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QI takes water with its IDS colour control system
Colour register systems specialist QI Press Controls has added automated fountain solution control to its IDS colour density system.
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ABB strengthens bond with manroland on retrofits
First fruits of a new strategic partnership on retrifits between manroland web systems and ABB Switzerland will be an update in Rochester, New York.
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DRUPA: Upgrade orders are especially welcome this year… including one from Malaysia’s Star
It’s a sign of the times that some of the biggest newspaper orders at DRUPA this year are upgrades (writes Peter Coleman).
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manroland web appoints German agency to southeast Asia region
New sales and service arrangements for manroland web systems in southeast Asia have been confirmed, with the German press maker appointing Melchers Techexport to the territory.
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Automation visionaries take press maker Tensor to new company
US single-width press maker Tensor has been bought by management and the company behind Swedish graphic arts automation specialist DCOS.
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Cross-web glueing gets smarter with DRUPA preview
A new noncontact system for cross-web glueing will be previewed by Planatol at DRUPA.
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Alwan, QuadTech team to overcome dot gain variation
A partnership with French colour management specialist Alwan is delivering automated plate curve adjustment for QuadTech press control systems users.
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Colorman e:line buyer matches controls with upgraded ABB systems
ABB will supply its MPS control systems to bring the manroland Colorman e:line being installed at Allgaeuer Zeitungsverlag in line with the German publisher’s existing equipment.
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‘Optimistic’ manroland web books and rebooks press orders
New owners of manroland web systems are “extremely optimistic”, booking a “healthy portion” of its 300 Euros sales target in its first two months.
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Memories? Were you one of the 'young men' at Coates London in the 1950s?
Has anyone still got ink beneath their fingernails from working for Coates Brothers in London, more than half a century ago. If so Jennifer Solomon wants to know.
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Possehl buys manroland’s UK web business from administrator
manroland web systems owner Possehl has bought the former company’s UK web business after it became insolvent.
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KBA spins web services into new PHS unit
German web press maker KBA has created a new company, PrintHouseService to deliver technical support for newspaper and commercial web printers.
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ABB sells APOS positioning into USA
Press drive and control systems developer ABB has scored a first US sale of its APOS positioning system.
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New print quality sensor sees in 3D
Registration and colour control specialist QI has announced next-generation camera technology which includes depth detection and a self-cleaning facility.
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EAE in the loop at Axel Springer with home town trial
EAE is to put its colour control system loop into the Axel Springer newspaper plant near its factory in Ahrensburg near Hamburg.
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Spending to save: Highly-regionalised dailies invest in automation
Not all is gloom and doom in developed print newspaper markets: Against a global trend of declining circulations, intensely regional dailies are not only thriving, but investing to boost efficiency, increase and improve colour (writes Peter Coleman).
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KBA shows its first European 6x2 Commander CT to industry and media
High-level automation and triple-wide productivity are part of KBA’s persuasive case to publishers, and this week, the company showed off the both – on the first 6x2 Commander CT press in Europe – to industry and media representatives.
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New control and correction solutions from ABB at DRUPA
Software to reposition images to compensate for press misalignment and Wifag-specific control upgrade options are among new developments from ABB for DRUPA.
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QuadTech controls adjust ink-water balance in new feature
An enhanced version of QuadTech’s colour control and web inspection system will automate dampening water control, the company says.
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Goss showcases M-600 evolution at DRUPA
A new -generation version of Goss’s workhorse M-600 heatset web is to be released at DRUPA.
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Nela, HS contribute technologies to Columbus ‘two thirds’ format press project
More details are emerging of the enabling systems behind the pioneering Pressline 3V ‘triple-cut-off’ project at the ‘Columbus Dispatch’ in Ohio, USA.
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Goss takes one-around Magnum to 70,000 cph with new H-type design
Goss is to launch a new high-performance version of its Community-derived Magnum one-around single-width press with an H-type unit and a top speed of 70,000 cph.
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QuadTech scores 'world's largest' order at Chicago Tribune
An installation of QuadTech's image-based AccuCam technology on 52 press towers at the Chicago Tribune will be the world's - and the company's - largest, it claims.
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Wifag books another large press with Ringier Axel Springer order
Swiss press maker WIFAG has followed orders announced at IfraExpo with another large press order, this time for a Ringier Axel Springer subsidiary in Serbia.
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Goss responds to pressure with big DRUPA presence
Goss International says it will have a “major presence” at this year’s DRUPA trade show, with an 1820 m2 stand linked to that of parent Shanghai Electric.
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Dutch customer takes KBA’s CT press to short-grain format
Press maker KBA says the sale of a triple-wide Commander CT to prominent printer Koninklijke BDU reaffirms its strong position in the Dutch newspaper market.
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PrintCity guide focusses on colour process standardisation
Standardisation in process colour printing is the focus of a new guide launched by the PrintCity Alliance in advance of DRUPA.
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Matichon boosts reliability with manroland control upgrade
Bangkok daily newspaper printer Matichon has upgraded its 16-year-old pressline to improve reliability, diagnostics, and make it easier to operate.
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Prefolder puts ad sales people in a flap (video)
US-based press peripherals maker Jardis Industries has developed a prefolder system for double and single-width presses which increases format options for advertisers and publishers.
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Goss France merger serves customers, says Meissner
Press maker Goss says customers will benefit from a merger of its French manufacturing and support centres.
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Berlin print summit focusses on better print advertising value
WAN-Ifra’s third Printing Summit – being held in Berlin from March 21-22 – will look at creative ways of using the latest technologies to maximise revenues.
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PrintCity promotes web initiatives in pre-DRUPA publication
With the future of manroland still uncertain, the PrintCity alliance has placed its press maker member front and centre in a new promotional publication focussed on the run-up to DRUPA
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Mitsubishi shares innovations with celebration guests
A digital press prototype and a new closed-loop colour quality system were among the goodies shared with guests to Mitsubishi’s 50th aniversary open house.
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PIAA gets funding for 2012 ‘clean printing’ technology seminars
Australia’s Printing Industries association will run free workshops on ‘Transitioning to cleaner printing technology’ in various centres in April and May next year.
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Goss buys Vits sheeter technology
Goss International has bought the assets of Vits Print GmbH, the company with which it developed sheeting capabilities of its M-600 Folia press.
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Hearst scraps 40-year-old letterpress to take capital city title into the 21st century
And you wondered why US newspapers are struggling? America’s Hearst Corporation is ‘backing print’ with an order for KBA’s new Commander CL newspaper press to replace the 40-year-old letterpress plant which has been printing its titles in the New York state capital of Albany.
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New press for rising ‘Star’ fires up optimism in the UK
A new compact KBA press – the first of four for Express Newspapers – has fired up to print UK tabloid the ‘Daily Star’.
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EAE strengthens Indian presence with Krause
Press controls specialist EAE is strengthening its sales presence in India with an agreement with Krause Biagosch India.
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Goss plans live book press show for expected 100,000 All in Print attendees
Local hero Goss International will support presentations of its latest newspaper, heatset and packaging solutions at All in Print China next week with a live book printing demonstration.
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Indexing, coating, add to a paper's appeal
Thumb-indexing and coating are among the more interesting press innovations to emerge in the aisled of the IfraExpo in Vienna this week.
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QuadTech scoops rivals with Herold Druck, Vienna, install
As newspaper vendors get ready for next week’s IfraExpo event in Vienna, press controls specialist QuadTech has announced that it has scooped rivals with an order from local hero Herold Druck und Verlag.
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INCQC tutorial bundles IfraExpo season for those in Vienna
WAN-Ifra is holding a tutorial for its International Newspaper Color Quality Club following the IfraExpo in Vienna.
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Foundry progress, just ‘topping’
German press maker KBA has celebrated progress on its new US$19 million foundry with a traditional ‘topping out’ ceremony.
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Colour quality group looks for extra participants
WAN-Ifra is looking for new members for its International Newspaper Colour Quality Club for 2012-2014.
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Mid-range press joins KBA’s compacts
KBA is to launch a new mid-range double-width press at IfraExpo, joining its best-selling compact series.
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‘Two-thirds’ format press revamp project enables papers to share plant
What is believed to be the world’s first press conversion to produce three compact newspaper products on a press designed for two broadsheets is underway in Columbus, Ohio.
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New blankets for waterless printing
Conti-Tech says it will introduce a new metal printing blanket for waterless newspaper printing at IfraExpo next month, along with other products.
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Solna, Wifag teams join for automation initiative
Following the integration of press makers Solna and Wifag, the company has created a new automation division to market its specialist skills.
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The plate-train now leaving: Auto systems spur sales
The plate-train now leaving is the 2 am edition for Mannheim...
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Simulators: Not only make-believe
Press simulators are being used in a much wider range of applications than to extend the experience of press operators, specialist developer Sinapse says.
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Baldwin cracks newspaper UV with $750,000 Fairfax order, plans aircooled system
Fairfax Media is to install Baldwin UV print curing on two of its newspaper presses in a breakthrough order for the press peripherals vendor (writes Peter Coleman).
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Thailand's 4x1 press pioneer with capacity to spare
There was plenty to learn during a visit to the 'Bangkok Post' plant, writes Peter Coleman.
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Ink a critical enabler in UV value-add
Ink is the enabler, says Paul Casey in the context of UV printing: “It can be used to differentiate a printer without high capital costs”.
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‘Generation change’ with Mannheim’s new automated presslines
Another highly-automated newspaper press is on edition – at ‘Mannheimer Morgen’ in Germany – marking what maker manroland calls “the beginning of a generation change”.
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17,000 splices without a break… is this a record
Japanese national newspaper printer and publisher Sankei Shimbun has achieved what it says is a new record for successful paper reel changes on its Goss Newsliner presses at the company’s facility in Hokusetsu, Osaka.
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WAN-Ifra adds inkjet, flexo to INCQC competition categories
Tutorials start in June for entrants in WAN-Ifra’s tenth International Newspaper Color Quality Club competition.
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Solna deal raises possibility of Chinese-built Wifag presses
Swiss double-width press maker Wifag has moved from takeover target to buyer with the acquisition of Swiss single-width maker Solna and its Hong Kong-based distributor EKPAC Graphics.
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DSC set to put new life into Rollin blanket brand
The old-established Rollin brand is being reinvigorated thanks to a new agency agreement.
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Happy QI, happy customers as 1.8 million Euros orders roll in
Press peripherals specialist QI Press Controls says it has closed the first quarter of this year with “phenomenal” sales of 1.8 million Euros… and a very happy customer at ‘The Hindu’ in India.
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The boss calls at Ecuador’s new print plant
President of Ecuador Rafael Correa was a visitor at state-run Editogran in Guayaquil where a new KBA Colora newspaper press went live at the beginning of March.
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Swedish order exploits compact press for existing building
Sweden’s Bold Printing Group – part of the Bonnier media group – has
followed up its January purchase of KBA Commander CT press with an order
for a second 96pp pressline.
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Ambassadors for print: Printing Summit tackles production efficiency (links)
"It's nice to be in a room of believers, as I always seem to be the last man standing touting print,” Phillip Crawley told delegates to WAN-Ifra’s Printing Summit this week.
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Automation a compelling argument for re-equipment
The wave of investment by German newspaper printers in new production kit – which contributed greatly to KBA’s strong financial result – is continuing with an order placed by Verlagsgruppe Nordkurier in Neubrandenburg for a Commander CT pressline.
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Thairath's 'largest-ever' control and press upgrade
Completion of a ‘biggest ever’ contract to upgrade the manroland presses at Thairath Daily means the Bangkok-based newspaper will always be in tune with the times.
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New digital press for DRUPA as KBA teams with Donnelley
KBA is to build new newspaper and commercial presses using RR Donnelley’s digital imaging technology, following an agreement covering the printer’s Apollo and other technologies.
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Big 4x1 presses to help deliver eight-million print order
Japan’s second-largest newspaper publisher, Asahi Shimbun Company has ordered five large Mitsubishi presses for a new flagship plant in Osaka.
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Paper crane needed as Herold shoehorns triple-wide Colorman in
In the incredibly limited space in which it pioneered high-volume UV printing on its manroland Colorman press, Austria’s Herold Druck has added a triple-wide manroland line.
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Orders flow for Indian single-width maker with six presses and 18 towers
Indian press maker TPH has started delivery of an 23-tower order which will add capacity for a number of Dainik Bhaskar sites in the country. And local publisher MBD is to add five single-width TPH lines to the ten it already has.
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Hybrid press set to be a Jakarta 'landmark'
A new hybrid installation at Temprint Jakarta will see a close cooperation between QI Press Controls and US press maker Global Web Systems.
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Jordanians’ fan-out problems blown away
Australian-developed fan-out technology contributes to a major Jordanian order for Dutch press control systems supplier QI Press Controls.
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Coldset web joins M-600 at Indonesia Printer
Former sheetfed printer Indonesia Printer in Jakarta has installed a second web press to complement the heatset web installed earlier this year.
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Townsville’s ‘Ferrari’ all-colour pressline goes on edition early
A new five-tower all-colour press – the largest in Queensland – is up and running at the ‘Townsville Bulletin’, two weeks ahead of schedule.
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Goss upgrades Newsliner technology for Tianjin’s 4x1 press
A twin-tower Goss Newsliner 4x1 press will provide productivity gains for China’s Tianjin Evening News Group.
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Indian press order is breakthrough for TKS
Three new 4x1 Press Color Top 5000UDI presses for Mathrubhumi Printing & Publishing represent a breakthrough first order from India for maker TKS.
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Exclusive: News taps KBA for new Darwin single-width press
News Limited is to install a new four-tower KBA Comet in the first stage of a multimillion-dollar upgrade of its Darwin print facility.
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Lakeside venue for waterless users
Most of the 18 users of KBA’s waterless printing technolology have been in Constance, Germany, for a workshop hosted by Südkurier.
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manroland puts ABB’s Cockpit workflow tool into printnet
A worldwide partnership between manroland and ABB will see key elements from the Swiss control systems developer’s offering rebadged and integrated with the German press maker’s own PECOM and printnet.
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New web sub division makes KBA leaner, closer
Press maker KBA has reoganised its web press technical departments into a single group, promising greater customer proximity with leaner infrastructure.
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QI shows off IDS at fully-automated German plant
QI Press Controls has shown its markless IDS colour control system in operation at an open day in Chemnitz, Germany.
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UV press projects in Kuwait, Mauritius for TPH
A nine-tower TPH Orient X-Cel with UV curing on two webs will bring production of Arab daily ‘Alam Alywm’ inhouse at a new National Media Group plant in Kuwait.
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Two more triple-wide CT orders make 15 for press maker KBA
KBA has sold another compact triple-wide Commander CT press to a regional newspaper in Germany.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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US Goss users get online for training
Online training for Goss press operators has become a popular option in the USA, the company says.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Waterless KBA press powers fast-growing publisher
KBA’s latest waterless Cortina press installation has gone live at M. DuMont Schauberg in Cologne.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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’.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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MAN Ferrostaal sticks with Manugraph
manroland and Manugraph have announced that they are ending their sales and service cooperation.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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