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The World Printers Forum (WPF) is an organisation of newspaper printers and suppliers within WAN-IFRA. Its objective is to encourage innovation and productivity as well as product development that can be instrumental for publishers to exploit future oriented news media products. It promotes the power of print and the sustainability of print production.

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  • New digital printing workflow with FoldLine to produce weekly newspaper L´Observateur
    2015-10-05 18:58
    Starting in late 2015, the Imprimerie de l'Avesnois/Digitaprint printing house in northern France will digitally produce the weekly newspaper L´Observateur. This will allow the regional newspaper to present local contents that are more relevant to its readers as well as advertising offers tailored to local retail zones. manroland web systems is in charge of the workflow integration and the inline folder finishing with FoldLine – from the printed web directly to the finished newspaper. Read more ...
  • KBA-Digital & Web Solutions and Tolerans cooperate
    2015-10-05 18:55
    KBA-Digital & Web Solutions in Würzburg and Swedish manufacturer Tolerans located in Stockholm have built on their longstanding collaboration with a cooperation agreement regarding stitchers for retrofits and new press projects. Read more ...
  • Streamlined and diversified for greater flexibility in the media shift
    2015-10-05 18:40
    KBA-Digital & Web Solutions was present as an autonomous company at the World Publishing Expo (WPE) newspaper trade show in Hamburg for the first time after the completion of the Group restructuring. It has been spun-off from the Parent Koenig & Bauer (KBA). Little has changed in the management of this web division responsible for the segment digital and offset printing, but there have been many changes to its structure, range of tasks and company philosophy. Managing director Christoph Müller, who remains a member of the Group executive board, drew attention to this during the company’s press conference on the first day. Read more ...
  • Fujifilm chooses WAN-IFRA’s World Publishing Expo 2015 to launch its new workflow solution
    2015-10-05 18:22
    Fujifilm today announces it has recently completed the acquisition of a newspaper workflow solution, Elara Software. Fujifilm will be using World Publishing Expo 2015 (5-7 October, Hamburg Messe, Stand 4.350) to demonstrate this new workflow solution as well as outlining what this means for its future strategy in the newspaper market. Read more ...
  • UPM at World Publishing Expo 2015 this week
    2015-10-05 18:18
    Hamburg, 2015-10-05 -- World Publishing Expo, the world’s largest trade exhibition for the news publishing industry – kicks off today in Hamburg. UPM will be in attendance showing its strong commitment to newspaper publishing and coldset printing. Read more ...
  • Boston Globe chooses Pressline’s FlexPress Technology for new Taunton Printing facility
    2015-10-02 11:19
    St. Louis, MO, October 1st , 2015 – Pressline Service, Inc. is pleased to announce the sale of a Pressline FlexPress to the Boston Globe for their new printing facility in Taunton, MA. The new FlexPress is equipped with a total of 22 zones and four folders and will allow the Globe to print its current newspaper products as well as additional commercial and newspaper products. Read more ...
  • Agfa Graphics announces new IntelliTune and OptiInk at WPE2015 (Hamburg-Germany)
    2015-10-01 11:42
    30.09.2015 – Arkitex Enhance IntelliTune is aimed at newspaper printers that use large quantities of different quality images arriving from a wide variety of sources. IntelliTune is unique to the newspaper market as the preferred tool to improve images fast and completely automatic. The result on press are high-quality images with a consistent look and feel throughout the whole publication. Read more ...
  • Our extensive paper portfolio at a glance: New UPM paper product catalogue
    2015-10-01 11:18
    (UPM, Augsburg, October 1, 2015 at 10:00 EET) – UPM has published a new version of the UPM paper product catalogue. The catalogue presents UPM Paper ENA (Europe and North America) product portfolio and relevant environmental information. Read more ...
  • The new KBA Report is out now!
    2015-09-30 15:04
    30.09.2015 – KBA Report No. 47 has just come out. Under the motto “Products, practices, perspectives” the new 52-page issue of the KBA Group’s customer magazine illuminates own product and process innovations along with user reports on plans, investments and business models for printers throughout the world. The topics covered are as wide-ranging as KBA’s own product spectrum which ranges from offset printing on paper, board and metal, flexo printing on film, digital inkjet printing of books, decor and laminates to inkjet and laser coding blister and packaging for cosmetics. The magazine also naturally contains specialist articles, such as automation and process levels in industrial production or energy efficiency when printing. In the editorial KBA president and CEO Claus Bolza-Schünemann points out that the increasing digitalisation of our daily lives also creates new markets for print. His plea: “Print must remain relevant.” Read more ...
  • Die Weltpresse zu Gast in Hamburg
    2015-09-30 10:32
    30. September 2015 – Die weltweit wichtigste und größte Fachmesse der Zeitungsindustrie, die World Publishing Expo (WPE) findet vom 5. bis 7. Oktober 2015 in der Messe Hamburg statt. Erwartet werden über 7.000 Fachbesucher, überwiegend Führungskräfte von Zeitungsverlagen und Medienunternehmen aus rund 100 Ländern. Read more ...

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