Top Story: Charting the progress of print through IPEX 2010
IPEX 2010 promises to be a watershed event.
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Printweek UK News
- Berforts Press acquires BPC Digital
- Drupa orders brighten poor Q1 for Heidelberg
- Media roundup: Guardian; BBC Worldwide; Olympics; Archant; Daily Mail and Express
- Print industry news roundup: Heidelberg ; Polestar; Wright's; BPIF; Scubaprint; Kodak; F1 Colour
- Woodward hails progress in making BPIF 'fit for purpose'
- Almost 80% of bids won Olympic work, BPIF survey shows
- Wyndeham Peterborough staff facing T&C changes
- Dragons' Den tweet boosts business for Surrey print firm
- Polestar undertakes graduate recruitment drive
- Contex launches new scanners for wide-format applications
Middle East Jobs
- Key Recruitment: Consultant: Technology and Services – XLMEA – Dubai – UAE
- Harrison Scott Associates: Packaging Technologist/Engineer - Dubai
Features
Using every opportunity to survive and swim
Gulf News changing format (the only one in the Middle East to do so) from broadsheet to Berliner is a bold decision. If considerable savings in paper is generated, it is a welcome decision. Though why is it wrapped in a poly bag every day, is a questionable decision.
Top Story
Top Story: Arab media must turn up the mic and speak out
It is ironic to think that just a day after the closing of this year’s Arab Media Forum, just across the border, Yemeni security forces were raiding an independent newspaper, which led to the death of a passerby.
Editorial
Editorial: Drupa concludes among a mixed bag of reactions
With the curtains drawing to a close on the most anticipated exhibition for the print industry, Drupa 2012, exhibitors and visitors are taking stock of what has been achieved and what could have been.
Editorial: Crossing boundaries into competitors' zone
The dynamics of current businesses has become such that expanding frontiers, or venturing into rival terrain is seen as necessary to survive. Traditional offset giants are making forays into digital, like KBA's latest announcement, the RotaJET 76 or Bobst's plans of entering the digital market within 2 years. Offset press manufacturers Miyakoshi and Ryobi have joined forces to develop an 8,000sph B2 digital press, while HP, Xeikon, EFI and Heidelberg have their own multi-use inventions serving more than one application, thus expanding the boundaries of their products.
Talking Business
Talking Business: If you want to compete in digital print your post-press need to keep pace
So you've invested in digital printing and a job comes through your web-portal, matched to a pre-tested job ticket it's automatically checked, driven through prepress operations, imposed and queued to the press. The operator checks that the right paper is loaded, selects the job and go! Now what do you do; outsourcing the finishing? Setup finishing equipment manually?
Talking Business: Customer service should be the most important part of any business plan
The global economic crisis over the past few years has had a significant impact on UK business across all industries. Fundamentally, companies have had to reassess both their strategic direction and how they communicate with their customers. Ultimately, this is not a time to hesitate, it is a time to act quickly and make tough decisions where necessary.
Other Features News
Other: Kodak maximizes Drupa presence with high sales
Kodak Showcases comprehensive solutions portfolio at drupa 2012, Pratik Sardesai reports product launches and major deals...
Other: Embrace life in the clouds
More and more data-based services are being delivered via access-anywhere online systems, but they are not suitable for everything and may create security headaches and, ultimately, devalue print
Technically Speaking
Technically Speaking: Inkjet technology is about much more than speed bumps and bigger formats
This year has been the year of high-speed inkjet. But there's far more going on in inkjet development than just increases in speed and the new B2 format sheetfed presses - inkjet is generating interesting changes throughout the market.
Technically Speaking: Print needs to defend itself against eco charges in a simpler, less technical way
I was working with the corporate responsibility committee of one of my clients recently, a very well-known brand involving global manufacturing, distribution and sales. We were brain storming new initiatives that we could work on to develop the next stage of their strategy and asking what the next priorities might be.
Profile
Profile: When one sector in the print industry contracts, other areas show potential
T S Babukutty, general manager of Al Mawrid Printing and Advertising shares his strategy for backing flexo and gravure technologies as the way forward
Profile: UPP enters security printing with new installation, production from mid-June
Ali Saif Al Neaimi articulates his gut feeling on the future of the print industry to Shilpa Jasani , expressing that there was too much at stake for it to wither away
Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence: Need to know...
French algae problem creates opportunity for eco-friendly paper; 3-D printer with nano-precision; organic polymers can be used in printable electronics; reproduction of grayscale images in micrometer level
Business Intelligence: Need to know...
The smallest newspaper in the world seeks Guinness recognition; printed electronics may revolutionise production technology; new technique for organic polymers to be used in printable electronics; annual report on a roll of toilet paper
Better Business
Better Business: Lowering your bottom line
At a time when new business is thin on the ground, it may not be possible to increase income, but there are various ways in which firms can slash unnecessary costs without feeling too much pain
Better Business: Bobst to show in Drupa technical advances and innovation
With series of announcements and enhancements to its existing product lines and services, Bobst is ready to show its drive towards world of zero-faults, low waste and high productivity.
Technology Report
Technology Report: Will DM technology usher in a new screening revolution?
Hamillroad's advances in the halftone field may represent a leap forward, but it is not yet an option for most printers and may have come too late
Technology Report: OEM or third-party? N o w a n e w f o r c e j o i n s t h e i n k s f r a y
OEM was once the only real option for printers wishing to ensure the high quality of their indoor or outdoor POS piece, as third-party inks were considered unreliable. But this attitude could be on the way out ..
Postscript
Postscript: Iftikharuddin Babar
Iftikharuddin Babar is the manager of paper division, Copatra Graphics, KSA
Envrionment
Envrionment: Environment & Knowledge Tour
Recently on the back-burner as print firms focused on staying afloat, the environmental issue has returned. It seems that cutting your emissions, energy consumption and waste is now an essential practice
Post Press
Post Press: REJI MATHEWS
Reji Mathews is the marketing manager of OKI Printing Solutions Middle East
News Analysis
News Analysis: Saudi print industry showing upswing
Saudi Arabia's print industry benefits from the Kindgom's prospering economy
News Analysis: Uprisings cut both ways : Gulf printers
E-publishing is not taking away from print. Over the past few years every magazine that stopped printing and went online closed down in a few months due to less advertising revenues : Raidy.
Comment
Comment: Helping the planet means more than simply talking
I was sitting at my desk recently, looking through a pile of papers when a thought hit me: “Printers are starting to take proper notice of our planet!”
Comment: The print sector must play fair in the game of pricing
The summer is almost over. Is it just me, or did it fly by? Perhaps the tension and anxiety of the last few months’ economic downturn kept our minds on things other than the hot weather. Like keeping presses running. And paying staff on time.
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