THE MAGAZINE FOR FORWARD THINKING PRINTING JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2016 Explore more… Cover story Chief executive Charles Jarrold regroups at the BPIF. Lamination is putting the emphasis on impact. Corrugated will be the next to go digital. 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See the Archive page at Carbon is back in the www.printbusiness.co.uk Join the network 35 news, a perfect time to TERMS Robert Keane explains think again about carbon Apply for terms & conditions to [email protected] the Cimpress strategy. balanced papers. www.printbusiness.co.uk January/February 2016 3 INFORMATION How to get the best tour of Drupa – either real or virtual DRUPA. IT’S QUITE SOMETHING. It covers about 40 acres, about the size of the gardens at Buckingham Palace and is about 350 miles away from them. For many UK printers, Drupa is easier to access. The distance from Düsseldorf airport to Messe Düsseldorf is a ten-minute taxi ride. It is served by three tram stations, one actually in the Messe. THERE ARE 19 HALLS OF VARYING SIZES. Few visitors see the inside of all of them. And there really is something for everyone – if they can find it. Thousands upon thousands of printers will be visiting the show every day. And therein lies the problem. MOST PRINTERS WILL, in the run up to Drupa, come across as many guides to the show as there are bars in the Altstadt. Most of them are generic and based on the exhibitor list and press releases, not understanding. Drupa’s app is basically the catalogue on your phone to which notes can be added and appointments logged, which is great but a bit time consuming on the floor – provided you have internet access. features on the different technologies. Each one can be stored in your Drupa folder, or folders for each of the JUST AS EACH PRINT JOB IS BESPOKE, every print company different topics. is different. There are printers who will be taken to Drupa by suppliers eager for their business. Those printers might FROM NOW ON IN the flow of information about what will assume they’ll have time to have a look round the show be happening at Drupa will turn into a flood. Keeping up on their own, to see if they can spot other ideas for their to date with and understanding this is a full time job. Ours. businesses. They won’t, or if they do it will be very limited. We will communicate what we discover, what suppliers are saying and will help make sense of the madness. SO WHY BOTHER? Because a visit to Drupa is always worth it. Start now. Make a list of the bottlenecks in your factory, ONCE THE PROBLEMS HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED then a map the gaps in your workflow, the things that are working and of Drupa can be drawn up. Your time at the show is precious. the things that need work, the ideas that you have discussed You need to use it well. This is where the world of printing, in management meetings or with clients. Then if you haven’t of print technology of printers come together. We believe done so already, register and log in to My Print Business. that a trip to Drupa is an essential investment for every print Make a Drupa folder for yourself and start looking for company. We believe that what we will report and analyse solutions to those gaps and bottlenecks. will multiply the value of that experience. YOU WILL BE GUIDED TO SIMILAR PRINT COMPANIES Join thousands of printers who have discovered My Print whose experiences might provide some answers. There Business and make your decision a better informed are over 120 case studies to learn from and just as many decision. SUPPLIER PROFILE HEIDELBERG Heidelberg sees a future where THE MAGAZINE FOR FORWARD THINKING PRINTING JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2016 Smart thinking Find more rich content online is central by downloading the app and ThepresssupplierispreparingitscustomersforIndustry4.0where decisionmakingtakesplaceautomatically,whereturnaroundtimes snapping the pages (shown aretighterandwherefullintegrationisamust. on the right) in the magazine. DRUPA WILL ONCE AGAIN BE a festival Speedmaster print units. These companies direction. In a Heidelberg future, the output of technology where crowds will be drawn have developed their own workflow software device may be a conventional Speedmaster, to the printing machines using litho, inkjet to manage the flow, imposition and delivery it might be a Linoprint toner digital press. toner or combinations of these technologies of thousands of jobs a day. And of course it might be the sheetfed inkjet to deliver high quality print and high speed. Stefan Plenz, board member in charge press that is due for introduction at Drupa. Less visible, but just as important if not of production, explains: “A few years ago a The software will automatically switch each more so, will be the workflow applications company producing a €10 million turnover job to the most suitable device, controlling that enable printers to keep pace with a would do so from 300 jobs a year. Now it is colour quality and set up as it does so. rapidly changing market. Printers in future producing 300-400 jobs a week. In future it “Currently we are at Industry 3.5. We Explore more… will need to cope with a vast increase in the may have to handle 200 jobs a day.” want printers to be ready for the next stage,” Print Business has Clickable pages number of jobs handled in order to main- Plenz says. “There has to be a fully auto- Cover story Chief tain revenue levels; they will need to be TO SOME EXTENT THE GROWTH mated workflow, it is not possible to have networked into their customers and suppli- of online printers has shaped Heidelberg’s separate workflows in a company. That is ers so that orders can be placed digitally, thinking which wants to make this style not the way of the future.” Instead Smart executive Charles Jarrold signed off digitally and perhaps printed of workflow available to less specialised Automation is. digitally. printers. To a greater extent Heidelberg’s regroups at the BPIF. Information about jobs will zip around approach has been influenced by the concept THE PROJECT CALLS UPON the skills both internal and external networks, making of the Internet of Things, or Industry 4.0 as of the 250 software engineers that Heidel- is putting the adjustments to planning and schedules this is better known in Germany. berg has on the payroll. This is more than Lamination according to a deep understanding of other This predicts that everything will be other press manufacturers and as many as jobs going through a similar process. connected and therefore connectable by many specialist software houses in Germany emphasis on impact. anything else via internet protocols. It opens the company points out. It changes the HEIDELBERG CALLS THIS THE Smart vast possibilities for end to end automation, nature of a press from an item of printing Corrugated will be the Print Shop and it is a huge part of the strat- from receipt of an order to the final delivery. equipment into a “cyber physical produc- egy the press supplier is pursuing for Drupa Of course within the factory space, JDF is tion cell”. next to go digital. and beyond. It has been informed in part required and not too many companies have This considers a press to be communi- by its customers in the giant online print taken full strides to implement automation cating not just with an internal workflow companies like Saxoprint with a number to this extent.