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Lineomatic is a pioneer in manufacturing exercise notebook machinery and paper converting machinery. The company has supplied more than 3000 machines across the globe. With an enviable presence in more than 61 

Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), the largest paper and pulp producer in the world, is an Indonesian company with significant presence in Indonesia, China, Western Europe

The Ghent Workgroup (GWG) has announced its 2017/2018 webinar program designed to give a deeper understanding of PDF2.0 standards and PDF/X-Plus.

The Heidelberg Packaging Days opened on the evening of 7 November, at the iconic glass-and-steel Print Media Academy building in the city with CEO Rainer Hundsdorfer welcoming the assembled printers

One of India’s leading media concerns, Amar Ujala Publications, has been busy getting its printing plants ready for the future. The last year has seen Amar Ujala Publications investing in at least ten

At the upcoming show Pamex, Monotech Systems plans to display Scodix Ultra Pro with Foil. The event is scheduled from 18-21 December in Mumbai. The Scodix Ultra Pro is the industry’s most versatile digital 

Sagar Detroja and Sunil Patel started their first company, Shree Balaji Imaging, in June 2016. The same month, they decided to start another firm under the name Shivranjani Imaging. Operating in the textile and printing 

Earlier this year, Saudi-based Al Madina Printing & Publishing Co. started using automation systems installed by Q.I. Press Controls - Engineering Automation Electronics (QIPC - EAE). Its printing plant, located in Jeddah, placed an order for a Performance Package

Electronics For Imaging has announced the availability of a new EFIT Fiery digital front end (DFE) for the Xerox iGen 5 Press. The Xerox EX-P 5 Print Server Powered by Fiery first made its debut at PRINT 17.

The November edition of Pamex Roadshows began with Pandharpur. The Glassroot Contact Programme was held on Sunday, 5 November, 2017. The event was organised by Pandharpur Yuva

Goss and Nitta Corporation have announced their collaboration in developing MRO Belt Kits for the high-speed sections on Goss PCF-1, PCF-3, SG-3, and the new JF80G Folders.

Trident Limited has been participating in Paperex for the past 6  years. The event is one of the most significant platforms for players from the paper industry looking to reach out to their potential customers and

IPEX 2017 organizers confirmed that exhibitors are reporting brisk business during the show. Exhibitors including Duplo, Fastbind, Friedheim International Ltd, International

Pamex Roadshows for the 2017 edition kicked off from Amritsar, traveling to the grassroot towns in Maharashtra and Kerala. The Grassroot Contact Programme

The debut of the combined trade fairs IPAP Printing & Packaging Expo—powered by drupa and pacprocess Tehran, as part of the interpack alliance—has markedly exceeded both exhibitors’ and

The Pamex Grassroot Contact Programme was held on 29 October 2017 at Ichalkaranji, Maharashtra. The event was organised by Ichalkaranji Parisar Mudrak

The Sharjah Book Authority announced the officially opening of Sharjah Publishing City, the new publishing hub in the Middle East. The enormous two-story complex

The Indian Newspaper Society (INS) has in a statement by its president Akila Urandkar strongly objected to the Rajasthan government’s proposed Bill that seeks

Pamex 2017 is all geared up to host 10 Grassroot Contact Programs in the towns and cities of Maharashtra to promote the exhibition from 18 to 21 December 2017 at the BEC in Goregaon in Mumbai.

Printers who still process their plates or are considering making their own plates in-house can choose the smart decision to go process free with Kodak’s process-free plate portfolio.

Narosa Publishing House was founded by the current managing director, Narendra Kumar Mehra in 1977. He is also the current president of FIP (Federation of Indian Publishers). Today, the company has grown into a

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, the betting favorite, was awarded the 2017 Man Booker Prize for Fiction on 17 October 2017. Lincoln in the Bardo is the first full-length novel from the well-known

The advertising industry of India is undergoing massive growth. The market reached a value of INR 51,000 crore (approximately US$ 8.1 billion) by 2016, recording a CAGR of 11% during 2011-2016.

In an announcement at the WAN-Ifra event in Berlin, ppi Media made known that it has acquired the London-based company KnowledgeView Ltd., producer of digital publishing solutions for the MENA region, with immediate

Even though book markets are booming, these are tough times for the Frankfurt Book Fair. For the past five years or so, we are witnessing the leading international rights trading platform shifting to a more diversified

India’s leading manufacturer, products and solutions provider for the printing and packaging industry, Monotech Systems, has tied up with Agfa Graphics, Belgium. Under this association

Delhi-based Digital Navigation is a fast-growing company that offers software solutions to media houses across all platforms—broadcast, print and digital. It develops a wide range of software for efficient newsroom automation.

On the opening night of the Frankfurt Bookfair, for the second time, the ‘Global Illustration Awards’ (GIA) were conferred at a festive ceremony with much music and dancing. The international prize was conferred in

At a time when trust in traditional media is perhaps at an all-time low, ironically, it is the crucial factor underpinning radical change and future success in the news industry, according to the just-published

The IFRA World Publishing Expo and Digital Content Expo (DCX) kicked off on 10 October 2017 with a convincing optimistic tone in the day’s opening keynotes and the announcement of the

Konica Minolta unveiled its AccurioLabel 190 full-digital toner press for Europe, which has been developed and manufactured in cooperation with Danish company Grafisk

A presentation by Dr Samiran Chakraborty, the chief economist of Citibank in India, at the recent Elite Conference in Mumbai in September was particularly interesting for those of us who eye the Indian economy

Pratham Technologies Pvt Ltd. the leading manufacturer of pharmaceutical leaflet folding machine recently dispatched its 12 fold paper folding machine with accessories to

With 181 exhibitors, the well-established IFRA World Publishing Expo begins tomorrow, for the first time together with the new DCX Digital Content Expo. The spectrum covered by

Roland came to Media Expo 2017 with five different machines—the Soljet EJ-640, VersaEXPRESS RF-640A, VersaUV LEF-300 and True VIS SG and VG series. The Roland Soljet EJ-640 comes with staggered printheads

At the recently concluded Media Expo 2017, Avery Dennison showcased its latest graphics solutions to the large number of curious visitors at its stand. The company stand comprised

During the IFRA World Publishing Expo and DCX Digital Content Expo from 10 to 12 October 2017 in Berlin, leading news brands from across the globe will join the World Association of Newspapers

Vashi Electricals, one of the India’s largest channel partners, has launched an eCommerce portal under its flagship brand name, www.vashielecticals.com, for its consumers and businesses to shop on the web.

The first road show to promote PAMEX 2017 took place in Amritsar. The event was organized by AIFMP in association with Offset Printers Association - Ludhiana along with several regional

Preliminary results for the first quarter
The difficult underlying conditions have also affected the preliminary results for the first quarter of the 2008/2009 financial year (April 1 to June 30). Preliminary sales achieved by Heidelberg in the first quarter amounted to between 640 and 660 million Euro (previous year: 742 million Euro). As already announced, the fall-off in sales compared to the previous year coupled with higher costs will produce a negative quarterly result for Heidelberg. Based on preliminary calculations, the operating result will be minus 35 to minus 40 million Euro. Due to the purchase of Hi-Tech Coatings, the cost of drupa and lower sales, the free cash flow will be clearly below the previous year\'s level at minus 200 to minus 220 million Euro (previous year: minus 81 million Euro).

Incoming orders received at drupa exceed expectations
The news on preliminary incoming orders for the first quarter is more positive. Heidelberg received orders amounting to between 1.1 and 1.15 billion Euro (previous year: 934 million Euro). This is satisfactory in the context of the leading industry trade show drupa, which made a major contribution to this good order intake. Heidelberg successfully established itself on the packaging printing market and as a full-service provider, including consumables, at drupa. There was also a huge amount of interest in the launch of the new very large format. Most of the contracts concluded at the trade show will be reflected in the sales figures for the second and third quarters.

Based on the orders placed at drupa, Heidelberg predicts that sales and the results for the second and third quarters of 2008/2009 will be up on the first quarter.

For the 2008/2009 financial year as a whole the company does not expect to match the previous year\'s sales and operating result.

Due to the uncertain economic situation worldwide and the volatile market environment, it will not be possible to provide a reliable forecast of the key figures for the 2008/2009 financial year as a whole until later in the year. This outlook will be published no later than with the half-yearly results at the beginning of November

Comprehensive package of measures with four key components
The Management Board confirms the growth strategy that has been embarked upon, which focuses on packaging printing and services for the print media industry. Any reduction in manufacturing capacity over the coming months will not extend beyond the flexibility agreements entered into.

In order to counter rising costs, the Heidelberg Management Board has prepared a comprehensive package of cost-cutting measures to be implemented with immediate effect. The package\'s four main focal points are reducing R&D expenditures, restructuring postpress packaging activities, significantly increasing the proportion of purchases made outside the euro zone, strengthening international production sites, and achieving a substantial reduction in structural costs.

Overall, these measures are intended to result in savings of around 100 million Euro by financial year 2010/2011. The aim is to achieve a large proportion of this - 75 million Euro - within the next 18 months. This package of measures will initially increase costs to the tune of a further about 70 million Euro in the current financial year 2008/2009 and another 30 million Euro until financial year 2010/2011.

"In addition to the drupa trade show, which can be deemed satisfactory overall, we have also been putting a great deal of work into our medium- to long-term strategy. This has made it clear that the all in all increasing costs call for a further significant adjustment to our cost structures. The package of measures adopted takes into account all key areas,\" says Heidelberg CEO Bernhard Schreier, stressing the urgency of the measures.

Reducing R&D expenditure
Heidelberg will be making immediate changes to its R&D strategy. Improving efficiency and pooling development activities should result in short term savings of at least 25 million Euro. This will lower R&D expenditures from their current level by a good ten percent. Consolidating R&D locations will also help cut costs. In the medium term, R&D expenditures are to be cut to less than five percent of total sales.

Restructuring postpress packaging activities
Over the next three years, Heidelberg will be restructuring its postpress packaging business. In the entire Postpress sector the operating result is to be increased by 20 million Euro until 2010/2011. This is to be achieved by consolidating production capacities, transferring certain operations to Slovakia, and restructuring R&D activities within this product area. The packaging market segment - and expanding services and consumables activities - still represents a growth driver on a struggling market. Unlocking this potential should further reduce the cyclicity of the Heidelberg business model while also boosting sales and results.

Increasing purchasing and production outside the euro zone
Intensifying purchasing activities outside the euro zone and expanding production in other countries will have positive effects. Overall, the purchasing volume outside the euro area is to be increased from the current level of around 40 million Euro to almost 200 million Euro in financial year 2010/2011. Heidelberg will also continue to push ahead with production in other countries. The plants in China and Slovakia are to be expanded, and it is also intended to transfer production of a small-format press to the site in the U.S., which has the largest sales market for this product. Overall, these measures will result in cost savings of around 15 million Euro.

Lowering structural costs
In addition, Heidelberg is planning to cut structural costs. Over the next 24 months, the company intends to save indirect costs of 40 million Euro, around ten million Euro of this in the current financial year.

The entire package of cost-cutting measures will also impact on the Heidelberg Group's workforce. Honoring the agreement on safeguarding the future, which runs until 2012, and subject to meetings with employee representatives, around 500 jobs are to be shed worldwide by the end of financial year 2010/2011. As of March 31, 2008, the Heidelberg Group employed 19,596 staff worldwide.

Additional details on the company can be found at www.heidelberg.com.

The IPA Congress flag was handed over to PASA, the Publishers Association of South Africa, by IPA President Ana María Cabanellas at last month's IPA Publishers Congress in Seoul, Korea. She says: “The 29th IPA Publishers Congress will be a unique opportunity to understand the South African publishing industry and the African book market as a whole.”

Brian Wafawarowa, Chair of the African Publishers Network (APNET), concurs: “Every region that has won the bid to host the IPA congress has utilised the rare opportunity to emphasise the centrality of the book to national economic and social development. With the Cape Town Book Fair becoming the premier book fair in Africa, the hosting of the 2012 IPA congress by South Africa will have a positive impact on the book sector on the continent.”

IPA organises a Publishers Congress and a Copyright Symposium every two years alternately, in co-operation with one of its member associations. Previous IPA congresses were held in Seoul, Korea in 2008, in Berlin, Germany in 2004, in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2000 and in Barcelona, Spain in 1996.

“In 2012, the IPA Publishers Congress will be held back-to-back with the Cape Town Book Fair, which has already established itself as a rallying point for African publishers,” says Dudley Schroeder, Executive Director of PASA. “Many delegates to the IPA Publishers Congress will attend both events and will also have an interest in exploring our beautiful city, province and country. The IPA Publishers Congress programme will focus on networks between publishers and creating two-way exchanges between the African continent and the rest of the world.”

Meanwhile the Cape Town Book Fair attracted some 50,000 visitors - almost double the visitor numbers reached at its inaugural probe two years ago. What may have helped was a long weekend with the Youth Day holiday on the Monday, celebrating South Africa's young people in commemoration of  the 1976 Soweto uprising, even though any celebration must have been muted by the aftermath of xenophobic violence rocking the country only weeks earlier.

While figures are a good measure of the success of an event they do not tell the whole story. "This year we are picking up a trend of transformation in the demographics of those attending the fair," CTBF Director Vanessa Badroodien said. "This year's fair gives the feeling that it really is an inclusive one, that people have come to it because of a love of reading and that because the talks are free it is very accessible, which is something that we have put high on the agenda.”

Badroodien's words echo those of former Minister of Education Professor Kader Asmal who opened the fair saying, "My dream is that one day every township in South Africa will have a real bookshop, and that books will be sold at a price that are affordable to all."

An interesting event was a talk by Book Southern Africa's Ben Williams, who made a presentation on Books and Blogs: Creating Effective Online PR. He provided advice on how to try to maximise online book sales, and just as importantly reminded us that Internet users have progressed from being passive recipients of information to active originators of content.

There was also a discussion about the newly published novel Whiplash by Tracey Farren. An often violent account of prostitution in Cape Town, the novel was rejected by several commercial publishers as being too brutal, before finding a home with recently established independent publisher Modjaji Books. Sales look promising and distribution in the UK and Australia is already being examined. It once again illustrated the willingness and commitment of independent publishers to take risks with new and often controversial work.

Many exhibitors, however, were critical of the CTBF's seeming lack of business thrust. One publisher said that part of the problem was that the fair should perhaps be more of a trade show for publishers, printers and distributors, and less a bookselling market for the general public.

The company serves customers in a range of vertical markets such as pharmaceutical, telecommunications and advertising. Patel Digitals uses NexPress presses for a variety of applications that include collateral, posters, 1:1 marketing and books on demand.

We spoke with Khagesh Patel the Managing Director of Patel Digitals, who said, “We are in digital printing since the last two years. Coming from Canada I have seen what is happening in the digital printing domain in North America and Europe. There I saw that lot of work is being done using web to print. This was the driving force behind our earlier installation of the NexPress 2100 Plus and the recent purchase of NexPress S3000. The advantage with NexPress S3000 is that it can print on any medium and deliver in a short period of time. Its quality of print is better than that of offset, I can say.”

“By making the transition from offset to digital printing with the NexPress press, we significantly expanded our capabilities for jobs that require short runs, variable data or on demand printing,” adds Mr. Patel. “The speed, productivity and reliability of the NexPress S3000 presses allow us to keep pace with the growing demand for digital print and position us for even greater growth.”

As far as the expansion plans and the installation schedule of the new presses Mr. Patel says, “We are planning to expand our services and bring into our fold corporates from major cities across India. In this direction we will be installing these three presses in three major cities of India so that we can provide network based services. Through this we can ensure same quality of print across various cities. The first of the presses will be installed in October 2008 and the third by March 2009.”

The NexPress S3000 produces 3,000 A3 sheets an hour, or 100 A4 pages per minute, for the full range of supported substrate types (coated, uncoated, synthetics, standard offset paper, textured stocks and selected packaging board, labels and films) and weights (60-350 gsm). The machine feeder can hold up to 11,000 sheets with a rated monthly print volume of up to 2.2 million pages.

Although some of the presentations were product presentations the first session itself took up the issue of sustainability – that it is no longer enough to be environment friendly but that there has to be an approach that looks at the product and the processes from cradle to regeneration including the water, transport, and energy costs of both materials and end products. This has to be measurable in the form of a bottom line scorecard – the carbon footprint.

In this session R Srinivasan pointed out that ITC PSPD’s mills with their social forestry and biotechnology activity including the cloning and distribution of plants are in the business of regeneration of raw material that also earns them carbon credits. They are intensely aware of their of their carbon footprint and the need to be carbon neutral. Harsh Pati Singhania of JK Paper said that the issue for paper makers is of access to raw materials and forests since it affects the scale of operations that are needed to make processes productive and energy saving.

As a representative of the paper industry he spoke of the high capital costs and the low return on investment in an industry where the national forest policy is less than encouraging in enabling either large-scale social or industrial forestry. This may not have been the forum to sort out one of the most issues that confronts the paper, publishing, and printing industry – the sustainability of paper manufactured in India.

There were comments from manufacturers in the audience using alternative raw material – bagasse (sugarcane husk or residue) – but it is well known that even this type of fibre input is primarily used in our country as fuel to generate energy.

The other input providers Heidelberg and HP spoke on the one hand of the refinement of offset printing and on the other of using digital printing to print only as much as is needed at a given time. Both of these are technology solutions and real parts of the solution that printers and even publishers are contemplating every day but from the publisher’s point of view there is a great concern about the cost of printing.

Sanat Hazra the newspaper printer returned from America made a presentation that showed how environmental protocols are practised in the west and also that they can be implemented in our country by looking at the materials, processes and end products including recyclable and hazardous wastes. As pointed out by JK Dadoo of the Delhi Administration these practices are far away from what is happening in the industrial units of Delhi. The capital cost of effluent treatment plants is not as daunting as the cost of using and maintaining them. He pointed out that in the 34 industrial estates of the city there are only 11 common effluent plants.

We look forward to this effort by TERI and the Delhi Administration developing into understanding, activities, action plans and then seminars to discuss both the successes and failures. The idea of a green publishers guild put forward by the TERI Press is a good idea and as another participant commented we also look forward to seeing its aims and objectives outlined. As far as the printers of Delhi this is another chance to get serious. They just need to learn about and frame an environmental audit protocol. They need to start by studying their business and their processes -- to measure and document them. This will lead to solutions that can be followed voluntarily and demonstrably, although one cannot imagine them acting without government threats. Gone are the days that they can continue in their illiterate ways.

In keeping with this focus and to further support and develop collaborative software and systems integration projects around the world and to provide enhanced service to their rapidly expanding customer base in the booming Indian packaging, printing and publishing market, they have announced the setting up of a fully-owned subsidiary and Global Resource Centre at Bangalore. The unit will be headed by Mr.  Dinesh Chandra, who has been overseeing Esko’s Indian operations since 2000. According to Mr. Chandra, “The opening of the Global Resource Centre in Bangalorre reinforces EskoArtwork’s global market coverage, complementing the resources we have already deployed in Europe, North America and the Far East.”

The main focus of the newly established Global Resource Centre will be to support sophisticated systems integration projects currently originating mainly in Europe and North America. Mr. Chandra further adds, “Unlike many other companies, EskoArtwork is not moving low-skill jobs to India. On the contrary, we are building a completely new business model around an enhanced service offering. We have chosen to base our new Global Resource Centre in one of the world’s fastest developing pre-production and IT market clusters. EskoArtwork has more and more collaborative software systems integration and workflow management projects in the pipeline and we need access to top talent.” Bangalore, India’s fifth largest city, accounts for a third of the country’s IT revenue and is recognized as the Indian subcontinent’s “Silicon Valley”. It is home to India’s largest IT giants and is the regional hub for many international hi-tech companies.

EskoArtwork set up base in India in Bangalore 12 years ago but has seen exponential growth in business, particularly since Esko Graphics and Artwork Systems joined forces in August 2007. Esko was already the preferred pre-production solution for the print and packaging industry in India. EskoArtwork sees huge opportunities for the Indian packaging sector which, according to IIP, is currently worth US$ 22.2 billion and is growing at 15 per cent per annum, more than twice the global average.

Mr. Carsten Knudsen, CEO of EskoArtwork, adds, “The opening of this new Global Resource Centre underlines EskoArtwork’s strategic evolution as an international services-led company. It enables us to bring added value to collaborative software and integration projects for customers around the world. We are deploying additional support and service activities to Bangalore for two reasons: first, because locating in Bangalore enables us to draw on a pool of world-class IT skills and technical support talent and second, because India itself offers huge market potential. We have a highly experienced management team under Dinesh Chandra and we will recruit new talent as required. Together, this team will further build EskoArtwork’s reputation for service excellence, collaborative innovation and highly responsive customer care.”

EskoArtwork customers around the world will now benefit from the Global Resource Center’s CAD standard development and systems integration support, specifically on MIS integration projects. “These services are already helping our customers to raise productivity, reduce time-to-market, lower costs and expand their business,” says Mr. Chandra. “Now we can easily scale up to meet their evolving requirements.”

Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers is a leading name in the undergraduate medical books market in India. Founded in 1969 by Late Sohan Lal Vij, the company is now chaired by his son, 

The chairman and managing director of the Express Group, Viveck Goenka, has been unanimously elected chairman of the Press Trust of India (PTI) by the board of directors of the