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Returning to ‘India’s financial capital’ after two years, the trade fair will bring together over 100 brands with their latest technological capabilities in indoor and OOH advertising, printing, static and digital signage, retail displays, finishing and fabrication, as well as consumables and media. “Digitizing OOH spaces have opened up a massive opportunity – both for signage manufacturers, advertisers and media owners. Especially with things now back to normal and rising footfalls in airports, metros, malls, and other key engagement areas, the digital signage industry can move up a gear to become a more dominant force in advertising, alongside the traditional OOH. Through Media Expo Mumbai 2022, Messe Frankfurt India will continue to support the Indoor and Outdoor advertising segment by introducing various technologies into the spectrum,” stated Raj Manek, executive director and board member, Messe Frankfurt Asia. Opening doors from 12 – 14 May 2022 at Bombay Exhibition Centre, Gor...

  In February, INS asked Google to compensate them for carrying their content online by sharing 85% of its ad revenues. “Google is taking a ‘giant share of advertising spends’ leaving publishers with a small share and that the publishers are facing a very opaque advertising system as they are unable to get the details of the Google advertising value chain.” Based on the INS complaint, the Competition Commission of India initiated an investigation into complaints against Google for abuse of its dominant position in the online news media market based on a plaint filed by the Indian Newspaper Society (INS). The INS says that while the news content is generated by the publishers, Google gets to keep an arbitrary and disproportionately large share of the advertising revenue since it controls and dominates the entire digital ecosystem including both buying and selling advertisements. It has also questioned the opacity and obliqueness of the Google ad revenue system. In mid-April 2022, ...

  If you are bothering to read this, you are privileged to be a printing and publishing business person, or a professional printer or journalist. If you are the first in your family or circle to be in this type of work, then welcome to this inclusive and enriching tradition. And if you represent the second or third generation of this rich legacy, congratulations, especially to the women amongst us. Where do we come from? From everywhere. From across the borders of partition and returnees from Africa and elsewhere. We are the grandchildren of migrants, farmers, station masters and booksellers, soldiers and doctors, small-town newspaper owners, photographers, government engineers, detective fiction writers, members of leftist theatre groups, and freedom fighters. We are midnight’s children and the children of the emergency when our hard-won constitutional democracy was threatened. Our community is varied and owes its legacy to the movement for independence that brought us freedom of ...

  Color-Logic has certified the Fujifilm Revoria PC1120 digital press with the Fujifilm GX server. The Revoria Press/GX server configuration is compatible with the Color-Logic system when using silver ink with CMYK on paper or white ink with CMYK on the metallic stock. The qualification materials submitted to Color-Logic verified the ability of the Revoria Press/GX server configuration to print Color-Logic metallic colors and embellishments. The samples received by Color-Logic were verified by Richard Ainge, Color-Logic's chief technical officer and a founder of the company. Ainge discussed the certification, "The color gamut and print quality of the press was excellent. Color-Logic is are delighted to partner with Fujifilm to bring print embellishment to their clients in Australia and Japan, where the press is being introduced." Color-Logic develops color communication systems and software toolsets for various special effect printing applications. Color-Logic provides b...

  Publishers have to be able to simply display content on a wide variety of platforms. This article from ppi Media shows how to add professional InDesign integration to a web content management system (WCMS) such as WordPress or Drupal or a headless CMS. When it comes to publishing, everyone is talking about ‘headless CMS’ right now. While a classic WCMS captures and stores content in its back end and displays this content in format templates via a link to the front end, the front and back end are decoupled in a headless CMS. Instead, applications and websites can access the content from the CMS via an interface and display it individually. One of the advantages of a headless CMS is the fact that the content stored there can be displayed on one or more websites and also used in native iOS and Android apps. This makes headless CMS architecture appealing to mobile and web developers and digital publishers. But can print also be effectively integrated into a (headless) WCMS? Print’s ...

  The New Delhi edition of Sign India 2022 was held from 15 – 17 April at Pragati Maidan in the capital. The exhibition is mainly directed at indoor as well as outdoor signage and wide format printing for advertising and solutions for digital signage. Signage industry service providers and equipment and consumable suppliers participated in the expo. Caldron Graphics which is the official dealer for HP Latex wide format printers was present with demarcated sections for HP and its own range of signage applications. The HP Latex 700W and HP Latex 335 printers were displayed in the HP section of the stand while the Caldron area showcased Caldron CJ 4008 with the Seiko 508 GS-12 PL printhead. Other Caldron printers shown were the QI-1605 with Epson DX5,DX7/XP600/13200 printheads; the Caldron CS1325A CNC router engraver; the Caldron CS9060/CS 1390 acrylic/wood laser engraver; and the Caldron FY-1600 DA auto hydraulic roll-to-roll laminator. Caldron also exhibited its range of signage...

  Kodak and GDM have partnered to integrate Kodak’s high-speed inkjet technology into disposable hygiene production lines. Kodak is a leading global manufacturer focused on commercial print and advanced materials and chemicals. GDM, a company of Coesia Group based in Offanengo, Italy, is a global leader in converting and packaging solutions for the disposable hygiene industry. The new agreement allows GDM to integrate Kodak Prosper S-Series and Prosper Plus Imprinting Systems into its converting and packaging lines for disposable hygiene products. This will enable GDM to provide complete solutions that include digital printing of decorative designs, marketing messages, and instructions for use during the manufacturing process of the entire range of disposable hygiene products. Kodak’s imprinting systems use high-quality inks  Kodak Prosper S-Series and Prosper Plus Imprinting Systems use Kodak Stream Inkjet Technology, perfect for these applications. With speeds of up to 60...

  Rondo Ganahl, one of Europe’s foremost corrugated board and packaging manufacturers, has unveiled plans to celebrate its 50th-anniversary milestone and official opening of a digital print production plant in a €25 million (approximately Rs 206 crore) investment. In Styria, Austria, the company is determined to capitalize on continued business growth where digital production volumes continue to rise by 25 to 30% a year. Taking center stage in the dedicated digital production facility is Koenig & Bauer Durst’s Delta SPC 130 single-pass press with water-based ink technology driving business growth and providing the food packaging industry solutions demanded by brands. The Delta SPC 130 has been successfully transferred across to the new plant, and production has started as planned from the start of April. The official opening ceremony for the new building together with the 50th-anniversary celebration of Rondo St Ruprecht will be in September. The firm, which is part of t...

  Since January of this year, UPM employees have been striking to bring about new collective labor agreements in association with the Paperworkers’ Union, calling for improvements to working conditions and salary. Employees of Finland-based UPM have been on strike since the beginning of January. The strike that was to last less than a month has now been extended to its fourth month, till 30 April 2022. Paperlito, the papermill workers union made the announcement of the latest extension on 4 April, saying that the strike will continue till the last day of April unless agreements between the union and five UPM entities are reached earlier. The five UPM entities are UPM Pulp, UPM Biofuels, UPM Communication Papers, UPM Specialty Papers, and UPM Raflatac. The Paperlito union has called for improvements in working conditions and pay. Commentators have said there is little progress in the negotiations. Nevertheless, the conciliator of negotiations between UPM Pulp and Paperlito has prod...

  Innovative Enterprises, which is HP’s partner for the Mumbai region, showcased the HP Designjet Z series of photo printers at the Sign Today expo held at the Bombay Exhibition Centre from 8-10 April. By participating in Sign Today through its Mumbai partner, HP is sharpening its focus on the photo printing segment.  The printers on display at the Innovative Enterprise booth were the HP Designjet Z6 and HP Designjet HP Z9+ . The HP Designjet Z9+ Pro was also promoted at the expo, but not demonstrated at the Innovative Enterprises booth.  The 6-color Designjet Z6 24-inch printer has speeds of 66.9 square meters per hour on plain media; 15.2 square meters per hour on coated media and 7.9 square meters per hour on glossy media. It offers up to 2400 x 1200 optimized dpi resolutions.  The 9-color HP DesignJet Z9+ 44-inch printer has speeds of 71.4 square meters per hour on plain media; 17.2 square meters per hour on coated media and 4.5 square meters per hour on glossy ...

  Color-Logic , the leader in metallic colors systems and print embellishment, has announced the release of Pattern-FX Volume 6. Commenting on the event, Color-Logic director of sales and marketing Mark Geeves said, “In recent years, patterns have become a key element of graphic design. Color-Logic Pattern-FX volumes are illustrator palettes that incorporate the Color-Logic special effects and make pattern usage effortless, predictable, and reproducible.”  “They can be rotated and scaled, and since Color-Logic colors can be gradated, two or more colors can be used within one pattern. When using the six Pattern-FX volumes and the 924 metallic colors together in the Color-Logic Design Suite, graphic designers have access to 665,290 predictable and reproducible embellishment patterns with just a few mouse clicks. However, with scaling and rotation, the number of print embellishments is unlimited. In addition, with Color-Logic Gradation-FX, graphic designers can blend metallic c...

  After switching to a new rotary printing press,  reiff medien now has a fully automated workflow in which it can exchange data between the Pecom printer management system and the PlanPag planning solution  from ppi Media . The local newspaper production teams at reiff medien have been using a new rotary printing press from Manroland since November 2021. During the commissioning process, ppi Media integrated various interfaces to automate communication between the print presetting system and the PlanPag planning solution, which is used for daily newspaper production at reiff medien. As a result, the machine’s printing options are now transferred to PlanPag so that they can be taken into account during the production process. PlanPag, in turn, communicates the relevant information to ppi Media’s solution for printing form production, OM, which forwards this planning information and additional proofs of the pages and color preset information to Pecom. By automating the pr...