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Behind the ideas that earn dollars for SPH
Having contributed marketing ideas to earlier conferences, the Singapore Press Holdings team contributed some of the technical detail behind some of its wrappers and special projects to a session at Publish Asia in Kuala Lumpur.

The search for quality's 'holy grail'
World-class print quality has become a ‘must-have’ for newspaper publishers in their struggle for eyeballs and advertising dollars against competition from other media.

manroland to sell Tensor presses in South East Asia
With immediate effect, manroland is to market and distribute Tensor's single width-press newspaper presses in South East Asia and some other countries.

KBA scores second German triple-wide press order in a week
And another! Less than a week after announcing the sale of a triple-wide Commander CT for a newspaper in Bavaraia, KBA says it has scored a second German order for the compact conventional-offset press.

KBA sells first triple-width Commander CT into Europe
Not the longest in KBA’s compact press format, a new Commander CT for ‘Der neue Tag’ in Weiden, Northern Bavaria, will however be the widest in Europe.

Goss adds 4x2 to Universal XL press offering
After taking its Universal press platform into double-width format with a 4x1 Universal XL last year, Goss has now added a 4x2 version.

KBA reports a profit and talks of growth
KBA has told shareholders of a ‘perceptible upturn’ in its market sector, with demand for both sheetfed and web presses picking up strongly since March.

Region's 26 among 106 new International Newspaper Color Quality Club members
Twenty-six Asia-Pacific newspapers are among the 109 in 43 countries accorded membership of WAN-Ifra’s 2010-2012 International Newspaper Color Quality Club.

Report spells out why it's good to be green
A new report that examines the environmental implications of ‘green’ strategies for newspaper companies has just been published by the WAN-Ifra. ‘Going Green’ is a product of the Shaping the Future of the Newspaper project.

West Ferry move delivers KBA’s biggest order this year
UK newspaper printer West Ferry Printers – a subsidiary of Express Newspapers – could be following the work when it leaves its Docklands home for a new site, likely to be close to the M1/M25 motorways north of London.

Jordanians spend up for $33 million print centre
A six-tower KBA Commander newspaper press capable of heatset production will boost capacity at Jordan Press Foundation in Amman.

Inkjet, 'one touch' power manroland to top of patents list
manroland says it went to the top of the list for printing patent applications in 2009, a big year for innovations.

Yandina's hybrid effect
A robotised log-stacker – the latest acquisition at APN Print’s Yandina, Queensland, site – is symbolic of the transformation semicommercial capacity can bring to a newspaper printer.

Looking for the cure: UV gains sway in the US and Australia
Half a dozen years after the first ‘new generation’ newspaper systems went into operation, UV is now established as process for semicommercial production on coated stocks (writes Peter Coleman).

Integrated Ferag finishing at GraphExpo as Goss backs Chicago show
With more than newspaper and commercial web presses to offer, Goss has said it supports the idea of a single North American show covering both sectors.

manroland sells triple-width coldset Colorman to Viennese UV pioneer
manroland has sold a highly-automated triple-width Colorman XXL autoprint newspaper press to Herold Druck, the Austrian printer which was its inert UV pioneer.

Tensor, Prime, Jardis team for new insert project
UV curing and a specially-designed Jardis ribbon folder have added flexibility to a new Tensor press installation for an insert and newspaper printer.

Italian printer upgrades 'obsolete' press controls
Harland Simon has taken an order to upgrade press management systems for Centro Stampa Poligrafici in Bologna and Florence, the UK company says.

Now Goss wears its sleeve on North America’s packs
Having worked with the US packaging printing specialist on the development of sleeve-based variable repeat versions of its Sunday press range, Goss International has appointed PacSys to help sell the systems for flexible packaging, label and folding carton applications in North America.

ABC’s press project born after just nine months
A new manroland Colorman newspaper press is running at Rotomadrid in Torrejon de Ardoz, Spain, nine months after the order was placed.

Retrofits and IT make a good year for ABB
Despite the troubles of the global newspaper industry, ABB did more business in 2009 than in previous years, the Switzerland-based controls specialist says.

QI gets a $5 million Christmas present from Belgian newspaper
QI Press Controls had an early Christmas present from European newspaper publisher ‘Corelio’, in the form of a 20-tower control order worth more than 3.5 million Euros (A$5.7 million).

How Goss’s press reformatting option could really make the cut
Pondering the potential of Goss’s Triliner technology – which enables the cutoff (and broadsheet page height) to be reduced by a third by modifying plate cylinders and installing a new folder based on FPS technology – it struck me the real opportunity may be to combine a shorter cutoff with more page-widths per cylinder (writes Peter Coleman).

PrintCity stitches Tolerans into 2010 alliance membership
Newspaper and heatset inline stitching specialist Tolerans of Stockholm has joined the PrintCity Alliance in advance of Ipex in 2010.

Uniset blossoms on years of reunified German partnership
manroland is celebrating the twentieth anniversary of its partnership with the former Plamag printing press factory in Plauen in the former East Germany.

And now, secrets of Fairfax’s print product innovations are revealed
An advertising wrapper around ‘The Age’ and the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ today is just one of a series of technical innovations – including fragrance and ‘pop-out’ pages – being used by Fairfax Media to add marketing appeal to its print products.

Old assembly hall reopens as web-offset technology centre
A historic hall, once the turning shop of the August Riedinger engineering works, and a secret ammunition factory during World War II has been opened as manroland’s new Print Technology Centre Augsburg.

US Goss users get online for training
Online training for Goss press operators has become a popular option in the USA, the company says.

UV print specialist moves up with Goss Uniliner double-width install
US specialist Prime UV is moving into the double-width arena with an installation on a Goss Uniliner 80 press for an undisclosed customer.

Conti seminar help push waterless ahead
A recent recruit to the European Waterless Printing Association, blanker maker Conti-Air weighed in this month with a symposium on waterless printing at its Northeim, Germany, headquarters.

Gulf newspapers push on with semicommercial projects
A new Continent press at UPP in Abu Dhabi is the third Gulf newspaper to fire up a KBA hybrid in recent years, with a huge waterless Cortina press at ‘Gulf News’ to follow shortly.

Tassie tough: News' Hobart site in detail
There’s a steely self-sufficiency about life in Hobart, Australia’s southernmost city, recognising the fact that help may not be close at hand ...especially in the middle of the night, and with a daily newspaper to produce.

KBA’s Commander CT hybrid gets Transcontinental vote of confidence
Canadian contract printing giant Transcontinental has turned to KBA for four triple-wide semicommercial presses in what the German maker says is one of the biggest orders placed with it in recent years.

Australia, China profiles in new Goss magazine issue
Updates on the Australasian market, a feature about heatset printer AIW and profiles of two Chinese companies are included in a new edition of Goss International's Web Offset magazine, downloadable in electronic form at www.gossinternational.com.

WAN-Ifra offers free online check on INCQC colour quality
Before you consider entering your newspaper for WAN-Ifra’s International Newspaper Color Quality Club – the next cycle of which runs from 2010-2012 – check how good your colour quality is.

Newsletter promotes QI in a Flash
Colour controls systems specialist QI Press Controls has launched a new email newsletter to complement the elegant website it introduced last year.

Goss adds third 4/1 option to press range
Goss has introduced a new 4/1 press based on its Universal concept, joining the Uniliner S and pioneering Mainstream 80 design (acquired from Heidelberg) in its range.

manroland forum guests see all-heatset Colorman, new folder
A new all-colour all-heatset Colorman press at Roularta Media in Belgium was the technical focus of a manroland business forum on automation and enhancement in newspaper printing in June.

In-former slitter delivers kindest cut
A new tabloid slitter located in a hole in a press folder former cuts more webs, more cleanly, Swedish maker Tolerans says.

QI lands US rego order for FPS as installation approaches
Lengthy negotiations in the USA have ended with QI Press Controls announcing an order to supply their mRC closed loop colour register system for North America’s first Goss FPS press, installed at the ‘Free Lance-Star’ in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

Waterless KBA press powers fast-growing publisher
KBA’s latest waterless Cortina press installation has gone live at M. DuMont Schauberg in Cologne.

QI gets home order for markless colour register
After the setback of restrictions on marketing its ‘markless’ mode in Germany, QI Press Controls has sold its first mRC install automatic colour and cut-off register control system to a newspaper printer in its home country of the Netherlands.

Girl power shines through at SWUG, manroland
Runner-up in this year’s SWUG apprentice competition (see page 17) newspaper press operator Sarah Weldon is a rare – if not unique – woman in a dirty job once considered a ‘men only’ domain.

Keeping 'up' with power failures
What happens when a storm causes the power supply to flutter? Computer screens flash, resets trip and in press halls around the world, a web break is a likely result.

Pressroom where flexibility and technology pull together
In Australia partly to research job prospects, Dutchman Gaby van Deventer was a welcome spreaker at the SWUG conference, as Peter Coleman reports.

Tensor sets single-width action to music
US press manufacturer Tensor Group follows the life and use of its single-width newspaper presses with a new video on its website.

manroland takes crusade against counterfeit parts to China
Newspaper press maker manroland has taken the German engineering federation VDMA’s ‘Pro Original’ campaign against counterfeit spare parts to China.

Betz, Baldwin pumped over ink systems agreement
Betz ink supply systems are to be sold and serviced by Baldwin in a new agreement which covers Australia & New Zealand and South East Asia, as well as the USA, UK and parts of Europe.

KBA books a Cortina showpiece for the DRUPA city
Come next DRUPA in 2012, exhibition visitors will have a shorter distance to travel to see KBA’s waterless Cortina technology in action. The local ‘Rheinische Post’ publishing has signed up for a four-tower, two folder press to be delivered next January.

ISO9001 accreditation for Conti-Tech's blankets
Printing blanket production at ContiTech's Northeim plant in Germany and the market segment's management system have gained ISO 9001 quality management certification from TÜV Nord.

Local colour gets a boost in Port Moresby
In the News-owned Pacific outpost of Port Moresby, a new Tensor four-high tower has increased full colour capacity and productivity for the 26,000-circulation daily ‘Papua New Guinea Post-Courier’.

News Limited's Hobart site taking shape
A long-awaited new all-colour press for the Hobart ‘Mercury’ is taking shape on schedule and should be in production in mid-May, writes Peter Coleman.

Indian press maker Manugraph moves into double-width
Indian press manufacturer Manugraph has launched the country's first double-width press, a 4/1 design called the Smartline and with a quoted production speed of 70,000 cph.

manroland's 'autoprint' concept to reality in Osnabrück
What manroland is describing as the first installation of the Colorman ‘autoprint’ series it announced at IfraExpo 2008, has been commissioned in Osnabrück, Germany.

One-around plate cylinder conversions: We've done it says Nela
German plate handling specialist Nela has joined the ‘one around’ plating conversion debate with a reminder that it has worked with a number of Asian newspapers on the concept.

Three sections for two: Goss’s pre-Christmas offer
Get your head around this … because it’s not an April 1 announcement or the result of too many beer-soaked pre-Christmas parties.

Baldwin makes it a US$6.6 million hat-trick in Japan
A third order for Baldwin's newspaper press equipment con tinues a run of business from Japan this month, now totalling US$6.6 million.

Baldwin Japan order kicks off a new year
Baldwin has what it says is an excellent start to its financial year in Japan with a US$1.5 million order from Chunichi Simbun through its subsidiary Baldwin Japan.

Energy efficiency: Free advice on what web printers can do
Energy efficiency is the subject of the third report from the PrintCity alliance – a 20-page booklet which can be downloaded free from the PrintCity website.

Sinapse adds high-res display
The French press simulation specialist which now calls itself Sinapse Print Simulators has introduced a new high resolution image display – available for Goss and other presses – which it will show at IfraExpo in Amsterdam.

Würzburg eight-high a compelling argument for KBA's compact CT
A glance at the schematic shows one persuasive argument for the new generation of ‘compact’ press towers: An eight-high tower in not much more space than a couple of satellites.

PrintCity book is entrée to VAPoN
The PrintCity alliance is making its ‘Connection of competence book’ – which includes an introduction to the VAPoN (Value Added Printing of Newspapers) project – available free via its website.

Goss, Baldwin announce IfraExpo plans
Goss International and Baldwin are among press and peripheral manufacturers who have announced plans for the 2008 IfraExpo in Amsterdam.

Three HT70s into two will go for Turkey's Dogan
Turkey’s largest newspaper publisher, Hürriyet Gazetecilik ve Matbaacilik – part of the Doğan Yayin Holding Group – has signed with Goss International to upgrade two existing Goss HT70 presses at its Doğan Printing Center in Istanbul using towers from a third.

Virtually at Goss's DRUPA stand
Goss has created a 'virtual tour' of its technology-packed DRUPA stand on its website at www.gossinternational.com.

MacDermid joins Vulcan in growing Trelleborg group
Trelleborg Printing Blankets – which appointed DS Chemport as its Australia and New Zealand distributor earlier this year – has acquired the operations of US rival MacDermid Offset Printing Blankets

Research pays off for Goss International
Goss International says it exceeded US$1.1 billion ($1.15 billion) in sales in 2007, advanced key innovations and entered 2008 with US$650 million order backlog.

MAN Ferrostaal sticks with Manugraph
manroland and Manugraph have announced that they are ending their sales and service cooperation.

Patently, KBA's a US leader
KBA says it is among the USA’s ten most innovative machinery manufacturers. According to the Patent Board’s heavy industrial equipment patent scorecard published in the ‘Wall Street Journal’ in May, KBA was placed ninth among global heavyweights such as Caterpillar, Deere and Schindler.

Paper cleaner's DRUPA debut
Techniweb introduced a new paper cleaning system at DRUPA. Since the company’s first appearance at PacPrint 05, the specialist company has built up a gradual following and now has 17 heatset installations running in Australia.

QuadTech invokes 1992 patent in German suit against QI
Automatic colour registration systems developers QuadTech and QI Press Controls are in the courts in Germany over a patent US-based QuadTech says its European rival has breached.

Tensor T-400 'with the lot' goes to Norway
A 12-tower Tensor T-400 for Norway’s NR1 Adressa-Trykk Orkanger is “probably the most highly-automated and user friendly press the US maker has sold, according to president Don Gustafson.

QI gets big Transcontinental orders
QI Press Controls has sold its closed-loop control system to North American printing giant Transcontinental for two new triple-wide manroland Colorman XXL lines totalling 17 towers.

Danes talk about reel RFID
Experience with battery-assisted RFID tags in tracking newsprint reels was presented at an Ifra conference in Copenhagen in April.

Expansion for two Goss FPS sites
Goss’s first FPS press installations are busy and on target, with extensions announced at two of the first three.

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