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manroland web systems  y su primera rotativa  LITHOMAN de 64 páginas

Friday, April 11, 2014
Press release from the issuing company
Market leader introduces new commercial configuration in gravure printing dimensions.
manroland web systems has taken another step towards a comprehensive, finely calibrated product range. The Augsburg company will deliver the first short-grain 64-page LITHOMAN this year. The productivity and flexibility of the press offers another strong alternative for high-volume print.

manroland web systems is constantly advancing in the area of high-volume printing. Every printing company wants a press that perfectly suits its needs to be able to hold its ground in the competitive print and media industry. Reducing costs therefore continues to be the main customer requirement, while the demand for production flexibility is increasing – the same press must be as efficient for high-volume printing as for part editions. The short-grain 64-page LITHOMAN achieves this aim and takes its place as one of the production heroes for commercial printing – alongside the market leading 96-page LITHOMAN (six installed presses) and the 160-page LITHOMAN, which was installed at Kraft-Schlötels in Wassenberg, Germany.

New printing system stirs up the competition
The Augsburg company has extensive experience with short-grain printing systems with web widths of up to 2,060 mm and 70,000 cylinder revolutions per hour. Currently twenty 48-page LITHOMAN units are producing short-grain format around the world. This expertise was transferred to the 64-page LITHOMAN, and the first press is coming to Germany and will be ready for production before 2014 is over. Josef Aumiller, Sales Manager Germany at manroland web systems: “For this project, the customer recognized that the 64-page LITHOMAN is the ideal press for their order structure.” The flexible design of the LITHOMAN was consequently modified to meet the specific requirements of the customer. “Numerous automation options and new components are now integrated in the short-grain format, some for the first time,” explains Aumiller. “Included are in-house developments such as AutomaticPlateLoading, the DynaChange function, the Inline Control systems, and the new operating system.”

Press technology in detail
The short-grain 64-page LITHOMAN, with up to 70,000 cylinder revolutions per hour, has a web width of 2,640 mm and a minimal cut-off of up to a ¬paper-saving¬ 872 mm. This makes the press up to 33% more productive than the short-grain 48-page LITHOMAN. The sleeve technology and the interplay of the technical features in the print process ensure high quality, less waste, and improved efficiency, even at this high output. Among the features are the autoprint equipment for seamless job changeovers with the fully-automated APL plate change (AutomaticPlateLoading) and numerous Inline Control systems. manroland web systems has become independent of other manufacturers in recent years and established its own inline systems on the market: the cutting registers (InlineCutoff Control, InlineCutoff Control Dynamic) and InlineDensityControl reduce the make-ready times and also save on waste, as does the fan-out control (InlineFanout Control). Configurations with the use of a fifth or sixth printing unit provide added value for printing commercial advertising, and additional functions such as DynaChange for flying imprint changes or coatings and special colors can also be carried out. Of course, when using the LITHOMAN the operator also works with the latest operating system on the market, the ControlCenter in combination with the MobilPad.

Improved production diversity
In addition to the efficiency of high-volume production, product diversity really matters to customers. That’s why the folding technology of the new short-grain LITHOMAN works with broadsheet, tabloid and “in-in product” formats. The whole unit achieves productivity and product diversity that print specialists have always marveled at in gravure printing, due to the web width and number of pages achieved. Commercial printers can now also play in this league.

El color en Cumbre Mundial de la impresión

Friday, April 11, 2014
Press release from the issuing company
Birmingham-based Pinstripe Print Group Managing Director, Nigel Lyon, drove the importance of ‘colour in print’ at the World Print Summit at IPEX last week. He made it clear that colour is fundamental to print, many say that they are colour specialists, but less than a handful of print companies can prove it. 

Lyon underlined the importance and credibility of the Pinstripe’s recent successful attainment of the BPIF ISO 12647-2 colour management scheme certification, and also how crucial and credible the attainment of standards such as the colour management can be for a print business going forward.

Nigel addressed an industry audience at the recent World Print Summit at this year’s Ipex 2014 exhibition in London last week, which debated the issue of, ‘Raising the Bar – Using Standards to Cut Costs and Secure Business’. Nigel spoke specifically on the importance of the colour management standard, particularly from a Birmingham-based business perspective, and how Pinstripe were now leading the field in this area of expertise.
He stated, “We are always striving for excellence, and we strive to be ahead of the game. Our customers demand that we work to standards, and we looked at the BPIF scheme and decided it had all the elements that could help us as a business.”
He continued, “Colour standards are no exception, and it made sense that we implemented it. Colour is critical and fundamental to print, so if you are serious about what you do then why not have a standard that is both measurable and specific?”
“Implementing the standard was a no-brainer, and it is the only colour management standard that is UKAS approved which is critical as this gives the standard credence,” he added. “More and more print procurement specialists are looking at this, as has been demonstrated by BskyB, who stated that standards say something about a business,” he revealed.

Working together with Pinstripe’s Colour Champion specialist, Paul Stone, Nigel admitted that it had been a long, but worthwhile 16 month process to implement the standard, which had included several obstacles that had to be overcome. Changes had also been made in all areas, including pre-press and the press-side of the business. “This is the hardest standard I have had to implement, and there were many challenges. The print test was one of the biggest challenges, which made it clear that we had thought was acceptable was not. We have raised the bar and quality has improved as result.”

“Cost savings have also been made, we now have reduced our ink usage, there’s less wastage and speed has also improved,” he stated.
“We are now printing to a defined standard on a regular basis, and this has been crucial in helping us to win a recent Framework Tender win with Dudley Council,” he concluded.
The colour management standard is now also moving forward to being accepted as an international standard, a fact which could ultimately help persuade more printers to seek its adoption as a critical element to their business.
Pinstripe attained the accreditation in January this year, after completing the British Print Industries Federation’s (BPIF’s) ISO 12647-2 certification assessment under Print & Media Certification (PMC), a UKAS accredited body.
The standard completed another major milestone for the forward-moving Pinstripe, following its successful completion of a significant £900,000 investment programme in 2012/13.
This investment, along with Pinstripe’s existing capabilities, places Pinstripe as one of the most technically advanced print and print management businesses in the UK. Pinstripe operates in the following markets; Public Sector/Local Government, Retail, Banking and Financial, Service and Agency. 

Pinstripe is a well-respected marketing and print service provider, operating from a purpose built, 18,000sq ft. factory unit, situated in central Birmingham.  The company works under 14 Framework Agreements and several Preferred Supplier Agreements.  They are based in the centre of Birmingham and work with an enviable list of customers including; Grosvenor Casinos part of the Rank Group, Stonegate Pub Co., NEC Group, Centro, Birmingham City Council, Aston and Coventry Universities, Keele University and the University of Warwick, Birmingham University, West Midlands Fire Service, Coventry and Solihull Council’s, Shaylor Plc, Trinity Mirror, Birmingham Dog’s Home, Kitchen Craft, Investec and Midlands Art Centre.
As a “marketing support services provider” Pinstripe’s product and services offering covers the whole spectrum. Its product range includes; brochures, annual reports, magazines, leaflets, manuals, maps, catalogues, point-of-sale material, exhibition collateral and stands, promotional merchandising and corporate wear.

Along with attaining the BPIF ISO 12647-2 certification, Pinstripe is also ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certified, OHSAS 18001 and both FSC and PEFC Chain of Custody certified and is a certified Carbon Balanced Publication printer. Pinstripe also works and adheres to the Data Protection Act 1998 standard.

Pinstripe is also a member of the following organisations: Platinum member of The BPIF (British Printing Industry Federation), Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and Two Sides.

Creemos en los diarios impresos

"We believe in print and that it will endure in future," says Harald Werth, director of the printing division of Athesiadruck in Bozen, Italy, at the Printing Summit 2014 in Munich.

That belief is evidenced by the company's installation of a new triple-wide press.
Athesiadruck, the printing division of the Athesia Group, produces 40 million newspaper copies a year, as well as books, calendars and other print products.
Recently the company put a new Colorman XXL press into operation to replace a Uniman press dating from 1990.

The two printing towers are operated by only three printers (who also take care of the platemaking and reelstands) – half the number needed before. At the same time, the waste figure has been reduced dramatically.
That is also thanks to the MobilPad, a mobile device with the functionality of a control desk. The printers save time by taking it right to the position of the press where they need to carry out adjustments, for example at the folder or the mini plow device, or for maintenance work.

Werth says the printers got used to it very quickly thanks to its intuitive operation.

El New York Times y su uso de tecnologías graficas

Big events — Super Bowls, the Oscars, the Olympics — are when media companies want to make sure their interactive features shine the brightest. The Olympics, in particular, are an interesting case because they last over the course of two weeks rather than one night, which means newsrooms need a continuous coverage plan in place for interactives.

At The New York Times, the graphics team put together an entirely new system and set of workflows to createinteractive features, including videos,photo composites, and more to cover the Sochi Winter Olympics.
At Knight Lab, Times graphics editors Wilson Andrews and Larry Buchananexplain how the planning paid off in covering the events live:

The group was divided into five three-person teams of visual journalists. Each team was assigned to an event to cover and began with an intense research and pre-reporting process in the weeks before the games. Andrews, whose team focused on figure skating, said that each journalist aimed to be as educated with their designated sport as possible before the event. They contacted sources (usually experts or ex-Olympians) with whom they would speak right before and immediately after the event so that each composite would be accompanied by thorough reporting and analysis right away.

During the events themselves, members of the team in Sochi would shoot the event and run the images through a Photoshop script they’d written prior to the games, said Larry Buchanan, a Times graphics editor. The script detected the differences between images and created a composite that was “80 percent” there, Buchanan said.

They also built a variety of modules beforehand to create composites, diptychs, or finisher’s graphics depending on the sport. One of the reasons the team was able to get the graphics up so quickly is because their system allowed them to work as a singular unit.
Here’s an example of one of those composites — cooler, bigger version here:

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