Germany provided the bulk of visitors to Drupa this year, with the breakdown of visitors showing the UK scraping into the top ten. Around 5,000 UK visitors attended Drupa this year, putting the UK in ninth place in the visitor rankings and behind the likes of France, Italy and the Netherlands and on a par […]
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After the pre show nerves, Drupa delivered a show that exceeded expectations: for visitors and for exhibitors that had committed to the show. It was good to be back. Good to hear the sound of litho presses doing what they are developed to do. Good to hear the babble (Babel) of languages from around the […]
Screen and Ricoh once offered what was essentially the same inkjet press as joint venture
It was impossible to escape inkjet printing at Drupa. There were sheetfed machines, continuous feed machines and systems to add to production line. There was technology for commercial printing, for packaging print, for paper, for plastics and for anything in between. Inkjet presses, some already available, some coming shortly and some promised for some distant […]
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Toshitaka Uemura heads Konica Minolta’s print business and has the revolutionary notion that we should print less. Press conferences at Drupa are held in conference rooms above the south entrance to the exhibition site. They last for 30 minutes and industry journalists from around the world sit and wait to be stuffed with product information […]
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Gil Oron joined Landa to turn an advanced but imperfect technology into something that can be relied upon in daily production. The Landa offices are an oasis of calm away from the bustle of a stand which is on every printer’s bucket list for Drupa and away too from the five times a day presentations […]
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The managing director of Heidelberg UK was ebullient and constantly in demand to talk to
The Graphius Group has ordered two top spec Drupa generation XL106s, and one is heading
Trade pouch printer BakPac is to install a second HP Indigo 200K in only a
Conventional creasing is needed for the best quality folded cartons even at very short runs.
A combination of inline foiling from Kurz and Xeikon’s Titon UV fused toner sharpens up foiled effects. Xeikon demonstrated two new label presses at the show, one being the latest version of its Panther inkjet press and the other a Titon press inline with a digital foiling unit from Kurz subsidiary Scribos. This work because […]
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The online print giant is buying presses from Landa, HP and Ricoh following deals signed
The seven-colour twin coater Koenig & Bauer Rapida 106X press that Qualvis has ordered will
Duplo is using Drupa to shed any lingering thoughts that its equipment is lightweight with
Robot arms are in every hall at the show, handling simple repetitive tasks to carrying
Welcoming the deal to sell versions of Canon inkjet presses, UK managing director Ryan Miles
High speed, high quality and high reliability have made an unbeatable argument for Linney. Linney has become the first printer in the world to order the Fujifilm HS single-pass inkjet press for sign and display printing. This is the machine developed for high speed print by Spanish company Barberan in collaboration with Fujifilm. It continues […]
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The Swindon printer believes that Gelato Connect can be the one software application it needs
Heidelberg will sell Canon’s cut sheet inkjet presses in a deal which Canon hopes will
Jurgen Otto, Heidelberg’s incoming CEO, is at Drupa along with the fastest B1 sheetfed press
Xeikon has moved to this hall among packaging equipment suppliers like Sanwa and Yawa. Definitely one for carton converters. Hall 11 continues the focus on packaging with a number of die cutting platens in operation, carton gluing solutions and Xeikon. At Drupa in 2016, the Belgian company was in Hall 8A where it demonstrated its […]
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Bobst dominates the centre of this Hall, the first of the halls dedicated to packaging. But it is not the only attraction as Comexi and Uteco share the space. Hall 10 belongs to Bobst. There are other exhibitors present spanning flexo print and finishing, but all are overshadowed by the giant Bobst stand in the […]
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These are the twin halls that anyone interested in inkjet and digital printing technology must visit, for almost all the major players are laying out their wares. The two vast spaces that make up Halls 8A & 8B are on the wrong side of the tracks. Visitors must go beyond the entrance and head towards […]
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Nothing in print works without some code to tell it what to do. Here is an array of instructions that might just solve that recurring problem. There are two Hall 7s, compensating for the loss of Hall 2 perhaps. Both are dedicated to software and by Drupa standards are relatively small and compact. Hall 7A […]
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