All About Newspapers

Mustering strength,
revamping e-newspapers

With the third generation of information technology, the concept of e-newspaper is getting new strength in the news publishing industry. Industry leading players such as iRex, SoliDAM and DigiNewsPress are technologically committed to facilitate this growth, providing innovative products not only for improving the quality of e-newspapers but also making them easy-to-read that would result increase in demand for e-editions of papers and benefit to publishers.

Ajeet Singh, assistant editor, All About Newspapers briefs.

Apart from environmental concerns, the cost saving has become explicitly crucial factor during the prevailing economic downturn.

To fulfill the requirements of the day in newspaper industry, Goss International always plays the leading role technologically, and their recent contribution to the industry is in form of Triliner technology, a solution that overcomes barriers deterring many newspapers from converting to a more attractive and cost-effective compact format, with three-page-around printing option for newspaper printing; and Ecoset dryer which provides not only considerable cost savings but also environmental benefits. Here’s a brief.

Smartly dedicated to generate new ad revenues, ‘sticky notes’ has been one of the most influentially emerging vogues in newspaper advertising. However, the Indian newspaper industry has still not adopted this concept, or could not market these; whereas in overseas countries, this concept, beyond the normal one, has evolved in much interesting way. To ensure this new medium results much better,

First Flavor and US Ink have jointly come-up with ‘Taste-it Notes’ to serve the industry a bit differently. Here’s a brief.

Roll cares
from Modinagar Rolls

A big name in the Indian printing industry, Modinagar Rolls Ltd is a manufacturer of all kinds of printer rolls. Diversity of printing systems requires different roll types where formulation of rubber, roller hardness, surface structure and elasticity change according to the type of printing system. Thus the rolls should be manufactured according to needs, sheet offset rollers, web offset rollers and flexography rollers. Vaibhav Agarwal, director, Modinagar Rolls shares some tips to guide everyone using the rolls get best of results.

Empowerment Forums

In the present complex market phenomenon, collectively endeavours in research, development and dissemination of outcomes educating the associated individuals are inevitable activities for the empowerment of every industry. And in newspaper industry, WAN and IFRA are the organisations that are performing really superb jobs in this perspective. Paris-based WAN, the global organisation for the newspaper industry, defends and promotes press freedom and the professional and business interests of newspapers worldwide. Representing 18,000 newspapers, its membership includes 77 national newspaper associations, newspaper companies and individual newspaper executives in 102 countries, 12 news agencies and 11 regional and worldwide press groups. Headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany, IFRA is the worldwide research and service organisation for the news publishing industry. Since 1961, it has been acting as the platform for decision-makers from the newspaper industry, offering services primarily to its more than 3,100 members in nearly 80 countries. A board, comprising publishers as well as central, regional and specialised committees drawn from IFRA member companies, steers the work of the international newspaper community. IFRA’s research work provides the basis for this and results in standardisation projects as well as international and regional exhibitions, conferences, workshops, study tours, training events, Newsplex consulting and international competitions. The IFRA Expo, the annual event of the news publishing industry held at major European venues, is world’s one of the most important trade exhibitions for newspaper companies and their partners.

Using Mitsubishi’s popular Diamondspirit 4 x 1 newspaper offset press equipped with the Printplex function, the live demonstrations unveiled the simultaneous printing of two different products on one press during a two-day Open House recently organised by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries at their Paper & Printing Machinery Division in Hiroshima, Japan, which drew more than 100 visitors from newspaper publishers across the country. The event’s focus was on epoch-making Printplex.

Ain’t no mountain high enough…

On his first day at work in January 1969, he would have not believed where the journey at Krause would go: in the last 40 years, Richard Reipke has made a one-of-a-kind and unique career at the Bielefeld-based SME company.

“Let’s stick with incredible”

Excuse me, but I have to sit down. It’s time to let you know about a few of the new features in Adobe Creative Suite 4. And after taking a fresh look at these applications, I need to catch my breath because some of the features are incredible. No, make that unimaginable. No, let’s stick with incredible. Wow.

The properly created customisation inevitably ensures the expected results! It was recently proven by German newspaper printer Saarbrücker Zeitung, who successfully individualises their new MAN Colorman press, and is accepted into the Ifra International Newspaper Color Quality Club (INCQC) 2008-10.