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BackIndustrial NewsThe VINSAK range, from Creed EngineersCreed Engineers has launched a range of printing products and solutions under the VINSAK brand, complete with CtP thermal and PS plates, consumables, inkjet solutions and other product lines that are likely to improve profitability for the printer. According to Ranesh Bajaj, director marketing, Creed Engineers, customers have begun directly importing the material from the company’s production plant overseas. “This has been possible basically due to the consistency of the product which is specially formulated after considering many factors including Indian climatic conditions and production workflow of presses,” he says. “Initially, there was a little hesitation on acceptance of another plate brand in Indian market, but after considering the different parameters, finger prints and benchmark tests VINSAK CtP has proven to be a stable product. Our thermal CtP plate customer profile includes large commercial printers, repro houses and packaging printers,” adds Sankarshanan, vice president. The VINSAK range – CtP thermal plates, PS plates and thermal plate developer – is targeted at commercial offset printers and service bureaus that seek reliable offset plates capable of delivering good reproduction quality. The thermal CtP plates are available in different thickness (0.30mm, 0.20mm and 0.15 mm) and sizes (small, medium and large); customisation is possible. The Vinsak brand of CtP plates and consumables were showcased at the India Converting Show 2011 in Mumbai, where the VINSAK 302 EDLF flexo-plate-making system was launched. It caters to large-format plate sizes of 36x48 inches (90x120 cm). The processor offers a combination for exposure, light finisher and dryer unit and the system includes electronic ballasts and a temperature control. The special lamp temperature regulation feature provides high uniformity in the full exposure area for high consistency from plate to plate. Creed’s VINSAK range of inkjet piezoelectric inkjet print heads VIS 256 and VIS 1200 are based on technology used in imaging and fabricating printing applications. Says Bajaj, “There is a growing need in the market for solvent and UV curable ink jet systems, which can print on non-porous substrates including films, coated papers holograms among others. The VIS range aims at meeting this requirement.” The VIS 256 is a fully integrated head with no base unit, with the electronics integrated within the head. The VIS 256 offers ready-to-print in five minutes and can be operated with UV-curable and solvent-based inks. It can be used to print on a variety of substrates such as paper, coated paper, foils, and plastic cards among other applications – addressing and personalisation for mailings, magazines, newspaper, numbering applications for tickets, lotteries and any application where variable data needs to be applied onto nearly any media. British investor acquires manroland sheet-fed divisionAn investor solution was found for the sheet-fed business of insolvent manroland AG, just days after a sale of the web machines business to the German Possehl Group was announced. British entrepreneur Tony Langley and the privately owned engineering group, Langley Holdings plc emerged as the investors behind a 100 per cent takeover of the sheet-fed printing equipment division and its properties portfolio in Offenbach, together with manroland’s international marketing organisation in more than 40 countries. “I am very pleased with the solution which will provide a long-term perspective to the Offenbach location and the sheet-fed printing business”, said Werner Schneider, insolvency administrator. Addressing the workforce of more than 850 people in Offenbach, Langley said he was confident the company would succeed. Langley operates two highly successful technology divisions in Germany engaged in the capital technologies sector. In 2011 the group recorded revenues of approximately €500 million and a profit before tax of some €76 million with around two thirds coming from its German operations. The group has a strong balance sheet with no debt and although it has been agreed that the purchase price will not be disclosed, it is known that Langley financed the entire transaction from own cash resources. Almost all the customers who had orders with the sheet-fed division when the manroland bankruptcy was announced last November did not cancel orders. Langley has appointed German Alfred Rothlaender as head of manroland sheetfed systems GmbH. Rothlaender (66) was formerly head of machinery builder Claudius Peters near Hamburg when Langley acquired the business in 2001. Print options on Inca Onset S20 expandedInca Digital Printers has announced productivity enhancements to the Inca Onset S20, its 310 m2/hr (3,340 ft2/hr) wide-format UV flatbed inkjet printer. A new 20-pass print mode has been added and the speed of the existing 25-pass mode has been increased, giving Onset S20 customers increased options in matching production time to the quality demands of each job. The Inca Onset S20 now supports four print pass modes: 12, 16, 20 and 25 pass. “Different jobs require different levels of image quality, depending on their content and the viewing distance, which translates into different numbers of printhead passes during printing,” says Linda Bell, Inca Digital CEO. “For busy graphics viewed at a distance, such as large hoardings or in-store graphics placed at some height from the floor, 12 passes may well suffice, while for high-impact, closely-viewed POS or posters with challenging solid colours such as reds and purples, 25 passes will yield the best quality results. The new options give Inca Onset S20 users higher productivity and more flexibility to choose the optimum print mode for each job.” The new 20-pass mode sits between the existing 16- and 25-pass modes and gives a productivity increase of 26 per cent compared to the latter. This mode combines quality and speed and is ideal for graphics that include large areas of solid colour. Supplied by Fujifilm, Inca’s exclusive global distribution partner, the Inca Onset S20 offers all the features associated with the market-leading Onset range, including wide colour gamut, satin and controllable gloss levels, variable job management and the option of automation, making it ideal for the production of single and double-sided display POS, exhibition graphics, backlit/frontlit displays, outdoor signage printing and cosmetic/fashion graphics. Glunz & Jensen updates the Raptor platformThe Raptor was introduced to the market in 2002 as a simple yet high-quality plate processing platform. The compact medium segment processor saw thousands of installations worldwide. Now, Glunz & Jensen is looking at creating more value for customers, with the new Raptor+ program that is modernized to match the demanding user needs of control and simplicity. “The powerful Raptor+ platform will continue to be the most popular and versatile processor for printers all over the world in both the commercial and the newspaper segment because of the simplicity, reliability and the ease of use. The open configuration also makes it possible to re-configure the processor with applications from most plate suppliers. This flexibility is now supported by a modern user interface with the innovative Glunz & Jensen GNUC ll Electronics technology… we are proud to say that we have lifted the Raptor platform and made it ready to battle the future’s time-consuming plate processing.” says Simon Jensen, business director, Glunz & Jensen. The standard configuration in the Raptor+ includes a typical application configuration, cooling unit, hand shower for easy cleaning, drain manifold and universal front panel. It can be used for either offline with feed/delivery table or for online configuration with CtP interface and stacker. The GNUC II Electronics features include online user manuals, user-defined translation of menus, remote diagnostics via Ethernet, and backup/restoration of product parameters and software. The Raptor+ will be on display at drupa 2012, at Hall 5, Stand C38. New Goss Universal press for Guangming DailyBeijing-based newspaper publisher Guangming Daily has ordered a new Goss Universal press to increase colour capacity and to pursue more sub-contract printing in the Chinese market. The new single-width, double-circumference (2x2) press will be mainly used to print 150000 copies a day of the Guangming Daily and 250000 copies a day of the tabloid Xin Jin Bao. The new Goss press includes three four-high printing towers, three reelstands and two 2:3:3: jaw folders. The system has closed-loop colour registration controls, an ink-leveling system, blanket washers, two counter stackers and an in-line stitcher. Rated at a maximum of 80000 copies per hour, the press will generate higher productivity and more colour pages for the national daily. Launched in 1949 by the China Democratic League, and based in China's capital Beijing. HP UV large format ink meets AgBB compliance standardsHewlett Packard has announced that its new HP FB225 Scitex Ink meets AgBB criteria for health-related evaluation of Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) emissions of indoor building products. Testing was carried out by Air Quality Sciences, Inc., which used the AgBB Evaluation procedure for VOC emissions and determined that HP FB225 Scitex Ink met the AgBB requirements. The AgBB Committee, established in 1997, comprises representatives from seven German national and regional health and environmental organisations and its testing procedures and standards are regarded as an international standard for health-related VOC emissions. AgBB compliance follows the GREENGUARD Children & Schools certification received earlier by HP FB225 Scitex Ink in the United States. The ink also received certification under the GREENGUARD Indoor Air Quality Certification Program for Low Emitting Products. HP FB225 Scitex Ink was developed for the new HP Scitex FB7600 industrial press, a versatile, high-production machine for the production of high-quality graphics on a wide range of substrates from standard POP/POS corrugated board and papers to backlit films and plastic and coated material, including foam PVC, PVC sheets, polystyrene (HIPS), fluted polypropylene, polycarbonate, polyethylene, synthetic paper, SAV, foamboard, paper, corrugated, PETG, Yupo and Alu-Dibond. “This is the first UV-curable ink ever that complies with both these indoor air emissions standards,” says Xavier Melisse, EMEA Scitex Supplies Category manager. “Prints produced with HP FB225 Scitex Ink on low emitting media have reduced odour and the fact that the inks used to produce them meet these standards offers additional reassurance about their suitability for indoor use.” Manroland web systems GmbH – the new teamThe new management team at manroland web systems GmbH includes: Uwe Lüders, managing director Peter Kuisle, Sales, Service and Marketing Franz Gumpp, Purchasing and Production Dieter Betzmeier, Order Processing and Technology Daniel Raffler, Human Resources and Company Development Dirk Rauh, Commercial Divisions At drupa 2012, manroland will present itself as high-performance partner of the printing industry under the new company name manroland web systems GmbH, featuring highly productive solutions for the industrial web offset production of newspapers, magazines, and advertising material as well as many innovative products from the Printnet and Printservices Divisions. Together with manroland sheetfed systems GmbH, the sheetfed offset division of former manroland AG, the latest developments will be shown in Hall 6. “We don’t just build large-format commercial and newspaper printing presses,“ Kuisle explains. “Our customers can profit from a comprehensive performance spectrum of new presses and a holistic consulting, service, and retrofit offer, up to process-relevant consumable components. StreamFold gives Dansk AvisTryk a leg-upFor Danish printer Dansk AvisTryk, Ferag’s StreamFold has now landed jobs from the quarterfold product segment, including a 600000-copy print run for a Swedish customer. Distribution of this product calls for a quarterfold. It was in the spring of 2011 that a StreamFold quarterfold component was integrated into the Ferag system in Glostrup. The quarterfold line is incorporated into one of the three MSD inserting installations. The layout between the MultiSertDrum and the MultiStack group allows products to be assembled in the inserting drum prior to the quarterfold process. Finished product paginations can thus be varied at the post-press processing stage, without dependency on the printing machine; also, inserted advertising can be added to the circulation. Le Télégramme de Brest places major retrofit order with ABBABB, one of the leading suppliers of automation solutions for the newspaper production industry, has announced a major order from Le Télégramme de Brest, France, for retrofitting controls, drives and management systems on its two Wifag OF370 presses. Le Télégramme de Brest is one of France’s leading regional newspaper publishing houses. 230000 copies of the newspaper are printed every day and are distributed primarily in the departments of Finistère, Côtes d’Armor and Morbihan in Northwest France. The project represents the third large order for ABB’s modular retrofit solutions for Wifag presses in three months. The first step will involve upgrading the existing ABB management systems MPS Production and MPS PlateWorkflow. The subsequent phases of the project, which will be spread out over a period of five years, will bring a step-by-step replacement of the obsolete positioning systems on the 10 printing towers and two folders with the new ABB APOS solution. The drives on all these units will also be replaced. In addition, completely new control systems will be provided for the 10 reelstands. Claude Rozec, technical director at Le Télégramme de Brest, is clear about his company’s aims: “We decided that this modernisation project was necessary in order to ensure the future availability of our production facilities. Our three primary aims were to extend the life expectancy of our presses, to boost their future reliability and to ensure the availability of spare parts. Le Télégramme investigated various possible solutions and came to the conclusion, that the ABB proposal was the best means to meet these aims.” Christian Villiger, worldwide head of ABB’s activities in the printing business, is delighted with the order for several reasons. “This is the second major French printing site that has chosen ABB to retrofit its Wifag presses with ABB’s APOS positioning system. We see this as a clear sign that our modular retrofit solutions meet the needs of owners of this generation of presses.” Michael Farkas is GMG marketing directorGMG, a leading developer and supplier of high-end colour management software solutions, has announced that Michael Farkas has been appointed to the new role of marketing director at GMG GmbH & Co. KG. Farkas joins GMG from IKEA where for nine years he was involved in developing the sophisticated and efficient workflow behind the IKEA catalogue. Philip Pavier joins 5 fifteen5 fifteen, one of the leading UK software companies supplying dedicated software to publishers throughout the world, has announced the appointment of Philip Pavier as account manager for adDEPOT. Pavier will focus on identifying new business opportunities and expanding sales of the adDEPOT product line to newspaper and digital publishers across Europe. He has been successfully working for software vendors in various sales roles for over 25 years and brings with him a vast amount of experience, most recently with UK and European publishers on behalf of Atex. Working at the highest levels with major publishing organisations across Europe, Pavier has generated an impressive amount of new business in the last ten years. Goss International plans major presence at drupaViewing the quadrennial trade show in Germany as a vital international event for printers, publishers and technology, Goss International is investing in a major presence at drupa 2012. The new Sunday Vpak packaging press, Colorliner CPS compact-tower press and 96-page Sunday 5000 press will be among the featured Goss systems that offer new performance capabilities for current and emerging requirements. Goss International will occupy a 1820-sq-metre (19590-square-feet) booth in Hall 17 to present commercial and newspaper printing and finishing systems as well as its new web offset presses for packaging. Goss International is part of the Shanghai Electric Group, and the large-scale industrial company will exhibit a range of printing technologies at an adjacent stand. The company will announce full details of its drupa 2012 exhibits at a pre-show news conference in Düsseldorf on February 29. Meissner projects that attendees will arrive at this year’s drupa show questioning conventional definitions of which printing processes produce which products. He expects printers and publishers to be particularly interested in pursuing how they can use different processes – or combinations of processes – to provide their customers with more powerful and cost-effective printed products. “The long-term value and effectiveness of print are not in question, but pressures to stay competitive and profitable are intensifying in every sector,” says Meissner. “By collaborating with a strong, visionary supplier and by replacing outdated equipment with advanced web offset solutions, printers can address those pressures and take significant cost, time and inefficiency out of their workflows.” Kodak to showcase new technologies at drupaKodak will be in full force at drupa 2012, showcasing a number of new technologies and solutions and unveiling significant partnerships in the key markets that the company serves around the world. Journalists and analysts will get a preview of Kodak’s presence on March 6 during a press event in Lisbon where Kodak will announce products debuting at drupa, and preview what visitors can expect at Kodak’s stand (Hall 5, F09-1). “Kodak’s commitment to the graphic communications market and the success of our customers is the main focus for our press conference in March and drupa in May,” said Chris Payne, vice president, Commercial Marketing, Kodak. “Visitors to drupa will learn about the latest ways we’re leading dynamic change in the markets we serve – including publishing, packaging and commercial print – with the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio of products, solutions and services for printers in offset, digital and hybrid environments.” At drupa, Kodak will spotlight customers who have grown their businesses and their bottom lines by offering new capabilities and services, producing unique applications and improving operational efficiencies. WoodWing launches global Next Wave TourOn the heels of its hugely successful World Tour last year, WoodWing kicked off its Next Wave Tour with a well-received pilot event in Amsterdam on January 24. The Next Wave Tour is a global series of free local events organised in collaboration with local partners. The events feature speakers from local partners and publishing customers, Adobe, and WoodWing. The sessions are designed for magazine and newspaper publishers, corporates and agencies who wish to prepare for the next steps in the evolution of digital publishing. The Next Wave Tour continues in the U.S., Latin America, Europe and Asia.Throughout the year, the tour will continue with stops at major publishing hubs in the United States, Latin America, Europe and Asia. Cities and locations, once fixed, will soon be published at http://nextwave.woodwing.com. Publishers who are interested in the tour can also stay up to date on upcoming events on Twitter at #wwnextwave. InkZone Report, from Digital InformationDigital Information has introduced the InkZone Report quality-control software for X-Rite (Intellitrax/Easytrax) and Techkon (Spectrojet/SpectroDrive) scanning instrumentation, as well as for the InkZone Move solution. The report will give users the ability to monitor daily output to meet international industry standards such as ISO and G7 on any workstation via a local intranet or an HTML Internet server. Authorized users are guaranteed 24/7 worldwide access to information on the stability of colour printouts and impact variations on print product quality. By adding an Apache HTML web server, IZ Report gives users the flexibility to access colour data from a local, directory-based intranet, as well as through the World Wide Web. With the InkZone Report, it is easy to verify colour value positioning within defined tolerances. The densitometrical and spectrophotometrical values are measured and stored in an SQL database. The report then compiles HTML structured production protocols for single sheets, as well as for whole print jobs, based on the data files. With the click of a mouse, the desired report can be selected and viewed on an unlimited number of workstations running a standard web browser. The InkZone Report works with CMYK and spot colors and compares job target values (defined values) against the actual measured values of the solids (Lab and Delta E), dot gain, mid-tone spread and print substrate. The scanned colour values are converted into HTML structure and displayed onscreen as graphic diagrams. Values lying outside of the defined margins can be easily identified on these diagrams and the user can immediately see the scanned color information as numerical values. Sample data sets of the InkZone Report are available at www.digiinfo.com/products/inkzone/report. At drupa 2012, Digital Information will be at Hall 08B, Stand B02. Stolz Architects gets HP Designjet T790 ePrinter HP today announced that Stolz Architects, located in Rosenheim, Germany, has received a new full-colour, web-connected HP Designjet T790 Large Format ePrinter to replace its existing 13-year-old single-colour HP Designjet Printer, which won a competition to find the oldest HP Designjet still in service in Germany. APM Print in Beograd expands well proven Schur mailroomAPM Print was founded in 2003 and became the first independent printing house in Serbia. Since 2010, APM Print is part of the Ringier Axel Springer Media AG, based in Zurich, Switzerland. Among many other titles, APM Print in Beograd is printing Serbia’s daily No. 1 Blic. In 2007 a Schur mailroom was installed at the APM printing plant in Beograd. The installation included three A855 inserting systems and three stacking/packaging lines. In order to match the increased production requirements, APM Print now decided to upgrade the existing mailroom equipment. The existing Schur mailroom will be upgraded with one A955 inserting line. The high capacity inserting line will be equipped with four hoppers in order to meet various customer demands with maximum flexibility. The compact design of the A955 inserter turned out to be a great advantage for this project. The A955 inserter will be in production together with three other Schur inserting lines. To achieve the best result in this context, the new equipment will be integrated with the existing lines in an optimal way. In addition to the A955 inserting system, two new TGG 3200 folder grippers will be part of the modernised mailroom. The new gripper conveyors ensure safe and smooth transport of products from the two press folder to the inserting lines and stackers. One additional stacking/packing line will be installed for bundle production functions. The stacking/packaging line will be equipped with TS800 high capacity stacker, UB 01 under wrapper and TM01-RT cross strapping line. The bundle production line will be installed in direct connection to the new A955 inserter. Training centre in Saudi opts for Muller Martini saddle stitcherFrom pre-press, offset and digital printing to finishing, the over 40 machines in the recently established graphic arts institute in Jeddah are all equipped with the latest technology. Accordingly, there is a fast growing interest in the popular training centre, one of four such institutions in Saudi Arabia (with two others in the capital, Riyadh, and one in Damman). With the Technical and Vocational Training Corporation, Saudi Arabia is pursuing its goal to be one of the global leaders in technical and vocational education. “Each year, the training centre in Jeddah alone receives 200 applications from Saudi Arabia for the three-year, parallel program, but we can only accommodate 70 trainees,” says Mohammed M. Alsoubae, assistant manager of Printing. “Our industry needs well-trained people,” emphasises Mohammed M. Alsoubae. “That is why our students have to be up-to-date on the latest technological developments.” The public institute, founded 35 years ago, has a correspondingly complex evaluation procedure for the new machines in its workshop. Before the Technical and Vocational Training Corporation chose the Primera C110 with four feeders, a cover feeder and a three-knife trimmer, representatives of the school had the opportunity to take a closer look at the saddle stitcher from Muller Martini at several trade shows. “The many ideas provided by Mr Jawad were extremely helpful to us,” says Alsoubae. Jawad Mustapha Hachicho, general manager at Muller Martini’s representation in Saudi Arabia, Yousef Al Sanad Trading Est., is proud of the fact that the school chose the Primera C110: “For Muller Martini, this choice is particularly important because many graduates of the program go on to work in leading positions in the graphic arts industry in Saudi Arabia.” ContiTech, HELL plan tie-upContiTech Elastomer Coatings and HELL Gravure Systems, two strong companies in the printing industry, plan to cooperate in the areas of development and application engineering. The cooperation aims to further boost the advantages of direct-engravable flexographic printing plates and establish a sustained foothold in the growing flexographic printing market. In the past months, the printing plates have enabled ContiTech to successfully expand its business overall in the graphics industry. In doing so, the company was able to draw on its wide-ranging experience with elastomer material. “The flexographic printing market has responded very enthusiastically to our products. We intend to cash in on the response so as to make inroads into this segment,” says Thomas Perkovic, head of the printing blanket segment at ContiTech Elastomer Coatings. InkZone Instrument Flight colour control solution launchedA strategic alliance between Switzerland-based powerhouses System Brunner and Digital Information is likely to make an impact on print production as System Brunner’s leading Instrument Flight colour control software will link up with Digital Information’s InkZone ink-presets and closed-loop product line to allow online colour control for all major offset printing presses. The Instrument Flight colour control solution from System Brunner has been accepted worldwide due to the technologically convincing control strategy including gray/color balance priorities and will now be integrated by Digital Information into the InkZone product family. With InkZone Instrument Flight, colour control on printing presses can now be performed according to the process parameters ISO 12647-2/PSO, the US-specification G7 as well as the comprehensive Globalstandard by System Brunner. InkZone Instrument Flight is a comprehensive solution for colour control, process diagnosis and quality assessment, allowing users to harness the power of the world’s leading closed-loop instrumentation with the most sophisticated technology in standardisation and printing process verification. The multi-dimensional color control performed by Instrument Flight handles the full spectrum of process dynamics in offset printing. The result is a uniform and consistent visual representation of the entire print run – including the delicate gray and tertiary tones. InkZone Instrument Flight is compatible with the spectrophotometric measuring devices from X-Rite (Intellitrax/Easytrax) and Techkon (SpectroJet/SpectroDrive). In addition, it works with Digital Information's InkZone Move software, as well as with the colour scanning software packages from X-Rite and Techkon. The system can be used on nearly all offset presses by established manufacturers including Heidelberg, KBA, Komori, manroland, Ryobi and Mitsubishi. The InkZone Instrument Flight system solution is available in conjunction with new installations of Digital Information’s InkZone Loop online colour control software, or it can be retrofitted to existing InkZone installations — adding a whole new level of investment value to the already incomparable InkZone technology. InkZone Perfect supplies InkZone Instrument Flight with preset data calculated by the prepress workflow. During colour make-ready and the production run, Instrument Flight receives the measured data of each ink key in the form of spectral values, analyses them by taking into account more than 30 process parameters and calculates the optimum adjustments for meeting the defined standard or the OK-sheet values. With InkZone Instrument Flight, print shops have the choice between three regulation strategies according to customer requirements and/or quality demands:
Digital Information will be present at drupa 2012, in Hall 8B, Stand B02. Fresh stimulus for Finland’s print industryA new printing centre is being built in Tampere. And postpress processing is playing a key part. With a Ferag production installation that’s currently unbeaten when it comes to performance and versatility, Alma Manu Oy wishes to consolidate the position of the newspaper and create the basis for growth in new markets. Eventually, the three well-known titles Aamulehti, Kauppalehti, and a large part of the afternoon newspaper Iltalehti will be produced on the three 45000-generation MSD inserting lines with their MultiDisc and RollStream periphery, along with several of the publishing group’s regional and local newspapers. The newspapers will bring daily circulations to a total of some 500000 copies. A lot of space has also been allocated to new print products in addition to newspapers. One of the three MSD inserting lines is hooked up to a RollStream pre-collecting system with ten JetFeeder hopper stations that can easily be expanded to 20 hoppers – equipment that gives Alma Manu Oy the technological basis to prepare advertising packages for direct-mail operations. The optimum production sequence will be assured using the Navigator control. Conversely, the StreamStitch stitching component, an SNT-50 trimming drum and a StreamFold quarterfold line come with options for increasing order volumes. In so doing, Aanu Oy mainly wishes to stimulate business in semi-commercial and insert production. ClimateCalc joins PrintCity AllianceThe International Association ClimateCalc (ClimateCalc) is participating in the PrintCity Alliance Lean & Green project Making The Print Value Chain Leaner & Greener, plus in drupa 2012 related activities. Benoit Moreau, environmental & safety manager, French Printing Federation – UNIC, representing ClimateCalc will be one of the speakers at the joint PrintCity / World Print & Communication Forum International Environmental Conference at drupa on May 10. Visitors can pre-register for this conference at http://www.amiando.com/LEAN_GREEN. Dennis Geelen, environmental ddvisor, Belgian Printing Federation – FEBELGRA, speaking for ClimateCalc, says: “Firstly, it is essential for us to have a close partnership with printing industry suppliers because the accuracy of carbon emission calculations largely depends on the quality of the data from the suppliers concerned. Secondly, we are convinced that a mature environmental understanding allows the identification of cost reduction sources.” Goss International at Graphics of the AmericasAt the Graphics of the Americas Show in Miami, Florida (March 1-3), Goss International will be exhibiting together with Shanghai Electric Printing and Packaging Machinery Group. As well as presenting the latest in Goss web offset press technologies suited to the American markets, the 1200 square-foot booth will showcase converting solutions including specialised equipment for paper bag production. Goss International will highlight the enabling technologies and press models which are fundamental to its leadership position in North and Latin American newspaper, semi-commercial and commercial sectors. These include Goss M-500, M-600 and Sunday commercial presses as well as Community SSC, Magnum, Universal and Uniliner newspaper presses and Pacesetter saddlestitchers. There will also be updated information and technical details on Akiyama sheet-fed presses and some of the company's newest product offerings for worldwide markets. Belmark installs second VSOP 520The Muller Martini VSOP (Variable Sleeve Offset Printing) web offset printing press is ideal for printing flexible packaging, labels films and cardboard. Therefore one of the leading packaging manufacturers in the United States, Belmark Inc., is starting to install the second VSOP Web Offset Printing Press in their Wisconsin facility. Belmark Inc. is one of the top name in the United States when it comes to manufacturing premium-quality labels, flexible packaging and folding cartons. The company serves a wide variety of industries including dairy, snack food, durable goods and pet food. Opting in favor of a new investment, Belmark Inc. putting its trust once again in Muller Martini’s modern technology and purchased a variable sleeve offset printing press. This is the second printing press that the American printing house has bought from the VSOP series. In addition to the new five-color VSOP, the company also owns another seven-color VSOP. According to Karl Schmidt, president and CEO of Belmark Inc., the key factors behind the renewed decision in favor of a new Muller Martini printing press included the quality and high level of automation. “This is our second VSOP. We’ve been very happy with the performance of the one we already have, and that’s given us the confidence to purchase an additional one. We’re very confident in Muller Martini and their ability to service us and this equipment.” The VSOP web offset printing press for flexible packaging and folding carton markets uses simple and rapid size changes to its advantages. The plate and rubber blanket cylinders in the VSOP printing unit are designed as handy sleeves. Therefore print sizes can be changed quickly and easily without having to exchange the entire printing inserts. This means that the VSOP printing unit is infinitely variable for all print image lengths and a complete job changeover is possible within a matter of minutes. To allow quick make-ready, Muller Martini has included a set-up rewinder between the printing press and the die cutter, what enables the press crew to change over both parts of the production line individually at the same time. For hardening the printing ink the machine is also including an EB (electron beam) curing system. This system is especially well suited to foodstuff packaging, since the ink film is immediately cured all the way through. The result is a high-quality, low-odor and low-migration print product, manufactured under reliable production conditions, without the use of photo initiators or the emission of VOCs. Time Inc uses WoodWing technology to make 21 titles available on tabletsWoodWing Software, a leading developer of innovative workflow solutions for cost-efficient multi-channel publishing, today announced that Time Inc is using WoodWing´s Digital Publishing Solution to publish its entire US portfolio of 21 titles on various tablet platforms, including the iPad, Android and WebOS devices, as well as the NOOK Color and Amazon Kindle. The list of tablet publications published by Time Inc now includes all of its renowned media brands. According to Time Inc, its digital magazine and other content apps have been downloaded more than 11 million times. Hundreds of thousands of current print subscribers have upgraded their subscriptions to include the tablet editions at no extra cost, with thousands more being added each week. Time Inc creates all its tablet editions using WoodWing’s Digital Publishing Tools, which are fully integrated with WoodWing’s publishing system Enterprise. The plug-ins for InDesign enable Time Inc to add interactivity to content to create compelling digital publications. WoodWing’s tools include panels for slideshows, hotspots, video, links, widgets and much more. “The number of tablet users will continue to grow significantly, accelerating demand for reader-attractive content and driving advertiser interest,” says Mitch Klaif, CIO of Time Inc. “We also use WoodWing’s solutions to help us produce our print editions, and WoodWing’s Digital Publishing Solution enables us to integrate our tablet publishing activities into our existing workflows. Working with WoodWing to make Time Inc the number one publisher of digital magazines has been a great experience.” “For publishers, it is vital to reach all tablet users, regardless of which device they use,” says Erik Schut, president of WoodWing Software. “Being able to bring such a large number of titles to various tablet platforms in such a short time frame is proof that our solution is perfectly capable of dealing with today’s publisher demands.”
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