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AN IDEAL MACHINE FOR LONG AND SHORT RUNSA recent Koenig & Bauer customer event focused on highly efficient commercial production, web-to-print and online applications. On show was an eight-colour Rapida 145 complete with perfecting unit for 4-over-4 production and LED-UV dryers to enable immediate further processing. Pictures (from top, left) show Dirk Winkler, head of printing process technology at Koenig & Bauer in Radebeul describing the print jobs in detail before the practical demonstration began, the print samples being subjected to close scrutiny during the demonstrations, and the reel sheeter in action at the maximum press speed of 15000 sheets per hour. The Rapida 145 perfector is perhaps an ideal means of production for both long runs and jobs requiring only 250 sheets. See page 26 for more.

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FROM THE EDITOR

Passion backed by hard work does produce outstanding results

This year’s PII-ICRC Awards, the twelfth edition, for best articles and photographs on a humanitarian subject, jointly organised by Press Institute of India (PII) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) New Delhi Regional Delegation, focused on the theme, ‘Changing lives through innovation

in health and sanitation’. At a time when journalists are facing immense pressures and challenges, it was heartening to see young journalists engage with passion on subjects dear to them, producing some outstanding work, and thirsting to shine. Let there be no doubt that good journalism is alive and well. Journalists need all the encouragement they can get and awards such as this do indeed motivate them.

Congratulations to the award-winners – Rakhi Ghosh, an independent journalist working in Odisha; Sarita Santoshini, an independent journalist based in Guwahati; Maitri Porecha of The Hindu BusinessLine; Neeraj Gautam, senior photojournalist with Rajasthan Patrika; Tabassum Barnagarwala, Indian Express, Mumbai; Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed, Frontline, Bengaluru; Rakhee Roytalukdar, independent journalist from Jaipur; and Indranil Mukherjee, Agence France-Presse, Mumbai (all pictured above). May your good work continue.

There is an interesting article in this issue by WAN-IFRA’s printing technologist Prabhu Natrajan. Based on a report by the World Printers Forum and Two Sides, an organisation that promotes the sustainability

of the graphic communications supply chain and dispels common environmental misconceptions globally, he says newspapers have a lot of strengths when it comes to sustainability. They are an effective and trusted means of distributing news and information, and they do this relatively eco-efficiently. Newsprint is uncoated, light weight and typically made from mechanical pulp or recycled fibre. Compared to other papers, it requires fewer resources, processing and energy. Ink is used efficiently and as production is predominantly coldset, requires minimal energy for drying. The industry inevitably requires substantial quantities of resources and generates emissions and waste. Commitment to sustainability can be made with the proportion of businesses publishing formal policies and the uptake of third-party certification surprisingly low for a sector of its size and prominence.

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Newspaper printing is far more sustainable than is thought 6By Prabhu Natrajan

From staid to daring – an unbelievable metamorphosis 10Sakuntala Narasimhan looks at Tamil publications

From commercial to social causes, a long journey 14Mrinal Chatterjee dwells on the history of Gujarati journalism

Industry Updates 18

General News 35

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Even though the above portrayal is statistically backed, major facts often tend to be misread. For instance, several consumers believe that

buying newspapers and magazines leads to widespread deforestation and not subscribing to a newspaper will help. However, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) says more than 80 per cent of deforestation between 2010 and 2030 is likely to be because of agriculture, logging, mining, infrastructure and increased fire incidents in forests. The next logical step would be to find a sustainable solution than shutting down core sectors of human civilization.

Evolution of new technology is often a threat to the existing one for any industry that faces migration. The trajectory of inventions by humans sees radio and the telephone as fine nascent inventions in the communication sector, followed by television, perceived as a threat to the radio. Soon, television was threatened by the Internet, and the newspaper industry by the smartphone. Prabhu Natrajan on the challenges posed by evolving technology and why newspapers are far more eco-friendly than what people think

To counter such fallacies in the print industry, the World Printers Forum board of WAN-IFRA has collaborated with Two Sides, an organisation that promotes the sustainability of the graphic communications supply chain and dispels common environmental misconceptions globally. A joint report shows newspaper printing as a sustainable production method. It also promotes steps newspaper printers and publishers should take to further their sustainable prospects.

Like any other industry, newspaper publishing has several environmental consequences – consumption

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of raw material and use of energy and water are just some of the impacts. Here are key outcomes of the report that elaborate on the misconception wrapped around the newspaper industry. The report also identifies sustainability strengths and weaknesses of the industry and provides recommendations to improve the status quo.

Paper – a sustainable raw materialThe global pulp and paper industry supports over

310 million hectares of sustainably certified forests, with 54 per cent of wood fibre certified to FSC or PEFC standards in 2015. At least 70 per cent of paper consumption in developed countries is recovered and recycled, making it one of the most recycled of all materials. Well-managed, certified and sustainable forests bring multiple benefits to society, such as livelihoods, ecosystem services and biodiversity. The paper and pulp industry needs a considerable amount of water for paper-making, but realises the need for a sustainable forest to hold fresh ground water, hence proceeding cautiously. Do you still believe that newspaper production is contributing to boundless deforestation and environmental problems?

Sustainability aspects of newspapersWAN-IFRA had conducted a survey in spring 2018

(WHEN?) among a limited member circle to find out strategies and techniques adopted across the industry to sustain newspapers efficiently. Cost management of the product being key, many companies migrated to lower grammage newsprint to harvest the best yield. Certified paper and use of recycled paper were being the choice for few companies for a sustainable Newspaper. Additionally, efficient ink coverage management helps them to sustain as well. Some publishers believe that adopting international standards such as ISO 9001, 14001 NS 45001 would help improve the efficiency of newspaper production.

Newspapers versus online newsNewspapers, being a physical entity, are a reliable

source of news consumption with a lower chance of publishing fake news, compared to an online portal. With the ephemeral nature of online news, it is easy to forget it has environmental impact too that come with production of digital devices such as smartphones, tablets and computers. Concerns about ‘conflict minerals’ such as tin, tungsten, tantalum and

gold that are often used in electronic devices still persist.

Electronic waste, in 2014, totalled 9.3 million tons worldwide. If not collected and recycled properly, e-waste can release toxins, causing loss of valuable resources. Carbon emission is a consideration, too. It is difficult to compare the carbon footprint of print and online news, because of the several variables involved. However, one of the study by UPM shows the carbon foot print for a single newspaper production is equal to driving a car for about 1 kilometre.

ConclusionNewspapers have a lot of strengths when it comes to

sustainability. They are an effective and trusted means of distributing news and information, and they do this relatively eco-efficiently. Newsprint is uncoated, light weight and typically made from mechanical pulp or recycled fibre. Compared to other papers, it requires fewer resources, processing and energy. Ink is used efficiently and as production is predominantly coldset, requires minimal energy for drying. The industry

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inevitably requires substantial quantities of resources and generates emissions and waste. Commitment to sustainability can be made with the proportion of businesses publishing formal policies and the uptake of third-party certification surprisingly low for a sector of its size and prominence.

Sustainability is a win-win strategy that in most cases improves environmental and economic efficiency simultaneously. This combination builds competitive advantage by providing customers with products and services with lower negative environmental impact while also reducing costs. Lean production, optimum usage of resources and improving efficiency will add value to the newspaper. Implementing international

standards like ISO 12647-3 (Standard for cold set newspaper), ISO 9001 (Quality Management system), ISO 14001 (Environmental Management System) and ISO 18001 (Occupational Health and Safety Management System) will help the newspaper improve the efficiency.

Note: To know more aspects of a sustainable newspaper, you could download a recent report from the WAN-IFRA member site.

(This article had appeared in the July-August issue of Asian News Media Focus. The writer is a printing technologist and works as research engineer with WAN-IFRA South Asia. You could email him at prabhu.n@wan-ifra.org.)

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Mathrubhumi Joint Managing Director M.V. Shreyams Kumar has donated a month’s salary amounting to Rs 20 lakhs to the Chief Ministers Relief Distress Relief Fund. Kumar will also donate his five years MLA pension to the distress relief fund and will build five houses worth Rs 5 lakhs each. He has also donated his accumulated pension eligible as ex-MLA – Rs 3.75 Lakhs – to CMDRF.

A former MLA, Kumar is the Kerala State president of Loktantrik Janata Dal (LJD). He is also the present chairman of Kerala Regional Committee of the Indian Newspaper Society, president of Kerala Television Federation, vice-president of News Broadcasters ‘Association and the executive committee member of the International Advertising Association.

The Mathrubhumi Group donated a sum of Rs 5 Crore collected through its Keralathinu-oru-kaithangu (flood relief) campaign, the funds for which was collected from readers and well-wishers and includes donations by the company and its employees to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan along with Shreyams contribution for CMDRF. The cheque was handed over by M.P. Veerendra Kumar, managing director – Mathrubhumi and Member of Parliament along with managing editor P.V. Chandran to the Chief Minister.

The relief and rehabilitation work carried by the campaign Keralathinu-oru-kaithanguby Mathrubhumi continues. The service of more than 500 employees of Mathrubhumi are actively involved in the rehabilitation work, along with supply of various medicines, and medical camps are being organised by the organisation.

Shreyams Kumar donates a month’s salary

Mathrubhumi Online won two gold and two silver metals at the second edition of DigiPub Awards – India’s first award for digital publishing. The four metals were won under the Indian languages category for Best Article / Video feature – ‘Daring life of a fisher women – Rekha’ (silver metal), Best Use of Social Media – ‘Mathrubhumi re-imagine the future’ (silver metal), Mathrubhumi.com winning two golds for Website of the Year (General News & Features) and Lifestyle and Infotainment.

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Growing up in Delhi in the post-Independence years, I learned to read my mother tongue, Tamil, only through magazines like Ananda

Vikatan and Kalki , two popular weeklies that my mother subscribed to. Legendary Tamil writers like Kalki (Krishnamurthy), Lakshmi, R.Choodamani, and Jayakanthan had their novels serialised in these magazines, and I remember Alai Osai, Ponniyin Selvan, Pareesukku Po and other long stories that enjoyed avid readership. Some were social novels, some historical, but the language was uniformly gripping and – more to the point –grammatically pure and correct.

Vikatan’s cover always had a nice cartoon with a joke; there was very little about cinema or film actors and actresses. Illustrations were often by the gifted ‘Silpi’, who created masterpiece reproductions of temple sculptures and intricate depictions of historical figures to match the stories’ narrative.

Half a century later, when I pick up current issues of these magazines, I am struck by the changes, in content, layout, choice of subjects and general get-up. If the publications of the 1950s had a staid and decorously clad Bharatiya nari (Indian woman), or a conscientious, God-fearing middle-class man, today’s are a typical, fashion-conscious, daringly clad college girl leading a ‘fast’ life. The media reflecting social changes, or society being influenced by media depictions? It’s a moot point. Strangely enough, alongside the ‘progress’ in terms of modernity and ‘liberation’ that the magazines reflect today, there is also in evidence, a more daring manifestation of sexism (which ‘modernity’ frowns upon).

The language, for one – grammar and adherence to

From staid to daring - an unbelievable metamorphosisIf Tamil publications of the 1950s had a staid and decorously clad Bharatiya nari (Indian woman), or a conscientious, God-fearing middle-class man, today’s are a typical, fashion-conscious, daringly clad college girl leading a ‘fast’ life. The media reflecting social changes, or society being influenced by media depictions? It’s a moot point. Strangely enough, alongside the ‘progress’ in terms of modernity and ‘liberation’ that the magazines reflect today, there is also in evidence, a more daring manifestation of sexism, which ‘modernity’ frowns upon, says Sakuntala Narasimhan

linguistic norms, go for a toss. Not just colloquialism, but downright hybrid ‘masala mixtures’, call it a textual equivalent of chaat-masala and pani-puri (not part of south Indian cuisine originally, but even wedding receptions offer these north Indian imports today, in the name of ‘trendiness’).

Here’s a sampling of sentences from today’s pages : “Okay vaa ?” (Is it okay, written in Tamil script). “Soopper” (again, written in Tamil letters, in place of what would have been, 50 years ago, Sari (all right) or Pramaadam (super). Words like naatla, veetla, and roadla, which would have been naattil, veettil and theruvil originally, have taken on new, ‘modern’ inflections.

Appadi illanga (it is not like that), a film director says now, in an interview, the way a lower class , semi-literate person would say it; that would have been, correctly, Appadi illai, in a magazine of yesteryear. Paaraattitta ought to be paaraatti vittaal. And so on. Kondaaduranga (they are celebrating) would have been previously Kondaadugiraargal. Partly, it is perhaps a dilution of Brahminical-literary styles, in favour of commonly spoken, caste-less phrases. Partly, it is also a reflection of the ‘anglicisation’ of urban lifestyles and speech. Creativity illai (there is no creativity), one phrase says. Isn’t there a word for creativity in Tamil?

And curiously enough, there is no ‘Hindi-isation’ or admixture, in tandem with the Anglicisation – whereas even ads for national entities like the Life Insurance Corporation, or multinationals, routinely use Hindi phrases like aap ke liye and jawaab nahin in their ads. Interesting! There’s grist here, for political / social / north-south research...

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been never, never seen in these magazines half a century ago.

A recent issue of Kumudam, another popular weekly, has ‘Women who smoke’ as its lead story, with a young woman on the cover to match, with sari carefully pulled down to expose a breast. But this trend is not only in vernacular magazines, I must concede – I wrote recently about how Femina, from the Times of India Group, has metamorphed over the years, giving way to ‘cheekiness’, where once decorously clad pretty women ruled, for the cover. Even though Femina was a pioneer in holding beauty contests and was not just a housewives’ magazine. Kaalam maari pochu (times have changed), as the older generations say...

Then the pictures – women in shorts, short skirts, knee-length boots, striking sexy poses, with hair left open and no pottu (bindi) on the cover – not done, just not done, in a ‘family magazine’ commanding a wide circulation (including South Indian readers settled in the north) two generations ago (decent females did not leave their hair open, much less cut it, and being without a bindi was, well, considered sacrilegious and sinful for Hindu women other than widows; as for showing a leg – only women of loose morals did).

The magazines would have promptly lost circulation and readership with such depictions, during my mother’s time. Now, perhaps, these are the images that sell. Even salwar-kameez was not acceptable once (I used to wear salwar kameez to play tennis, and that was supposed to be scandalous in the south, even during the late 1950s when I entered college).

The recipe page offers chaat (unknown in the south, at one time) and pizza as ‘special’ treats. The titles and subtitles for features are ‘In box’ (written in Tamil script of course), and ‘Visual corner’. ‘TV corner’ is the title of one section (my mother-in-law would not have understood the word corner). ‘Lights on’ is the title for another section (on filmi gossip). English words proliferate. One article is on Beyonce (that’s globalisation for you) with a picture that would have <

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The trend started perhaps three decades ago, with the rise of writers like Sivasankari and ‘Sujatha’ (whose serialised fiction commanded a huge fan following and turned them into social icons). Their novels were gripping and were enjoyed for the plots’ conception rather than literary merit. Nonetheless, the language still remained largely uncorrupted, and faithful to the south Indian ethos. That has changed dramatically, in the New Millennium.

There are still a few Tamil literary magazines, untouched by these trends, but they are by no means ‘mainstream’ or popular in the sense of wide readership. Which is perhaps true of other languages too (including English). Is that a good thing? Had one of today’s issues of Ananda Vikatan been available when I was in school, trying to learn Tamil, I would have been confused by the hybridisation of the written word – part English, part colloquial, and part a genetically modified version of regional writing.

A requiem for something wholesome that is gone, or a hailing of something more in keeping with today’s confused times? That brings us back, then, to that earlier question: Do publications reflect the times or mould them through what the older generation would call a ‘corruption’ of language, themes and presentation?

This full-age advertisement in a leading English daily carries an important message — that a government-sponsored insurance programme service date has been extended. Do such ads reach the target audience?

Yet another full-page advertisement in an English newspaper talks about how a Karnataka Government sponsored insurance scheme has brought smiles to the face of farmers. The reality is quite different, though.

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From commercial to social causes, a long journey

A characteristic feature of early Gujarati journalism was the interest shown in commercial news, marketing and trading. The earliest Gujarati journal was a weekly, Mumbaina Samachar, founded by

Parsi priest Furdonji Murzban in Bombay in 1822 with 150 subscribers – a promising start for those days. Its main object was stated to be to publish market rates and serve the business community. Unlike many other newspapers of the period, it had “a full-fledged printing press complete with types”1. It was converted into a daily and renamed Bombay Samachar in 1832.

In 1830, the Mumbai Vartman was launched by Naoroji Dorabji Chandaru. After a year, it developed into a bi-weekly with the extended title of Mumbaina Halkaru Ane Vartaman. It remained in publication for 13 years, and closed down in 1843. Jam-e-Jamshed, a weekly, was published by Pestonji Manekji in 1831. It became a daily in 1853 and was popular among the Parsis. Other newspapers which came out between 1832 and 1854 included Doorbin, Mombaina Kasud, Samachar Durpan, Chitranjan Darpan and Chabuk; none could exist beyond 1856.

Interestingly, an English magistrate, Sir Alexander Kinlock Forbes, took a leading role in the development of Gujarati journalism in Ahmedabad and Surat. He helped the Gujarat Vernacular Society of Ahmedabad to launch the Vartaman in 1849. It was edited by an employee of the society. Another interesting aspect about early Gujarati journalism was: it was divided in two sections, Hindu and Parsi. The first Parsi newspaper, Bombay Samachar, started with an up-to-date printing press; the Vartaman was

(The author, a journalist-turned-media academician, presently

heads the Eastern India campus of the Indian Institute of Mass

Communication located in Dhenkanal, Orissa. This article forms part of a series on the history of regional

language journalism in India.)

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lithographed. The newspapers of each community took up the question of reform within that community. Bombay Samachar, however was an exception, which opened its doors to everyone without distinction.

Forbes also promoted a bi-weekly Surat Samachar, in Surat in 1850 which, however, had only a brief existence. Surat had a journal devoted to prohibition, the Parhejhgar. In 1854, Lallubhai Raichand started the Shamasher Bahadur

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in Ahmedabad. Dadabhai Naroji’s started Rast Gofar (which means truth-speaker) in1851, whose mission was to work for social reform. It continued publication till 1921.

The Hitechu was the first Gujarati daily. It was started as a bi-weekly in 1861; it was converted into a daily in 1873. It rendered great public service during the 40 years of its life. The Gujarati press was divided into the Hindu and Parsi sections and there was no love lost between the two. Anxious to stem the rot which had set in, some adventurous young men started papers with high ideals and principles; one of them was Prajabandhu, which was first published in 1895. Also belonging to this category was Gujarati Punch. The Kheda Vartman, a weekly, started in Kaira in 1861, celebrated its contenary in 1961. The Sanj Varman of Bombay (1902) was an influential evening paper. Sorabji Palonji Kapadia was the editor of Sanj Varman

for a long time. It stopped publication in 1950. As Gandhi’s birthplace and the scene of the celebrated Salt March of 1930, Gujarat generated a press even more influenced by nationalist causes than elsewhere. Gandhi took over the Navjivan from Indulal Yajnik and converted it from a monthly into a weekly from Ahmadabad in 1919 at the time he broke into India’s national politics. Navjivan had great influence on Gujarati journalism. In 1919, its circulation was 9000 and the following year it jumped to 20000. It was renamed Harijan Bandhu in 1932 and Chandrasekhar Premshankar Shukla became its editor. It stopped publication in 1940 and after revival in 1946 continued for two years. The Gujarati press played a significant part in the freedom struggle and lent powerful support to Gandhi in the non-cooperation and constructive programmes.

Among the doyens in Gujarati journalism, mention must be made of Amritlal Seth, who formed the Saurashtra Trust in 1931 and launched the Gujarati Daily Janmabhoomi on

9th June 1934 in Bombay. Samaldas Gandhi, another great name, was its editor. Samaldas Gandhi and his associates left Janmabhoomi after some time and started Vande Mataram and a war of words developed between the two papers. Amritlal Seth founded the Indian Languages Newspapers Association and organised a cooperative society to help finance needy Gujarati papers. Janmabhoomi grew into a media group2 which by 2011 published several publications including Pravasi Weekly, Vyapar, Phulchhab, Kutchmitra, and a literary magazine, Kavita.

Among other distinguished journalists were Lchcharam Suryarm Desai, Sarabji Kapadia, Natwarlal I. Desai Ravishankar Mehta, K. M. Munshi and Kapilraj Mehta. Ahmedabad had no Gujarati daily paper till 1921. The first Gujarati daily from Ahmedabad was Swarajya with Nandilal Bodiwala as editor but it did not live for long. Bodiwala

Front pages of the Navjivan, Divya Bhaskar and Mumbai Samachar. Navjivan had great influence on Gujarati journalism.

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started an evening paper, Sandesh, with which Ahmedabad Samachar, a rival, was merged later. It became a morning daily in 1943. By 1958, Chimanbhai Patel was at the helm of affairs. His unique contribution to journalism was the Sunday Sanskar Poorti in Gujarati, which included many celebrities as columnists. He thus pioneered Sunday supplements in Gujarati journalism. Until 1984, Sandesh was a single-edition newspaper published from Ahmedabad. Then, under an expansion programme, new editions were launched in Baroda, Surat, Rajkot and Bhavnagar in 1985, 1989,

1990 and 1998, respectively. Another group which published a number of Gujarati papers is Lok Prakashan. It had several publications including the Gujarat Samachar3, a daily initially published from Ahmedabad in late 1940s; weekly Prajabandhu and evening daily Loknad.

Gujarat did not have an English daily for a long time after Independence until the national dailies, Times of India and the Indian Express, brought out their editions from Ahmedabad. Another interesting feature of Gujarati journalism was: until the creation of a separate state of Gujarat in 1960, Mumbai was as much a centre of Gujarati publications as Ahmedabad.

Indeed, in the early 1960s, the largest Gujarati daily newspaper Bombay Samachar continued to be published from Mumbai. After the state of Gujarat was created, however, the focus of Gujarati life turned increasingly towards Ahmedabad and the provincial towns of the new state.

At the end of 1984, there were 43 dailies in Gujarati out of a total of 735 publications. By 2007-08, according to the figures given by the Registrar of Newspaper of India, the number of publications went up to 3005, of which 220 were dailies and 1410 were weeklies. According to the Indian Readership Survey 2011 Q2, the five most read Gujarati dailies were Gujarat Samachar (readership: 44.44 lakh)4, Divya Bhaskar5 (35.36 lakh), Gujarat Sandesh6 (33.29 lakh), Saurashtra Samachar7 (2.3 lakh) and Gujarat Mitra8 (1.76 lakh). Radio

By mid 2011, there were about 10 All India Radio stations, a dozen private FM stations, 4 campus radio stations and one community radio stations in Gujarat. Among the private FM stations were Radio City, Red FM, My FM, Radio One and Big FM. Among the campus radio

The Gujarat Sandesh was one of the five most-read Gujarati dailies.

3.http://www.gujaratsamachar.com/4.Founded in the late 1940s, published from Ahmedabad. Editions from Ahmedabad, Vadodara (Baroda), Surat, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Mumbai and New York. Owned by the Lok Prakashan Ltd Group. Publisher: Shreyansh Shantilal Shah.5.Dainik Bhaskar Group’s Gujarati daily. Published by the Bhaskar Group. Launched in 2003. Has a North American edition for NRIs in Gujarati. Published from Ahmedabad, Badodara, Surat, Rajkot. Sections are National, International, Sport, Business, and Mumbai. City supplements for Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Rajkot, Uttar Gujarat, Dakshin Gujarat, Madhya Gujarat, Kutch, Saurashtra. Magazines are Woman Bhaskar, Bal Bhaskar, Dharma Darshan, Utsav, Aha! Zindagi. It has a literary supplement with features like Navalkatha, Navalika, Gazal ane Kavitha, Kahaveto, Hasya Lekh.6.In 1923, Nandlal Bodiwala started the Sandesh daily. It grew phenomenally after Chimanbhai Patel took over in 1958. By 2011, it had five editions. Chimanbhai died in 1995 and his son Falgunbhai Patel took over as editor and CMD. http://www.sandesh.com/footer.aspx?page=About%20Us7.On September 01, 2004 the Dainik Bhaskar Group took over Gujarati daily Saurashtra Samachar, Bhavnagar.8.Established in 1863, the Gujaratmitra is one of the oldest newspapers in the country. A bi-weekly named Gujaratdarpan was amalgamated in 1894 with the Gujaratmitra and the paper is known as Gujaratmitra & Gujaratdarpan. Initially started as a weekly, the paper was converted into a daily in 1936. Uttamram Reshamwala joined it as sub-editor in 1898. In 1920, he took over the paper from the Parsee owner. Since then Gujaratmitra belongs to the Reshamwala family. 1n 1937, Pravinkant, the younger son of Uttamram Reshamwala took over the reins of the newspaper at the age of 19 on the sudden and untimely demise of his elder brother, Champaklal. After him, Pravinkant Reshamwala nurtured the paper on a sound footing. After Pravinkant’s demise in 1983, his son Bharat Reshamwala has been at the helm of affairs. http://www.gujaratmitra.in/web/Aboutus/tabid/238/Default.aspx9. www.vtvgujarati.com. It was launched on August 15, 2011. It is a Gujarati News Channel with HD Technology. Its programmes are watched in several countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and in Australia.10. http://www.indianexpress.com/news/gujarat-bjps-namo-tv-back-on-air/1017923

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state, only to be shut the next day, pending clearances. Next week, the poll panel cleared the channel to go on air but put certain conditions to monitor political advertisements and possible paid news during the election period. As per media reports,10 for the network, the BJP has partnered with five local Gujarati satellite channels which will broadcast the same content.

New MediaBy end-2012, almost all

the leading newspapers and television channels of Gujarat had websites. Several newspapers were available on the Internet in e-paper format. Several service providers were disseminating news on the mobile platform. There were many Gujarat-centric and Gujarati community centric websites to cater to the large Gujarati Diaspora spread all over the world. <

Indian Post honoured the man who wielded influence in the early years of Gujarati journalism: Dadbhai Naoroji.

Gujarat Samachar from the Lok Prakashan stable was initially published from Ahmedabad.

having 4-5 million C&S (Cable and Satellite) homes. Like in other states, it was Doordarshan which brought television to Gujarat. At present, besides the channels of Doordarshan (DD Girnar, DD Gujarat), several private news channels have cropped up in Gujarat. Among them are ETV Gujarati, P7 News, TV 9 Gujarati, Bizz News, VTV9, Sandesh News, et al. Gujarat Samachar launched GSTV News & Views Channel, a 24X7 news and current affairs channel in Gujarati with a mix of Hindi on December 2012. NaMo TV, an initiative of Gujarat BJP (apparently named after Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi) was launched on October 4, 2012 a day after the announcement of the assembly election schedule in the

stations were Micavaani (Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad), Gujarat University Community Radio, Ahmadabad and Vallabh Vidyanagar Campus Radio run by A.J. Kidwai Mass Comunication and Research Centre, Sardar Patel University, Anand. Among the community radio stations were Rudi no Radio (Self Employed Women's Association / SEWA) in Sanand.

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in India where the rural high frequency TV transmitter was established in 1975 at village Pij of Kheda District. A 2011 report showed Gujarat

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QIPC’s mRC-3D on a Sigmarq press.

QIPC receives order from Indian publisher

The innovative mRC-3D-system of QI Press Controls (QIPC) helps printers worldwide to realise savings in waste and to make the life of their employees more easy. QIPC, the Dutch specialist in measure-and control equipment, recently received an order from Indian printer Pudhari Publications in Kolhapur, that will use the mRC-3D-systeem in their own printing plant, and from Sigmarq Technologies, an Indian press builder, who will install the mRC-3D-system on a press that’s been built up in Kenya.

The mRC-3D-system for colour register is unique in the world. It has the fastest camera in the world and is able to measure accurately, regardless of the focus distance and the distortions of the web. As a result, the response time remains very limited and large waste savings can be realised. By equipping the system with double sensors, the possibilities become twice as large and depth can be handled more efficiently. This is very important in case of flutter, waves and/or creases in the webs.

Pudhari Publications has been familiar with the QIPC systems for some time: the most recent order fits into a long-term cooperation “The cost for printing plants are constantly increasing and we were looking for a way to keep them under control," explains Managing Director Yogesh Jadav of Pudhari Publications on why he has partnered with QIPC before. “Thanks to QIPC we can realise savings in waste and simplify our production.”

Sigmarq is an emerging Indian press builder, who sees the advantages of QIPC systems and therefore likes to install them on their presses. “Sigmarq is growing,” says Rakeshkumar Dave, MD of QIPC India. “In the near future, for example, they want to launch a new highspeed newspaper press. Our strong relationship with them offers us the possibility to grow along with them. “The four mRC-3D-cameras that Sigmarq has ordered now will be installed on a press in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. “That gives us an immediate entry into the growing African market.”

The goals Sigmarq is pursuing with the installation of the mRC-3D-system for colour register are the same as for Pudhari Publications and all those other satisfied users: waste savings and a more efficient operation of the press. Adds Dave: “Thanks to the mRC-3D-system, the user will get maximum control over the consumption of paper, ink and energy. In addition, higher quality printed material can be delivered and the accuracy and speed of the production process is increased thanks to the fully automated system.”

EAE wins major retrofit order from Reach plc

Reach plc (until May 2018 Trinity Mirror plc), the UK’s biggest newspaper publisher, is also a leading player in the magazines and online media business. Apart from more than 240 local and regional newspapers, Reach also publishes the national Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, Daily Express, Sunday Express and Daily Star as well as sundry other newspapers and magazines with a nationwide circulation.

Its subsidiary Reach Printing Services, one of the premier print providers anywhere in the United Kingdom, is responsible for producing the newspaper print editions. In addition to the Reach Group’s own titles, Reach Printing Services also contract-prints a variety of newspapers and magazines on behalf of other publishers. The two largest sites are located in Oldham (nearly 71000 square metres of floor space) and Watford, though the company also has facilities in Birmingham, Cardonald (Scotland), Luton and Teesside.

Out of the six sites, the printing centre in Oldham, which employs 148 people, outputs the highest page volume. Between six and seven million newspapers and magazines leave the premises every week. Reach

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Reach Printing Services opted for a complete retrofit of all PCs belonging to the EAE systems on the Wifag evolution 371 press line.

The Oldham printing centre of Reach Printing Services in North West England.

Group products account for around 55 per cent of the site’s total print volume; the remainder are external contracts like The Guardian, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday and The iplus many other titles. Production takes place on seven days a week at night and four days a week in the daytime.

The print shop in Oldham works with a Wifag evolution 371 web press line, which was commissioned in 2006 and originally comprised four sections but was expanded by an additional section in 2008 and again in 2009. The line has 19 four-high towers overall as well as six jaw folders and 19 reel stands. It has been operated and controlled from the outset using press control and control console technology from EAE Engineering Automation Electronics and is equipped with eight EAE Baltic Star control consoles. For many years now, the relationship between Reach Printing Services and EAE has been marked by a constructive partnership. The print provider first signed a Service Level Agreement with EAE back in 2011 and has since enjoyed 24/7 hotline support along with a series of other benefits and privileges.

The need to modernise the computer systems of the control consoles and the section controls in order to maintain production reliability was recognised some time ago. Compared to the heavy mechanical components of newspaper web presses, computer hardware and PCs tend to have a relatively short lifecycle. Malfunctions and breakdowns typically occur more frequently towards the end of the service life, with direct implications for press availability. “We have started experiencing equipment failures

and the risk of impairments to our production was rising steadily,” says reports Alan Marsden, IT Systems manager at Reach Printing Systems (Oldham). “In our experience, spare parts for our computers were getting harder and harder to come by. On top of that, support for the operating systems we use has been withdrawn.”

After careful deliberation of the options, the Reach managers responsible decided in favour of a complete retrofit of all PCs belonging to the EAE systems on the WIFAG web press. They did this with the aim of increasing system reliability and availability and extending the life of the equipment as a whole. “We expect a retrofit specialist to provide us with a turnkey solution at a reasonable cost and to implement it without disrupting or interrupting our production workflows any more than absolutely necessary,” Marsden explains. EAE was an obvious choice here in view of their extensive experience and successes in the retrofit business

The order for EAE involves replacing the existing PCs in the EAE system environment with eight new control console PCs, twelve section control PCs, six PCs for the EAE Info reporting and logging system, two EAE Info Remote Workstations and one EAE Service PC. Four replacement units of the various PC models round off the hardware package. On the software side, the printer will be supplied with an update to the latest version of the EAE Info System plus the newest versions of both the operating systems, namely RMOS (an OS for industrial environments) and Windows.

The retrofit work in Oldham is due to be carried out by EAE’s experts at the end of September 2018. To ensure optimum conditions for rapid and efficient implementation on the customer’s site, the new computer systems will be configured at the EAE headquarters in Ahrensburg (Germany); both the operating systems and the EAE application software will be installed and tested there prior to departing for Oldham.

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During a visit to the Würzburg demo centre (from left to right): Matthias May, service management Koenig & Bauer Digital & Webfed; Siegfried Wahl, technical director ColdsetInnovation Fulda; Thomas Potzkai, head of service and project Management Koenig & Bauer Digital & Webfed; Marius Möller, project management ColdsetInnovation Fulda.

Nouvelles d´Europe is produced in Chinese, and the China Rundschau in German.

EAE, the Ahrensburg-based company, is active in graphic industries, automation solutions and automation technology. The company, founded in 1962 by Richard Ewert, is the leading supplier of controls, automation solutions and software for newspaper printers. EAE's solutions are being used in all areas of a newspaper printing plant – from pre press to the mailroom. Worldwide more than 550 newspaper printing plants are using EAE's control systems to produce more than 125 million newspapers each day.

Chinese newspaper printed on Commander press

ColdsetInnovation Fulda has been printing two newspaper titles for a customer in China since the beginning of the year. The newspapers are produced for the Scandinavian region, the Benelux countries and Germany. “Our Chinese partners are very demanding when it

comes to newspaper quality. Our Commander satellite press’ register accuracy, extremely low fan-out and minimal make-ready times tipped the scales in our favour,” says Siegfried Wahl, assistant vice-president and technical director at ColdsetInnovation Fulda. And, contrary to the general trend, the circulation of both newspapers (Berlin format) has increased by more than 10 percent this year. Siegfried Wahl:

“Without our Commander this deal would not have come about. Our press operates flawlessly. We have been working successfully with Koenig & Bauer for decades and are very satisfied with the services they provide.”

A Commander satellite press with an hourly output of up to 90000 full-colour newspapers has been in operation at ColdsetInnovation Fulda in Eichenzell, Germany, since 2010. The highly automated press that was extended in 2011 consists of three reelstands, three printing towers, a KF 5 folder and numerous add-ons for inline finishing. The 70 employees at ColdsetInnovation Fulda guarantee economical, high-quality production. The company primarily produces daily and weekly newspapers, books and catalogues. Even substrates that are particularly difficult to handle, such as transparent paper, can be printed and processed. The company has been producing the Ärzte Zeitung and Ärzte Woche for years with a transparent wrapper.

The Guang Hua Culture and Media Group is the largest Chinese-language culture and media group in Europe. Its Paris-based newspaper Nouvelles d'Europe has been published for 35 years and is distributed throughout Europe. Today, it has branches in London, Vienna, Frankfurt, Rome, Madrid and Beijing. In its 35-year history, Nouvelles d'Europe has consistently expanded its media offerings.

Nürnberger Presse adopts Content-X for its ad dept

The Nürnberger Presse Publishing House now produces content such as advertorial pages much more efficient than with their previous workflow thanks to the editorial system Content-X.

Content-X is based on the DAM system DC-X by Digital Collections, which was newly introduced at the Nuremberg publisher and makes the central administration of images, texts and other assets

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In future, the ad department at the Nürnberger Presse Publishing House will produce all its advertising inserts, advertorial pages and supplements with the editorial system Content-X from ppi Media and Digital Collections.

possible. Aside from efficient content management, external editors and writers can now be integrated into the workflows much more easily when producing advertorials. They just add their materials for the advertorial pages to the DAM system via a web browser, meaning that there is no need for a complicated file storage system.

ppi Media provides the interfaces that connect InDesign and the DAM system. WYSIWYG previews in the web browser make it possible to write texts accurately and line by line in DC-X. Staff at the Nürnberger Presse publishing house also benefit from the sophisticated status management for documents of the new system.

The time needed to produce certain products could already be reduced significantly at the publisher’s ad department thanks to Content-X. “We are delighted about the increase in efficiency that we have seen so far and that goes back to our use of Content-X”, says Michael Bayer, head of advertising at the Nürnberger Presse. The plan is to produce other products, including magazines, with Content-X from the end of August.

MainPad introduced in Augsburg

At an expert panel on the subject of ‘Digitalisation: A lasting impulse for innovation or a threat to jobs?’ manroland Goss web systems presented its new mobile MainPad maintenance tablet. Together with the development partner XITASO, the Augsburg-based world market leader in web offset printing introduced its new product in the framework of a presentation followed by a panel discussion on 3rd

September 2018. The importance of the subject was also underlined by the visit of the Bavarian minister for Economic Affairs, Franz Josef Pschierer.

With its Maintellisense automation strategy, manroland Goss web systems pursues the aim of providing intelligent machines in the near future. The aim requires a central hub for all the relevant information – with the mobile maintenance pad, MainPad, fulfilling exactly this function. How can the time between the occurrence of a malfunction and troubleshooting on complex systems be reduced?

To this end, the MainPad offers numerous features – reading and acknowledging all alarm messages at the place of the malfunction, direct access to all necessary documentations and drawings, direct and fast connection to the TeleSupportCenter (TSC) via 'remote support calls' and direct video communication with the TSC as well as the fast transmission of documents between technicians on site and the TSC

– everything directly on the machine, i.e. at the place of the malfunction.

The concrete customer benefit is easy to define: The MainPad ensures improved communication through the central provision of all the relevant information and functions (reducing effort and increasing ease of use) of maintenance which leads to a significant reduction of effort and increases ease of use. The MainPad constitutes another important step towards costs reductions and increasing availability. The new MainPad is part of the ground-breaking Maintellisense Project. The name of thes project is derived from the terms ‘maintenance’, ‘intelligence’ and ‘sense’ – which have to be intelligently combined in order provide intelligent machinery and ‘productive maintenance’ in future.

The presentation was followed by a high-profile discussion panel with experts around Franz Josef Pschierer. Manuel Kosok, VP Technology & Development manroland Goss web systems, Stefan Schimpfle, managing director of the aitipark start-up centre, Jens Brunner, professor of Health Care Operations / Health Information Management at Augsburg University, as well as Ulrich Huggenberger, managing partner of XITASO GmBH, joined the panel.

The progress of digitalisation creates challenges, in particular, for traditional medium-sized companies, as a result of which, as Manuel Kosok from manroland Goss web systems explained, we need to understand digitalisation as a continuous task throughout the

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company. “At manroland Goss, we have employees with extensive experience in conventional engineering. Moreover, at our company, high levels of automation and networking have long been standard. What is important now is that we also incorporate the elements of “Industry 4.0”. In this process, we must make sure that our staff are on board. So far, this change in our corporate culture has been very successful.”

This provides a major benefit for manroland Goss web systems which was also used in the development of the MainPad. For example, the know-how and the long-standing experience were connected and harmonised with the state-of-the-art in digitalisation. As a result, customers are now provided with an all-in-one solution which, with a high level of clarity and ease of use, can concurrently also represent the partly complex working steps and projects and provide support in their execution.

ABB customers go for system upgrades

Three different ABB customers have recently ordered upgrades to systems essential for their production. Mediaworks in Hungary is the publisher of many of the leading newspapers in the country. Its printing operation in Budapest has ordered an upgrade to its print production management system, MPS Production. The latest version of MPS Production 6 will go into service at the start of next year. In addition, they have also ordered hardware upgrades to their press control consoles.

Singapore Press Holdings, publisher of leading titles like the Straits Times, has ordered software upgrades for the 16 control consoles on their KBA Commander presses at their Jurong print site. The new consoles on the first of the four presses will be commissioned at the end of February 2019. The work includes the transfer of a series of SPH-specific functions to the new platform as well as an upgraded interface to their WPC register control system.

Rhein-Neckar Zeitung in Heidelberg, Germany, has ordered hardware upgrades for its six control consoles. These will be delivered in November 2018.

Large-format sheetfed offset in the spotlight

At the beginning of September, Koenig & Bauer placed large-format sheetfed offset in the spotlight again in Radebeul. The latest customer event left packaging printing to one side, however, and instead shifted the focus onto highly efficient commercial production, web-to-print and online applications. The press on show was an eight-colour Rapida 145 with perfecting unit for 4-over-4 production. The highlights of this press included LED-UV dryers to enable immediate further processing, as a world premiere in large-format perfecting, a large-format reel sheeter of the latest Quantum generation, the high production speed of 15,000 sheets/hour in perfecting mode, and the autonomous printing of multiple jobs and job sections with ErgoTronic AutoRun.

Dirk Winkler, head of printing process technology at Koenig & Bauer in Radebeul, took general and current demands of the print market such as fast makeready, low waste, ultimate quality and high outputs as the starting point for his presentation of automation solutions and unique features of the Rapida sheetfed offset presses specifically for the commercial and online market.

These included the DriveTronic dedicated drive components which actually make simultaneous processes possible and thus contribute significantly to makeready reductions. The same can be said of the CleanTronic washing systems for optimised, parallel washing processes matched to each individual application. Fast, high-performance inline measuring and control systems (QualiTronic), a broad spectrum of VariDry dryers and end-to-end digital workflows

Visitors to the special event in front of the demonstration press. A sheet from each of the 13 jobs can be seen on the gallery.

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are further key factors for extraordinarily cost-effective print processes.

Alongside general plus points such as fast further processing, improved print quality on uncoated papers, the elimination of odours and heat input into the substrate, waste and energy savings compared to other drying processes, reduced powder and coating consumption and less need for cleaning of the post-press machines, the LED-UV process offers further benefits particularly for perfector presses, for example:

Higher production speed• Elimination of the intermediate dryer tower • which is otherwise necessary ahead of the perfecting unitNo danger of ink drying on the impression • cylindersNo need for special ink-repellent jackets on the • impression cylinders after perfectingMinimised makeready times for frequent format • changesOptimum inline quality control as the • QualiTronic ColorControl cameras can be placed in the ideal positions to scan both sides of the sheet

The eight-colour Rapida 145 in Radebeul was fitted with two LED-UV dryers, one above the storage drum of the perfecting unit and one in the swan neck of the delivery. It was also configured with a DriveTronic feeder, the sidelay-free infeed DriveTronic SIS, and simultaneous plate changing using DriveTronic SPC and Plate Ident. CleanTronic Synchro (including CleanTronic UV) provided for parallel and thus ultra-fast washing processes.

The print demonstrations began with the production of content pages for a magazine on 80 g/m2 paper. This paper was supplied on a reel and cut into sheets at the full production speed of 15000 sheets per hour on the reel sheeter. Subsequently, the audience was able to witness fast conversion of the feeder for production using sheets from a pile, in preparation for printing of the magazine cover on 150 g/m2 glossy paper.

The next jobs were three sections of a cookery book, for which the substrate was changed yet again to a 115 g/m2 matt paper. The job changes between the individual sections were realised fully automatically in an AutoRun process. As a result, only 1.5 minutes passed between the last good sheet of the old job and the first good sheet of the new job. These jobs were followed by another cover on 200 g/m2 glossy paper and two sections of a travel guide on 135 g/m2 glossy paper.

The presentation was rounded off with a series of five jobs typically handled by an online printer. The first three were corridor-free gang formes with flyers requiring run lengths of just 300 copies each. Again making use of the AutoRun function, production was here so fast that the helper on the press had his work cut out to remove the old plates from the plate changers and to insert the new ones in time for the next change.

The jobs also switched back and forth between formes with high and low ink coverages, illustrating one of the particular strengths of an LED-UV process when printing gang formes. To conclude, two further gang formes with business and greeting cards were printed on 350 g/m2 board. For these jobs, the printer disengaged three inking units at the press of a button, enabling 4/1 production to proceed with any delay for roller washing and without the need to apply roller oil in the unused units.

The print demonstrations were about more than just live print production on the Rapida 145, however. On external monitors, the visitors were able to follow how press data were gathered in the production planning system LogoTronic Professional and transferred to the management information system (MIS). The LogoTronic cockpit displayed all important production parameters, and it could be seen, for example, that the net production output was still 13,000 sheets/hour despite the many job changes. All makeready times were documented and the OEE (overall equipment effectiveness)

Alexander Stern, workflow specialist and project manager, explained how press data come together in LogoTronic Professional and how all important economic indicators are determined.

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was calculated and displayed. The Koenig & Bauer specialists explained the JDF/JMF workflow and use of the MIS Optimus Dash in daily commercial and online print production.

Further presentations were devoted to data-driven Connected Services, Visual PressSupport and use of the Rapida LiveApps for decentralised press operation, maintenance, inventory management and consumables tracking.

The conclusion reached at the event: Assuming a corresponding job pool, the Rapida 145 perfector is an ideal means of production for both long runs and jobs requiring only 250 sheets. The high production speed permits the efficient processing of long runs, while fast job changes with AutoRun enable extremely economical production when short runs are the order of the day.

EAE Care Protection for OM Druck

Retrofit or new investment - these were the two alternatives customers had in the past with aging, obsolete press controls. With the extended service contract model EAE Care Protection, EAE GmbH now offers a further option.

OM Druck GmbH & Co KG in Cloppenburg signed such a service contract on August 3, thus securing the daily newspaper production of the Münsterländische Tageszeitung and other print products at a fixed, calculable service budget for a period of five years.

Via the contract model, EAE ensures the operation of the control components on the ClaubergColorstar and the MAN Uniman press within the contract period, which is equivalent to a kind of insurance with mobility guarantee. EAE is responsible for maintaining the availability of the press with spare parts, refurbished parts, repairs or retrofit measures. The basic services of an EAE Service Level Agreement, such as cost-neutral 24/7 telephone and online support by the specialists in Ahrensburg are an additional component of this package.Essential parts of the EAE Service Contract EAE Care Protection:

Annual EAE Control Audit• EAE annual spare parts check• Preferred supply of older generation spare parts • and loan equipment

Maintaining of production operations • through short-term measures such as:

- On-site operations- Spare parts supply with like-new parts (refurbished)- Repairs on site and in the EAE Service Center Ahrensburg- Required retrofit measures

"With this contract we have prevented all the unpleasant surprises that could threaten us on the press control side over the next five years," explains Klaus Themann-Naporra, print manager at OM Druck GmbH & Co KG in Cloppenburg.

"This enabled us to minimise the latent default risk of our control components, which are over 13 years old, without having to invest in large and costly retrofit measures today. The many years of good and competent cooperation with the specialists from Ahrensburg is the reason to go this new way with proven partner EAE Engineering Automation Electronics GmbH".

Data-sharing solutions from Baldwin

BALDWIN Vision Systems (BVS) will showcase the latest developments and new features for its growing portfolio of defect detection and color management technology at Labelexpo Americas (booth 1339, September 25-27, Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, Chicago).

New ColorTrack tools for monitoring and reporting of production data will be demonstrated at Labelexpo.

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The new Vision Systems business unit of Baldwin Technology Company unites former brands PC Industries, QuadTech, and Web Printing Controls into a “print technology powerhouse”, according to Isaam Lutfiyya, director of Global Sales & Marketing for BVS. “Visitors to our booth will get a first look at some truly exciting new technical achievements,” says Lutfiyya. “It is clear now that combining engineering talent and resources is already bearing fruit, bringing proven technology to the next level.”

One ‘first look’ is the Guardian RTM, a new real-time quality monitoring and reporting tool for the Guardian PQV advanced 100 per cent print inspection. Guardian RTM uses a central server to monitor, collect, and display real-time inspection data for multiple presses and jobs—and even across multiple plants—on a simple, uncluttered dashboard user interface.

Explains Lutfiyya, “This data-connecting technology allows printers to track and compare many different production metrics. Press managers can monitor changes as they happen, and make highly informed decisions about print quality, defect management, and even operator-to-operator performance. This is a unique competitive advantage, in that it’s truly the first product of its kind to tie together how you manage your processes, your print customers, and even your people. You’re empowered to quickly identify any mechanical issues, process inefficiencies, or even tailor your operator training to eliminate defects. This new platform opens the door

to build even more functionality into the system.”Additional enhancements to the Guardian PQV

include automated setup and automated job changeover, limiting operator intervention for a more efficient and accurate inspection process. The system provides true 100 per cent print inspection for pharmaceutical, converting, label, flexo, wide, and narrow web applications. Other defect management solutions featured at the show include Guardian OLP PDF proofing and offline inspection, Guardian LSI inspection, and GV-500 Series digital web viewers.

Colour management workflow technology featured at booth 1339 includes ColorTrack software, which automates the process of delivering absolute consistency from press-to-press, shift-to-shift, and plant-to-plant. Significant advancements being demonstrated include options for customised ‘out of tolerance’ alerts, capabilities to reduce changeover time and leftover ink, precise calculation of required ink quantities during job setup, per-job monitoring of real ink costs, and the ability to manage conditions across different processes, presses, and facilities to guarantee brand color fidelity. New data gathering, production monitoring, and reporting tools will enable quality managers to deliver full production overviews to print buyers and brand owners. These enhancements provide even greater control for highly accurate, fast, press-side correction of ink formulations.

Colour Measurement with DeltaCam delivers affordable, accurate inline spectral measurement to achieve absolute colour consistency. Packaging converters can utilise automated, full spectral value measurement—in agreement with ISO standards—on film, paper, or board, ensuring that all printed products are within their customers’ colour specifications.

Using InkWeigh software and scales, press operators can eliminate trial and error by weighing and tracking ink corrections at the press for each client, each job. Printers can fully track ink inventories for the creation of new recipes, for managing leftovers, for ensuring full traceability, and for optimising ink storage to greatly reduce waste and cost.

The Vision Systems business unit of Baldwin Technology Company is the world’s leading innovator of advanced colour and inspection technology for the printing industry. Baldwin Vision Systems sells its automated control systems in more than

Connecting data with Guardian RTM empowers press managers to make highly-informed production decisions.

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100 countries, and maintains a worldwide network of sales and service operations. AMS Spectral UV, another Baldwin business unit, will co-exhibit and demonstrate its industry-leading UV curing solutions at booth 1339.

LN Schaffrath commissions a Rapida 106 perfector

On 8 September, LN Schaffrath celebrated its 275th anniversary by inviting its active and all former employees, as well as the whole local community, to an open day at its production facility in Geldern. With a traditional Gautschen ceremony, a centuries-old custom marking the successful completion of a printer’s apprenticeship, tours of the printshop, the live presentation of a new eight-colour Rapida 106, a fascinating Schaffrath Printing Museum, the humanoid robot Pepper and many other activities for young and old, the company treated its guests to an interesting overview of modern media production in the 21st Century.

Just a few weeks before the anniversary, the media house commissioned a new eight-colour Rapida 106 for 4-over-4 perfecting with additional coating. With this press, LN Schaffrath is treading new technological paths in its magazine production. On the one hand, the perfector press can print magazine covers in a single pass, including coating of the outsides. That already lends a significant boost to efficiency by eliminating the need for a second production pass, not to mention the otherwise necessary drying times.

And, secondly, the content pages which are typically a domain for web presses are also to be handled on

the new sheetfed press for the first time. To this end, the Rapida 106 has been configured with an RS 106 reel sheeter, which is able to use the same reels as the webfedC16. Production can thus be switched between the two Koenig & Bauer presses at any time.

The diversity of magazines and catalogues onthe market continues to increase. In addition, more and more titles are being produced in different editions and versions, in order to address individual target groups more directly.

This is where the Rapida 106 is able to play out its strengths. Depending on the page count of the final product, sheetfed production can already be more profitable than use of a web press for run lengths from approx. 9000 copies. Typical jobs from the 16-page web press can then be transferred to the Rapida 106, which is engineered for speeds up to 18000 sheets per hour in perfecting mode. At LN Schaffrath, it now stands alongside a brand new MBO K8 RS folding machine, which itself fears no comparison with the lightning-fast Rapida 106 with production speeds of up to 275 m/min.

When it comes to automation and quality control, the Rapida 106 incorporates everything which is possible and also meaningful for an established media house: DriveTronic SPC with Plate Ident for simultaneous plate changing, CleanTronic Synchro for parallel washing processes, QualiTronic ColorControl for fast inline colour measurement and control, Lab colour measurement, ImageZoom (digital video magnifier), ErgoTronic ACR (video camera for register control) and extra-narrow colour bars. If it enables standardised production and makes work easier for the printers, then it is present on the Rapida 106.

Modern location for a 275-year-old print and media house: LN Schaffrath possesses over 18000 m of production space and an extremely modern machinery pool.

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A very high level of capacity utilisation is planned. “We expect to print around 50 million sheets per year on the Rapida 106,” says technical manager Martin Sellmann. The investment will thus be recouped in a relatively short time. Another new aspect is the gradual transition from a two-press set-up to a single-press strategy in sheetfed offset. One press has already been dismantled, and the immediate predecessor of the Rapida 106 is to follow as soon as the new press reaches its full performance.

Koenig & Bauer is the world’s second-largest printing press manufacturer with the broadest product range in the industry. For 200 years, the company has been supporting printers with innovative technology, tailor-made processes and a wide array of services.

The portfolio ranges from banknotes, via board, film, metal and glass packaging, through to book, display, coding, magazine, advertising and newspaper printing. Sheetfed and webfed offset and flexo printing, waterless offset, intaglio, simultaneous perfecting and screen printing or digital inkjet – Koenig & Bauer is at home in virtually all printing processes and is the market leader in many of them. In the financial year 2017, the approximately 5600 highly qualified employees worldwide generated annual sales of more than EUR 1.2 billion.

Nazdar to bring big ideas to inkjet conference

Nazdar Ink Technologies will return to the world's biggest inkjet conference – The IJC 2018 - this autumn to present its latest developments and discuss the future of the technology with thought-leaders from across the globe. The fifth annual InkJet Conference - which takes place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Düsseldorf, Germany, on October 16th and 17th 2018 - presents an opportunity for those working in inkjet engineering and chemistry to get up to speed with the newest changes and innovations from a technical point of view.

Organised by ESMA - a leading non-profit European association for printing manufacturers in screen, digital and flexo technology - TheIJC brings together industry and academic leaders to discuss the latest advances and future developments driving digital print.

The event connects technology and market experts from many different fields and provides a compelling conference programme with expert workshops and short courses to help develop the next generation of inkjet systems. In addition to the presentations and workshops, leading experts - including members of Nazdar's team - are available for discussions in the networking arena.

Nazdar will be among the 90 table-top exhibitors at The IJC 2018. Thanks to nearly 100 years of ink development expertise and collaborations with equipment and printhead manufacturers, Nazdar offers an extensive range of custom and market-ready ink solutions for print businesses spanning myriad sectors. Nazdar is a leader in UV inkjet inks for markets including direct-to-shape, container, electronics and single-pass web, and in water-based inks for direct

The whole printer team with Bernd Susen (shift supervisor and sheetfed offset training instructor) and the press operators Vivian Saupe, Oliver Janssen, Klaus Richardson and Rainer Faets(left to right) is delighted with the highly automated Rapida 106. The first production came off the new press at the beginning of August.

On 8 September, LN Schaffrath celebrated the 275th anniversary of the company at a grand open day, whose many highlights included a traditional Gautschen ceremony.

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and indirect textile printing, interior décor, deco laminates and more.

With 60 presentations already scheduled and a wealth of networking opportunities provided, The IJC 2018 is expected to attract over 500 attendees from across the globe. Visitors to Nazdar's table are invited to learn more about the whole range of Nazdar inks - whether their requirements are for graphics or industrial, digital, screen or flexographic printing.

RapidaLiveApp selected for InterTech Award

Koenig & Bauer’s (US) RapidaLiveApp has been selected by an independent panel of judges for the prestigious Printing Industries of America (PIA) 2018 InterTech Technology Award. The RapidaLiveApp, the first of its kind in the industry, was one of

innovative and expected to have a major impact on the graphic communications industry. “The RapidaLiveApp shows the power of apps

to add value in the pressroom,” said Jim Workman, vice president of PIA’s Center for Technology and Research. “The judges found the entire app innovative, especially noting its ability to track and communicate maintenance issues and provide easy access to training resources.” The RapidaLiveApp demonstrates how Koenig & Bauer Sheetfed embodies its corporate vision of setting industry standards in terms of customer focus, innovative solutions, and proactive services. The app provides printers with state-of-the-art tools for a wide range of sheetfed offset applications.

The RapidaLiveApp offers dual functionality. On the one hand, press operators can start or stop their Rapidasheetfed offset press from a mobile location, adjust settings and perform operational tasks as well as obtain information on press status and print jobs. The maintenance manager displays a list of pending maintenance tasks and simplifies these tasks by providing relevant instructions and videos. Successful maintenance can be confirmed and commented upon interactively.

On the other hand, the app includes a powerful tool for warehouse management and control, including batch recording and tracking. Inks, coatings and printing aids used can also be clearly assigned to the respective print jobs. Ordering processes are automatically triggered when minimum quantities are not met.“We are honoured to be chosen for this prestigious

award from PIA,” says Thomas Göcke, head of marketing and CRM at Koenig & Bauer Sheetfed.

“With the RapidaLiveApp we are the first in the graphic arts industry to offer our users a completely new experience when it comes to the operation of sheetfed offset presses. We are delighted that print users and independent institutions appreciate this so much. It is truly an innovative operating concept.”

Eric Frank, senior vice president of marketing and product management at Koenig & Bauer (US) adds:

“The special added value provided by the app lies in the mobile operation and the maintenance manager, which explains the necessary maintenance tasks step-by-step and documents these tasks at the same time.”

Project manager Stefan Singer, head of electrical engineering at Koenig & Bauer in Radebeul, is

Inks in the lab.

Visitors to The IJC 2018 will be able to explore Nazdar's extensive inkjet knowledge.

The RapidaLiveApp will be honoured at this year’s InterTech Technology Awards on September 30 at PRINT 18 in Chicago.

twelve of the 29 entries to be chosen to receive an InterTech Technology Award. It was deemed by the judges as meeting the award criteria of being truly

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impressed by the success of the product: “It fills my colleagues and I with pride that the app is so well received by the industry.”

The RapidaLiveApp has also received several awards in Europe, including the German Design Award in the category, Excellent Communications Design - Apps and the ‘automation award’. The InterTech Technology Award is the first prize in recognition of this pioneering operating philosophy for sheetfed offset presses in the U.S., from the world's largest printing association.

Since 1978, the InterTechTechnology Awards have honoured technologies predicted to shape the future of print and graphics communications. Past honorees have introduced entirely new products and services that have revolutionized ways of working and enabled printers to operate more efficiently.

The InterTech Technology Award will be presented before an audience of industry leaders during the

2018 Premier Print Awards and InterTech Technology Awards Reception & Ceremony, Sept. 30 at the J.W. Marriott in Chicago during the Print 18 trade fair.

Athena Graphics' bond with Glunz & Jensen strengthens

Athena Graphics-Roeselare, Belgium, one of the most prestigious and dynamic prepress companies in Europe, has chosen Glunz & Jensen as their long-term partner for automated platemaking systems. The decision was based on a partnership agreement signed with Glunz & Jensen in 2016 that covered the development and delivery of fully automated processing systems for flexographic printing plates used in Athena’s prepress operation.

In order for Athena Graphics to find the best flexo plate production solution for their daily platemaking operation, they visited competitive repro houses in Europe. One of the repro houses was Digital Flex srl in Italy.

Digital Flex srl -Nuova Roveco Group - is one of the largest, high-quality repro houses in Italy, and it is the first company in Italy to install an ‘automated’ plate processing system from Glunz & Jensen. The Athena Graphics team met with Paolo Cornali, director, Flexo Printing at Digital Flex, who walked them through their complete production set-up.

Says Cornali, “The key benefit to us is first of all the consistent high plate quality. Nothing is a coincidence; everything is programmed exactly to meet our desired

The RapidaLiveApp incorporates a modern operating philosophy into print and warehouse management.

A meeting of minds: Ignace Cosaert, Athena Graphics (right) and Peter Jensen, Glunz & Jensen.

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quality level and leaves out any human error. What is more the unique elevator system moves the plates freely between all process steps. This simplified plate handling system and very sturdy mechanics means much less wear points and less service costs for us.”

Stefaan Deblauwe, Operations Manager at Athena Graphics says: “We invited Glunz & Jensen to be ourpartner in the continuous development and supply of platemaking systems. The decision was based on the design and quality of their automated platemaking systems and the service the company delivers. We believe the new FlexLine Pro will add great value to our operation and to the quality of the jobs we deliver to our customers.”

Adds Peter Jensen, VP, Global Key Account & Marketing at Glunz& Jensen: We have developed a completely new approach to automated platemaking. Our goal with the FlexLine Pro is to make our customers rethink their prepress workflow and benefit by better quality and more flexibility in their workflow. The modularity in our system and theautomated movement of the plate between the platemaking steps minimises manual handling and brings routine maintenance to a minimum. FlexLine Pro optimises the overall flexo platemaking process and provides a more consistent plate quality.

Athena Graphics is a well-known and dynamic prepress company in Europe, with more than 100 employees and establishments in three countries: Belgium, France and The Netherlands. They deliver high-quality prepress, printing forms and online services to the entire packaging chain in order to reduce the time-to-market. They achieve this by investing in people and technology, leading every day to innovation, optimization and automation in the packaging supply chain.

Athena Graphics has received some of the highest recognition in business such as winning the EFTA Benelux Flexo awards, Flexostars France, Packinnove France and a 2nd place in the FlexoTech awards in London.

Today, Digital Flex srl can provide both the highest quality flexo pre-press and flexo printing plates with its state of the art software and platemaking technologies. Behind the company, there is more than 30 years of experience in making flexo printing forms and flexo prepress. The company´s competencies have been acknowledged by numerous domestic and international recognitions.

Glunz& Jensen is the world’s leading supplier of

innovative, high-quality plate making solutions for the global prepress industry. In addition to developing and producing processors for the offset and flexo printing industry, they also offer after sales service. Their product portfolio also includes exposure units, dryers, light finishers, mounting tables, plate stackers and software for monitoring and controlling complete prepress processes.

Nazdar announces new primers for indigo printing

Nazdar Ink Technologies has announced new primers for indigo printing. Nazdar NSC91 and NSC92 are designed to be applied to uncoated plastic films to give them a receptive surface for Indigo offset printing inks.

NSC91 Solvent-based Roller Coat Clear features 12.5 per ent solids, and NSC92 Solvent-Based Screen Printable Clear features 17 per cent solids. Both products are press ready and available through Nazdar's worldwide distribution network. To find your local dealer, please visit the Nazdar website or email NazdarOrders@nazdar.com.

With manufacturing facilities in the United States and Great Britain, Nazdar offers its growing network of customers worldwide the most comprehensive selection of UV, water- and solvent-based wide-format digital inks, screen printing inks, and flexographic inks available in the market. Whether printing indoor or outdoor applications, on paper, plastics, metal, glass or containers and packaging, there's a Nazdar ink that's right for every job.

New deletion pen, flexo cleaner from Burnishine

Burnishine Products has announced the immediate availability of a new single-tip deletion pen formulated specifically for use on polyester laser plates. Announcing the new product, Burnishine Products President Roger Giza said: "Most manufacturers are abandoning the market for polyester laser deletion pens. We wanted to fill that void and developed our own pen to help the many printers still using polyester laser plates. Our new Burnishine LP6000 deletion pen is suitable for virtually every polyester laser plate available, and is the latest in a Burnishine

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line that includes deletion pens for popular metal plates. Burnishine deletion pens effectively remove unwanted images and often eliminate the need to make new plates."

Burnishine Products has also announced the immediate availability of a new flexo cleaner formulated specifically for use on plates and anilox rolls. New Burnishine Flexo Cleaner is an effective and versatile product that safely cleans plates, anilox rolls, and more. It contains low-phosphate biodegradable surfactants and is environmentally safe. Burnishine Flexo Cleaner has been thoroughly tested on water-based and UV-based inks and varnishes, and may be used full strength or diluted as much as 1:8 with water. The product ships without HAZMAT fees, providing a significant savings over many other cleaners.

Giza said: "Tests of Burnishine Flexo Cleaner by Fox Valley Technical College verified its effectiveness on water-based and UV-based inks and varnishes. And a leading press manufacturer found concentrated Burnishine Flexo Cleaner to be more effective than other popular cleaners. We are confident that Burnishine Flexo Cleaner will be popular among flexo printers around the world."

Since 1887, Burnishine Products has manufactured a broad line of pressroom and related chemical products, including plate chemicals, blanket and roller cleaners, fountain solutions, and a line of related cleaning products. All Burnishine products are manufactured in the United States.

Nazdar releases 184 Series solvent inkjet ink

Nazdar Ink Technologies has announced the 184 Series, a newly developed digital imaging ink formulated specifically as a high-performance alternative for Mimaki JV150/300 and CJV150/300 digital printers using Mimaki BS4 ink.

Nazdar 184 Series users will benefit from low odour and enjoy the convenience of a range of packaging options, including 600ml bags and 2000ml bags compatible with MBIS. "The new Nazdar 184 Series exhibits outstanding performance, with excellent outdoor resistance to colour fade and chemical attack caused by UV degradation or environmental pollution," says Stephen Woodall, Nazdar Ink Technologies' Global Segment manager - Aqueous

& Solvent Digital. "We've developed an ink with excellent performance and adhesion on flexible and pressure sensitive vinyl, banner material, blue back paper and backed mesh."

Drytac wins two SGIA Product of the Year Awards

Drytac, an international manufacturer of self-adhesive materials for the print, label and industrial markets, has won two awards in the SGIA Product of the Year competition for its innovative products. Ahead of the SGIA Expo 2018 in October, industry professionals evaluated the most exciting products to be showcased at the event.

Drytac topped the Laminates, Adhesives, Films, Coatings category with ReTac WipeErase a product that turns standard surfaces into whiteboards. The 6 mil (150 micron) white dry erase film features a chemical- and scratch-resistant UV hard coat and a clear gloss surface that allows the film to be written on and wiped off easily. Unlike a whiteboard, it won't suffer from ink staining or ghosting and can be removed and repositioned easily for convenience.

At the SGIA awards, Drytac also won the Media - Adhesive Back Vinyl category for SpotOn Floor 200. The monomeric PVC film is designed for short-term indoor floor graphics, offering a non-slip surface and a Class B1 Fire Rating without lamination. The product

A publicity poster for the Nazdar 184 series.

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is easy to install - even for non-professionals - and to remove within six months of its application thanks to Drytac's smart dot-pattern adhesive, making it perfect for public areas such as retail, education and healthcare environments.

Both award-winning products will be demonstrated at Drytac's show space (booth #2341) at SGIA Expo 2018, alongside popular and new products including AmourPrint Emerytex and ArmourGrab.

"Drytac is delighted to have won not one, but two awards in the SGIA Product of the Year competition," says Shaun Holdom, Global Product manager at Drytac. "The winners are decided by key members of the printing and imaging technology industry who are ideally positioned to understand the needs of the market and what makes an innovative product."ReTac WipeErase is a dry erase board in a roll,

perfect for a variety of customers and applications, while SpotOn Floor 200 is used for safe and stunning floor graphics in a wide range of different environments. We're proud to win both of the SGIA Product of the Year awards and are looking forward to demonstrating these materials to delegates at SGIA Expo 2018."

SGIA Expo 2018 will place in Las Vegas, USA from October 18th to 20th, and will feature an educational seminar on Adhesives for Retail Graphics from Darren Speizer, Drytac's VP of Sales, on Friday October 19th at 9am (room S34).

UV LED technology is the way forward

Nazdar Ink Technologies appointed Jim Whitehead to the role of sales manager, EMEA, in February 2018 with responsibility for sales management of Nazdar's product offerings in the flexo technology sector to the UK and other European markets. Having previously worked at leading companies including Sericol and Fujifilm, Jim has responsibility for sales management of Nazdar branded and OEM private labelled screen, digital and narrow web products.

Since his appointment, he has been busy evaluating, establishing and maintaining profitable channels for Nazdar products throughout the EMEA region. A particular focus for Jim and his team is the burgeoning UV LED market. Jim explains: "To date, UV LED technology has been adopted more readily in the USA than in Europe, partly due to grants from energy providers to switch to low consumption manufacturing processes. The US bias is unusual as the EU has tended to be the early adopter of new flexo technologies in the past."

Jim is keen to educate the UK and other European markets as to the offerings that Nazdar has available. He continues: "Some press manufacturers and label convertors don't fully appreciate the breadth of UV LED curing ink products that Nazdar has. It's not just a case of white and colours being available; the whole portfolio - including thermal varnishes, foiling and laminating adhesives, peel and reseal packages to name but a few - are available in UV LED curing technology."

But why would label convertors consider UV LED curing? In a nutshell it's a great way of saving energy

- which, in turn, reduces costs. UV LED lamps, like in the home, use far less energy than conventional mercury lamps.

Jim continues: "Additionally, there is no ozone production, so less extraction is required. Lower heat output from lamps means it is easier to manage temperature-sensitive substrates and - again - less heat extraction is required. Other benefits include a longer lamp life, and the improved print consistency courtesy of the fact that peak output is better maintained with UV LED technology. Finally, there are also increased time efficiencies as UV LED lamps are ready to work in minutes, compared to the long heat up time of mercury lamps."

The ReTac wipe erase.

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Color-Logic certifies Arca Etichette...

Color-Logic has named Arca Etichette SpA, the first certified HP Indigo printer to produce Color-Logic labels using HP Silver ink. Confirming the certification, Color-Logic director of Sales and Marketing Mark Geeves said: "The results supplied by Arca Etichette from their HP Indigo Label press using HP Silver ink had a dramatic metallic colour range and properly produced all Color-Logic decorative effects. Arca Etichette brand clients will greatly benefit from the ability of Arca to differentiate their products from those of their competitors. HP Indigo silver ink, in combination with HP Indigo CMYK inks, enables Arca to provide clients with 250 new metallic colours."

Established in 1948 and headquartered near Milan, Italy, Arca Etichette SpA is a leading producer of self-adhesive labels and shrink sleeves. The company focuses on the pharmaceutical and cosmetic markets, providing prime and security labels, leaflet labels, and hangers. The company is renowned for quality printing, flexibility, free storage, and a staff that is dedicated to customer needs.

Color-Logic develops colour communication systems and software tool sets for a variety of special effect printing applications. Color-Logic provides brand owners, product managers, corporations, and their advertising agencies the ability to differentiate themselves and their clients with a simple print production process that yields dramatic results.

... and Gallus Labelfire 340 too

Color-Logic has certified the Gallus Labelfire 340 digital production system for cold foil applications with the Color-Logic process metallic color system. The Gallus press is the first production hybrid label system to be certified for overprinting CMYKGOV inks on cold foil.

Confirming the certification, Color-Logic director of Sales and Marketing Mark Geeves says: "The Gallus certification samples utilising KURZ KPW OP cold foil with the Heidelberg Saphira UV v2 inks provided incredible results. All of the Color-Logic decorative effects were faithfully reproduced, and

the tonal range which the Gallus Labelfire was able to print exceeded expectations."

Geeves adds: "The Color-Logic colors produced by combining KURZ foil with the Gallus Labelfire stood out incredibly. A salient feature of the Color-Logic system is that converters produce their own color charts, thus illustrating how the system integrates the substrate, inks and coatings. Brands around the world are sure be impressed with the gamut of colors seen from the Gallus Labelfire on foil."

The Gallus Group, with production sites in Switzerland and Germany, is the world market leader in the development, production, and sale of narrow-web, reel-fed presses designed for label manufacturers. The machine portfolio is augmented by a broad range of screen printing plates (Gallus Screeny), globally decentralized service operations, and a broad offering of printing accessories and replacement parts. The Gallus Group is a member of the Heidelberg Group and employs around 360 people, of whom 225 are based in Switzerland. The group headquarters is in St. Gallen, Switzerland.

ABB to showcase atIFRA Expo

ABB, one of the leading suppliers of automation solutions for the newspaper industry, will be taking part at this year’s IFRA World Publishing Expo in Berlin, exhibiting on stand E.06 in Hall 21 a together with ProImage, 3T Control Precision Systems and Makro Solutions.

ABB will present its modular press control and drives retrofit solutions for newspaper presses from all leading manufacturers. The solutions give customers the opportunity to replace the controls or drives on selected press units, thereby freeing up spare parts for the rest of the press and minimizing the cost of keeping the presses in reliable production. In addition, at a time when many people are talking about Industry 4.0 or Print 4.0, ABB will show you its suite of management systems that have already made this a reality. ABB is a leading automation supplier to the newspaper industry. ABB Printing (www.abb.com/printing) delivers solutions that provide unique and totally integrated end-to-end control, protect existing investments and provide management information essential to improving profitability.

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The Standard Group selects PrintReleaf

The Standard Group -- a print management and marketing logistics company located in Eastern and Central Pennsylvania -- has chosen PrintReleaf to provide reforestation services to its customers.

Dirk Winkler, head of process engineering at Koenig & Bauer, among the successful volleyball players from Dresdner Sportclub.

Dresdner Sportclub’s media day in Radebeul

On September 14, parts of Koenig & Bauer’s Radebeul plant were transformed into a volleyball arena. As part of their media day, the volleyball players of the first division club Dresdner Sportclub came to the Saxon printing press manufacturer. All the photos and videos for the new season were taken here – from various image and team photos to portrait photos of the players. They are used on the club’s website, in programmes, on posters, in the season magazine, for autograph cards and social media. Additionally, media representatives were given the opportunity to make their own recordings.

Ralf Sammeck, CEO of Koenig & Bauer Sheetfed, and Dirk Winkler, head of process engineering and an enthusiastic volleyball player himself, havehad contact with the club for years. They invited the players, two of whom have been nominated to take part in the World Cup in Japan, and their coaches to a photo shoot at Koenig & Bauer. The coveted calendars of the successful sportswomen have also been printed here for some years now.

Discussing the selection, Scott Vaughn, CEO of The Standard Group, says: "Standard Group's customers rely on us to bring them the latest and most innovative technologies available in the digital and print communications space. We recently chose PrintReleaf as the simplest and most effective means of enabling our print customers to be more environmentally responsible.

With PrintReleaf, Standard Group's customers can support their sustainability efforts by conveniently and certifiably planting trees equivalent to the paper used in their print projects, selecting from a list of seven stressed forest areas around the world. In evaluating alternatives for our customers, we found PrintReleaf to be just as environmentally effective as, but far less expensive than, traditional chain-of-custody conservation methods."

The Standard Group is an enterprise print management and marketing logistics company. It simplifies communications for its customers by streamlining print marketing and automating processes for print. Leveraging innovative workflow technologies, the company helps to facilitate online orders, improve quality, manage inventory and reduce print obsolescence.

PrintReleaf creates a global sustainability standard by certifiably guaranteeing to releaf the paper consumption of PrintReleaf customers. PrintReleaf is the only technology platform that measures customers' paper usage and certifiably reforests that usage on an equivalent basis.

IPAMA opens online visitor registration portal

The Indian Printing Packaging & Allied Machinery Manufacturers’ Association (IPAMA) is gearing up for the 14th edition of Printpack India, scheduled to be held at India Expo Centre, Greater Noida from February 1to 6, 2019. Thus far, 363 Indian and overseas exhibitors have confirmed booking space. To make it easy for the visitor, IPAMA opened an ‘online visitor registration portal’: https://printpackipama.com/ <

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Yatish Rajawat to join DNA as editor-in-chief

K. Yatish Rajawat has been appointed as editor-in-chief of DNA, an English daily owned by Zee Media Group. Rajawat’s appointment comes months after Dwaipayan Bose quit DNA as editor-in-chief and joined Mail Today.

As Chief Strategy Officer, LocalCircles, Yatish Rajawat was part of the founding team at LocalCircles responsible for strategic revenue alliances and partnership with media and broadcast platforms. Previously Rajawat had written as a columnist for various media entities, such as www.firstpost.com, Businessworld magazine and public broadcaster Rajya Sabha TV. He has been associated with Dainik Bhaskar Group and had launched the first Hindi business newspaper in India- Business Bhaskar. He was then elevated to group managing editor of Bhaskar Group in July 2009 to handle all the group publications and newspapers across multiple languages.

(Courtesy: exchange4media.com)

Editors Guild names panelThe Editors Guild of India has announced its new

executive committee with veteran editors and senior journalists on the panel. The panel includes The Hindu Editor Mukund Padmanabhan, PTI Editor-in-Chief Vijay Joshi, Hindustan Media Ventures Editor-in-Chief Shashi Shekhar and The Quint Editor-in-Chief Raghav Bahl.

The others are Dainik Bhaskar Group Editor Prakash Dubey, Sakal Consulting Editor Vijay Naik, The Caravan Executive Director Anant Nath, Indian Express Consulting Editor Seema Chishti, NDTV Editorial Director Sonia Singh, Shillong Times Editor Patricia Mukim, Swarajya Editorial Director R. Jagannathan, Scroll.in Editor Naresh Fernandes, Malayala Manorama Executive Editor Jayant Mammen Mathew, Open Magazine Editor S. Prasannarajan, and former managing editor of India Today Dilip Mandal.

The former presidents of the panel, including India Today Group Editorial Director Raj Chengappa,

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former The Hindu Editor-in-Chief N. Ravi; and TV Today Network Consulting Editor Rajdeep Sardesai were named ex officio members of the executive committee.

Editor-in-Chief of Greater Kashmir Fayaz Ahmad Kaloo and Khabhar LahariyaDigital head Kavita Devi were named as special invitees. The president, the general secretary, and the treasurer are ex officio members of the executive committee.

The print Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta is the president of the Guild; A.K. Bhattacharya, editorial director, Business Standard, general secretary; and Sheela Bhatt, editor (News Affairs), NewsX, treasurer.

(Courtesy: PTI / The Hindu)

N.P. Singh elected IBF PresidentNP Singh, CEO & MD of Sony Pictures Networks,

has been elected the new president of the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF), at their 19th Annual General Meeting. He will succeed Punit Goenka, managing director, Zee Entertainment Enterprises. Goenka's term has come to an end.

Also, Prasar Bharati CEO Shashi Shekhar Vempati has been elected director of IBF Board. All other office-bearers of the Foundation have been re-elected. However, appointed member Girish Srivastava, secretary general, IBF, has stepped down from his position.

Singh has over 30 years of rich and varied professional experience. He joined the Sony Group (then MSM) in June 1999 as its chief financial officer and was promoted as its chief operating officer in 2004. In 2014, he was appointed as the CEO.

(Courtesy: exchange4media.com)

The Hindu Lounge launches online portal

After an overwhelming response from readers, The Hindu Lounge, India’s first experience store from a publishing house, has launched its online store, The Hindu Lounge Online to commemorate The Hindu Group’s 140 years in journalism.

The Hindu Lounge has been operating a store at the Express Avenue mall in Chennai and offers a wide range of collectibles. The merchandise available for sale are broadly classified into four categories:

the Madras Edition, personalised collection, restored collection and handmade collection. As an effort to engage with the readers more, an online shopping portal, https://lounge.thehindu.com has been launched.

The Madras Edition deals with products of nostalgia and quirk authentic to the city, be it coffee mugs, coasters or photo frames. Readers can choose from a variety of upcycled products made from old editions of The Hindu newspaper and magazines. The upcycled collection includes baskets, pen holders and tea sets. People with a penchant for handmade products may pick their favourite from the handmade collection that offers khadi notebooks, handmade paper, envelopes, gift tags and brass metal bookmarks.

The personalised collection offers a framed front page reprint of The Hindu. Customers can get frames of a milestone event such as news of Independent India or Team India’s 1983 World Cup win. They can also get customised front page reprints coinciding with special occasions such as birthdays or anniversaries. The store will soon offer other city and thematic collections.

(Courtesy: The Hindu)

Ajit Mohan to head Facebook India

Facebook has announced that it has appointed Ajit Mohan as managing director and vice-president, Facebook India. In the newly created role of managing director for India, a VP-level role, one of the most important responsibilities will be aligning teams and driving Facebook’s overall strategy in India. This is a new structure for Facebook India of having a senior leader reporting into Menlo Park and not Asia Pacific.

Mohan will be responsible for Facebook's India strategy and for driving the company's continued investment in India. He will lead a senior leadership team in India that will strengthen Facebook's relationships with people, businesses, and government and intensify the company's efforts to help people in India connect with the people and things they care about most. He will join Facebook early next year.

(Courtesy: exchange4media.com)

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October

2018

October 9-11, organised by WAN-IFRA, in Berlin: DCX Digital Content Expo 2018/ IFRA World Publishing Expo. More information from manfred.werfel@wan-ifra.org

October 15, organised by WAN-IFRA, in London: Science in the News: Keeping the Facts Straight. More information from cherilyn.ireton@wan-ifra.org

October 15-19, organised by WAN-IFRA, in New York City and Washington DC: Super Social Newsroom Study Tour. More information from nicole.frankenhauser@wan-ifra.org

October 25-26, organised by WAN-IFRA, in Chennai: Mobile Content Monetisation and User experiences. More information on WAN-IFRA website

October 29-30, organised by WAN-IFRA, in Oslo, Norway: The Newsroom Summit 2018. More information from virginia.melero@wan-ifra.org

October 31-November 1, organised by WAN-IFRA, in Oslo and Stockholm: Nordic Study Tour. More information from nicole.frankenhauser@wan-ifra.org

November December

December 6-9, organised by FESPA, in Istanbul: FESPA Eurasia 2018. More information on FESPA website

January

January 25, organised by INMA, in New York: INMA Global Media Awards. More information on INMA website

February

February 1-6, 2019, organised by IPAMA, in Greater NOIDA: 14th Printpack India. More details on IPAMA website. February 21-22, organised by WAN-IFRA, in Mumbai: Digital Media India 2019 Conference. More information from vijayalakshmi.murali@wan-ifra.org

February 21-23, organised by FESPA, in Bangkok: FESPA Asia 2019. More information on FESPA website

November 7-9, organised by WAN-IFRA in Hong Kong: Digital Media Asia 2018. More information from wilson.leong@wan-ifra.org

November 8-9, organised by INMA, in Miami, US: INMA Consumer Engagement Summit. More details from Katy Schaff (see INMA website)

November 14, organised by WAN-IFRA in Frankfurt: Local Digital Subscription Summit. More information from nicole.frankenhauser@wan-ifra.org

November 14-16, organised by WAN-IFRA in Colombia: Digital Media LATAM 2018/ LATAM Digital Media Awards. More information from daniela.pena@wan-ifra.org

November 23, organised by WAN-IFRA in South Africa: Digital Media Africa 2018/ African Digital Media Awards. More information from angela.pontes@wan-ifra.org

November 26-27, organised by WAN-IFRA in Bengaluru: Data Visualisation and Infographics Best Practices. More information from vijayalakshmi.murali@wan-ifra.org

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