the previous year, the share of sales is expected to be higher in the second half of the financial year than in the first half.

Assuming that the initiatives to increase margins and optimize the portfolio take effect in the current financial year, the company is anticipating an operating margin on EBITDA of at least 8 percent of sales in the 2015/2016 financial year. The Heidelberg Equipment segment is expected to contribute within

a range of 4 – 6 percent to this result and the Heidelberg Services segment 9 – 11 percent. In the Heidelberg Financial Services segment, the company will continue to primarily externalize customer financing.

The segment should continue to provide a positive EBITDA contribution.

The planned earnings improvements together with the measures aimed at the reduction and efficient utilization of the company’s capital commitment are intended to strengthen the capital structure and keep the net debt at a low level that sustainably does not exceed twice the result of operating activities before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization excluding special items (EBITDA) (leverage).

As at March 31, 2015, the Heidelberg Group had a global workforce of 11,951 plus 427 trainees (previous year: 12,539 plus 502 trainees).

Low leverage (<2) and long-term financing framework lay the foundation for further strategic reorientation Free cash flow was euro -17 million in the year under review (previous year: euro 22 million). This included one-time payments for the Focus efficiency program of around euro 45 million. Active asset and net working capital management led to stable net debt at a low level of euro 256 million (previous year: euro 238 million). Leverage was further reduced due to the accompanying improvement in operating profitability. The ratio of net debt to EBITDA was below the target level of 2, if the non-recurring positive effects are included, the figure was 1.4 (previous year: 1.7).

“Heidelberg has a stable financial footing.

With three pillars, the financing structure is now well balanced and basic funding is assured until 2022,” said Dirk Kaliebe, CFO at Heidelberg. “This long-term financing framework provides a solid foundation for a further strategic realignment of the company.”

During the year under review, the financing structure was optimized further. The financing portfolio consists of three pillars comprising corporate bonds, a syndicated credit line,

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The visit of Indian Delegation to Printex 15 Visit to PRINTEX 15, held at Sydney (Australia) was supported by the Government of India, Ministry of MSME under I/C scheme.

Organised by the Printing Industries Association of Australia (PIAA) and Graphic Arts Merchants Association of Australia (GAMAA), PRINTEX is the biggest print exhibition in Australia. The market for print is open in Australia and the Indian printer has the opportunity for the outsourced printing and packaging work from Australia. The country is one of the largest importers of printed boxes and books.

The printing industry is the fourth largest manufacturing industry in Australia and the third largest manufacturing industry and employer worldwide. One of the key factors driving competition is the number of competitors and the size of the industry. In Australia, printing and related industries (excluding pulp and paper manufacturing) are comprised of approximately 3,800 firms, employing more than 104,000 people.

It was the first ever visit of any Indian Printers delegation to Australia.

During meeting with GAMAA leaders, Indian delegates discussed for the supply of machinery and equipment and discussed the possibilities of joint ventures.

The printing industry within Queensland is very developed and competitive. It is predominantly populated by small to medium sized firms with only a few large operators. Consistent with the Australian market, the Queensland printing industry comprises firms that provide a complete in-house production service incorporating printing and binding functions, whilst other firms may specialise in certain types of printing and contract out other work including the binding function to specialist organisations.

The printing industry has undergone significant change with advancements in technology and

the integration of printing equipment, graphic arts technical skills and revolutionised production processes. Technological innovation has virtually reinvented the printing industry. The pace of innovation is the biggest challenge facing the printing industry. Companies must continually reinvest in new computer-based hardware and software as last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s technology becomes obsolete. They also identified that several craft-based skills and equipment have been rendered obsolete. New processes and new equipment are being introduced continually requiring continuous training and retraining of highly qualified people.

The Printing industry has been hit hard over the past five years, as consumers have increasingly received information via online platforms rather than via printed materials. This trend has led to a decline in demand for the services of professional printers. Online media continues to encroach into the domain of book, newspaper, magazine and directory publishers. As digital technology has progressed, the printed word has proven slow to produce and costly to distribute.

Consumers and businesses have increasingly traded and conducted business online without using printed materials. As a result, industry revenue is estimated to fall at a compound annual rate of 5.2% over the five years through 2014-15. Revenue is forecast to drop by 4.6% in 2014-15 and the profit margins are decreasing. The other noteworthy fact of Australian printing industry is the printing industry is transitioning to print management by providing

Key Notes : > Australian Printing Industry offers huge business opportunities. > Australian printing and related industries are comprised of approximately 3,800 firms, employing more than 104,000 people. > Printex15 was a part of the transformation, a convergence of innovation and new technology.

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Visit to PRINTEX 15, held at Sydney (Australia) was supported by the Government of India, Ministry of MSME under I/C scheme.

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have extended the Printex ‘experience’ and provided a welcome chance to catch up with colleagues and friends from around the industry.

Indian delegation’s visit The main aim of the Indian Delegation’s visit was to learn the latest technologies and to notice the latest innovations. At the same time delegates also met the machinery dealers, used printing machinery suppliers and the printers of Australia to explore the possibilities of joint collaborations and to assess the opportunities of executing their printing and packaging work on job basis.

Few Glimpse of the Printex15 at Sydney, Australia

a holistic document lifecycle service. Print managers are undertaking this role for customers, enabling customers to focus on core business. In undertaking this role print managers are finding process, equipment and material savings for customers.

Some facts and figures of the Australian printing and packaging industry are – traditional print products are being complemented by digital products, often CD/DVD and Internet based, creating new markets and changing traditional print business models. Shorter print runs, document customisation, data and knowledge management and faster print turnaround are features of this emerging industry. The industry which is one of the largest manufacturing sectors in Australia has also strong service features making it a hybrid industry. It is in many ways a truly national industry with a physical presence in every region and electorate of Australia.

Official employment data tends to underestimate the size of the industry as thousands of people are employed in printing and associated activities outside the traditional segments of the industry. The 2006 Census for instance showed that more than 27,000 were employed in printing specific occupations outside traditional printing industry classifications. Small to medium businesses dominate the industry with more than 85.0 per cent employing less than 20 people; and only 4 per cent employing more than 100 people.

Printex 15 PrintEx15 has surpassed expectations and succeeded in its two most important

aims – to provide a showcase of the very latest innovations in the print and graphic communications industry and a successful environment in which to conduct business. Importantly, it also lived up to its aim to provide the ideas, information and resources required at a pivotal time for the industry. Organisers report that pre-audited attendance numbers show that PrintEx and the co-located Visual Impact exhibition attracted over 6000 visits from industry professionals at its new home at Sydney Showground, Sydney Olympic Park.

Around 7% of PrintEx15 visitors came from overseas destinations. Visitors have been delighted with the value offered at the show, providing very positive feedback not only on the quality displays, range of products and enthusiasm of the 100-plus suppliers on display, but also of the ideas and inspiration which have been provided during their visit. They were also very appreciative of the associated activities, particularly the comprehensive PrintEx Forums program, which concluded today with sessions looking at meeting the industry’s future challenges, energy efficient supply, and building capital through social investment, as well as several presentations from vendors providing information about specific systems and technologies.

The major difference of Australian printing especially packaging industry came to notice is that printers of Australia are concentrating to the small run digital jobs. The jobs with large quantities and where extensive labour is required are being outsourced mainly to China. It was the first ever visit of any Indian Printers delegation to Australia and during this visit to Australia it was possible to know and understand their system of working. During meeting with GAMAA leaders delegates discussed for the supply of machinery and equipment and discussed the possibilities of joint ventures. It is worth mentioning that taking the competence of Indian market, manufacturers of Australia are interested to invest in India and enquired about the ‘Make in India’ project.

Printex15 was a part of the transformation, a convergence of innovation and new technology that has shed its traditional skin and is re-casting itself to educate and demonstrate opportunities for our business future. There is need to look, listen and learn and be able to transition our own thinking.

There was an enormous sense of excitement in realising the cast array of equipment and technology options available to help producing high quality in competitive rates.

There were cost effective and innovative products available to create exciting communication solutions.

Apart from gathering all the latest and most innovative technology under one roof, PrintEx15 also provided the opportunity to meet with suppliers and peers and we have seen this borne out not only on the exhibition floor, but also at a host of functions which Memento being presented to Mr. Mitchell J Mulligan, President GAMMA and Mr. David Leach, President PIAA

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Adobe Stock launches worldwide

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Integration into Creative Cloud gives Adobe the edge in $3 billion global stock image market Adobe has launched Adobe Stock, the industry’s first stock content service to be integrated directly into the content creation process and the tools creatives use every day. Available through Adobe Creative Cloud, this new service radically simplifies buying and using stock content, including photos, illustrations and graphics.

“Adobe Stock extends Creative Cloud’s value as a vibrant global marketplace,” said David Wadhwani, senior vice president, Digital Media, Adobe. “Eighty-five percent of customers who purchase stock images use Adobe creative tools. The deep integration with our latest Creative Cloud desktop apps, including Photoshop and InDesign, makes buying and using stock photos incredibly easy. At the same time, our customers – the best photographers and designers on the planet – will have the opportunity to contribute millions of new photos and images to Adobe Stock. This is really going to raise the bar in the world of stock content.”

Adobe Stock, a curated collection of 40 million-and-growing high-quality images, is deeply integrated into the latest releases of Photoshop CC, InDesign CC, Illustrator CC, Premiere Pro CC and After Effects CC. Designers can launch Adobe Stock directly within CC desktop software, add watermarked images to their Creative Cloud Libraries, and then access and work with images across multiple desktop tools. When creatives are ready to license the image for finished work, they can do it directly within the desktop software they are working in. Thanks to Creative Cloud’s signature CreativeSync technology, all edits made on a watermarked image are automatically applied to the newly licensed image, saving hours of potential rework.

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Adobe Stock is also available as a standalone stock service, where designers and marketers who are not yet Creative Cloud members, can download, purchase and sell stock images.

The launch of Adobe Stock shakes up the $3 billion global stock image market, as Adobe customers are active contributors to stock image services and regular purchasers of stock content. An estimated 85 percent of creatives who buy stock content use Adobe tools; and more than 90 percent of stock content sellers use Adobe software in the preparation of their photos and images.

Adobe Stock is based on the acquisition of stock content provider Fotolia, earlier this year.

In addition to utilizing the Adobe Stock service, creatives can contribute work to Adobe Stock, accessing a worldwide community of motivated stock content buyers. Adobe also announced it will offer industry-leading rates to photographers and designers contributing content to Adobe Stock.

Key features of Adobe Stock include: • Easily manage, work with and purchase stock content. Designers can launch Adobe Stock directly within CC desktop software, add watermarked images to Creative Cloud Libraries and then access and work with images across multiple desktop and mobile tools.

When creatives are ready to license the image for finished work, they can do it directly within the CC desktop software application. Designers can also edit a watermarked image in an application like Photoshop CC and, when licensed, these edits are automatically applied to

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the purchased full-resolution image.

High-impact creative content for print, web or mobile app projects. Adobe Stock is an extensive marketplace of over 40 million photos, illustrations and graphics, covering virtually every subject. Whether it’s finding a standout image of a Scottish castle for a tourist brochure; a beach volleyball game for a sports web site; or an illustration of a restaurant menu for a mobile app, Adobe Stock has a huge selection of possibilities. Adobe also plans to add new stock content categories in the coming months, leveraging Adobe customers’ unrivalled reach and experience across creative fields.

Simple and flexible pricing plans.

Flexible purchase options enable creatives and marketers to buy single images, as they need them, or purchase a monthly plan. Saving up to 40 percent, Creative Cloud members get the best value when they add an Adobe Stock annual plan option to their Creative Cloud membership. A first for the stock image industry, creatives who sign up for a 10-images-per-month plan can “rollover” unused images for up to a year (most month-to-month stock subscription plans require creatives to use all images each month or lose them). For customers who are not Creative Cloud members, a standalone Adobe Stock service offers single-image pricing, as well as month-to-month and annual membership plans.

Adobe Stock is available in 36 countries and 13 languages. Pricing for Creative Cloud individual and team customers is $9.99 for a single image; $29.99 per month for 10 images monthly (with rollover of unused images); and $199 per month for 750 images monthly. Separate pricing is available for Adobe Stock customers who are not Creative Cloud members.

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ISO Committee Adopts X-Rite’s CxF format as industry standard X-Rite’s CxF3 becomes an ISO standard that enables seamless, digital communication, an essential component of any colour related workflow.

X-Rite and its subsidiary Pantone have announced that the ISO TC130 committee that sets global standards for the Graphic Arts has adopted the X-Rite Color Exchange Format version 3 (CxF3) as the new standard for colour data exchange and verification.

This standard (ISO 17972-1:2015) provides the graphic arts industry with an accurate, efficient way to communicate colour information across any supply chain.

X-Rite made its technology available to ISO without any restrictions to support and continue to contribute to the industry through this major technical development. X-Rite fully endorses ISO’s goal of harmonizing technical specifications for products and services that make industries more efficient by communicating colour electronically in a global colour supply chain.

The CxF3 format is defined in a completely open way so that all aspects of a colour can be communicated, even when the application and the colour communication features required are unknown. This means that every software vendor implementing and supporting CxF3 is able to easily and accurately extend the information throughout global workflows.

“Physically correct and accurate colour communication is critical to an efficient

workflow in the Graphic Arts,” says Ray Cheydleur, Printing and Imaging Product Portfolio Manager at X-Rite. “X-Rite’s CxF3, and now ISO CxF, ensures an accurate and efficient exchange of digital standards, measurements and metadata.

The publication of this standard provides a framework for sharing colour data at all steps in the workflow – from brand owner through to production. Many companies and products have already benefited from CxF3, and now that it is an ISO standard, many more will benefit in the future.”

“When a company invests in the effort required to define and deploy standards that profit the industry at large, it is a true indicator of market leadership,” adds Francis Lamy, Chief Technology Officer at X-Rite. “CxF is a key enabler to more efficient workflows with less waste, faster turnaround times and streamlined communication of colour information in colour critical workflows.

We are proud to be able to make this contribution to the industry.”

X-Rite established the first version of CxF in 2000. Since then, the company has continued to invest in and improve the specification, using knowledge gained from serving a wide range of markets.

X-Rite also established a website where the CxF3 specification and examples are publicly available for download (http://www. colorexchangeformat.com). This website has facilitated the wide distribution of CxF3 and provided strong support for the creation of the 17972 series and the publication of the earlier ISO standards.

“Printing according to established ISO standards is a benefit for both the print producer and the media buyer,” said Laurel Brunner, Managing Director of Digital Dots Limited. “With the adoption of ISO 17972-1:2015, a new dimension has now been added to standards compliance that will help everyone in the colour workflow more easily produce colour quality within expected tolerances and to make it easier to communicate colour. X-Rite has made a valuable contribution to of the industry by making this important specification available as an open standard.”

Autoprint conducts Affordable ‘Automation in Printing Press’ seminar Autoprint, the Coimbatore based manufacturer and Exporter of Printing and Allied Manufacturer in India, has recently conducted an educative Seminar at Haridwar on 23th May 2015. The Topic was “Affordable Automation in Printing Press”. The seminar was attended by around 35 printers and packaging customers. Mr. Sanjeev Popli of Popli Graphics, New Delhi a leading consumable dealer and representative of Autoprint in Northern India, presented the various coating methods, advantages and disadvantages, latest trends in coating solutions etc. Later Mr.Ramaswamy, Head Marketing – Post Press of Autoprint presented the topic on emerging need for Automation in Print Inspection and introduced the Autoprint Checkmate 50 –

Automatic Carton Inspection system and its salient features to the audience. In the afternoon session, Mr.Rakesh Ravi, Head Marketing – Printing division in Autoprint, presented about the Autoprint Dion 450+ – Four Colour Offset Printing machine and its key benefits to the printers. He impressed upon the visitors about the emerging need for a good quality, affordable Four colour printing machine for short run jobs in the market, which will be exactly matched by Autoprint Dion 450+.

highlighted the benefits and savings on cost by replacing 3-4 manual punching machines with Autoprint Repetto 65 V2 – Automatic Die Cutting machine. The seminar was concluded after brief open discussions on various challenges faced by packaging printers and possible solutions. Autoprint is planning to conduct such educative seminars across India in the coming months to share the knowledge for the benefit of printers.

The concluding presentation was made by Mr.Ramaswamy who highlighted the need of Automation of Die cutting process in view of Operator Safety, Quality Consistency and Delivery on Time to the end customers. He

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Print Expo 2015 Print Expo 2015 recently concluded at Chennai. The event took place from 12th to 14th June. This edition of the show had slightly less enthusiasm than what was seen previously especially the last edition of the show. The June event saw lesser number of stalls compared to the previous show. Visitor footfall also saw a decline this year. However, the quality of visitors improved, according to the exhibitors who were mostly happy with visitors’ profile.

Digital printing dominated the show with Xerox, Canon, Konica Minolta and HP directly participating in the show. Konica Minolta and Monotech were the key sponsors for the show.

Other key participants included LineO-Matic. Insight Communications, Autoprint, Grafica Flextronica and Kapoor Imaging.

A view of Insight Communication stall

Xerox: Converting Challenges into Opportunities Xerox India showcased its advance technological products at the recent Printexpo 2015 in Chennai.

Mr. Balaji Rajagopalan shares with PRESSIdeas readers the latest from the house of Xerox.

Xerox has set up a huge R&D facility in Chennai for hardware development and the XRC (Xerox Research Centre for software development) in Bangalore. This shows the support of the Xerox top management to product development. It also shows Xerox’s concern for customers’ needs in product development in the developing markets.

Key Notes : > Many new product launches in a short span of six months – feature-packed Versant 2100, C-60, C-70, Versant 80 and the recent 1000i. > Xerox R&D – ensuring competitive solutions offering balanced equipment cost and operating expenses. > With the installation base in the southern region being at the top for Xerox, the region’s market contributes more than 30% of its business.

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Balaji Rajagopalan, Executive Director-Technology, Xerox India, sees lot of opportunities in the Indian market. He was speaking with PRESSIdeas at the recently concluded Printexpo 2015 in Chennai.

“Digital revolution is taking place across the globe at a faster pace than before because of the change in behavioural pattern of the customer. Hence now both the manufacturers of the machines and the printers have a better understanding of what the end customer needs,” he says.

“For example, book publishing – it is moving to Print-on-Demand and books are not being printed and stored like in the earlier times. This just in time printing is possible only because of the evolution of

Digital technology. So with the evolution of newer technologies more and more opportunities are coming our way,” he explains.

Xerox has been converting these challenges into opportunities with its advance technological products.

The company launched the Versant 2100 with a tenbit high quality output and many inbuilt inline features.

Subsequently it launched the C-60 and C-70, followed by the Versant 80 and recently the 1000i.

In a space of six months it launched many new products – showing its commitment towards meeting the customer needs.

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R&D balancing the challenge of cost vs. quality It is what the customer wants that Xerox’s R&D gives. “It is the customer who decides how competitive is Xerox both in terms of equipment cost and operating expenses,” emphasizes Balaji.

“Today we are very competitive both in terms of product cost and running cost.

All our products are highly energy efficient compared to the competition. We can very clearly demonstrate this over the competitive products. This is mainly because of our long term commitment of saving energy and making the world more greener,” he adds.

Xerox is among the few companies that have invested heavily in R&D in India. With over 1 lakh square feet of R&D centre in Chennai and a large number of machines installed, a large number of engineers are working at its R&d facility. “R&D for the world wide Xerox network is done here. Products are designed and developed here in constant interaction with customers and Xerox offices across the world. Our FFPS (Free Flow Print Server) is a product developed in this centre for the world. Other than US and UK this is the third centre for Xerox,” explains Balaji.

The FFPS of Xerox is quite different from other Digital Front Ends available. The cost of Xerox FFPS is far lower when compared to nearest competition. Secondly, the newly updated version of FFPS using the Windows platform is very user friendly. Thus, the FFPS scores over the competition in terms of both user friendliness and cost saving.

Product development and customer needs Customer feedback is the main input for product development at Xerox. It is the main reason for having a huge R&D facility. The centre chiefly focuses on customer needs in the developing markets. Xerox also has a concept called SPAR for Problem Resolution and Escalation. The focus of this concept is to escalate any problem to various levels and then it goes to the PDT team, the product development team. All these problems goes to the Directory of Services, so that solutions given for resolving these problems are considered in any new product development.

“The good point is that Level 3 which is the highest level for any problem escalation and resolution, for the entire Xerox network across

the globe, sits in the Chennai R&D centre.

That’s a proud moment for us,” says Balaji.

Xerox has set up a huge R&D facility in Chennai for hardware development and the XRC (Xerox Research Centre for software development) in Bangalore. This shows the support of the Xerox top management to product development. It also shows Xerox’s concern for customers’ needs in product development in the developing markets.

Stock Library and PAR concepts Xerox Stock Library is a unique concept which helps the customer to understand and identify his needs and helps him in identifying the settings required to get the prints done immediately. Another great concept is PAR (Production Accurate Registration) which is a feature introduced in all new products

by Xerox. “The Xerox machine has so much intelligence now to arrange the paper and to do the registration automatically as the paper goes in. It also understands the thickness of the substrate, where it started etc. It does all the things electronically and gives the intelligence to the IOT in such a way that all parameters are synchronized to work with the intelligence of the IOT,” explains Balaji.

Xerox technology has evolved over the years to meet customer needs. Balaji says that the future move would be to embrace a wider gamut of colours to make it equal to Offset and make it more cost effective too. It’s a continuous process.

Xerox 1000i and the compact Rialto The recent member in Xerox family, Xerox 1000i has received good response across markets. The first machine has been sold to a Tamil Nadu customer. “Printers have been waiting for the gold and silver colour printing feature,” says Balaji. It is also the preferred machine for specialized value added printing. Xerox had the machine on display at Printexpo. “The Xerox 1000i that you see here is the latest product for gold and silver colour printing. There are more products coming in future,” reveals Balaji.

“Next year is the year of drupa and there is always some excitement in drupa for every manufacturer. Xerox will also come out with something new,” he declares.

Another fast catching product is Rialto.

Rialto is based on the Inkjet technology. It got introduced in the Xerox portfolio after the acquisition of Implika. Not every printer needs a huge Inkjet Press. Many keep searching for a more compact Inkjet Press.

Rialto is a product developed to address this space. It occupies only 33% space of a normal Inkjet press. It is an All-in-One machine – from the continuous roll input to the finished print output – all in one engine.

Everything is built into one machine. It is used more for high-volume Variable Data Printing applications.

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What makes the C-60 and C-70 different?

“The main difference is the low power consumption, thereby hugely reducing the operating cost,” says Balaji. These machines consume only 40% power of what an equivalent competitive product consumes.

Secondly, for the first time in India, the entry level presses feature mid production machines’ capabilities. So the customers can considerably save on investment cost.

Besides, they give high quality seamless outputs for a wide range of applications.

Xerox in the crowded Digital space The digital space is becoming more and more crowded. However, Xerox continues to excel in the space and find its niche. Balaji is of different opinion though, “Digital is still not the major segment in the Print industry.

There is lot of space available for growth and

the healthy competition will only increase the print volume in the days ahead. It is good for the customer as they will have a wider choice of products to choose from.”

are compact and can do volumes. The other machine is Nuvera. It has been there for years and continues to be a leader in the production printing segment,” he adds.

He sees a lot of promise for existing Digital printers as well as new entrants in the field.

“We have products like C-60 and C-70 for entry level printers. Once they taste success in any of their applications and grow print volumes, they can move up to the next level of machines like the Versant or the 1000i or iGen. Even today the Digital Print market has not saturated and there is enough space for new entrants also,” asserts Balaji.

The southern market and the Printexpo experience

Then there is book printing segment. Digital has transformed the segment. It has reduced the bulk and made delivery times extremely short. For this monochrome segment, Balaji suggests the Mohogany D series presses as the best book printing machines. “They

The southern market is a very important market for Xerox. They have phenomenal number of installations in states like Kerala.

“Our total installation base in the southern region is more than other regions, for all our range of products – from the entry level machines to Versant, iGen and now the 1000i. Overall the southern market contributes more than 30% of our business.”

Xerox has been participating in every edition of the Printexpo show. “There are many of our partners also participating in the show.

All these are bringing in visitors to our stall,” concludes Balaji.

SLKCG focuses Packaging Printing products Jaideep Kulkarni, S.L.Kulkarni Cyril Graphics (SLKCG) found the Printexpo 2015 show as more for Digital Printing. “The exhibition started very slow for us but picked up pace later. “There were less number of visitors interested for Packaging Printing products that we were focusing at the show,” he says.

The southern market is particularly important for Jaideep for the promising Packaging market. “We have not made much inroads here and we are here to create awareness and offer our solutions for the Packaging industry,” he emphasises.

SLKCG markets China made high-end

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packaging machines in the Indian market.

The market is today full of low-priced machines from China. SLKCG is having tough time competing with these low-quality products. “To compete with low priced products is a big challenge. Our strategy is to convince our customers the value and benefits that our products offer them. We are slowly educating our customers the value they derive for their investments,” explains Jaideep.

SLKCG has recently tied up for marketing a Print Inspection Machine. The first machine has already been sold to a customer in

A view of HP stall

Guwahati. “We have received two more orders for the same machine from the same customer,” says Jaideep. The company has also sold a few Die-Cutting machines recently. Last year, they installed around eight gravure machines. “The market for Web Offset Newspaper Printing machines is slow. However, we are currently focusing on the Packaging segment which grows around 15% year on year,” says Jaideep.

He expects the demand for machines with inline processes will rise in near future.

Vaidyalingam of Suba Solutions

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Electromech Industries focuses Casemaking machines “We are focusing on Casemaking machines in this show, since there are not many players in this line,” says Ganapathi Ram, General Manager, Electromech Industries, Coimbatore. “Electromech is already well established in perfect binding and so case making is a logical extension of perfect binding,” he adds.

Electromech is planning to launch an advanced fully automatic Casemaking machine. As compared to the northern and western regions, southern region is not upto expectations in price realization, says Ganapathi. “The southern market is a very important market for us, though a very competitive one,” he says.

Esko presents the value behind its solutions At Printexpo 2015, Esko Graphics focused on two segments – the folding carton segment as well as the commercial printers who want to enter the packaging segment. “For those who are already in the packaging segment we are offering both hardware and software solutions,” says Fredrick John, Sales Account Manager – South, Esko-Graphics India. . On demonstration at its stand was Kongsberg table – a combination of both hardware and software solution – right from the design of a carton to making a mock carton using the table, thus ensuring that the design is fully ready for production. It also offered its Die-cutting solutions to Digital Printers for short-run Die-punching and cutting jobs – capabilities of converting shortrun Digital print jobs into cartons using the Kongsberg table. This eliminates the need for the process of Die and Punch making.

undetected error in the Prepress stage leads to larger wastage in the finishing stage.

software at Printexpo was Version 14 for the folding cartons.

Being head quartered in Bangalore, the Southern market is very important to Esko.

It contributes substantially to the company’s overall business and it sees a huge future potential in the region. “All the three segments that we cater to - Folding carton, corrugated and Flexo, have great growth potential here in south,” says Fredrick.

“We keep understanding customer needs and come out with new products to meet these needs and next year being the Drupa year, we are sure Esko will launch some new products,” reveals Fredrick.

Esko demonstrated the Kongsberg V series cutting table which it launched in India at Mumbai last year. It is one of Esko’s fastest selling products with already 13 installations across the country. The demonstrated

“On demonstration here in our stand is our Kongsberg table – a combination of both hardware and software solution right from the design of a carton to making a mock carton using the table, thus ensuring that the design is fully ready for production,” says Mr.Fredrick John of Esko Graphics.

The key challenge today, according to Fredrick, is to present to the customers the benefits and value behind the offered solutions. The customer is more concerned about the investment and we have to make him weigh the long term values and benefits of the solutions against the investment. “To help them to see this larger picture is our major challenge,” he says. Esko solutions address the key problems faced in the industry today like – minimizing / eliminating errors in the Prepress stage itself to ensure that the file is ready for production at the earliest possible time. Otherwise, any

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Param ERP Solutions For Param ERP Solutions, Indore, Printexpo 2015 was excellent. “It has always been our desire,” says Vinod Nawab, Director, Param ERP Solutions, “to participate in this show, which is one of the biggest in South India.

We are very happy with the visitor foot fall to our stall.”

According to him, South Indian print market is a very mature market and they have always been the first to adopt any new technology.”

The region has the largest share for Param’s ERP solutions than they have in any other region. “This region contributes to over 40% of our overall business. Customers here want dedicated, flexible solutions to meet their specific requirements. They also look forward to continued after sales support,” he says.

The company has permanently stationed a service engineer to offer continued support to its customers there.

Param recently launched a solution for the corrugated industry. The solution has been well accepted by the industry. Through this exhibition participation, Param aimed

to increase awareness of its products and brand and also enhance the confidence of its existing customers.

“We always look into grey areas and understand customer needs and come out with solutions to meet these needs,” says Vinod Nawab.

Konica Minolta has first time direct participation The Printexpo show saw first time direct participation by Konica Minolta Business Solutions. Earlier the company had participated through its channel partner Monotech.

It decided to participate directly this time.

“The market size for digital printers has considerably increased since Konica entered the Indian market,” says Manish Sharma.

“This has been stagnant for the last few years. We hope to increase this market size considerably by entering the market on our own,” he adds.

With no new launches this time, Konica Minolta had two products which it launched last year – the 80 ppm and 100 ppm colour presses. Konica got good response for these machines.

Konica is expected to launch a few products at drupa next year. The southern market contributes over 40% to Konica’s overall business. “It is a very mature and discerning market and offers great growth potential,” says Manish.

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adoption of Digital as one of the mainstream print processes by Printers. And, they are including Digital in their print infrastructure.

With the coming of digital inkjet it will find

applications in packaging as well,” says Manish.

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Autoprint receives good response for Repetto Autoprint displayed its Dion 450 four colour press and Repetto Die Cutting machine at the recently concluded Printexpo 2015. It had been Autoprint’s customers’ demand that brought the Repetto to the Chennai event.

“It has received good response in this show and we have closed some orders also,” says Ramaswamy of Autoprint.

Other than these two machines, Autoprint also displayed the Max creasing and perforating machine. Within less than a year of acquiring the marketing rights for this machine, Autoprint has sold more than 200 machines.

Autoprint ensured that all its expected prospective customers visited their stall at Printexpo. Their extensive preparatory work before the show paid dividend at the show floor.

“This show has always been a good one for us to create and increase brand awareness.

The southern market is very important to us as it contributes nearly 30% to our overall business.

It is a growing market and offers huge potential,” says Ramaswamy.

Canon India displays C600 Digital Press Canon India had on display its C600 Digital Press at Printexpo 2015. The machine had its first show in south India. It is a 60ppm press and prints very well on textile media and can do banner printing also. It can print upto 30 inches. Other products that Canon focused at the show were its six-colour Inkjet Printer and the Black and White Printer.

The company also set up the Dream Lobo Gallery.

Puneet looked pleased with the outcome of the show especially the footfall at his stall. Canon is doing extremely well in the southern market, says Puneet. “Our entry level machines are performing extremely well in the region. The entry level line-up includes the recently launched machines C-600/700 and C800, which we did not have in our portfolio earlier. This posed a challenge for us to address the market needs of our customers,” he adds.

“The southern market consists of early adopters. Whenever a new machine is launched it is first installed in the south. So it is a very important market for everyone,” says Puneet.

He thinks, with intense competition, price is the most challenging aspect, across the country; not restricted to the southern market alone. “In south you get a better price realization compared to other regions,” he says.

In the coming year, Canon may have two important launches - the Inkjet Niagara machine and the 10ppm Digital Printer.

Puneet puts the figure of industry growth at 20% year on year for the last five years.

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Monotech introduces Highcon Euclid Digital Cutting and Creasing Production System For Chennai based Monotech, the southern market is quite important. Monotech was a major sponsor for Printexpo 2015. With offices in all the four southern states, for Monotech, the southern market contributes around 30% to its business.

market directly. We have already scaled up the Konica Minolta business to a good level.

It was the right time to unlock the value and focus on different other segments. We will continue with our passion of introducing new technologies and products.”

Monotech launched some new products.

With the company selling its Konica Minolta business to Konica Minolta effective 1st of June, it is looking at new opportunities. It has added new products to its portfolio. “We have six business verticals and we will bring in new products in each of these verticals,” says T P Jain, Director, Monotech.

T P Jain finds a few challenges in the printing market in the country, especially in the southern region. “The overall environment has been a little slow for the last few years as the economy has slowed down and there has been hesitation in making new investments,” he says. “However, the confidence is slowly picking up now and we are optimistic of the future,” he adds.

The Digital business vertical will become Offset business vertical with complete range of products for Prepress, Press and Postpress. In the Prepress segment Monotech will add Flexo CtP machine, so that they would have CtP for both the Offset and the Flexo segments. “We have signed up with Shinohara for the Offset press. We will have a complete range of Finishing solutions, starting with Itotech Cutting machines, Folding machine and Three Knife Trimmers from APA, China, C P Bourg, Switzerland for their Perfect Binding Solutions. In the Digital segment, we will focus more on Finishing equipments. In the Wide-format segment, we have solutions for Digital Textile Printing, apart from our Flex Printers,” explains T P Jain.

On ending Konica Minolta association, he says, “Konica wanted to cater to the Indian

Monotech introduced Highcon Euclid Digital Cutting and Creasing Production System – a new unique product from Israel which eliminates the process of Die-making.

Monotech has entered into new tie-ups and it plans to have products to meet current customer demands as well as to meet specialized printing needs. “We these new products we will enter into textile printing and 3 D printing segments,” says T P Jain.

Monotech Systems displays at Print Expo Monotech displayed seven products from its different business verticals. Highlight for Monotech Systems was launch of Pixeljet Eco Solvent Printer, Pixeljet Textile Printer and new introduction of Standard POD Laminator from GMP.

Pixeljet ECO 3202 Eco Solvent printer was launched from company’s own brand “Pixeljet” in wide format printing. This was an extension the existing Pixeljet Eco 1800 TS eco solvent printer and have double the print width up to 3290mm. Another product under Pixeljet brand i.e. Pixeljet TP 2180 Thermal Transfer Textile printer was launched at the expo. Company believe that there is a huge market for dye-sublimation printing. Point of Sale displays, decorations, sportswear, and wide range of promotional products indicate about the available market opportunity.

From Digital Enhancement, company introduced GMP Protopic III 540 series of standard POD laminator that will cater the photography and other printing segments.

Scodix digital enhancement gallery was also in display where samples of Scodix catches eyes of the visitors due to its unique presence. “Scodix is performing well and the first Scodix Ultra machine is going to be installing shortly,” says T P Jain.

Engineering systems division was covered

by Oce PlotWave 340 multi-function systems, Monotech Print, Copy, Scan multifunction systems for technical data printing and scanning in colour and monochrome modes.

The newly launched Canon iPF 8410SE poster printer was also in display.

From Prepress company displayed Amsky UV CtP and focused on HGDE UV CtP systems, basysPrint UV CtP System and newly introduced Amsky Aura Flexo CtP for packaging printers.

T P Jain, concludes, “We do participate in Print Expo every year and this time the expo is more organized. Our main highlight has been the newly introduced products along with Scodix gallery which always have been a crowd puller. We also have created a buzz about our Make in India initiative in which we have a product range of JETSCI Industrial Inkjet Systems with Inspections System, which has more than 20 installations across India and overseas. And also about JETSCI WP600 Monochrome Digital Inkjet Web Press. Visitors have shown a great interest in the products and we have received couple of orders too.”

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VINSAK brings Synchroline ‘game changer’ Lombardi Synchroline is a 3-motors fully servo press press.

We live in a world driven by innovation. The Emerging Future is to look to partner with companies interested in creating the new industry paradigm. These industries will offer solutions instantly, constantly, with improved outcomes by orders of magnitude. Although packaging is a very mature industry, it too thrives and grows through a constant influx of innovation.

VINSAK is a name well known for introducing always a new paradigm to the printing industry. Once again has welcomed SYNCHROLINE – A Game Changer to the packaging industry. The Synchroline is capable of printing many different kinds of substrates like paper, light card board and flexible substrates. It is a true “Fully” Servo press Vs a number of “Pseudo” servo presses now flooding the market. It is common practise for manufacturers today to put one servo at the in-feed and another at the out-feed whereas retaining a main motor and a mechanical line shaft and still call it a “servo” press.

The Synchroline: • Lombardi Synchroline is a 3-motors servo press.

• The way the motors in Lombardi are geared together is conceived in order to gain the best accuracy in register and to minimize the gear bars.

The way the motors in Lombardi are geared together is conceived in order to gain the best accuracy in register and to minimize the gear bars. The “electronic shaft” keeps register very accurately by means of an independent servo per each print group.

This printing press can be characterized

as a modern working horse. It is equipped with printing groups governed singularly by brushless motors and the setting and maintenance of the printing register of the whole press is governed by the electric board with a system of register control. This ables to correct on real time the deviation from the register due to the extensions of the material. For the printing industry that looks for maximum versatility and the possibility of working on a wide gamma of materials.

SYNCHROLINE is equipped with A.B.S. printing unit • Hi-Fit system: An innovative system is used for print rolls allowing for immediate fitting of cylinders of different diameter with no need for an adapter. In fact print rolls lay on a special algorithmically – studied curve that enables keeping constant printing pressure with varying roll diameter.

• Hi-Fix system: The plate cylinder is pneumatically clamped with a conical piston that grants irreversibility of motion and reduces motions and vibrations to a minimum.

• Hi-DynamiX system: The blade is pressured against the anilox roller with pneumatical system, determining an auto-adaptive pressure dynamic, resulting in the best ink distribution • Hi-InX system: When the machine stops, the ink roller (anilox) is first removed, followed (after a settable time) by the print cylinder, in order to clean ink in excess (an essential operation when using non-UV inks).

It is fully automatic electronic preregistration system: minimum material

waste, minimum waste of time, maximum precision. Fully automatic register controls with parameterization system for perfect registration on extensible materials.

Electronic tension control for perfect tensioning of different substrates along with Quality analysis system. The important thing for converters to remember about innovation is that it never ends. There is always something new and exciting on the horizon and the spoils of success belong to those who are able to first to capitalize on them.

For the last 2 decades, A&A labels is India’s one of the prominent manufacturers and exporters of a wide range of Industrial Labels, Industrial Stickers, Custom Industrial Labels & other Packaging and Promotional Material.

Having a set of advanced prepress, press and post press machines which is operated by team of diligent experts.

Mr. Jain greatly appreciates Lombardi and its technicians’ ability to satisfy his requirements including some machine specific solutions.

The addition of this line will double our capacity in terms of converting Self Adhesive materials and we expect a growth of more than 100% in our top line in this financial year itself.

VINSAK expects to see a spurt in Lombardi installations in India in next year. It expects a good show of the same at the coming Label Expo in Brussels.

Mr. Saurabh Jain of A&A Labels said: “Addition of Synchroline 430 has opened up new applications and allows us to work on wide gamma of materials. The machine has offered us the opportunity to produce labels on flexible film as well as begin the production of mono-cartons, thereby expanding our portfolio and market reach beyond the regional level.”

“As a company we put lot of effort into our solutions that are truly innovative and address real needs among our customers.

It’s been impressive to watch A & A Labels expands their production with Synchroline and further strengthen their business,” said Mr. Ranesh Bajaj.

Mr. Ranesh Bajaj (Left), Mr. Anubhav Jain (Second), Mr. Massimo Lombardi (Third) & Mr. Ashok Jain (Right)

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World Press Trends: Newspaper revenues shift to new sources A profound shift in the newspaper business model, evolving for years, is finally here.

Global newspaper circulation revenues are larger than newspaper advertising revenues for the first time this century, according to the annual World Press Trends survey released Monday by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA).

“The basic assumption of the news business model – the subsidy that advertisers have long provided to news content – is gone,” said Larry Kilman, Secretary General of WAN-IFRA, who presented the survey at the 67th World Newspaper Congress, 22nd World Editors Forum and 25th World Advertising Forum in Washington, D.C. “We can freely say that audiences have become publishers’ biggest source of revenue.”

Newspapers generated an estimated US$179 billion in circulation and advertising revenue in 2014 -- larger than the book publishing, music or film industries.

Ninety-two billion dollars came from print and digital circulation, while 87 billion came from advertising, the survey said.

“This is a seismic shift from a strong business-tobusiness emphasis - publishers to advertisers - to a growing business-to-consumer emphasis, publishers to audiences,” said Mr. Kilman.

The World Press Trends survey includes data from more than 70 countries, accounting for more than 90 per cent of the global industry’s value.

Key Notes : > Audiences have become publishers’ biggest source of revenue. > Newspaper advertising revenues are falling nearly everywhere. > It’s a fight for audience’s attention.

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Throughout the 20th century, advertising brought up to 80 per cent of revenues in some markets. The ratio varies from market to market: in some European and Asian markets, advertising might bring 40 per cent of revenues.

But the survey showed that newspaper advertising revenues are falling nearly everywhere, while circulation revenues are relatively stable.

“Print used to be one of few traditional marketing channels and often the one that was the most ubiquitous for branding and logical choice for all marketers,” said Mr. Kilman. “This direct relationship of mutual dependence no longer exists. Advertisers nowadays have more than 60 different advertising media channels available to them.”

“However, in 2015 it is clear that the story of the newspaper industry is not one of doom and gloom and decline. Newspapers around the world are successfully proving their value to advertisers despite

booming competition. They are discovering new markets and new business models that are today as pertinent to news production as advertising and circulation revenues. From print newspaper businesses, they have transformed into true multiplatform news media businesses.”

Though newspapers are now ubiquitous on all media platforms, the measure of their reach and influence continues to be mired in the 20th century, largely relying on print circulation and a variety of separate, non-standardized measures of digital reach. The challenge for the industry is to measure reach of newspaper content on all platforms with new metrics.

The World Press Trends survey includes data from more than 70 countries, accounting for more than 90 per cent of the global industry’s value. The data is compiled through an enormous undertaking by dozens of national newspaper and news media associations and generous support from global data suppliers: Zenith Optimedia, IPSOS, ComScore, the Pew Research Center, RAM, and the ITU. The survey, presented annually at the global summit meetings of the world’s press, revealed:

The Future is Mobile Eight out of 10 smartphone users check their device within 15 minutes of waking up. It’s a fight for audience’s attention and mobile has it.

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37 per cent of media time, ahead of television (81 minutes), the desktop (70 minutes), radio (44 minutes), and print (33 minutes), according to the InMobi mobile media consumption report.

App usage represents about half of mobile engagement, with leading media now seeing 30 per cent or more of their monthly audiences coming exclusively from mobile platforms.

For the first time, desktop audience numbers are falling. Time spent using smartphones now exceeds web usage on computers in the United States, the United Kingdom and Italy. For 19 of the top 25 US newspaper sites, mobile traffic exceeded desktop by at least 10 per cent, according to Pew Research. Those who use only mobile devices to consume newspaper digital content increased 53 per cent in March 2015 from the same month a year ago, according to a report from the Newspaper Association of America.

“When it comes to new revenues, we have been talking about the year of mobile for the last 10 years,” Mr Kilman said. “It has finally happened. In 2014, desktop Internet usage globally decreased in favor of mobile. And mobile app usage is becoming the majority of all digital media activity in the United States.”

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newspaper business in India is still the healthiest print newspaper industry in the world. Updated Indian figures have significantly affected the global picture and they partly come from a growing number of publications in India.

Circulation rose +9.8 per cent in Asia in 2014 from a year earlier, +1.2 in the Middle East and Africa and +0.6 in Latin America; it fell -1.3 per cent in North America, -4.5 per cent in Europe and -5.3 per cent in Australia and Oceania. Over five years, newspaper circulation rose +32.7 per cent in Asia, +3.7 per cent in the Middle East and Africa and around +3 per cent in Latin America; it fell -8.8 per cent in North America; -21.3 per cent in Europe and -22.3 per cent in Australia and Oceania.

In mature markets, newspapers are adopting strategies to make more money from fewer subscribers.

These include cover price increases and lowering production costs by reducing the frequency of printing.

But these practices risks alienating some segments of their readership in exchange for growth in revenues.

Paid digital circulation increased 56 per cent in 2014 and rose more than 1,420 per cent over the last five years, according to PwC. One in 10 people in a Reuters Institute Digital News Report survey of 10 countries said they now pay for digital content. That ranges from 22 per cent in Brazil to 7 percent in the United Kingdom.

38 per cent (US$19.3 billion) of digital ad revenue. Facebook took nearly 10 per cent in 2014, and is the biggest recipient of total digital display and mobile display advertising revenue.

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Print circulation increased +6.4 per cent globally in 2014 from a year earlier and shows a five year growth of +16.5 per cent. This is the largely the result of circulation increases in India and elsewhere in Asia; the

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While digital advertising represents a small part of overall newspaper revenue, it continues to grow significantly, increasing 8 per cent in 2014 and 59 per cent over five years, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers.

But the main benefactors of digital ad spending continue to be social media and technology companies.

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Television continues to maintain the largest share of global advertising revenues, with just under 40 per cent, followed by desktop and mobile internet with more than 24 per cent, newspapers with 15 per cent, magazines with 7.3 per cent, outdoor and radio with around 7 per cent, and cinema with half a per cent.

Print advertising world-wide declined -5.17 per cent in 2014 from a year earlier and declined -17.51 per cent over five years. Since it began in the mid-1990s, Internet advertising (both desktop and mobile) has principally risen at the expense of print.

Print newspaper advertising increased +4.86.per cent in Latin America in 2014 compared with a year earlier and + 2.21 per cent in the Middle East and North Africa, but fell in all other regions: -6.54 percent in Asia and the Pacific, -7.5 per cent in North America, and -5.01 per cent in Europe. Over five years, print newspaper advertising increased +27.68 per cent in Latin America.

It declined -28.22 per cent in North America, -23.10 per cent in Europe, -22.11 percent in the Middle East and Africa, and -7.34 per cent in Asia and the Pacific.

Internet adspend overtook total adspend on both newspapers and magazines in 2014. Over the last ten years, Internet advertising has risen from 4 per cent of total global spend to 24 per cent. In the same period, newspapers’ share of global spend has halved from 30 per cent to 15 per cent, while magazines’ has fallen from 13 per cent to 7.3 per cent.

Newspaper digital advertising revenues will not replace high yield print revenues, but are nevertheless significantly increasing. Newspapers digital advertising increased +8.5 per cent in 2014 and nearly +60 per cent over five years.‑

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International Newspaper Color Quality Club seeks new members The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has opened the competition for the 12th edition of its International Newspaper Color Quality Club, the only worldwide printing quality competition for newspapers.

Newspapers that register by 7 October 2015 will benefit from a free preliminary test evaluation by WAN-IFRA. Registration deadline for the 2016-2018 edition of the Club is December 2015.

Newspapers that maintain rigorous printing standards are eligible for membership in the Club, a short list of the world’s best-printed colour newspapers. Membership in the Color Quality Club can increase a newspaper’s prestige among readers, pride among staff members, and – perhaps most importantly – benefits when it comes to selling ad space to demanding customers.

The goal of the International Newspaper Quality Club is to improve the quality of reproduction and printing in production, while also increasing competitiveness as well as training and motivating all personnel. The

competition has been held every two years since 1994.

Successful newspapers are awarded membership for a two-year period in the exclusive club of top-quality titles. Multiple winners and participants in the WAN-IFRA certification project also have the prospect of being awarded membership of the WANIFRA Star Club.

Participation can be easily integrated into a newspaper’s normal production operations.

Participants download a small ad-like test element and incorporate it into a page –no costly, time-consuming special print runs are required.

Benefits of participating: • Demonstrate consistent and reliable printing in accordance with exacting worldwide standards; • Promote certification and gain an edge in the competition for readers and advertisers; • Counter customer complaints more confidently; • Increase quality awareness and know-

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WAN-IFRA offers tutorials in which interested parties and participants in the Color Quality Club competition can familiarize themselves with the relevant ISO standards and Color Quality Club rules. The recent tutorials include: in Frankfurt, Germany on 15 June 2015 (German language) and in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 29–30 July 2015, Chennai, India on 9 July, and New Delhi on 14 July (English language).

WAN-IFRA’s World Printers Forum encourages innovation, productivity and product development that can be instrumental for publishers now and in the future. The Forum promotes the power of print and the sustainability of print production.

Al-Qasswa new agent for QIPC – EAE in Saudi Arabia Al-Qasswa Development Est. has been named as the new agent for Q.I. Press Controls and EAE in Saudi Arabia. This appointment comes as no surprise, since AlQasswa continues to build on its successes wherever the printing industry is concerned.

Al-Qasswa is a serious player in the Saudi printing world and over the years has acquired experience with several generations of top management. QIPC – EAE has complete confidence in Al-Qasswa.

Erwin van Rossem, Area Sales Manager for Q.I. Press Controls, explains that developments are currently afoot in Saudi Arabia which involve the upgrade of printing presses. Not only will these developments lead to significant improvements in product quality, but considerable savings too. QIPC – EAE needed a local partner to respond to these latest trends. Al-Qasswa’s managing director, Toufic Hachicho, reports that the organisations came into contact with each

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the years by Al-Qasswa, there was really no other choice than to include this agent in our network,” explained Erwin van Rossem.

Toufic Hachicho sees the partnership with QIPC – EAE as a valuable addition to AlQasswa’s portfolio. “In my view, QIPC – EAE is a genuine partner with products that are perfectly matched to our own markets,” he says. “We’ve had unstinting support from them in every area. We expect this support will continue in the future.”

other via a mutual business partner. After a close assessment of the various candidates, QIPC - EAE decided to add Al-Qasswa to its network of agents. The new partnership was officially announced by QIPC - EAE and Al-Qasswa at Gulf Print & Pack 2015 in Dubai. “Due to the successes achieved over

Al-Qasswa believes in the values of QIPC – EAE, which makes the organisation incomparable with some other manufacturers. “QIPC – EAE hold the reliability of the systems which provide our customers with added value in high esteem,” adds Toufic Hachicho. Al-Qasswa will market QIPC – EAE products in Saudi Arabia.

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Agfa Graphics launches the Advantage N TR VHS Platesetter for high-volume newspaper printers This ‘High-Production’ engine hits speeds of 400 plates per hour, to allow publishers extending editorial and advertising deadlines without sacrificing quality.

Agfa Graphics has introduced the new high-speed platesetter for the high-volume newspaper market. The Advantage N TR VHS (Trolley Load, Very High-Speed) produces up to 400 plates per hour, which is 50 plates faster than the Advantage N TR HS. Thanks to the increased speed, the Advantage N TR VHS can allow newspaper publishers to deliver the latest news and last-minute offers to their daily readers with sharper production deadlines. It will also help newspaper publishers to replace multiple, slower CtP engines with faster, yet fewer units. This not only saves on new CtP investments but also on processing equipment or punch and bending machines.

Fewer CtP engines also require less floor space while less processing equipment drastically reduces the labour cost for cleaning and refill.

“With these new systems, Agfa Graphics again shows its commitment to the newspaper industry by offering stateof-the-art CtP technology that meets the requirements of the premium level segment in the newspaper market,” said Emiel Sweevers, marketing manager for Newspaper Engines, Agfa Graphics.

“Everyone in the industry is also looking for automation, improved production efficiency and cost savings. This is not different in the high-volume segment is. We are dedicated to newspapers and can be an ideal partner for them. We offer the expertise in hardware, complete workflow solutions and consumables, covering the entire prepress production for print. Our goal is to continue developing solutions that enable our customers to effectively meet the current

market challenges head-on and win.”

The Advantage N TR VHS features a trolley to transport plates from safelight environment to the platesetter. This gives operators the flexibility to load the plates in a separate yellow safelight environment more easily and efficiently, in case switching to yellow safelight conditions is not possible in the room where the CtP device is installed.

World News Media Congress in 2016

The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) invited the world’s press to attend the 68th World Newspaper Congress, 23rd World Editors

Forum, and 26th World Advertising Forum, held in Cartagena, Colombia, from 8 to 10 June 2016.

It is only the second time the World News Media Congress is held in Latin America, following Rio de Janeiro in 2000.

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The Dscoop Open how to transform the production of personalised, on-demand applications collective businesses could grow. This type of cooperation is unique to Dscoop, and it is the primary reason CHILI Publish committed to being a sponsor at the European conference.”

CHILI Publish sponsored The Dscoop Open, the European conference of the independent community of HP Graphic Arts users, (Digital Solutions Cooperative) that took place 3-5 June 2015, in Dublin, Ireland. This annual event gives Dscoop members the resources, training and networking opportunities they need to grow their businesses. CHILI Publish will play an active part of that effort, teaching Dscoop members how powerful online document layout, editing and 3D visualisation technology can empower them to increase control and gain profitability in this competitive marketplace.

Kevin Goeminne, CHILI Publish CEO, says “CHILI Publish attended the Dscoop event in the US, and we were so impressed by the way Dscoop members share their knowledge and experiences so that their

CHILI Publisher – The Game Changer CHILI Publisher has redefined the online editing and publishing experience for any business involved in web-to-print, publishing, packaging, and brand management applications. CHILI Publisher is comprised of CHILI Editor, CHILI API, and CHILI Backoffice.

These solutions work together to create a powerful online publishing engine that can be customized depending on the brand guidelines and the user’s editing needs.

CHILI Publisher can be easily integrated into any workflow and production platform.

Specific functionality of CHILI Publisher includes: • CHILI Editor makes it possible for users to rapidly begin online creation

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THE HOTTEST ONLINE DOCUMENT EDITOR “The online editing solution that packs the wallop of a professional layout tool into your browser.

CHILI publisher makes it easy to create innovative publishing solutions that will delight your customers.”

THE HOTTEST ONLINE DOCUMENT EDITOR

At The Dscoop Open, CHILI Publish, along with their distribution partners SS&C and Workflowz, will be demonstrating the range of functionality available in their CHILI Publisher technology. In addition, CHILI Publish Partners Esko and Tharstern will also be exhibiting at the Dscoop Open. These companies offer CHILI Publisher as part of their own solutions, further expanding the impact and power of the CHILI Publisher.

and editing of a document. The user interface is intuitive and 100% customizable to accommodate for both novice and more experienced users, while providing more comprehensive layout tools for expert creators.

Using the CHILI API, Administrators can control every aspect of the application. Developers have access to a completely open API that is recognized as one of the most flexible and customer-friendly in the industry.

CHILI Backoffice is the dashboard for CHILI Editor. It lets users organize their documents, fonts, assets, environments, and much more.

Professional users can also upload assets, organize documents, and do all preparation for the public webapplication.

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CHILI Publish Chief Operating Officer Bram Verniest noted, “We developed CHILI Publisher to be a unique solution that can increase both control and profitability in the range of critical markets that are supported

by Dscoop members. The strength of the CHILI Publisher, combined with the innovation of Dscoop users, makes for a winning combination. We look forward to The Dscoop Open and to a continued collaboration with Dscoop members.”

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Xerox expands EA Toner poduction in Western N.Y. manufacturing plant used in Xerox production devices.

Xerox will increase its emulsion aggregation (EA) toner capacity by 40 percent with the completion of a nearly $35 million expansion project to help Xerox keep pace with growing EA toner product demand.

Construction on the plant addition began in 2013, and the new manufacturing line and new toner filling line is expected to create about 54 new jobs, consisting of process operators, quality control, lab personnel and additional maintenance staff. The project also generated about 70 full-time construction jobs over the past 15 months.

The expansion has increased the plant size from 100,000 square-feet to 155,000 squarefeet, and added about $26 million in EA toner manufacturing equipment. Xerox and local officials participated in the official opening today.

“From the first xerographic image over 75 years ago, Xerox has been reengineering the way people work and expanding this toner plant represents an opportunity to meet the high demand for our innovative solution,” said Richard Schmachtenberg, senior vice president, Consumables Development and Manufacturing for Xerox.

Developed by Xerox and protected by more than 300 patents, EA toner produces sharper images using less toner per page.

Unlike traditional toner, which is created by physically grinding composite polymeric materials to micron-sized particles, EA toner is chemically grown enabling the size, shape and structure of the particles to be precisely controlled. This leads to improved print quality, less toner usage, less toner waste and less energy required for manufacturing and for printing. Xerox and Fuji Xerox have

Schmachtenberg also credited a number of local and state agencies for their support in making the addition a reality for the Rochester area: •

Xerox engineer Mark E. Mang measures out the E-Agent ingredient, which makes toner break into particles faster, leading to less energy use and related greenhouse gas emissions.

designed around 50 office and production printing products that use EA toner.

According to InfoTrends, between 2013 and 2018 production digital colour toner-based pages will grow at a 6.2% compound annual growth rate, amounting to 295 billion pages globally by 2018, which presents a sizeable opportunity for the chemically grown toners

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County of Monroe Industrial Development Agency Empire State Development Corporation Rochester Gas and Electric New York State Energy Research and Development Authority New York State Investment Tax Credit The current five-story plant, which opened in 2007, is one of only a handful of its kind in the world. It features more than 29 miles of pipe, over 100 stainless steel tanks and includes nearly 11,000 sensors that track information about temperature, humidity, air flow and other variables.

Xerox has invested $120 million in the plant, mostly in custom manufacturing process equipment.

Mary Fromm, vice president, toner development and manufacturing group and Ted Beer, toner development and manufacturing group capital project manager, review new toner production equipment inside the $35 million addition to the EA Toner plant in Webster, N.Y.

Telrol adds Xeikon Cheetah to its digital portfolio Xeikon Cheetah technology enables the self-adhesive label producers to address new markets.

Xeikon has announced that Telrol Group, one of Europe’s largest producers of labels, is the fourth label printing operation worldwide to invest in the breakthrough Xeikon Cheetah technology. With production sites spread over nine countries in Europe, the Telrol - Schades Group produces close to a billion square meters per annum of self-adhesive labels and paper rolls. With five Xeikon 3300s – the most recent one installed earlier this year, plus Xeikon Cheetah technology being implemented in June; Telrol is one of Xeikon’s largest customers worldwide.

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“Xeikon technology puts us ahead of the competition. In our opinion, no other digital print production supplier can offer the integration, IT, strategic marketing or technological developments that Xeikon can.” - Hoessein Hadaoui

Key Notes : > Xeikon Cheetah enables Telrol stay ahead of fast-paced industry changes. > With five Xeikon 3300s, Telrol is one of Xeikon’s largest customers worldwide. > The press easily handles volumes of close to 38.000 meters per day at Telrol.

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Xeikon Cheetah has a top speed of 30 m/min (98 ft/ min), which is 56% faster than any other model in the current Xeikon digital label press portfolio. The 1200 x 3600 dpi digital press is dedicated solely to the production of self-adhesive/pressure sensitive labels.

It offers all the renowned benefits that make the Xeikon 3000 Series unique, including the use of dry toners that meet FDA regulations for food contact and the ability to print opaque white toner in one pass.

It also enables printing on a variety of heat-sensitive substrates due to incorporation of Xeikon’ s ICE toner technology which requires a much lower fusing temperature than typical toner-based presses. Xeikon presses are based on dry toner electro-photography.

This enables the use of conventional substrates that do not have to be pre-treated. Extremely high toner light-fastness and truly eco-friendly printing (no VOCs) are some of the other industry leading features of the Xeikon presses for digital label and package printing. The presses offer easy integration of third-party workflow software and converting/ finishing solutions and incorporate professional color management capabilities. In addition to the standard CMYK + White, the fifth station can be used to print gamut expansion colors or security toner. Media weights range from 40 gsm to 350 gsm.

“Acquiring Xeikon Cheetah was the next logical step for us,” states CEO Hoessein Hadaoui. “We consider Xeikon to be a critical business partner. They are innovative, forward-thinking and always involving us as they develop new technology and solutions. For us, the Xeikon digital printing technology is ideal, because of the quality and productivity it delivers but also because of the food safety aspect of the Xeikon toner. Building on the great success and experiences

we had with all of our Xeikon 3000 Series, we know Xeikon Cheetah will be a game changer that will help us take the company to the next level.”

Long standing partnership Telrol has always been at the forefront of technology evolution. “Change in the market is happening extremely quickly,” Hadaoui explains. “It’s not a matter of being the smartest or the strongest – it is who can respond most quickly and effectively to change. Keeping up with change is not enough, you have to be ahead of the changes or create the market to succeed and grow. Working with Xeikon, we can do that. They keep me informed as R&D progresses, because I don’t want to wait until releases are already on the market – I want to have them before they are!”

This mutually-beneficial relationship enables Telrol to continually grow its visionary digital strategy: “We want to be a one-stop shop,” Hadaoui continues.

“Our customers are number one companies in their field, and they want us to supply only the best. Xeikon technology puts us ahead of the competition. In our opinion, no other digital print production supplier can offer the integration, IT, strategic marketing or technological developments that Xeikon can. As an example, we are now also looking to expand into the security market. We already have a solid base in food, retail, cosmetics and beverages and believe security labels and ticketing will be the next growth market. Our Xeikon fleet positions us well to enter this exciting market.”

Pivotal to the investment decision, and to Telrol’s ongoing partnership with Xeikon, is the specificallydesigned Xeikon Cheetah toner (QA-CH) developed for high speeds and based on the tried-and-tested ICE toner, which has performed well for Telrol with its other Xeikon presses. It meets FDA regulations for

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food contact and offers the ability to print opaque white toner in one pass. This is ideal for the product mix Telrol produces.

Speed is of the essence Running at 30m/min (98 ft/min), Xeikon Cheetah will enable Telrol to create a leaner multi-platform approach to print production, and deliver its customers a more tailored, cost effective and efficient production process. And it will ensure the company is able to quickly respond to any new market challenges.

Hadaoui clarifies: “Offering extreme productivity and quality, Xeikon Cheetah gives us a new way of seeing the market and its potential. We want to give customers broader access to the benefits of digital print by enabling more work to be transitioned from conventional production to digital.

Xeikon Cheetah technology will allow to significantly raise the crossover point in addition to the other advantages it offers.”

He explains that the press can easily handle volumes of close to 38.000 meters per day – counting 21 hours of production during three shifts. This ability takes digital label printing to new limits: “In my business, there is still a lot of low hanging fruit that can be transferred easily and cost efficiently from existing technologies. Not only can we then add value through digital print, but we can also increase capacity on the existing traditional printing machines. We have production plants that are dedicated to Blanc, Multi-Colour, Highend, Digital, Commodity label and POS (cashroll) production. Each of these sites are highly structured and have their own KPI´s to ensure each is as profitable and Lean as possible. Within the digital department, we can address a different set of demands and ensure that it is also as competitive as it can be. Of course, adding the fastest digital label press in its class, we will be setting new break-even points for certain orders. This opens up the market to broader digital support and a faster analog-to-digital migration.”

Survival of the creative Being able to offer something extra is crucial to Hadaoui’s business ethos: “We are always looking to offer something new,” he says.

“That is why we have worked closely with Xeikon throughout the years, and opted to become a pilot site for its Xeikon Cheetah

technology – knowing it will meet our expectations.

It had to be the best, most robust, and strongest solution in its class in order to support our aggressive 24/7 production schedules.

When Xeikon sees any limitations, they proactively work to eliminate them. This ensures that they will continue to have the best digital presses on the market for our portfolio. Because of our past experience with Xeikon, we expect ROI on our latest investment in just two years.”

This initial install is expected to serve as a blueprint that could be rolled out across the group, Hadaoui states, adding, “My strategy is to set up plants that offer the highest quality in one discipline, which is easy to combine and copy to other locations in Europe. It will help me European-ise digital in the group. I can take the best configurations, processes and practices, put them together and set up similar digital divisions in every site. Our investment in the latest and most advanced Xeikon technology is part of that strategy.”

And the timing is right with a buoyant market, Hadaoui concludes: “Our industry is set to grow and consolidate. We are still in a pull market. Our anticipated growth is driven by two things – the market is growing volume

wise but also important is our ability to add value and drive down costs compared to conventional production, especially with growing demand for shorter runs and versioning from our brand owner clients. I believe you not only have to grow in the field in which you are operating but also keep your eyes open for growth opportunities in related fields. Staying in the same field is a limitation, and I don’t want to be limited in anything – not in markets, technology or people. My partnership with Xeikon ensures that I push the boundaries.”

The Telrol Group – comprising of Peha Labels, BioLabel, HACCP Label, LMG Ribbons, Kolibri Labels ,and Q-Tronics – is a European leader in self-adhesive labels.

The company services the markets for food, retail, cosmetics, pharma, home and personal care, logistics and the chemical industry. The company now employs 275 people and features over 80 printing and converting machines and virtually unlimited technical possibilities. The group achieved a turnover of 150 million euros.

Delhi’s Artize-Die Makers expands capacity Delhi based flatbed die maker, Artize-Die Makers has recently added a new laser machine, a bending machine and engraving plates from Magnesium Elektron. The company will be using the latest machines to make embossing, hot and coli foil stamping dies.

Artize has also expanded its staff and moved to new bigger production facility.

The company is in full expansion mode and

expects to expand the facility further in this year and have a capacity that would be four times the current capacity of Delhi unit.

Commenced in the year 2011, Artize-Die Makers manufactures, supplies and exports Laser Dies, Paper Cutting Dies, Wooden Dies, Embossing Dies, Screen Guard Dies and Bakelite Dies to Indian and overseas customers.

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FINAT’s seal of approval for tesa tape Successful conclusion of ‘round-robin’ test for tesa 7475 PV2tape FINAT has announced that its Test Methods Sub-committee has completed a successful analysis of tesa 7475 PV2. Seven different laboratories tested 22 different liners and produced 5544 release values to report that tesa 7475 PV2 provides similar release values to the former tesa 7475 version.

In 2013, the discontinuance of a primary raw material resulted in tesa needing to make modifications to their tesa 7475 test tape which had been successfully used for decades in the self-adhesive market. As a result a new version of this test tape called tesa 7475 PV2 was introduced in 2014. In order to thoroughly compare the former tesa 7475 with the new version tesa 7475 PV2, FINAT conducted a ‘round-robin’ test program including many of the key users of this test tape.

The new tape was compared to the former tesa 7475 version in the FINAT FTM 10 test that measures the release characteristics of silicone coated liners. It helps determine the force required to separate an adhesive front strip from its anti-adhesive backing, or viceversa, under specified test conditions.

FINAT concludes that tesa 7475 PV2 provides similar release values to the former tesa 7475 version with most liners having a premium or medium release (where the FTM10 peel values are < 50g/25mm). For release liners with a highly modified release (FTM10 peel values > 50g/25mm), a conclusive outcome was not possible due to highly scattered individual release values and

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a small database of release values (only 2 of the 22 liners tested). In general, some release values indicated lower release forces when measuring with tesa 7475 PV2 –though that still needs to be examined for each individual case.

“Testing is an essential part of FINAT’s role and one of the cornerstones of the organisation,” comments Hans Lautenschlager, Chairman of the FINAT Sub-committee Test Methods. “We are able to draw on a broad range of industry experts and operations to ensure we are at the forefront of new developments. That knowledge is something we pass on to our members. The freeflow of information and research enables us to support all elements of the industry in a highly informed, effective and accurate way. Specifications for silicone coated liners are often based on FTM10 in combination with tesa 7475. It is with this in mind that we recommend a review of the release data obtained with tesa 7475 PV2

and, if necessary, an update on the release specifications.”

The FINAT Sub-committee Test Methods is part of the FINAT Technical Committee that exists to understand and promote the science and technology of self-adhesive labelling. It utilises knowledge from a wide range of industry members’ interests to provide an informed body of professional expertise focused on the processes and materials used in the manufacture of selfadhesive labelstock, and their conversion and subsequent application.

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Xeikon brings next-generation VariLane to Labelexpo Europe VariLane 4.0, a unique tool for label production and substrate optimization, now fully integrated in Xeikon X-800 4.0 digital front-end Xeikon has announced a new version of VariLane, its imposition software plug-in for the Xeikon X-800 digital front-end (DFE).

VariLane 4.0 is now fully integrated within the X-800 4.0workflow and is specifically designed to allow label printers greater flexibility in the production of labels, providing increased profit opportunities. With this development, Xeikon has added a significant enhancement to the ability for label printers to optimize productivity and profitability by printing labels of different sizes and run lengths on the same web in discreet lanes.

In addition, VariLane 4.0 is a key enabler in meeting the needs of brand owners for short run lengths and just-in-time delivery.

“Xeikon has a strong and continuing focus on the label market, and VariLane 4.0 is proof of our ongoing commitment to supporting the needs of label printers in every way possible,” says Jeroen Van Bauwel, Director Product Management at Xeikon. “With prepress activities minimized, and utilizing all of the integrated benefits of the X-800 DFE, label printers can easily combine different jobs on one substrate – even for labels of different heights and widths and with different run lengths. And they can easily make last-minute adjustments to artwork or add variable data. This is a real advance in optimizing label production and further increasing profitability for label printers. This type of out-of-the-box thinking and unique value-add sets Xeikon apart in the world of digital label printing.”

The unique VariLane plug-in, launched four years ago as a standalone tool and now integrated into the X-800 workflow, brought to commercial reality the concept of printing different labels in lanes of different widths and heights across the same web.

Imposition – arranging the labels on the roll in order to serve the proper application of the labels in later production processes – is a fundamental step in prepress. Typically, labels are arranged in lanes across the web roll, and because labels had to be of equal size, the print lanes were also of equal size.

This imposed limitations on both productivity and efficient use of substrates. VariLane gives prepress operators the freedom to

combine labels in print lanes of variable sizes which improves throughput and reduces waste. In fact, label printers working with VariLane have been able to substantially increase their productivity and reduce material wastage, with resultant cost savings of up to 30%. This unique capability is made possible by the full rotary technology of Xeikon digital presses, combined with their variable repeat length.

With VariLane 4.0 and its full integration with the X-800 DFE, yet another dimension is added to the versatility of Xeikon’s digital technology and the optimization of digital print production. The VariLane concept combines prepress, data processing and press operation functionality, seamlessly integrated with existing workflows and business processes, while maintaining flexibility and quality. VariLane 4.0 makes last-minute corrections to artwork easy to achieve, and Xeikon’s metadata tool can be employed to add barcodes or sequential numbering to labels as required.

“Combining different jobs in the same print run has never been easier. And for label printers working with our wide-web Xeikon3050 and 3500 presses, it’s a perfect fit!” Van Bauwel adds. “But even with narrower rolls, label printers can optimize their productivity, reduce costs and increase

profitability. And that is all possible today with Xeikon technology, without sacrificing the standards of professional and functional excellence brand owners expect – no matter how short the print run or delivery time.”

VariLane 4.0 is a plug-in for the recently launched Xeikon X-800 4.0 digital frontend (read press release) which will be commercially available at the end of June.

Xeikon will also demonstrate the capabilities of this unique tool at Labelexpo Europe 2015 on its stand.

RR Donnelley completes acquisition of Courier Corporation RR Donnelley & Sons Company has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Courier Corporation, one of America’s majors in book manufacturing and content management and customization in new and traditional media.

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Henkel builds new adhesives factory in India Henkel held a groundbreaking ceremony recently with 200 guests to commemorate the construction start of its 20,000 square meters adhesives factory in Kurkumbh, near Pune. The new plant will be Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest adhesives plant and is expected to start production by early 2017.

The construction of the new adhesives factory is part of Henkelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s global strategy to expand its capacities and grow business in the emerging markets. Currently, Henkel generates 44 percent of its total sales in the emerging markets. With the new site, Henkel will reinforce its position as the key solution provider for adhesives, sealants and functional coatings.

The multi-technology plant will allow Henkel to work closely with its customers in developing solutions. It will serve various customers in the automotive and metal industry, and in other industrial sectors. In the future, about 500 people will be employed at the plant.

Paul Kirsch (right), Jeremy Hunter (left), and Surendra Mehra (second from left), Project Head Kurkumbh Plant, symbolically laid the foundation with dignitaries from the Maharashtra government.

Paul Kirsch (middle), Corporate Senior Vice President, Supply and Operations, Henkel Adhesive Technologies, and President Henkel Group India, Jeremy Hunter (right), welcomed Honourable Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis (left), and other dignitaries from the Maharashtra government to the groundbreaking ceremony.

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New Harlequin Flexo Screens give premium print quality A new set of hybrid screens that improve print quality significantly for flexo work have been launched by Global Graphics Software.

The flexo screens address the issues of how to achieve high-quality in the highlight areas of images, such as tones close to white or skin tones, and how to print these areas with smooth gradations. It’s a technical challenge that the Harlequin product team has solved using its Harlequin Cross Modulated screens as the basis for development.

“It’s about giving the pre-press operator the choice of the right tools for the job in hand” says Martin Bailey, CTO Global Graphics.

“To achieve premium quality you need to be able to select from a wide choice of screen resolutions, rulings and dot sizes so that different graphical objects can be produced as well as possible.

“So we’ve expanded the number of screens available with Harlequin and included a mechanism to auto select the calibration that goes with a particular screen. Pre-press operators also now have the ability to bump up curves at the highlight end to compensate for flexo not being able to produce tones

able to take input from a variety of vendors to fine tune our plans.”

close to white clearly. The result is that you can achieve smooth gradations even in highkey images.”

The Harlequin RIP has been used in the flexo market for many years by Global Graphics OEM partners. “We’ve become increasingly involved in the conversation about how to achieve high-quality at the premium end of the market,” continues Bailey, “and due to our extensive partner network we’ve been

Harlequin Cross Modulated Flexo (HXMFlexo) works with the latest editions of the Harlequin RIP. Cross modulated screens give smooth, noise-free flat tints while retaining fine detail in highlights and shadows. They allow users to print screens at a higher line ruling than would normally be considered reliable, produce pin-sharp images and help overcome common printing imperfections like visible rosettes and moiré.

Bump up curves in Harlequin’s new Flexo Screens help pre-press operators achieve smooth gradations even in high-key images

Pragati Pack orders third MPS label press Pragati Pack of Hyderabad has booked a brand new EB 370 flexo label printing press from MPS Systems. The 8-colour machine is expected to be installed in September. This will be the third MPS label press at Pragati Pack which already has two MPS label presses running – one since 2006 and the other since 2012.

The new MPS machine, with the flexibility to shift between cylinder and screen, without gears, and with separate web transfer and automatic print control, is a testament of lean manufacturing. The easy to operate machine offers faster makeready than other available presses in the market in this category.

MPS’ Indian agent, Genius Flexo Machinery

will be providing the press to Pragati.

Pragati Pack, MPS and Genius Flexo Machinery signed the contract during a MoU ceremony held in the presence of the Dutch government delegation recently in New Delhi.

MPS has a total install base of 450 presses across the world. The press at Pragati will be the seventh MPS press in India.

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Forming, filling, sealing with outstanding efficiency BEUMER sealpac: new, highly efficient FFS system for chemical products As a single-source provider of filling, palletising and packaging systems, BEUMER Group has recently introduced an innovative form fill seal system (FFS system) to the market. The needs of customers in the chemical industry may vary greatly; bulk density, flow characteristics and grain distribution of chemical products require flexibility in bagging and packaging until they reach the final customer.

With the new FFS system, BEUMER emphasises a sustainable mode of operation. High throughput, availability and a compact design are key features of the new system. Reproducible weight accuracy of the bags is ensured. Furthermore, operators can handle the highly energy-efficient system ergonomically.

Chemical and petrochemical products are partly characterised by high product temperatures, may be dimensionally unstable and have special flow characteristics. If these materials are filled into bags, their handling can be extremely difficult. As a partner of chemical companies, BEUMER has extended its range of products with the BEUMER sealpac. This FFS system forms a bag from a prefabricated tubular PE film and fills it with technical plastic materials like PE, PP, PA or PS. Salts, building materials, fertilisers or food products can also be filled into bags reliably, gently and sustainably. This system is equipped with a weighing unit which, on the one hand, ensures that the quantity of material filled is not too high as this would result in high costs for the manufacturer. On the other hand, the bags must not contain too little material since the specified quantity has to correspond to the actual contents.

Thus operators always obtain exact filling weights with the new FFS system. Then the system seals the bags with a weight of up to 25 kg. This way users can handle up to 2,600 bags per hour.

Less wear and tear, more clarity In typical systems available in the market, the bags oscillate from one working post to the next one. The resulting vibrations are transferred to the systems and may lead to wear and tear even after a short period of time. BEUMER guides the bags in a straight

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movement to the individual working stations.

The machine runs much more smoothly and there are nearly no vibrations.

In the BEUMER sealpac the individual working posts for forming, filling and closing are of modular design. This division makes work easier for the service personnel since they can check each unit separately and replace it as required. A unique feature of the BEUMER sealpac is its symmetrical structure, which enables the operator to freely decide from which side the system is operated.

Moreover, the extremely compact design of the BEUMER sealpac allows a space-saving and flexible installation.

For this system, BEUMER relies on proven components, which have been consistently enhanced. All components are freely available on the market. This reduces both the capital cost for operators and the delivery periods for spare parts.

Thanks to various options like print mark control, automatic exchange of film rolls, detached film releasing unit, free or railbased manoeuvrability and the possibility of processing pre-stretched film, the system can be adapted individually to customer requirements.

Saving costs across the board In the chemical industry, systems are often running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Any standstill may result in considerable costs.

Therefore, BEUMER sets great store by high

availability. The sealpac has a robust design, which extends maintenance intervals. Its modular structure enables an easy cleaning.

Operators can quickly retrofit the system.

Like all BEUMER machines and systems, the sealpac is characterised by its energyefficient, environmentally friendly and safe mode of operation. The construction series is equipped with an ergonomic control terminal (HMI – Human Machine Interface) including an optimised user interface and navigation. This enables the personnel to operate the system quickly and easily. Users at the system are provided with an easily understandable and intuitive interaction concept, enabling them to define efficient working sequences.

This new system rounds off the product portfolio of the intralogistics supplier along the customers’ logistics value chain. Thus, users only have one contact for the entire system, from project planning and project management up to service.

BEUMER Group is an international manufacturer and provider of intralogistics – conveying, loading, palletising, packaging, sortation and distribution technology.

Together with Crisplant a/s and Enexco Teknologies India, BEUMER Group employed some 4,000 people in 2014. The group generated an annual turnover of approximately 680 million euros. With its subsidiaries and sales agencies, BEUMER Group is present in many industries worldwide.

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Asahi Photoproducts AWP-DEF PTD Plate Technology A 33% improvement in overall equipment effectiveness is secured with Asahi AWP™- DEF AWP-DEF Pinning Top Dot (PTD) flexographic photopolymer plate technology from Asahi Photoproducts, flexographic plate manufacturer, recognizes the need for fast paced packaging and label printing companies to deliver every higher levels of graphic print quality, both consistently and profitably.

or “kiss touch” printing as it’s known, which reduces dot gain and results in plates that last longer in the printing process. Less plate wear means reduced plate replacement costs for the printer. Reduced ink filling-in at the mid tone area during printing then also leads to fewer cleaning intervals and increased press production uptime.

Asahi AWP-DEF plates achieve a high quality print performance as a result of their engineered photopolymer chemistry design.

With a very high plate resolution designed for fine text and minimum dots fading out to zero, the unique plate specification allows a larger total colour gamut to be achieved, particularly in any highlight areas, providing more design flexibility and graphic quality.

As the Asahi AWP- DEF plate do not need to be cleaned as often as conventional digital solvent plates, the reduction of press cleaning creates a significant step in profitability for users, as a result of the improvement in overall equipment

In terms of the plate production process, as the Asahi AWP- DEF plate making process is solvent-less, there is no need for high temperature processes and the result is a perfect, dimensionally stable plate, which ensures high quality consistent print production without colour shift.

Branded Asahi AWP- DEF, Asahi’s digital water wash flexo plate also has a lighter printing impression which produce constant repeatability of the print quality during a run, ensuring improved graphic consistency and print performance.

How it works Asahi AWP-DEF Pinning Top Dot plate technology from Asahi is specifically engineered to transfer all remaining ink to the print substrate. The science behind this beneficial property is simple; the Asahi AWP-DEF plate has a lower surface energy than conventional solvent plates enabling improved ink transfer to the print surface.

Successful flexographic printing is not just about high quality print performance. In today’s competitive flexo world, profitable production is key and this is where Asahi AWP™- DEF Pinning Top Dot plate technology ensures performance meets profit!

Improved Printer Profitability The Asahi engineered low surface energy plate design facilitates low printing pressure,

effectiveness.

Two key areas of inefficiency in the modern print shop are also plate availability and time to press, which are also both resolved by the Asahi AWP-DEF PTD solution.

The solvent-free production of the Asahi AWP-DEF PTD plate does not require the incorporation of a drying process therefore on average the plate can be delivered to press in approximately one-hour minimizing the risk of press downtime. This speed to press also facilitates its application in combination printing, popular in label and flexible packaging printing applications.

In summary, the quality, register, availability, flexibility and reduced cleaning requirements of the Asahi AWP-DEF plate solution ensure high graphic performance and productivity is secured. Combine these benefits with the premium plate quality and the Asahi AWP-DEF is suitable to be used in the ever more popular Fixed Colour Palette printing process.

A recent case study by the Asahi team indicated a 33% improvement in Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) compared with using a standard solvent plate in the same print production set up.

A flexible packaging film printer with a CI Press printing water-based inks was using an anilox roller with a volume of 4cm3/m2 at 400/cm and had an average press speed of 350m/min. Working a three-shift system, 240 days per annum, at a machine cost per hour of euro350*, the company had a

total operating cost of euro 2,016,000 per machine and annum.

Utilizing a standard solvent plate, the company was experiencing euro987,840 of machine uptime cost and a non-production cost of euro1,028,160. This equated to a Solvent Plate OEE of just 49%.

Simply transferring to the Asahi AWPDEF plate, the company reversed that trend achieving a machine uptime cost of euro1,310,400 and non-production cost of euro705,600, securing an OEE of 65%.

The overall OEE advantage over the solvent plate was 33% or a saving of euro322,560 per machine and annum.

Obviously OEE data varies press shop to press shop and printer to printer with all the variables that need to be taken into account but the evidence is clear – the reduced downtime achieved via reduced cleaning and time to press using the Asahi AWP-DEF plate delivered the exceptional profitability and enhanced print performance as promised.

As demonstrated in the example, the Asahi AWP-DEF flexographic plate is a solution that can easily fit into any existing press shop environment with only the need for an additional water wash processor. This flexibility then enables the printer to react quickly to changing market requirements and trends whilst ensuring that the business efficiency improvement is sustained.

Furthermore the Asahi AWP-DEF plate solution can be used with high definition screening and microcell patterning technologies.

In summary printer operational efficiency is increased and the profit follows – performance meets profit with the Asahi flexographic Pinning Top Dot plate range!

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The 35th Annual FINAT Label Awards crosses new frontiers during the awards presentation ceremony on 11 June. The FINAT winners of the 2014 WLA judging which took place just before Labelexpo in Chicago last year were also recognised during the ceremony with the presentation of their awards.

FINAT, the international association for the self-adhesive labelling industry, has announced the winners of the 35th FINAT Label Award Competition. Welcoming several new contestants to the ever growing portfolio of high quality entrants, the number of entrants increased slightly over last year to 260 award entries from 45 companies representing 25 countries.

A new group – Digital – was introduced this year to recognise the significant part that digital printing is playing in the narrow web industry. This group included three categories covering the main digital printing technologies: solvent toner, dry toner and inkjet.

The judging panel was chaired by industry expert Tony White, who was supported by regulars Steve Wood (UK), Murat Sipahioglu (Turkey), Rik Olthof (design expert from Cartils Branding & Packaging design agency in the Netherlands) and Prof. Dr. Efe Gencoglu (Vice Manager of Marmara University, Turkey and new chairman of the Turkish Label Competition).

“The diversity of applications never ceases to amaze us and this year was no exception with 81 entries winning awards including a Best in Show and a special Judges award. The quality level in general has improved with fewer entries being rejected for mis-register! This made the selection of the category and group winners all the more difficult. Many of the designs can be described as adventurous and eye-catching which indicates that brand owners are using more visual approaches to attract impulse purchase customers,” comments Mr. White.

In addition to the Group and Category Winners, 61 Highly Commended Certificates were awarded. The Best in Show, Group, Category and Judges’ awards were presented at FINAT’s European Label Forum

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The Best in Show and Printing Processes Group Winner awards went to Collotype Labels (Italy) for the ‘Americano Gancia’ label. The judges awarded the maximum number of technical points available to this label. This is a true combination label produced in 10 colours using flexo, screen, offset litho, cold foil, hot foil and varnishing all in a single pass. The design is clean and bright and the gold foil is very well executed with the gold type faces and medallions very, very legible. The finished result is testament to the amount of control required throughout the whole production process from prepress through printing to finishing.

label is designed to fit into a system for the cryogenic storage, preservation and handling of biological samples. The complexity of the label is in the converting and clever application of the labels to the actual phial.

The die-cutting had to be precise and capable of being applied and stored in freezer conditions. The innovation is mainly in the end use application.

The Digital Group Winner is Collotype Labels (US) for ‘Diströya’, a fearsome looking label with plenty of action. A 210 line screen was used to achieve the extraordinary detail in the illustrations and the script type which can be seen throughout the label. The embossing and debossing is in exact register as is the foil stamping and the spot varnishes. The detail in the four medals is easily legible and the touch of adding a blue stamp adds a touch of colour o the end result. The background effect of the label being printed on parchment paper is a genius touch.

The Judges Special Award was given to Cabas S.A. (Greece)for ‘Anassa Organics Tea’. The judges considered that this set of labels was outstanding in its story telling and the simplicity of the printing processes used.

The Marketing/End-Uses Group Winner is Collotype Labels North America Wines & Spirits (USA) for ‘Dream No. 7’, a delightfully complex looking label with hidden depths.

This label has an almost abstract appearance with non-descript shapes “floating” throughout the ever changing background colours. The stark white, screen printed label title and the subtle complex embossing gives this label a definite quality lift. The different levels of varnish add depth to the final result which is printed in 7 colours.

The Non-Adhesive Group Winner is For labels S.A. (Greece) for ‘Gods and Goddesses Ouzo’. A neat little sleeve digitally printed in 5 colours on PET film. Each sleeve has the name of the god/goddess that is represented in the illustration, making it a really nice result with a fun element to the final sleeve.

The Innovation Group Winner is Tovenca AG (Swizerland) for ‘Cryo-Etiketten’. The

India’s Holostic won for Hero Motocorp Ltd. in the Automotive and Pragati Pack won for SoraféNat 120 Tablets in the Pharmaceutical.

Both won in the Marketing/ End-Use category.

Later this year, the FINAT entries for the 2015 L9 World Label Awards (WLA) competition will be selected for judging just before Labelexpo Europe in Brussels end September. A FINAT member has also won a coveted WLA Best of the Best award which will remain a secret until it is presented to the winning company during the Label Industry Global Awards ceremony to be held on the 29th September during Labelexpo Europe.

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Soma to exhibit at Labelexpo Europe 2015 Flexible packaging production specialist, Soma will detail mid web flexo press opportunities for label printers at the Labelexpo Europe 2015 later this year. Soma Engineering has signed up as an exhibitor at Labelexpo Europe 2015, where it will display its mid web Optima CI press platform and present a ‘completely new concept in flexographic printing presses’ to the label and package printing industry.

Soma has developed the Optima as a mid web CI press optimised to run label stock paper and film packaging materials, and to bridge the gap between narrow and wide web printing for products such as in-mold and wrap around labels, shrink sleeves, retort stand-up pouches and sachets, as well as paper sacks, cups and plates.

Peter Blasko, Soma Engineering marketing manager, comments ‘The Optima has been a great success with our wide web customers, but we are now also identifying label printers that want to offer a wider portfolio of products such as, for example shrink sleeves. We consider Labelexpo to be the best channel with which to share this successful press concept with the label market. The Optima can handle virtually any product in the mid web field and we will demonstrate this to anyone interested in this growing opportunity during Labelexpo.’

Available in 620mm (24in) and 820mm (32in) widths in up to eight colors, the Optima is capable of speeds up to 300m/ min (984ft/min), and features unwind and rewind systems that are located outside the

printing unit modules. This variable design allows the option of choosing any unwind/ rewind configuration and in-line upstream or downstream printing and converting units such as cold seal or slitting.

The Optima will be shown on the company’s stand, running live job demonstrations throughout the show. The press will be equipped with eight printing units and will feature fast web changeover for reverse printing, intelligent impression adjustment to reduce start-up waste and Soma’s new, award-winning print cartridge system for spot colours, which offers printers a means of significantly reducing ink costs on printing jobs where expensive colours, special effect and metallic ink formulations are required.

Pavla Kusa, Soma Engineering Commercial Director, says that, since the Optima was launched to the wide web flexible packaging industry, ‘we have shown that this press fills a gap in the market. It offers a technology that meets customer needs perfectly,’ she says.

“Discussions with customers also brought to light label printers struggling under the growth of digital printing pressures pushing down the price of jobs. Offering them the Optima solution and diversification into mid web with existing customers gives a real opportunity for growth and us the advantage of offering not just a machine, but a business plan too.”

Labelexpo Europe 2015 will take place at Brussels, Belgium from September 29 to October 2.

Gallus makes quick inroads into Indian market Gallus India has installed 14 presses so far this year. The top selling model being its ECS 340 with eight installations. These installations include a 9-colour ECS 340 to Monarch Graphics and an 8-colour ECS machine to Alpine Containers. Two 10-colour machines have also been installed

by the company at two customers in the country. The installed machines are carrying out different types of printing jobs doing everything from self-adhesive labels to printing tube laminates, shrink sleeves and in-mold labels.

Gallus has installed over 300 ECS 340 globally. The other presses installed by Gallus in 2015 in India include Gallus EM 280 and Gallus EMS 430. The number of installed Gallus presses in India has crossed 90 presses.

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Labelexpo Europe 2015 The expo strengthens focus on package printing Package printing will be a core subject at Labelexpo Europe as the show prepares to return to Brussels this autumn. Set to be the biggest ever edition in its 35 year history, Labelexpo Europe 2015’s show floor and feature areas will firmly put the spotlight on the lucrative commercial opportunities package print production offers. Taking place at Brussels Expo in Belgium from 29 September to 2 October, the show is aimed at trade professionals including label and package printers, brand owners and designers. Visitors to the show will be able to see and source the latest label and package printing solutions from over 600 exhibitors.

Leading industry suppliers will be there in force with exhibitor highlights including Soma Engineering showing a working press for the first time. Soma will display its mid web Optima CI press platform to present a completely new concept in flexographic printing presses to the label and package printing industry. More commonly perceived as a wide web press manufacturer, Soma has developed the Optima as a mid-web CI press optimized to run label stock paper and film packaging materials, and to bridge the gap between narrow and wide web printing for products such as shrink sleeves, retort stand-up pouches and sachets, in-mold and wraparound labels, as well as paper sacks, cups and plates.

Soma’s Optima will be running live job demonstrations throughout the show. The press being displayed will be equipped with eight printing stations and will feature fast web changeover, intelligent impression adjustment to reduce start-up waste and Soma’s new, award-winning print cartridge system for spot colors, which offers printers a means of significantly reducing ink costs

on printing jobs where expensive colors, special effect and metallic ink formulations are required.

its 3500 for digital folding cartons and Nilpeter showing its FA* flexo press for flexible packaging capabilities.

In addition, the award winning REVO team – consisting of Nuova Gidue, Flint Group, Apex International, AVT, DuPont, Esko, UPM Raflatac and packaging converter Adare Group – will bring new technology to Labelexpo Europe demonstrating how low migration UV flexo inks can be used to convert flexible packaging. Currently, most food-grade flexible packaging is printed with either solvent or water-based flexo inks or with solvent gravure. UV has been considered problematic because the photoinitiators can migrate if not fully cured. The REVO team claims to have developed a technology to guarantee that every meter of film within a roll has been fully cured, and that brand colors are consistently matched by a seven-color process ink set.

The Smart Packaging Lab will focus on opportunities in intelligent and active packaging, while the inaugural Packaging Design Studio will give show-goers a chance to network with some of the industry’s leading creative designers.

Covering an unprecedented eight halls, Labelexpo Europe will also host an array of educational feature areas. The Packprint Workshop will give practical insight into how printers can diversify and grow their business with press demonstrations by Xeikon using

HP Indigo and partners will present their package printing solutions with the return of the Print Your Future feature area. Visitors will be able to see a wide range of applications, including flexible packaging, shrink sleeves and labels alongside new advanced color management tools and inks. Both the HP Indigo 20000 and WS6800 Digital Presses will be on display.

Lisa Milburn, managing director of the Labelexpo Global Series explains: “Package printing is now central to the label printing community and Labelexpo experience. With 53% of our total exhibitors showing products for flexible packaging and 32% featuring products for folding cartons, Labelexpo Europe offers all printers the most extensive showcase of package printing solutions available. Nowhere else will print industry professionals find such a comprehensive range of suppliers and technologies which will help gear up their business, improve profitability and add value for their customers.”

An early bird discount rate is available until 18 September with entry to the show costing Euro 55.

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POLAR Mohr expands its product portfolio POLAR Mohr is expanding its product portfolio in the direction of single-sheet processing In Digicut, POLAR is offering a device for the creative processing of single sheets. The laser cutter can cut, perforate, crease and engrave in one pass – without the need for a tool change.

The innovative laser technology opens up numerous possibilities for digital and commercial printers. The laser enables the most intricate contours to be not only cut, but also perforated, creased and engraved - all in a single pass and on a wide variety of materials.

Production options There are practically no limits when it comes to the contour. Because a laser is used, there are also no additional tool costs. As a result, batches from one single copy to several hundred can be produced very economically.

in presentations) or distance measuring devices through to CD players.

A small selection of products that can be manufactured with the Digicut includes: cards, invitations, envelopes, folders, writing paper, samples, business cards, place cards, lanterns, jigsaws, bookmarks.

Laser cutting is a thermal separating method for flat-lying material. The material is processed without any contact, and therefore does not need to be fixed. The material itself is vaporized on the surface in fractions of a second as a result of the laser energy. This sounds more dangerous than it is. Like our cutting machines, the Digicut also meets the high POLAR safety standard, which is confirmed by the GS mark.

Digicut description The tool in the Digicut is a laser beam.

Today, laser technology is already used in many areas of day-to-day life: from a simple light pointer (e.g. a laser pointer

PolyOne celebrates grand opening of new Asia Innovation Center PolyOne Corporation, a premier provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, celebrated the grand opening of its new Asia Innovation Center in Shanghai, China. The new facility enables collaborative innovation, accelerates application development and increases speed-to-market for customers in the Asia Pacific region.

our dedicated PolyOne associates who serve them,” said Robert M. Patterson, president and chief executive officer, PolyOne Corporation. “We continue to invest in Asia so that our customers can innovate and grow, and that’s exactly what will take place through improved collaboration at our advanced, new Innovation Center.”

In the opening ceremony event, customers and local officials participated in tours and demonstrations that showcased how PolyOne differentiates its products and services in the specialty marketplace.

The state-of-the-art facility is strategically located in a hi-tech industrial park in the JinQiao Development Zone in Shanghai. The new Innovation Center houses cutting-edge laboratory facilities, an interactive product display and a modern training facility, where customers can collaborate with PolyOne’s technical and marketing experts to accelerate

“We are proud and excited to be expanding in Asia in support of our customers and

development. Activities will include regional and global R&D projects, focusing on highgrowth end markets, such as healthcare, packaging, transportation, electronics, and consumer goods. The facility also now serves as the company’s regional headquarters.

Commenting on PolyOne’s recent growth and success in Asia, Rob Bindner, vice president, Asia, said, “Our commitment to customers in Asia has never been stronger.

This is clearly evident in our continued investment and success with regional and multi-national customers who rely on PolyOne for specialty solutions and services.”

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A new Scodix offers latest enhancements to Aggarwal Digital Studio Hisar based Aggarwal Digital Studio has recently opted for a Scodix S75 Inkjet enhancement and decoration press. The company will be using this new press for standing out in the highly competitive print market.

Scodix S Digital Press Series allows users to offer their customers brilliant, high quality graphic communications products with tangible dimensions that stand out and differentiate them from their competitors.

The Scodix S75 Press is for media size up to B2+ (530 x 750mm / 20.8 x 29.5”).

The Scodix S series Digital Enhancement Presses produce the breakthrough Scodix SENSE printing experience, making a lasting impression on the consumer for effective brand differentiation.

The Scodix S Digital Press series is ideal for a wide range of market segments including B2B – Folders, catalogues, brochures, business cards, direct mail, labels, inserts, advertising materials and B2C – Invitations, greeting cards, calendars, photo albums.

Scodix S Series feature the Scodix PolySENSE advanced ink – a proprietary, UV curable, clear polymer that produces

high resolution, top-quality detailing and consistent results across a wide range of media formats and thicknesses. What makes Scodix special is: •

99 Gloss Units (GU) – the highest gloss available for printed materials • Up to 250 microns in polymer height – over 20 times higher than selective that contains no polluting additives, Scodix varnish SENSE eliminates plates, molds, chemicals, Engage The Senses, Provide an Experience • Variable density capabilities, ranging Scodix SENSE™ the breakthrough digital enhancement printing experience produced by the Scodix and solvents, while reducing energy digital press S series, brings a new look and tangible dimension to the graphic communications from 1% to 100% consumption.

Scodix SENSE output is nonprinted image, creating an eye-catching, memorable experience.

• Digital-Glittering using the Scodix toxic and recyclable.

Stand Out From The Rest Rainbow Variety Density By touching the senses with print that stands out, • Metallic effect with Scodix Metallic Scodix SENSE™ leaves a lasting impression and single delivers true differentiation to the A print service operator can run the machine. provider (PSP), clients and products - a must inup takes hardly any time. In addition, Setting The completely digital stand-alone solution today's highly competitive industry. the patent pending Scodix RSP Technology Superior supports barcode and variable data Quality ensures excellent image-to-image The Scodix S Series presses execute unblemished, applications. Compatible with Offset, selective enhancement with Scodix's proprietary registration. laminated sheets and Digital PolySENSE™ print, theclear press polymer: Patterns Unitsof (GU) – Highest gloss available for • 99 Gloss automatically processes a wide range printed materials The wedding photo album specialist will be paper formats and substrates, with no need • Up to 250 microns** in polymer height – 100 using the Scodix for various enhancements times higher than selective varnish for any additional complex setup. likeDensities Metallic Embossing on wedding albums.

• Un-limited variety of Scodix SENSE™ (few examples presented on the right) Aggarwal Digital Studio has a wide range • Scodix Delivering an unmatched range of “lens effect” makes color stand out of of digital Scodix Metallic™ – Unlimited variety metallicequipments of various brands enhancements, the Scodix S• Digital Presses colors in a single step process including HP, Konica Minolta, Noritsu and produce Scodix SENSE by applying clear Fuji. The Scodix will be complementing their polymer to images in variable levels of Digital capabilities further. thickness and texture of up to 250 microns, allowing for easy single or dual-sided printing. It features a clean, green process

Events Calendar 3rd LMAI Conference 2015

Paperex 2015

Date: 16 JUL-15 to 18 JUL-15 Venue: Fairmont Hotel Jaipur

Date: 01 NOV-15 to 04 NOV-15 Venue: Pragati Maidan New Delhi

PackPlus 2015

Pamex 2015

Date: 30 JUL-15 to 02 AUG-15 Venue: Pragati Maidan New Delhi

Date: 09 DEC-15 to 12 DEC-15 Venue: Bombay Exhibition Centre Mumbai

WAN-IFRA India 2015 Conference & Expo

drupa 2016

Date: 02 SEP-15 to 04 SEP-15 Venue: Bombay Exhibition Centre Mumbai

World Publishing Expo 2015 Date: 05 OCT-15 to 07 OCT-15 Venue: Hamburg, Germany

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

Labelexpo India 2016 Date: 17 NOV-16 to 20 NOV-16 Venue: India Expo Centre Greater Noida (Delhi NCR)

Readers are required to confirm the dates of the exhibition from the organizers. This is a reader service provided by PRESSIdeas and the company cannot be held responsible for any error or omission.

If your event is not listed in the above list, kindly write to us at info@pressideas.com with subject as event and we shall gladly be including the same as above.

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