drupa 2012/Messe Dusseldorf North America

LUXEMBOURG—Flint Group is preparing for its drupa debut. The company will be presenting its product offerings with the theme “Always imPRESSive!” The Printing Inks Divisions, as well as the Flint Group Flexographic Products, Flint Group Narrow Web, and Flint Group Pigments Divisions, will showcase their portfolio and service solutions at stand C38 in Hall 5. Day International and Flint Group Flexographic Products will be demonstrating high-performance products and services at stand A21 in Hall 16. An overview of innovations: Printing plates and sleeve systems • New ready-to-image photopolymer sleeves, nyloflex® ITR Thin and nyloflex® ITR Classic for high-quality flexographic printing, which were launched in

DÜSSELDORF, Germany—Four months before the start of drupa 2008, print media trade fair, the exhibitor registration reflects the international market situation and industry developments. Consequently, the leading technology producing nations will be the most strongly represented countries at drupa 2008: Germany, Italy, the U.S., Switzerland, Netherlands, Japan, the UK, Belgium, and Spain. Exhibit space booked by emerging industrial countries such as China and India has increased considerably: by 300 percent for China and 60 percent for India. With more than 1,800 exhibitors on more than 1.8 million square feet of exhibit space, 400,000 expected visitors, and about 3,500 journalists from around the world, drupa

“Marketing managers and publishing executives have little interest in which technology was used to produce a printed product. For them, what matters is the new communicative or commercial benefit that can be attained with the technology. And this is precisely the information that we’re offering at the drupacube,” explained Ralph Scholz who is responsible for the drupacube. Set to premiere at the upcoming print media fair, the drupacube will serve as an infotainment center for print buyers. During the day, the cube-shaped construction in the Congress Center South parking of the Düsseldorf fairgrounds will be the site of workshops and symposia, while from 6:00

Visitors to drupa 2008, print media trade fair, can look forward to a first-class ancillary program. Seminars, workshops, talks, individual tours of the trade fair, as well as special presentations such as the “drupa innovation parc presented by HP” and “drupacube” add up to unparalleled knowledge transfer for international experts. “The ancillary programme is a key building block in the overall drupa concept and the ideal complement to the exhibitors’ technology offerings,” said drupa Project Director Manuel Mataré. The program’s individual building blocks are modular, allowing them to be freely combined according to visitors’ interests. “Our priority is achieving a target-group-specific appeal. Print buyers

Going digital should be seen as an opportunity rather than an obligation By Agustín Torres Small print runs, personalization, speed... We’ve all heard about the numerous advantages that digital graphics technology offers for small-format printing. The aim of this article is not to tell you what you already know about digital printing, but to outline the present state of affairs with the technology and the market, along with currents trends and the potential success factors, so that you can make up your own mind. But I must emphasize that the final decision to go digital is up to each individual printer, since nobody can

For the first time, drupa 2008, print media trade fair, will offer a special event for print buyers: the drupacube. Just as in the other 19 exhibition halls, the spotlight at drupacube will also be on printed products, with one key difference: at drupacube, the focus will be on marketing-driven applications for printed products; the technology that makes this possible will play a secondary role. This gives marketing and publishing directors, production managers, account executives and creative directors the possibility to get a compact overview of the potential of printing in the marketing mix. “With this tool, we intend to attract print buyers to

By Dr. Horst-Dieter Branser In the years since drupa 2004, demand for paper and finishing techniques has expanded worldwide, and nowhere more than in commercial and packaging printing. This expansion has gone hand-in-hand with mostly small run sizes and rising demand for increasingly diverse finishing work and combination solutions. Along with this, the trends towards greater use of color and a general demand for higher quality products have gained momentum. Equipment suppliers to the print and media industry are responding to these new demands by offering not just machines for multi-color production, but also the option of inline finishing with additional printing units. In

By Frank Romano, USA We are currently experiencing a period of significant change as technology, transportation, and global competitive forces combine to challenge all printing companies no matter where they are on this planet. These opposing statements may help to describe the global printing industry: 1. All printing is local, except when it is global. 2. All printing is monochrome, except when it is in color. 3. All printing is conventional, except when it is digital. 4. All printers are printers, except when they are in-house or office retailers.

drupa, the quadrennial celebration of print, is upon us once again. The 2008 show will be a great opportunity to see everything and gather critical information for one’s business plan. Compared with 2004, this show will have a high number of products with JDF 1.3 capabilities, and will mark the debut of JDF 1.4. The systems to note at drupa 2008 will be those that apply similar principles to more complex challenges, enlisting the customer and its IT system as an active participant in the print workflow process. With the increase in JDF/JMF automation potential, as well as a plethora of print-specific database technologies,

Werner Matthias Dornscheidt has been board chairman of Messe Düsseldorf GmbH since January 2004. With a degree in hotel and business management, Dornscheidt has held various positions since 1979 at Düsseldorf Messegesellschaft, NOWEA International, and other convention companies. He served as deputy general manager of Messe Düsseldorf International from 1990 to 1999; and, as chairman of the management board, ran Leipziger Messe GmbH from 1999 to 2003. Q: There are already indications that drupa 2008 will surpass the record-breaking drupa event back in 2000. In what respects? Dornscheidt: drupa’s history goes back over 50 years, and since the closing date for exhibitor applications on