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EYEING DIGITAL AS AN OPPORTUNITY ATTRACTING THE EYEBALLS: A vibrant-looking screen on the NHM Reader that can be downloaded free. Launched less than a year ago by Chennai- based New Horizon Media, it is available as an iOS (Apple) application; there’s an Android version as well. The NHM Reader can support up to four devices. In the book publishing world in India, New Horizon Media is leading from the front and looks set to ride the crest of the digital wave. • ‘Our reach will be much more in • Four-high tower press for German the digital era’ regional paper • FormerLine solution for Chinese • FoldLine provides boost to Italian digital printer print leader • Creative newspaper supplements • News from the World Publishing Expo, from Lake Constance Berlin • magPeople joins CCI FROM THE EDITOR

You can charge a premium and still increase circulation

Two recent headlines on a news site caught me eye. One read: FT says that following shift from print to digital it now employs more journalists than ever before. The other: Times titles hit 350000 print/ online subscribers – you can charge a premium and still increase circulation. Press Gazette, published online out of the British Isles and an independent voice for journalism and journalists, referring to a report in the Financial Times, says the shift from print to digital journalism can lead to an increase in editorial staff. Indeed, since the FT went ‘digital-first’, the number of journalists on staff has increased to more that 650, the most in its history. Today, more than two million people read the FT in print and digital but there are 100000 more digital subscribers than print, 50 per cent of the subscribers on mobile platforms. The FT digital version now runs on a meter model, which means it must have useful data about who its subscribers are. Times have changed dramatically from the days of the Nokia phone. The barriers between editorial and marketing have long disappeared and, significantly, both departments in many newspapers organisations now have to work together to attract the reader. The reader is King and knows what value-added content is. However, earning revenue is critical to the success of the digital platform. Readers are willing to pay for quality content. The Press Gazette mentions in another piece that The Times has managed to increase its number of digital subscribers despite increasing the price to £4 a week. So, pay-walls do work. As Katie Vanneck-Smith, chief marketing Officer of News UK, says, “You cannot be half pregnant, you either charge for your content or you don't. Consumers aren't stupid.” As a corollary she adds that a firm paywall is required for a media organisation to be in a position to fund quality journalism. The moral of the story is: you can charge a premium and still increase circulation. This is proved by The Times – digital editions of the paper now make up more than a quarter of total sales. News UK chief executive Mike Darcey sums it all up well when he says: “Charging for our journalism allows us to invest in our journalism, creating an even better experience for our readers and helping to secure a sustainable future for our titles.” Closer home, I felt that resonance while reading the story about New Horizon Media’s gradual progression to the digital space, a story put together by Susan Philip who has recently joined us. Starting off with the objective of wanting to spread the printed word, Badri Seshadri and Satyanarayanan, the co-founders of New Horizon Media based in Chennai, decided some years ago that it was time to move on to the digital platform. They are doing fairly well, even developing an app called the NHM Reader. Is NHM’s progression into electronic publishing a leap of faith, Philip asks. Perhaps it is, but if you have the courage and see every challenge as an opportunity, the future can only be bright.

Sashi Nair [email protected]

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‘Our reach will be much more in the digital era’ 4

FormerLine solution for Chinese digital printer 10 C o n t e s

Creative newspaper supplements from Lake Constance 14

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magPeople joins CCI 16

Four-high tower press for German regional paper 18

FoldLine provides boost to Italian print leader 20

World Publishing Expo, Berlin 22

Industry Updates 28

Other News 45

Calendar 50

Cover page photo: New Horizon Media

November 2013 RIND Survey 3 ‘Our reach will be much more in the digital era’ “We were very sure we would go digital one day.” That’s how K. Satyanarayan recalls the long-term plans of New Horizon Media after it was established in 2004, a publishing house he co-founded with Badri Seshadri. And that’s just what NHM is doing today, almost a decade later – going digital. Susan Philip has the story

ew Horizon Media (NHM) is the brainchild of K. Satyanarayan (or Satya as he is better known) and Badri Seshadri. They were students Ntogether at IIT-Madras and cemented their friendship at Cornell University, USA. They were together at Cricinfo, a sports news website focusing on cricket, which Seshadri co-founded. “When we sold Crickinfo to Wisden, we looked around for something to do,” remembers Satya. They decided to address the problem of the vast number of people in India who were hungry for knowledge, but were denied access to information because they were not familiar with the English language. Post Crickinfo, they would have ideally liked to do something online. But a decade ago, Internet penetration was very poor in India, and speed and fonts for vernacular languages were additional The NHM Reader Logo. problems. They opted, for that point in time at least, to spread knowledge via the printed word. But times have changed. Internet access has grown beyond expectations. Time then, to move into Phase II. “For the last couple of years we have been gearing for a digital platform. We have developed the NHM Reader, which can be downloaded free. It was launched about nine months ago,” says a beaming Satya. It is available as an iOS (Apple) application and there’s an Android version as well. The NHM Reader can support up to four devices. If you have, say an iPad and a smartphone, and start reading an e-book on one of them, you can pick up from where you left off on the other gadget provided the two are synchronised. “The platform will theoretically support all languages. But we’re concentrating on Indian ones. For English, you can always go to Kindle,” explains Satya.

You must have books in your DNA to be successful It’s not easy for a printer to get into e-books; not easy even for a technical company to do it. Amazon is the dominant publisher. Google wants to be there, but it’s not happening, because Google has so many other things to do. Kobe was started by a printed bookstore chain. Like Amazon, they have books in their DNA. Such companies will do well, but others will struggle. In the US, things are different from India. They have a large number of readers and book stores. Amazon launched print books online, then converted bookstore buyers to Amazon online over time. They followed up by selling other things online. Flipkart tried to replicate the model with books. But there just aren’t enough readers here to make that model a success. When they diversified into other things, they found only the same customers coming in. Now

they’re aggressively wooing customers. <

4 RIND Survey November 2013 Sharing Tamil literature with a wider world New Horizon Media was set up in 2004 with the idea of publishing in Indian languages. It sought to fill the hunger for knowledge experienced by the many, many Indians who don’t know English. It wasn’t lack of interest that was the problem, K Satyanarayan and Badri Seshadri found. Newspaper and magazine subscriptions were growing exponentially. The problem was that there just wasn’t enough serious reading material in Tamil. English is the language of scholarship in India, but not of the masses, points out Satyanarayan. So they started publishing in Tamil. The fledgling firm encountered many hurdles. Authors had to be found who were knowledgeable and also familiar with, and ready to work in Tamil. Not an easy task. So NHM focused on translations. This too had problems. Translators had to be bilingual besides having a working knowledge of the subject matter. K.Satyanarayan. People with these qualifications mostly do not consider it worth their while to do translations as the pay is low. But things are slowly improving. “We were a new initiative in the Tamil market when we started. Now more people have entered the scene,” says Satya. There’s a long way to go yet, but the future looks good because of the growing importance of e-publishing. Whatwill be the challenges of the future? How do you see things developing? New infrastructure must come, which will create an interface, like a distributor, between publishers and all stores. This new entity must take it upon itself to sign on all e-publishers, and then liaise with various platforms. The publisher will give details to the single entity, who will in turn distribute it to all platforms. This will happen in time. Payment capture is a problem as of now. People depend on electronic payment gateways. They pay by credit / debit cards or netbanking. But when mobile payment gains ground, it will make the process much simpler. All they will have to do is pay via their mobile phone accounts. Lots of experiments will happen. Audio and video can be embedded in the books. Lots of fancy stuff is already happening, and more will happen. Today, we’re talking of buying an e-book. Other formats are emerging, e-borrowing, for instance. A model could be developed where a reader can borrow an e-book for ten days, after which he will cease to be able to read it. Another model is the paid subscription. It will allow you to read all you want for a certain fixed sum. From the

reader’s point of view, these are great. Cost calculations go out of the decision making. But publishers and authors will be wary, because of< the uncertainties of pricing. Susan Philip Badri Seshadri.

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The NHM books will be available on Kindle and other such platforms, too. Some books are free. Renowned Tamil author Kalki’s books are all free, for instance. The legendary Ponniyin Selvan costs around Rs 800 in its printed form, but with NHM Reader, it is free. The idea is to get the reader used to the online experience. Once he is comfortable, he will be ready to pay for e-books. Satya admits that as of now, progress is slow. “True, we get at least 25 to 30 downloads every day, but we’re looking at e-books having a 20 to 30 per cent share in book sales in five years’ time,” he says. Right now it’s about 1-2 per cent. Even English books are only 3 to 4 per cent, according to him. There is a range of problems besetting e-publishing in India. One of the major ones is the lack of data about even basic parametres such as access to devices which support e-texts, approximate number of readers who prefer e-books and the type of topics they favour. This is true not only for the vernacular Photos: New Horizon Media. but also for English, in Satya’s opinion. There is little or no systematic research, neither are there efforts to gather quantitative data on which intelligent decisions can be based. Yes, qualitative data exists to an extent, Turning a page in a book is easily done on the NHM Reader. but it only gives an inkling of the state of affairs. Another problem is that of habit. When people are On another plane, things traditional publishers used to doing things a particular way, it’s difficult to would have rejected because they were uncertain make them shift to another system. about enough copies being sold for returns on So, given all these cons, is NHM’s progression investment, can safely be published digitally. In the into electronic publishing a leap of faith? No, not at world of e-books, there’s no cost per copy. It is all, says Satya. “We’re not scared at all. We’ve been therefore possible to experiment with a lot more looking at it as an opportunity.” In fact, that’s how of content, Satya points out. An allied issue is that all those in the printing and publishing business in of size. In the case of printed books, they have to India should also be looking at the digital revolution, be of a certain thickness to justify cost. If you want he feels. The e-book reading experience is not totally a customer to pay Rs 500 or more for a book, you unlike reading a printed book. You get to hold it in have to make sure he has enough reading material your hand, you ‘flip’ the page on the screen instead to justify that investment. However, in e-publishing, of on paper, and you can use bookmarks, make notes, even brief content is appreciated. “There’s a sweet highlight and even share what you read with others, spot merging between a long article and a book. although in a different format. The 20000-word range is acceptable in this format,” There are so many advantages to e-publishing. says Satya. His assessment is borne out by the fact Price is the most obvious. In conventional publishing, that markets like Kobe and Kindle publish what one has to invest in paper, printing technology, are known as singles. They’re not full-fledged warehousing and shipping, to name a few. Another is books, but self-contained, nevertheless. And very accessibility. There are very few bookstores, except in reasonably priced. big cities, and the ones that do exist have limited space. Which brings us to the question of e-book pricing These problems are obviated by digital publishing. It -- that’s decided by a variety of factors. Possible involves no investment for printing and other heads, cannibalisation is one. A traditional book publisher, and e-books are always available at your fingertips. reluctant to kill the market for his print books, may

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price e-versions high, and find few takers. But for Another reason for delay is that there is a cost Indian language publishers, that won’t be too much involved in the conversion, even if it is a one- of a problem. “We’re pricing our books at round time cost. Most publishers don’t really understand Rs 250,” says Satya. The reason? The volume of digital technology. It is hard for them to see value sale of printed copies of vernacular books is not so in something they don’t understand, and invest in it, extensive that it warrants the fear that the e-market says Satya. The instinct is to wait and watch. But it’s may eat into it. On the flip side, NHM is confident only a matter of time, he feels, before e-publishing that the e-route will reach out to many more buyers takes centre stage. Already, the younger generation is than the traditional book store route. getting used to the e-format. They read newspapers Satya the reader expects an e-book to be cheaper and on the screen. The tipping point will come. Most than the printed version. He expects the saving on publishers are agreed on that. The only unanswered costs for paper, printing, shipping, etc, to be passed question is When? on to the reader. Fortunately, there’s no conflict For the not-so-well-informed traditional book between Satya the reader and Satya the businessman. publisher, the transition to e-books raises the bogey “From the publisher’s point of view too, it makes of piracy. But Satya feels the fear is unfounded. First, eminent sense to price e-books low,” he says, as he points out, piracy is a danger for even the printed the cost of production is negligible. However, he’s book. Cheap pirated copies of bestsellers are easily referring to the vernacular segment. For the more available throughout India. The problem sets up a mature English publishing segment in India, it is a conflict between the author/publisher on one hand, problem. They will be hit by the e-publishing wave. and the reader on the other. As far as e-books go, If e-books are priced much lower than the printed prospective pirates won’t be thinking of making versions, the latter suffers. Publishers are trying to money, because the cost factor is low in any case. delay transitioning to e-books as much as possible One reason why someone might upload a free because there will definitely be an interim period copy of a paid book is that they want to share with when e-book sales will not move fast enough to everyone something they found valuable. “How keep the tills ringing, but at the same time, will can you fight with such an ardent fan?” asks Satya. undercut the print copies. Certainly an off-beat way of looking at the issue!

Technically speaking... and spreading the word Are there standards for e-publishing, akin to those in the print industry? There are two standard e-publishing formats –.epub and .mobi. The former can be termed worldwide, and since the latter is used by Amazon, the biggest e-publishing company, it too can be described as global. NHM has developed its own in-house capacity and has been converting our own books to the e-format. We offer the same service to other publishers too. Kindle and other such e-reading devices arefor hardcore readers. They won’t hesitate to spend that extra money. But for those who use their multi- purpose gadgets to read, among other things, there will be too many distractions to ensure a good reading experience. How can this format of publishing be popularised? The growth of e-publishing is going to happen because of the drive by hardware manufacturers, not by publishers. The Internet service providers will push and drive it. Reliance is bringing out the 4G network, for example. They are the only ones with a national license. They will launch it with a bang, and put some cheap devices and internet plans on the market. People across India will be willing to buy and experiment with these gadgets,

and e-books will grow by sheer viral effect. Once a critical number of people are doing it, it will grow faster and faster. <

8 RIND Survey November 2013 The paperback and hardcover still sells. The New Horizon Media stall at the Madurai Book Fair.

Another possible scenario is when a book is released create an account on one of the platforms, type online in one country but not in others. Someone in the metadata, and upload the material. A lot of who wants to read it may go looking for a pirated copy. talent is being discovered this way, says Satya. The solution is to make it legally available worldwide In short, there are opportunities galore for simultaneously. “For us vernacular publishers, this everyone in the world of e-publishing – publishers, is not an issue at all,” points out Satya. “At NHM authors and readers. “We’re optimistic about the we want our books to be picked up by the Tamil future of e-publishing. This will be what will help Diaspora everywhere.” us to ‘educate’ our people beyond school and Self-publication is another big plus in e-publishing. college. Every society educates its people through Traditional publishers are gatekeepers. They decide books after formal education. It’s going to happen what can be published or not. If they turn down an now not via print but through digital means. Our

author, he or she has no option but to abide by that reach will be so much more in the digital era,” says decision. In the digital era, an author can publish Satya, signing off on an upbeat note. < his or her own work. All that needs to be done is to

It's all really about work-in-progress As a small publisher, if you have to sell e-books, which platform would you choose? The sensible answer would be: Everything. Amazon, Kobe Flipkart, etc. But there are problems. You have to enter the metadata -- the ISBN number, the title, the author’s name, category etc – of each of your books on each of these platforms, and then upload it on each of the platforms. It is a tedious process. There

may be errors. Errors are simple to fix in a print run, but not so simple on multiple platforms. Then there’s the question of revenue. No one is very sure about all this yet. <

November 2013 RIND Survey 9 FormerLine solution for Chinese digital printer The Hucais Group has successfully expanded into the world of digital printing. Working in close cooperation with manroland web systems, Hucais defined requirements and business models for digital printing and finally decided on the FormerLine system as a digital finishing solution for its letterpress production

anroland web systems developed the FormerLine system for digital book production on an industrial scale. In China, the system will be customised to the specific needs of Hucais, mbased on the company’s book production estimates. The FormerLine offers unprecedented variability, allowing infinitely variable cut-offs from 145 mm to 420 mm. Together with the RS 34 book block stacker from Rima-System, the high-performance FormerLine system can produce stapled signatures or up to 6000 auxiliary-glued book blocks per hour with a thickness of up to 70 mm. Depending on project requirements, Hucais can set up web travel over two or three formers. This makes it possible to produce four to eight pages or eight- to 16-page products. The first production lines will be delivered to Hucais for the offline finishing of pre-printed reels. Later, equipment configurations will also be provided for inline production. In keeping with the preferences of the Middle Kingdom, the FormerLine is fast, flexible, and productive. FormerLine systems are designed for web speeds of up to 300 m/min. With a variable cutoff, the maximum web width is currently 1067 mm in the version with three formers. High efficiency achieved through minimal changeover times both for format and paper changes was a key selling point for Hucais. Says Chen Chengwen, CEO of Hucais: “We have established digital printing in our company in recent years, starting from our status as a successful packaging printer. Now we need to keep pressing forward with new developments, and that includes smart and future-oriented investments. Digital

photo: Herbert Gairhos/manroland systems web presses and the FormerLine system allow us to supply The FormerLine system that will produce books at Hucais in China. our customers with

10 RIND Survey November 2013 high-quality printed materials. We remain flexible, manroland web systems, and it shows - especially in and can produce efficiently even in smaller runs.” the area of workflows. DigiLink and printnetwork Adds Eckhard Hoerner Marass, managing director, Bridge are software modules that were especially manroland web systems: “We want to use this developed to bridge the gap between the formerly project to prove how economical it is to produce separate production worlds of offset and digital with the FormerLine system. The objective is to win printing. This makes the whole process of production over further potential customers. In digital finishing, planning, printing, and finishing more economical. we provide a highly refined alternative that is hard Short makeready times boost workflow efficiency:

to pass over.” under three minutes for format changes and three to The new FoldLine is the multivariable pin- six minutes for paper changes. < type folder for ultra-flexible newspaper printing, commercial folded products, and various book signature formats. Networked thinking is crucial to

Strong editorial content is key to success

Speaking at the opening session of the World Publishing Expo, Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner says online journalism can be better than "analog journalism." It can be faster – but does not need to be. It can just as well be slower and more thoughtful, more reflective. Also, the interactive aspect of digital journalism allows it to be enhanced by the intelligence of news consumers. What is important, says Döpfner, is that publishers invest in journalism, because strong editorial content is key to success. Another key is communicating the brand via multiple platforms. Döpfner says 47 percent of Axel Springer's revenue comes from digital platforms – not enough. "We have more to do," he says. Axel Springer staff was "very worried" when the paywall for online content was launched, and very relieved when the results turned out better than expected. He says there are now 47000 digital-only and 27000 multi-platform Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner speaks at the World subscribers to Die Welt, more than anticipated. Publishing Expo. Most surprisingly, page views did not drop off. Döpfner warns against putting too much emphasis on data analytics, saying, "don't neglect intuition." He says, "I always believed in mobile devices for reading news." Mobile is far more similar to print than desktop is, he says. There is a dichotomy, though, because smart phones are more attractive to readers, but tablets are more attractive to advertisers because the larger screens create far more enticing ad possibilities. He says Axel Springer decided to sell its remaining regional newspapers to the Funke media group because growth in that area had become impossible. Citing Bild's supposed market dominance, German cartel authorities blocked all expansive moves on that front. Döpfner

welcomes Huffington Post to Germany (it is in the process of launching), saying he has "lots of respect" for the operation, but says it devalues journalism. "When they charge readers for content and pay< writers, it will be a perfect world," he says. (Courtesy: WAN-IFRA’s World News Publishing Focus)

12 RIND Survey November 2013 AT FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR India-centric knowledge base launched After nearly 20 years of relentless archiving and research work by Neville Tuli and the Osian’s Group, the online framework of a new knowledge-base for India’s cultural civilisation is taking shape

Commenting from the opening of the Frankfurt Book Fair, the world’s largest fair dedicated to publishing, books and education, the chairman of the Osian’s Group stated: “It has been a slow progress over the last three years given all the challenges faced, but our focus of completing the first phase of the search engine, from which the perception of India and her magnificent culture would radically shift, has never wavered. Even though the search technology is still at stage one, it will progress exponentially hereafter.” Today, the site (osianama.com), still in its beta version, has uploaded every public sale detail of every auction in the world on Indian modern and contemporary art since the start of public auctions in 1987. Thus, India becomes the first country to freely reveal comprehensive and authentic auction data which has been the preserve of a few elite groups or available in fragments for a monthly fee. Neville Tuli specifically comments on the economic data uploaded: “Today it is pivotal that the public has free access to this vast integrated knowledge-data pool, because without this none of the economic and financial infrastructure players will grasp the nature of the art object as a cultural collectible and asset. Now, every student, members of the media fraternity, bankers, brokers and insurance agents, government officials, art collectors, and naturally the interested public can freely analyse and study

Photo: Osianama.com Photo: all facets of history, authentication, pricing and valuation, like never before. Many of the problems and mindsets faced by the Indian art market over the last decade will vanish overnight.” A stunning Tyeb Mehta piece portraying The data base, though very important, is just one small part Mahishasura. of the osianama.com, which is divided into nine classifications (and over 80 document types): ANTQ (Antiquities), ARTS, BOOK (all objects in a library, ranging from journals to newspaper clippings, to rare books, letters, exhibition catalogues etc.), CINE (all document types pertaining to cinema, starting with Bombay Cinema), CRFT, ECON (all public auction data; gallery pricing will begin uploading from December 2013), PHTO (antiquarian and contemporary photography) and PRNT (all forms of print-making from political propaganda to travel publicity, playing cards and much more). Three more major classifications will be added in the coming months: ARCH (the vast architectural heritage of the Indian sub-continent), SPRT (starting with the heritage of Indian cricket) and the fascinating world of vintage and classical cars (VINC). Within a month everyone will be able to log in and create their own ‘Osianama world’ and share the vast knowledge base with their friends and colleagues. Thereafter, the live events feed will begin so as to bring a rare fusion of the virtual and

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November 2013 RIND Survey 13 Creative supplements from Lake Constance ruckerei Konstanz in southern Germany which belongs to Südkurier Medienhaus has often scored points with trade juries and ad customers for its creative newspaper supplements. DThe newspaper experts from the Lake Constance region won first prize at the German Printing Industry’s Innovation Awards 2011 for a remarkable brochure for a Swiss bag manufacturer in the category printed advertising. In 2012, the printing house won the silver prize with the Jobguide supplement for the Südkurier daily newspaper. The PrintStars 2013 will be awarded in October with a jury selected by the trade magazine Deutscher Drucker. The printing experts from Constance are once again a finalist with their new Smart-Flap supplement amongst other things. This year Druckerei Konstanz started a campaign under the banner 'We are Smart!' to promote its image as a service provider towards customers and the general public. Smart stands for nine goals: ecological, flexible, innovative, sustainable, vividly colored, detailed, fast, service-orientated and unique. The printing house developed nine new products for the new Smart portfolio which are designed to meet these goals. These include Smart-News, Smart-Out and Smart-Flap. The beauty of the Smart-Flap is its unusual index tabs for a newsprint supplement. By processing two webs in different special widths and a staggered fold, the first four pages are narrower than the following pages. The two visible 3cm- wide tabs on the right-hand edge offer various categorization and additional ad options. Along with the daily Südkurier and a lot of other print media, the newly developed Smart products are also printed environmentally friendly in waterless offset on a triple-wide compact KBA Cortina web press. The first Smart-Flap was printed for Autowelt Schuler. Web widths of 590mm (23.2in) and 560mm (22in) were used instead of 630mm (24.8in) in straight production, which only required a software change at the reelstands. Along with the print quality, the Smart-Flap takes full advantage of the KBA Cortina’s technological benefits: Photos: Druckerei Konstanz Photos: Druckerei • The flap width is completely variable thanks to the keyless inking unit and it can be designed according to customer requirements The Smart-Flap supplement printed on the KBA Cortina at Druckerei Konstanz for Autowelt Schuler opens up excellent possibilities with side • No smearing or toning on the substrate indices offering various types separately and with a clear structure. overlapping the print-free areas

14 RIND Survey November 2013 The experts from Druckerei Konstanz which belongs to Südkurier Medienhaus take advantage of the technological benefits of their keyless and dampener- free compact KBA Cortina when developing creative ad forms and special print products.

• No pollution from ‘spraying’ on the print-free “This extraordinary, eye-catching ad form can be areas in the printing unit (even with large print produced highly efficiently as it is made in one press runs) pass. The keyless inking unit in our KBA Cortina • No inking fluctuations and no color emulsification creates the ideal requirements for processing any due to the absence of ink-key overlaps web widths and producing extraordinary ad forms

• No dampeners and therefore no parameter for the newspaper industry.” < changes necessary • Many different product types (ad forms/formats) possible

Autowelt Schuler, the first user of the new Smart- Flap supplement, was extremely happy with the result and the positive response it received. Sales manager Daniel Beyer says: “The product was a bull’s eye for Autowelt Schuler. We have received a great deal of interest as a result of the Smart-Flap and we have used it as a basis for boosting our talks and sales campaigns. We have also received positive feedback from our business partners, trader colleagues and from VW marketing.” Effective newspaper advertising: At first sight the Smart-Flap advertising Michael Schäfer, managing director at Druckerei type from Druckerei Konstanz (Südkurier Medienhaus) may seem very unusual for newspapers, but its side index tabs help readers to find Konstanz, is impressed with the finished result: directly what they are looking for .

November 2013 RIND Survey 15 magPeople joins CCI The highly specialised competencies of magPeople and CCI are now brought together to meet the demand among media corporations for a consolidated solution covering newspaper, magazine and digital publishing

agPeople, Danish provider of software for magazine workflow and production control and part of the Stibo Group, is now a business unit of CCI, also a Stibo Group company. The mobjective of bringing together two companies with highly specialised domain knowledge is to benefit from the resulting synergy effect, thus securing an even stronger position when it comes to meeting market demands. “Today, we see converging requirements across print formats and digital publishing channels among the larger media corporations. The product portfolio of newspaper publishers often includes magazines and magazine-like special sections where increased collaboration and efficient content management may be required. It is equally obvious that the design of print and tablet magazines has very similar characteristics,” says VP - Digital Services at CCI, Thea Schmidt Borgholm, who has assumed responsibility for the new business unit. magPeople has specialised in flexible and easy-to-use solutions for magazine production including CAOS, an integrated publishing platform, magWorkflow, magPicture and a number of plugins for Adobe InDesign. magPeople’s reference list includes major magazine publishers like Bonnier Magazine Group, Aller Magazine and Meredith Corp. “From the very beginning, magPeople has had a keen focus on combining simplicity and efficiency in their solutions, and their development process has been characterized by a highly agile and creative approach. These are core values that we will preserve in the new CCI business unit,” says Thea

Schmidt Borgholm. As of August 2013, all magPeople employees have been transferred to the new CCI business unit. < Photo: CCI

Bonnier Publications in Copenhagen, Denmark, using CAOS for their planning and production of magazines.

16 RIND Survey November 2013 Four-high tower press for German regional paper After the Märkische Allgemeine newspaper in Potsdam near Berlin, Main-Echo in Aschaffenburg has become the latest in a succession of prominent German regional newspaper houses to opt for KBA’s flexible, four-high Commander CL. The highly automated 48-page newspaper web press with three reelstands, three four-high towers and a folder is scheduled to go live in autumn 2014, replacing a manroland press in operation since 1999

he KBA Commander CL for Aschaffenburg is already the seventh flexibly automatable press of its type to be sold to Germany and the tenth worldwide since its launch two years ago Tby the Würzburg-based global market leader. Says Ulrich Eymann, Main-Echo’s managing director: “The Commander CL’s high level of productivity and its fast edition changes driven by practical automation solutions allow us to optimise our local editions and economically strengthen our newspaper titles. In addition, cutting-edge inking technology ensures a high print quality. The KBA Commander CL totally convinced us with its technical solutions when we researched the market.” The mid-size, family-run company with over 300 employees is broadly diversified with high-quality print products and innovative online solutions, a mail delivery service, software services and a travel agency. Along with the newspaper printing house, two printing houses which specialise in commercial Photos: KBA

After signing the contract for the KBA Commander CL (sitting l-r): KBA executive vice-president for the web press product house Christoph Müller with both managing directors of Main-Echo Ulrich Eymann and Reinhard Golembiewski, as well as KBA sales director Alexander Huttenlocher and KBA sales manager Günter Noll (both standing).

18 RIND Survey November 2013 The KBA Commander CL for Main-Echo in Aschaffenburg, Germany. and form printing and an art title publishing house can print up to 85,000 full-colour newspapers per also belong to the Main-Echo Group. Founded in hour. The features include: 1945, the daily is printed in eight local editions in - 3 KBA Pastomat reelstands embedded in a KBA region around Aschaffenburg, Miltenberg and the Patras A automatic reel handling system with district of Main-Spessart, situated east of Frankfurt/ stripping station Main. Including the titles the Bote vom Untermain, - Automatic pagination changers Lohrer Echo and Wertheimer Zeitung, the Main-Echo - 3 printing towers with automatic plate changers, has a weekday circulation of over 75000 copies and RollerTronic automated roller locks, fan-out about a quarter of a million readers in the lower Main compensation, automatic colour-register controls, region of Germany. CleanTronic cylinder washing systems, automatic In addition, the media house also publishes the inking-unit cleaning and central ink pumping consumer magazine, top shop. This weekly free - 3 turner bars (with half-cover web leads and spadea is delivered in six sub-editions to over 230000 production capabilities), a folder superstructure households in its distribution area. The Kurier am with three formers, skip slitter, ribbon and section Wochenende for non-subscribers, the monthly event stitcher, and a KBA KF5 jaw folder magazine Stadtmagazin, two telephone and business - Cut-off register and web-edge and web-centre directories for the region and further monthly titles controls, and pre-former web guides, also belong to the house’s product spectrum. With 2 KBA ErgoTronic consoles with EasyTronic over 10 million hits a month the internet platform waste- and time-saving press start-up (EasyStart) Main-Netz profits from the Main-Echo publishing and automated run-down (EasyClean-up) as well house’s wealth of news. as KBA PressNet for scheduling, presetting and process control including a proofing system. Ideal for fast job changes Provision has been made for the addition of

The double-width Commander CL will be facilities for the production of glued four-page engineered for the Rhine format (cylinder centre spreads. < circumference: 1,020mm/41.2in; maximum web width: 1,400mm/55.1in). In straight production it

November 2013 RIND Survey 19 FoldLine provides boost to Italian print leader ith the digital FoldLine system from manroland web systems, we can now produce our entire product range, from advertising material to books, newspapers, and magazines, in “Wall folding variants, even for very efficient short runs,” says Dott. Emanuele Bandecchi, responsible for the digital division at Rotolito Lombarda S.p.A. in Seggiano di Piotello (near Milan), “This system lets us offer our customers real added value for a variety of different production needs.” Producing mini editions of certain book titles in a just-in-time system saves on warehousing costs and, if short runs of products such as individualized flyers can be produced with the same format and folds as the main run, then everyone, including the designer, advertiser, and distribution company, is happy. “By choosing digital printing technology from manroland, Rotolito Lombarda is carrying on the long-term, reliable partnership between the three companies, Rotolito Lombarda, manroland web systems, and the distributor bwebsystems srl. This project will help the customer extend its expertise beyond web offset printing in the long term,” says Trino Barnabò, managing director at bwebsystems srl.

Customer-specific solutions Rotolito Lombarda, well known for its printing services far beyond the borders of Italy and active in the digital market since 2010, will soon be processing new digitally printed products with the highly flexible, variable cut-off folding system FoldLine from manroland web systems. The company has ordered a configuration that comprises all available features from manroland web systems. The system will start operating in the fall of this year. An extension and integration of the inline workflow system with an HP T410 Color Inkjet Web Press is planned for early 2014. The printnetwork Bridge, Photo: manroland systems web

Says Emanuele Bandecchi (Rotolito Lombarda), third from left: “With the FoldLine from manroland web systems we can produce our entire portfolio economically, even for short runs.”

20 RIND Survey November 2013 developed by manroland web systems, will become run with the same page count and cut-off length the crucial link between the MIS system from Rotolito can be started in just three minutes. When the page Lombarda, the HP printing unit controller, and the format needs to be changed, the conversion takes FoldLine system, which will all come together to only two minutes longer. create a dynamic postpress system. In developing its FoldLine digital finishing solutions, manroland web systems drew from its Diverse products many decades of experience in constructing high- The many features of Rotolito Lombarda’s new performance equipment for industrial printing. Like FoldLine result in a high-capacity and versatile all manroland web system products, the FoldLine production system, thus providing a quick return also uses robust and durable cutting knives that can on investment. Not only can the FoldLine generate be changed quickly and with few tools. manroland advertising material of up to 64 pages in long- web systems also provides sophisticated and efficient grain and short-grain formats and customised solutions for the system’s operation. For example, newspapers, but also auxiliary-glued book blocks, in a mobile control console and the MobilPad offer conjunction with an automatic stacker from Rima wireless support for staff to make adjustments System. With the FoldLine, Rotolito Lombarda can directly at the machine. digitally recreate conventional offset products. The Rotolito Lombarda offers its printing services all web width can accommodate up to eight pages, and across Europe. The “leader in printing”, as their asymmetric productions with partial-width webs are motto goes, is one of the top Italian printers of also possible. A further perforating unit allows for products for publishing houses and commercial additional product variations. enterprises. An extensive range of equipment is the basis for the company’s success: the factory Agile and dynamic floor holds seven large-format web offset systems, The high-performance capability of the FoldLine including two Lithoman lines for 64-page and is impressive: web speeds of up to 300 m per minute one Lithoman for 48-page production, all from and a web width of up to 106 cm make the system manroland web systems. Book printing presses, suitable for the fastest digital printing presses on sheetfed presses, two rotogravure presses, and a the market and therefore as an inline solution for fully equipped bindery provide the additional “tools” the production of an almost unlimited variety of for success. Rotolito Lombarda’s portfolio includes printed products. Its high productivity is enhanced magazines, fiction books, reference titles, codes,

by quick, dynamic job changeover sequences that are catalogs, guides, comics, dictionaries, advertising unrivalled by competing products. A new production brochures, folders, and flyers. <

Is publishing a sustainable business model?

The World Publishing Expo opened in Berlin with a frank discussion on the future of news media by two industry leaders – Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner and Guardian CEO Andrew Miller – and a demonstration of an industry innovation: a “hack day” to re-imagine and re-think newspaper archives. “The fundamental question we are all thinking about is: is publishing a sustainable business model?” said Döpfner during the opening ceremony. “If we define publishing as a print business, then no. If we define it as branded content on all available distribution channels – then perhaps.” Added Miller: “The reality is the future is absolutely here now. Readers of our titles are consuming them in many ways. This is not something that will happen in the future. It’s happening now. It’s about investing ahead of what’s happening and following the consumers.” News media is changing so rapidly that the past no longer provides a blueprint to the future, Miller

said. “Keep trying innovation. Just try things. Some will work and some won’t, but you can’t just sit there and do nothing.” <

November 2013 RIND Survey 21 WORLD PUBLISHING EXPO, BERLIN Sustainable and profitable options from digital printing

n 2012, Koenig & Bauer (KBA) won almost 40 per cent of all contracts for new newspaper web presses awarded by the international newspaper industry and this year it is over 40 per cent. IDespite the high market share, the volume of new investments in newspaper printing technology which has shrunk by over 70 per cent since 2006 to under €300m is not enough to fill the global market leader’s already significantly reduced capacity. At the KBA press conference at the World Publishing Expo in Berlin, KBA CEO and president Claus Bolza-Schünemann pointed out that the market revival for new newspaper technology expected in 2010 did not occur due to structural and economic reasons (media shift, Euro crisis). He also said that given media developments, trends towards concentration and realignment in the newspaper industry, suppliers should be prepared for a continued moderate decline in investments in new offset presses, prepress and mailroom technology, rather than a significant recovery. According to the latest market analyses, sales of new commercial and newspaper presses (not including used presses, service and consumables) in the supply industry fell to €630m in 2012 after a short-lived rise in 2010 to €800m. This is following sales of €1.7bn in 2007 and a low of €600m in the crisis year 2009. KBA is expecting a further decline to approx. €500m for 2013. It is assumed that yearly investments in new web offset technology will bottom out to approx. €400m by 2015. Photos: KBA

Through its subsidiary PrintHouseService (PHS), KBA takes over the complete technical support in newspaper and commercial printing houses with on-site personnel.

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Oliver Baar, KBA project manager for business development digital web presses, compared the newspaper industry with a tree on which the sweet, but not yet overripe fruit, hang from branches in the middle or at the very top. While today’s newspaper and supplement business only offer limited market potential, Baar sees sustainable and profitable additional business options in digital printing. These include even more consistent target group orientated newspapers (hyper-localisation or special interest small runs), expanding product portfolios to strengthen reader and customer loyalty, and addressing new customer bases as well as the very flexible linking of print and online media. One step further is the combined use of older offset presses, for example a KBA Colora and an inkjet web press, like the KBA RotaJet. Digital printing could be used for highly localised production scenarios (micro-zoning) in newspapers as well as the format-variable production of additional print products on diverse substrates for readers and ad customers. Traditional business models in the newspaper industry can be expanded in this way and the process costs of small runs are significantly reduced. While in the offset sector predominantly newspaper, commercial web and sheetfed offset presses are used to produce newspapers, semi- commercials, books, magazines and commercial The highly automated KBA Commander CT is the global market leader in high-end newspaper printing. products, the KBA RotaJet addresses small print

runs in all these market segments and opens up < Along with further capacity adjustments, KBA new business opportunities. aims to compensate as much as possible for the lower sales of new web offset presses with more service activities, a broader portfolio for the growing packaging printing and the new business field digital printing. With this in mind, KBA has expanded its proven and innovative offset product range for the newspaper industry with the KBA RotaJET digital press, which has shaped KBA’s stand in Berlin and was present in the Digital Pavilion set up in the Power of Print media port. According to Bolza-Schünemann two RotaJETs have already been sold in other market segments Creative print advertising in an outstanding quality, like this four-page and KBA is receiving increasing interest from the centre spread printed and coated both sides inline on a KBA Cortina at newspaper industry, as well as from the book, direct Freiburger Druck, generates additional attention. mail and commercial printing sectors which the press initially addressed.

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ppi Media bags order for newspaper production workflow

he World Publishing Expo proved a successful business platform for ppi Media, the software supplier based in Hamburg, Germany. Thilo Grickschat and Frank Best, managing directors of Westfalen-Blatt, Tsigned a letter of intent for new solutions for its newspaper planning, page production, classified pagination and ad production workflows. The decision in favor of ppi Media went hand in hand with the decision to modernize and reorganize Westfalen-Blatt’s 27 local editions. “ppi Media’s solutions will create a cost-effective, yet highly automated planning and production workflow, and the existing system will be optimally integrated. We are creating an optimal platform for all our workflows and departments, for future optimisation as well, since ppi Media offers open solutions of guaranteed quality,” said Thilo Grickschat, managing director of Vereinigte

Photo: ppi Zeitungsverlage GmbH in Bielefeld. At the heart of the new production workflow, PlanPag will be used for planning and production, including page assembly. It will also connect to The ppi Media booth in Berlin at World Publishing Expo 2013. the ad booking system – via AdMan – and to the editorial system using standard interfaces. AdMan will ensure the highly automated electronic delivery of ads and integration of the ad booking system (Westfalen-Blatt’s in-house solution). The company has also ordered the alfa Stylo editor integrated in AdMan. The web-based ad editor runs on the AdMan GUI, enabling users to create liner and display ads easily and quickly. AdMan creates logos, a large number of different backgrounds and text blocks for designing ad layouts. Fonts and quotations (in particular for personal ads) are managed in data pools in Stylo. In the new workflow, classified ads can already be paginated on the basis of the booking data for ad pages.

Production data that has been delivered or created in Stylo is placed automatically. The ad deadline can be moved forward to just before printing starts. < ppi Media at the World Publishing Expo

WoodWing launches Version 4.2 of Elvis Dam

t the World Publishing Expo, WoodWing introduced version 4.2 of Elvis Dam. The update includes a new Web Client and provides various new features to further improve collaboration and increase Aease-of-use and efficiency of digital asset management. With its fourth update since the acquisition by WoodWing in October 2012, Elvis Dam is again offering a variety of new features and enhancements to further streamline the workflows of publishers, agencies and corporations. Elvis Dam now offers an HTML5 Web client, enabling remote users to access the central server from any location, even when traveling or in meetings. Based on WoodWing’s market research about user expectations in various production scenarios, the latest version of the Web Client focuses on browsing, viewing and downloading assets from the central repository. For the Web Client, WoodWing has chosen a display style of the assets optimizing the use of the available screen space and ensuring that users get up to speed quickly with their digital asset management solution.

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The new version 4.2 of WoodWing´s digital asset management solution Elvis Dam offers a new look of the asset pane (left), and the option 'Download image as' (right).

The Web Client also provides infinite scrolling – while scrolling down, more images get loaded, increasing convenience and speed. The Web Client can also be skinned to match the corporate design. The Elvis DAM Desktop client now supports the creation of image variations. When selecting the ‘Download image as’ option, users can quickly specify the file format, resolution and dimensions of the

new image. Metadata of the original can travel with the newly created image. It’s also possible to define and manage presets for used-often settings. This new functionality is also available through the updated Elvis < API, offering integrators the option to automate tasks in the background.

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ppi Media enters Kenyan market

n October 7, the Standard Group in Nairobi, Kenya, commissioned ppi Media to install a wide range of solutions for its planning, production, ad and editorial workflows. The contract was signed by OSam Shollei, CEO of The Standard, at the World Publishing Expo. Boasting a market share of 30 per cent, The Standard is the largest and most influential daily newspaper in Kenya. Apart from the print edition, a large number of online, mobile, broadcast and TV products are also available to news consumers. The decision by the management at The Standard to install ppi Media’s solutions will see many manual processes replaced by automated workflows. For the print edition, Robert Toroitich, CIO of The Standard, will back tested, proven market solutions. In the digital sector especially, The Standard has already set benchmarks and, with AdX, which will integrate both the ad management system SAP IS-M/ AM and the ad server, and Content-X, ppi Media's solution for creating cross-media editorial content, it will create an even more streamlined, efficient workflow. “Our goal is to inform, educate and entertain people with high-quality content on all media channels. With its highly integrated workflow solultions, ppi Media offers maximum automation in all areas of the workflow.” The Standard will install solutions by ppi Media from planning to multi-channel delivery. PlanPag, together with its integrated classified ad pagination system AdPag, ad reservation system AdDispo and page assembly system ProPag, will be responsible for planning and producing the print edition of the daily newspaper. AdX will manage all the ads, including bi-directional interfaces to SAP IS-M/AM and the ad server, for digital output channels. With mediaPreflight, The Standard has opted for a cross-media preflight solution which checks content according to the publisher’s requirements for a specific medium. The editorial department will

also receive a cross-media tool. Content-X, ppi Media's editorial system, is based on InDesign, enabling users to create and deliver cross-media content to different media channels <

Aval Vikatan takes social engagement route

Aval Vikatan, the Tamil fortnightly women’s magazine from the Vikatan Group, is celebrating its 16th anniversary this year. The theme of the anniversary issue is Aval 16, wherein 16 women who achieved success at the age of 16 have been featured in the magazine. Talking about the 16-year journey, B. Srinivasan, MD, Vikatan Group said, “It has been an exciting journey for Aval Vikatan. We feel wonderful for portraying women as enablers and change agents and Aval Vikatan being the true magazine for the new generation of working women and young homemakers. As per IRS Q3 2012, our AIR is 4.47 lakh readers, which is double the readership of our closest competitor. We have consistently been the No. 1 Tamil women’s magazine.” The group is conducting series of events across major cities and towns in Tamil Nadu. One such event is Aval Jolly Day, an interactive and fun-based two-day programme, where readers can showcase their latent talent in diverse areas such as music, dancing, theatre, craft and so on. Another event lined up is Asathal Pengal, a day-long fun and entertainment event where readers can take part in various contests. Pravin Menon, national head - Ad Sales, Vikatan Group, shared, “Rather than spending majorly on advertising and promotion, we would want to give back to our loyal readers through various competitions and conducting events across Tamil Nadu. These events help our readers to knit their

own social network and help us keep in constant touch with them. Moreover, we are conducting training events such as jewellery making and tailoring events.” <

26 RIND Survey November 2013 Just published: online content moderation

Encouraging readers to post online comments allows news media to connect with audiences, but the comments are too often uncivil, hateful, obscene or downright insulting. Moderating online conversations is an enormous task for news media. A new guide can help. ‘Online comment moderation: emerging best practices’ - researched and produced by the World Editors Forum with support from the Open Society Foundations - is a guide to promoting robust and civil online conversation. The report, released during the World Publishing Expo in Berlin, is based on a survey of 104 news organisations from 63 countries, plus a selection of experts from corporate and academic worlds. It examines key trends, opportunities and best practices. “The news organisations we spoke to could be broadly divided into two camps: those who embrace comments from users, and those who essentially see them as a necessary evil,” said Cherilyn Ireton, executive director of the World Editors Forum, the global organisation for chief editors and other senior newsroom personnel within the World Association of Newspaper and News Publishers (WAN- IFRA). “Very few organisations – only seven in our sample – didn’t allow comments at all, but nearly all had resource issues,” she said. “Online comment moderation is a costly and time-consuming task. Yet many organisations see the practice as an essential element in fostering a real community around

their publication. Comments can increase reader engagement, both in terms of time spent on site, and in terms of loyalty.” <

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The enhancement of its product portfolio and the Nela’s punch bender for acquisition of the Glunz and Jensen’s (K&F) bender Indian market business is just one in a whole range of investments that Nela has made recently. Following the acquisition of Glunz & Jensen’s (K&F) bender business in December 2012, Nela has launched a successor to the Pika optical punch ABB to retrofit Wifag bender formerly made by G&J (K&F) for the Indian domestic newspaper market. The new Pika press ABB, one of the leading suppliers of automation solutions for the newspaper industry, has announced a major order from La Nacion, the leading Argentinian newspaper based in Buenos Aires, for drives and controls retrofits on their Wifag OF370 press. La Nacion is the latest in a long line of newspaper houses that has chosen ABB’s APOS solution to replace obsolete proprietary control and positioning systems Photos in this section: company/agency section: this in Photos on their press. ABB will install its APOS solution on The new Pika II punch bender. six printing towers and one folder. A drives retrofit II punch bender is geared to the requirements of many smaller newspaper plants in India which want to close the gap to automatic in-line plate production with optical plate registration, but only need limited plate volumes and an affordable price to justify the automation of their plate lines. The Pika II merges conceptual ideas of its previous model with proven Nela design elements. It is engineered in Germany according to individual plate specifications and uses the Nela Eco.net- software, world standard parts and components. Unlike other products, assembly, installation and service support is done with local partners in India which allows an economical approach with fast and cost effective domestic service support. The product will be launched under the K&F brand name. Says Martin Haselbach, Nela’s sales manger, Graphic Systems: ‘The Pika II is an excellent addition to the NELA product offering that is ranging from basic to high-end plate registering, punch-bending and sorting products. It will allow Indian newspaper printers who were formerly reluctant to shift to in line CtP production to make this step to full automation and optical registration. It is also a commitment to the needs of the Indian newspaper industry where Nela pioneered optical Soon with new ABB controls and drives – the Wifag OF370 in Buenos plate alignment and holds a large market share. Aires.

28 RIND Survey November 2013 Industry Updates will also be carried out on these units. In addition, commissioning. What's more, the switch-over had ABB will supply new drives and control systems for to be complete from one week to the next at the nine Wifag reelstands at the Buenos Aires site. beginning of June 2012, with some 3.2 million The project will be carried out in close cooperation copies of the TV Magazine being processed within between the ABB organisations in Argentina four days. and Switzerland. “ABB’s strong local presence in The two PolyStream lines are fed off a MultiDisc Argentina and the cooperation between the two winding/unwinding system. But first, the TV guide parts of the ABB organization were decisive in is trimmed to format in an SNT-U trimming drum. winning this order,” says Christian Villiger, head It then goes to the FlyStream precollecting system of ABB’s activities in the printing business. “It is where up to nine inserts are gathered along with another example of the advantages of ABB’s global the TV Magazine to form a collection before being footprint.” The commissioning of the upgrades will sealed in a polybag. Depending on the quality of be performed in parallel with the daily production the inserts, a net output of up to 28000 copies per on the press in order to avoid any downtime and will hour is achieved. be completed by August 2014. The high net output results from the synergies between the rotary PolyPacer sealing system and other tried-and-tested components from the Ferag Rotary sealing achieves product portfolio such as the JetFeeder hopper and Flystream precollecting line. The quality of excellent output the foil also plays an important part. Newsprinters has also decided to equip one line with the inline When reorganising its printing activities, StreamStitch stitching system plus EasySert to Newsprinters considered whether it could produce open the door to semi-commercials and enable the TV Magazine – it's inserted into the Saturday edition development and enhancement of new products, of the Sun – at the Knowsley facility in coldset offset, for example with a high-gloss cover. and thus improve utilisation of existing capacity. What Newsprinters still lacked for the change-over to in-house production of the TV Magazine was the WoodWing, Getty Images option to foil-wrap the individual copies. Evaluations by Newsprinters revealed that when it to streamline image flow came to net output, rotary foil-wrapping from Ferag was unrivalled in the marketplace. Once the decision WoodWing and Getty Images have worked to invest in two PolyStream lines had been made, together to develop a seamless integration of Getty only 16 weeks were left for installation, training and Images’ digital content library and WoodWing’s editorial management application Content Station as part of WoodWing´s multi-channel publishing system Enterprise. With this integration, users of WoodWing Enterprise now have direct access to select, download and procure images from Getty Images’ significant content library. In today's visual world, the right image makes the difference. Getty Images has a well-earned reputation as one of the leading resources for images for editorial and advertising. The extensive offering of stock images and illustrations spans everything from conceptual creative images and timeless vintage photography to up-to-the-minute editorial coverage – including news, sports and In total, some 3.2 million copies of the TV Magazine have to be sealed celebrity photos. in just four days at Newsprinters in Knowsley.

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Good opportunities for print, says KBA Report

Products, practices, perspectives and innovation- these four words sum up the contents of the latest issue of the KBA Report. The customer magazine from press manufacturer Koenig & Bauer is once again packed with 52 pages of practice-orientated features on investments, news and business models from the international print scene, plus new technologies for diverse market segments. With the headline ‘Today’s Getty Images’ extensive content library is now directly available in Content Station, the editorial management application of WoodWing’s print arena demands entrepreneurship’, the 43rd multi-channel publishing system Enterprise. edition of KBA Report appeals to the industry’s Thanks to a new collaboration, Getty Images’ willingness to actively extensive content library is now directly available face the challenges and in Content Station, the editorial management opportunities for print in application of WoodWing’s multi-channel an increasingly digitalised publishing system Enterprise. Users can easily world. search, select and download images and store them Says KBA CEO and in dossiers in Content Station for use in their layouts president Claus Bolza- – all without leaving their familiar publishing and Schünemann: “Print and creative workflow environment. online will grow together The seamless integration leverages the plug- into multi-channeled in technology of Enterprise Server, enabling communication solutions WoodWing and its solution partners and technology with which money can partners to connect Enterprise to any external be made. The same is system. KBA Report No. 43 contains true of analogue and practical reports from the digital technologies in the Using Getty Images’ API, users can perform a international printing industry traditional Getty Images search, downloading images as well as helpful information on printing process itself.” in layout resolution, before dragging and dropping new technologies and processes in Alongside reports on them into a dossier in Content Station. When the various print segments. the premiere of the new user decides to use an image, a high-resolution large-format Rapida version of the image can be easily purchased and 164 as well as new investments and installations in downloaded from Getty Images’ website to replace metal-decorating, commercial, book, packaging and the low-resolution image. newspaper printing, the new edition focuses on Says Erik Schut, President of WoodWing finishing. Specialist articles address cold-foil finishing, Software: “Effortlessly working with content from UV inert curing for the production of high-quality external sources in the workflow environment is packaging in sheetfed offset and digital newspaper an important pillar in this endeavor. We are very printing with the KBA RotaJET. pleased with the benefits this direct integration The latest KBA Report is available in German, of Getty Images with Content Station offers our English, French, Spanish and Italian. Copies can be customers.” requested from the KBA regional offices or from the central marketing department of Koenig & Bauer AG.

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the inserting drum can be equipped with more Inserting, with no extra hoppers. And if the inserting drum pays for itself staffing cost as expected, plans are already in place to install a second system in Luton. In late 2011, West Ferry Printers of Luton to the north of London opened a new printing An upgrade with ABB centre costing approximately GBP 65 million. The newspapers Daily Express, Daily Star and Daily Sport – production systems some of the highest-circulation titles in the country – are printed at this facility. The total number of ABB has announced a large order from the copies printed each week at Luton amounts to some Mittelland Zeitungsdruck AG, the print center of 4.5 million. the AZ Medien AG in Aarau/Switzerland, for a In a second expansion phase in 2012, mailroom range of production and workflow management functionality in Luton was upgraded to include systems. The order is only partially related to the inserting. Technically, this has been achieved with an recent order of a new KBA press for the Mittelland MSD-H inserting drum from Ferag, which is now Zeitungsdruck AG. The new press makes an used to insert the publishers’ own and also advertising extension to the existing press management system, supplements automatically. With this step, West ABB’s MPS Production, a necessity, but the new Ferry Printers is pursuing its goal of increasing value order from Mittelland Zeitungsdruck AG is much creation and at the same time lowering distribution larger. costs. What's more, the company wished to further Mittelland Zeitungsdruck AG will be provided consolidate its position in this hard-fought market with a complete hardware and software upgrade of and offer its clients new services. the MPS Production system. The newest version of In 2:1 mode, the MSD-H inserting drum can cope the software will be supplied together with a new with high-volume print runs, even when the time Geocluster hardware platform. This new system frames are narrow, and insert up to a maximum of will support the planning and management of not four supplements without incurring high, additional only the new KBA press but also of the existing staffing costs. With their maximum performance of Wifag press in Aarau. The scope of supply of the 90,000 copies, the double-width presses have set the MPS Production system also includes the Online bar correspondingly high. The management team at Production Viewer, which allows production West Ferry Printers were won over by the MSD-H monitoring on an iPad. inserting drum with its net output of around 70,000 Mittelland Zeitungsdruck AG has also ordered copies per hour. And it's been shown that the ABB’s MPS Cockpit, the management system for printing deadlines and tight production schedules the entire newspaper production process. The for the different newspaper titles can be maintained, insert management system, MPS InsertManager, even with inserting. The company gives a positive which is already in use in Aarau, will be integrated rating to Ferag’s modular technology concept as with the new MPS Cockpit system. well – if the volume of supplements should increase, ABB’s soft-proof solution ColorCheck, which provides a true colour soft-proof image, also convinced the team at Mittelland Zeitungsdruck AG. The system will be supplied as an extension to the KBA control consoles. In addition ABB will install upgrades and extensions to the existing MPS PlateWorkflow system, the fully automated workflow system for the plate-making, and also to MPS Inform, the production information and analysis system. The first systems will be commissioned in A total of some 4.5 million copies are printed each week in Luton. February 2014. The commissioning of the

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remaining systems will be scheduled to fit with the and service responsibility for the MBO systems, commissioning of the new press and the needs of while elsewhere complementing the existing MBO Mittelland Zeitungsdruck AG. sales network for suitable projects. KBA, MBO to intensify Finland’s Punamusta sales bond switches to manroland At this year's China Print in Beijing, KBA and MBO announced that they had signed a cooperation agreement on the joint international marketing of MBO folding machines. To kick off the partnership between the two manufacturers, KBA for the first time presented not only its Rapida 75 press, but also MBO's new 2013-generation folder M80 on its exhibition stand at Pack Print International in Thailand in August. A further joint presentation of KBA press technologies and MBO folding The mood is upbeat in Joensuu, Finland: folders contain the contract equipment is already planned for the forthcoming documents for Punamusta’s investment in a Colorman autoprint. Klaus Pamex exhibition to be held in New Delhi/India in Streit, deputy VP Sales at manroland web systems (3rd from left) and November. Jyrki Laakkonen, CEO of Pohjois-Karjalan Kirjapaino Oyj (4th from The cooperation is similarly becoming ever right), as well as other participants in the negotiations, look forward to the project. more visible at the KBA sheetfed offset facility in Radebeul. In the meantime, an M80 folder system While well-acquainted with technology from other has been installed in the KBA Customer Centre for manufacturers, the Finnish company Punamusta training and demonstration purposes. The KBA chose to bank on the reliability of printing systems sales teams have received extensive instruction on from manroland web systems for one of its next major the modern folding technologies from MBO, and orders. The installation of the state-of-the-art press will in future be able to offer relevant products will start in the summer of 2014, with a production for downstream finishing in addition to Rapida start scheduled for early 2015. In order to upgrade its sheetfed offset presses. In selected countries in facilities, Punamusta has invested around 15 million Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa, the KBA euros in its production technology and premises. The sales organisation will be assuming exclusive sales print experts from North Karelia, near the Russian border, want to target new customer groups with the flexible Colorman autoprint system. Punamusta, a member of the Pohjois-Karjalan Kirjapaino Group, currently produces a variety of local newspapers as well as advertising material and magazines for the Finnish, Russian, and Scandinavian markets. The new Colorman system, with its two printing towers and two reel splicers, impressed Punamusta with the prospect of shorter make-ready times, improved production reliability, and less waste. In autoprint mode, the printing process is fully automatic and manual intervention has been reduced to a minimum. All data for new runs can be loaded during the automated PPL (PowerPlateLoading) An M80 folder has been available for product training and demonstrations process, meaning the press is immediately ready in the KBA Customer Centre in Radebeul since September.

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for the next proof. Inline Control systems such as InlineTemperature Control and InlineCutoff New chairman of KBA Control ensure the stability of the production run. supervisory board “This investment will allow Punamusta to make a giant leap in terms of efficient newspaper printing. The supervisory board of The available automation options will make Koenig & Bauer (KBA) elected newspaper production faster, cheaper, and much Heinz-Joachim Neubürger more user-friendly.” said Klaus Streit, Deputy Vice (60) as its new chairman at an President Sales at manroland web systems. extraordinary board meeting. This follows the resignation of Dieter Rampl on 26 September Roel-Jan Mouw is as both longstanding member and since 2006 chairman of Heinz-Joachim Neubürger. WoodWing CEO the world’s second-largest press manufacturer’s supervisory board due to WoodWing Software has personal reasons. Heinz-Joachim Neubürger, former announced that it has appointed CFO at Siemens, was elected as member of the KBA Roel-Jan Mouw, 41, as chief supervisory board at the annual general meeting in executive officer effect from June 2013. The shareholder representatives shall October 1. The appointment of propose Dr Martin Hoyos (65) from Vienna to the Mouw, an international senior register court in Würzburg, Germany, as a replacement executive with solid business following Dieter Rampl’s resignation as supervisory acumen and proven track board member. Mr Hoyos, an experienced auditor, is a former member of the board of directors at KPMG record within the technology Roel-Jan Mouw, new and software industry, signals a CEO of WoodWing Germany and holds diverse supervisory board seats strong move into the next phase Software. at medium-sized companies. for WoodWing Software. “With digital assets growing at staggering rates and consumerisation of IT through connected devices all around us, WoodWing is well-positioned to ensure Jan Kasten is CTO, customer success by delivering leading software,” Mouw said. “It’s an honor for me to lead WoodWing, ppi Media one of the most innovative software companies in the industry, and I look forward to working with Martin Ruhle has announced his decision to leave WoodWing’s talented team, formidable customers the management of the Hamburg-based software and excellent partners around the globe.” supplier ppi Media on December 31, 2013, after After more than six years as CEO of WoodWing almost 30 years as CTO. Explaining his decision, Software, co-founder Hans Janssen will move into a Martin Ruhle said: “I am proud to be able to continue new role as CEO of WoodWing Ventures, focusing working for ppi Media as a consultant and to place on teaming up with promising startups. Erik Schut, my role as managing director in the responsible co-founder and president of WoodWing Software, hands of my successor.” Jan Kasten will take Martin said, ”This year, WoodWing will have another Ruhle’s place as CTO of ppi Media on January 1, record-breaking year. Our multi-channel publishing 2014, alongside Norbert Ohl. Jan Kasten, currently business is showing double-digit growth and our head of Product Management, has worked for ppi digital asset management business is tripling this Media for many years and is considered an expert in year.” the publishing industry.

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Al-Ahram chooses investment security New status for former KOPA president Al-Ahram is bringing its Ferag mailroom technology up to the state of the art. Within the The Karnataka Offset context of a retrofit programme, three ETR-H Printers Association (KOPA), series inserting drums that were installed in 1996 Bangalore, has announced that have been equipped with new components from the its past president Nagasundar MultiSertDrum generation. As part of a second stage, has been elected for a second the intermediate storage and winding periphery has term as vice-president (South) been replaced by the latest MultiDisc technology. of the All India Federation of Master Printers, New Delhi, Nagasundar. the apex body of printers in the country. The election meeting was held in September in Lucknow. Nagasundar, managing director of Geetanjali Graphics in Bangalore, was the president of KOPA during 2009-11 and was reelected for a second term (2011-2013).

Swiss media house opts for Commander CT Koenig & Bauer (KBA) has expanded its strong With Ferag, Al-Ahram is once again making a sound investment in the future. position in the Swiss newspaper market with an order for a double-width Commander CT from Mittelland Zeitungsdruck, belonging to AZ Medien The three high-performance inserting lines were in Aarau. In parallel to promoting new digital commissioned by Al-Ahram some 18 years ago. offerings, the prominent Swiss media house has At speeds in excess of 70000 copies an hour, the opted for the highly automated compact press to ETR-H inserting drums are in a position to add up strengthen its printing business. The 80-page press to four preprints and supplements to the newspapers, line will be equipped with two eight-high towers, a online. Thanks to processing in 2:1 mode, the four-high tower, five reelstands and a jaw folder. system operates at half speed in relation to its net “We believe in the printed product linked production output. For the management team, the with online and mobile applications. As part of next logical step was to modernise the installation centralising our newspaper printing activities in with a relatively inexpensive Ferag retrofit program Aarau we aim to strengthen our print products and thus exploit the system’s efficiency for years to and gain additional contract work by upgrading come. our existing press fleet there,” says Peter Wanner, When updating the winding technology, the publisher and chairman of the board of directors customer benefited from the option to equip Ferag at AZ Medien. technology from an earlier generation with the latest The ordered 80-page press from the Würzburg- periphery. With the 18-year-old inserting technology, based press manufacturer will replace the oldest of compatibility with MultiDisc remained assured. the two Wifag presses in Aarau. “The new KBA Commander CT will start production in September 2014 and in October it will be fully integrated in the

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enabling the production of four-page centre spreads, skip slitter, ribbon stitcher and a third former. In the coming year the media house also wants to bid for complex and high-quality printing contracts from both retailers Coop and Migros, which publish the biggest print titles in Switzerland with 2.5m and 2.1m copies respectively. “The investment totalling approx. 20m CHF in printing, finishing, distribution and other process steps will pay off with cost savings in connection with the concentration of printing capacities in Aarau as well as enhanced efficiency delivered by cutting-edge technology”, says Axel Wüstmann, CEO of AZ Medien. Along with the six titles of the newspaper alliance Die Nordwestschweiz (az Aargauer Zeitung, bz Basellandschaftliche Zeitung, bz Basel, az Limmattaler Zeitung, az Solothurner Zeitung, az Grenchner Tagblatt), AZ Medien also publishes the national Sunday title the Schweiz am Sonntag. The regional dailies are distributed Roland Tschudi (CFO of AZ Medien and head of Printing and in the areas around Zürich, Bern and Basel. Logistics, right) and Urs Binkert (managing director of Mittelland Zeitungsdruck) will intensify their efforts to acquire contract work when The print products use multi-media links with the KBA Commander CT goes into operation. regional online news portals, e-papers, iPads and mobile applications. The portfolio also includes printing of our own daily, weekly and Sunday titles, ten high-circulation weekly titles and frees, eleven various contract work and complex supplements”, special-interest and trade magazines, the TV channels says Urs Binkert, managing director of Mittelland TeleZüri, Tele M1 and TeleBärn, AT book publishing Zeitungsdruck. house, commercial printers Vogt-Schild Druck and The printing towers, which feature automatic Weiss Medien as well as Mittelland Zeitungsdruck plate changing systems and automatic roller locks, for newspaper printing. The printing of own and can be accessed conveniently on both sides via lifts. contract newspaper titles generates over 40m CHF. They can also be split down the middle allowing for maximum access during maintenance tasks. The press is controlled by KBA ErgoTronic consoles with the EasyStart and EasyClean-up modules for automatic press start-up and run-down. The integration into the existing ABB MPS production scheduling and pre-set system is carried out via a PRIME interface. Other features which add to the press’ high level of automation include colour and cut-off register controls, inking-, dampening- unit and blanket washing systems, and pre-former web guides. The KF5 jaw folder’s superstructure is equipped with two formers. Five turner bars, half- cover web leads and a section stitcher enhance product flexibility further. The KBA Commander CT for Mittelland Zeitungsdruck in Aarau, Switzerland. In addition, the press is configured to handle 3/8 and 7/8 web widths which supports the production of innovative ad forms, such as spadea. Provision has been made for the optional addition of a unit

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QuadTech announces discounts, new options Ferag’s modular mailroom meets demand QuadTech Inc is introducing new discounts and an enhanced set of options for its Service Advantage Funke Zeitungsdruckereien has invested more customer support program. Under the programme, that Euro 30 million in their Braunschweig printing printers can select the ideal level of technical support, centre. During development of the printing-house extended warranty, and preventive maintenance concept, special value was placed on energy efficiency for their specific installation, business, and budget. and sustainability in order to produce state-of- Printers enrolled in the-art print products reliably, quickly and at low Service Advantage cost, as CEO Klemens Berktold confirms. Ferag's can benefit from new modular mailroom solutions met the demand. In the discounts on parts, Braunschweig printing centre, some 160000 copies service, software of the Braunschweiger Zeitung are printed each day, plus upgrades, training, 20000 copies of the HarzKurier. In addition comes a technical phone weekly total of some 1.1 million freesheets. support, and system- Two mailroom lines from Ferag take production specific preventive off the folders on the two 48-page newspaper maintenance. The presses, with a DiscPool 2 ensuring a decoupling availability of of production in the press hall and in the mailroom. these discounts is From DiscPool, the main products go to one RollSert determined by the inserting drum and preprints to another, where inserts support level selected are added using the FlyStream precollecting system. by the printer-Silver, To cushion freesheet production peaks, an EasySert Gold or Platinum. has also been installed, equipped with 16 hoppers. The theme of special advertising formats has also "Our worldwide QuadTech Inc introduces enhanced set support network of options for its Service Advantage reached the mailroom in the Braunschweig printing is unmatched in customer support programme. centre, where its implementation has been a success the industry," says thanks to MemoStick for front page advertising. QuadTech president Karl Fritchen. "The new Service Production on the three mailroom lines is run Advantage offerings make it easy for customers to using the Navigator control and has been extensively make the most of their money by choosing the ideal automated in conjunction with the so-called Ferag level of service to fit their business." string, which contains all principle production Ranjan Singh, QuadTech's International Service parameters. The user-friendly graphic interface allows manager, comments, "Printers can access the last-minute changes to the production sequences industry's best service and support for a fixed fee, via drag-and-drop. The depiction of production and receive valuable discounts on items that will parameters in the Navigator forms the basis for the continue to keep their equipment in top running comprehensive gathering and statistical evaluation of order. Besides maximizing the efficiency of their operating data. QuadTech equipment, our customers can enjoy the peace of mind that comes from eliminating budget surprises."] The enhanced Service Advantage is available in Award-winning stand the Americas and Europe, and will be available for other regions in the near future. Printers Koenig & Bauer (KBA) and its subsidiary KBA- interested in enrolling in the program will need to MePrint manned a stand together with Nigerian sales contact a QuadTech representative to discuss the partner Exact Solutions at Nipex in Abuja, Nigeria, customizable options and receive a price quote. in September. Even though KBA, like many other exhibitors, only manned a small information stand,

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Quality) is the advancement of the Balkan Print Forum. It is an important event for the region bringing together printers and manufacturers as well as professors and university teachers to exchange experiences and know-how, to discuss trends and tendencies of the development of the print and media industry, to establish new contacts, and to intensify existing ones. More than 180 participants from 14 countries came together in the conference room of the Dnister hotel in Lviv where referees from manroland web systems, Canon Europe, Procemex, Müller Martini, Intergraf, the Ukrainian Academy Interesting print samples attracted a raft of print experts to the KBA and of Printing, and the Ukrainian printing company KBA-MePrint stand.

it attracted a raft of interested print experts. Three contracts for half-format Rapida 75 presses were signed at the show. Two four-colour and a five- colour press with coater and UV capabilities will be delivered to printing firms in Nigeria. In addition, a further Nigerian company opted for a four-colour Rapida 105 with coater and positive talks on the stand may lead to more orders shortly. High-quality print products produced on a Genius 52UV were also the focus of great interest. Once again, world maps produced by KBA were well received Sabine Sirach and Michael König, both manroland web systems, by visitors to the show in Africa’s most populated presented 'Successful innovations for printed products'. country. Along with educational institutions, print experts, production managers and decision-makers Vysoky zamok presented novelties and trends in attended the show to gather information on current the printing industry under the motto, ‘East meets trends in the graphic arts industry. Due to its high West – printers for efficiency and success’. Among population Nigeria is one of the fastest growing the participants were customers from manroland print markets in Africa with considerable growth web systems, too: managers and executives of the noticeable especially in flexible and board packaging renowned Ukrainian companies A-Print, Express production. Additional finishing capabilities help to Media Poligraph, Keramist, United Media Holding, boost the quality of folding boxes. and Vysoky zamok. The next InPEQ Forum will The KBA stand was voted best stand at Nipex take place in October 2014. by the show’s visitors. Along with a raft of new impressions from the show, the KBA team was also able to take this award home with them. Onsite KBA-PHS support for Stürtz A meeting of printers in Koenig & Bauer’s (KBA) web press service and Ukraine its subsidiary PrintHouseService (PHS) founded early last year will provide comprehensive on-site The 8th meeting of the Eastern European printers support for the printing, finishing and building took place in Ukraine in September. It was hosted systems at Stürtz in accordance with the service by the Ukrainian Academy of Printing. The InPEQ contract concluded recently. The prominent Forum (International Forum on Print Efficiency and

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qualified personnel in the printing house underscores the trend also evident in other industry branches towards concentrating on the core business and outsourcing technical services to suppliers.

A ‘new for old’ campaign

GMG, has announced that customers who own X-Rite i1 measuring instruments can purchase the new i1Pro 2 spectrophotometer for a special price, Jürgen Kohrmann (left), senior manager and head of finishing at Stürtz, starting at € 950, as part of a campaign that will end Jürgen Stumpf, manager of the KBA/PHS team and Dietmar Gutsche on November 30, 2013. To get the i1Pro 2 at the (right), printing manager at Stürtz look forward to working closely reduced price, the old i1 device has to be returned together in the future. to GMG via an authorized dealer. GMG is offering attractive bundles comprising a ProofControl update commercial and book printing house is based in and the new i1Pro 2. Würzburg. The i1Pro 2 features new measuring technology A total of seven employees – two from KBA that supports the M1 measuring standard. The future and five from PHS – will work in shifts at Stürtz ISO/Fogra industry standards – which will probably and are responsible for monitoring production, be available from the end of this year – are based preventative maintenance, upkeep and rectifying on the new M1 measuring standard. To be able to any technical malfunctions that occur. The firm’s use the new measuring standards, users will have to extensive technical equipment includes two web replace their current measuring devices and software offset presses from KBA and manroland, a total by new technology. The i1Pro 2 devices purchased in of seven medium- and large-format KBA Rapidas, the context of this campaign come with a two-year including some long perfectors, as well as a large warranty, whereas the warranty period is normally bindery which is one of the most high-performance only 12 months. finishing plants in Europe given its high level of The combination of GMG ProofControl and i1 automation. measuring instruments has been an indispensable Originally founded as a university printing house, part of daily proof production and verification today Stürtz is managed by Ronald Hof and the for years. GMG ProofControl permits contract- company’s some 300 employees produce approx. quality verification of proofs in a matter of seconds, 55 million print products per year. It is one of the making color accuracy objectively measurable – even largest sheetfed and web offset printing houses in the slightest color deviation on a proof is instantly Germany. For over 183 years the printing house has detected. The latest version supports the verification produced high-quality print media for publishing of spot color and GMG OpenColor profiles. houses, industry and trade. The print specialist is The aim of the campaign is to ensure that as many known far beyond its sector mainly for its school customers as possible work with devices and software books and complex scientific publications. In whose technology reflects the state of the art. In addition, the firm also prints superior catalogues, addition to which, the new i1Pro 2 devices boost magazines, other periodicals and corporate productivity compared to the first-generation devices, publishing media. The company’s strengths lie since they now operate at a higher measuring speed, in the mix of consulting, workflow and process thanks to the progress made in sensor development. management, sheetfed and web offset printing, and The latest version of GMG ProofControl supports the above-average number of finishing options not only the X-Rite i1Pro 2, but also the i1iO from one source. automated scanning table. The contract for the 24-hour technical service by the Würzburg-based press manufacturer with

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Nature Publishing Group. Bluefin was founded in 5 fifteen appoints Bluefin to January 2005 as an innovative solutions provider market ad solutions to the media industry. Their flagship offerings incorporate all the powerful features in a single 5 fifteen, a leading provider of consulting services platform for creating the best online classifieds and cloud-based software solutions designed for and self-service place ad portal available for local newspaper and magazine publishers, has appointed sellers and buyers. Bluefin Technology Partners, a leading provider of online classifieds and self-service advertising solutions, as its authorised distributor to market its industry-leading ad Depot advertising suite of Altaimage to buy first products to the North American media industry. LumeJet S200 The ad Depot system can handle display and classified advertising bookings for both print and Altaimage, London Docklands based production online media. The software enables users to track and agency, has converted from LumeJet S200 beta sell advertising as well as manage billing, contracts, site to customer four weeks before the end of the layouts, marketing and sales force automation; evaluation period. “It’s so Altaimage,” said Rob providing true end-to-end control of advertising sales, King, Altaimage Managing Director, “We dare to production and delivery processes. It can also work be different. We’re early adopters and we love to with Bluefin Place Ad for advertiser self-service ad be ahead of the curve. The LumeJet S200 is a booking and Bluefin Marketplace for online classified unique new printer and we’re looking forward to search and display. With the ability to sell and track building a market for its amazing output.” digital and print ads in a single system, online ad The LumeJet S200 arrived at Altaimage’s Canary selling, packaged ad buys and multi-channel sales are Wharf premises at the end of July and has been just a few of the possibilities ad Depot offers to help running smoothly since the beginning of August. generate more ad revenue from previously untapped After a short period of familiarisation, as the sources. photonic technology is a little different from "Today's changing publishing environment holds real Altaimage’s other, more conventional ink or toner challenges and opportunities for media companies", printers, and a successful soft launch to selected says Rod Fenwick, CEO of 5 fifteen. "We have built contacts from its client base; Altaimage is now a reputation for delivering solutions based upon our confident to promote the LumeJet’s ultra-high clients business requirement for a multi-channel quality prints to a wider audience. advertising system that will help grow revenues “The print quality is fabulous, quite unlike anything and increase overall operational efficiencies." Steve we’ve ever seen before. Fantastic photographs, Rosenfeld, general partner at Bluefin Technology eye-popping colours, sharp text and line art, on Partners adds, "Based on their (customers) most the same page at the same time.” Rob added, recent successful deployments in Europe and “Any agency using iPads for client presentations the U.S., publishers can now take advantage of a should get the prints made on it. It’s the hard-copy proven multimedia platform to manage all of their equivalent of a retina screen.” advertising distribution channels opportunities in LumeJet is a digital print innovator, based one powerful web-based solution." in Coventry and founded in 2010, developing 5 fifteen provides software products designed for photonic platform technology for inkless printing newspaper and magazine publishers' advertising, and patterning applications. Altaimage is a London- circulation, and new media applications and based production agency dedicated to helping consulting services. 5 fifteen works with more than publishers and agencies create, manage and deliver 100 publishing operations worldwide, including their product to the highest standards. Media Norge, Hearst Magazines, National Magazine Company, IPC Media, Elsevier-Science, Reed Business Information, Macmillan Publishing and

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Vögeli invests in Truepress mediaprint gains from sheet-fed press ppi Media’s Content-X

Vögeli AG has invested in a Screen Truepress mediaprint infoverlag is setting itself up for further JetSX B2 sheet-fed digital press, the first in growth by introducing a streamlined editorial workflow Switzerland, and it will be installed in the company’s and cost-efficient production planning. The specialist advanced production facility in Langnau in the in corporate publishing based in Mering, Germany, is next few months. Vögeli specialises in producing the market leader in advertising-financed information high-quality and sophisticated marketing products publications. With ppi Media’s Content-X, the and has a reputation as a technology leader in company is planning to integrate external editors and Switzerland. The company produces unusual and content suppliers, graphic designers and other partners highly personalised direct mail, customised gifts and even more closely in the production workflow. From promotional packaging and multi-element material the first quarter of 2014, production and ad planning for events, seminars and cross media marketing will also be performed with Content-X in a highly campaigns (PURL invitations, folders, name tags, automated, web-based and transparent workflow. documents etc). The company’s information portals will be filled with “Our clients in the pharmaceutical, finance, content quickly and efficiently from the Content-X construction, engineering and jewellery industries database. Consequently, this will leave more time for all want to communicate personally with their new projects and new customers. customers using targeted, high-quality direct mail Amongst other things, mediaprint infoverlag and promotions and the production of these produces information publications for local authorities, materials is our specialty,” says Renato Vögeli, organisations, associations and establishments. With owner and director, Vögeli AG. “As a result, we rely these books, magazines and brochures, each customer on the latest technologies to enable us to offer our is able to satisfy its members’ demand for information customers the best possible marketing solutions. and provide information on services, and, at the The Screen Truepress JetSX is a truly remarkable same time, create a unique advertising platform for piece of engineering and, in my view, the only fully- local businesses. Graphic material is often provided practical B2 digital duplex sheet-fed press on the by the customers themselves; texts are created in market today. Its capabilities and flexibility will a local or central editorial office together with the open up important new opportunities for us and customer. Professional designers create the layout. for our customers.” All the partners work directly in the publication itself, The Screen Truepress JetSX will give Vögeli which means that texts can be created with the exact the ability to print personalised and customised number of lines for the layout and graphic material text and images in 1440 x 1440 dpi quality on B2 delivered as required. duplex sheets and onto media from 0.08 mm up to The editors and media consultants can also view 0.6 mm in thickness, including pre-scored and pre- their texts on the pages of the brochure via the cut boards. “The ability to print digitally onto pre- InDesign server, without having a full version of scored and pre-cut 600 micron packaging boards is InDesign installed. Project managers can view the crucial for us,” says Renato. current state of a publication anytime in a live preview. Vögeli is ISO 9001 14001 certified, cools its Spontaneous planning changes due to ads or a change pressroom with ground water and operates an in volume can be replanned and implemented very efficient heat recovery and reuse system. As a result, quickly in Content-X. the low power requirements of the Truepress JetSX, “We have screened the market and discovered a alongside its efficient use of water-based inks and number of powerful solutions. With Content-X, we low waste generation were important features of are planning to use standard software which not only the press for the company. maps our workflow, but further optimizes and fully digitalizes it in a number of important points. In the future, Content-X will also provide digital output

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channels at mediaprint infoverlag with content at the press of a button,” says Markus Trost, Goss Packaging Tech managing director of Media-Print Group GmbH. Center to open The entire content of the video division mediaprint. tv, the book division Rasch & Röhring, as well as Goss International will open a specialised facility the regional publishers will also be available in the coming January for the demonstration of its Sunday company’s cityapps in the future. Vpak web offset presses, as well as a wide range Content-X is a cross-media digital asset of print, technology and consumables testing. The management system that uses Adobe InDesign new Packaging Technology Center at the company’s and the InDesign Server for its print production. headquarters in Durham, New Hampshire (USA) will Through the simple integration of standard web also serve as a catalyst for content management systems, mobile applications, programmes bringing e-papers, apps, websites etc. can also be supplied packaging producers, with content via Content-X. This proven editorial brand owners and system for daily newspapers and magazines has been suppliers together enhanced by new features and functions specially to discuss market developed for corporate publishing customers. requirements and new The new Goss Packaging Technology production concepts. Center – with a fully operational The 650-square-meter Kodak, Bobst team up to Sunday Vpak web offset press (7,000-square-foot) system – will serve as a resource for offer new solutions press demonstrations, testing and Packaging Center will cooperative programs for packaging be equipped initially producers, brand owners and with a versatile Goss In response to increasing demand for new solutions equipment suppliers. addressing flexible, folding carton and corrugated Sunday Vpak 500 press applications, Kodak and Bobst have formed a system configured for strategic development agreement to integrate Kodak printing on film and paper substrates. technology into the Bobst portfolio of packaging The Sunday Vpak 500 press system at the Goss production equipment. Bobst is already working on Packaging Technology Center will feature seven web the development of innovative products based on offset printing units with a web width of 850 mm Kodak technology. (33.5 inches) and a repeat range of 406 – 812 mm Says Jean-Pascal Bobst, CEO of the Bobst Group. (16 – 32 inches). The system will be equipped with a “Our companies are working together on innovative flexo unit and UV and EB curing capabilities and will industrial solutions that will offer our customers accommodate film substrates from 9 to 75 microns unique opportunities to expand their businesses. We thick and paper products as heavy as 100 gsm. are looking forward to completion of development Goss Sunday Vpak 500 and Vpak 3000 web offset work and rigorous testing, and ultimately to the press models for folding carton, flexible packaging, announcement of innovations to our customers.” pre-print and label applications are available in web “Bobst is admired throughout the packaging widths from 520 mm to 1905 mm (20.5 to 75 inches) industry as a provider of high-quality solutions and print at speeds of up to 457 meters (1,500) feet and for anticipating and meeting the changing per minute. Key features include quick-change sleeve needs of its customers,” says Antonio M. Perez, adapter technology for efficient, cost-effective size Kodak chairman and CEO. “Bobst’s commitment changes, and advanced offset inking, tension and to introducing innovative products, its loyal control systems. customer base, and Kodak’s portfolio of advanced technologies, including the Kodak Stream Inkjet technology, are a powerful combination that we believe will stimulate growth and transformation for Bobst customers and for our industry.”

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Ramachandra Adityan (INS) for 2013-14 at its 74th Annual General Meeting held passes away in Bangalore on September 27, B. Ramachandra Adityan 2013. He succeeds K.N. Tilak (79), managing editor of Kumar of Deccan Herald and Malai Murasu, a Tamil evening Prajavani. Kiran B. Vadodaria of newspaper, passed away at Sambhaav Metro has been elected Ravindra Kumar his residence in Chennai due the deputy president, while P.V. to prolonged illness. He is Chandran of Grihalakshmi is survived by his wife, two sons the vice-president. Sanjay Gupta of Dainik Jagran, and a daughter. Adityan was Varanasi is the honorary treasurer of the Society the eldest son of Daily Thanthi B. Ramachandra 2013-14. V. Shankaran is the secretary-general. founder Si Balasubramania Adityan. Adityan. His younger brother, K.N. Shanth Kumar is new B. Sivanthi Adityan, owner of Daily Thanthi, died in April, also due to prolonged illness. PTI chairman Apart from managing Malai Murasu for over 50 K.N. Shanth Kumar and years, Ramachandra Adityan was instrumental in Mahendra Mohan Gupta were launching weeklies and magazines such as Devi, today elected chairman and Kanmani and Penmani and Tamil daily Kathiravan. vice-chairman respectively of He played a vital role in rescuing the Tamilnad the Press Trust of India. Shanth Mercantile Bank after the bank went out of the Kumar, a senior editor and control of Nadar community to the Essar Group photojournalist belonging to in 1990s. The Nadar community was the original the Bangalore-based Printers K.N. Shanth Kumar. promoter of TMB. (Mysore), and Gupta, chairman In the condolence message, Tamil Nadu Chief and managing editor of the Jagran Group, were Minister Jayalalithaa said she was aware of the elected unanimously at a meeting of the PTI role played by Ramachandra Adityan in rescuing Board following the company's 65th annual general TMB. While striving hard for the growth of meeting in Delhi. Tamil language, he carved a niche for himself by Shanth Kumar is the editor of the leading presenting the news in a simple manner so that Kannada daily Prajavani and director of Printers it could be understood by the common man. (Mysore), publishers of Deccan Herald, Prajavani, “He was a simple and amiable person. His death Sudha and Mayura publications. He succeeds R. is a big loss to the newspaper industry. I convey Lakshmipathy, publisher of Tamil daily Dinamalar. my deepest condolence to the grieving family Shanth Kumar is also the chairman of the board members and to newspaper fraternity,” she said. of trustees at the Press Institute of India. Long DMK president M. Karunanidhi said Adityan associated with media industry bodies such as Indian took special care of Tamil language development. Newspaper Society (INS), where he was a member (Courtesy: The Hindu) of the executive committee for more than 15 years, and the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) of Ravindra Kumar elected which he is a former chairman, he has keen interest in photography, especially in sports photography. INS president He has covered the last seven Olympic games as a Ravindra Kumar of The Statesman has been photojournalist. elected president of the Indian Newspaper Society

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Gupta, a former member of the Rajya Sabha, Tore Stangbye, CEO of Norway-based Berner heads one of the largest media conglomerates in Gruppen, was re-elected as treasurer of the the country. He has been president of INS and organisation. Dessein, who comes from a long the Indian Languages Newspaper Association family tradition of journalism and defending press besides having been chairman of United News of freedom, is director of the primary daily morning India (UNI). paper of Tucumán Province in northern Argentina, Besides Shanth Kumar and Mahendra Mohan known for its political, social and cultural coverage. Gupta, members of the PTI Board are: Vineet Shiraishi is director and managing editor of The Jain (The Times of India), Vijay Kumar Chopra Yomiuri Shimbun, the largest daily newspaper in the (Hind Samachar), N. Ravi (The Hindu), Aveek world, with nearly 10 million circulation. Finslo, who Kumar Sarkar (Ananda Bazar Patrika), Hormusji N. joined Amedia in 2012, had previously been director Cama (Bombay Samachar), M.P. Veerendra Kumar of Edda Media. He has also worked for Orkla (Maathrubhoomi), R. Lakshmipathy (Dinamalar), Media and the Association of Norwegian Editors. Riyad Mathew (Malayala Manorama), Sanjoy Olivier Derville joined Papiers de Presse in March Narayan (Hindustan Times) and Shekhar Gupta 2012. The organisation provides a single buying (Indian Express). The directors from outside the structure for paper for publishers and printers. newspaper industry are Prof E.V. Chitnis, Justice In addition to being CFO, Malte von Throta has S.P. Bharucha and Fali S. Nariman. been a board member of the Styria Media Group (Courtesy: Deccan Herald) since December 2011. He had previously served as MD and chairman of the board of German news New members elected to agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur. WAN-IFRA Board Kalbag steps down as Newspaper executives from five countries were elected Sunday to the Board of the World Business Today editor Association of Newspapers and News Publishers Chaitanya Kalbag has stepped down as editor of (WAN-IFRA) during the organisation's Annual Business Today and Money Today. Kalbag had joined General Meeting in Berlin, Germany. The WAN- the India Today Group in June 2010. In his last IFRA Annual General Meeting, taking place on assignment as publishing director with LexisNexis the eve of the World Publishing Expo, elected: India, Kalbag was responsible for publishing Daniel Dessein, director of La Gaceta in books in the legal, tax and regulatory fields. Prior Argentina, representing the Argentine newspaper to LexisNexis, Kalbag was editor-in-chief of association ADEPA; Kojiro Shiraishi, director Hindustan Times for 11 months. He was the first and managing editor of The Yomiuri Shimbun, Asian to rise to one of the most senior editorial representing the Japanese Newspaper Association, positions at Reuters, where he had spearheaded all NSK; Stig Finslo, senior VP for publishing, print, online, picture and television news coverage external communications and human resources at between 2000 and 2006. His tenure included the Amedia in Norway, representing the Norwegian 2000 Sydney Olympics, the aftermath of the 9/11 Media Businesses' Association, MBL; Olivier terror attacks in the US and the war in Afghanistan, Derville, Purchasing director and board member the 2004 Indonesian earthquake and tsunami and of Les Papiers de Presse in France; and Malte the SARS outbreak. Kalbag’s career with Reuters von Throta, chief financial officer of Styria Media spanned nearly a quarter century, with assignments Group in Austria. in India, Japan, Hong Kong, the Philippines and Seventy-five other newspaper executives Singapore. representing newspapers and media associations in 67 countries were re-elected to the Board. The full list of Board members can be found at http:// www.wan-ifra.org/board-members.

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Nalin Mehta is MD, strong product such as Governance Now has very good scope in this market. The first issue itself is Headlines Today extremely contemporary,” said Markhand Adhikari, Nalin Mehta has been appointed managing vice-chairman and managing director, SAB Group. editor of Headlines Today. Mehta takes charge BV Rao, the editor of Governance Now English, will from Rahul Kanwal, who is now editor-at-large also spearhead the editorial for Governance Now for Headlines Today as well as Aaj Tak. Marathi. Mehta has been a consultant with Headlines Today after quitting Times Now in 2008. He Absolute India, in English has also worked on international development issues with the United Nations Development and in Hindi Program and the Global Fund in Geneva, besides AVS News is launching new daily newspaper, contributing columns to several publications. He Absolute India, in English and Hindi, from Mumbai. had started his career with Zee News before Both the papers will have an initial print run of over moving on to NDTV as a political correspondent 50000 copies. It is understood that the group has and anchor. got several media veterans on board. The English daily will have 16 pages and Hindi daily 12. The Dinamalar ropes in English daily will focus on the youth and what they like. More than 70 per cent of the coverage Martin King will focus on career, cinema, TV, fashion, lifestyle, Tamil newspaper Dinamalar has appointed sports, the corporate world and so on. Along with Martin King as its national advertising sales the focus on light and leisure reading, there will be Head. Prior to this, King was station director at special coverage on social and political happenings Radio One, Chennai. He replaces K.R. Skandraaj, in Mumbai and the nation. who was designated GM. King will report to L. Adimoolam, business head, Dinamalar. With two decades of experience in the sales, marketing and Time to start focusing on general management, King worked with Radio readers One for four years, where he was responsible for sales generation, creating brand visibility and Whenever anyone asks if it is time to rethink their setting programming guidelines. He started his newsroom yet again, “the answer should always be career with Bennett, Coleman and Co (Times ‘Yes,’ ” says Raju Narisetti, senior VP and deputy Group) as senior manager before joining Radio head of Strategy for News Corp, USA. Speaking City as regional business head. during the opening session of the 12th International Newsroom Summit in Berlin, Narisetti highlighted a number of ways those in the news industry need Governance Now launches in to start accepting today’s realities and try to make Marathi the most of them. Among his points: • It’s time to stop arguing about print first or Governance Now, the English fortnightly magazine digital first and start focusing on our readers. launched in January 2010 by the SAB Group • The more we know about our audience, the under Sri Adhikari Brothers, has now come out more we are able to charge for advertising. with its Marathi version. In July this year, the • Paywalls are here to stay (and struggle). magazine was launched in Hindi. The first issue • News will have to go to readers – they don’t of Governance Now Marathi was launched with have to come to us. the issue date of October 16. It will follow the • Web video offers a possible way forward. same format as the Hindi magazine. “The Marathi Readers want to consume web video. “The audience is very well educated, and we felt there greatest thing about video is that it is the first was a demand for such a product. An editorially time the advertising travels with the content –

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the more you can do that, the better it is for of thousands of paying customers, and a rich the business side,” he said. trove of data.” • Mobile might be a threat or an opportunity, 3. Paywalls 2.0 debut. “Mark Thompson (New but it is journalism’s reality. More and more York Times CEO) says, ‘it’s all about working the people are consuming news on mobile devices engagement curve.’” every day. 4. We’re on the brink of mobile majority; 33 per • Great journalism still matters, but how readers cent of news traffic comes from mobile. experience that journalism will matter more. 5. New strategy experiments. There’s Aaron We need to focus on creating a great experience Kushner’s all-out print push with Orange County for readers because the advantage we have with Register and other titles; publishing companies unique content has greatly shrunk, Narisetti like Advance in the US going to three-day-a- said. week print; and at the other end of the spectrum, • Good and bad experiences all come at the Digital First Media. same intersection of content and technology, 6. Digital services + events sponsorship , content Narisetti said and pointed out that in 2013 and marketing , plus ads, i.e. Integrated Marketing. going forward, the real challenge is going to 7. 2014-2016 is about selling more stuff. Many be about combining our journalists and our new types of products will be sold, beyond the developers. one-size fits all strategy, from digital marketing, • Newsrooms now face a new competitor: Our commercial storytelling, new paid reader advertisers – what is happening is smart brands products, etc. and smart advertisers are becoming smart 8. We may get closer to Netflix for News… Think storytellers. “We have always had competition Flipboard, et al. for our reader’s time, but this is a double-hit: 9. News Crisis Continues: newsroom layoffs go you lose the readers and the advertisers,” he on and on. “There are so many fewer stories said. being written because there are fewer journalists (Courtesy: WAN-IFRA’s World News Publishing working.” Focus) Protect freedom of expression A few pointers, looking ahead Following recent attacks on press freedom in the Ken Doctor, author and media analyst, United States, France, Switzerland and the United moderated the World Publishing Expo opening Kingdom, the World Association of Newspapers ceremony, posing numerous hot-button questions and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has called to Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner and on all governments to recognise that freedom of Guardian CEO Andrew Miller. To set the stage for the press is essential for good governance and that session, he highlighted a number of “pointers” indispensable to democratic society. “WAN-IFRA heading into 2014. calls on democratic governments to recognise that 1. Print ad decline looks unabated. He cited a 39 acts of intimidation and surveillance against the percent global decline between 2007 and 2012. press risk undermining the fabric of transparent, That is US$ 51 billion less than it was 6 years accountable governance,” the board of WAN- ago. IFRA, the global organisation for the world’s press, 2. Long-term private investors getting involved in said in a resolution issued during its meeting on US. There’s Warren Buffet: “Who would have the eve of the World Publishing Expo in Berlin, thought years ago that Berkshire Hathaway Germany. would be associated with newspapers?” Then, The resolution noted attempts by democratic of course, there is Jeff Bezos who appears governments to restrict the freedom of the press ready to “Amazonize” the Washington Post. “He risked emboldening oppressive regimes to use such sees the future, not the past. An enduring practices to silence independent voices and those brand, massive metro penetration, hundreds critical of government.

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November 24-26, organised by November WAN-IFRA (venue not announced): January Arab Free Press Forum. More November 4, organised by Two details from alison.meston@wan- January 25, organised by IPAMA, Sides and Print Power Autumn, ifra.org in Noida, UP: After-sales Service. in London: Print Meets the November 25, organised More details at http://ipama.org Challenge of a Multimedia by WAN-IFRA, in Darmstadt, World. More details at http:// Germany: Responsive Design. www.twosides.info/Autumn- More details from ulrike.cremer@ March Seminar-2013 wan-ifra.org November 4-8, organised by November 27, organised by March 16, organised by the WAN-IFRA, in New York and WAN-IFRA, in Sweden: WAN- Newspaper Association of America, Washington DC: Study Tour – IFRA Innovation Day. More in Denver: NAA mediaXchange Winning in Print and in Digital. details from claudia.wilke@wan- 2014. More details at the NAA More details from nick.tjaardstra@ ifra.org website wan-ifra.org March 24-29, in London: Ipex November 7, organised by 2014 – Discover the Power of Forum Events, at the Royal December Print. More details at the Ipex Berkshire Conference Centre, website Reading, UK: Print Services December 2-4, organised by Summit. More details at http:// Smithers Pira, in London: Digital www.forumevents.co.uk Print for Packaging Europe. More November 7, organised by details at http://www.printfutures. Newspaper Association of com/home.aspx America: AAM Reporting and December 2-4, organised by Qualification Standards – The WAN-IFRA, in Warsaw, Poland: Changes Underway. More details Youth Engagement Summit at http://www.naa.org Europe. More details from aralynn. November 10-13, organised [email protected] by WAN-IFRA, in Copenhagen, December 10-11, organised Denmark: Leading Media & by WAN-IFRA, in Chennai: Entertainment Companies Readership Workshop. More Programme. More details at details from selvaprabu.s@wan-ifra. http://cbs-executive.dk/media org November 12-14, organised by December 28, organised by WAN-IFRA, in Kuala Lampur, IPAMA, in Noida, UP: Promotion Malaysia: Digital Media Asia and Marketing Strategy. More 2013. More details from gilles. details at http://ipama.org [email protected] November 21-22, organised by WAN-IFRA, in New Delhi: Infographics. More details from [email protected] November 23, organised by IPAMA, in Noida, UP: Management Information Systems. More details at http:// ipama.org

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Assistant Editor Dinamalar surges forward on the new media front EYEING DIGITAL AS AN OPPORTUNITY ATTRACTING THE EYEBALLS: A vibrant-looking screen on the NHM Reader that can be downloaded free. Launched less than a year ago by Chennai- Susan Philip based New Horizon Media, it is available as an iOS A 60-year-old newspaper has adapted and moved with the times, and moved quickly. Its (Apple) application; there’s an Android version as well. The NHM Reader can support up to four devices. In the book publishing world in India, New Horizon Web site attracts more than two million unique visitors and more than 190 million page Media is leading from the front and looks set to ride the crest of the digital wave.  ‘Our reach will be much more in  Four-high tower press for German views a month; its iPhone, iPod and iPad applications have recorded a substantial number the digital era’ regional paper  FormerLine solution for Chinese  FoldLine provides boost to Italian of downloads and page views, with various apps being made available on the Android digital printer print leader  Creative newspaper supplements  News from the World Publishing Expo, Editorial Assistant platform as well. All run and managed by a small team that is highly focused on delivering from Lake Constance Berlin value to users as well as clients, and it has paid off well. Sashi Nair reports on the Dinamalar  magPeople joins CCI R. Suseela new media success story [email protected] >>> more

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