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Printing Summit conference summaries

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Printing Summit conference summaries

WAN-IFRA provided the below summaries of all presentations during the Printing Summit 2011 Conference in Mainz, Germany, held on 6 and 7 April.

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  • 2011-04-07 12:07
    “Market orientation plays an even greater role in the future, rather than just making pure investments in automated technology,” says Matthias Ditzen-Blanke, CEO of Druckzentrum Nordsee, publisher of the Nordsee Zeitung and printer of a number of regional titles in the North Sea region of Germany. Read more ...
  • 2011-04-07 10:31
    “Innovative ad formats bring impact, visibility, attraction for the newspaper and new advertisers," says Marcelo Benez, Advertising Director of Folha de S.Paulo. Read more ...
  • 2011-04-07 09:45
    The Thompson family, owner of the Globe and Mail in Canada, turned many heads in the industry in 2008 when it signed a 1.7 billion-Canadian dollar deal with its printing partner Transcontinental to print the national daily until 2028. Read more ...
  • 2011-04-06 18:30
    With maritime activities and tourism serving as the backbone of Malta’s thriving economy, it is the ideal destination for international newspaper titles to be digitally printed for its readers abroad – on time, in full colour and on newsprint. Read more ...
  • 2011-04-06 17:50
    The RBD (Rheinisch Bergische Druckerei) printing centre in Düsseldorf, Germany, relaunched in the fall of 2010 after extending the plant and re-equipping it with new technology, including a waterless KBA Cortina press and a Ferag mailroom. Read more ...
  • 2011-04-06 17:39
    When 85 percent of their revenues come from print, says Kasturi Balaji, Managing Director of Kasturi & Sons in India, newspapers had better not scrimp on offering the best newspaper products to their readers. Read more ...
  • 2011-04-06 15:38
    “We aim to create new market segments for our coldset products. Our offer can be more diversified than our customers expect,” says Philip Brännlund, Managing Director of Eskilstuna-Kurirens Tryckeri in Sweden. Read more ...
  • 2011-04-06 15:33
    Since landing the contract for the Berliner Woche, Druckhaus Spandau, one of the printing plants of German publisher Axel Springer AG in Berlin, has literally been in a race to produce and process the 1.53 million copies of this weekly. Read more ...
  • 2011-04-06 13:02
    Prof. Dr. Reinhard Baumann is professor for digital printing and imaging technology at the Institute for Print and Media Technology, Chemnitz University of Technology. His message: Printing can do more than you might expect. Read more ...
  • 2011-04-06 11:12
    While the iPad offers users a truly interactive experience, augmented reality (AR) solutions might in the near future offer a similar experience for users, but in print. Read more ...

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