• Spring 2024 Magazine
The time is right for Drupa dreams
Before heading to Drupa (and through the new entrance) printers should do their own brainstorm
7 April 2024
Before heading to Drupa (and through the new entrance) printers should do their own brainstorm
The Print Business Index has a starting point in 2016. This is deliberate. It is the date of the last Drupa and provides the basis for being able to compare how the key suppliers of print technology have fared between the shows, which companies are forging ahead and which are falling behind. It is eight […]
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Everything in marketing is cyclical – even spam emails are having a moment – but
Automation will be ubiquitous at Drupa. The reasoning is two fold: printers need to cope
Drupa has long been the arena for press manufacturers to demonstrate that their presses can
When Tom Peire, CEO of Four Pees, wanted a name for a new integrator as a service business he stuck with convention in Belgium and included an ‘x’. Atomyx, however, is far from a conventional integration business. Four Pees is a system integrator that has a reputation and customer base that extends well beyond Flanders. […]
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The Job Definition Format was the printing industry’s first attempt to create an environment where
Swedish paper mill Lessebo Paper has been at the sustainability game longer than most. It
Paper does not have a shining environmental past. But actions underway show it hopes to have a place in a more sustainable society. The race to net zero and ultimately carbon neutral is on. According to COP agreements and the Paris Accord, countries are legally bound to achieve net zero by 2050. Legislation is in […]
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MPartners’ technical director Steve Ennew discusses how the supplier powered on testing its RMGT presses.
Manufacturers are taking steps to measure and reduce the energy needed to make their machines work. It could be a winning strategy. When Drupa last happened eight years ago, energy was not a major consideration for anybody. That has spun about completely and the energy profile of a printing press is now a mainstream consideration. […]
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Whatever 2024 holds in terms of success and fortune, every day will be interesting for
Inkjet has made headway in recent years, but toner technology, the original digital printing process, is far from finished. Inkjet printing is without question flavour of the month and the future of printing. Any printer could be forgiven for thinking that they have to invest in inkjet – and fast. Or not so fast. Electrophotographic […]
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Fujifilm believes it has identified a gap in the market, one that will be filled
Development of new toner technologies and presses is not confined to one company. Towards the
Xeikon’s potentially breakthrough development in electrostatic digital printing is Titon, a toner and matched press
Packaging packs a punch for PE purchases while commercial needs critical mass to attract consolidation
Printing has always been an industry where acquisitions have been important. The story of the
The acquisition a year ago of Wood Richardson by Northwolds has given the Pocklington business
Mergers and acquisitions are a key element of business life and it pays to understand
Ask Henrik Müller-Hansen what has changed in recent years for Gelato, the network effect print
We asked ChatGPT to define GenZ characteristics and, while it is essential to remember that
Gen Z are different, the first all digital generation, the first to face the direct consequences of climate catastrophy and their behaviours must shape the future for print. Anthropologists have long studied tribes ‘lost’ deep the jungles in remote parts of the world that have never come into contact with the technology of the modern […]
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