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Issue: Graphic Repro On-line features 2008


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01 Downloads available
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Goss International’s Web Offset magazine Issue #63
New issue of Goss International's Web Offset magazine now available to order in printed format, or for download here as a PDF…
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Growing Your Business by Going Green
Presstek announces 16-page, fully illustrated white paper on the environmental benefits and economic opportunities afforded by Presstek DI presses…
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PrintCity special Sustainability Report for download
PrintCity Alliance Sustainability, Energy & Environment Special Report available to download as a PDF or printed copies to order free online…
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Heidelberg drives ‘green printing’
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG publishes its Sustainability Report for the 2007/2008 Financial Year, which can be downloaded here…
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Canon-commissioned RIT study predicts industry shake-up
Digital set to thrive as Year 2020 marks turning point for market, says Canon ‘Insight Report: Digital Printing Directions’…
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An extract from ‘Optimised Sheetfed UV’ with PDF to download
Extract from the new PrintCity Alliance '2008 Optimised Sheetfed UV Printing Best Practice Guide' with illustrated PDF to download…
07 On-line features for Sep/Oct
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Are you looking for business growth?
Germán Sacristán, business development manager, EAMER, Kodak’s Graphic Communications Group…
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Italy’s leading sports title boosts circulation
RCS Mediagroup completes full-colour conversion of La Gazzetta dello Sport with four 4/1 KBA Commanders…
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100 years at Druckhaus Dresden
Centenary celebrations with customers and suppliers. By Martin Dänhardt
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Lebanon training future printers of the Arab World
For the past two years, the Al-Kafaàt Printing School has been training students on a number of latest print technologies, using Heidelberg equipment…
08 On-line features for Nov/Dec
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The Marcom Factory from Artoos in Benelux
Major brands reap rewards of remote campaign and collateral management with The Marcom Factory from Artoos, with Kodak NexPress S3000 for on-demand and VDP…
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VPrint chooses Kodak to stay ahead of the game
First European installation of Kodak Versamark DS9050 printing system and Matti chassis at leader in its market space, VPrint…
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Greetings with a Special Finishing Touch
Belgian print shop Tuerlinckx has been specialising in greetings cards with distinctive finishes for no fewer than four generations, favouring the niche market strategy. By Hilde Weißer
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Pushkinskaya Ploshchad – Technology Powerhouse
An interview with Oleg Poptsov on the establishment and development of Pushkinskaya Ploshchad in Moscow, a publishing and printing giant that has emerged in post-Soviet Russia…
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INM transforms print production with FPS technology
Independent News & Media (INM) is reaping the rewards of its lean manufacturing approach that has transformed the way in which it produces daily newspapers, commercial work and combined products…
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Mainfranken is Everywhere
The Internet is the marketing channel, Germany and other countries the market, flyeralarm the brand, and Druckhaus Mainfranken the operative production unit for printing in large-format…
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Estudios Durero: Masters of customisation
The Kodak Nexpress 2500 press has enabled Estudios Durero to custom print 185,000 catalogues in 11 languages and with 412 different covers…
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Kodak workflow and thermal CTP for Masar’s Dubai plant
Kodak helps to turn a challenge in the desert into the UAE's most automated, groundbreaking and largest printer…
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Heidelberg’s new Print Media Centre for packaging production
Heidelberg opens new 4000 sq/m Print Media Centre in Wiesloch-Walldorf enabling complete end-to-end demonstrations for packaging printing customers. By Hilde Weisser
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Daily News ingrained in New Yorkers’ lives
An exclusive interview with Marc Z Kramer, CEO of the New York Daily News. By Klaus Schmidt
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Newspapers at the touch of a Button – Fiction or Reality?
How can publishers and newspaper printers hold their ground in the cross-media and multimedia world of today and tomorrow? An interview with Anton Hamm and Georg Riescher of Manroland…
06 On-line features for July/August
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Versatility Is Our Strength
Who would have thought that a medium-sized packaging print shop in Baden, Germany, could make life difficult for product counterfeiters around the world? By Hilde Weisser
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The Business of Marketing
A short Q&A session with Kevin Joyce, chief marketing officer, Kodak’s Graphic Communications Group. By Jo Francis…
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Running to stand still
The state-of-the-art technology, equipment, gizmos, software, gadgets, workflows and brilliant concepts displayed at Drupa have been created to help printers and graphic arts professional endure the challenges of 21st century. But how effective are they? Rod Hayes reports.
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Fresh start with KBA Rapidas and new strategy
Profile on Haarlem-based Boom & van Ketel Grafimedia in The Netherlands. By Leon van Velzen
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Mazzucchelli goes widest ever
Breaking with conventions, making new rules: Mazzucchelli to install Goss Sunday 5000 the world’s first 96-page web offset press. By Fiona Rasburn
02 Technology-related articles
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Goss International’s new Triliner technology
Goss International introduces three-pages-around option for newspaper printing with off-centre folding using existing or new double-circumference presses…
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‘None Bigger, None Better’ open house at KBA
Extra format means extra productivity: KBA shows high-volume 4-over-4 perfecting in medium- and large-formats in Radebeul. By Martin Dänhardt
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M-600 Folia Press Production Efficiency
‘Higher productivity’ has always been a key aspiration for the printing industry. But as costs of paper, energy, printing inks and skilled labour continue to increase, this frequently used, but not always measured term, must now become an essential element in every printer’s day-to-day thinking…
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One Touch: Newspapers at the Touch of a Button
Manroland bases its developments on market requirements and presents the press concept of tomorrow...
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Fully integrated production with Onyx/Rubin
Muller Martini inserting and film wrapping after saddle stitching or perfect binding allows for a fully integrated operation…
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Baldwin success at SV-Druckzentrum in Munich
Baldwin Protech2 NP brush cleaning technology has resulted in major cost savings for SV-Druckzentrum in Munich, Germany, test site for the new and advanced cleaning system…
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KBA at IfraExpo 2008 in Amsterdam
Innovative technology an aid in crisis. With economic fragility causing a slide in ad sales, circulations steadily diminishing in many countries and the financial meltdown shaking investor confidence, the newspaper industry and its suppliers are facing some daunting challenges. By Klaus Schmidt
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Faster, cheaper, better, or different?
Interesting facts about Manroland’s Print Technology Center in Offenbach, Germany – the company’s showcase for its sheetfed press systems…
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Customised Manroland Colorman brings success
Newspaper printers successfully individualise their new Manroland Colorman press and are accepted into the Ifra Newspaper Color Quality Club 2008 – 2010…
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Good Housekeeping: Quark XPress 8
When Quark previewed XPress 8 a few months ago most of us agreed that we hadn’t seen this one coming. In part because Version 8 is as much about satisfying Quark’s needs as those of its customers. By Nessan Cleary
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VIGC study on spectrophotometers exposes inaccuracies
The Flemish Innovation Center for Graphic Communications (VIGC) study on spectrophotometers reveals: Instrument accuracy can be a nightmare…
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Boundary between digital and offset shifting with Anicolor
Anicolor short inking unit allows short colour runs in offset quality with makeready 40 per cent faster than conventional…
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Optimising paper logistics with RFID
No more piles of dead capital! Thanks to a wireless identification system that automatically provides accurate, real-time data on the precise location of sheetfed stocks. By Jürgen Veil
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The case for Ecocool technology
Introduced in 1990, Goss Ecotherm technology pioneered the concept of pollution control through integrated afterburner technology years ahead of any other manufacturer…
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Goss Automatic Transfer technology
Continuous printing, without stopping between jobs or version changes with a significant reduction in makeready time and waste…
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Heidelberg's new Star peripherals highlighted at Drupa
Greater productivity and production reliability - New functions for Star peripheral systems from Heidelberg. By Hilde Weißer
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New, fully automatic thermal CTP at Pressehaus
New world first Kodak Generation News system delivers high-quality newspaper plates non-stop at Pressehaus Stuttgart Druck…
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Printing blankets put the dot onto the paper
What influence does the offset printing blanket have by the process standardisation? by Jan Jungmann
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A Drupa first: Four-over-four in large-format from KBA
This year’s Drupa will see an all-time first, as KBA optimises big perfectors for commercial applications. By Martin Daenhardt
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Muller Martini flexible packaging printing at Drupa
Flexible packaging printing on OPP film with web offset, plus flexo varnishing - a real alternative on Muller Martini presses. By Bernd Schopferer
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Colour management for everyone
Unique breadth of solutions and expertise from an end-to-end colour powerhouse – EskoArtwork – which is about to unwrap one of its best-kept secrets…
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The objective is ‘Investment Made to Measure’
Set-up time reduction generates profit: But how much automation is useful? By Reiner Braun
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Heidelberg pushes ‘Eco Printing’
For a number of years, Heidelberg has been working on solutions for press development, production and utilisation that will limit the consumption of resources, reduce emissions and cut wastage. By Hide Weißer
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Star Peripherals from Heidelberg - Less powder and lower dust levels
Effective double act and key to efficient powder application - the PowderStar AP 500 with ARS spray nozzles and CleanStar. New Article Series, Part V. By Hilde Weißer
05 On-line features for May/Jun
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Potentials of digital print – how to tell my kid?
The digital print sector doesn’t do itself any favours: First of all it doesn’t look beyond the end of its own technology-nose... By Felix Ludes
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Smart leadership
Anne M Mulcahy has competently manoeuvred the Xerox group out of the biggest crisis in its history back to the peak. An exclusive insight, by Andreas Weber
04 On-line features for Mar/Apr
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Web-to-Anicolor: New printing technology for online business
An increasing number of print shops are convinced by the advantages of the Internet-based Web-to-print sales model. By Hilde Weißer
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Alwan Color Expertise, the Printer’s Colour Ace
Few printers would argue that they can achieve top notch production quality without colour management. By Laurel Brunner
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Twin Press to Double Output
The second 72-page Lithoman is to start up at Willmy PrintMedia GmbH in Nuremberg, Germany…
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Why choose a Rapida?
For many years, KBA has been a leading provider of sheetfed offset technology to the highly automated packaging sector. By Martin Dänhardt
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KBA Complete – 'We make your business more profitable!'
A new solutions provider with integrated workflows for greater efficiency and automation. By Rüdiger Maaß
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Print Buyers - Disconnected
Digital printing is not yet seen as the unique enrichment for print buyers. By Andreas Weber, spokesman for the Digital Printing Forum, in Mainz, Germany...
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How green is the future of packaging?
EskoArtwork builds solutions that reduce the environmental footprint of packaging production and joins the Sustainable Packaging Coalition…
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Enabling Automation
This article presents the rationale underlying the Enfocus/Gradual Software merger in which Peter Camps, who now heads the EskoArtwork Enfocus business unit, shares his vision for the future of Enfocus…
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Five trends commercial printers cannot afford to ignore this year
In a crowded and competitive marketplace print service providers need to be smarter than ever to succeed. Kodak’s Will Mansfield offers five trends to watch in 2008…
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Going Green with Carbon Neutral media production
Stieber Druck in Lauda-Königshofen: Value added with environmental accreditation and KBA Rapidas…
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Brisk sales of KBA Compactas in Belgium
Three prominent printing houses expanding capacity almost simultaneously with 16-, 32- and 64-page Compacta commercial web presses from KBA. By Erik Rehmann
03 On-line features for Jan/Feb
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KBA Rapida 205: No stopping the super jumbos
Screen printers follow their poster, display and book-printing colleagues. By Klaus Schmidt
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UV printing opens up attractive new business options
At the Stuttgart Print Forum on 28 January the member companies of a UV study group gave a joint presentation for the first time on the new business opportunities afforded by UV print production. By Johannes Kokot
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Digital First and Foremost
Common goals concentrate energies and Buysite in Basel, Switzerland is the result of such concentration, with a little help from Kodak NexPress…
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The 7B Plus format: Extra 60mm for even greater efficiency
Technology Forum at MAN Roland makes the new Roland 900, XXL 7B Plus format, the focus of discussion…
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From Altaimage to the Digital Finishing line
Having installed the UK's first Duplo DuBinder DPB-500, Altaimage has found a perfect match that ticks all the boxes...
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News and MAN Roland: Printing in threes
Newspaper printing capacity in the UK is undergoing a major overhaul and Rupert Murdoch is in the thick of things…
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Müller Martini’s Vivo Bundle Stacker in Ankara
A Turkish success story at Tuna Matbaacilik, Koza Yayin Dagitim, Ada Printing Publishing and the Ministry of Education’s printers…