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The World Printers Forum (WPF) is an organisation of newspaper printers and suppliers within WAN-IFRA. Its objective is to encourage innovation and productivity as well as product development that can be instrumental for publishers to exploit future oriented news media products. It promotes the power of print and the sustainability of print production.

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  • 2020-10-15 10:21
    Würzburg, 15.10.2020 – The logical next step for an already long-standing partnership: Koenig & Bauer is expanding its service portfolio. In cooperation with Q.I. Press Controls (QIPC) - EAE, Koenig & Bauer will in future be offering retrofits and technical service for presses with EAE controls or QI Optical measurement and control systems. Read more ...
  • 2020-10-08 09:36
    Kinna, October 8th, 2020 – In May 2020, DCOS inked a deal with Tryck i Norrbotten (Luleå, Sweden) to future-proof their eight tower, single folder Goss Magnum press. The order includes a “full DCOS package solution”, replacing and retrofitting the complete Omnicon system, the shaftless drive system and the QTI Multicam system. Read more ...
  • 2020-10-07 10:46
    Rochester, New York, October 5, 2020 – Kodak is thrilled to have won a total of five Buyers Lab (BLI) Outstanding Innovation awards in Production Print from Keypoint Intelligence. These coveted awards were conferred to Kodak for the following products and technologies, all of which are related to the company’s unique high-speed continuous inkjet technology: Read more ...
  • 2020-09-29 16:42
    Oosterhout, 29 September 2020 – Nearly eight years after it first began investigating closed-loop colour control, The New York Times (NYT) has embarked on major press upgrades to deploy the technology. The publisher inked a deal with Netherlands-based Q.I. Press Controls (QIPC) in May to supply 64 IDS-3D cameras to improve colour and registration control across seven Goss Colorliner presses at its College Point production plant. The plant houses seven press folders and includes the Colorliner 85 the publisher installed in 2008. That press has 12 colour towers and two folders, which NYT runs as two presses. Read more ...
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  • 2020-09-29 09:57
    Würzburg, 29.09.2020 – To reinforce the company’s position as the leading supplier of press and post-press solutions for packaging, industrial and security printing applications, and to boost the earning power of the Koenig & Bauer Group, the management board has been working intensively on developing and expanding the “Performance 2024” efficiency programme over the past months. There are also plans to realise annual cost saving effects which will then amount to more than €100 million and continue increasing until 2024, while maintaining and, in fact, accelerating all innovation, process and product developments. The non-recurring costs in the mid two-digit million Euro range this makes necessary will be recorded in the group results for the business year 2020 as expenditure realised as a provision. Read more ...
  • 2020-09-21 10:17
    17.09.2020 – Ein wichtiger, meist wenig beachteter Aspekt ist die Zeitgewinnung in der Redaktion bei qualitativ hochwertigen Rechercheergebnissen. Die Recherche im digitalen Archiv dauert Sekunden, die Suche in den Büchern kann Tage, ja Wochen dauern bis man fündig wird. Read more ...
  • 2020-09-15 09:38
    Rochester, New York, September 14, 2020 – Kodak and PerfectPattern GmbH, a specialist in innovative artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for manufacturing industries, announced a new agreement by which Kodak will take a license for the source code of PerfectPattern’s sPrint One software. This will allow Kodak to further develop the version of sPrint One used in the Kodak Prinergy On Demand Workflow. The latest agreement extends the successful partnership which began between the two companies four years ago with an official announcement at drupa 2016. Read more ...
  • 2020-09-07 12:44
    Würzburg, 03.09.2020 – 76 junge Menschen gehen in diesen Tagen zusammen mit Koenig & Bauer die ersten Schritte in das Berufsleben. An den beiden größten Konzernstandorten in Würzburg und Radebeul starteten allein 58 Nachwuchskräfte ihre gewerblich-technische oder kaufmännische Ausbildung. Neu an Bord sind aber auch Auszubildende in den Tochtergesellschaften in Deutschland und Österreich sowie duale Studierende. Read more ...
  • 2020-09-07 08:56
    September 4, 2020 – This weekend, in a newspaper industry first, Sunday Times magazines in the South East of England will be wrapped with a recyclable paper band, replacing the existing inner plastic polybagging. The Saturday Times magazine will follow next week. Read more ...

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