Holding Indian politicians accountable

IPP Desk - May 23, 2014 0

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...

Home truths for the home minister

IPP Desk - May 23, 2014 0

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...

IDEAlliance webinar on wide format systems

IPP Desk - April 22, 2014 0

On 30 April 2014, IDEAlliance is organizing a webinar on wide format systems with an independent technical evaluation to be presented by Abhay Sharma,...

Winners of inaugural Scodix Design Awards announced

IPP Desk - April 22, 2014 0

Scodix recently announced the winners of the first Scodix Design Awards competition. With over 50 submissions from users worldwide, Scodix enlisted the keen eyes...

Ipex no more – and no less

Ron Augustin - April 20, 2014 0

At the Ipex ‘World Print Summit’ theatre, pundits Frank Romano, Benny Landa and EFI’s Guy Gecht mused over the unceasing question whether print was doomed...

Monotech Systems offers full graphics arts supermarket

IPP Desk - April 15, 2014 0

Recently Monotech Systems installed its 200th Pixeljet Xaar Proton Head wide-format printer at The Corporation Press in Chennai. On 13 December 2013, the machine...

Xerox unveils Opex and Outsourcing operations

Sandip Sen - April 12, 2014 0

Xerox today is a US$ 23 billion company worldwide with 10,000 strong workforce in India. It not only manufactures copiers and digital printers but...

Koenig & Bauer bites the bullet

IPP Desk - April 12, 2014 0

In a press release dated 16 December 2013, KBA said that the management board of Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA), Würzburg, presented a concept...

IDEAlliance Inkjet RoundUP report is now available

IPP Desk - April 12, 2014 0

The IDEAlliance Inkjet RoundUP is an independent technical evalua- tion of leading commercial roll-to-roll and flatbed, wide and grand format inkjet printing systems for...

Online training on how to sell the value of colour capabilities

IPP Desk - April 12, 2014 0

The US-based IDEAlliance has announced an important addition to its online training portfolio, Color Management Professional Training for Sales and Account Managers. IppStar based...

The state of Goa’s magazine market

IPP Desk - March 29, 2014 0

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...

Language publishing needs a complete paradigm shift

IPP Desk - March 29, 2014 0

While ePublishing has certainly interested many publishers in India, including those that publish in Indian languages, there are many issues that still remain to...

“Content is king but not inventory” — Winnie Hung

IPP Desk - March 29, 2014 0

At the recently concluded fifth GlobaLocal 2014 conference in New Delhi, Winnie Hung, development manager publishing and cross-segments strategy of HP Digital Press Solutions...

Six-hundred B2B speed dates in six hours

Sandip Sen - March 29, 2014 0

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

Naresh Khanna - March 24, 2014 0

Our monthly B2B magazine Indian Printer and Publisher which began as a technical newsletter in April 1979 enters its 36th year of publication. Earlier...

New standards prompts addition to the ORIS Professional Proofing Papers line

IPP Desk - March 20, 2014 0

Since the very first SWOP certification on inkjet devices, CGS has consistently led the market in developing contract proofing systems for printers and publishers....

Proofing as a concept for building and monitoring quality

Naresh Khanna - March 20, 2014 0

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

IPP Desk - March 10, 2014 0

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...

Web offset for the 21st century

IPP Desk - March 8, 2014 0

In March and the beginning of April 2014, Goss showed its Magnum Compact press tower as a running printing system at the Goss factory...

Burning bright

IPP Desk - March 8, 2014 0

In Ray Bradbury’s 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451, society has turned its back on books, preferring instead easy entertainment such as games and television. To...

London Book Fair

Ron Augustin - March 8, 2014 0

ecrea has been up at the on Book Fair, 8 efrom previously 1,500), with close to 500 companies represented at the International Rights Centre...

Handling complexity

Naresh Khanna - March 8, 2014 0

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

pranav - March 7, 2014 0

At the Print Business Outlook Conference in Chennai on 18 February 2014 several presentations discussed the future of the industry as a whole and...

First Xerox iGen 150 in Coimbatore

IPP Desk - March 7, 2014 0

Star Colourpark India located at Gandhipuram in Coimbatore started with one liquid toner photocopier in 1992. Located in the heart of the city, Star...

Empowering journalists to focus on core functions

IPP Desk - March 1, 2014 0

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...

Sakal keeping pace with the changing world of news

pranav - March 1, 2014 0

S akal’s main printing plant, about 20 kilometre from Pune city, is equipped with Manugraph Frontline presses that run at 60,000 broadsheet copies an...