McLaren Press Graphics
orders Q.I. Press Controls’ mRC-3D
Q.I. Press Controls North America management receives a key order from McLaren Press Graphics, one of the leading commercial printers based in Bracebridge, Ontario. The advanced, latest generation closed-loop mRC-3D full-colour register system with cut-off controls, will be installed at McLaren’s DGM430 coldset single-width press line. For McLaren Press Graphics, this investment replaces their existing register system, which did not include cut-off controls. Drew McLaren, president, McLaren Press Graphics said, “We were one of the first commercial printers to install registration controls on a non-heatset press back in the 1990s, and we recognised the ROI immediately.”
With Q.I. Press Controls’ mRC-3D, McLaren wanted to resolve their cut-off waste issues while taking advantage of the new camera technology to further enhance their quality process and improve their waste numbers. Drew McLaren mentioned that they didn’t realise how different the product was from other brands on the market. He added, “Q.I. Press Controls will allow us to close the loop on our press controls as our current system does not address the bottleneck of manual cut-off controls. We had been looking for a system that would address this weak link in our automation.” McLaren’s coldset production line is a DGM430 with a 89 cm web width and 57.8 cm cut-off.
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Another ROTOMAN
DirectDrive at AVD Goldach AG
(L to R) Frank Kreisel, manroland web systems; Kai Hebel, MD, Ralf Schreiber, president business unit
print, Patrick Hoelterhoff, VP-business unit print, Patrick Weideli, head finance of AVD Goldach AG;
and Piet von Gunten, manroland web systems, GOC Consulting GmbH.
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Substantiating the fact that long-term customers always trust in manroland web systems, highly specialised Swiss magazine printer AVD Goldach AG invests several million Euros in a new 16-page ROTOMAN DirectDrive from manroland web systems. This new manroland press, to be installed at AVD Goldach AG in 2015, is sixth press from manroland web systems for the magazine printer. The investment decision shows the publisher’s trust in excellent quality and reliability of manroland presses.
The four unit ROTOMAN DirectDrive demonstrates high performance with up to 65,000 cylinder revolutions per hour. The 16-page press was developed for printers in dynamic markets as a highly efficient and flexible solution for printing magazines. This is mainly possible due to the modern folder with the extensive folder superstructure that shows ultra-modern finishing technologies. The new operating system, which was launched at drupa 2012, provides modern automation features and the latest technologies. “To be competitive and successful, the modern print product needs to be extraordinary efficient and flexibly designed. That’s why we chose to invest in the new ROTOMAN DirectDrive from manroland web systems,” remarked Kai Hebel, MD, AVD Goldach AG.
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People’s Daily to equip with another UNISET
Contract signing ceremony for UNISET installation
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Just after celebrating Chinese New Year, here is yet another celebration at People’s Daily. The reason is that this most influential newspaper in the country has to adopt another UNISET press from manroland web systems to be installed by the end of this year. The new UNISET is covered by the sixth contract between manroland web systems and People’s Daily. The new UNISET for the newspaper will be equipped with six eight couple towers, three folders, four balloon formers and seven reel splicers. It runs with a production speed of 80,000 copies/hour and therewith is the world`s fastest press in this category.
UNISET at People’s Daily is the second installation in China to be equipped with the ControlCenter, the new operating system from manroland web systems that was launched at drupa 2012. People’s Daily produces more than 70 different editions with approximately five million broadsheet copies each day, which means 18.25 billion copies a year. “We chose UNISET mainly because of its technological reliability, high standard and outstanding productivity,” said Yan Xiaoming, secretary general, People’s Daily.
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Mumbai to host second WAN-IFRA-SND
News Design Conference & Workshop
With leading news designers of the world are confirmed to speak at the event, WAN-IFRA and the Society for News Design (SND) join hands again to organise the second News Design Conference in South Asia to be held from June 03-04, 2014 at Courtyard Marriott Hotel in Andheri, Mumbai. The conference will have focus sessions on Newspaper Design and Redesign, Typography, Photo, Information Graphics and Tablet Design. With the changing reader behaviour and new editorial products, the editors and designers have to move between long form and short form narrations, vector illustrations and graphics, photographs and maps to figure out the best way to use the type and colour palette. This news design conference will help the participants to pick up concepts to develop design styles unique for their publication.
Stephen Komives, conference chairman and executive director, SND said, “We now have a catalogue of incredibly sophisticated storytelling deliberately conceived to work across many platforms.” According to Magdoom Mohamed, MD, WAN-IFRA South Asia the publishing business in South Asia throws a unique challenge of growing audiences in print and at the same time investing in digital for the future. This conference will showcase global and regional best news design practices and will well serve to address some of the challenges, importantly of increasing the reader attention to the company's news products.
Pre Conference Workshop by Lucie Lacava will be preceded by a workshop on ‘Newspaper Design’ lead by well known news designer Lucie Lacava. Participants will get an opportunity to analyse their publications and to work on the designs under the guidance of the trainer. Early bird discounts are available for registrations until May 05, 2014. For more info, contact at: infoindia@wan-infra.org
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New Delhi will host
WAN-IFRA India conference
WAN-IFRA India 2014, the twenty second annual conference of WAN-IFRA in South Asia, will be held in New Delhi on September 17-18. The conference will have three parallel tracks – Newsroom Summit, Printing Summit and Cross-media Advertising Summit.
The conference will discuss the business and technology challenges and provide a direction into the future of news publishing industry in the region. The conference draws much significance in the backdrop of the digital media revolution facing the South Asian news publishing industry in one hand and the challenge of managing the growth of print media business on the other hand.
The conference will have three parallel pre-conference workshops on September 16, 2014. The event will offer a limited number of info-tables and a variety of sponsorship opportunities to the suppliers industry.
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Eckhard Hoerner-Marass leaves manroland
In the early 2014, manroland web systems established a dual leadership. Now the spokesman of management, Eckhard Hoerner-Marass, leaves the company. Eckhard was responsible for development of market leader in web offset printing since September 2012. He led the company group back to a profit zone within the second quarter of 2013 and against a weak market environment. Now, Uwe Lueders, CEO at L Possehl & Co takes over Eckhard’s responsibilities and Joern Gossé furthermore is in charge for the sales, service and marketing divisions.
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Jeffrey J Clarke elected as new CEO of Kodak
The Board of Directors of Eastman Kodak Company has elected Jeffrey J Clarke as CEO and member of the board. Prior to joining Kodak, Jeffery worked as a managing partner of Augusta Columbia Capital (ACC), a private investment firm focused on middle market technology and technology-enabled businesses that he co-founded in 2012. Before that he was chairman of Travelport Inc.
Also, Jeffery was chief operating officer of CA Inc, an enterprise software company, from 2004 to 2006 where he was responsible for sales, services, distribution, corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions, IT, corporate strategy and planning. In addition, his job profile included executive vice president at Hewlett-Packard (HP) from 2002 to 2003. As EVP of global operations, Jeffery was responsible for HP’s worldwide supply chain, manufacturing, procurement and internet operations (HP.com).
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Pressline’s PRIMA to land in Kings’ court
Pressline India Pvt Ltd is set to deliver its PRIMA web machine configured as auto splicer (DRS/AS) + 4 high towers equipped with folder up to 1/8th fold at Kings Security Printers Private Limited based at Umbergaon in Valsad District near Mumbai. Kings Security Printers is known for its high-quality print production and total customer satisfaction and care. PRIMA is equipped with automatic blanket washer which ensures blanket cleaning on the run optimising blanket cleaning time as well as make-ready waste.
The automatic blanket washer from Pressline India is finding a prime position with web press users all over India and abroad due to its innovative technology which focuses on non-stop printing, least down time and operator’s safety. Kings Security Printers intends to produce high-quality books on PRIMA in 4 colours.
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WoodWing’s solutions
speed up Mizzima in Myanmar
Gearing up for strong growth in Myanmar’s media and publishing industry, Mizzima Media Group has selected both WoodWing’s multi-channel publishing system Enterprise and digital asset management solution Elvis DAM. This group is the leading multi-channel publisher of news and business content in Myanmar, serving print and online as well as digital platforms such as Android and Apple iOS. With the decision to employ WoodWing’s integrated publishing and DAM environment, Mizzima increases the efficiency of its publishing processes and paves the way for the quick deployment of new products and business strategies.
“We chose WoodWing’s solutions because they work well and offer everything we need for our products in both print and digital,” said Sonny Swe, CEO, Mizzima Media Group. He added that from the first idea to final distribution, the new environment will definitely speed up the news flow, making everyone's life easier at the end of the day. Established in 1998 as an exile-based media organisation in New Delhi by three veterans of Myanmar’s pro-democracy uprising, Mizzima Media Group is now headquartered in Yangon, Myanmar. The group publishes a daily newspaper in the Myanmar language, a weekly business magazine, airs business and sports television programmes.
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Nation Media in Nairobi opts
for a COLORMAN 4-1 e:line
Executives of manroland web systems and Nation Media signing contract
for COLORMAN 4-1 e:line
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Leading Kenyan newspaper printer Nation Media Group has decided to invest in a new COLORMAN 4-1 e:line from manroland web systems. Since the country’s printing industry has been changing rapidly, only those who will evolve and continually invest in upgrading technology will survive and grow in future. Thus, after several discussions, Nation Media Group has finally chosen the latest technology from manroland web systems. Located in Nairobi and founded in 1959, Nation Media is the largest independent media house in East and Central Africa. COLORMAN 4-1 e:line at Nation Media will be installed in the second quarter of 2015 as the first manroland web systems press in Kenya. This sets a clear sign for the future of the country`s newspaper industry.
“We will continue to modernise our media and adjust our technologies to suit the demands of the information age, even as we explore opportunities in new markets,” said Tom Mshindi, chief operating officer, Nation Media. He further mentioned that the new production technology offered by COLORMAN 4-1 e:line will set them in the position to reach high goals and efficiently manufacture printed products in great quality and outstanding flexibility. Seven newspapers of Nation Media, which appear seven days a week, will soon be printed simultaneously on the COLORMAN 4-1 e:line. The 4-1 press features five eight-couple printing towers and a web width of 1450 mm, capable to deliver up to 86,000 copies/hr. Timothy Ruth, vice president-sales, manroland web systems mentioned that for Nation Media, COLORMAN 4-1 e:line proved to be the ideal press meeting the required printing quality standards as well as highest flexibility.
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WoodWing releases Enterprise 9.2 version
WoodWing Software releases version 9.2 of its multi-channel publishing system Enterprise. Via a brand new connector, this release enables the centralised publication of content to WordPress sites. Additional new features ensure even smoother and faster processes in multi-channel publishing environments. WordPress has been rapidly gaining acceptance among media and brands, including Forbes, time.com, gigaom.com and techcrunch.com, Metro, etc and 409 million people view more than 13.1 billion WordPress pages each month.
The new WordPress connector for Enterprise enables publishers and brands to transparently integrate WordPress as a new channel in their publishing and communication processes and Enterprise’s editorial management application Content Station follows the same easy three-step process as for any other digital channel when it’s publishing on a WorldPress website. Dennis van Nooij, VP-product, WoodWing said, “In order to help our customers to stay competitive, we always strive to further optimise existing processes based on customer feedback, while at the same time providing new features reflecting market trends and new opportunities. The new version 9.2 of Enterprise and Content Station offer a well-balanced mix of both.”
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The New Straits Times Press
adopts Protecmedia’s SHIPO solution
Malaysian publishing group The New Straits Times Press has invested in SHIPO, Protecmedia’s solution for everything related to the management of circulation and subscriptions. The group has decided to replace its old system with SHIPO with a view to modernising these two areas, achieving an improvement in the service offered to its subscribers and optimising the distribution of its publications. After more than 30 years providing solutions and services in the publishing sector, Protecmedia entered the Asian market in order to broaden its horizons and to be able to offer its innovative solutions to new clients.
This was less than a year ago and Protecmedia, in collaboration with Richmatt Graphics, its partner in this territory, has managed to obtain the trust of The New Straits Times Press which publishes six newspapers viz New Straits Times, New Sunday Times, Berita Harian, Berita Harian Ahad, Harian Metro and Metro Ahad. With respect to circulation, SHIPO will allow The New Straits Times Press to focus all the variables that relate to circulation into a single application, which, moreover, is integrated with the other areas. In this way, it is possible to achieve an improvement in all of the processes and, above all, minimise errors. Mumbai-based Newstech is an authorised distributor of Protecmedia's solutions in India.
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manroland web systems receives
upgrade orders from two newspapers in US
The Indianapolis Star, located in Indianapolis and equipped with five GEOMAN presses and Louisiana-based The Daily Advertiser, which installed two UNISET presses, order retrofits to manroland web systems for modernisation of their pressroom equipments. Gannett Publishing Services have chosen the expertise from manroland web systems to upgrade and retrofit press control systems on their manroland web systems presses at two newspapers. The upgrade project has already begun at both plants with planning to ensure daily production will not be interrupted in any way.
This upgrade includes a modernisation of the obsolete PECOM Controls, parts of the drive controls and I/O hardware which will guarantee not only increased uptime due to better parts availability, but also increased productivity and efficiency at both sites. Also, the project includes a comprehensive replacement of old Interbus-LOOP components with new I/O based Interbus modules as well as the retrofit of the controller hardware and configurations, wiring diagrams and controller-specific documentation. Along with the hardware and software retrofits and reconfigurations, manroland web systems will also provide extensive training to the customer on the maintenance of the new systems for both plants.
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Q.I. Press Controls purchases
business and assets of EAE
Started from April 01, Q.I. Press Controls has acquired EAE, a control and automation specialist for printing machines. Now, Q.I. Press Controls will continue EAE’s core business at the firm’s Ahrensburg (near Hamburg) and Atlanta (USA) locations. The Oosterhout, Netherlands-based company is an international specialist for products which automate printing processes to a high degree, thereby reducing waste and leading to more quality consistency. “The acquisition of EAE underlines our commitment to the printing industry”, said Erik van Holten, chairman, Q.I. Press Controls. He added that through the expansion of thier product portfolio they have become an even more interesting business partner to their customers.”
Q.I. Press Controls plans to continue EAE’s innovative services which are focused on optimising the printing process. This development means for international customers that they can rely on EAE solutions in the future as well. The company’s reliable support will even be enhanced on a global level because of the expansions in number of locations. In addition, customers can look forward to new innovations. Ahrensburg-based EAE is active in graphic industries, automation solutions and automation technology. EAE‘s solutions are being used in all areas of a newspaper printing plant – from prepress to mailroom. More than 550 newspaper printing plants across the world are using EAE‘s control systems to produce more than 125 million newspapers each day.
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Punjab Kesari Group delivers
more relief materials to J&K villages
Continuing its regular philanthropic activities, Punjab Kesari Group delivered more trucks of relief materials to crises-torn villages in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) viz. Londi, Khamb, Sunderpur and Muso Chak.
(1) Vijay Kumar Chopra, CMD and editor-in-chief,
Punjab Kesari Group flagging off the 363rd truck
of relief materials sent by Shri Krishna Sewa Dal,
Machhiwara. Others present at the occasion included
Ajay Jain, Jatinder Lohal, Sunny Gupta, Anuj Sharma,
Vineet Aggarwal, Kamal Kalra, Abhishek Dhawan,
Pankaj Goyal, Gurdip Singh Takkar, Naveen Bhatia,
Gaurav Sharma and Lion JB Singh Chaudhary.
(2) Jagdish Singh Jagga, president, All Jammu &
Kashmir Labhana Samah Sudhar Sabha, Lakki
Bhatia and others distributing relief materials to
needy villagers.
(3) Vijay Kumar Chopra, CMD and editor-in-chief,
Punjab Kesari Group flagging off the 364th truck of
relief materials sent by Shri Shri 1008 Vedantacharya
Sugrivanand Ji Maharaj of Dera Baba Rudranand
Maharaj Ashram, Nari, Una. Others present at the
occasion included Madan Lal, Rajinder Bhardwaj,
Saroj Moudgil and Lion JB Singh Chaudhary.
(4) Subhash Gupta, MLC, J&K; Dr Chetan Moudgil;
Saroj Moudgil; Sarpanch Puran Chand Sharma;
Subedar Nek Singh; Captain Ainchal Singh and
others distributing relief materials in Londi village
located on the Zero Line of Hira Nagar in J&K
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India Today group launches
Harper's BAZAAR Bride
After having footprints of world's oldest fashion magazine Harper’s BAZAAR in India in the year 2009, Hearst Magazines International and India Today Group announced the launch of Harper's BAZAAR Bride, expanding the magazine brand’s presence in the country and marking its foray into the luxury wedding market. Launching with the March 2014 issue in the first week of March 2014, Harper’s BAZAAR Bride will publish 10 issues per year, targeting not only the bride and groom, but the entire bridal brigade and all high-life enthusiasts.
“We are very excited to extend Harper’s BAZAAR into this important category in India, and look forward to working with our longstanding partner India Today on this successful launch," said Gautam Ranji, senior vice president, Licensing and Business Development, Hearst Magazines International. “With the Indian wedding market poised to be the largest in the next couple of years, we are very excited about our foray into the ‘luxury wedding’ space with the launch of Harper’s BAZAAR Bride,” adds Ashish Bagga, Group CEO, India Today Group.
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Global horizons expanded for manroland India
Bijendra Sharma
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With the recently concluded stint in Congo, manroland India is ready to take up three new projects overseas, including installation and commissioning of a Lithoman commercial web press in Nigeria and two sheetfed presses in Australia. After proving its competence in the Indian market, team manroland India has successfully extended its services to the international market with turn key projects for manroland customers outside its territory. The scope of services includes dismantling, installation, refurbishment, repairs, upgrades and consultancy services for manroland web and sheetfed installations around the globe.With a team of 22 highly-qualified and factory trained engineers, some with more than three decades of practical experience, manroland India has emerged as a complete solution provider over years for print houses looking for reliable technical and maintenance support for their manroland printing systems.
Latest project taken up by manroland India at Shekinah, one of the leading commercial printers in Congo, involved modernisation and upgradation of their CROMOMAN and CROMOSET single width newspaper web machines.The 30-day schedule at Shekinah comprised a complete mechanical and electrical overhauling of the machines followed by training and maintenance programmes specially designed by manroland’s technical crew to educate the press operators, supervisors and production staff focusing on key topics including press maintenance, quality control, ink-water balance, pre-press integration and know how.
The upcoming projects of manroland India include installation and commissioning of a LITHOMAN commercial web press in Nigeria followed by installation of two Roland 700, six colour plus configurations in Australia. “We are delighted that our services are being acknowledged not only by our Indian customers but overseas as well and we shall strive to deliver to the best of our potential. Our engineers are highly skilled and extensively trained at our headquarters in Germany. Our aim is to strengthen our position as a global technical hub with a team of competent technical manpower which delivers comprehensive service solutions at most competitive pace to keep manroland presses up and running for many years to come. This is one of the big components of many value-added services that we offer to our esteemed customers in India and now across the globe.” said Bijendra Sharma, general manager Service and Technical, manroland India.
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The Standard Group in Nairobi
expands contract with ppi Media
Kenyan publishing major The Standard Group has ordered entire prepress workflow from ppi Media to gain a completely integrated production workflow for print products. After both planning and production workflows as well as ad workflow and editorial solution were ordered, The Standard Group has now expanded its setup in Nairobi to include the integration of the prepress workflow whereby the central system is ppi Media’s OM (output management) system.
OM receives all of the relevant planning and production information for print publication from PlanPag. The individual tabloid pages in PDF format that OM receives from production are automatically imposed on double-truck plates by means of page pairing. ProofStation, including five proof clients, as well as OM portal together with jobEntry were also ordered. It enables editorial department to view imposed pages once again before they are released.
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CSQ goes for first IDS closed
loop from Q.I. Press Controls in Italy
Leading Italian newspaper printer Centro Stampa Quotidiani (CSQ) and Q.I. Press Controls will have their premiere in the Italian market. For the first time, a newspaper press in the country will be equipped with closed loop colour control: IDS on CSQ’ WIFAG OF373/6 newspaper press. The investment will be for 8 IDS scanners for closed loop colour including dampening control. “As we already were familiar with Q.I. Press Controls with the installation of their first generation colour register system (IRS) on our WIFAG OF370GTD press in 2005, we followed the developments on their IDS closed loop colour control as well,” said Dario de Cian, GM, CSQ. This closed loop colour control enables the press to reproduce colours accurately and consistently throughout the run. This will generate savings in labour and waste. “Given the good experiences with Q.I. Press Controls being our supplier during the past years, their continuous drive to deliver innovative, reliable solutions that comply to customer needs and their good customer service made us decide to invest in their IDS closed loop colour.” One of the added features which especially impressed CSQ was dampening control.
Jaco Bleijenberg, international director-sales & marketing of Q.I. Press Controls said, “We are very enthusiastic about this order. Not only because again it proves the growing importance of closed loop colour control in the newspaper printing industry. This installation will also represent an important reference site for our Southern European market.”
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UK press freedom report published
WAN-IFRA recently released the results from a fact-finding delegation of international editors sent to the United Kingdom between January 15 and 16, 2014. Vincent Peyrègne, CEO, WAN-IFRA said that the lack of any real guarantees enshrining press freedom continues to expose journalism in the UK to great uncertainty, as there is nothing benign in a system that invites even the possibility of tighter restrictions on freedom of expression. The WAN-IFRA delegation met government representatives, industry professionals, academics, lawyers and civil society organisations and heard a range of opinions regarding proposed changes to the system of self-regulation and the acrimonious process surrounding the drawing up of the Royal Charter. The press freedom report reiterates serious industry concerns regarding the reforms, while revealing cautious optimism from those who believe current proposals to be an opportunity to restore public trust following Lord Justice Leveson’s Inquiry into press standards. The report findings also call for the British government to reiterate clearly to the international community that it continues to support a free and independent press.
The full report can be downloaded at http://www.wan-ifra.org/node/101035/
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Do You Know?
Reference News, one of the oldest newspapers in China, boasts of its daily circulation of 3.2 million copies today. Also known widely in its Chinese name Cankao Xiaoxi, this daily was established in the year 1931 disseminating only confidential reports for Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and other leaders during the stringent communist era of the country. In 1957, Reference News became a common newspaper to reach general public who considered it as a window providing a glimpse of what all happening around the country and rest of the world as well.
Apart from being one of the leading newspapers in China, Reference News was ranked fifth in the world in the year 2008 (WAN via Yangtze Evening Post). Now the newspaper is circulated all across the country through its 36 printings locations. Covering every aspect of the news stories, features and others, contents of Reference News are sourced from Taiwan, Macao and Hong Kong. Another distinguished aspect of this daily is that all reports offer different angles and styles from those of domestic news stories.
This piece of pride of the Chinese newspaper market accommodates certain pages and weekly supplements to exclusively cover lifestyle, health, education and other interesting topics for readers from all walks of life. Today, Reference News is published in other languages, such as Uighur, Kazakh, Korean and Mongolian to encourage other ethnic minority groups in China.
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Two printing majors get control
consol from manroland web systems
Bruehlsche Universitaetsdruckerei at Giessen in Germany and Severotisk at Usti in Czech Republic recently received latest control console technology from manroland web systems which developed the integrated solutions for retrofits, custom-made for older printing presses. The solutions are designed to reduce downtimes and cancellation expenses and increase performance of printing system at the same time. Lithoman, Rotoman and Polyman, equipped with HP 1000 controls, are supposed to be exchanged completely. The latest generation of control console servers can be integrated to the older control consoles without any problems.
Hans-Joachim Stephan, head of production at Bruehlsche Universitaetsdruckerei in Giessen said that they are impressed by the latest technology, especially when it comes to operation at the control console, they can realise the quantum leap in development. “Our team of staffs is stoked by the central control functions. The reduced waste rates are the major benefits, assured by the possibility of pre-inking with a PECOM Press Manager, which has not been available before. This cost reduction, in principle, makes the retrofit pay for itself,” he added. A retrofit of the control system of manroland web systems enables a significantly better performance with higher product quality and less interruptions in production run.
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New range of eco-consumables from Heidelberg
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) has been offering a range of particularly eco-friendly consumables – the Saphira Eco product line – since 2011. This range is subject to the strictest criteria in the print media industry for the environmental compatibility of consumables. Heidelberg has now tightened these criteria once again and adapted them to the latest international environmental standards. It is also further expanding the range of Saphira Eco products it offers.
Users can now benefit from the Saphira Blanket Pro 200, an eco-friendly blanket that has excellent all-round properties and is particularly suitable for commercial printers looking to make their production operations even more environmentally friendly and sustainable. Working closely with suppliers, Heidelberg has defined and introduced the world’s first criteria for environmentally friendly blankets. To define these criteria, the company reviewed the production process and identified and evaluated the green credentials of the substances used.
Heidelberg is also launching the mineral oil-free Saphira Ink Anicolor S100 and H100 ink series for Anicolor technology, thus making Anicolor, which boasts minimal waste and low energy consumption, even more eco-friendly. In the postpress sector, users will be able to use Saphira Binding Glue PUR 330 NE, the first PUR glue not to release any harmful isocyanates and therefore any substances that pose a health risk to users.
“Green printing has already become standard at numerous companies in industrialized markets. The Saphira Eco product line from Heidelberg offers these companies a range that meets the world’s strictest requirements for eco-friendly consumables. It’s the perfect choice for customers who attach great importance to their company’s green credentials and don’t want to compromise on quality when using eco-friendly consumables,” says Peter Tix, head of Consumables at Heidelberg.
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Auraia increases quality and
reduces costs for Canadian newspapers
Hamillroad Software, one of the leadings RIP and screening innovators, announces that through Polkadots (its official reseller for Canada), the company has successfully sold and installed Auraia into new newspaper printers in Canada. Customers are seeing significant improvements in print quality, along with noticeable decreases in monthly ink and paper costs that produce an incredibly short ROI of between 6-12 months. Star Press, located in Wainwright, Alberta recently started feeding their existing Kodak Trendsetters digitally modulated screening (DMS) with the aim of increasing their print quality.
Following extensive tests of FM (HDS) and DM (Auraia) on their Kodak Trendsetters, Vancouver-based Times Colonist chose the latest in DM screening technology as it produced the highest quality on press. Kurt Kudor, production manager, Times Colonist said, “Like many newspaper publishers we strive to improve the value of our product to our readership and advertisers while reducing production costs. To that end we did a test of Auraia II DM screening in one low risk newspaper section in December of 2013 - just ahead of all the upcoming Christmas advertising. The test lasted just one day. The results were so impressive that we completely switched the entire paper over to Auraia and haven’t looked back”.
