Manufacturer unveils products and papers

The 44-inch, Designjet T1200, is a front-loading top roll machine, which prints 2 rolls, 2A1-D, sized prints per minute.  While the T770 printer can print without opening any applications and the 24-inch T620 is designed for CAD/GIS applications.

Amin Mortazavi, general manager HP IPG in Middle East said, “We aim to maintain investments in research and developments and have

Shilpa Jasani, 01 December 2009

PPG announce its fourth Dubai International Print Awards

Addressing members of the press, Ahmad Bin Hassan Al Shaikh, chairman of PPG said, “This year’s awards are going to be bigger as we have added new award categories. We are expecting more than 700 nominations across various

Shilpa Jasani, 01 November 2009

Heliozid and Oce celebrate 30 years of togetherness in the Middle East

Commenting on the success of the joint venture and the potential to increase its role in the Middle East, Johannes Verschaeren, head of document printing business, Océ Technology, said: “Middle East, despite a global recession has not been affected as badly as other global markets, primarily because the region is still on an emerging mode

Pratik Sardesai, 01 November 2009

Dubai digital printer makes digital available in campus

Spectrum on Campus will serve up to 3,000 students who will now be able to access a range of printing facilities.

Managing director of Spectrum, Ramzi J Razian, described the facility by saying that it is not a conventional business centre but a fully-equipped print hub created to meet the exact needs of AUD students.

“Spectrum on Campus came about after

Pratik Sardesai, 01 October 2009

Printer presented with an 2009 CIPPI Award

Only eight companies in the world received the awards this year which are given annually to the printer, publisher or prepress service who applies with the most compelling case study in three topical categories and four regions.

The Dubai-based Emirates Printing Press was awarded the Best Process Automation Implementation- Emerging Markets award.

It

Pratik Sardesai, 01 October 2009

Ink manufacturer to produce, allot flexo, gravure inks at news premises

The ink manufacturer will be manufacturing and distributing flexo, gravure inks and paste inks from the site.

Talking to PrintWeek MEA, CEO of Torda Inks, Fredrik Danielsen said: “We’ve seen the economy growing in the Middle East but up until now we’ve had capacity constraints and could not focus on the region as much as we would have liked to. But now we are able to.”

According to

Pratik Sardesai, 01 October 2009

Times of Oman gets new sheets from Dubai-based paper supplier

According to Otra’s sales and marketing director, Khalid Pasha: “The main countries of interest and in which we are authorised to promote various paper, board and pulp grades to are Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Yemen.”

Otra’s Dubai-branch was established “earlier this year.” The local branch’s parent company is based in Germany

Pratik Sardesai, 01 October 2009

UAE print, publishing giant installs KBA hybrid press line

The press line – supplied by KBA – became operational in May this year and is said to have cost the company around $27million.

UPP is the third newspaper house in the Middle East to install a KBA hybrid press for coldset and heatset production. The new Continent at UPP is considered to be one of the most advanced newspaper press lines in the region

Staff Writer, 01 September 2009

Publication house says five-colour just right

This according to KBA's local distributor, Giffin Graphics.

The Dubai-based publication house took delivery of the Rapida 75 shortly after Gulf Print in April this year with installation taking "around two weeks", according to director Elie Zakka.

The company's search for new kit began last year when Zakka embarked on a trip to Düsseldorf, Germany to track down a new machine. Initially considering

Staff Writer, 01 September 2009

Colourbyte conducts training programme

Commenting on the programme, senior manager of equipment, Gavin Anthony, said: “This software has been in the Middle East region for the past five to six years, but no client was formally trained by EngView to optimally use the

Staff Writer, 01 September 2009

Full product range in paper, boards at Dubai paper expo

Talking to PrintWeek MEA, Mepco Gulf’s managing director, Fadi Baaklini said: “We are participating for the second time now after a good response from the first exhibition. We saw many focused people from the region visiting last year, which we really appreciated,” he added.

Talking

Staff Writer, 01 September 2009

Al Omeira says Ryobi 754D ‘is adding to company capacity’

This is according to the technical manager of the Abu Dhabi-based company, Priyadarshi Singh.

The company – which purchased and installed the machine at the start of July – heaped praise on the 754D, saying that it had “added to the company’s capacity considerably”.

The new machine features an inline coating and spot varnish unit with a UV dryer.

According to Singh, Al Omeira’s past experience with Ryobi

Staff Writer, 01 July 2009

First female printer in IMPZ installs machines

This is according to the managing director of the Dubai-based IMPZ company, Tess Abraham.

“We chose all the latest 100x70 finishing units for the warehouse because we are very particular that we control the finishes in house. A flawlessly finished product reflects the quality and identity of any enterprise and we want to provide our clients with the best.”

Abraham added that she had

Staff Writer, 01 July 2009

Dubai printer purchases GMG workflow after successful trial

Akasheh told PrintWeek MEA: “We’d been working with GMGColorProof and recently made the decision to go one step forward and purchase GMGColorServer and GMGInkOptimizer.”

Akasheh said that the purchase and installation took place two months ago.

“We did an initial test and got excellent results, especially with

Staff Writer, 01 July 2009

Digital press gets revamp for data and commercial printers

One part of these developments was the revamp of the company’s NexPress digital press line-up with new features it said delivers colour output “that surpasses offset quality”.

The group unveiled the new NexPress SE2500, SE3000 and SE3600 models, as part of the preview for the

Staff Writer, 01 July 2009

Printer pleased with new machine’s quality

This according to the company’s client service manager, Zafar Amerjee.

The machine, which was purchased in November was installed at the Sharjah-based printing press in June.

Amerjee said: “Isra Middle East focuses on printing corporate greeting cards. Initially, we were using a GTO52 but we found that we were not getting the desired print quality from this machine so we invested in a SM52-2.”

Amerjee told

Staff Writer, 01 July 2009

Adventure Digital in race for winning bid at Dubai Metro

As the outcome of the Dubai Metro bid for the installation of some 400 digital screens is awaited, it has been revealed that Advertising Digital is one of the companies being considered.

This according to Media Week, which said an outcome for the bid was expected soon.

Advertising Digital’s managing

Staff Writer, 01 June 2009

Arab Media Forum on future of print in MEA

The printed press could be overtaken by new media in under a decade.

This was among several key issues brought to the forefront at the 8th Arab Media Forum held earlier this month.

This year the annual event's theme was 'Arab Media: Weathering a Period of Change and Crisis'.

The two-day event saw several international speakers from across the Arab world presenting papers and tackling critical issues facing the media world - both internationally and in the region.

This included the direct

Staff Writer, 01 June 2009

HP shares insights of how to manage crisis at special event

The recent Managing the Challenge event hosted by HP’s Imaging and Printing Group in Vienna has been a success.

PrintWeek MEA – who attended the event – observed customer testimonials, executive briefings, product demonstrations and vertical solutions illustrating HP’s Print 2.0 strategy and how it can be applied to enterprises at this time in the market.

The event, which hosted around 150 IPG enterprise customers as well as journalists from across Central and

Staff Writer, 01 June 2009

GMG colour software and server for Emirates Printing Press in UAE

Emirates Printing Press has invested in a GMG colour management and proofing softwares.  This includes a colour server, ink optimiser and colour proof software.

The company’s manager for quality control and special projects, Thyagarajan Balasubramaniyam said: “Our motive is to have ISO 12647-2 standard certified proofs and prints.”

He said that before making the purchase, the company had analysed several similar products.

“We found that GMG offered the best

Staff Writer, 01 June 2009

KBA says ME business is still brisk despite crisis

Business in the Middle East is still brisk for KBA.

This according to a recent statement released by the manufacturer.
According to the company’s recent statement, this year saw the company bagging a number of sales with many of the purchases due to be installed soon.

At certain companies, some machines have already been installed. A Rapida 75 five-colour coater press with extended delivery was one of the machines sold to a local printer, Tellurian in April this year, with a

Staff Writer, 01 June 2009

Printing press opens in UAE after investment

The Saudi Arabia-based digital printer, Maher Daftardar Establishment (MMD) has opened its doors in the UAE. This follows its recent investment into a digital printer from Durst, the Rho 700 and a cutter from Zund.

Talking to PrintWeek MEA, Maher’s managing director, Omar Hitti said: “We have invested about $1.8 million in this project and we expect to make a return on investment in one year.”

One of the machines, a Durst Rho 700, is a UV flatbed printer. It has Durst

Staff Writer, 01 June 2009

‘First print and packaging courses’ in ME to enrol 200 students in first year

The Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) and United Printing and Publishing (UPP) have signed an agreement to develop a certificate in a work readiness program (WRP) in printing and packaging, as well as diplomas in printing and packaging and printing management (printing maintenance).

This initiative is said to be the first of its kind in the printing and publishing sector in the Middle East and comes after numerous articles were written by PrintWeek MEA focusing on the lack of print

Staff Writer, 01 May 2009

Giffin to promote Océ machines across GCC

Printers in GCC countries will now be able to purchased Océ’s Digital Document Systems from Giffin Graphics.

This after the two companies entered into a partnership that will see Giffin Graphics promoting the systems in the UAE, Oman, Bahrain and Qatar where Giffin have their own offices with functional sales and service teams.

The machines will be sold and maintained by the Giffin Graphics team who will be trained and supported by Océ.

“Océ digital printers

Staff Writer, 01 May 2009

AMG in series of talks with big media groups as revenues fall

Arab Media Group (AMG) and the Abu Dhabi Media Company have engaged in a series of discussions about how the two companies can work together, according to several media reports.

It is believed that AMG was close to announcing partnerships that could lead to mergers with two media companies due to falling revenues in the current economic climate.

In an interview with Maktoob Business, AMG chief executive Abdullatif Al Sayegh was quoted as saying: “We’re talking mainly

Staff Writer, 01 May 2009

Xerox Emirates targets education and health sectors with seminars

Xerox Emirates has hosted a series of seminars featuring various applications such as its Print-on-Demand solution in a bid to target new economic sectors in the UAE.

The company specifically aimed to centre the seminars around specific IT requirements within the educational and healthcare sectors.

Its general manager, Andrew Hurt said that based on  a recent study conducted by IDA, a global market intelligence company, the educational sector in the UAE spent about $167 million last

Staff Writer, 01 May 2009

Newly-installed Heidelberg SM52-5D is the ‘first in region’

Al Omeira Printing Press in Abu Dhabi, UAE has installed a Heidelberg  SM52-5D  which is claimed by the manufacturer to be the “first in the region”.

According to technical manager at Al Omeira, Priyadarshi Singh: “We purchased the machine at Drupa last year and had it installed at our press in March.”

According to Singh, the installation took “around eight to ten days” and did not require any employee training once it was up and running. Our

Staff Writer, 01 May 2009

Moving printing in house will not mean death of outsourced print

Although organisations could save between $64 million and $147m on annual printing costs by utilising in house printing, this will not mean the death of outsourced printing.

This according to general manager of OKI Printing Solutions Middle East, India and North Africa, John Ross.

Talking to PrintWeek MEA at a press conference held to disclose the findings of a study on the UAE printing industry done by independent economic research consultancy Cebr, Ross said: “Although it appears

Staff Writer, 01 May 2009

Out of home group put on ice due to weak economic climate

Shoof, the outdoor advertising arm of the Arab Media Group, along with Ströer Concept Outdoor have pulled the plug on the out-of-home group, Ströer Concept Shoof.

Chairman of Concept Group, Aldrin Fernandes said the company was “put on hold” due to the current economic climate. This venture would have required a significant amount of investment. Given the current economic climate, such an investment is not viable.”

He said the decision was taken on March 1

Staff Writer, 01 April 2009

New members elected to PPG board an ‘asset’ says general secretary

Several new executive members have been elected to the board of the Printing and Publishing Group (PPG).

Its general secretary Sebastian Lonth said that the new members are an “asset” to the committee.

The board now comprises Modern Printing Press’s managing director, Ahmad Al Shaikh as chairperson and Colourlines CEO Tarek Jawharji as vice chairman  while executive committee members include Emirates Printing Press CEO Mohamed Al Shirawi, Heidelberg sales and

Staff Writer, 01 April 2009