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Topic of the month
Enhanced Processing – from the Shadows into the Limelight
The development of new media and a relentless advance in digital print technologies keep the printing and media industry in thrall. Press runs are getting smaller and production cycles compress further. Quick turnaround and last minute changes are par for the course in today’s work environment. It is a race against time for everybody involved, a race nobody can afford to lose. Those very facts make enhanced processing a much sought-after option. Plenty of value is hidden in the Postpress processing of printed matter, especially in the digital printing business. In this regard, photo books show exponential growth at this time. By Andrea Bötel
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Red Sofa Interviews
Interview with Gerd Finkbeiner
The financial and economic crisis drastically accelerated structural changes, which were expected to come about in any case, in the printing sector. The move from classic to digital production has hit printer manufacturers and all peripheral suppliers particularly hard. Half-way to the next drupa, manroland Chairman Gerd Finkbeiner spoke about the challenges his company faces and its new orientation for the future.
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Packaging materials morph into intelligent sales tools
Not pretty, but utterly practical in many applications: The 2D barcode
Printing on packaging materials has been experiencing much less of a decline when compared to other market segments. Indeed, its growth potential is universally acknowledged, not the least because new technologies lend packaging a certain cachet—from personalized digital print to the incorporation of intelligent characteristics, notably various electronic functionalities. In addition, the integration of special security features designed to counter product piracy also becomes increasingly common. Such type of recession-proof packaging serves as both a powerful marketing force and sales tool.
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Internet communities espouse on-the-job help – not least in the print and media space
Long gone are the days when the internet was viewed as a threat to the printing industry. Web-to-Print has become a fact of life where nothing but comprehensive information and targeted networking matters. Within social media communities, industry-specific networks multiply and prove their worth to companies engaged in the printing and associated media industries.
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drupa Prize 2010 awarded to Nadine Müller
Mr. Weickenmeier, Ms. Müller, Mr. Dornscheidt
Thanks to her excellent dissertation, Dr. des. Nadine Müller was awarded the 35th drupa Prize on 31st May 2010 at the Düsseldorf-based Industrieclub. Under the heading of “Self-promotion of artists in the Düsseldorf School and the Düsseldorf marketing system from 1826 – 1860”, Müller – a graduate from the Art History Institute at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf – examined how artists of that period marketed their works.
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drupa report No.2
The latest drupa Report No. 2 is hot off the press and available in 41 different versions: national landmarks of the key exhibitor and visitor markets adorn the covers of the individual editions.
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Red Sofa Interviews
Interview with Frank Romano
Frank Romano, Professor at the Rochester Institute for Technology (RIT), is convinced that digital print solutions will reach the production level of offset printing and play a pivotal role in the long-term future of the print industry. He forecasts that offset printing will only enjoy a niche existence with just 30 to 40 percent of its printing volume by the year 2020. drupa report wanted to find out more about the latest findings from the digital printing expert and his predictions for the printing industry.
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The circulation of dailies in India surely would increase to 150 million and upwards
The orbituary of the common daily has been written more often than that of any other printed matter. Indeed, large publishers in the USA have predicted the trusted newspaper’s demise often enough for it to almost become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Yet the oldest and most familiar of all printed matter is also one of the most durable in our changing times. Brand-new formats and cross-media concepts afford the trusted old daily a new perspective into the future. Different from what takes place in the US and western industrialized countries, printed news does experience a veritable explosion in fast-growing regions like India and the rest of Asia...
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Paper Does Make All the Difference - How niiu manages to turn the traditional concept of newspaper publishing upside down
The younger generation still takes to newspaper reading—notwithstanding all expert prognostications. Witness the two Berlin entrepreneurs Wanja Oberhof and Hendrik Tiedemann, who, since November, 2009, have been making a splash with their innovative daily niiu—as of this reporting still limited to Berlin, yet rapidly garnering readership. Prospects are excellent. The concept will also be introduced in Hamburg, Frankfurt, Cologne or Munich in the near future, giving potential readers the opportunity to enjoy a personally edited newspaper.
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2010 – A Year for Strategising and That Pioneering Spirit
Following a year that witnessed severe turbulence in both the financial and business sectors, together with discussions of mergers and takeovers as well as capacity shrinkage and, alas, redundancies, it is imperative for industry leaders to adjust to a new orthodoxy. Never before did prevailing circumstances demand as much pioneering spirit from service providers and manufacturers alike.
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red sofa Interview with Benny Landa
Get digital or get out
Driven by his digital vision, Benny Landa has for many years been championing technical developments in the graphic arts industry, thus constantly re-inventing its structures and processes. Even though the inventor of “digital offset print” has retired from the day-to-day business at Hewlett Packard, he still is an engine of innovation and a much sought-after representative for the company.
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Red Sofa Interview with Wolfgang Mildner
„Printed Electronics Envisions a Market in the Billions“
Wolfgang Mildner is chairman of the Organic Electronics Association (OE-A) and managing director of PolylC Ltd.
In search of perspectives for the future, the manufacture of storage instruments appears to present an increasingly interesting aspect for the printing industry’s service sector. New materials development, IT programming and the creation of new applications are closely interwoven.
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Jack of All Trades: Industrial screen-printing – a bright future ahead
Screen-printing covers a huge spectrum. It ranges from artisan craftwork to super-size, formatted commercial printing to a plethora of custom applications for industry and commerce. It is considered the nonplus ultra in the partial coating treatment for a great variety of surfaces. Those characteristics helped screen-printing grow nearly unnoticed into a ubiquitously used process, finding itself essentially without peer in the industrial space. Indeed, its market potential is still largely untapped, with many opportunities for business expansion remaining to be explored.
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Interview with Manfred Mandel, CMO of Real
"Speed and Instant Availability is Key to Printing’s Future"
Manfred Mandel, CMO of Real
Retailers invest hundreds of millions of Euros annually in advertising inserts. The sums still represent a significant portion within the media’s marketing mix. Yet consumers’ changing shopping habits, together with new ways of communication and other types of advertising, are gaining in importance.
By Anna Berg
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From iPhone to iPrint. How Modern Technology Changes the Means of Communication
Hardly any manufacturer has impacted the field of graphic arts as did Apple. Twenty years ago, Macintosh evolutionised established printing processes with its first global graphics platform. Does Apple’s iPhone command a similar potential? Are printing and media enterprises faced with another epochal changeover?
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Freshly installed: our mobile drupa information system - optimized for mobile phones and smartphones. All the information at a glance for the preparation of the drupa visit. Times & fees, hotel booking, all exhibitors of drupa 2008 with additional information and a lot more.
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“FairFairs Hotel” service initiative wins UFI Operations Award
On 1 October in Cologne, the delegates of the Operations Focus Meeting initiated by the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry (UFI) voted on trade fair companies’ best solutions and projects designed to enhance travel management and hotel conditions at trade fair locations, and thereby benefit exhibitors.
Facts and Figures of drupa
The mood at drupa 2008 could hardly have been better. From 29 May to 11 June in Düsseldorf, around 390,000 visitors from 140 countries and approx. 3,000 journalists from 84 nations obtained information about innovations, further developments and new business areas, while talk was of numerous billion-figure investments. As a result, drupa was able to further extend its global market significance and international standing. This is confirmed by the now-published visitor survey conducted by an independent market research institute.
