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DRUPA: Landa drops in on KBA’s inkjet
Benny Landa and KBA president and chief executive Claus Bolza-Schünemann have been “talking shop” on the German press maker’s DRUPA stand.
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DRUPA: Pragmatic Landa puts classic spin on a new digital ink technology
DRUPA is awash with inkjet… and if you listen to digital printing pioneer Benny Landa, you might think ‘awash’ is about right.
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Compact inkjet design is ‘unique’, Fujifilm says
Fujifilm has announced that it will launch a ‘unique’ 127 metres/minute colour inkjet at DRUPA next month.
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Impika promises 375 metres/minute inkjet, newspaper finishing follows
French developer Impika has raised the bar for inkjet web presses to a claimed 375 metres per minute, 50 per cent faster than most existing systems.
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Inkjet at DRUPA: Hunkeler everywhere
Some indication of the scale of inkjet and other digital web press technologies to be seen at DRUPA comes with Hunkeler’s long list of the projects with which it is involved.
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WSJ live at DRUPA as TKS struts inkjet press
Japanese press maker TKS will be on edition at DRUPA, printing a full edition of the ‘Wall Street Journal’.
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HP puts on new inkjet web growth spurt with Asia-Pacific/Japan installs
Digital press developer HP says new orders in Japan, China and South Korea have helped bring its total installed base to more than 60 inkjet web presses worldwide.
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KBA talks detail on inkjet applications including new digital press
German pressmaker KBA will show a raft of applications for inkjet print technology at DRUPA, including the book and newspaper press it has developed with US print giant RR Donnelley.
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Windows of opportunity for digital newspaper pioneer Stroma
Steve Brown, who runs Stroma – pioneer and probably the best-known of the world’s digital newspaper printing sites – with his brother Rob, says that although it has been a springboard to other things, he has “never really made any money” from the market segment.
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Great expectations: Inkjet technology to hope for at DRUPA
Digital newspaper printers, and the many more publishers who see opportunities in the segment, are waiting for per copy costs to come down… and hoping that DRUPA will deliver the ‘silver bullet’ (writes Peter Coleman).
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Chocs and cards: Now digital newspaper trial is underway
A Swiss Post project to produce personalised ‘MyNewspaper’ editions got under way at the end of last year.
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Faster, more cost-effective: Kodak pins hopes on DRUPA digital launches
Kodak has outlined the products on which it will pin its ‘make-or-break’ DRUPA plans, in a media briefing in Lisbon, Portugal today.
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Inkjet wonder-technologies get closer to market at DRUPA
Evolution of the Australian-developed Memjet inkjet technology and a new concept from digital print veteran Benny Landa are among the anticipated highlights at DRUPA in May.
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Post-biography speculation puts a date on Apple television
Comments by Steve Jobs released by biographer Walter Isaacson have renewed speculation that Apple is planning to launch an integrated standalone TV set, perhaps as soon as next year.
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Ooh la la! Paris nights call for Océ’s digital newspaper technology
Paris-based print provider Interval has moved into the colour inkjet newspaper business with the installation of an Océ JetStream 1400 system.
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Kodak debuts CMYK imprinting head at GraphExpo (video)
Kodak has brought full-colour to its Prosper S20 imprinting system, which adds variable data capability possibilities to newspaper and commercial web presses.
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Fairfax’s Peroni video player: Catch it if you can (video)
It will claim the accolade of a ‘world first’… but a credit card-sized video player which plays a commercial for Peroni is expected to appear in only a tiny fraction of copies of Fairfax Media flagship metros ‘The Age’ and the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’.
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Bubbling with imprint ideas
A powerful inkjet imprinting system has turned Guy Forester into an ad hoc marketing manager for his contract printing customers.
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Kodak scores home run in UK digital newspaper contest
International newspapers from around the world – including the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ and a print site in Dubai – have shared digital printing honours in the UK’s Newspaper Awards.
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AFP and BlueFox team to be Asia’s stars of public screen
A technical and commercial partnership with BlueFox will put AFP news content on public display screens in Asia, following a partnership announced today.
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Hunkeler innovationdays bring Xerox inkjet out to play
The annual ‘innovation days’ of web finishing specialist Hunkeler have brought Xerox out to play in the inkjet marketplace… but don’t expect a newspaper-viable version any time soon (writes Peter Coleman).
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Super-fast inkjet set for Hunkeler date; wider version coming
An inkjet web press which prints at 250 metres/minute – equivalant to more than 25,000 cph on a web-offset newspaper press – will make its European debut at the Hunkeler Innovation days in Switzerland, next month.
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London calls for inkjet colour to print Australian, SMH
International editions of Australian newspapers including ‘The Australian’ and the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ will be printed in full colour in London, following an upgrade of the digital newspaper printing systems used there.
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Hands off: The press system that just wants to be left alone
It has everything else you can imagine amid its tightly-integrated and interconnected systems and software, including robots and the ability to ‘call home’ if it’s feeling queasy (writes Peter Coleman).
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Digital newspapers in Réunion: Green print out in the blue
Located in the Indian Ocean, just east of Madagascar and 6000 km west of Perth, Réunion Island has had its own newspaper since 1773, but it has taken until this year for locals to read the rest of the world’s papers on the day they are published.
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Squirt business starts in earnest
So vain, they probably think this race is about them*, two heavily-backed thoroughbreds line up for the chase of a lifetime... but some think it is already underway, and at least one more entrant reckons they can catch up for a place.
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Kodak-manroland printhead relationship localised in ANZ
The relationship between Kodak and manroland which has seen the two work together to develop digital printheads on high-speed web-offset presses has led to a local distributor appointment in Australia and New Zealand. No corresponding announcement has yet been made for Asia.
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Better iPad viewing experience gets closer
The technology clash between Flash and Apple’s iPad may be moving closer to a solution with the announcement of two new Adobe technologies which will result in a better viewing experience on the tablet computer.
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Mono inkjet extends Screen’s web-fed reach
Japanese digital newspaper press vendor has announced a mono version of its Truepress Jet 520 – aimed at the 'read for pleasure' book market, claimed to be growing at 14 per cent a year.
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Watermark delivers a printed code via mobile app
A new application of digital watermarking technology for newspapers was one of the novelties of the mediaXchange trade show in Florida.
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Apple's game changer gains support
It’s amazing the way an impending deadline concentrates minds: When Apple founder Steve Jobs unveiled his company’s iPad device in January, there was yawning ambivalence on the part of some publishers (writes Peter Coleman).
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Fame is making the front page … digitally
Digital newspaper printing technology has brought back the vanity front page, with a German newspaper offering its readers their “15 minutes of fame”.
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IBM showcases augmented reality technology at Australian Open
Technology partner IBM is using the Australian Open to showcase new augmented reality smartphone application to tennis fans.
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Océ's Frisch on the opportunities in digital
Imagine newspapers printed directly from PDFs, which can carry your birthday greeting on the front page and change their editorial and advertising from city to city, area to area, suburb to suburb.
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Upgrade logic for better control
If capital restraints don’t allow a new press, upgrades of control and systems technology can be a way of addressing productivity and safety needs, writes Peter Coleman.
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Inert UV has a way to go, 'Le Monde' finds
Major European inert UV newspaper site, ‘Le Monde’ in Paris, is producing good quality semicommercial work in a range of formats. And the publisher believes the technology is “no where near its limits” at the press speed of 80,000 cph.
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Goss moves ahead with RSVP following US pilot
Goss has made its GossRSVP interactive media system available for advertisers and publishers over the whole of the USA.
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Browsing towards a systems nirvana
A ‘massively-scaleable‘ upgrade of its editorial and advertising systems could change perceptions of Australian software developer Pongrass, writes Peter Coleman
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Source code
Two new response systems are set to exploit growing use of internet-enabled mobiles to make a stronger connection between print and online.
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