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Posted: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 4:12 pm

One, two, three inkjet Pacprint webs vie for ANZ newspaper market
Visitors to Australia’s PacPrint13 trade show with an interest in digital newspaper printing were faced with no less than three live options.

Local publishers group honours TKS for flexible inkjet
Japan’s Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association has honoured local manufacturer TKS for its JetLeader 1500 inkjet web development.

Trade sees manroland’s newspaper folder in Augsburg
Unusual products and the option of a third newspaper fold are among options from manroland’s two digital-specific folding systems.

KBA shares in Axel Springer’s digital project at seven sites
KBA – set to install 11 digital imprinting systems at Axel Springer contractors – is strutting a track record going back to 1995.

Impika buy puts Xerox back in the digital news game
With its acquisition of French inkjet maker Impika, arch-marketer Xerox could be back in the newspaper game: Could it make the difference?

Springer goes all the way with integrated imprinting
After extended pilot projects, German publisher Axel Springer is equipping all its newspaper presses with inkjet imprinting systems.

Fujifilm’s inkjet duplex ready for market, expected at PacPrint
Fujifilm is looking for beta sites for the Jet Press 540W inkjet web press it showed at DRUPA last year.

Carnival is almost over, but digital print innovation continues
If you needed an excuse to be in Lucerne, Switzerland this week, the annual late-winter carnival might not be enough to impress the taxman (writes Peter Coleman).

Italy’s CSQ swaps between digital and offset to meet print needs
When off-season circulations fall or advertisers demand local editions, Centro Stampa Quotidiani Spa in Lombardy, Northern Italy, has a solution: They print digital.

KBA inkjet upgraded for February trade showings
KBA has upgraded the technology of its RotaJET inkjet web in advance of trade showings next month.

Xerox joins the Ipex exodus
After being one of the biggest exhibitors at recent DRUPA and Ipex shows, digital press maker Xerox has pulled the plug on participation in the UK exhibition which moves to London next year.

KBA inkjet orders: UK boss’s newspaper clue
The first of KBA’s new generation of inkjet web presses are set to be installed by June this year.

More please: Axel Springer ups stakes in lottery imprinting project
Axel Springer is extending its inkjet imprinting test with the installation of three more Kodak systems on manroland Colorman presses.

Data mining specialist installs two inkjet web presses
There’s been some hush-hush work on Australia’s Gold Coast, but Alphabet Printing is finally ready to talk about the inkjet web press its installed at the start of this year.

TKS has 72-page five-section digital folder ready for Chicago client
Days before Graph Expo (October 7-10) opens in Chicago’s McCormick Place, NewsWeb’s TKS inkjet web is in place and the contract signed.

Digital awards deadline approaches
Entries for WAN-Ifra’s third Asian Digital Media Awards competition close early next month.

Paid content solution is for non-customers too, says DTI
Newspaper systems developer Digital Technology has launched a metered paywall system for paid content is says can be by publishers regardless of whether they are DTI customers.

Océ to show digital newspaper solutions at Poing briefing
Océ will show its latest digital newspaper and book printing offerings to publishers in a European briefing in Germany next month.

Top US newsrooms in WEF study tour next month
Get in quick if you want to be among a group of editors visiting leading newsrooms in New York and Washington next month.

Raising the bar in Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, publisher ‘The Advocate’ is adding advertising to its suite of cloud-based Digital Technology newspaper applications.

Video smarts deliver the graphics for BBC’s Games
Innovative HD graphics in the BBC’s Olympics 2012 coverage are coming from providers using Vizrt technology and a mix of custom devices and applications.

Ad planning software fits in with Singapore’s systems
Regional publishing giant Singapore Press Holdings has commissioned a new advertising planning and layout system from ppi Media to integrate with existing systems.

Analytics developer shares in government cash and support
A Brisbane company’s performance analytics platform which enables marketers and publishers to measure audience engagement on mobile is among 11 projects sharing $7.5 million in funding from government agency Commercialisation Australia.

WAN partners for launch into mobile transaction space (video)
A campaign using barcodes to drive orders from print ads launched in Perth daily ‘The West Australian’ at the weekend.

Adobe’s technology brings Olympic highlights to BBC’s mobile audience
Britain’s BBC is using Adobe’s new ‘Project Primetime’ technology components to bring coverage of the London Olympics to internet-connected devices across the country.

API integration opens new Adobe functionality to vjoon users
German developer vjoon says its K4 publishing system is the first to support full integration with the new API of Adobe’s Digital Publishing Suite.

Above and beneath: AFP’s offering for London Olympics
News agency AFP has provided some of the statistics of its real-time coverage of the London Olympics, which will involve putting out 400-500 stories a day and 1000 videos.

DTI’s first European SAS user moves further into the Cloud
Implementation of the second phase of a switch to DTI’s Cloud will make the UK’s KM Group the company’s first European user of both its editorial and advertising ‘software as a service’ offering.

How News’ giant multimedia platform will slash steps in ‘create once’ publishing
News Limited’s EidosMedia Méthode deployment – central to a $60 million project which will put more than 160 national and regional newspapers and magazines on the system – will be the world’s largest, the supplier’s group chief executive says.

Post’s digital press heralds a switch from offset
A new Océ inkjet press launched this February swung Australia Post to a multimillion investment in the digital print technology.

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