THE MAGAZINE FOR FORWARD THINKING PRINTING NOVEMBER 2012 ANCIENT HOUSE BOOK PRINTING MPG Books’ route tO THE FUTURE IS BOOK BINDING ALL ABOUT INKJET Tony Chard outlines the strategy 14 REMOUS COMMENTARY THE WORLD OF BOOKS IS CHANGING AS FAST AS THE WORLD of newspapers and the same external pressures of relevancy in a digital world where tablets are selling like hot cakes apply. But if it is difficult to shape a new future for newspapers because of their dependency on advertising revenues, the future is not so gloomy for the printed book. Reader behaviour is very different. The newspaper reader flits from page to page, from article seeking out the news items that provide interest or the comment pieces that provoke or inform opinion. The book reader by contrast is engaged in a more leisurely activity, hoping to be entertained as well as informed. Sitting back with a printed book will always be a great pleasure in a digital world. Books cannot be immune to change and we agree with those that anticipate that novels and light reading will switch to digital devices. However, more than one has remarked that consumers, having read and enjoyed a book on their ereader, are going out to buy a nicely produced hard copy version, if only to display on their book shelves. A decade ago people might have A Short History of Time to impress visitors though few NOVEMBER 2012 ever read the book. Now they want to show off books that they have read. 4 NEWS Landa seeks backing. And there is a boom in self publishing, either would be authors unable to Cambrian dries out. convince a conventional publisher that here is a best seller, or the newly 7 INNOVATIONS & retired wanting to write a book for posterity. Either way, the relative ease INVESTMENTS Flatbed moves. with which these books can be printed is providing business for printers. Printers and the Booker. Then there are the books which transition from photobooks, travel records Perfector spree. or illustrated diaries, cookbooks and garden books to come. All fodder for the digital press. 14 COVER story MPG Books is For here is a big difference from the newspaper world. Where newspaper basing its future on inkjet. publishers are stuck with 20-year investment cycles and find digital 18 BOOKS There is space for all technology cannot compete with offset, book printers are finding the in printing books. opposite. Digital printing is rapidly supplanting offset and this is helping to 22 BINDING Perfect binding feed the new style of book publishing and production. Numbers may fall, comes in house. but the printed book will survive a few years yet. 28 SUPPLIER Heads up for Kodak. GARETH WARD Editor 31 PROFILE Remous changes how small print behaves. GARETH WARD 01580 236456 • 07866 470124 EDITORIAL [email protected] ARCHIVE bit.ly/RoivIT PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION bit.ly/RgsAZ5 NEWS printbusinessmagazine.co.uk DEBBIE WARD 01580 236456 • 07711 696190 COMMERCIAL [email protected] • printbusinessmedia.co.uk Published by Print Business Media Ltd. 3 Zion Cottages, Ranters Lane, Goudhurst, Kent TN17 1HR. © Copyright Print Business Media Ltd 2012. All rights reserved. Apply for T&Cs. NEWS On the Newspapers seek hope at website renamed Ifra exhibition printbusinessmagazine.co.uk WHY DRUPA IS PLANNING THE NEWSPAPER exhibition perforation, and dryers. out maintenance and later for TO CHANGE FREQUENCY which used to be called Ifra, “Print can secure additional operating the press. A single The latest on Drupa’s but is now the World Publish- brand advertising with creativ- interface now runs across both thinking behind its every ing Exhibition, attracted 7,000 ity,” he said. A further venture commercial and newspaper three years proposal. Is visitors to Frankfurt but was set that the press manufacturer presses. it more about the hotel against the declining market for had been engaged with was It announced that Axel industry in Dusseldorf than newspapers in Europe and the in adding a coater to a Cortina Springer is to add three more the printing industry? US. press to apply a dispersion Kodak Prosper S30 heads to bit.ly/Q19qtl This was acknowledged by coating to a coldset page and Colorman presses after success KBA CEO Claus Bolza-Schüne- achieving a commercial level with the initial installation. INNOVATIONS IN CARTONS mann who pointed to the work of quality and distinctive feel. Elsewhere the emphasis was DEMONSTRATE VIBRANCY underway to improve the versa- The coating, developed by Sun on ecology with both Kodak and The Packaging Innovations tility and range of products Chemical, is only suitable, it Fuji announcing process-free show in London provided a that can be produced on news- seems, for waterless printing on plates for newspapers. Kodak’s showcase for quality and new paper presses. The company the Cortina. is the Sonora News, Fuji’s is the approaches to packaging. claims world leadership in the This sort of creativity has Pro-VN2, a low chemistry plate bit.ly/QLmG1B newspaper press market having been the forté of Ferag with that is suited to print runs to achieved 46% of the sales this its MemoStick applicator for 300,000 impressions. XEROX PLANS TO REGAIN year, albeit in a market that is adding self adhesive notes to However, while there were POLE POSITION 60% smaller than the market in the outside of newspapers to software developments like The digital press company 2008. offer promotional games or Agfa’s Page Register feature wants to reassert its position The answer to declining redeemable coupons. The Swiss for Arkitex to improve image fit in production printing circulations and paginations company has been majoring on on wide web presses, the over with a shake up of its sales (which has led to the removal of its inserting options, from the arching theme was about finding structure says Mike Holyoake. newsprint production capacity new MiniSert for entry level a future for newspapers. bit.ly/T433X0 on either a temporary or perma- mechanical inserting to more According to Vincent nent basis across the continent), complex lines driven by demo- Peyrègne CEO of organiser INKJET SURPASSES DIGITAL comes with innovation. News- graphic data. WAN-Ifra, exhibitors had CONTROLLERS FOR EFI papers he said were becoming Manroland Web concentrated got more value than they had Sales from industrial inkjet, more like magazines in their on fast makeready systems expected. “Exchanges between both Vutek and Jetrion and use of images and graphics and including One Touch start up, publishers and their partners in associated inks, produced advertisers were being tempted which will apply to heatset webs the supplier community come more sales than sliding with new formats. KBA presses as well as newspaper machines. at a crucial time,” he said. Or revenue from the core Fiery have been delivered with Control panels will move from more succinctly from Bolza- business in Q3. modules for stitching, trimming, press consoles to tablet comput- Schünemann: “It is about more bit.ly/S5ItkF gluing, half covers, Zip ’n’ Buy ers in future, initially to carry possibilities in a smaller market.” St Ives’ marketING STRATEGY IS PAYING OFF Diamond Dispersions presented with Queen’s Award Figures from St Ives show that its transformation DIAMOND DISPERSIONS from printer to marketing has received its Queen’s Award services company is gaining for Enterprise from David traction while transformation Moody, Lord Lieutenant of of the printing division is South Yorkshire. completed. The Sheffield business earned bit.ly/S5ItkF the accolade for international trade for its success is shipping CHICAGO SHOW BRINGS A the colour dispersions to inkjet BIT OF DRUPA TO THE US ink producers around the world. The Chicago marathon Diamond Dispersions direc- complicated the start of the tor Peter Callahan says: “This is American printing show, but the proudest day in Diamond’s there were strong vibes in history. This is a massive Sue Wright, who is in charge the Lord Lieutenant and Peter the air by Lake Michigan. achievement for us.” of sales, is pictured alongside Callahan. bit.ly/TkOX2Z 4 November 2012 www.printbusinessmagazine.co.uk NEWS Landa goes on tour to bring nanography to a wider audience LANDA CORPORATION has which demonstrated significant expanded gamut over standard embarked on a round of semi- artefacts. four colour offset and a 15% nars and speaking engagements In the White Paper, the increase in the PMS colours to evangelise the nanography company says the blanket tech- achievable with four colour technology to a wider audience. nology is crucial. Not only does printing. At the same time the company this dry the ink to remove water What the company does not has published a White Paper and create a 500 nanometre thick discuss is how it builds the inkjet explaining the technology, the film to be transferred to the bars across a B1 sheet, nor how impact on using nano particles paper, it has to make this trans- data will be delivered to the and how the image is carried to fer work at 13,000 B1 sheets an press to drive the inkjet heads. the paper or flexible film. hour. It must also ensure that the In interviews, founder Benny Landa has also started to talk full image is transferred, that Landa has indicated that the to the financial community with there are no ink residues left on company will be building its the aim of raising around $150- the blanket and that the move- own presses, telling an Israeli 200 million to move the print Benny Landa: “We received ment of the blanket is smooth paper: “We hope to build several technology from the concept more than $1 billion in and stable.