Leading English daily Hindustan Times from HT Media has been a long-term partner of manroland GOSS web systems. The newspaper has recently undertaken replacement of Interbus Loop on its COLORMAN press in its production plant. The replacement involved a complete exchange of the obsolete parts with new software and electronics.
With its India partner NEWSTECH, German UV curing solutions expert IST Metz has emerged as the leading supplier of UV curing systems for high-speed web offset presses across India. The company boasts 18 systems in operation on double-wide and single-wide web presses at the production plants of many leading Indian newspapers, such as The Times of India, Hindustan Times, Anandabazar Patrika and Bartaman.
Forward-looking merger enables global market presence, broad product range, technological excellence, long-term comprehensive customer support, and e-business in the web-fed printing market. Under this principle, manroland web systems and GOSS International have merged their businesses. The combined entity is called ‘manroland GOSS web systems’.
News media companies worldwide are succeeding in driving digital revenue by betting on quality journalism. How are they achieving this? With examples from the Telegraph Media Group (UK), The Times of India (India), The Guardian (UK), Styria Media Group (Austria), Sayidaty Magazine (UAE) and many more, the recent WAN-IFRA Middle East conference at Dubai (UAE) presented specific strategies around products, business model transformation, digital subscriptions, newsroom management drawing new roadmaps of transformation for news media firms.
Less hardware, smarter control—this is the catchphrase of QIPC and EAE quality control systems, which Mediaprint has recently adopted for a sure future newspaper production. Mediaprint in Austria is one of the largest newspaper printers in
Europe, known for printing widely-circulated newspapers, Kronen Zeitung or
commonly known as Krone, and KURIER.
The 17th Asian Media Awards was held as part of Publish Asia 2018. Malaysia made a clean sweep of Newspaper Breaking News Article category with India bagged top three spots
The recent Publish Asia 2018 in Bali marked the WAN-IFRA event’s return to the Indonesian island resort city for second time. Organised at Bali International Convention Centre at Westin Nusa Dua from April 24-26, the conference was attended by more than 400 media executives from 30 countries, gathered for exciting masterclass, conference sessions and networking events. The conference highlighted some key insights
of the industry with a focus on print media innovatives developed relatively for tranformation towards a digital-centric future.
Darwin’s Theory of Evolution states that all species of organisms on the planet earth arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual’s ability to compete, survive, and reproduce. Let’s find out how truly this theory holds true in the news media world, referring to the survival of printed newspapers.
Inkjet is being applied successfully in most markets and all regions globally—the more specialist the market, the higher the growth rate. This is what it highlights in drupa’s 5th Global Trends Report. But the report mentions that the cost of inks remains an issue. However, those investing in inkjet, service support is the key criteria followed by overall cost considerations.
PRINTPACK INDIA stands out as one of the unique international graphic art shows amid hundred of fairs happening around the globe. Its organiser IPAMA (Indian Printing Packaging and Allied Machinery Manufacturers’ Association) claims that the show is the third largest in the world, after drupa and Print China, in terms of visitors’ footfall. Here is a recap of the making of the show and shapers behind it.
