Baumann Druck invests in
InlineCutoff Control dynamic
High speed
delivery
at short
lead times is
just one trend of
modern commercial
printing. Smaller
runs, aligned with
special target
groups, additionally
have to meet high
quality demands.
Thus, besides short
makeready times,
printing houses
require higher
quality standards for
colour and cut-off
register. Baumann
Druck in Kulmbach,
which produces
advertising inserts, brochures, catalogues and
magazines, faced these demands and decided
to invest in ICCd. It has been installed on
both LITHOMAN presslines and is running
since beginning of May 2015. The installation
in Kulmbach is the first ICCd that has been
installed on a LITHOMAN short grain press.
InlineCutoff Control dynamic is the fastest
cut-off register control that is available at
the market. This is enabled by an additional
camera that measures and controls the web
directly in front of the folding knife. The high
dynamic of the folder drive systems can react
to every measurement and can be re-adjusted
for ensuring an accurate cut-off. According
to the system configuration, the customer
is able to save more than 50 percent of
cut-off waste at reel changes or single blanket
washing. Furthermore, a significantly smoother
cut with fewer tolerances can be achieved at
every production start and run.
An eight-page OCTOMAN from 1999 was
the beginning for a long-term partnership with
manroland web systems. Since then, Bauman
Druck had ordered a LITHOMAN III 40-page
press in 2009 and another strongly efficient
LITHOMAN 64-page press in 2011 and the
association continues.
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ABB focusing
on two key
areas
at WAN-IFRA
India Expo
At the WAN-IFRA India Expo 2015, staging
from September 02-04 at Mumbai, ABB is
setting its spotlight on two main areas—
production management & workflow solutions
and latest modular press retrofit solutions. The
company’s production management & workflow
solutions not only making managing and
optimising the production process easier, but also
compels complex
production forms
simpler and more
economical.
ABB ’s M P S
Cockpit, which
allows production management across the whole
newspaper production process at one or more print
sites, will be a particular attraction to visitors at
the expo, which might include Indian newspaper
publishers with multiple sites.
The second area of showcase at the expo from
ABB will be the company’s latest modular
press retrofit solutions that can be tailored to
almost any press type. These allow the life of
a newspaper press to be extended in the most
cost-effective way possible and ensure the
long-term availability of spare parts. The modular
solutions include drives, controls, control console
and press management system replacements. ABB
is one of the leading suppliers of automation
solutions for the newspaper industry and the
group operates in around 100 countries.
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FUJIFILM offers PRESSMAX
complete pressroom solutions
Keeping in mind the fact that all products
are interlinked and can have a considerable
influence to one another, FUJIFILM offers
a complete range of offset supplies, not just plates
and chemicals, looking at the whole process
from pre-press to post-press. The company’s
PRESSMAX range of pressroom solutions, which
consists of Founts, Washes, Coatings, Spray
Powders, Silicones, Glues and Auxiliaries, help
take control of the entire printing process. These
solutions reduce production cost and optimise
productivity.
Pressroom chemicals are a minor factor in the
total cost of printed product, but they can have
a major influence on the final cost, in a negative
but also in a positive way. FUJIFILM pressroom
product range ensures a stable print process and
the fastest machine speed, which is resulted
from the optimum product mix. In the end,
it is the cost per copy that counts! In order
to gain optimised productivity, a key factor in
today’s printing industry is to ensure highest
possible productivity. Downtime has to be
avoided as much as possible and PRESSMAX
solutions ensure the optimum combination
for trouble free printing across the complete
process, up until the finishing of the printed
product. The result is a trouble free process
with minimal down-time.
The basis of the quality of printed product starts
with the plate. If a problem occurs at this point,
it is almost impossible to correct it further
down the process. PRESSMAX solutions in an
optimal combination ensure of getting a highquality
print which answers all expectations. As
FUJIFILM cares about both the printing and the
finishing, its range of products supports printers’
demands for safe and ecological solutions.
The company’s range in PRESSMAX includes
non-VOC formulations up to safety label free
products; and its solvent-free technologies
are available to replace environmental-critical
products. Finally, PRESSMAX solutions are not
just to assure excellent print quality but also
take care of reducing environmental footprints.
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IB intelligently adopts Pressline PRIMA-30
India’s premier intelligence
agency Intel l igence
Bureau (IB) has chosen
Pressline PRIMA 30 to print
its highly importance state
documents. The agency
wisely selected the press,
which features with Auto Ink Systems and
capable to print huge number of documents
in a continuous feed of ink. The machine also
features auto register and auto gluing which in
turn avoid the requirements to pin the copies.
Apart from IR dryer, the agency has procured
stacker bundler for ease of storage. The folder
is further attached with a sheeter for signatures
required in sheet forms.
Pressline PRIMA 30 itself consists of an auto
reel stand, two of 2-Hi towers positioned in
a compact location and sits gracefully on a
kota stone flooring. For
Pressline India, the sole
manufacturer of this
versatile and indigenous
press, this installation
is indeed a milestone
marking the company’s
25th Anniversary
celebrated this year in
a big way for being
one of the widely
acclaimed Indian web
offset manufacturers.
The company is now
proud to have made
its mark as a partner
in ‘MAKE IN INDIA
- MADE IN INDIA’
concept.
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WEISS-Druck adopts second
LITHOMAN 96 and e-retrofits GEOMAN
Progress, Innovation and Future – this slogan of WEISS-Druck seems to be the main reason
for the trust in the groundbreaking technologies from manroland web systems since 1994.
Well in both newspaper and commercial domains, WEISS-Druck has been evolving into one
of the most modern printing companies in Germany, and still expanding. After the adoption of
the world`s first 96-page LITHOMAN in Monschau in 2011, the company now comes up with a
second 96-page press and additionally modernises the coldset production.
Founder Michael Weiss of WEISS-Druck
articulates, “We are high flyers”, as they want
to offer the whole range of printing technology
to their customers to achieve the best possible
results; so is the reason behind the current
investments and service enhancements. The new
LITHOMAN 96-page press will be installed
and starts its production in the middle of 2016.
The press enables the company to react faster,
more economically and more flexibly to the
requirements of their customers.
Further, WEISS-Druck has placed order for
electronic-retrofit of its GEOMAN Press
in Monschau. The implementation shall be
completed by September 2015. The retrofit
replaces the obsolete Interbus Loop components for web break detection. Printing units and folder
will be equipped with new sensors that help to continue the monitoring of each web individually
and reliably. Additionally, there will be a retrofit of the entire press network, which in turn will
make the system up-to-date, can be diagnosed.
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ABB @World
Publishing Expo
2015 in Hamburg
ABB is convinced that printed newspapers
will remain the cash cow of the news
publishing industry in future and this
will be focused at the World Publishing Expo
(WPE) 2015 (October 5-7)
in Hamburg, shedding
spotlight on two most
import success criteria for
newspaper production companies: i) Keeping the
presses running reliably; ii) Increasing efficiency
by boosting the degree of automation. The
company’s modular press control and drives
retrofit solutions for newspaper presses from
all leading manufacturers will be presented at
the expo. Spare parts strategy, which guarantees
availability of spare parts for at least 10 years
after installation, will also be another major
highlight from ABB at the WPE 2015.
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INMA releases
report on media
smartphone apps
A report by INMA
(International
News Media
Association) titled
‘Smart phone App
Lessons for Media Companies’ throws light
on trials, tribulations and aspirations of
media companies trying to make smartphone
apps working for its most loyal readers.
The report offers 19 vignettes of media
companies in Asia, Europe, Latin America,
North America, and the South Pacific aiming
to sync smartphone app plans to their local
digital ecosystems. Over and over across the
vignettes, media companies reported: Why
the focus on smartphone apps over mobile
web; The work-in-progress thought process
on which apps to develop; A potpourri of
23 apps being developed; Chaotic ups and
down in strategy and reasons for prioritisation.
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Punjab Kesari Group donates
for
Nepal earthquake victims
Yet another applause to Punjab Kesari Group (Jalandhar) is for its philanthropic donation to
the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund (Nepal) for the people in the Himalayan kingdom who have
been devastated by the severe earthquake that claimed more than 9,000 lives and injured above
23,000 in April this year. The appeal is being published in every single copy of the group’s newspapers;
as a result, donations keep pouring in. The group has recently handed over the first installment of the
Present at the momentous occasion were Vijay Kumar, CMD & editor-in-chief, Punjab Kesari Group;
Amit Chopra, joint managing director; Avinav Chopra, Amiya Chopra, Aroosh Chopra, Abhijay Chopra,
directors of the group; alongside Rajya Sabha MP Avinash Rai Khanna. The group has always been
in the forefront of helping victims of natural calamities as well as terrorist attacks.
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Brazilian printer adopts first
manroland FormerLine in America
For the first time, manroland FormerLine is in spotlight for touring
across the globe. Its recent delivery to Brazilian publisher FTD
has marked the first installation of the variable folding system
in America. Making education accessible for everybody—this demand
from customers has driven FTD in São Paulo to go for FormerLine,
which helps to guide the educational books to the favoured webs
and formats at inline and online operation. Subsequently, the book
blocks get glued. WorkflowBridge automatically adjusts the folding
component for every job and MasterQ software from manroland web
systems enables a logistically perfect job handling.
Reginaldo Soares Damasceno, managing director-production, FTD is a
man convinced by EUROMAN since 2012 and he expects the same
from FormerLine. “We wanted to develop our industrial inkjet book
production; so we were looking for a highly automated and integrated
solution that offers an efficient production of small runs. For small runs
we need short makeready times,” he said adding that FTD can achieve this due to optimal production
planning with MasterQ. For the future, FTD can produce glued book blocks with highest quality in
a digital way and they can pass them on to the existing binding equipment without any problems.
By the end of 2015, FormerLine will integrate into a book printing workflow with an HP T410
machine and a Lift-Collator from RIMA. In doing so, FTD can further use the production advantages
of the FormerLine in a comprehensive way.
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NPES reaccredited by the
American National Standards Institute
NPES has earned reaccreditation
as a standards development
organisation by the American
National Standards Institute (ANSI)
after an audit of the association's
standards administration operations by ANSI.
NPES administers the work of the Committee
for Graphic Arts Technologies Standards
(CGATS) and B65 committees, and also serves
as secretariat for the US Technical Advisory
Group to the International Organisation for
Standardisation's Technical Committee 130 on
Graphic Technology (USTAG to TC130).
CGATS, which received ANSI accreditation in
1989, manages the entire scope of technical
work for printing, publishing and converting
technologies represented in one national
standardisation and coordination effort,
while respecting the established activities of
existing accredited standards committees and
industry standards developers. The scope of
CGATS standards relates to pallet loading
of printed materials, metrology, terminology,
plates, process control, digital data exchange,
colour data definition, design workflow for
packaging, and ink and
colour characterisation
for packaging.
The B65 Committee,
ANSI accredited in
1983, is responsible for developing safety
standards relating to printing presses and
press systems, binding/finishing equipment and
systems, bindery cutting machines, platen presses
and ink making equipment. These standards
address design, arrangements, designation, and
colour scheme of controls and signaling devices,
guarding and interlocking of guards, mechanical
safety devices, symbology, and safe practices
as they apply to printing equipment.
The USTAG to TC130 consists of industry
experts who provide ANSI with guidance on the
development of the US position on International
Standards relating to all areas of the graphic
arts including, but not limited to technologies
such as ink, process control, plates, blankets,
digital data exchange, environmental impact
of printed products, management of security
printing, printing certification requirements,
safety and colour management.
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ContiTech expands product portfolio
ContiTech has magnified its product portfolio
following the acquisition German sleeve
and roller manufacturer TEGU Walzen
und Sleeves GmbH based in Waltershausen.
“With this strategic step, we are continuing to
expand our product portfolio for print shops while
simultaneously completing our existing product
range in the growing market for flexographic
printing plates. This will enable us to respond
even more effectively to customer requirements in
the future,” announces Dr Peter Scholtissek, head
of Elastomer Coatings business unit. He further
explains that all 23 employees of the company
will be retained and thus become part of the
successful ContiTech location in Waltershausen.
TEGU Walzen boasts more than 80 years
of experience in the industrial processing of
elastomer materials–particularly sleeves, which
have been produced since 1994 and using
across the industry in flexographic printing for
continuous printing and packaging as well. The
company also manufactures products for industrial
applications. As a leading manufacturer and
supplier of offset and digital printing blankets,
ContiTech has been active with CONTI Laserline
flexographic printing plates since 2012.
“ContiTech and TEGU have been working
together successfully for two years already. In
the future, we want to work together to continue
developing this line of business and to drive it
forward to international level. We are pleased
that in Olaf Schaller, we have on board the
former general manager and sales manager as
well as experts and specialists,” mentions Stefan
Füllgraf, responsible for flexographic printing
plates at ContiTech.
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GOSS International
sold to
American
Industrial
Partners (AIP)
Shanghai Electric Corporation (SEC), the
parent company of GOSS International,
has entered into a definitive agreement
to sell GOSS International and its subsidiaries
to American Industrial Partners (AIP). The
agreement forms
part of a broader
strategy to
further strengthen GOSS’ position as the world’s
leading web-offset printing press supplier.
The AIP transaction is subject to successfully
achieving appropriate regulatory approvals and
meeting certain closing conditions. It is expected
to close within the next 60 to 90 days. “As a
leading supplier of commercial web, newspaper
and packaging offset printing presses, GOSS
is wholly committed to its valued, worldwide
customer base and to the sale and support of
its broad range of the industry’s most innovative
products,” said Rick Nichols, CEO, GOSS
International. He continued, “GOSS is looking
forward to the next phase of its journey under
new ownership. AIP is a like-minded, forwardthinking
organisation that will continue to
support our culture of innovation and customer
collaboration.”
With over a billion dollars of equity capital under
management currently, AIP is an operationallyoriented
private equity firm with an unparalleled
track record of successful investments in North
American based industrial businesses that serve
the global markets. The printing industry is
not new to AIP as the company has previously
owned Day International and Mark Andy, and
Presstek is currently a part of its portfolio
of companies. Nichols concluded, “We look
forward to building a business for the future
with our new owner.”
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Another PECOM-upgrade for Thairath Daily
One of the most
comprehensive service
upgrades for the
printing industry worldwide,
Vacharaphol in Bangkok has
again placed order for another
major PECOM-upgrade for
the production of its popular
newspaper Thairath Daily.
The contract has been signed
recently and the installation
will be finished in December 2015. The six
GEOMAN presslines that Thairath daily adopted
in 1995 have been upgraded between 2008 and
2010. Now, the dimension of the presslines is
impressing as Thailand’s biggest daily newspaper
is printed on 24 printing towers, with 36 reel
splicers and 6 folders.
The comprehensive upgrade consists of different
packages for the PECOM control system,
including a modern operating surface and control
desk computers, touch screens and consoles, the
PECOM Press Manager Server (PPM) including
a Hot-Stand-By-Backup-Server, which, in case
of errors, immediately takes over from PPM,
and Press Monitor 2. The proof system from
manroland web systems provides content-binding
proofs directly to the control desk of the
GEOMAN. This enables an efficient production
and highest printing quality and significantly
reduces waste rates.
“We are very proud of the trust of Vacharaphol in
manroland web systems again and are definitely
going to make our highest efforts to fulfill the
expectations of our customer,” remarks Gebhard
Sutter, service project manager, manroland web
systems. Thairath Daily is one of the largest
circulated newspapers in Thailand with recorded
circulation of one million copies.
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New WAN-IFRA report on print
standardisation
and generic
newspaper ICC profile
All over the world, print standardisation based on agreed international
norms like ISO 12647-3 has been a great success for newspaper
printing. In conjunction with this development of ‘full colour
printing’ based on process colours (CMYK) replacing the old spot colour
concept in newspaper production the first ISO newspaper print standard was
released in 1998 and improved over time. Newspaper printers embraced
the uniform international standard quickly as a matter of course since
they were used to standardized and straight forward production since ever.
WAN-IFRA’s generic newspaper ICC print profile ‘ISOnewspaper26v4.
icc’ meanwhile is part of hundreds of newspaper print specifications all
over. The international norms make printing and print buying easier and
lower the costs for printers and their customers by avoiding confusion and
misunderstandings. In January this year, the WAN-IFRA World Printers
Forum Board decided to intensify working in the area of print standardization in cooperation with
newspaper printers worldwide. A new version of the newspaper ICC colour profile was developed
and tested by the Swedish Graphic Companies’ Federation in cooperation with WAN-IFRA. This
new version adapts the modifications of ISO 12647-3:2013 especially with regard to reduced total
ink coverage. The name of the new profile is the newspawspaper26v5.icc”
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Tenth GOSS
Sunday now
in
production at
Groupe Maury
Groupe Maury Imprimeur at Manchecourt,
France has adopted GOSS Sunday 3000
4 units + 4 units duplex web offset press,
which is the tenth installation of the press till
date. Installation of the press was carried out
by GOSS International engineers and a host of
local contractors. The highly versatile GOSS
PFF-3 and PCF-3 folders and Rima rotary
trimmers enable Groupe Maury Imprimeur to
print products that differentiate their customers
and attract maximum attention.
“GOSS Sunday offers high speeds and, using
the PFF-3 and PCF-3 folders, has the capability
to fold paper to produce up to 60 different
products, making it possible for us to offer a
very wide portfolio to our customers,” says Jean-
Paul Maury, CEO and owner, Groupe Maury
Imprimeur. He adds, “We are very familiar with
the high performance of Gos Sunday presses,
and we also benefit from the compatibility the
new machine has with our other presses.” With
a top speed of 90,000 impressions per hour,
Maury’s latest Sunday 3000 press has a web
width of 1830 mm.
Maury’s Manchecourt site prints weekly
and monthly promotional circulars as well as
catalogs and directories for leading French
supermarkets, building supplies chains and other
national retailers.
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Kodak and Guiton Group form
KP Services to
print Jersey Evening Post
One of the landmark collaborations between
a press manufacturer and a newspaper
publisher, Kodak and Guiton Group
respectively have tied up to form KP Services
(Jersey) Limited. Guiton Group owns Jersey
Evening Post, which will now be printed on
KODAK PROSPER presses. It is estimated that
KP Services will print approximately 35,000
newspapers in total each day (made up of the
combined circulations required for each separate
publication) as well as majority of the UK’s
national newspapers (11 titles in total) for
distribution in Jersey and Guernsey.
At KP Services (Jersey) Limited, Kodak will
install two KODAK PROSPER 6000P Presses
and four of the newly-launched Hunkeler
Combi-Solution Newspaper finishing lines. These
KODAK presses are powered by an advanced
Intelligent Print System (IPS) that continuously
monitors, evaluates and adjusts operations to
ensure exceptional quality output. With the
improved IPS, the presses can monitor and
instantly correct colour registration, delivering
enhanced registration performance. KODAK
PROSPER 6000P Press, which runs at 1000 ft/min
on standard newsprint paper delivering close
to 3000 newspapers every hour (assuming
48-page tabloid), is ideal for low volume
newspaper titles; book printing as well.
And the innovative concept underlying
Hunkeler‘s latest newspaper finishing line
allows for fully-automated changeover
between tabloid and broadsheet formats as
well as the automated collation of multiple
sections. Every newspaper going through
the folding and collating sub-system can
have a different number of pages with
a maximum page count of 140 tabloid
pages per newspaper. “In today’s printing
environment, businesses need to invest in
technologies that complement long-established
production methods, yet also enable them
to drive newspaper printing into the future,”
said Jack Knadjian, MD, KP Services (Jersey)
Limited. Kodak has pioneered inkjet printing
for newspapers and is ready to show the
world the next generation of inkjet presses
with the speed and quality provided by
KODAK Stream Inkjet Technology.
“After 125 years of consistently printing our
own titles, it is fair to say that any third-party
solution needed to be technologically superior
for us to consider moving from self-sufficiency
to this type of partnership,” said Paul Carter,
MD, Guiton Publishing and Jersey Evening Post.
The new service will bring a number of benefits
to Guernsey and Jersey and, in particular, will
overcome the challenges of reliable delivery by
avoiding the frequent weather delays associated
with flying newspapers into islands on the day
of publication. KP Services (Jersey) Limited
will open for business in 2016.
