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Sunday, 10 January 2010 21:27 |
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 Judging for the National Print Awards 2010 was held on Thursday 10 December at the Printing Industries Victorian Offices in Mulgrave.
The team of national judges, led by Chairman Rod Urquhart faced the difficult challenge of awarding a Gold, Silver and Bronze to the 'best of the best' of the top entries from each state in each of the 30 categories.
The 27th National Print Awards event to be held at the Sydney Exhibition and Convention Centre on 26 March 2010 will be an impressive display of work from printing companies around Australia who were successful enough to win the top awards at PICA state level.
Chairman of Judges, Rod Urquhart said: "The inaugural 2009 "Best of the Best" judging provided a sound 'template' for the 27th judging-round procedures, and the process went very smoothly. Judges were able to individually assess and then freely discuss the merits of the State gold medallists before deciding as a panel on the placegetters".
Chairman of the 27th National Print Awards, John Wanless added: "We're delighted to see great quality work being presented, with gold medals being won across the breadth of the country.
The judges were full of praise for the entries and we all look forward to seeing who the winners are on Friday 26 March 2010 in Sydney". |
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Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:50 |
Some 40 print experts from companies around the Czech Republic came over to KBA in Radebeul on 18th September to pick up information on the latest developments in sheetfed offset. Their group comprised representatives of long-standing KBA users, for example Model Obaly from Opava and Vychodoceska Tiskarna from Pardubice, Performa users such as Tiskarna K & B from Most, and a number of potential new customers who have to date been printing on presses from other manufacturers.
The official welcome by KBA sales director Sven Strzelczyk and Jens Junker, CEO of KBA-Grafitec, was followed by a presentation given by KBA Radebeul product manager Jens Baumann, who outlined automation concepts geared to reducing makeready times on a sheetfed offset press. By way of cost benefit analyses, he demonstrated how automation modules such as DriveTronic SPC – assuming a corresponding job structure – very quickly pay back the initial higher investment and raise a print company's profitability by enabling more jobs to be handled in a given time.
DriveTronic Plate-Ident even serves three purposes: Plate detection to maximise the process reliability of plate changing, pre registration of the plates on the basis of additionally exposed register marks, and a plausibility check to ensure the correct assignment of plates to jobs and printing units. Such functions – and likewise CleanTronic and its associated components – are the key to considerable savings of time and waste. Electronic suction ring positioning on perfector presses, the video register tool ErgoTronic ACR and a whole range of QualiTronic modules for inline colour control are just a few of the many other automation solutions engineered with this same aim in mind.
After the presentation, the visitors witnessed a series of three job changeovers on an eight-colour Rapida 106 perfector. Jens Baumann and Wolfram Zehnle, head of the KBA customer centre, explained the various automation modules on the running press and showed how DriveTronic SPC, QualiTronic professional and CleanTronic interact to reduce makeready in practice.
Ample time was also set aside to answer questions raised by the visitors.
KBA sales engineer Jörg Henkel devoted a second presentation to the ever more important topic of “Sense Branding & Print”. As has long since been the case in the automobile industry, among airlines and in many other branches of industry, increasing attention is being paid to sensory perceptions in the consumer and luxury goods sector. Advertising materials and packaging are already lent the characteristic and unmistakeable scent, appearance or feel of a particular brand name at the time of their production. The finishing concepts elaborated by KBA permit practically all conceivable “perceptions” to be brought to paper.
Jörg Henkel compared the pros and cons of different coating variants and described some of the surface effects which can be achieved. And, of course, there is no better illustration than a practical demonstration: On a six-colour Rapida 106 with inline coater, the product was first finished with just a UV gloss coating. Then, the previously unused fifth printing unit was engaged to apply an oil-based varnish, creating high-quality and register-true matt-gloss effects (hybrid technology). As a third step, finally, an additional UV effect varnish was used to give the product also a textured surface.
A further highlight of the meeting was the founding of the V.S.O.P. Club CZ as a community to promote the joint interests of KBA users in the Czech Republic. It plans to organise a variety of events to share information with and among KBA users, and in this way to further intensify the exchanges of ideas and experience between the users and the manufacturer.
A tour of the production facility, a visit to the Volkswagen Transparent Factory in Dresden and a social get-together on the River Elbe rounded off the day. |
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Exhibitions
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Thursday, 24 September 2009 18:16 |
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 PRINT 09 in Chicago was all about the large-format presses for Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg). Following the successful installation of a Speedmaster XL 145 at the packaging printer Proteus in Wisconsin, the company sold a further three large-format presses at the trade show. Bell, Inc. in South Dakota purchased a Speedmaster XL 162 six-color press with coating unit, while a U.S. packaging conglomerate bought two further VLF presses.
Extra productivity generates crucial competitive edge
The increase in productivity throughout the production process played a key role in the latest business deals. For example, the high-performance Prinect Press Center control station coupled with the Intellistart operating software and integrated wallscreen cuts the number of steps required by up to 70 percent. This not only impressed the customers who purchased the large-format presses, it also netted Heidelberg the InterTech Award 2009 from the Printing Industries of America (PIA) in the run-up to the trade show.
Considerable interest among specialists
Although the total number of visitors fell short of the figures recorded in previous years, Heidelberg identified a large proportion of serious potential customers on the look-out for solutions for specific projects. Heidelberg used this opportunity to showcase the most comprehensive range of products and services in the industry and focused particular attention on its solutions for fully-integrated print production. Practical demonstrations at the booth gave visitors the opportunity to see for themselves how the individual components interact and how this generates benefits for customers.
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