Mataré: challenges to come, but great opportunities too
Drupa has dismissed concerns that Manroland's insolvency and Kodak's filing for Chapter 11 has dampened enthusiasm for this year's show.
Drupa has dismissed concerns that Manroland's insolvency and Kodak's filing for Chapter 11 has dampened enthusiasm for this year's show.
Heidelberg has had to revise its medium-term sales target after publishing year-on-year drops in turnover, incoming orders and order backlog in its third quarter results yesterday (8 February).
In what it promises will be a game changer in the global high-speed digital color printing market, Minneapolis-based Delphax Technologies said it will unveil its new Elan print systems at May's Drupa 2012 in Germany.
Wide-format manufacturer Polytype has said that its UV-curable print platform, the Virtu Quantum, offers an "unparalleled combination of speed and quality".
Muller Martini has said it will unveil new digital finishing products at Drupa 2012, where it will be exhibiting under the motto "one world - one drupa" from its booth (C21) in hall 14.
Drupa organiser Messe Düsseldorf has created a trade campaign to promote the global exhibition using augmented reality.
Drupa 2008 was widely hailed as the 'inkjet Drupa' and unsurprisingly the major inkjet manufacturers are convinced that digital technology will take the trade show by storm again come May, albeit in a different way.
David Preskett, director of professional print, Canon Europe
While 2012 has started much as the previous year left off - with the inevitable redundancies, closures and administrations - it is important to maintain some perspective, and there is much to look forward to in the 12 months ahead.
Mark McPhillips, director and general manager, large accounts and graphic communications, Xerox UK.


