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Contents FROM THE EDITORS’ DESK............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 6 Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 75 Anicolor ............................................................................................................................................................................... 8 Heidelberg celebrates major milestone................................................................................................................................................................................12 International industry event in Lucerne...............................................................................................................................................................................14 Printer’s Quality Month-2015 celebrated.............................................................................................................................................................................16 Bobst Open House........................................................................................................................................................................................................................17 Second drupa Global Trends report.......................................................................................................................................................................................18 KBA at Print China: Print Solutions for All.............................................................................................................................................................................19 X-Rite launches i1iSis 2 Automated Chart Reader for improved prepress/pressroom quality, productivity...............................................20 Printplus orders Welbound duo...............................................................................................................................................................................................20 Kodak names Allan Brown to lead Unified Workflow Solutions business................................................................................................................20 manroland Sheetfed’s ROLAND 700 Evolution Press awarded for Product Design..............................................................................................21 Times of India invests in Q.I. Press Controls’ mRC-3D.......................................................................................................................................................22 Q.I. Press Controls convinces Mayr Miesbach GmbH of benefits mRC-3D and IDS-3D........................................................................................23 2nd drupa Global Trends report 2015 ..................................................................................................................................................................................23 Adobe Publish coming in summer 2015..............................................................................................................................................................................24 Success twice over in China for Q.I. Press Controls...........................................................................................................................................................24 Agfa Graphics presents Eversify to publishing industry leaders at DIS in Berlin....................................................................................................25 ‘Genuine News, Genuine Readers’ by Hindu ......................................................................................................................................................................25 First British user of Linoprint CV Digital Printing System................................................................................................................................................26 Pitney Bowes renews global strategic alliance with HP..................................................................................................................................................27 Xerox Color 800i / 1000i Presses..............................................................................................................................................................................................28 Tenth Annual Dscoop Conference breaks records............................................................................................................................................................29 EFI and Xerox team up to advance Digital Colour Printing............................................................................................................................................30 Konica Minolta gives end customers insight into colour printing..............................................................................................................................30 Scodix 8-country world tour showcases versatile Ultra Pro Digital Enhancement Press....................................................................................31 Xerox India appoints Anurag Gupta as Director, CSO......................................................................................................................................................31 Konica Minolta Bizhub PRESS C70hc......................................................................................................................................................................................32 Xerox showcases marquee Digital Presses at Chennai ...................................................................................................................................................32 Techno Graphic Services becomes Channel Partner for Kodak Prosper Imprinting Systems Printing and Packaging Cluster............33 Digiflex acquires KODAK FLEXCEL NX System....................................................................................................................................................................34 MPS to begin assembling presses in North America........................................................................................................................................................35 Heinz and Kraft Foods sign merger agreement.................................................................................................................................................................36 Schur is building Europe’s most modern folding box plant..........................................................................................................................................37 XeikonCafé Packaging Innovations wraps up successful 2015 edition with 35% rise in visitor numbers....................................................38 Evonik expands silicone platform in Germany and China..............................................................................................................................................39 OMET installs the 600th printing press in the world........................................................................................................................................................39 LUXE PACK Shanghai 2015 presents “LUXE PACK in green HALL of FAME”..............................................................................................................40 Bobst Group nearly doubles net result ................................................................................................................................................................................42 UPM Raflatac appoints Praveen Gupta as GM and Business Development Director in South Asia................................................................42 Esko’s Kongsberg XP and ArtiosCAD installed at Pyramid Packaging.......................................................................................................................43 Sapphire to represent Xeikon in Indian document printing market..........................................................................................................................44 Esko to acquire MediaBeacon...................................................................................................................................................................................................45 Flexo Image Graphics opens sales office in Dubai............................................................................................................................................................45 A Promising Future for Packaging and Printing.................................................................................................................................................................46 India Day at PRINT CHINA 2015 ...............................................................................................................................................................................................46 The Gallus Group sales increase by 8% in 2014 ................................................................................................................................................................47 FASTSIGNS brings cutting & routing tasks in-house with Esko Kongsberg V table...............................................................................................48 Agfa Graphics to demonstrate new Jeti Titan with Varnish at ISA’s Sign Expo 2015............................................................................................50

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FROM THE EDITORS’ DESK Dear Readers, Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 75 Anicolor is now available as a perfecting press with UV technology. Visitors to the Heidelberg Info Days enjoyed not one, but two world premieres. Interested industry people can participate in application trials on the Speedmaster XL 75 -5+L with Anicolor and UV in Hall 6 at Wiesloch-Walldorf. Also, at Wiesloch-Walldorf, Heidelberg’s World Logistics Center is supplying customers with service parts and consumables in no more than 24 hours. The company has extended this unique service with currently operating three more such centers in the strategically important markets of Japan, Hong Kong/China, and the United States. Further, Heidelberg is making steady advancement in digital printing arena –Diguru is a commercial printing company and the first British user of the new Heidelberg Linoprint CV digital printing system.

Back home, Repro India celebrated The Printer Quality Month across its plants. Repro has been commemorating the father of Printing – Johannes Gutenberg whose birth anniversary is celebrated as Printer’s Day worldwide. Even as the month of November is celebrated as Quality Month worldwide, Repro has been celebrating Printers week in the month of February. This year Repro decided to combine the two events and named it as ‘Printers Quality Month’.

Konica Minolta has introduced Bizhub PRESS C70hc which produces vivid colour quality that gives a competitive edge to its users. With a print speed of 71 ppm, it is ideal for graphics professionals and print shops that require higher quality output and enhanced colour gamut. Konica Minolta also conducted a Colour Management Seminar for its customers at its Bangalore office. Another digital major, Scodix has commenced a worldwide VIP tour to showcase its most versatile and productive digital enhancement press visiting Commercial Printers, Digital Service Providers, and Folding Carton Converters in 8 cities, over a 14-week period. Xerox showcased its recently launched digital production presses Xerox Colour C60, Xerox Versant 2100 and Phaser 7800 at a road show held in Chennai. Enfocus will be soon conducting its first Product Seminars in India.

On the installation front, India’s largest media conglomerate, the Times of India has invested in Q.I. Press Controls’ mRC-3D press automation solution. Digiflex, Hyderabad-based pre-press bureau, recently completed the installation of KODAK FLEXCEL NX System at its Cherlapally site.

OMET has installed the 600th printing press in the world. Also, Horizon Packs Group, with ten plants across the length and breadth of the country, has installed an Esko Kongsberg XP digital finishing table and structural design software ArtiosCAD at the Pyramid Packaging plant outside Bengaluru.

In major industry events, there is: Toyo Ink merging its two Taiwan subsidiaries; Pitney Bowes renewing global strategic alliance with HP; EFI and Xerox teaming up to advance Digital Colour Printing; Techno Graphic Services becoming Channel Partner for Kodak Prosper Imprinting Systems; Heinz and Kraft Foods entering into a definitive merger agreement; and Sapphire agreeing to represent Xeikon in Indian document printing market.

Apart from this, find a lot more topics serving diverse interest in the inside pages of this issue.

- Jasvinder Singh, Sub-editor

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Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 75 Anicolor Now also available as a perfecting press with UV technology

Visitors to the Heidelberg Info Days “Profitable and efficient production of short runs” at the WieslochWalldorf site enjoyed not one, but two world premieres. Held at the beginning of March, the event showcased an eight-colour Speedmaster XL 75 Anicolor perfector and a five-colour Speedmaster XL 75 Anicolor with coating unit and UV technology.

In doing so, Heidelberg demonstrated two further configuration levels of its Anicolor technology for the cost-effective production of short runs. The Speedmaster SX 52 Anicolor has been available as a perfecting press since 2008 and as a UV press since 2010.

The Speedmaster XL 75 Anicolor celebrated its premiere at drupa 2012 and, since then, has proved its worth to commercial and, in particular, packaging printers. In small and medium formats, the zoneless Anicolor technology impresses with rapid inking-up that produces saleable sheets from the 20th print sheet onward. Users say it reduces waste by up to 90 percent and supports very short make-ready times.

Anicolor as a long perfecting press – extremely flexible Customers and interested parties are invited to participate in application trials on the Speedmaster XL 75 -5+L with Anicolor and UV in Hall 6 at Wiesloch-Walldorf.

The perfecting technology is the most productive process for printing jobs on both sides. Anicolor technology from Heidelberg reduces waste and makeready times. The Speedmaster XL 75 Anicolor perfector now combines both advantages in a single press.

It is available for delivery immediately and the first presses have already been sold. The front and reverse sides are printed in a single pass, which greatly reduces delivery times. Thanks to the modular design of the Speedmaster XL 75 platform, customers can tailor their specific configuration to market requirements and thus acquire an extremely flexible press. The Speedmaster XL 75 Anicolor covers a broad spectrum, from a 4/4 press to a long perfector with coating and drying units.

The Speedmaster XL 75 Anicolor is designed for customers in industrialized countries, although the long perfecting presses are predominantly of interest to commercial printers keen to offer their customers a wide range of products. However, the press will also impress packaging printers, as it is ideal for practical applications. If, for example, the inner side has to be printed with a spot colour and, following sheet reversal, the outer side printed with six colours, this presents an interesting challenge for the production of folding cartons. In such scenarios, Anicolor technology can reveal its full benefits with excellent full-area printing.

In addition to the Heidelberg Info Days, customers and other interested parties have the opportunity to see a Speedmaster XL 75 Anicolor 8-P in action in a range of presentations and demonstrations in Hall 6 at Wiesloch-Walldorf.

Key Notes : > Anicolor as a long perfecting press – extremely flexible. > Anicolor and UV printing – versatile finishing effects and fast, cost-effective manufacturing. > Anicolor in general – cost-effective production of short runs.

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Visitors at Heidelberg Info Days saw production demo on Speedmaster XL 75 Anicolor 8-P.

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The Speedmaster XL 75-5+L with Anicolor and UV technology impresses with dry sheets in the delivery.

Anicolor and UV printing – versatile finishing effects and fast, cost-effective manufacturing One in every four Speedmaster XL 75 machines from Heidelberg is already supplied as a UV press. Consequently, UV technology is also being transferred to the Speedmaster XL 75 Anicolor. In-house trials are currently taking place with high-profile customers during the test phase at the Wiesloch-Walldorf site. The first deliveries are planned for the end of this year. The target groups here are commercial, packaging, and specialist printers, with the primary markets for UV being in Europe, the United States, and Japan.

range of finishing options, offering printers opportunities to set themselves apart from the competition and provide added value for their customers.

Profitable and efficient production of short runs During the Heidelberg Info Days, visitors gained an overview of which presses can be used to produce even the shortest runs

cost-effectively. The event showcased a comprehensive portfolio, including the Speedmaster SX 52 and XL 75 Anicolor models, and the digital printing systems Linoprint CP and Linoprint CV, which are suitable for new applications such as opaque white, varnish, and, of course, personalized print products. Combining offset technology with the digital printing systems offers immense potential.

UV presses can process absorbent and non-absorbent materials, which arrive in the delivery dry and can be passed to postpress immediately. The combination of Anicolor and UV generates less waste, thus resulting in major cost savings, particularly for print specialists working with expensive materials such as films. Thanks to short makeready times and rapid deliveries, business models like web-to-print are also possible.

In addition, UV printing is suitable for a

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The Speedmaster XL 75 Anicolor with UV is suitable for a range of finishing options.

Heidelberg celebrates major milestone Milestones for integrated logistics network from Heidelberg supporting print shop performance.

Heidelberg is celebrating a major milestone.

Its World Logistics Center (WLC) opened at the company’s headquarters in Wiesloch-Walldorf some 15 years ago. This laid the foundation for a globally integrated logistics network that aims to supply customers with service parts and consumables in no more than 24 hours.

In addition to the original center in Germany, Heidelberg therefore now operates a further three logistics centers in the strategically important markets of Japan, Hong Kong/China, and the United States. “The service promise of our integrated logistics network supports the performance of our customers across the globe, ensuring high machine uptime and reliable quality,” says Bernhard Steinel, who is in charge of the Systemservice business area at Heidelberg.

Logistics network and preventive service functions complement each other

The company has also reached a further milestone. The one millionth order has just left the Heidelberg hub in Indianapolis in the United States, which opened in 2004 and supplies service parts to the whole of North and South America. Over the past 15 years, the logistics centers have processed a joint total of nearly five million orders and shipped them to customers the world over.

Over 200 qualified support staff use state-of-theart technology to process orders, purchases, and shipments. Heidelberg currently processes up to 1,500 orders each working day at its logistics centers around the globe. Customers receive the parts they order within 24 hours in over 95 percent of cases. At the WLC in Germany alone, Heidelberg keeps around 120,000 different parts in stock.

The global logistics network boosts the impact of the preventive services in the Heidelberg portfolio. For example, when the preventive Remote Service functions eCall and Remote Monitoring detect that parts need to be replaced – long before a machine stoppage occurs – the worldwide logistics network ensures that the correct service part has been delivered by the time the engineer arrives. “Our Remote Service is key to ensuring machine availability for a growing number of customers, but it only really comes into its own in conjunction with our global service network, which is unique in the industry,” stresses Steinel.

Customers benefit from fast deliveries and cutting-edge technology

Over the past 15 years, the logistics centers have processed a joint total of nearly five million orders and shipped them to customers the world over.

Key Notes : > Customers receive service parts and consumables within 24 hours. > Logistics network boosts impact of preventive service portfolio. > One millionth order leaves hub in United States.

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Heidelberg’s World Logistics Center in Wiesloch-Walldorf.

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International industry event in Lucerne From February 23 to 26, Lucerne was the global center for “high performance digital printing”. Almost 6’000 visitors from over 50 nations traveled to Hunkeler Innovationdays 2015. The trade show was well-received, with most guests spending more than two days there.

Singular focus Compared to Innovationdays 2013, this year’s event was bigger and included many more international visitors. Nevertheless, Hunkeler Innovationdays 2015 retained its unique character and impact. Hunkeler AG, a family-run company, has managed to preserve the appeal of what was formerly a small company exhibiton, as it has grown over the years. The focus remains the same:

Hunkeler Highlights & topic areas 2015 Automation in focus

Hunkeler Innovationdays brings together supply sector experts and print service provider decision-makers in a practical and focused way. Innovationdays is a unique platform for presenting real world, highperformance digital printing solutions for transactional printing, direct mail, and the commercial printing of books, brochures, and newspapers in a relaxed and comfortable setting. At the event, Hunkeler demonstrated its production monitoring system that uses web monitoring and tracking with a focus on practical applications throughout the entire value creation chain. The high-caliber and clearly focused audience at Hunkeler Innovationdays encourages exhibitors to use the unique platform as a launching pad for world and European premieres.

Experience the many leading-edge developments for greater automation: • New generation of winding and unwinding modules with fast roll changes and production speeds over 300 metres/min • Book production line with automated format length changeover • Dynamic finishing for perforating, punching, gathering, chip-out, cutting and stacking • Ease-of-operation with new control platforms and software modules such as PerfEditor and LaserEditor

Broad substrate spectrum The new Hunkeler “Primer Coater” Module expands the range of conventional substrates that are eligible for inkjet printing, and can also add post-print gloss to inkjetprinted products.

Highlights & topic areas Newspapers Digital newspaper finishing with a new folder and collecting module for enhanced efficiency when producing tabloid and broadsheet formats - also perfectly suited for producing inserts.

Books Book production solutions in a variety of

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workflows. From highly flexible nearline solutions to highly-automated book production lines. From the white roll to the finished book. From short-life budget-bound books to efficient adhesive binding to quality thread stitching. From small to medium scale production runs.

Brochures Efficient production of digitally printed brochures with dynamic content and variable number of pages.

Dynamic perforation and punching Advanced production solution with even greater functionality and production speed for dynamic perforation and punching of payment forms, tear-off coupons, mailings and security applications.

More security with laser Laser finishing for perfect security printing.

Highly dynamic punching, perforating, and engraving of complex logos, shapes, text and numbers. Easy operation with an advanced LaserEditor for producing forgeproof checks, IDs, lottery tickets, coupons and much more.

Hunkeler control platform Quality control and document tracking that meet the latest standards for reliable production monitoring, compliance and reporting.

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Printer’s Quality Month-2015 celebrated The Printer Quality Month got celebrated across the Repo India plants with the objective of sharing and enhancing knowledge of shop floor employees and increase involvement of the people.

Repro has been commemorating the father of Printing – Johannes Gutenberg whose birth anniversary is celebrated as Printer’s Day worldwide. Even as the month of November is celebrated as Quality Month worldwide, Repro has been celebrating Printers week in the month of February. This year Repro decided to combine the two events and named it as ‘Printers Quality Month’.

The event comprised technical sessions from industry experts, elocution completion, essay competition etc. The topics of the technical seminars during the event (from 9th Feb to 27th Feb 2015) included: •

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Pressroom chemistry and troubleshooting by Rajensh Banerjee of Toyo inks Paper Manufacturing process, testing and trouble shooting in Printing by Shivkumar of ITC Past, Present, Future of Digital Book Market & Upcoming Technologies in the Market by Hemant Shedage of Xerox Role of glue thickness, notching, glue temperature on overall binding process and trouble shooting by Rajesh Chidambaram of Fuller Ink Technology by Paritosh Jha of Siegwerk Pressroom Chemicals and trouble shooting by Kiran Upasani of Perfect Graphics Enhancing Quality of Life by M. Mandlekar of NCQM Importance of Kaizen and 5S and Human Maintenance by Neeta Patil & Santosh Kerkar of Technova Rubber Rollers by Prabhat Kumar of Bottcher Value addition through Screen Printing Technology by Mustafa of Colors Supply Chain Management and improvement in spares inventory by using Theory of Constraints (TOC) by Gunjan Bhargava of Godrej Boyce

Shop floor employees shared their concerns

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and issues with the suppliers and got their issues/questions resolved through interaction. There was also a best stall competition. Each department was given a stall and the task was to explain their department in better way. They shared their process flow diagrams and entire processes in their department.

Few excerpts from the different event are given below.

1. After going through lecture on pressroom chemicals and troubleshooting Bharat D.K., one of the Sheetfed operators shared that he will now add Isopropyl Alcohol (IPA) while preparing fountain solution once temperature of chilling water reaches to 15°C. By this way he will save at least 2 liters of IPA per day. IPA being a Volatile Organic Component (VOC), by saving 2 liters of IPA per day it will save not only money but also lead to reducing impact on environment.

2. One more operator shared that earlier while preparing Fountain Solution of 5% fountain solution he use to take 100 ml water then 5% Fount solution which he will now take 95 ml water and then 5% Fount solution.

3. Lecture on paper by ITC on paper manufacturing process was well appreciated by the shop floor people and they stated that we were using paper for so many years but we now know how paper is made and intricacies in paper manufacturing.

4. Lecture from Xerox representative was focused on future of Digital printing and how important it for Publishers considering reduction in inventories and/or unsold books.

5. Fuller team shared with Binding team about the importance of the glue thickness, notching and glue temperature in binding strength of the books. They also shared the different

testing methods of Perfect binding books.

6. Perfect Graphics team explained to Sheetfed & QA team the importance of fountain solution and features of ideal fountain solution. Also role and effects of pH and conductivity on machine, plate and printing quality. Apart from fount quality they shared advantages of good quality wash which will be both eco-friendly and not harmful for human beings.

7. Mr. Mandalekar form National Center for Quality Management (NCQM) took session on Total Quality Life. He also explained how attitude of individual will have impact on his quality of life.

Correct attitude always leads to create excellence in work. This session was well appreciated by both staff and workmen and it was decided to extend it to all the employees through batches.

8. Technova team took session on Kaizena way of life. They explained how Japanese people initiated this concept Japan and spread worldwide. They shared the benefits Technova achieved through Kaizen initiative in Technova and how it will be beneficial for Repro as a company and people as individual.

9. Bottcher India team presented the intricacies of roller manufacturing and stringent quality control of Bottcher during manufacturing of rollers. They explained the manufacturing process of rollers and functional aspects in the print industry. They further explained how aromatic solvents are harmful for both human beings and the rollers. They stressed on the importance of usage of PPEs while handling pressroom chemicals and to make a way of life.

10. Mr. Mustafa from Colors took us in different world of Screen printing by showing different possible value additions through screen printing and future application of the same.

11. Godrej Boyce team share a case study of on Theory of Constraints (TOC) on Supply Chain Management and the benefits they got from the project.

Engineering stores team appreciated the fact and the way they reduced their inventory but still achieving higher customer satisfaction by providing spares at right time.

Bobst Open House Showcases high-speed F&K 20SIX CS wide-web press.

On February 25 and 26, Bobst Bielefeld, Germany, held an open house with its focus on high speed and wide web width flexo printing. Following the approach taken at BOBST’s highly successful open house last October, the event was divided into a seminar session in the morning and a print demonstration in the afternoon. Visitors from fifteen countries around the world attended the event and got an update on the latest flexo printing and process related developments.

The print demonstration utilized the flagship of the F&K 20SIX series of CI flexo presses, a “CS” model featuring a print width of 1’650 mm (65’’), a repeat of 1’200 mm (47.2’’), and a speed of 600 m/min (1’970 ft/min).

The extensive range of equipment onboard the press included F&K smartGPS, shaftless winders, a BOBST three-chip camera, a 100% inspection system, a special slitting device, and an auxiliary system for sleeve and cylinder handling.

During the demonstration, two five-colour jobs were run at 600 m/min, i.e. the maximum mechanical speed of the model showcased.

The changeover of the print sleeves in between the two jobs was performed using the cylinder handling system, which gave visitors an idea of its fast and user-friendly handling of even large format printing hardware. For impression and register set-up, F&K smartGPS, BOBST’s unique off-press technology was used, so visitors witnessed a complete changeover – from the end of the first five-colour job to saleable quality of the subsequent job – in less than 15 minutes.

During the seminar session, Bill Duckham and Hermann Koch, Bobst Bielefeld Sales Directors, spoke about specific challenges on a press designed for high speed and wide width applications, and about technical solutions integrated into the F&K 20SIX to meet these challenges.

Visitors heard that, most importantly, the specific technologies and measures that ensure consistently superior print quality throughout the process are related to: mechanical rigidity of cylinders and bearings; high precision impression adjustment; ink transfer from the ink chamber to the substrate; and to guaranteed drying of ink on the substrate. Michael Schmidt from Siegwerk Druckfarben highlighted the topic of high speed printing from the perspective of an ink manufacturer, presenting practical examples, limitations, and potential for optimization.

The second part of the seminar session was dedicated to plastic film as a packaging substrate. In his speech about the latest developments in extrusion, Sascha Skora,

from Reifenhäuser Blown Film, presented typical problems converters are faced with - from pellet quality to reel/winding quality of the film material. Mr. Skora also updated the visitors on the latest quality inspection systems for ensuring superior film quality throughout the extrusion process. Last but not least, Dr. Carolin Struller, from Bobst Manchester, illustrated the company’s indepth research on AlOx clear coating, from the way it is produced and its performance on various filmic substrates, through to its barrier retention with subsequent processes of printing and converting. AlOx coating is especially suitable for packaging where product visibility is required, including baked goods and microwaveable food.

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Second drupa Global Trends report International printing sector looks to the future with surprising optimism Initial results from the second “drupa Global Trends” report are showing sustained recovery from the recession with some surprising insights and positive feedback.

The full report designed to highlight economic and operational trends in the worldwide print sector is available at the end of March. The results are all the more interesting as the survey itself, conducted in October 2014, was largely identical to the first “drupa Global Trends” report from February 2014. In addition this year a full survey was conducted amongst industry suppliers for the first time, ensuring a balanced picture of the global print market. Developments and important key data from the worldwide print sector – such as financial conditions, business climate, investment plans and technologies used are given in detail and trends revealed.

Werner Matthias Dornscheidt, Chairman of the Messe Düsseldorf Management Board summarises the key results of the study. “The generally upbeat picture reported by the expert panel surprised us,” says Dornscheidt.

“Both the print service providers and the interna-tional supplier industry gave a positive evaluation of the economic situation of their own companies as at October 2014.

Even more surprising, however, was that the print and supplier industry is heading into 2015 with a very positive outlook.”

The question ‘How do you see the outlook for the coming twelve months?’ was answered by 48 percent of service providers sur-veyed with expectations of an improvement in their companies’ economic situation, and only seven percent with a decline. The results from the worldwide supplier industry were similarly positive: 51 percent forecast an improvement, and only eight percent a decline.

On the other hand, the results from individual performance measures surveyed show a much more mixed picture: 1.

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Sales for print service providers continue to rise – but are less pronounced. 39 percent of print service providers report an increase, whereas 22 percent show a drop in sales. This positive balance of 17 percent is well below the positive net balance of 27 percent from the first survey.

The margins for print service providers continue to fall. Almost half (43 percent) of the print service providers sur-veyed report falling margins, while just 16 percent succeeded in increasing margins. Positive exceptions here are the markets of North America and the Middle East, where 29 and 28 percent reported increased margins.

Enfocus to conduct first Product Seminars in India a lucky draw at each event in which winners stand a chance to win Pitstop Pro & other lucky prizes. The dates for the seminars are as under:

Enfocus will conduct product seminars at three major metro cities in India. The seminars are first such programme by the company in the country. It will be focusing on all three of its product lines – Enfocus PitStop PRO13, Enfocus Switch12 and Enfocus Connect ALL13. Mr. Yves De Vlieger, Enfocus Associate Director of Sales, Belgium will be the speaker at the events. There will also be

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On 13th April 2015 at Holiday Inn, Mayur Vihar, Delhi On 15th April 2015 at Raintree Hotels, St.Mary’s Road, Chennai On 17th April 2015 at Mirador Hotel, Andheri East, Mumbai

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Digital print is growing fast but is still a small percentage of turnover for most printers. As quickly as the share of digital printing in the overall print technology mix continues to rise, most turnover continues to be generated from traditional print. Only ten percent of the print service providers surveyed achieved more than 25 percent of their 2014 sales in digital printing (2013: 8 percent).

Print service providers are not turning to services outside the print sector. Often recommended as a new business area – but not yet realised in practice: Just 27 percent of the print providers surveyed achieved more than ten percent of their sales with services outside the print sector (e.g. asset management for customers, updating databases, etc.).

Drawing an initial conclusion from the second “drupa Global Trends” report, those surveyed feel pretty positive – even if some measures are still showing negative trends. This general optimism is supported by the investment plans cited both by print service providers and supplier firms. After all, only a forwardlooking development strategy ensures a competitive edge and thus the future of the company.

More than 1100 international decisionmakers from the print industry and their suppliers responded to the comprehensive survey in October 2014. The independent market research company Wissler & Partner (Switzerland) and Printfuture (UK) have – as with the first “drupa Global Trends” report and the first “drupa Global Insights” report – expertly evaluated and prepared the results.

At the end of March the Executive Summary will be available as a free download in seven languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and Russian) as well as the entire version incl. the full figures in English for a price of EUR 249.00 online at www.drupa.de.

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KBA at Print China: Print Solutions for All LED sheetfed offset, digital, flexo and glass container printing, inkjet coding and more At the Print China fair in Guangdong from 7th to 12th April, the KBA Group will be presenting a broad cross-section of its uniquely comprehensive product range for practically all print applications on an exhibition stand measuring over 1,000 m2.

Under the banner “Print Solutions for All”, KBA will also be revealing the secrets of a new medium-format press which is expected to capture users’ hearts not only on the Chinese market. The equipment features and performance of the new press have been positioned between the proven Rapida 105 and the high-end Rapida 106 models; the final unveiling is to be celebrated at the KBA manufacturing facility in Radebeul in June. Live production demonstrations at the fair will be showing off the latest extended capabilities of the Rapida 105 press, an absolute favourite among Chinese commercial and packaging printers, which was premiered in Shanghai at the end of 2011.

KBA has always played a pioneering role in innovations for the sheetfed offset market.

And that is currently the case yet again with the future-oriented LED-UV technology. KBA is presently the only manufacturer able to supply sheetfed offset presses with LED-UV dryers from B2 through to large formats, and can already point to a growing list of onstream installations, including long Rapida 106 presses for full-colour 4/4 perfecting.

Taking up the slogan “Dry for Profit”, the user benefits of LED drying are to be illustrated

The core message from KBA China at Print China 2015 is “sprinting for profit”

through the example of a Rapida 75. Key arguments in favour of the environment-friendly LED process, alongside the enormous energy savings compared to conventional processes, are above all the elimination of heat input into the substrate, the outstanding colour brilliance and the possibilities for immediate further processing of the print products.

“Quality for Profit” and “Network for Profit” Further sheetfed offset topics – spotlighted by the slogans “Quality for Profit” and “Net-work for Profit” – are systems for inline and online quality control, and a new MIS CIP4 workflow solution named Complete Druck.X, which will also be available in the Chinese language.

The offers are rounded off with a range of consumables from the PressConsum series.

By way of a comprehensive selection of print

samples, fair visitors can at the same time explore the capabilities of the new, flexibly scalable KBA RotaJET L platform for high-volume inkjet printing with web widths from 895 to 1,300 mm, as well as modern web presses for the printing of flexible packaging from KBAFlexotecnica, inkjet coding systems from KBA-Metronic, which are in the meantime also manufactured locally in China, screen and digital printing systems from KBA-Kammann for the industrial decoration of premium glass containers, a segment which is today especially widespread in China but in most cases still a manual process, and technical solutions from KBA-MePrint for the highquality printing of tubes, labels and films.

For the first time, the KBA Group will also be exhibiting a folding carton gluer, the Rapida FCG 110.

China has been one of the most important markets for KBA for a number of years. Around 20 per cent of all sheetfed offset presses manufactured in Radebeul – from the Rapida 75 to the Rapida 164 – are in use in Chinese print companies. Leading Chinese newspapers are printed on KBA press lines, as are metal sheets for drinks cans and many more products besides. KBA China is known for its intensive customer care and excellent service, and supports the users of KBA presses in every way possible in their strivings for economic success. Appropriately, the core message from KBA China at Print China is “KBA: sprinting for profit”.

KBA to present a broad cross-section of product range at Print China in Guangdong

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X-Rite launches i1iSis 2 Automated Chart Reader for improved prepress/ pressroom quality, productivity M1 measurement support, scanning of thousands of patches in minutes for fast, accurate measurement and device profiling X-Rite and its subsidiary Pantone have announced an important update to i1iSis Solutions family of automated chart readers for prepress/premedia, photo and pressroom colour management and profiling. The new i1iSis 2 and i1iSis 2 XL use i1 spectral technology to accommodate M0, M1 and M2 measurement illumination conditions which help manage the complexities of measuring optically brightened substrates now commonly used in grand format, premedia and digital press applications.

“For anyone in prepress, digital print or the graphic arts production process that spend time measuring charts, the new i1iSis2 is a must,” said Ray Cheydleur, Printing and Imaging Portfolio Manager of X-Rite. “This automated chart reader, is built on our awardwinning i1 spectral technology and reads up to 2,500 patches printed on a single A3 page in just minutes, saving valuable operator and production time. Now users have the ability to capture M0, M1 and M2 in a single chart measurement cycle.”

The i1iSis 2 integrates seamlessly into a user’s workflow and is available in two models: • i1iSis 2 XL: Reads up to 2,500 patches on a single A3/Tabloid sheet in just 10 minutes; • i1iSis 2: Reads up to 1,500 patches on a single A4/Letter sheet in just 8 minutes.

The X-Rite i1iSis 2 and i1iSis 2 XL come with built-in vision systems that offer high tolerance for how charts are aligned as they are fed into the system, automatically correcting for misalignment. Barcode reading

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for chart identification adds further ease of use and error reduction.

With the i1iSis 2 and i1iSis 2 XL, users are able to: • Capture full spectral data for the charts they measure; • Use with i1Profiler software to accommodate a variety of inks and substrates in any viewing condition using Optical Brightening Compensation (OBC); • Assure compliance with new ISO standards for M-Series measurement illumination conditions; and • Spend less time on press profiling and more on taking care of customers.

The i1iSis 2 and i1iSis 2 XL are XRGA compliant. The X-Rite Graphic Arts Standard

Printplus orders Welbound duo

(XRGA), an X-Rite calibration standard for graphic arts instruments, includes new advances in colour technology and changes required to meet ISO-13655. As XRGAcompliant instruments, the i1iSis 2 and i1iSis 2 XL ensure high quality data exchange and workflows in environments where different instrumentation is used.

Kodak names Allan Brown to lead Unified Workflow Solutions business Eastman Kodak Company has named Allan Brown as General Manager of the Unified Workflow Solutions (UWS) business.

The UWS business includes KODAK PRINERGY Workflow print industry solution for workflow management. PRINERGY Workflow helps reduce costs and build a more efficient environment with improved control and automation based on industry standard specifications.

Bhiwandi based Printplus has recently ordered two state-of-the-art machines from Welbound. The order was placed at the recently concluded Print Pack India 2015. The commercial and publishing print specialist has chosen a Nordson Altapail 20 litre melter and a Welbound Inline Perfect Binding machine to boost its book printing capability.

“Allan brings 25 years of experience in the print industry including software engineering and executive positions at Hewlett Packard and Xerox,” said Eric-Yves Mahe, Kodak’s President of Software and Solutions. “Allan’s extensive software experience in product development and operational excellence will be a great asset as we continue to strengthen our software business.”

Printplus already runs a fleet of different Welbound machines at its facility. With the new investment, Printplus will boost its binding process. The 20 litre capacity melter will be a significant boost from the existing 2 litre capacity melter being used for PUR book production at Printplus.

Brown most recently was vice president and general manager of HP’s integrated workflow software unit. He holds an M.B.A. from the University of Rochester, an M.S. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a B.S. in Computer Science from Tuskegee University.

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Toyo Ink SC Holdings merges two Taiwan subsidiaries Toyo Ink SC Holdings has announced that, effective January 1, 2015, it has merged two wholly-owned subsidiaries Toyo Ink Chemicals Taiwan and Toyo Ink Taiwan into a single operating entity. The reorganization also resulted in a name change of the newly formed company and a relocation of its head office.

The merger entailed the absorption of Toyo Ink Taiwan, which imported and sold Toyo Ink Group colour and functional materials, polymers and coatings, into the structure of the successor company Toyo Ink Chemicals Taiwan, which manufactures and sells resist inks used for LCD colour filters. Thereafter, Toyo Ink Taiwan was dissolved, and the name of the successor entity was changed to Toyo Advanced Science Taiwan Co., Ltd.

Group is looking to further boost customer and consumer satisfaction while advancing its businesses not only in Taiwan but also those in the China and Southeast Asia region.

Toyo Advanced Science Taiwan engages in the manufacture and sale of colour resist inks for LCDs as well as the import and sale of printing inks, printing-related materials, pigments, optical materials and adhesives.

It was established with a paid-in capital of 600 million Taiwan dollars and a head office

located in Taipei. Osamu Ohtake, the former president of Toyo Ink Chemicals Taiwan, serves as president of the newly formed entity.

This merger has no impact on the company’s consolidated business performance.

The Toyo Ink Group today consists of approximately 70 companies and more than 8,000 employees in 24 countries and areas around the world.

With this move, the Toyo Ink Group aims to strengthen and deepen its market presence in the Taiwan region by speeding up and reinforcing new product development and customer response time. In addition, the

manroland Sheetfed’s ROLAND 700 Evolution Press awarded for Product Design manroland’s new printing press has been recognized in one of the world’s biggest design awards. The ROLAND 700 Evolution, launched at the end of 2014, is one of the winners of the Red Dot Award for Product Design 2015.

The awards attracted nearly 5,000 entries from 56 countries. Founder and President of Singapore-based Red Dot Peter Zec said manroland had showed “uncompromising competency and considerable courage.”

“You have measured yourself successfully against the best in the industry,” he said in a letter to manroland.

The jury was made up of designers, academics and journalists from 25 countries who were impressed by the Evolution’s sleek and futuristic look and technology aimed

at giving printers unprecedented levels of efficiency, operation and quality.

Features include an ergonomic operating user interface with touchscreen controls, Direct Drive technology, and feeder, delivery and dampening units specially designed for high-speed production.

“We are naturally thrilled to have won this award. Printing presses are not usually recognized for their design,” explained manroland’s CEO, Rafael Penuela. “It’s a tribute to our team here in Germany who conceived, developed and launched the Evolution in just two years.”

Completely redesigned cylinder roller bearings for radial and axial rotation, coupled with a new dampening unit design, help

give the press “unprecedented print quality.”

Its new, chambered doctor blade system in the coating unit provides high quality gloss effects and inline enhancements that make the evolution an attractive choice for packaging printers. Newly developed suction belt sheet brake technology offers higher printing speeds combined with steadfast sheet alignment and tail-edge stabilization. “Manroland’s history is replete with technology leadership,” said Michael Mugavero, Manroland Sheetfed U.S. & Canada CEO. “The culmination of the all new R700 Evolution elevates sheetfed press technologies to new heights.”

The Red Dot Product Design competition began in 1954. Its award, the Red Dot, is an internationally recognized quality seal.

The competition for Design Concepts and prototypes is held annually in Singapore. Red Dot recognition signifies belonging to the best in design and business and is aimed at all those who would like to distinguish their business activities through design.

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Times of India invests in Q.I. Press Controls’ mRC-3D India’s largest media conglomerate the Times of India has opted for Q.I. Press Controls’ press automation solution.

The Times Group is the largest publishing company in India and South-Asia. With a turnover exceeding a billion dollars, the group has the support of over 25,000 advertisers, 11,000 employees and an audience spanning across all continents. The Group has decided to invest in Q.I. Press Controls’ mRC-3D. With its flagship Bennet, Coleman and Company Limited (BCCL) and its subsidiaries, the Times of India is present in every existing media platform – newspapers, magazines, books, TV, radio, internet, music, movies and more. It’s the largest publishing company with regard to newspaper circulation in India: 13 newspapers, 18 magazines, 11 publishing centres, 26 printing centres.

With the mRC-3D, costs will significantly reduce over different aspects of the printing process.

Investing in the mRC-3D is much more than just having a register system.

Key Notes : > The Time Group decides to invest in Q.I. Press Controls’ latest automatic registration solution mRC-3C. > The Automatic Ink Mist Shield (AIMS) reduces the pollution of the lens by automatically replacing a shield that is placed in front of the camera. > The investment is for their Manroland GEOMAN double width newspaper press at its Ghaziabad location.

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The Times of India has made a decision to invest in Q.I. Press Controls’ latest automatic registration solution mRC-3D. The mRC-3D comes with dual CMOS optical technology and their latest innovation Automatic Ink Mist Shield (AIMS). AIMS reduces the pollution of the lens by automatically replacing a shield that is placed in front of the camera. The Times of India has also invested in waste gate control and Intelligent Quality Management (IQM) for quality management reporting.

The investment is for their Manroland GEOMAN double width newspaper press at its Ghaziabad location– 6 tower and 1 folder (twin). The order consists of 12 motorised mRC-3D cameras for register control and 12 motorised mRC-3D cameras for cut-off control. Additionally each folder will be equipped with waste gate control. With these features the Times of India will ensure the continuation of monitoring and tracking for good and consistent print quality delivered to his end user. The Times of India

achieved faster printing, considerable increase in waste savings and is now able to keep track of giving consistent quality to their customer base. The Times of India considered that the concept being offered by Q.I. Press Controls is of great value to the company: The double-sensor technology not only doubles the possibilities but can also cope more effectively with depth; which is the reason for the 3D designation for mRC’s latest colour register camera. This concept proves its great added value particularly well in case of unsteady paper web routings and surfaces for achieving consistent quality.

As The Times of India is known in India for its good print quality, the order for the supply of Q.I. Press Controls’ basic module of IQM system and the option of waste gate control was a logical. As a market leader, The Times of India always follow new developments in the market very closely for improving efficiency of print operation.

The organisation knows Q.I. Press Controls India well for its strong presence in the Indian market for their closed loop solutions for the web offset market. The investment ensures the Times of India a top position in quality printing in the Indian market. The print quality is excellent and consistent so it matches the aspirations of The Times of India Group.

Mr. Vijay Pandya, Managing Director of Q.I. Press Controls India states: “We are very enthusiastic about this order. The order not only proves the growing importance of innovation for automatic registration solutions in the newspaper industry, it is also very important for Q.I. Press Controls. From now on, our name will be linked to one of the most leading and well-known quality printing newspaper group in India.” Mr. Pandya shows by this statement that he is content and has confidence that Q.I. Press Controls will stay in its leading position thanks to the collaboration with the Times of India. The Installation is of great importance for The Times of India as well.

The organisation states that Q.I. Press Controls created awareness of saving opportunities like print wastage and awareness of consistent quality during print run. With the mRC-3D, costs will significantly reduce over different aspects of the printing process.

Investing in the mRC-3D is much more than just having a register system.

Q.I. Press Controls convinces Mayr Miesbach GmbH of benefits mRC-3D and IDS-3D Mayr Miesbach has plumped for a Q.I. Press Controls’ system after purchasing a KBA heatset printing press. Mayr Miesbach was, after some persuasive talking, won over by the advantages of the mRC-3D and the new IDS-3D. These new systems from Q.I. Press Controls enable Mayr Miesbach to guarantee high standards of quality and reduce waste.

“From a technological point of view, these systems are helping us to forge ahead.

We are now able to use of state-of-the-art technology,” according to Erwin Erler, print manager at Mayr Miesbach GmbH. Mayr Miesbach Druckerei und Verlag is a printing and publishing business based in Miesbach, Germany and sees its role as guiding the client through all stages of the printing process. Whether this has to do with design and lay-out or the printing process itself, the company provides a customised service at each step. Quality and the environment represent important priorities: Mayr Miesbach aims to provide the very best in quality without making any concessions to the environment. The organisation is in

possession of various labels, certificates and accreditations which underline its commitment to sustainability and to meeting strict quality requirements. According to the Environment certificate for climate initiatives, Mayr Miesbach’s production processes are carbon-neutral, it has the EU Ecolabel for sustainability and the EINSER – AZUBI accreditation for the training of its personnel, just to mention a few.

When he purchased the KBA C217 press, Mayr Miesbach had among others the environment and quality in focus. The organisation fell into conversation with Arslan Miftachoglu, managing director of Q.I. Press Controls Germany, about an automated system for the printing press.

Miftachoglu was able to convince Erler that the new technologies of Q.I. Press Controls would provide Mayr Miesbach with additional benefits. “Taking into account the environment and general quality, opting for the mRC-3D and the IDS-3D was the most logical decision to make,” explains Miftachoglu. “In Mayr Miesbach’s case these systems will ensure a uniform standard of high quality and a marked reduction in waste and ink consumption.”

The order placed with Q.I. Press Controls is for a fully automated solution consisting of 2 mRC-3D colour register cameras with AIMS and anti-embossing, 3 mRC-3D cut-off register cameras with AIMS, sidelay

and remote control and 2 IDS-3D colour control cameras with RAS. The system will be installed on the aforementioned KBA C217 commercial printing press with 5 printing units and 1 folder. Erler adds: “This gives us an improved start-up period, lower production costs, more effective and exacter quality control and a faster cut-off control.” In this way, he believes, the system is able create an easy-to-use, reliable and low-maintenance printing press for Mayr Miesbach.

Miftachoglu goes on to explain that the order is also down to a good working partnership with KBA. It was thanks to them that he found out that Mayr Miesbach was looking to purchase the press. Mayr Miesbach expects that the planning for the start-up period will be smooth and professional. “Even after the start-up period,” he elaborates, “we want a our electricians to undergo a thorough introduction to the sytems and for our operators to get proper training. We expect that Q.I. Press Controls will be able to step in at a moment’s notice if there are any sudden problems, remotely or otherwise.”

Miftachoglu expects a fruitful partnership with the company: “We will continue to offer an excellent service and I hope that customers like Mayr Miesbach in Germany will also be able to show that automatic solutions from Q.I. Press Controls can suit any kind of organisation.”

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Adobe Publish coming in summer 2015 On March 23, 2015 at the Digital Innovators Summit in Berlin, Adobe announced that it will bring Adobe Publish to market in Summer 2015. Adobe Publish is a platform that builds upon the foundation of Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (DPS) to bring the next generation of mobile app publishing.

It will allow our customers to make mobile apps for phones and tablets without requiring development and to produce and distribute great content in simple, cost-effective and modern ways.

In May, it will be five years since Adobe and Conde Nast brought Wired to the iPad. The goal then was to produce a beautiful interactive digital publication to a new and magical device. Subsequently, it built Adobe Digital Publishing Suite that has since enabled the launch of thousands of apps and has delivered millions of publications (.folios) to tablets and phones to people around the world. The mobile market benefited with graphic design and marketing talent participating directly in these mobile

experiences through the software.

elegant and bring audience directly into content that is well organized and What we have all learned over the last five inherently feels like what a mobile years is that app users want a beautiful and experience should be. immersive experience, but they also want • Adobe Publish customers can create, content delivered regularly and continuously organize and deliver content in a way in a way that feels crafted and designed for that is extremely flexible, simple and mobile devices. What prompts someone cost-effective. to take their phone out of their pocket and • Enterprise-grade administration tools launch an app? Fresh content on a device that are flexible enough to allow any presented in a fantastic way. enterprise, media company or university to organize all of the people who are The process of working with Fast Company involved in producing these experiences to launch a new app on the App Store helped in a way that make sense. Designers, them to better modern mobile experience writers., marketers, producers, data and build toolsPUBLICATION and capabilities to deliver analysts or outside agencies will get the FORtoIMMEDIATE that experience. The market reception to the flexible workflows they need to deliver Success twiceapp over inbeen China for Q.I. Press Controls amazing content into Adobe Publish Fast Company has fantastic. apps.

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Agfa Graphics presents Eversify to publishing industry leaders at DIS in Berlin At the Digital Innovators’ Summit in Berlin, Agfa Graphics will demonstrate its automated mobile publishing solution Eversify for magazines and newspapers live to all visitors.

Innovative media houses use Eversify already today, to publish editorial content to the everincreasing range of smartphones and tablets in a highly automated way with a choice that reaches from enriched e-paper to HTML5 based Apps and to web editions. It allows the publisher to offer a widespread digital portfolio.

“Eversify automates the workflow for making mobile publications and works with any existing editorial or layout system based on structured content,” said Rainer Kirschke, Head of Business Development Mobile Publishing Europe, Agfa Graphics. “As such it enables publishers to automatically create a branded responsive app for their titles without manual intervention. It pleases the reader thanks to the excellent reader experience and it suits the publisher because

he can keep track of reading behavior through detailed analytics.”

The Digital Innovators’ Summit is an annual international digital media conference designed to bring together senior executives from content businesses, technology innovators and solution providers to understand emerging trends, share innovative ideas and solutions, and see new relevant technologies and network.

‘Genuine News, Genuine Readers’ by Hindu Hindu, one of India’s most read English dailies, recently rolled out a unique campaign to reach out to readers and advertisers. The campaign titled ‘Genuine News, Genuine Readers’ was launched in the daily’s home city, Chennai and was supported by advertisements with simple, straightforward messages. The messages had a clear aim of encouraging readers and advertisers to make their own wise choice.

With a primary objective of establishing the truth about figures often found making false claims, the campaign clearly conveyed its message – to advertisers that the paper is interested in genuine readers; and to readers that it vouches for credible news. The month long campaign will cover different print, digital and outdoor media.

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First British user of Linoprint CV Digital Printing System British printing company Diguru committed to growth with digital printing systems from Heidelberg

Diguru is a commercial printing company based in Hampshire in the United Kingdom and the first British user of the new Linoprint CV digital printing system from Heidelberg. It specializes in business with advertising agencies and end users and is committed to producing high-quality print products as sustainably as possible. The company has only been on the market since 2010 and currently has a workforce of nine. Since it was founded, Diguru has succeeded in increasing its sales from £400,000 to some £1 million, in particular thanks to the growth in digital printing operations.

“Ultimately, there were three reasons for choosing the Linoprint CV – its high productivity, the flexibility offered by a fifth color either to print white or apply a coating, and the excellent price-performance ratio.”

- Richard Harwood, MD Diguru

To satisfy increasing demand and respond to the trend towards higher-quality digital print products, Diguru decided on the Linoprint CV from Heidelberg, which has only recently been launched. “Ultimately, there were three reasons for choosing the Linoprint CV – its high productivity, the flexibility offered by a fifth color either to print white or apply a coating, and the excellent price-performance ratio,” says Diguru’s managing director Richard Harwood in explaining his investment decision. Diguru intends to use the new system’s surface finishing options above all to boost its business with advertising agencies. The company is gearing all its efforts towards further growth and is planning other additions to the portfolio, such as 3D printing.

Linoprint CV and Linoprint CP – greater flexibility thanks to new functions for higher productivity when printing short and/or personalized runs Heidelberg launched the new Linoprint CV and Linoprint CP digital printing systems at the end of 2014 to replace the Linoprint C 751 and Linoprint C 901 models, around 500 of which had been installed worldwide up to that point.

With a printing speed of 90 pages per minute, high quality standards, and comprehensive functions, the new Linoprint CV sets new standards in its performance class. The system will be able to print with five colors, making it unique in its segment.

Besides the four primary colors, the system also offers white as an additional color for higher opacity or, alternatively, a coating with high-gloss properties.

Users can choose from a huge variety of substrates, ranging from textured and colored papers to synthetic films and highly coated materials.

The new Linoprint CP produces advertising and presentation materials at a printing speed of 130 pages per minute, as well as high-quality brochures, personalized print products, and professionally bound books. The inline finishing units offer a whole host of solutions – from high-capacity stacking,

Key Notes : > First Linoprint CV installed in United Kingdom. > High productivity and additional functions increase readiness to invest. > Linoprint CV offers five colours for greater flexibility in short-run printing.

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perforating, and folding all the way through to leaflets and books with adhesive binding. The Linoprint CP can also be used to process a range of materials, some of which can be quite challenging, such as textured papers and plastics. Both presses have the ability to produce a sheet size of 700mm x 330mm for A4 landscape and six page A4 printing.

The Prinect digital front end newly developed

by Heidelberg supports the seamless integration of both new digital printing systems into the overall workflow of a print shop. This means that all print jobs can be centrally managed in one workflow system, irrespective of the production process selected.

“Short runs of increasingly high quality and additional surface finishes are all the rage.

Print shops need to be able to provide their customers with the solutions they need while also turning a profit. Our new Linoprint systems offer users exceptional flexibility, productivity, and quality,” says Jason Oliver, Head of Digital Printing at Heidelberg.

Pitney Bowes renews global strategic alliance with HP Pitney Bowes has announced the renewal and long-term extension of its global strategic alliance with HP. In place since 2009, the alliance is focused on delivering integrated solutions that create high impact communications to clients worldwide.

The collaboration between Pitney Bowes and HP extends the solutions portfolio with industry-leading products such as the Pitney Bowes IntelliJet® Printing System, used by printers and mailers looking to enhance revenues and streamline operations.

Providing integrated delivery through this alliance removes management complexity for those businesses having to juggle multiple providers, and enables clients to offer precise, accurate and personalized communication to their own audiences.

Lila Snyder, President, Document Messaging Technologies, Pitney Bowes said, “This longstanding relationship with our valued partner, HP shows our joint commitment to our enterprise clients in offering innovative solutions that integrate physical and digital technologies.”

of high-volume, high-integrity print and mail operations,” said Aurelio Maruggi, Vice President and General Manager of Inkjet High-speed Production Solutions at HP. “As such, HP is excited to continue our alliance to

best serve the transactional market with the IntelliJet print systems and Print+ Messenger color inkjet system, delivering cost savings and enhanced productivity.”

She continued, “Linking print and mail through the Pitney Bowes White Paper Factory delivers real value by creating impactful communications. The Pitney Bowes Intellijet® family of printing systems, as well as the Print+ Messenger color inkjet system employ HP inkjet hardware with Pitney Bowes technology to produce high quality, high impact communications. Through these solutions, our clients have achieved efficiencies by streamlining print and mail workflow to better reach the end customer.”

“Pitney Bowes expertise in the production mail market enables them to provide unique value to customers looking to diversify their offerings and meet the evolving demands

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Xerox Color 800i / 1000i Presses Xerox increases automation, introduces gold and silver metallic inks on new presses Printers can create and produce more profitable jobs with outstanding image accuracy and vibrant colours with Xerox’s newest digital color devices – the Versant 80 Press and the Color 800i/1000i Presses.

For print-for-pay and in-plants, the Versant 80 combines new features and functionality to produce high-end applications faster on more media types. The Color 800i/1000i Presses now offer true Pantone metallic gold or silver specialty dry inks – giving printers a creative, competitive advantage. With increased automation both devices keep print environments at peak performance levels.

Versant 80 Press The Versant 80 provides production press capabilities with walk-up simplicity, offsetquality performance and automated features that remove the guesswork out of optimizing image quality, colour and registration.

Printing at 80 pages-per-minute (ppm), the device delivers ultra HD, 10-bit image quality at 2400 x 2400 dpi and can handle a variety of media types with a compact Belt Fuser system and Xerox’s EA Low Melt Dry Ink. Printers looking for extra productivity can add an optional Performance Package, which maintains top speeds of 80 ppm on all stocks up to 350 gsm along with an in-line spectrophotometer for increased colour automation.

“We were overwhelmed with how well the Versant 80 matches Pantone Matching System colours. Prior to this press, we had to manipulate the colour, but with the Versant 80 we just select a spot colour and it hits it right on – the first time,” said Betsy Allen, owner, Cortland Press & Carbon Copies.

The Versant 80 comes with a choice of two servers: the Xerox EX-i 80 Print Server Powered by Fiery or the Xerox EX 80 Print Server Powered by Fiery. Printers can easily produce variable data-driven personalized communications with the addition of XMPie uDirect Classic Pro software.

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Color 800/1000 Presses have helped providers expand their digital businesses by producing full-colour applications with vivid images on a wide range of paper stocks.

“The inks are very compelling – they accent pieces with a dramatic, striking impact that’s both impressive and memorable,” said Greg Wallace, president, Harvard Pinnacle Group.

The latest devices, the Xerox Color 800i/1000i Presses, include an optional Specialty Dry Ink Station that enhances documents with metallic gold or silver dry inks or applies spot or flood creative effects with clear dry ink.

Xerox is the first in the industry to offer silver dry ink at rated speed.

Among the devices’ productivity enhancements is a full-width array to automate critical press functions, time to production operational improvements and a new Xerox EX-P 1000i Print Server Powered

by Fiery.

With the presses, printers can migrate lucrative foil stamping applications, such as invitations, certificates and business cards, to short-run, high-value digital production. Multipass printing with clear ink adds an extra textural/dimensional feel and the “pop” of the silver and gold inks – a Must See ‘Em award winner at Graph Expo 2014 – produces attention-grabbing effects on a wide range of applications.

The Versant 80 Press and the Color 800i/1000i Presses are available for install in April. The Versant 80 optional Performance Package and the optional upgrades for current Color 800/1000 customers will be available in the second quarter.

On April 23, Xerox will host a Google+ Hangout titled “Ask the Experts: Looking Beyond Dots Per Inch with the Xerox Versant 80 Press.” Jim Hamilton, group director, InfoTrends, will be joined by two customers to explore the important role of print resolution.

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Tenth Annual Dscoop Conference breaks records Washington D.C. was hit by a “white-out” blizzard on March 5, leading to travel delays and flight cancellations, but that was not enough to keep DscoopX attendees away.

Final attendance numbers exceeded 2,200 which makes it the biggest Dscoop event held to-date.

The annual Dscoop North America conference experienced record breaking success making DscoopX the largest event in the organization’s ten-year history.

“The participation of Dscoop members in DscoopX, even in unique circumstances, shows how committed this community is,” said John Rogers, Dscoop Global Executive Director. “Walking in the opening general session, and seeing a packed room filled with people excited to kick off the conference, made me realize that the growth Dscoop has experienced in the last ten years is unmatched anywhere else in this industry. Nothing was going to keep Dscoop members away from what has become the signature event of the year for digital print professionals.”

Dscoop to help drive innovation in digital print. The show floor experienced a new level of energy in 2015. Companies representing packaging, finishing, direct mail, transpromo, commercial, media substrates, photo specialty and more sectors combined to make it the largest Solutions Showcase in the organization’s history.

“DscoopX is just one event which highlights where the future of the industry is headed,” said Gary Peeling, Dscoop Global Board Chairman and Managing Director of Precision Printing Co. Ltd. “It’s not enough to just focus on the print side anymore.

Growth and success requires embracing a new generation of professionals who are armed with the marketing and sales expertise to support your mission. It’s a shift that we will continue to see over the next few years, and one the Dscoop community is excited about.”

Dscoop and HP, showing their commitment to the future of the industry, announced new initiatives throughout the week.

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DscoopX also brought together a record 116 Partners in a combined 45,000 square foot Solutions Showcase. These partners joined

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Dscoop University introduced changes to the online learning platform including enhancements to ease the usability, allow for management to assign training to their employees, and even more education that aligns with the industry.

Dscoop confirmed its dedication to growing offerings for the packaging sector by introducing the DscoopX Packaging Renaissance, which included a segment for Dscoop members

and representatives from global and national brands to connect on trends, insights and advancements in label and packaging. As a part of the Packaging Renaissance, attendees could attend nine individual educational sessions focused specifically on that sector.

The first annual Jetcomm conference preceded DscoopX. Jetcomm is the new user community for HP Inkjet users and will continue to play a role in the future of digital print. Some 150 people attended this event, a great start for this rapidly growing industry segment.

In a special awards ceremony held during the conference, some of Dscoop’s finest volunteers were honored for their commitment to the community.

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EFI and Xerox team up to advance Digital Colour Printing EFI has announced new EFI Fiery digital front ends (DFEs) for Xerox’s newest digital presses. The Xerox EX-i 80 Print Server and EX 80 Print Server Powered by Fiery are available on the Xerox Versant 80 Press, while the Xerox EX-P 1000i Print Server Powered by Fiery is available for Xerox Color 800i/1000i Presses.

Engine, version 3.0 and offers powerful Fiery options for make-ready, color correction, file troubleshooting and workflow integration.

Less-demanding environments can take advantage of a lower cost of entry while still reaping the benefits of a Fiery-powered workflow for exceptional color quality with the Xerox EX-i 80 Print Server.

“The combination of our advanced production printing solutions and EFI Fiery technologies will help ensure that our customers have the high-end quality and automated, streamlined productivity they need to advance in a competitive marketplace,” said Robert Stabler, senior vice president, Graphic Communications, Xerox.

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“Image quality has always been one of the most important criteria customers use to evaluate a printing solution,” said Toby Weiss, senior vice president and general manager, EFI Fiery. “We are pleased to continue our long-term relationship with Xerox by offering Xerox customers the exceptional image quality in these three new EFI Fiery solutions.”

The new DFEs utilize the latest Fiery platform, FS150 Pro, offering faster processing; unsurpassed, award-winning quality; and easier-to-use, automated workflows. Users can also drive broader business process automation efficiencies by fully integrating their Fiery Driven™ digital presses with EFI’s market-leading MIS/ERP and web-to-print software and with Xerox FreeFlow Core, as well as leading prepress workflow solutions like Agfa Apogee, Heidelberg Prinect and Kodak PRINERGY.

Xerox EX-i/EX 80 Print Servers The Xerox EX-i and EX 80 Print Servers feature Fiery Ultra Smooth Gradients, which leverage a 10-bit, 1,200-dpi processing technology at the digital front end and at the print engine. First seen in the new Fiery servers driving the Xerox Versant 2100 Press, Fiery Ultra Smooth Gradients go beyond traditional 8-bit rendering to help eliminate “stair-stepped” gradient shades in digital printing of vector images.

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The Xerox EX-P 1000i Print Server Powered

by Fiery supports the new Gold and Silver Metallic Dry Ink options featured in Xerox Color 800i/1000i Presses, enabling the automatic addition of these specialty dry inks, as well as Clear Dry Ink in single or multiple passes, to highlight spot colours, graphics and text.

“This capability is especially attractive in commercial and photo applications,” said EFI’s Weiss. “Special effects have a new dimension with Multi-Pass Clear Dry Ink for embossed, high-quality prints that satisfy the needs of even the most demanding customers. Fiery Image Enhance Visual

Editor not only allows on-the-fly addition of Metallic and Clear Dry Inks, but also offers a live 3D preview simulating how the effects will sparkle in the light.”

The Xerox EX-P 1000i also includes the Fiery Smart Estimator, which allows users to predict usage of Clear Dry Ink, Gold Metallic Dry Ink or Silver Metallic Dry Ink before printing a single page. Plus, it features Fiery HyperRIP, which helps maximize performance by simultaneously processing a print job on four processor cores. As a result, users can get their full-color digital print jobs processed up to 55% faster than Fiery Driven presses without HyperRIP. Users can achieve a consistent workflow across all Fiery-enabled printing devices using the latest version of Fiery Command WorkStation, the powerful, intuitive interface that enables management of multiple printers locally or remotely from a single place.

The new EFI Fiery DFEs are available now through Xerox and authorized Xerox resellers.

Konica Minolta gives end customers insight into colour printing Konica Minolta has recently conducted a Colour Management Seminar for its customers in their Bangalore office. It is an informative way of sharing the details with its customers on how the customers can maintain the consistency and reproduce right colour. The end customers generally have lot of query from the file generations, file format to the printed output. The seminar helped customers to learn the best ways to achieve the consistency from the monitors, creating profiles for the monitors to file creation and setting colour parameters in the files.

Training for profiling the printers and to use common profile to have consistent output from the device as seen on the monitor was given.

Konica Minolta arranged an input-to-output set-up in the practical seminar. It was a live session with a production printing machine.

“It is a series of seminars which Konica Minolta has been doing for last 2 years with industry experts. Konica Minolta has been conducting seminars on topics like decoding colour, ICC Colour Conference etc. Konica Minolta intends to carry on this activity at more and more places to share the knowledge and remove the misconceptions in the process of reproducing colour documents,” says Mr. V. Balakrishnan, EGM (Marketing) Konica Minolta Business Solutions India.

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Scodix 8-country world tour showcases versatile Ultra Pro Digital Enhancement Press Scodix, provider of digital enhancement solutions for the graphic arts industry, has recently announced that it has commenced a worldwide VIP tour to showcase its most versatile and productive digital enhancement press visiting Commercial Printers, Digital Service Providers, and Folding Carton Converters in 8 cities, over a 14-week period.

Beginning with DSCOOPX conference in Washington DC, the Scodix Ultra Pro is being shown live at additional seven major events, including: 1.

HP Indigo Grand Opening (March 18 – 19) in Barcelona, Spain;

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Visutech Digital Business (March 25-26) in, Gothenburg, Sweden Print China 2015 (April 7 – 12) in Dongguan city, China; Reklama Polygraf (May 12-14) in Prague, Czech Republic; PRINTEX 2015 (May 13-15) in Sydney, Australia; Andigrafica (June 2 – 5) in Bogota, Colombia; Dscoop EMEA 2015 (June 3 – 5) in Dublin, Ireland.

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digital enhancement, we have decided to intensify our marketing efforts and provide the marketplace with even more opportunities to see the Scodix Ultra Pro live around the world,” notes Amit Shvartz, Vice President of Marketing. “The quality and the amazing effect of the Scodix SENSE, in addition to the new Scodix SPOT, has made the Scodix Ultra Pro that much more of major differentiating factor for users, regardless of the region or market. For most, seeing is believing.”

Print and packaging professionals can learn firsthand the impact digital enhancement can have on their revenue streams by simply contacting Scodix. The company is offering a complimentary business analysis report,

specific to each operation. By contacting the Scodix AST (Analytical Solution Team), each business manager can learn what to expect by implementing a Scodix Ultra Pro. Engineered with the speed and quality of the Scodix Ultra (up to 1,250 B2+ sheets per hour), the new Scodix Ultra Pro system is additionally equipped with controls enabling operators to switch, rapidly and easily, between multiple polymers for varying applications and effects. Scodix Ultra Pro is also the first system to feature Scodix SPOT, a polymer that produces a spot varnish for short runs. Scodix SPOT digitally recreates the effect of traditional flat varnishes, without the setup time or mess.

Xerox India appoints Anurag Gupta as Director, CSO Xerox India has announced Anurag Gupta as the Director, Customer Service Operations (CSO). Anurag replaces Balaji Rajagopalan, who has moved to the role of Executive Director, Technology, Channels and International Distributor Operations, the previous year.

along with his extensive knowledge of Xerox offerings and channels made him the first choice to head the CSO operations. At Xerox, we believe in growing potential talent organically and am sure Anurag with his vast experience, market knowledge and proven strategic leadership will achieve great heights.”

Anurag Gupta has been with Xerox India for over 29 years, most recently heading the Field Service Operations at Xerox India.

He joined Xerox India in 1985 as a Trainee at Xerox India manufacturing unit, Rampur, moving across various roles within CSO function for 22 years and thereafter in Global Document Outsourcing (GDO) function for last seven years.

He further added, “In his various assignments with Xerox, Anurag has demonstrated the ability to take up varied challenges, has exhibited high adaptability and people management skills and hence this will be a perfect role for him. I take this opportunity to congratulate him and also wish him the very best for his new role.”

Commenting on the appointment, Mr. Roy Harding, Chief Operating Officer, Developing Markets Organisation, Xerox said, “Anurag’s first-hand customer service experience

The newly appointed Director, Customer Service Operations, Xerox India, Mr. Anurag Gupta said, “I have had a wonderful journey with Xerox for the last 29 years and I am

excited to take on this new role. Xerox Service Operations have been a benchmark for the industry and we will continue to work to further enhance our overall value proposition for our customers and our channel partners. The technology prowess and operational excellence of Xerox gives us with a great advantage to deliver better support, service and eventually better value for our customers. I look forward to working with the team for delivering better value for our customers and reinforce our position in the market.”

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Konica Minolta Bizhub PRESS C70hc Packed with advanced technologies and software, C70hc makes for an ultimate printing solution.

As the printing industry transitions into a new phase of growth, Konica Minolta introduced Bizhub PRESS C70hc which produces vivid colour quality that gives a competitive edge to its users. With a print speed of 71 ppm, it is ideal for graphics professionals and print shops that require higher quality output and enhanced colour gamut. Advertising agencies, graphics arts firms, creative design studios, photography studios, direct mail organizations, and commercial printers all stand to benefit by using the Bizhub PRESS C70hc.

The Bizhub series is also complimented with advanced and hassle free editing software ‘Print Xpress’. The software is flexible which never restricts user creativity. Loaded with user-friendly features, it is one of the fastest photo editing software which delivers enhanced performance in workflow, image quality, and configurability. From colour correction to detail enhancing of eye, almost every editing is simple and possible with Print Xpress. Designed with high reliability and easy serviceability, Print Xpress is advanced software for Photo Editing. Facilitating users with an option to export the project in various formats like JPG, high resolution PDF and layered PDF, it also enables them to bind multiple JPEGs into one PDF easily for hassle free printing. Minimum system requirements of the Print Xpress software eliminates the need for additional system upgrade and

ready decors and templates make work simple and faster. With automated workflow of Print Xpress one can take multiple copy of single image. Print Xpress allows adding multiple images on imposition page – whether simplex, duplex or booklet page; one can select multiple images and impose them on single image in seconds. With the manual album option, users can give their creativity a different level and can further add clipart, background, shapes and decors.

Print Xpress is best suited for the Album Printing business. It makes a best match for bizhub C70hc and gives users a hassle free printing experience with highest quality print results and completes the workflow with imposition and booklet creation.

The C70hc machine prints at 1,200 dpi printing at full rated engine speed, highspeed RIP processing and transfer between control and print engine, enhanced accuracy in CMYK colour reproduction, and new colour management functions, job control, editing functions, and remote operation capabilities.

results: CMYK, similar to offset colour reproduction; RGB natural mode, for natural reproduction to match prints from the normal CMYK process and switching between the modes of normal and vivid, for maximum use of the colour space to emphasize vivid colours.

It produces brighter, more vivid colour because it reproduces a larger portion of the sRGB colour gamut than previously possible.

Users can deliver eye-catching output that is closer to what is displayed on sRGB monitors versus traditional four-colour devices.

The Bizhub PRESS C70hc combines Konica Minolta’s proprietary advanced colour processing technology—SEAD (ScreenEnhancing Active Digital Process) with an array of technical innovations to bring in excellent colour reproduction at high speed.

The solution features optimized profiler—a mapping algorithm with settings finetuned to achieve various

Xerox showcases marquee Digital Presses at Chennai Xerox showcased its recently launched digital production presses - Xerox Colour C60, Xerox Versant 2100 and Phaser 7800 at a road show held in Chennai on 14th and 15th March, 2015 at Hotel Hilton.

Commenting on the roadshow, Mr. Balaji Rajagopalan, Executive Director, Technology, Channels & International Distributor Operations, Xerox India said, “The roadshow was a great success; we saw attendance and participation from over 10 partners and witnessed enthusiasm and excitement across the floor for the equipments. It is always interesting to see how South India adopts technology at such a fast pace, making it a

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key focus area for us. We are always glad to come back to this part of the country for product showcases and discussions.”

“We believe that both Versant 2100 and Xerox Color C60 will transform the digital printing industry. Both these machines have a wide range of applications and can cater to multiple types of print jobs. We have already seen double digit installations across the country for all within a quarter. The Xerox ColorC70 offers the widest range of applications in this market space, including running synthetics, vinyls, window clings, carbonless paper, never-tear paper, transfer papers, magnets and many other unique

applications that are made possible with Xerox’s low melt toner & flexible paper path.

Furthermore, the newly developed, heatefficient IH fuser does not require preheating, which helps reduce power consumption in standby mode by 44% compared to a resistance heating device. The Xerox Versant 2100 Press has an offset-like matte finish will revolutionize the digital printing industry in India and also expand the market to tier II cities for on-demand printing in the commercial& photo printing segments.”

He also added, “We have seen a positive start to 2015 and we hope to continue the momentum the entire year.”

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Techno Graphic Services becomes Channel Partner for Kodak Prosper Imprinting Systems Kodak’s relationship with Techno Graphic Services will also be expanding to a Channel Partnership Agreement for KODAK PROSPER Imprinting Systems. The Kodak Prosper S-Series System offers high-quality in variable printing, delivering high-resolution variable print in the hybrid digital printing product line with speeds matching those of a web offset press in a single pass.

As part of the agreement, Techno Graphic Services will become an authorized Kodak sales partner in pan India and will begin working with their extensive network of regional printing businesses who are seeking innovative hybrid printing solutions.

“Techno Graphic Services is an ideal partner for Kodak as we continue to see great interest from printers for the Prosper S-Series system. Muralidhar Nalli and his team have built an excellent reputation among Hyderabad’s regional printing community as trusted and reliable partners who understand how to help their customer’s grow their business. We look forward to a productive relationship focused on providing our customers with greater flexibility and a new level of customization that is needed to succeed in an increasingly competitive market,” said Abraham Prabhakar, Vice— President, Packaging segment, India cluster, Kodak India.

“India is one of the fastest growing printing markets in the world. We expect the Indian printing industry’s demand to thrive and to give best quality services to the customers with the new- generation KODAK PROSPER Imprinting Systems. To uphold the trust shown in us by Kodak India is a challenging task, as we need to meet the expectations from the manufacturer as well as the customer. But this is also a fantastic opportunity to contribute positively to both sides. As an intermediary we will focus on delivery channels. It is a great honour to be chosen by Kodak as their pan-India channel partner,” said N. Muralidhar, Managing Partner, Techno Graphic Services.

Printing and Packaging Cluster On 28th March, 2015, vendors were given cheques worth Rs.3 crore as advance for supply of machinery and equipment for the Printing and Packaging Cluster at Karnal, Haryana. The cheques were distributed by Mr. Kamal Chopra, Chairman, International Relations, AIFMP. The money was received by the cluster from the Government of India, Ministry of MSME under Cluster Development Programme (CDP) of the ministry.

The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), Government of India (GoI) has adopted the cluster development approach as a key strategy for enhancing the productivity and competitiveness as well as capacity building of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) and their collectives in the country. Karnal Print Pack Cluster is the first and only cluster of printing industry in Northern India, to get Rs. 3 crore as the first instalment for the purchase of plant & machinery after completing building and other infrastructures required under the rules.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Kamal

Chopra, said, “Cluster is a vision and the only tool for the survival in the present age of stiff global competition and the decreasing trends in the availability of skilled workforce for this industry.” He also emphasised the need to produce cost effectively which is possible through united efforts by the industry. “We are fortunate that the Government has introduced this scheme to support the sustainability and growth of MSEs, by addressing common issues such as improvement of technology, skills and quality, market access, access to capital etc,” he added.

supportive action through formation of self help groups, upgradation of associations etc. to create /upgrade infrastructural facilities and to set up common facilities centres for the overall benefit of trade and industry. The team of Karnal Printers was led by Mr. Amit Arora, Managing Director of the Cluster.

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Digiflex acquires KODAK FLEXCEL NX System Huge benefits for flexo printers from Hyderabad-based Digiflex

Digiflex, Hyderabad-based pre-press bureau, recently completed the installation of KODAK FLEXCEL NX System at its Cherlapally site. The integration of the new FLEXCEL NX is part of the company’s focus on better serving to India’s expanding packaging sector with the latest in printing technology.

The FLEXCEL NX MID System at Digiflex leverages KODAK SQUARESPOT Imaging Technology at an optical resolution of 10,000dpi to produce digital flexo plates that enable a broader tonal range, use of higher line screens, more efficient ink transfer and a higher level of quality.

With a proven track record in labels, flexibles, cartons, shrink sleeves and bags, the FLEXCEL NX System will help Digiflex to build a competitive edge in India’s packaging market which is growing at over 15% per annum. The system delivers highly impactful packaging of exceptional quality while streamlining production costs. The FLEXCEL NX MID System at Digiflex leverages KODAK SQUARESPOT Imaging Technology at an optical resolution of 10,000dpi to produce digital flexo plates that enable a broader tonal range, use of higher line screens, more efficient ink transfer and a higher level of quality.

On the occasion of successful installation of the KODAK FLEXCEL NX System, N. Muralidhar, Managing Partner, Digiflex said “After a comprehensive market assessment, we have supplied Kodak NX samples to some clients on a trial basis. We have received an encouraging response from these clients, and have decided to establish a fully automated and state of the art unit at Hyderabad to cater the Indian market. This is the only unit of its kind in the AP and Telengana region.

We believe in being PROUDLY INDIAN and TRULY INTERNATIONAL, and are expecting phenomenal growth in the next couple of years.”

Key Notes : > KODAK FLEXCEL NX at Digiflex to help better serve expanding Indian packaging sector. > Highly impactful packaging of exceptional quality while streamlining production costs. > Transforming flexographic printing as the original flattop dot digital plate making system.

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Digiflex’s Cherlapally unit was inaugurated by Shri P. Narendra, of Pragati Art Printers by a traditional lighting of the lamp. Bhalchandra Nikumb, Managing Director, India – West Asia Cluster & Channel Director, Kodak India; Debasish Banerjee, Director, Sigma Scan Systems; Sista Badrinath, AGM State Bank of Hyderabad; and Abraham Prabhakar, Vice-president, Packaging Segment, India Cluster were also present on this occasion. The inauguration was followed by an Open House at Digiflex which was visited by over 300 packaging and printing professionals from the Hyderabad industry, along with a team of experienced serving and retired faculty from the Government Institute of Printing Technology, Secundarabad.

The KODAK FLEXCEL NX System is transforming

flexographic printing as the original flat-top dot digital plate making system. “Shelf impact, production efficiency and sustainability ... the FLEXCEL NX System delivers it all, with unique imaging technology and innovative materials that enable unprecedented image quality, stability and predictability in prepress and the pressroom. Kodak’s portfolio of FLEXCEL NX System solutions is ideal for virtually every flexo application including flexibles, labels and corrugated.” Says Shyam Sunder, Partner,Digiflex.

The fine image reproduction, print contrast and high densities delivered by Flexcel NX allow prepress service providers to compete for business traditionally beyond the capabilities of flexo. It is enabling print buyers to take advantage of both the flexibility and cost effectiveness of flexo and the quality they would normally expect from offset, gravure or digital printing.

Digiflex will further strengthen its packaging services by combining the Kodak Flexcel NX system with a Glunz & Jensen Degraf 302 EDLF exposure unit and 305P processor. In addition, DigiFlex is integrating Kodak Prinergy Workflow to create a highly efficient operating environment. The powerful software solution will help deliver higher levels of accuracy and efficiency in the print production cycle, increasing quality control, reducing manual touch points and lowering the cost of production.

At the evening gala and technical seminar, Abraham Prabhakar, Vice-president, Packaging Segment, India cluster, commenced proceedings for the session at the Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel at Banjara Hills with a minute’s silence as homage to Shri P Hanumantha Rao, an ode to his legacy and contribution to India’s printing industry. Abraham spoke on Digital Flexo Plates and other innovations in packaging and printing. “The ultra-modern, leading-edge flexo plates will enable the printer to deliver highest quality to the customer”, he said. This was followed by a detailed account of the nuances of Kodak’s Flexcel NX technology and also on new trends in the industry. Hyderabad’s top and upcoming packaging professionals attended this seminar.

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MPS to begin assembling presses in North America Strategic agreement between MPS and EMT International gives customers shorter delivery time on orders and more customized press solutions.

Companies in North America investing in high-tier MPS presses will now have the added benefit of having their presses assembled in the United States.

MPS Systems North America and EMT International have partnered for assembling MPS printing presses in the United States and for developing new customized press solutions for the North American market.

According to Kees Nijenhuis, vice president of MPS Systems North America, this arrangement will give customers a shorter delivery time on their orders as well as more customized solutions specifically fitting the needs of the North American market.

EMT International is a manufacturer of quality equipment for the printing, converting, paper and document processing industries. The company began operations in the 1930s as a tool and die shop for the paper mills and paper converting facilities in Northeast Wisconsin. Today it is a premier manufacturer of finishing equipment and web transports for the digital/ink jet market with nearly 200 employees.

“We believe this partnership will set the bar for the printing press industry in North

EF with sleeves (available with plate rolls as well)

America,” said Paul Rauscher, CEO of EMT. “Both EMT and MPS focus on building robust and easy to operate high-end machinery for the label and packaging industry. I see this as a perfect fit for both companies, and ultimately our customers. We both focus on high-quality customer solutions and we want to help companies benefit fully from technology. Together, EMT and MPS will deliver this added value to North American printing companies.”

Strategic partnership EMT and MPS

MPS and EMT will be kicking off the strategic partnership with a launching event at EMT International on April 28. The open house will include live demonstrations of MPS’ flagship printing press, the EF. The EF printing press is an automated multisubstrate flexo press that offers a choice of either plate rolls or print sleeves, providing the ultimate in flexibility. The EF features both UV and hot-air drying technologies.

Furthermore, its web transportation system allows users to print on a variety of substrates including thin film, paper, cartonboard, shrink sleeves, in-mold, tube laminate and flexible packaging. The EF features MPS’ exclusive Crisp.Dot and iControl technologies. Crisp.

Dot uses a rubber-coated counter-pressure roller to exert equalized pressure resulting in minimal dot gain. The result is that the print dot retains its round shape, the ink coverage is solid and small fonts are sharper. The iControl management and service operator/ machine interface minimizes operator errors.

Simple, intuitive and stress-free to operate, this technology enables the operator to choose and run individual functions via a touch screen and button, greatly simplifying machine control and operation.

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Heinz and Kraft Foods sign merger agreement H.J. Heinz Company and Kraft Foods Group have entered into a definitive merger agreement to create The Kraft Heinz Company, forming the third largest food and beverage company in North America with an extensive portfolio of iconic brands.

Under the terms of the agreement, which has been unanimously approved by both Heinz and Kraft’s Boards of Directors, Kraft shareholders will own a 49% stake in the combined company, and current Heinz shareholders will own 51% on a fully diluted basis. Kraft shareholders will receive stock in the combined company.

The proposed merger creates substantial value for Kraft shareholders. The special cash dividend payment represents 27% of Kraft’s closing price as of March 24, 2015.

Also, by continuing to own shares of the new combined company, Kraft shareholders will have the opportunity to participate in the new company’s long-term value creation potential.

The combination of the iconic food companies joins together two portfolios of beloved brands, including Heinz, Kraft, Oscar Mayer, Ore-Ida and Philadelphia. Together the new company will have eight $1+ billion brands and five brands between $500 million and $1 billion.

Alex Behring, Chairman of Heinz and the Managing Partner at 3G Capital, said, “By bringing together these two iconic companies through this transaction, we are creating a strong platform for both U.S. and

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international growth. Our combined brands and businesses mean increased scale and relevance both in the U.S. and internationally.

We have the utmost respect for the Kraft business and its employees, and greatly look forward to working together as we integrate the two companies.”

Warren Buffett, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway said, “I am delighted to play a part in bringing these two winning companies and their iconic brands together.

This is my kind of transaction, uniting two world-class organizations and delivering shareholder value. I’m excited by the opportunities for what this new combined organization will achieve.”

“Together we will have some of the most respected, recognized and storied brands in the global food industry, and together we will create an even brighter future,” said John Cahill, Kraft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “This combination offers significant cash value to our shareholders and the opportunity to be investors in a company very well positioned for growth, especially outside the United States, as we bring Kraft’s iconic brands to international markets. We look forward to uniting with Heinz in what will be an exciting new chapter ahead.”

“We are thrilled about the unique opportunities this merger will create for our consumers worldwide, as well as our employees and business partners. Together, Heinz and Kraft will be able to achieve rapid expansion while delivering the quality, brands and products that our consumers

love,” said Bernardo Hees, Heinz Chief Executive Officer. “Over the past two years, we have transformed Heinz into one of the most efficient and profitable food companies in the world while reinvesting behind our key brands and continuing our relentless commitment to quality and innovation.”

When the transaction closes, Alex Behring, Chairman of Heinz and the Managing Partner at 3G Capital, will become the Chairman of The Kraft Heinz Company. John Cahill, Kraft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, will become Vice Chairman and chair of a newly formed operations and strategy committee of the Board of Directors. Bernardo Hees, Chief Executive Officer of Heinz, will be appointed Chief Executive Officer of The Kraft Heinz Company.

The Kraft Heinz Company will be coheadquartered in Pittsburgh and the Chicago area.

The transaction is subject to approval by Kraft shareholders, receipt of regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions and is expected to close in the second half of 2015.

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Schur is building Europe’s most modern folding box plant Schur Pack Germany is currently building Europe’s most modern high-tech folding box facility and is massively investing in a new location. A 28,000 square metres plant is presently being constructed, the likes of which cannot be found anywhere else in Europe to date. With an investment of almost 70 million euros, Schur plans to extend its competitive edge and set an example for folding boxes “Made in Germany”.

The new facility and the associated investments in the new plant aim to provide a positive and sustainable corporate development for Schur Pack Germany within Europe. The packaging specialist is invested heavily in buildings and machines at the new production and business location.

“The outstanding efficiency and the new quality standards that are offered by our plant are simply unique. Most notably, for our customers this means: outstanding quality, highest hygiene standards and shortest delivery times. With this, we come even closer to our customers,” says Klaus Madsen, Managing Director at Schur Pack Germany.

To satisfy the growing customer requirements regarding quality and reduced delivery times, a majority of the entire investment goes into new production equipment. “Our new plant has the highest possible degree of automation available on the market. We are particularly proud of our fully-automated high-bay warehouse,” says Andreas Lührs, Plant Manager at Schur Pack Germany.

The packaging specialist Schur is also extending its portfolio of products. Apart from the increased printing quality, innovative finishing technology, like hot and cold foil will also now be available for the customers. In addition to this, AGV’s (Automated Guided Vehicles) ensure efficient flow and production processes. “We completely utilise the possibilities offered by cutting edge intra logistics in the new plant and guarantee optimised work processes for our customers to realize shortest delivery times,” explains Jan Bollweg, Operations Manager at Schur Pack Germany.

The new high-tech plant also sets new standards with regard to energy efficiency.

The complete construction is supplied entirely with regenerative sources of energy

and no fossil fuels are required in the entire building.

Schur is an international team of 15 companies that offers packaging, packaging machines, packaging systems and knowhow. Worldwide, Schur employs more than 800 employees in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany, France, Benelux, Poland, Spain, the UK and the USA. The company, which is of Danish origin, can look back at a history of almost 169 years and has been managed by family Schur for all these year.

Schur Pack Germany is one of the market leaders for high quality folding boxes of cardboard packaging.

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XeikonCafé Packaging Innovations wraps up successful 2015 edition with 35% rise in visitor numbers Unique platform informs hundreds of label and packaging professionals on ways to ensure their digital production is profitable Xeikon has reported that the 2015 edition of the Xeikon Café Packaging Innovations saw a 35% rise in visitor numbers with more than 700 industry innovators keen to learn about enhancing digital print production. Hosted

by Xeikon in collaboration with its Aura partners, the three-day event at Xeikon’s R&D and production site in Belgium was held to help label and packaging printers as well as converters, print buyers, brand owners and marketers worldwide transform profitability.

Visitors were able to learn more about the latest trends and innovations in digital production and had the opportunity to get up to speed with the newest technologies and share insights.

“We are delighted to see the XeikonCafé Packaging Innovations platform is growing, in terms of both industry and customer support.

We received very positive feedback from the event attendees. The relaxed approach to this educational review of market drivers, trends and emerging technologies enabled them to have far reaching conversations and get a clearer business path for their journey ahead,” says Wim Maes, Xeikon CEO. “We are also very pleased to see an increased diversity in the type of print professionals that attended the event,” Maes continues. “Not only printers and converters appreciated the Xeikon Café as a platform to get more insights in optimizing their digital print production. Also brand owners gained a better understanding of how digital print is the answer to their needs in terms of shorter runs and greater product variety to name just

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some. For marketers that attended the event, I can say the Xeikon Café 2015 certainly was an eye-opener as they discovered how digital print technology creates new creative opportunities.”

Extended educational platform During the Xeikon Café, a series of presentations were held as part of the Business Conference program where highly experienced market experts and Xeikon customers shared business insights and experiences on digital printing. Running alongside, the Technical Conference program provided a number of technology-driven seminars given by Xeikon and its Aura Partners. In total more than 100 sessions were held, covering all aspects of digital production.“One of our objectives with the Xeikon Café is to provide an informal knowledge exchange platform. Also for the 2015 edition, we certainly reached this goal with a large number of high quality presentations, all providing outstanding industry related information. Leading market trends and their influence on brands and print buyers were just some of the most interesting topics,” adds Maes.

Collaboration with Xeikon Aura Partners provides myriad of information At the Xeikon Café 2015 edition, no less than 33 Aura Partners exhibited their integrated solutions and industry expertise through more than 15 different applications ranging from folding carton to self-adhesive, heat transfer and in-mold labels. The wide range

of applications illustrated exactly the extent of what digital production can achieve.

Combined with the many networking opportunities, this event was also much appreciated by the attending Xeikon Aura Partners.

“We are pleased to see also our Aura Partners embraced the Xeikon Café 2015 edition. Digital printing answers many of the challenges today’s print producers, print buyers and brands face. Because there is more to print production than printing, we have gone one step further and developed together with our Aura Partners total solutions. These solutions, or suites, are carefully selected and thoroughly tested combinations of equipment, technologies and capabilities. Having these solutions demonstrated live at the Xeikon Café, we managed to educate visitors how to produce not only head-turning prints, but fully finished products,” Maes concludes.

Xeikon invites anyone that was unable to attend the event to visit the www.xeikoncafe. comwebsite for more impressions, images or to request a free sample package.

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Evonik expands silicone platform in Germany and China Evonik strengthens its technology platform for specialty silicones with a global investment initiative. Overall, Evonik plans to invest a triple-digit-million-euro amount in the coming years and gradually increase the production volume of specialty silicones.

“Evonik is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of specialty silicones. With our investment initiative we want to strengthen our position as a technology leader and reach new market opportunities,” says Evonik Executive Board member and Chief Operating Officer Patrik Wohlhauser.

In Essen, the company is currently putting the expansion of a plant for the production of these special products into operation.

The investment for this expansion is in the double-digit-million-euro range. Increasing the production in Germany Evonik accompanied the growth of its customers in the important European market. Within the global investment initiative for specialty silicones additional production expansions in Essen are planned.

The market for specialty silicones continued to grow in recent years. This development is mainly driven by the construction, textile, coating, furniture and appliance industries.

Particularly strong was the demand in Asia.

Evonik responds to this positive development by expanding its site in Shanghai (China)

with a new production complex for specialty silicones.

“Optimization and expansion of the global silicone platform will strengthen effectively the position of Evonik as the world leader in specialty silicones. We want to meet the demands of the different markets even better and to accompany the growth of our customers locally. We position ourselves as a long term reliable supplier and partner” says Hans-Josef Ritzert, Member of the segment management Nutrition & Care.

Specialty silicones offer an enormous wide range of applications for numerous industries. For example, as additives for plastics, specialty silicones are responsible for comfortable furniture, car seats and ergonomic mattresses. They also play an

important role within the formulation of ideal insulation material for building insulation and guarantee of the highest energy efficiency of refrigerators. Other areas of application are defoaming agents, used in industries like construction, textile or plastics. Furthermore, specialty silicones are used in coatings and inks. The integrated silicone technology platform forms the backbone of significant businesses of the Evonik segments Nutrition & Care (Business Lines Comfort & Insulation, Interface & Performance, Personal Care) and Resource Efficiency (Business Line Coating Additives).

OMET installs the 600th printing press in the world OMET is pleased to announce the accomplishment of 600 installations of printing presses in the market for labels and packaging globally. This result comes in a period of strong growth of the OMET Group that has steadily increased its turnover by a steady 10% each year since 2009 to reach over 85 million Euro in 2014.

or through the numerous service centers operated by the network of agencies and distributors of the brand OMET worldwide.

In over fifty years of presence in the printing industry, OMET has renewed several times to achieve more ambitious goals, supported

by people and values that still represent the main motor ofthe company. The achievement of the 600 installations worldwide and two new products to be launched in the printing market – the iFLEX for the label industry and Varyflex V2 Offset for flexible packaging are obvious signs of a business vitality that always seeks new challenges.

The installed base of OMET machines spreads over the five continents with a significant increase in remote areas of the planet, which often dictate the pace of growth of the entire market.

OMET has pursued a plan of global expansion that has led them to excel with regards to technology, catalog, and the services offered to customers, directly from the company Italian and foreign offices,

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LUXE PACK Shanghai 2015 presents “LUXE PACK in green HALL of FAME”

LUXE PACK is the show that delivers the best benchmark and ideas among all markets betting on packaging: cosmetics, perfumery, alcohols, fine food, jewelry, fashion, …

innovative environmentally-friendly packaging solution of the show. The winner will be chosen among 5 nominees by an esteemed jury and announced on April 15.

Since its inception in Monaco in 2010, LUXE PACK in green has become the international platform to highlight its exhibitors’ best practices in sustainable development; this award has had since the beginning, great success among exhibitors, interest from brands and media impact.

The nominees and winners awarded in LUXE PACK New York, LUXE PACK Monaco and LUXE PACK Shanghai are inducted into the “LUXE PACK in green HALL*of*FAME”.

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“LUXE PACK in green has become an international platform to highlight the best practices in sustainable development.

Considered as the most effective benchmark for creative packaging, LUXE PACK is

also now very popular for visitors looking for responsible packaging purchases. We are introducing LUXE PACK in green Hall of Fame with great honour!”” announces Nathalie Grosdidier, General Manager LUXE PACK. The information will be displayed in the LUXE PACK in green dedicated area to highlight those exhibitors distinguished for their sustainable development approach and downloadable on a specific page on the website www.luxepack.com.

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Sustainable Foods Summit tackles ingredients and packaging developments The Sustainable Foods Summit will discuss approaches to reduce the environmental impact of food and beverages by using novel ingredients and green packaging. The European edition of this executive summit will be hosted in Amsterdam on 4-5 June.

The Food Ingredients for Sustainability session covers developments in sustainable sourcing and product innovations. Robert Madge from FoodReg will show how advances in modern software tools are increasing transparency in ingredient supply chains. By using vanilla and cocoa as case studies, an update will be given on sustainable sourcing projects in developing countries. Fairtrade International and a food company will highlight the importance of addressing social impacts when sourcing agricultural commodities.

Superfood ingredients are making headway in food and beverage applications. The Africa-inspired health and social company Aduna Foods will show how moringa, baobab and similar ingredients are inspiring creativity. Another paper explores the novel possibilities offered by sea vegetables (seaweeds). The challenges associated with using such novel ingredients in food and beverage applications will also be discussed.

With the United Nations declaring 2015 as the international year of soils, the opening keynote is on soil fertility. Details will be given on how soil health contributes to food security, poverty reduction, as well as protecting and preserving ecosystems.

Tobias Bandel from Soil & More further

discusses the role of soil in mitigating climate change. Another speaker looks at the implications of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) on sustainable foods. What risks does the TTIP bring to sustainable food producers and consumers in Europe?

Sustainable Packaging is a focal theme since food and beverage companies are under growing pressure to reduce their packaging impacts. The session begins with latest research on the packaging footprint of food and beverages; proceeding seminars cover advances in eco-design, and biopolymers & sustainable materials. Carrefour will share some of its sustainable packaging initiatives, whilst a multinational will state the challenges faced by companies looking to replace plastic packaging. Packaging has high environmental impact since it comprises up to a third of household waste; TerraCycle will show how its innovative collection schemes are creating new products from waste.

Another session on Green Marketing features advances in marketing and distribution of sustainable foods. Craig Sams, founder and president of Green & Black’s, opens the session with a keynote on green brand

values. Sams will also share his experiences in building international distribution for the iconic ethical chocolate brand. In another case study, Coop Denmark will state how its Anglamark private label has grown to represent about a half of organic food sales in the country. Tereza Havrlandova, founder of Lifefood, discusses the growing demand for raw food, while other papers cover green marketing communications and green consumer behaviour.

Taking place in Amsterdam for the seventh consecutive year, the European edition of the Sustainable Foods Summit seeks to encourage food and beverage companies to use sustainable ingredients, adopt green packaging solutions and overcome green marketing challenges.

Organised by Organic Monitor, the aim of the Sustainable Foods Summit is to explore new horizons for eco-labels and sustainability in the food industry by discussing key industry issues in a high level forum. The 7th European edition will be hosted at the MĂśvenpick hotel in Amsterdam on 4-5th June 2015.

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Bobst Group nearly doubles net result Bobst Group, the Swiss-based worldwide supplier of equipment and services to the packaging industry, achieved consolidated sales of CHF 1.3 billion in 2014, a marginal decrease of CHF 54 million, or 4.0%, compared to 2013. The operating result (EBIT) reached CHF 81.7 million (CHF 60.3 million in 2013) and the net result reached CHF 53.0 million (CHF 27.7 million in 2013).

These significant improvements were achieved due to the first full-year impact of Group transformation measures, and to good utilization of the Group’s industrial capacities, which have been adapted to demand.

The strong operating result (EBIT), together with a further reduction in net working capital, resulted in a significant cash inflow from operating activities of CHF 129.4 million (CHF 83.2 million in 2013). This enabled the Group to further reduce net debt from CHF 109.0 million in 2013 to CHF 17.7 million in 2014.

The return on capital employed (ROCE) reached 12.6% compared to 8.6% in 2013.

The Board of Directors proposes to the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders the payment of a dividend of CHF 1.25 per share (CHF 0.75 in 2013).

Pulse Roll Label Products announces new FINAT membership Narrow web ink and varnish manufacturer, Pulse Roll Label Products has announced that it has become a member of FINAT, the international association for the self-adhesive label industry.

As a direct supplier of inks and varnishes to the global self-adhesive label industry, the company believes it will benefit greatly from the market knowledge and insights shared with FINAT members, in addition to taking advantage of the many industry networking opportunities that membership provides.

Gary Seward, Managing Director, Pulse Roll Label Products, said “We are delighted to have joined FINAT and look forward to reaping the benefits of becoming a member of this valuable label industry network.”

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In 2015 the Group expects to achieve an operating result (EBIT) margin higher than 5% and a net result margin higher than 3%, at current exchange rates.

The Group started 2014 with a slightly lower backlog of orders than the year before.

Month-by-month, order entries were uneven, but with bookings at good levels for the last months of the year.

For the full year 2014, consolidated sales decreased by CHF 54 million to CHF 1.3 billion. Sales of Sheet-fed products remained stable compared to the previous year, at CHF 639 million. Demand for products for the corrugated equipment industry was strong and this compensated for weaker demand for products in the folding carton industry.

Sales of Web-fed products decreased by 15.8%, achieving CHF 283 million for the year 2014. This reduction was mainly due to lower demand for special machines and complex lines. Sales of Services and spare parts remained stable compared to the previous year at CHF 377 million.

Both operating result (up 35% to CHF 81.7 million) and net result (up 91% to CHF 53.0

million), showed significant improvements.

In 2015, Bobst Group will focus its strategy on innovation and product launches. The Group will dedicate core resources and energy to keeping its technological lead and enhancing customer satisfaction – which is one of the Group’s main priorities. Moreover the Group will continue the implementation of measures to mitigate significantly the impact of the rise of the Swiss franc.

At the forthcoming Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on April 29, 2015, the mandates of all members of the Board of Directors will come to an end. Alain Guttmann, Thierry de Kalbermatten, Michael W.O. Garrett, Ulf Berg and Jürgen Brandt will be proposed for re-election for a new period of one year. Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona, CEO of Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Science and Technology), will be proposed as a new member of the Board.

His profile and experience will bring the company important added value in the field of new technologies, especially in the digital world. The Board proposes to re-elect Alain Guttmann as Chairman of the Board.

UPM Raflatac appoints Praveen Gupta as GM and Business Development Director in South Asia UPM Raflatac has appointed Mr Praveen Gupta as General Manager and Business Development Director in South Asia.

Praveen brings with him a decade of project management and business development experience in India. During the last years, he has successfully led UPM’s Paper business in India. He has also been instrumental in driving the growth and success of India Recypa engaged in RCP collection and trading business.

Commenting on his appointment, Praveen said: “The self-adhesive label market in India and across South Asia continues to offer a very promising future. I look forward to developing UPM Raflatac’s label stock business further and strengthening our relationships with domestic brands and label

printers by delivering reliable high quality products and services.”

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Esko’s Kongsberg XP and ArtiosCAD installed at Pyramid Packaging Horizon Packs Group, with ten plants across the length and breadth of the country, has installed an Esko Kongsberg XP digital finishing table and structural design software ArtiosCAD at the Pyramid Packaging plant outside Bengaluru.

Kongsberg XP cutting table: robust short run production and sample making The exceptionally robust Esko Kongsberg XP24 cutting and creasing table at Pyramid is designed for cutting extremely strong corrugated board. It can be run 24/7 for efficient short run production. Director of Pyramid Packaging, Sachin Modi, says, “The USP of the Esko Kongsberg XP24 sample maker and software solution at Pyramid is that it processes a wide array of materials with a very short set-up time and at extraordinary throughput and speed. There is no need to wait for a die. In addition, a wide range of very versatile tools are available offering a complete packaging, signage and display (POP) solution with a single machine.

The integration with the CAD editor allows us to run jobs from a single unit to full scale production with as many as a thousand units in a day. The XP’s production power and quick change of tools ensures on time delivery, every time, even for complex jobs.”

Uncompromising quality at extraordinary speed defines the Esko Kongsberg XP Series. Combined with Esko’s industry standard ArtiosCAD software, it is the best digital finishing solution in the industry. The workhorse Kongsberg XP24 compliments the technologically advanced infrastructure

that the Horizon Packs Group has established over the years across India.

Esko’s India Sales Director Shrihari Rao acknowledged that being associated with Pyramid Packaging and the Horizon Packs Group as a whole has been very rewarding.

“What is very striking is how we at Esko feel connected and totally in sync with the vision of the Horizon Packs Group which is, ‘To have a presence in all emerging markets with advanced infrastructure for maintaining sustainable growth.’ The Horizon Packs mission statement could also very well be our own: ‘To deliver operational excellence and non-compromising quality by providing optimal packaging solutions.’”

Sachin Modi says in conclusion, “The Esko Kongsberg XP 24 sample table is functional, sturdy, versatile and very user-friendly. It enables quick sampling, complex size short-production runs and acts like an ideal workhorse. Esko is an integral component of

our converting operations and we plan to run it round the clock.”

This is the newest and most technologically advanced plant of the group with its high speed single and double wall automatic corrugator and the BOBST in-line automated as 4 colour flexo printer, slotter die cutter and gluer along with a complement of automated material handling systems.

Above all, the corrugating and box making plants of the Horizon pack group are well known for their scientific selection of liners, adhesive formulations and their automated material handling for both work in progress and for waste handling. The sustainable practices make the group’s ten plants located around the country, the supplier of choice for both global and national brand owners in India. In addition, the group’s best practices in manufacturing corrugated boxes meet global safety, health and hygiene standards making it the preferred supplier for demanding exporters.

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Sapphire to represent Xeikon in Indian document printing market Xeikon has signed an agreement with Sapphire, Indian supplier of digital print solutions to support its expansion in the Indian document printing market. The agreement will focus on the commercial printing and publishing sectors as well as the photo, wall décor and creative markets.

The portfolio Sapphire represents includes Xeikon’s 8000 Series digital colour presses.

They feature high precision LED-array imaging technology, which combines true 1200 dpi resolution and 4-bit per spot colour depth, to deliver the finest commercial print quality available on the market today. In addition, the Xeikon 8000 Series presses offer unmatched format flexibility, with a media width of 512mm (20.2 inches) and unlimited print length. The presses print on both sides of the substrate simultaneously and can handle monthly duty cycles of up to 10 million pages.

The 8000 Series presses are a fundamental element in Xeikon’s Document Production Suite, a fully integrated solution for the production of direct marketing material of virtually any size or format, ready for mailing or short-run high-quality transactional printing.

Sapphire will also offer Xeikon’s Wall Decoration Suite. It allows cost-efficient

“We pride ourselves on our customer centric approach, whether it is providing a trained

production of high-quality wall decorations for commercial, retail and residential purposes. This short-run friendly ‘all-in-one’ solution addresses the increasing demand for more customized and personalized print jobs and enables the production of a small roll of finished wallpaper from a large roll of paper. It integrates four major components – a Xeikon digital press printing on a wide range of media, with dedicated workflows and software, application-specific toners and process optimization tools plus pre- and post-press equipment.

operator with the machine or supporting the initial installation for the first couple of weeks,” states Sapphire’s Vikram Saxena, Chief Operating Officer at Sapphire Graphic Solutions. “It is this approach to customer support that has resulted in the success of our business from its inception. We are delighted to be able to work with Xeikon and share with our customers how the large portfolio of Xeikon’s digital printing solutions can help them grow their business and stay ahead of the competition.”

Bent Serritslev, who was recently appointed Managing Director Xeikon Asia Pacific (ASPAC) to help support its fast-paced growth in this dynamic region comments: “Sapphire has earned an unrivalled reputation for its service, support and sales of digital printing solutions and we are delighted to be working together in such an exciting and vibrant region. We are looking forward to presenting solutions that can help Indian print production operations improve their production capabilities and enhance their service offering.”

Kedaara Capital invests Rs 200 cr. in Parksons Packaging Private equity firm Kedaara Capital has invested Rs.200 crore in Parksons Packaging, manufacturer of folding cartons and paper packaging. The investment marks the PE firm’s foray into the packaging segment.

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Parksons provides its products to customers across different segments including food and beverages, home and personal care, pharmaceuticals and restaurants.

The significant minority stake in Parksons by Kedaara is maiden investment by the later in the packaging sector.

Kedaara will bring in global experience and best practices to Parksons. It will add significant value to Parksons and help its position as an innovative paper packaging solutions provider.

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Esko to acquire MediaBeacon Esko has announced the acquisition of MediaBeacon Inc. MediaBeacon, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA), brings an award-winning suite of DAM tools to market, primarily in the USA, through direct distribution and strategic OEM partnerships in various industries ranging from Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods to Media, Print and the public sector.

“It is Esko’s strategy to digitize and integrate the entire packaging production workflow from design all the way to finished packs and displays in the store. With this acquisition, we further our transformation from a prepress solution provider to an end-to-end supplier in the packaging world“, explains UdoPanenka, Esko President. “Increasing pressure on error-free and timely production of brand expressions across a diverse media range

like packaging, in-store displays and online and printed advertising, turns an integrated DAM solution into a cornerstone for both print service providers and brand owners. Adding MediaBeacon tools and expertise expands the Esko Software Suite and brings to market a production workflow solution that keeps pace with the challenges of organizations around the globe.”

To facilitate a smooth integration process, Jason Bright, CEO and founder of MediaBeacon, will assume the role of Chief Technology Officer. Jason, a highly respected thought leader and industry visionary, will work closely with the Esko R&D teams to drive software integration efforts and to ensure ongoing development of the MediaBeacon DAM software. Brett Robertson will assume responsibilities over daily operations as the General Manager of MediaBeacon. Brett was previously the Director Global Product Marketing, Servo Motors with Kollmorgen.

workflow is very exciting and provides us with a solid platform for growth,” comments Brett Robertson. “Esko’s expertise with packaging assets, including structural design and 3D virtual mock-up technology, broadens the scope, depth and breadth of the integrated solution dramatically and will surely also excite our customers.”

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

“The prospect of adding MediaBeacon’s development and go-to-market efforts into Esko’s global operations in packaging

Flexo Image Graphics opens sales office in Dubai Having expanded its flagship company Flexo Image Graphics into two distinct companies last year, Flexo Image Graphics DWC LLC that comprise the distributorship of Mark Andy and Rotoflex for the Middle East and African markets has recently announced their Dubai office in the heart of the city. This move is an extension of FIG DWC LLC broadening its horizons by leveraging its strengths and its core team to empower their customers to realize their full potential in the MEA region.

Till now, Flexo Image Graphics had been working with a representative office in the region. However, it has now taken a step forward with the establishment of the Dubai office, which is located in DWC Business Center, Dubai. This new office structure is sure going to give a big boost with Mr.

Gourav Roy as Managing Director and Mr. Pankaj Sehgal helming the responsibility as Territory Manager for MEA region.

Mr. Gourav Roy has said: “With the opening of this new Dubai office of Flexo Image Graphics DWC LLC, we see this as a sign of FIG DWC LLC continuing to be the technology leader, with a range of innovations to suit all types of narrow web applications. This facility will enable FIG to further support the expanding markets of the MEA and, with the expanded facilities here and with experienced print, sales and technical support, I am very optimistic about our future in this region.”

“In the last more than one decade of our operations, we’ve come farther than we could

have imagined. The need for a complete office set up in Dubai follows our significant growth in the labeling industry in the MEA region. With this new office, I am inspired to streamline our services even better so that our customers can be better equipped to get better and faster services. This is what we do today, and that’s what we’ll do tomorrow,” added Gourav Roy.

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A Promising Future for Packaging and Printing Li Hua, Yang Lizhen, Chen Qiang The ongoing prosperity of commodity economy has brought higher requirements for the packing and printing products in the market. Merchants and customers are in the pursuit of products with elegant appearance, diversified functions and personalized designs. Therefore, packaging and printing becomes the most potential growth point in the printing industry, and so attracts great attention from the industry.

In the future, the technology of packaging and printing will, to the greatest extent, reflect the modern concept of packaging design, and visualize the information and function of the products. Under the modern concept, elements including technology, humanities, environmental protection, and market demands blend with the others such as experience, consumers’ mentality, and corporate images. These combinations will be ultimately reflected in the products’ packages. For example, the combination of emerging information-hiding technology and traditional encryption technology digitizes the processes of quality control, production inquiry, and production safety. The utilization of new packaging material and technology leads to economical and environment-friendly packaging, with paper in replacement of plastics, glass, and metal. The blending of anti-counterfeiting packaging technology with advanced printing technology and local humanities not only symbolizes the cultural inheritance, but also prevents the replication and counterfeit, which contributes to the marketing, the establishment of corporate brand, and the protection of consumers’ legitimate rights and interests. Moreover, the emergence of three- dimensional (3D) printer provides better prospects for nano-functional printing and electronic component packaging and printing technology. At present, with the development of electronic media and smart materials, smart packaging has been utilized largely in the pre-press processing of information and post-press finishing, creating a bright future for packaging and printing industry.

The upgrading of relevant hardware technology also manifests the development of packaging and printing technology. The utilization of high-tech (e.g., smart technology

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and processing, sensor technology, technology of magnetic materials and new fiber materials) in packaging machinery contributes to the electromechanical integration, intelligence, and automation with high production speed, efficiency and quality, and also guarantees the personalization and specialization of the producing process.

In addition, the developmental trends of the integration of packaging and printing processes, as well as the utilization of pollution-free and green packaging materials become more obvious.

The developments of new functional packaging materials and fabrication technology also will gain momentum.

Recently, market demand for functional packaging and printing products has been increasing. Many companies and R&D centers, both at home and abroad, dedicate themselves to the R&D of new functional packaging materials and technology, such as new high-barrier film, the most prominent achievement. Currently, the most commonly used plastic packaging material is PET polyester material (more than 30%). This material has excellent characteristics of being light, stable, easy to carry, and in low cost.

The methods commonly used to improve the barrier properties of PET include mixing PET with plastics such as PEN, EVOH, and LCP, combining PET and other thin film materials, adding oxygen scavenger in PET, and using plasma technology in organic thin film surface to deposit Nano-oxide thin film, a method that originates from the late eighties

of last century. At present, some companies and R&D centers have already made significant achievements in this field. For example, the method jointly developed by COCA-COLA, University of Duisburg-Essen, Krones and Leybold systemic company is to coat PET surface with SiOx thin film, which can increase the barrier properties of PET by four times and thus extend the shelf life of food for another six months without affecting the smells of the food. The SiOx barrier thin film developed by the Plasma Physics and Materials Research Center in Beijing Institute of Graphic Communications can enhance the barrier properties of PET by nearly 170 times. In addition, with the rapid development of nanotechnology and materials, the industrialization of nano packaging materials witnesses an optimistic outlook for the industry. The applications of nano materials in packaging papers, inks, plates, adhesives, coatings, and key components of the machine have shown high performances.

Relying on market demands, packaging and printing technology will employ the existing technology and high-tech platform to formulate new technological systems which will be characterized by environment-friendly and energy saving packaging and printing technology with high-tech, high performance, high reliability and high capacity.

From: Plasma Physics and Materials Research Center in Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication

India Day at PRINT CHINA 2015 Since kick-off of the project, PRINT CHINA 2015 has been a focus at home and abroad, with tens of overseas associations and organizations setting to organize buyer groups to the event. In particular, there will be about 500 buyers organized by the All India Federation of Master Printers (AIFMP) and the Indian Printing Packaging and Allied Machinery Manufacturers Association (IPAMA).

In order to reward the Indian buyers, the Organizing Committee has scheduled the

India Day activity in the Conference Hall on F1 at Regal Palace Hotel on April, 8.

Mr. T J Suresh, Commercial Consul of the Consulate General of the Republic of India in Guangzhou has accepted to attend the India Day as a guest of honour. On April 8, the Organizing Committee will organize for the Indian buyers visit to booths of outstanding domestic equipment manufacturers, whose representatives will offer lively demonstration and on-site speeches and promote their characteristic models.

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Printed Electronics – on a Roll Zhang Xingye, Song Yanlin Printed electronics originates from the expansion and application of printing technology in the field of electronics manufacturing. It can be used to produce green, large, thin and flexible electronic circuits and components with high efficiency and low cost, and manufacture flexible electronics which are curved, foldable or wearable. In recent years, it has attracted special attention from the electronics industry and shown good market prospects.

Products utilizing the printed electronics have been classified by HISDisplayBank into five categories, including display, energy, intelligent products, lighting and the others. It is estimated that printed electronics industry will grow to $ 24.3 billion in 2020, with a compound annual growth rate of 33%.

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Roll-to-roll printing of RF antenna and flexible circuit boards based on nanosilver/copper fabrication. Currently, the American company Novacentrix and the Chinese Company Nano Top Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. have already developed the roll-to-roll printing of RF antenna based on nano-silver/ copper conductive ink, which has many advantages including environmentfriendly manufacturing process, material savings and low cost.

Printing of touch screen leads and transparent conductive films based on Gravure-offset, nano-imprint, silver nanowire coating technology. Currently, the Japanese company Komori has already begun to sell its Gravureoffset high precision electronic ink printer, which can be used to produce peripheral leads for narrow frame touch screen mobile phones. In addition, the U.S. company Cambrios, Japanese company Nissha Printing, and the Taiwan company TPK utilize the coated printing nano-imprint technology to produce transparent conductive films for the touch screens of mobile phones and other electronic devices.

Printing of flexible and foldable displays/ lighting boards, large electronic advertising boards, navigation boards, etc. Currently, Sony, Philips, Samsung

and LG have already presented their flexible and foldable displays and lighting products in the market.

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A tendency from platform sheetfed printing to modular roll-to-roll printing will be witnessed. Currently, RFID antennas have already employed roll-to-roll screen-printing approach to make continuous and rapid production — from roll-to-roll screen-printing to roll -to-roll inkjet, and to roll-to-roll flexo, and to roll -to-roll gravure, the production speed reaches to approximately 300 m/min.

The printing precision is to improve from micron to submicron, and even to nanometer in the near future. With the current printing process, the optimum printing precision is about 20μm. However, highly integrated electronic devices require higher printing precision, particularly the printing precision of submicron or even nanometer. The high precision HR Offset technology developed by Sony has already realized a printing precision of 5μm.

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Printing of electronic devices will shift from part-printing to full-printing.

Currently, printed electronics technology is gradually becoming mature and with the development of semiconductor ink material, it is possible to produce electronic products with full printing method. South Korea’s Samsung Electronics and Dutch Holster research center have shown the white OLED lighting products made by full roll-to-roll printing.

There will be a trend to develop flexible and curved, thin and transparent, scalable and wearable electronic devices in the very near future.

From: Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

The Gallus Group sales increase by 8% in 2014 Since the financial and economic crisis, there has been a trend towards more short-notice demand for label and folding carton printing machinery. This helped the Gallus Group put in a strong performance in the second half of 2014, achieving record sales in the final quarter with a positive impact on earnings.

In September 2014, Gallus unveiled the Gallus DCS 340 to the global public. This is a digital label printing machine with a multi-colour inkjet module, developed in collaboration with Heidelberger Druckmaschinen and its inkjet technology partner, Fujifilm. This new solution for small production runs and versioning label and packaging products will complement the existing range of machinery. It will be

available as a complete system comprising a digital label printing machine with specially adapted consumables (including inks) as well as workflow solutions and service packages. The product will be launched in September 2015 at the Labelexpo trade fair.

The Gallus Group is member of the Heidelberg Group and employs around 560 people, of whom 260 are based in Switzerland. The group headquarters is in St. Gallen. The Group is maintaining its existing strategy of focusing on labels and folding cartons in the packaging segments, as well as expanding its digital printing machinery business and investing in innovations while continuing to optimise its costs.

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FASTSIGNS brings cutting & routing tasks in-house with Esko Kongsberg V table Business becomes more productive, completes projects faster, and is able to attract more business.

FASTSIGNS of Vancouver has recently invested in a new Esko Kongsberg V finishing table, bringing in-house many of the cutting and routing tasks it once had to subcontract to complete. In doing so, beyond productivity, quality and cost efficiencies, they have been able to attract more business.

FASTSIGNS of Vancouver is an independently owned and operated sign, graphics and visual communications company—one of FASTSIGNS’ more than 530 franchises throughout the world. They provide comprehensive visual marketing solutions to customers of all sizes—across all industries—to help them meet their business objectives and increase their business visibility. Paul LeBlanc is the owner of FASTSIGNS. His business grew substantially in the early 2000s and expanded from their original 1,800square foot location to their current 5,400 square foot facility in 2008.Their ten employees operate two roll printers, a flatbed printer, and a thermal transfer printer.

“If I had to make a decision before the Kongsberg V, I would have waited another year.

The price let me move sooner.” – Paul LeBlanc

Key Notes : > Subcontracting cutting was increasing with increased time pressures and costs. > Needed a table that could read registration marks from a digital printer; could cut squares or contours—whatever shape—on the printed piece. > Decided to invest in a Kongsberg V table and installed it in 2014; price was a significant factor.

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Finding a need to bring cutting and finishing in-house “Producing signs isn’t all about printing. We originally had a saw on our wall and a hand saw we used for cutting on production tables,” recalls LeBlanc.”A lot of the materials took a good amount of muscle to

cut. On some occasions when clients needed a good number of retail signs and shapes, we sent them out to a subcontractor to be cut.”

LeBlanc realized that the amount of subcontracting was increasing. “One of our best customers was ordering more and more items that needed cut substrates, and it required us to seek help,” says LeBlanc.”It was challenging for us. The subcontractor’s cost made it difficult for us to make money. Also, it created time pressures for us. We would print the project, ship it across town, wait for the project to be cut, and then ship it back. It took too much time.”

The other influencing factor came from LeBlanc’s involvement with FASTSIGNS. “We are part of the FASTSIGNS network and have a number of business friends whom I speak with regularly and meet at our annual convention,” adds LeBlanc.”I had heard that many of these franchisees were reaping real production efficiencies with cutting tables. While we had plenty of resources to do the work manually, I asked a room full of people of similar FASTSIGNS centers if there was a viable business case to invest in a table. The answer was a unanimous ‘yes!’”

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marks from a digital printer so that it could cut squares or contours—whatever shape— on the printed piece. He also creates a lot of dimensional letters, so a router was important.

Deciding on the Kongsberg V, a cost-effective finishing table “There are a few different table manufacturers, and this was an important investment—one that we believe we will be using for a decade. I needed a machine where the company had a good track record among FASTSIGNS franchisees and within the industry.” remarks LeBlanc.”When I ask people what they are doing, I listen. I spoke with people who were consistently happy with the Kongsberg table. I also knew that FASTSIGNS headquarters supported them.”

They decided to invest in a Kongsberg V table and installed it in October 2014. “Price was a significant factor. If I had to make a decision before the Kongsberg V, I would have waited another year,” remembers LeBlanc.”The price let me move sooner. I assessed the sacrifices that I would have to make with power and speed, and compared them to larger Kongsberg tables. I visited FASTSIGNS in Burlington, Canada. They were running their larger table at 1/2 and

1/4 speeds, which was certainly sufficient for them. It also was able to do routing—an important feature.”

Esko had a local rep, a very comforting thought for LeBlanc.”I understand that Esko has reps throughout North America,” comments LeBlanc.”It’s nice that I don’t have to work with someone who is far away. I feel like I have a local relationship with Esko.”

The Kongsberg V table has already come in handy. “The timeline with our largest retail client’s most recent job was extremely tight and would have been difficult if done outside. Now that they have a significant in-house capability, the large project, created in Coroplast, was easy to complete. We have completed a couple runs of signs for a security company where we produced 100-150 square Coroplast signs. This would have been a big problem for us before. We ran them through the cutter and it saved a lot of time,” raves LeBlanc. “We also needed to create a 3D letter sign for another customer. I really don’t like hard and fast deadlines for a sign that will be used for years, but the client was making it for a specific event. We were able to meet the deadline while creating a very high-quality sign—something we would not have been able without the Kongsberg V

table. It got us the order. In the past we would have turned it down.”

The Kongsberg V table has met every demanding job, cutting plexi and acrylic very well. LeBlanc particularly likes the clean edges on OVC plastic. Recently, as a test, they created a 3D piece where the router cut out a custom 1/4” shape within a larger shape, as if a sand blaster did it.

The Kongsberg table is also making the sales force more productive. “Before, when my sales people tried to sell certain projects, they were unable to quote them easily. We had to send a job request to the subcontractor,” recounts LeBlanc.”Now, with the Kongsberg table and our in-house capability, they can quote projects easily, like standees, or dimensional letter jobs.

Our salespeople are more confident and are converting more orders.”

“In the history of our business, success has come through technology,” concludes LeBlanc.”In the early years, there was thermal transfer printing, then inkjet printing. Now I see the Kongsberg table, and flatbed cutting, as a way of staying ahead of the competition by providing services unavailable from other businesses.”

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Agfa Graphics to demonstrate new Jeti Titan with Varnish at ISA’s Sign Expo 2015 “Product of the Year” from SGIA 2014 to be shown in FTR mode with varnish; 6-colour devices also offer white and primer options Agfa Graphics has added varnish to its Jeti Titan S and HS true flatbed printing system, set to make its North America debut at ISA’s Sign Expo 2015. The Jeti Titan HS + FTR (flat-to-roll) will be among several Agfa Graphics printing devices being demonstrated on the show floor in the company’s booth at Sign Expo in Las Vegas in April.

The Jeti Titan HS + FTR with varnish offers sign & display printing companies the chance to differentiate themselves. Used as ‘spot’ varnish, it can add dramatic effects to many applications like POP displays, packaging, decorative prints, trade show graphics etc. Agfa Graphics’ specially formulated UV-curable varnish is compatible with most standard UV-printing media and

cures to a perfect sheen in gloss, or with a semi-gloss effect.

“The addition of varnish to the Jeti Titan S and HS printing systems gives PSPs the chance to be more creative and offer a wider array of ideas to their customers. The varnish can be applied as a protective coating or it can be used to highlight specific areas of the print for dramatic effect,” said Deborah Hutcheson, director of Marketing, Agfa Graphics, North America. “The Jeti Titan S and HS also come with white and primer, for even greater opportunities for big ideas to come to life.”

Featuring the latest generation 1,280-nozzle Ricoh Gen 5 print heads, the Jeti Titan S (speed) and HS (high-speed) with varnish +

FTR combine exceptional print quality and high productivity at an extreme price point advantage. They are ideal for high-value work like POP/POS viewed at close range or for the high-level art, fashion and cosmetics markets.

Named as “Product of the Year” at the 2014 SGIA Expo, the Jeti Titan HS system’s FTR option offers the ability to print flexible media with the same high quality and resolution as rigid materials. The “S” version of the Jeti Titan has a single row of print heads, but is field upgradeable to add the second row.

Show attendees can also tour the popular “Surf N’ Crab Application Zone” featuring the newest Duratex media introductions.

The “Surf N’ Crab” simulates a seafood bar and surf shop, offering fun, colorful and vibrant graphics created entirely with inkjet technologies, including the new Jeti Titan HS with varnish.

These and other Agfa Graphics solutions will be in Agfa’s booth at ISA’s Sign Expo 2015, being held from April 9-11 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center.

Events Calendar Print China 2015

Paperex 2015

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

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

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Pamex 2015 PrintExpo 2015 Date: 12 JUNE-15 to 14 JUN-15 Venue: Chennai Trade Centre Chennai

PackPlus 2015 Date: 30 JUL-15 to 02 AUG-15 Venue: Pragati Maidan New Delhi

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

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