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PrintWeek Buyers' Guide
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Take a look at PrintWeek's complete source for buying printing equipment and consumables, online for the first time. |
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| A feeling of renewal was apparent as Drupa 2012 drew to a close, with some viewing it as the "evolution Drupa" where digital printing became mainstream. |
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| Manroland Web Systems (Hall 6, stand D29) has boosted its presence in India with major deals with two leading English language newspaper publishers,including a multi-million-dollar deal with Times of India owner Bennett & Coleman group. |
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| Durst Phototechnik (Hall 6, stand B39), a leading Austria-based manufacturer of digital wide-format kit, has reported that it has had an "overwhelmingly successful" sales campaign at this year's Drupa. |
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| Chesapeake has continued its investment programme into its pharmaceutical and healthcare packaging division after signing for a six-colour Komori Lithrone GX 40. |
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PrintWeek is Drupa's only official UK media partner and is running a series of dedicated Drupa content in print and online.
Our German sister title Druck & Medien is producing the official show Daily newspaper, the Drupa Report Daily, in Dusseldorf in partnership with PrintWeek, PrintWeek India and our Australian title ProPrint. Email us with stories on our drupa.editorial email address. |
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| Red Sofa Interview |
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| Jean-Pascal Bobst, chief executive of Bobst Group, talks to Darryl Danielli |
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| In Depth |
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| Drupa debutant Pamela Mardle talks to nine-times veteran Andrew Tribute on what might be his last visit to the Düsseldorf show |
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| Product Portfolio |
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| But for one of printer ABC Imaging's construction firm clients, bidding for a contract with Chester Zoo, this was just the result they were after. |
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| Keep an eye on your costs and productivity from anywhere in the world |
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| Drupa In Depth |
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| B2 or not B2? That is the question digital manufacturers have been asking themselves pre-Drupa and - for the most part - they have opted for the affirmative answer. So much so, in fact, that some are already calling Drupa 2012 'the B2 Drupa'. However... |
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| Take a walk with PrintWeek through the Halls of Drupa as we wind our way around the Messe and point out sights you really can't afford to miss, from hyped launches to those that may have slipped under the radar |
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| The job of the finishing manufacturer is generally a reactive one: whatever the press manufacturers, both digital and litho, have planned for the future, the finishing manufacturers must be able to offer something that fits at the end of the line. So... |
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| Compared with über-sophisticated, formidably sized bits of printing kit, consumables and ancillaries may not be the most exciting products on show at Drupa. But manufacturers of these products seem determined not to be upstaged by their mechanical co... |
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| Three weeks to go and still we're guessing what sort of Drupa it will be. Will it be another Inkjet Drupa or the B2 Digital Drupa? How about the Nano Drupa? Allow me to throw yet another possibility into the mix: Cloud Drupa. |
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| PrintWeek's round-up of the new pre-media, MIS, workflow and W2P products on show |
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| At Drupas gone by, talk of reducing alcohol consumption probably meant something very different to what it means today. Of course, there'll still be many resolving - and probably failing - to forgo the après exhibition revelries this year. But most w... |
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| Four years ago, many labelled Drupa 2008 as the 'Inkjet Drupa', such was the rush of inkjet developments across production and wide-format printing. A cursory glance at the timeline overleaf clearly shows that, over the past four years, things have n... |
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| PrintWeek's pick of the new wide-format products on show at Drupa |
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| The press, whether conventional or digital, is the machine upon which this diverse and innovative business is built and so, in the first of our previews, we take a look at what will be on show in Düsseldorf |
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| PrintWeek's pick of the new press products on show at Drupa |
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