Greetings from the penultimate build day before Drupa officially opens its doors tomorrow.
Shall be here for the whole show, do swing by and say hello if you're in the vicinity of Hall 7, where, along with my estimable colleagues from Druck+Medien, ProPrint and PrintWeek India, I'll mostly be working away on the Drupa Report Daily.
Blog postings may be somewhat erratic during this Drupa hiatus, I'm already confused about which way is up, never mind what day it is, and the show hasn't even started yet.
Keep an eye on @printweek on Twitter for updates and pics.
The Messe is looking good, during some impromptu travels around the halls during the build I've already seen a whole bunch of new and interesting stuff beyond the product announcements we know about from the industry's big names. We aren't going to be short of stories, that's for sure.
The most jaw-dropping thing at the moment is the rash of Landa announcements. The firm hasn't even held its press conference yet (that'll be at 2pm today Dusseldorf time) and despite the cloak of secrecy around precisely what Benny Landa's Nanography process is, some the biggest names in press manufacturing are already convinced.
First Komori, then Manroland Sheetfed, and now this morning the big one - Heidelberg - have all entered into strategic alliances to develop presses using Nanography. This is some coup for Benny Landa and his team, I really can't think of anything like this happening before.
At this rate it won't be the inkjet 2.0 Drupa, or the web-to-print Drupa, it'll be the Landa Drupa.
