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ABB’s tenth Wifag press retrofit project
ABB, one of the leading suppliers of automation solutions for the newspaper industry, has been selected by The Chronicle Herald in Halifax, Nova Scotia,...
Design must speak to the readers
Hotel Courtyard Marriott in Mumbai was the venue for the two-day conference on News Design organized by the World Association of Newspapers and News...
Falling like ninepins
The Dina Nath Batra episodes show that self-censorship is an issue that publishers, writers and readers need to address seriously and urgently.
Dina Nath Batra...
The London media diary
A conference on transparency and accountability in journalism underlined how far Indian media has to travel to reach those standards.
A work trip to the...
Dow Jones Factiva — paid digital content
In the crowded market for digital content delivery platforms there are some very big names who
collate content, pay for it, process and distribute to...
Equity, equality or digital first?
On Wednesday 14 May 2014, Jill Abramson was ‘dismissed’ from her position as executive editor of The New York Times. In her place Dean...
Malayala Manorama’s modernization project
Malayala Manorama, with a daily circulation nearing 2.3 mil- lion copies, continues its modernization to double-width presses at all centres with the purchase of...
Modi — triumph or disaster?
The BJP led by Modi has won a landslide of Lok Sabha seats 52% although its vote percentage is about 31%, as opposed to...
Calling brand owners and packaging designers in South Asia!
The annual Pentawards competition is now the most significant global packaging design com- petition although it is only eight years old. The winning packs...
Press manufacture in the 21st century
Originally an American newspaper web offset manufacturer founded in 1885 in Chicago by two brothers (who were later joined by their older brother), Goss...
Oita Godo Shimbun orders two Mitsubishi 4 x 1 presses
In mid-April 2014, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Printing & Packaging Machinery (MHI- P&PM) announced a March 2014 contract with Oita Godo Shimbun for the purchase...
Economic and financial analysis adds value
The Indian financial dailies continue their attempts to remain relevant in an election season dominated by television. Trying to keep up with the minute...
Holding Indian politicians accountable
Every summer the IPL cricket tournament strikes fear in the minds of India’s media barons as the nation's attention and the corporate advertisement budget...
Dinamalar’s 360° general election coverage
Dinamalar’s coverage of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections started on 30 December 2013 and ended on 25 April 2014, a day after polling ended...
Home truths for the home minister
It looks like advertising will grow at 12% and more in 2014 against the five to seven-odd per cent it has seen in the...
But print capacity has increased by at least six to ten times
One might well ask, how can the above statement be true? However, if one looks closely at the Indian print industry over the years...
UV inks and varnishes have growth potential in India
Mumbai-based Kanan Graphics is the channel partner for Arets Graphics,
Belgium-based manufacturer of UV inks and varnishes. In April 2013, Arets Graphics became a member...
manroland India engineers go global
After a recent stint in the Congo in Central Africa, manroland India is taking up new overseas projects, including installation and commissioning of a...
The state of Goa’s magazine market
When Goa’s transformation began in the 1960s, from being a sleepy outmigration- prone region to witnessing fast growth, the former colony of Lisbon for...
World Book Fair 2014 in New Delhi
Formerly a biannual event, the World Book Fair became an annual event in 2012. While the change in periodicity has increased attendance by the...
Six-hundred B2B speed dates in six hours
GlobaLocal came into its own as a high powered event in 2014 with a significant presence of international publishers. Publishers and digital players discussed...
Packaging South Asia and IppStar become market leaders
Our monthly B2B magazine Indian Printer and Publisher which began as a technical newsletter in April 1979 enters its 36th year of publication. Earlier...
Getting into monocartons
As we wrote in the first of this series, getting into monocartons for most commercial printers entails a serious commitment to building a sustainable...
Proofing as a concept for building and monitoring quality
Proofing is part of the culture of modernity. In the previous century, theattitude of many Indian offset printers was: “Why do it?” However, even...
Free plates going mainstream
Whether you call them chemistry-free or processless, new generation printing plate technologies are becoming commercially compelling. Print environmentalist Laurel Brunner of Digital Dots brings...
“New press competitive with digital printing at 1,000 copies”
Advance Publications will nstall a new Goss Magnum Compact press this fall in sland — one of the five boroughs of New York city....
Web offset for the 21st century
In March and the beginning of April 2014, Goss showed its Magnum Compact press tower as a running printing system at the Goss factory...
Handling complexity
In spite of the GDP growth of 4.9%, most Indian industries are unhappy including thn 10% growth in print and packaging is easily absorbed...
Chennai conference presents the future
At the Print Business Outlook Conference in Chennai on 18 February 2014 several presentations discussed the future of the industry as a whole and...
Is there a way forward for Indian commercial printers?
Unfortunately most printers do not examine the facts or even their own experience objectively. Instead, they continue to do business on the basis of...
An update on print quality standards
The question, whether process control data or color characterization data should determine printing aims and tolerances, has come in the forefront of ongoing efforts...
Empowering journalists to focus on core functions
Most speakers at the Wan-Ifra Digital Media India spoke about the skills that are need-ed to be learned by journalists to adapt to new...
Print, television and digital adds synergy
The Wan-Ifra digital media conference attracted a full house this year. The participants this year included Indian language papers and some of the growing...
Cirrus Graphics speaks of hypercompetition
Cirrus Graphics has been one of the contributors to the steady growth of commercial printing in the Delhi-NCR region over the past two decades.
Operating...
Wan-Ifra Digital Media Conference, 5-6 February in Chennai
Last year at the Bengaluru Wan- Ifra Conference we heard of the changes in the newsroom where morning editorial meetings were held early to...
Bennett & Coleman launches NavGujarat Samay
On 16 January 2014, Bennett & Coleman owned Times of India group has launched the NavGujarat Samay, a Gujarati newspaper. Realizing the demands of...
Aurobind Patel redesigns Business Line
Kasturi and Sons, publishers of The Hindu in English and Tamil, have relaunched their financial newspaper accompanied by a redesign. The new design of...
Shaftless Orient for new Amar Ujala Rohtak plant
While the national newspapers are facing stagnation in terms of circulation, regional dailies continue to grow. Pradeep Unny, assistant vice president- production at Amar...
Punjab Kesari group to add Delhi, Shimla, Bhatinda and Rohtak
The Punjab Kesri group, also known as Hind Samachar Ltd is extending its daily newspaper market reach to Delhi, Shimla, Bhatinda and Rohtak. Punjab...
ABP is driving into the online space with modern software
One can see a drastic shift in the newspaper industry in developed countries with many moving to online publishing — a revolutionary change in...
Rail Bandhu manages to engage new readers
Though Indians are supposedly voracious readers, in recent times, print versions of various magazines in India are already considered an endangered species. More and...
Women in forefront at the Apeejay Kolkata Lit Fest
For a self confessed fan of the massive youth presence at the Jaipur Literary Fest like myself, the Apeejay Kolkata Lit Fest was a...
First Jauipr BookMark ends with a lot of questions
Held as a parallel event to the Jaipur Literary Fest, the first Jaipur BookMark was held at the Narain Niwas a few kilometres away.
Well...
Deliberate conception of stories across platforms
The wan Ifra News Design partnership with (SND)2014 is the second biennial conference on news design being held in South Asia. Whereas newspaper design...
Colour Management Professional Print Certificate Courses
In April 2013, IDEAlliance – a not-for-profit trade association of more than 1300 member companies – announced a significant expansion of its global operations,...
“Technology enhancement a must for market survival” — Siddhartha Gupta
Beginning more than thirty years ago in Faridabad, Ronald Web Offset has supplied single width single circumference web offset presses to newspapers and book...
First IDEAlliance OpenEFT implementations demonstrated
I n October 2013, IDEAlliance, a leading developer of best practices and specifications for print and electronic media, announced the first implementations of Version...
Closure of leading niche and B2B titles
The magazine industry in India seemsto be looking at a crisis. The mainstream news magazinesin English such asIndia Today, Outlook, The Week and Frontline...
Mumbai remains the focus market for DNA
Launched in 2005 by Diligent Media Corporation, Daily News & Analysis or DNA, has been able to create a space for itself in its...
Anandabazar’s national media clout soars
Ever since buying back the 26% stake in the ABP-Star Group joint venture — Media Content and Communications Services (MCCS) — ABP News has...
