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tHe cycles turns: John Juliano on the dTi/Saxotech merger PAGE 10

digitAl & HyPerlocAl: How newspapers are exploiting ready-to-go inkjet technology to gain sales PAGE 12

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WoodWing is further expanding capability of the Elvis DAM product it

acquired last year.A new version 4.1 adds full

Linux support and addresses other issues such as distributed storage. Five major Asian languages – simplified and traditional Chinese, Japanese, Thai and Korean – have also been added, recognising WoodWing’s partner network in the region.

The extra flexibility on operating systems and storage means Elvis DAM now supports Linux as well as the Mac platform. The system can run in a Linux-based data centre, with the Elvis DAM server also supporting Windows.

Enhancement of the Elvis server

supports multiple storage areas, and users can map one or more folders to a specific storage device.

Increased language support follows the acquisition of Elvis DAM by WoodWing Software last October.

“In Asia, we see very high interest in efficient digital asset management,” WoodWing Asia Pacific managing director Remco Koster says. “One of the reasons for this may be that many newspapers publishers in Asia also operate radio and TV stations and share very large file collections throughout their businesses.

“With the added support for a number of major Asian languages, we can tap into the great business opportunities Asia offers for Elvis DAM”. nngx

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Ton-up milestone for News digital subsNews’ push for paid digital content in Australia has passed a milestone as digital subscribers topped 100,000.

News Corp Australia’s then chief executive Kim Williams said the total – of which about half are for The Australian – was “a good start. They are encouraging numbers which demonstrate clearly that Australians are prepared to pay for great journalism, well-argued opinion pieces and rigorous analysis,” he said. “The 100k figure is a good start especially as we are only just ramping up our marketing, as we ensure the reliability in delivery and platform stability.”

News has been offering a variety of packages, including print-and-digital and a deal called News+ which embraces Fox Sports content. The milestone 100,000 does not include free trials or employee subscriptions, the company says.

A further 300,000 people have registered for the metro sites, accessing number of free articles each month which increases when they register for News+. The company says its mobile audience – at 700,000 unique daily browsers in June – has grown by almost 125 per cent on last year. nngx

i t’s a great idea that deserves greater application: Is that a recycled press release you’re

reading?In the US, an organisation

called the Sunlight Foundation has extended the Churnalism concept based on a UK site with the same name, to detect plagiarism and rehashed PR.

At present it works with only a relatively small number of PR sources, but could be extended as demand (and funds) permit.

Here at GXpress – where the bulls**t filter has been honed over years to cut the bunkum from PR –

we think it’s a great idea. Especially as brands work increasingly to infiltrate editorial columns.

Churnalism is driven by open-source search engine technology dubbed SuperFastMatch, developed by the Media Standards Trust which backed the original Churnalism site. Sunlight Foundation says it will work with MST to adapt the site for a US audience and build browser extensions with similar functionality.

The app searches the text you enter against a large corpus of press releases and determines the best matches. Sometimes, exact fragments will match that are clearly

not plagiarism. These often include expanded organisational names (such as The United States House of Representatives) or boilerplate copy about a particular company that is usually appended to the end a press release, it says. In order to filter out uninteresting matches and provide the best user experience, Sunlight uses a relevancy ranking derived from the total character overlap and the density of that overlap.

The source code for the project is on the Sunlight Labs Github page. Sunlight also plans to make its PR database available as a standalone API. nngx

On guard against content churn

apps on the go are the target of new Hackathon events planned for Bangalore, Berlin and Singapore.

WAN-Ifra kicked off the innovation initiative with an ‘Ideathon’ at the Tech Open Air Festival in Berlin earlier this month, and will reprise it during the World Publishing Expo there in October.

A Bangalore hackathon is planned for September 13 as part of Publish Asia, and another will follow in Singapore on the final day of the Newsplex Asia’s News App Challenge (October 12).

Organisers hope that by pooling talent from its international members network and the open tech community, participants will gain an opportunity to create platforms for tomorrow’s needs. Previous hackathons have resulted in the development of quick apps and software now used by journalists and newsrooms.

The event at Tech Open Air assembled tech-minded journalists and media professionals to brainstorm ideas for the hackathon to be held on October 5-6 during World Publishing Expo.

WAN-Ifra chief executive Vincent Peyrègne has

welcomed the initiative: “Our fundamental mission is to connect innovators and media professionals, supporting the transformation of the news industry.

“These hackathons, together with the Innovation Days organised around the World Publishing Expo, and other initiatives to be announced in Berlin in October, help establish a renewed international network of multidisciplinary experts, a group of visionary practitioners, open innovators,” he says.

“There is a need for our industry to take the lead on innovation, encourage the development of user-driven solutions that make optimal use of news media, adapt to new consumer behaviours and address an increased competition.”

Winners of the Berlin hackathon will be announced on October 7 at the opening of WPE, and of the Singapore event at Digital Media Asia in Kuala Lumpur on November 14. nngx

Pictured: A more casual ‘beanbag hack’ delivered app ideas at an NSTP event in 2011

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‘Better together’: Saxotech and DTI merged through PE acquisitionn ewspaper systems vendors

DTI and Saxotech have announced that they are

getting together to form a new company with private equity support.

The merger – to form Newscycle Solutions – is immediate, and brings together a ‘blended’ senior management team and a cluster of 3000 customers in 25 countries.

A statement says the creation of Newscycle was driven by the simultaneous acquisitions of DTI and Saxotech by Vista Equity Partners, a private equity firm focussed on long-term value-added investments in software and technology-enabled services.

Dan Paulus, former president of DTI, becomes president of Newscycle, with Anders Christiansen, former chief executive of Saxotech, becoming chief operation officer. Don Oldham, founder and former chief executive of DTI, will be a board advisor, and the company says its management team includes other executives from the two companies as well as new members.

The merger expands its global presence with offices in nine countries and sales and support personnel located around the world. DTI recently closed its Asia Pacific office in Sydney – although Australia is listed in the new company’s press release – while Saxotech had largely withdrawn from the presence created when it was represented by the Hannan Group and had its Sydney suburban newspapers – now owned by News Corp Australia – as a client.

Newscycle claims the “scale and ability to serve publishers across all geographies with solutions for content, advertising, circulation and audience relationship management”. Product innovation cycles are expected to accelerate as a result of direct collaboration on digital publishing and cloud computing.

Paulus describes the merger as a “rare and exciting opportunity” to bring together the talents and technologies of the two companies: “DTI and Saxotech share mutual respect for each other and possess a combined history of 50 years of serving publishers throughout the world with innovative and customer-centric solutions,” he says. “Our customers will benefit from access to a wider array of applications and a deeper roster of experienced people to support their accelerating business needs.”

Christiansen says the two are “better together because we will offer the broadest range of publishing solutions and will have expanded resources to support current products and to deliver the next generation of solutions that publishers need to compete”.

He says the two complement each other geographically, making Newscycle “instantly competitive as a global player”.

Newscycle says it has US offices in Florida, Maryland, Minnesota and Utah, plus international offices in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Panama, Sweden and the UK. US-based Vista has offices in San Francisco, Chicago and Austin, and currently invests about $7 billion. nngx

HT Media has extended its EidosMedia Méthode system to produce its new global weekly MintAsia, published in Singapore.

The parent daily – launched in 2007 – has become a leading source of daily news for India’s business community. It has content syndicated from the Wall Street Journal and its online edition Livemint.com uses the Méthode Portal Server web CMS. Stories from the Indian editions can be dragged into the pages of the new edition, reformatting automatically to fit the layouts and style features of the weekly.

Swedish freesheet publisher DirektPress has moved its 19 publications to Roxen’s editorial portal.

“With a large number of parallel productions we need to have a good overview and also improve the efficiency of our editorial processes by automating recurring and common content,” says owner and chief executive Roland Tipner.

The browser-based system runs as a local cloud solution, with Roxen hosting, managing, monitoring and upgrading the software.

Brightcove has introduced Video Cloud Live, a multi-bitrate live streaming module for delivery of live video events across desktops, smartphones, tablets and connected TVs.

Consumers are increasingly accessing live event coverage, providing new opportunities for publishers to drive revenues and increase viewer engagement. Live events – historically difficult to manage and expensive to deliver – become less complex with the add-on for Brightcove’s Video Cloud Pro and Enterprise, the company says.

News agency AFP will use deltatre technology to provide results, medal tables and other data from the Olympic Games for web and mobile platforms.

The Agence France Presse deal – which starts with the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics – covers real-time information including live results, medal

tables, event schedules and athlete profiles, to be available on web, mobile and tablet devices as a turnkey service to AFP clients.

AFP chairman and chief executive Emmanuel Hoog says the arrangement will give clients access to a new set of premium interactive applications.

“This partnership matches perfectly our global sport strategy on web and mobile, and we are looking forward to developing a long-lasting relationship together,” he says.

European publishing house Russmedia, which has more than 1500 staff at its 23 centres, has introduced ppi Media’s Content-X.

Editorial workflow covering Austrian regional daily Vorarlberger Nachrichten plus magazines, weeklies, online and mobile products, had previously focussed simply on InDesign for print, but has been extended to digital using the media-neutral editorial solution developed by ppi and Digital Collections.

Technical prepress manager Peter Zehrer says the “simple, small and incredibly efficient solution”

has made it possible to achieve targets of creating “more channels, a greater

reach, new target groups and always being close to the reader” using Responsive Web Design and HTML5 for online, mobile and tablet.

With the DC-X content management system linked to InDesign via a plugin, worksteps can be performed in any order, allowing the layout to be used as a basis for content, or vice versa.

Zehrer says the company sees itself as a benchmark for other small publishers and is confident of the future: “We’ll be around for a long time yet,” he says.

What has the US newspaper industry learned from the devastation wrought by digital competitors? A new study

tour shows how much.The World Editors’ Forum

event in Washington and New York in November gives insights into how leading news organisations are adapting to and succeeding in the new media world.

The multi media newsroom will be a focus of the study tour as well as the integration of new technologies, data journalism and the evolving relationship with the audience, especially through social media.

The five-day WAN-Ifra organised study tour (November 4-8) promises participants the opportunity to meet with editors at US news organisations including the New York Times, News Corporation/Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Huffington Post, Digital First and USA Today.Beyond traditional print newsrooms, visits to Twitter and Facebook offer a chance to meet and learn from social media.

Mexican sports daily Récord is using ProtecMedia’s Milenium for a new iPad version. Director Víctor Edú says that while the intention was to create a new platform to increase readers and advertisers, the underlying strategy was to evolve towards the new reading methods now in use.

Récord Plus adds value to the print version in iPad format. “What we have done is to increase the editorial content, offering them a wide range of exclusive supplements,” he says.

“Information is enriched with videos, photo galleries, digital sequences, pages with movement and so on; in other words, a whole series of additional features which turn the reading of the newspaper into a new experience.

Use of the Milenium CMS “makes the most of its capacity to allow everyone to interact, from designers to editors to reporters,” Edú says.

Integration into the same workflow as the print edition has made production of the new version much easier and cut out the need for any new infrastructure. “Everything is done with the same staff,” he says. nngx

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excellent ideas were also implemented. The set target of creating “more chan-nels, a greater reach, new target groups and always being close to the reader” has been achieved by using Content-X. No-one in Vorarlberg is thinking of stopping or resting on their laurels. There’s still a lot to do. Even though a lot has been achieved by converting to Responsive Web Design and HTML5 for online, mobile and tablet. “Content-X handles all these chan-nels automatically, creates transparent processes, an end-to-end workflow and maximum satisfaction with users – our editors,” says Peter Zehrer. And readers benefit as well. The reading experience has been raised to a new level through modern web technology, and the news is optimized for each output medium from print to the fast-growing mobile market (smartphone and tablet).

Small, powerful and smartContent-X differs from the large solutions on the market in a number of ways. Delib-erately. It’s easy to use, with extremely intelligent data management. a flexible

image workflow and enhanced InDesign functions. Content-X perfects the basics and is both intuitive and smart. Accord-ing to Peter Zehrer, “the large number of drag & drop functions make a difference.” Duplicate worksteps are a thing of the past, nothing is lost and, best of all, edi-tors can work much more efficiently, are highly satisfied and can go home earlier. The time pressure is still there – but this solution is so much easier.

A further advantage of Content-X is its flexibility. Due to the Content Manage-ment System DC-X being directly linked to InDesign via a plugin developed by ppi, the worksteps can be performed in any order: the layout as a basis for content, content as a basis for the layout, or a com-bination of both.

The future begins with intelligent invest-mentIn an industry looking for answers and solutions, Russmedia stands for state-of-the-art technology for software and hardware, creative minds and the courage

to try out new things. Once again, all eyes are turned towards Austria, where a new success story is emerging. And as far as Peter Zehrer is concerned, the publish-ing industry has all the time in the world. “We’ll be around for a long time yet.” This is partly due to the newspaper market in Austria, which, by international compari-son, boasts a sound economic founda-tion and good ad sales, and partly to the innovative approach the media company takes. “By using Content-X as an editorial solution, we see ourselves as a success-ful benchmark for other small publishing companies who are cost-conscious and do not need an editorial system that has end-less functions, is difficult to operate and needs high investment. We can definitely fully recommend Content-X,” says Peter Zehrer.

It’s exactly this intelligent investment, their stringent check of the solutions used and the resulting successes and savings that make this Austrian media company so succesful.

“Content-X is simple, small and incredibly efficient. It’s never been easier to convert data, process images, create newspaper layouts, fill mobile offers with content or create archives. With this new editorial solution, ppi Media has positioned itself once again as a leading solftware supplier and workflow specialist. Large savings and highly automated processed in all areas have made us very satisfied customers who can fully recommend Content-X.”

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the issue of threats to the security of online classified sites – and thus to the business itself – are the subject

of a special report in Classified Intelligence Report.

“Safety and security are the lifeblood of a classified advertising site,” says founder and executive editor Peter Zollman. “If no-one can trust your site, or if it’s tainted with fraud and abuse, you’re finished. Users will go elsewhere, and advertisers will follow.”

But he says that while it is easy to talk about fraud and abuse at classified advertising sites, it is much harder to do something about it.

“Early efforts to prevent problems – including inviting users to ‘flag inappropriate sites’ – were rudimentary.

“Now, with hack attacks, the ‘Nigerian scam’ and the ‘Craigslist/Gumtree/Kijiji killer’ incidents (take your pick), it’s much tougher to keep your customers, and thus your business, safe.”

This was a case in which the death of a Canadian who posted a truck for sale on Kijiji and AutoTrader.ca was referred to as the possible victim of a ‘Kijiji killing’. Even Kijiji said the ad had not included personal contact information, nor did it receive any replies”, the damage had been done.“Sometimes, safety and security are affected even when the site is not involved,” says Zollman.

An executive at a German auto site made the comment that fraudsters were much more professional than in the recent past:

“They operate in groups and are extremely well interconnected; they have technical expertise and use the latest software.”

After surveying more than three dozen publishers of classified advertising worldwide, CIR concluded that technology alone was not enough to eliminate fraudulent and abusive ads… and nor can human review. “It’s almost impossible to guarantee that you’ll eliminate all fraudulent and abusive advertising – and what happens when potential buyers and sellers get together is completely beyond the control of the classified advertising publisher,” says Zollman. “But you can substantially curtail fraud and abuse with a combination of technology, human review and a significant, sustained effort.

“One of the most fascinating

Being the one to trustdevelopments we uncovered was the introduction of game technology to identify patterns of fraud and abuse.”

MMPORGs (massively multi-player online role-playing games) – such as World of Warcraft, Everquest and EVE – could be used to determine who was likely to be a scam artist and who was legitimate.

In some cases, publishers who compete otherwise, cooperated on safety and security. One “beleaguered” general classified website has more than 100 full-time staffers reviewing ads to weed out and report child trafficking ads.

“The problems of fraud and abuse, safety and security are likely to get worse,” says Zollman. “And everything you can do to prevent them will not only be good for your customers, they’ll be good business as well.”

Among ways of controlling fraud and building trust – “two sides of the same coin” – listed in the publication, are:• an agent rating system introduced by real estate portal ImmobilienScout24.de last year has yielded about 600,000 ratings in its first year;• an ‘I trade fair’ badge system for private sellers and an ‘approved seller’ badge for professional sellers of German general classifieds platform Markt.de; • Kalaydo.de which offers premium accounts

for buyers and sellers, increasing response and generating “substantial revenue”;• Bazaarvoice.com which helps classified companies (and others) increase sales by encouraging users to review products and sellers, ask questions, give answers and share their stories;• jobs, autos and real estate aggregator Adzuna.co.uk makes the user “part of a community” requiring job-search users to log in with Facebook or LinkedIn, and invites homeseekers to “map your friends with one click”;• AirBnB has launched a massive trust-building initiative by trying to get all its four million members to verify their IDs, randomly asking for headshots, mobile numbers and government-issued ID.

Two leading auto sites in Germany are working together to combat fraud and abuse, while ten UK recruitment sites have joined for an initiative called Safer Jobs with government and law enforcement agencies to combat fraud. Other initiatives, such as the new TrustCloud.com site, let individuals calculate ‘online trustworthiness’ scores.

More at Classified Intelligence Report, www.AIMGroup.com. nngx

Illustration: Mike Ricigliano for AIM Group

m ainland Media’s acquisition of Christchurch Star (NZ) has contributed to a rush of

Roxen installations for Melbourne-based agent APS.

Mainland (now Christchurch Star Company) has upped its installation of the Swedish browser-based Editorial Portal from 15 to 30 seats across its Christchurch and Oamaru offices following its purchase of APN New Zealand’s South Island publications.

The family-owned business now produces 35 publications from the two offices.

Managing director Pier Smulders says the investment has revolutionised newsroom operations, with creative and editorial teams working seamlessly together on live pages. “We can create content from any of our locations, including full page make-up across all of our publications,” he says. “The software has also greatly reduced downtime in sending files to our printers, and in future will allow us to publish across multiple platforms – including print, online, smart devices and mobiles.”

APS has also installed a 15 seat Roxen system at Global Intertrade’s Adelaide office, which produces

high-end monthlies the Adelaide Review and Melbourne Review, as well as other publications.

Luke Stegemann, general manager of Global Intertrade’s media and publishing division says the company had urgently needed a system which offered both print and web facilities. He praised the smooth implementation, which saw the first publication go live within two weeks.

APS sales director Terry Flynn says the installations – together with PageMasters’ two-year-old installion in Australia –heralds industry acceptance of web-based editorial systems in the region.

Roxen Editorial Portal is a wholly web-based editorial solution for print and online publishing, and integrates with Adobe InDesign. It is used by more than 120 publications, newspapers and websites around the world, including Metro International and Shaw Newspapers in the USA.

At Mainland and Global, Roxen has been integrated with APS’ locally-developed applications including QuickLayout page planner, widely used in Australia and New Zealand where it accounts for a claimed 70 per cent of all publications. nngx

the much-anticipated switch of News Corp Australia’s tabloid dailies to the Méthode platform began

when Adelaide’s Sunday Mail went live on the new EidosMedia multiplatform editorial system.

SA daily The Advertiser, Brisbane’s Sunday Mail and Courier-Mail, the Herald-Sun in Melbourne and the Daily Telegraph in Sydney followed in quick succession. The daily go-lives follow successful transitions across News’

community newspapers.SA, WA, NT and Tasmania editorial

director Melvin Mansell has told The Newspaper Works’ News Now that Méthode will make publishing easier across all platforms.

“We’re still developing our capabilities, but the big thing is that it’s a system which gives you the ability to gather the material and publish wherever you want to,” he said. “The big opportunity for us is that our

focus has to change from publishing a newspaper, to publishing news.”

The rollout across all of News publications in Australia – the biggest such installation in the world – is part of a $60 million project to enable staff to break news faster across platforms… and reduce the time taken and cost of doing so. A dashboard provides data on how stories look – and are performing – online, and will make it easier to optimise presentation and formats.

Mansell says the biggest challenges in adapting to the new system were faced by production staff, with reporters enjoying a “relatively straightforward” transition. He describes the implementation as “one of the most ambitious projects that the company has undertaken. Levels of organisation across the country have been extraordinary,” he says. nngx• See the NewsLeaders feature in the centre pages

Adelaide launches tabloids’ switch

Growth at Mainland and Global calls for extra Roxen seats

A bright new website called The Hindu Hub creates a one-stop access point for media users of the English-language Indian daily.

Hindu Group vice president Suresh Srinivasan says the site provides a source for advertising agencies, advertisers and media planners to gain information and insights about the industry.

It will carry reports on consumption patterns in South India, the Indian Readership Survey “and so on”.

“The key is to make this the de facto access point for stakeholders,” says Srinivasan. “The opportunities to engage and provide greater value are endless.

“Based upon users’ feedbacks, we will include relevant data or topics, besides periodic updates. The site will be periodically refreshed and updated.”

Beyond its aim of making The Hindu “preferred media partners” for stakeholders in key markets that we serve, the website helps field sales staff to access presentations/data.

New site puts The Hindu marketing case online

“This will also help initiate conversations and meaningfully engage with the stakeholders of the media industry and also to share our products, services, innovative solutions, events, and so on, to both existing and potential customers for them to get a direct feel of the power of solutions that we provide.”

Promotional activities for the new website include direct mailers to a large database of advertisers and agencies, advertising in The Hindu Group publications as well as in trade magazines and portals. nngx

UK pacesetter Telegraph Media is moving to Newscycle’s (formerly DTI’s)_ cloud platform, of which it will be the largest European user. The companies have announced an upgrade and migration covering the news and ad content management products. Independent media consultant to the group Allan Marshall says supporting servers and software is “not our core business.” nngx


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Ringier Axel Springer saves time, lawsuits with DAM project

a pilot implementation of WoodWing’s Elvis DAM digital asset management solution at

Ringier Axel Springer Media’s site in Serbia yielded time savings of ten hours search time a week for each employee.

The newspapers, magazines and digital media joint venture – established in 2010 with 3100 staff in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Serbia – was researching a group-wide solution.

In Serbia, 550 journalists are supported by a photo department of ten managing an ever-growing archive of currently eight million items. The aim is to establish a central multimedia archive which can be searched by all editors – online and print – and be the base for more automation in image handling.

Ringier Axel Springer chief information officer Marcus Dauck says the initial setup took just three days, and implementation – including training of photo staff – was completed in three months.

The Elvis DAM is fully integrated with WoodWing´s multi-channel publishing system Enterprise, with users “very positive” about the user interface and ease of use, and metadata and taxonomy-based search reducing search time by approximately ten hours a week per employee.

The project has also reduced storage space because of minimising redundancy of images, and brought other benefits such as the elimination of lawsuits resulting from accidental copyright infringement.

“It has been the key to success in an extremely complicated process of storing and retrieving digital content, which greatly facilitates the daily operations of our editorial board,” says IT project manager Marko Josifovic. nngx

Pictured: The Serbian newsroom of Ringier Axel Springer, which produces three main daily newspapers plus magazines

PageSuite launches first CMS-fed app for ArchantUK developer PageSuite has

delivered its first CMS-fed Live App to magazine publisher

Archant.The app for aviation title Pilot

Magazine is created by channelling existing XML and JSON feeds into a framework of customisable templates to deliver an interactive and immersive, edition-based magazine.

It delivers readers news, flight tests, travel articles, technique and other features directly from the content management system feed.

PageSuite have released more than 60 PDF-replica apps for Archant across iOS and Android – ranging from regional newspapers to specialist magazine titles – but the Live App is a different reading experience. It combines articles, full screen imagery and photo galleries, and is completely optimised for iPad.

Readers access the content that interests them with customisable category sections, social sharing, alternate article reading options, full search functionality plus the ability to add additional news sources from around the world. A free trial issue is at Apple’s AppStore.

Earlier, the company delivered Windows phone apps for UK tabloids the Daily Express and Daily Star, plus OK!, Star Magazine and new! Magazine in addition

to Windows 8 and Windows RT apps developed for the publisher last October. They are based on a Dynamic App framework which uses a single workflow to publish content to iOS, Android, Kindle Fire and Windows 8, and include interactive replica editions and a full archive.

The PageSuite app framework is PDF edition-based, and publishers can launch as stand-alone apps, integrate with Newsstand, or plug-in to existing product subscriptions. The company says customers including Metro Canada, Express Newspapers, Denver Post, Archant and The Scotsman use it to feed their apps direct from their digital editions.

Applications can be downloaded and previewed from a personalised website before submission to the App Store. nngx

Nonfolio content optionsA new version of Managing Editor’s Portico allows nonfolio content such as FaceTime sessions, maps and iTunes downloads to be included.

The 2.5 upgrade works with Adobe’s DPS to delivers a tailored app experience with deeper audience engagement.

Publishers can manage members natively with full support for the DPS Entitlements API. This reduces operating costs by eliminating integration with a third-party authentication service, such as publisher’s print fulfillment house, and allows retail folios to override in-app purchases, making subscription management elegant and agile, director of new product marketing Brett Kizner says.

It also leverage DPS’ restricted distribution capabilities to offer folios to specific entitled users. “Adding to this functionality’s value,

Portico’s entitlement integration can also restrict access to content through Adobe’s browser-based folio viewer for desktop and laptop computers,” Kizner says.

The platform can support nonfolio content – from FaceTime sessions and Google Maps to cross-promotional items like referral URLs, iTunes Store downloads and rich media ads – making apps more than just a collection of folios.

App users can be directed to specific stories within folios, other related apps and external links, with these content sets updated on the fly.

Senior vice president of business development Mark Leister says the need to specialise and target content is fast becoming the standard: “The upgrade makes it easier than ever to directly connect to the right audiences with the right content.” nngx

amsterdam-based De Telegraaf is one of 17 dailies which have gone live with new advertising software as part

of a group-wide strategy.Lineup Systems’ AdPoint has been

deployed in a 350-user system at Telegraaf Media Groep covering more than 100 publications. A key feature in the system – taken live in less than three months – is integration with the group’s existing systems

One of the largest publishers in the Netherlands, the company books more than 6000 ads a week, many of them with regional variations. The top-selling De Telegraaf is one of more than 100 group titles, including Noordholland’s Dagblad with nine regional editions, and 80 free weekly local newspapers. Architecture provides the integration flexibility to operate with TMG’s existing systems including ClassWizard, Oracle Financials and inhouse production and customer databases. nngx

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saxo & dti just acquired by investment company. both have press releases on their websites.’ It was the first and only text message to reach my mobile phone in two weeks of sailing off the British Columbia coast.

Welcome back to reality.In the 1990s Saxotech, still led by founder

Werner Elhauge, had been a client of my company, JJCS. We worked on bringing Saxotech to the US market. JJCS’s own Jo Ann Froelich was for many years chief operating officer of DTI before heading to Atex North America and Eidos North America, so our ties to the companies are significant.

My second thought after “Wow”, was about wading through the obfuscating press releases designed to put a vanilla face on an event which I am sure will lead to much blood letting within those corporate walls.

Newscycle Solutions, the new entity, is the property of Vista Equity Partners, a private equity firm founded by past members of what many Americans see as ‘the new evil empire’, Goldman Sachs.

And sure enough on each organisation’s website are the obligatory blancmange statements from the former heads of the pre-merger companies, extolling synergy and progress for their customers. The same quotes could be applied to any merger of any two companies anywhere in the world. It can seem just like the comment track for any DVD we rent: Everyone had a wonderful time making the film, everyone on the film is a genius and this is the greatest film ever made!

To be honest, when I read this I also fully expected to find Digital First Media – a company which seems to be involved in every high profile, but improbable industry action in North America – involved here, and then I remembered that Digital First personnel sat on the Saxotech advisory board.

What might Vista Partners might do with their acquisition? Some clues are in a short article (Vitera revamps, hires after big layoff, on bizjournals.com) which describes how the former Saga Healthcare business had last year started hiring again, after the “house cleaning” which followed when it was bought by Vista.

History tells us to expect slashing of costs and gutting of personnel – which generally includes anything that does not immediately add to the bottom line, usually R&D and support – in these cases then ‘flip and run’.

(For an example in our industry, the

Netherland’s Mediasystemen, was a victim of a programme by its parent company Triple-P which starved the company of R&D money, but gave us from those ashes, Woodwing .)

But in a contrast to what is often a well-known two-year programme, having shed about a quarter of its staff, Vitera replaced them and added others to enlarge the company. A year later Vitera seems to be saddled with debt, and according to Reuters, decided not to borrow US$365 million to refinance its current debt and make a US$100 million acquisition. Having said that the company seems to be doing very well, as they completed the acquisition using equity.

What would I do with DTI and Saxotech? As I see it, the value in DTI is their customer base, the value in Saxotech is their amazing ability to close deals.

DTI is a legacy company that has been struggling to fashion a new self. When I most recently sold against DTI, I considered their product offering really an integrator’s solution made of very good products, hosted in the cloud in a Citrix-like environment. Not a cloud solution to my thinking, but rather enterprise software running in a hosted VM environment.

Saxotech has been on a sales tear. The successful deals closed are breathtaking. When I last sold against Saxotech, the company closed the deal across a weekend by working directly with client’s publisher rather than the selection committee. We were in awe.

For some insight into what the deal might mean to a DTI customer, I contacted Duncan Suss, director of information technology at the Boston Herald, a DTI customer and Jeff Kane, vice president for technical operations at Sun-Times Media, publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times. Duncan has worked on both sides of the vendor/newspaper divide

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high hopes as cycle tUrnsJohn Juliano looks at the purchase of Saxotech and DTI by Vista Equity Partners

on both sides of the Atlantic, and places his hopes not on the fruits of the merger, but on the fruits of the displaced.

“I think it’s very highly probable that some of the people who’ve been working for DTI and Saxotech will be laid off, most likely starting in development teams, once they’ve decided which product lines will be phased out.

“I don’t like this thought, but there’s a small glimmer of hope within it: some of these people might start new companies with fresh ideas, and the next generation of products may derive not from the merger but from the casualties of this announcement,” he told me.

Jeff Kane summarised the bottom line: ‘‘In the end the new company, Newscycle will need to come up with less expensive, simpler, digital-focused solutions moving forward.’’

A cold cleAr-eyed view is whAt is necessAry in our industry. The former Goldman-Sachs boys who have formed Newscycle Solutions may have business ice-water in their veins, but what do they know that we don’t. Equity firms and their funds (Vista Partners forms funds that make the acquisitions) expect a very substantial ROI, but are probably also willing to accept certain rate of meltdown.

How does that level of return get generated in our industry? The answer may lie in taking the new company’s expertise outside of news media, but I don’t think so, given the problems DTI had with its flyer into the medical industry .

One can’t help but think back to Kodak’s acquisition of Atex and DuPont’s acquisition of Camex. Each company knew that new technology (desktop publishing) spelled the end of their current business strategy and found someone with deep pockets to convert perceived equity to cold hard cash. Kodak poured tens of millions of dollars into Atex before throwing in the towel, while DuPont pulled the plug on Camex after two years.

From the Camex ashes came CKP, which was eventually purchased by Saxotech, where CKP co-founder, Pat Stewart is head of development.

I can’t think of an instance in our industry where a white knight has come to a vendor’s rescue, resuscitated vendor and built a new profitable company, but then what are the metrics Vista will use to judge success? For all our sakes, I hope the outcome will be a new industry leader. nngx• Newspaper systems industry veteran John Juliano writes regularly for GXpress Magazine. Contact him at [email protected]

bizjournals.com’s Tampa BizCurrents story on Vitera in May 2012

c oncerns over data leakage are being addressed with a new set of draft guidelines

for publishers.The initiative by WAN-Ifra

aims to ensure that users of news sites are protected from unauthorised collection of data.

Data leakage – the unwanted transfer of data from publishers to third parties, often by the use of cookies associated with advertisements – is a growing issue for online publishers. Advertisers and agencies can place these data collectors along with advertisements, which often can collect information even if the user does not click on the advertisement.

The WAN-Ifra initiative includes a draft set of guidelines which can be downloaded at http://www.wan-ifra.org/node/78995

Plans are for an updated version to be released at the World Publishing Expo, being

held in Berlin in October. “It is important to be

transparent about how data is collected and used,” says Stig Nordqvist, the organisation’s executive director for emerging digital platforms and business development. “If we don’t control data leakage, we can’t assure that private information is used only in ways that users and advertisers have agreed to.”

The problem occurs when an advertisement places a cookie on a user’s computer via an advertisement on a website without informing the publisher that user data will be collected. The new initiative aims to safeguard the trust of users and advertisers by informing them about how data is collected and used.

It also aims to safeguard publishers’ control of their advertising and prevent unauthorized parties from collecting user information. nngx

Guidelines tackle data leakage

WAN-Ifra has set the date and venue for its fifth Digital Media Asia event. It will be held at the Shangri-La hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from November 12-14.

“Digital is not business as usual,” says Asia Pacific director, events and publications, Gilles Demptos. “For re-inventing news media on mobile devices, engaging users via social media and generating new advertising revenues, creativity and talent must take the lead.”

The organisation promises “inspiration and concrete business ideas” from forward-looking media organisations at the event.

As previously, three focussed days are planned for the conference:day 1: online and social media: Content monetisation remains a hot topic. Expert presentations and best practices on social media and online monetisation will be presented.day 2: tablet and mobile publishing: Mobile ad spend, estimated at 3.3 billion dollars for 2011, is forecasted to skyrocket to 20.6 billion by 2015. How can publishers position their offers to exploit this opportunity?day 3: digital business innovations. This session will explore the new business opportunities that the digital economy opens for media companies. More details from www.wan-ifra.org/events/digital-media-asia-2013

Winning entries in the Asian Digital Media Awards will also be recognised during the conference. nngx

Encouraging digital media talent

New creative options in Wave2’s AdPortal self-service advertising solution are a response to requests from customers and prospects, the company says. UK-based Wave2 – for which Melbourne-based APS is an authorised reseller – has upgraded the product with the addition of a ‘design mode’ to allow users to interactively create or modify advertisements, facing up to the challenge of preventing them from producing “plain ugly” advertisements.

“Until now, AdPortal has always used a template/forms approach,” says sales director Andrew Nixon-Haggarty.

He says giving users a choice of designs which they then fill in with their own text delivers professional looking advertisements, but sometimes they need tools to manually adjust a layout or design one from scratch. “The challenge is to provide a simple set of tools that give the user a flexible design environment while still helping him to achieve a professional result. Given a powerful design tool – and without assistance – most users will create a rather crude or plain ugly advertisement,” he says.

In its ‘design mode’, Wave2 reckon to have solved the problem by using a grid method and a set of library components. Advertisers drag and drop object in place, with the rules engine “making everything fit properly”.

Nixon-Haggarty says the resulting advertisement will always contain consistent fonts, properly sized and positioned images, and appropriate colours. “The edges of text and other objects will always align properly, and any effects such as transparency or clipping paths get applied automatically.”

WoodWing has become one of the first to announce Adobe CC-compatible versions of its plug-ins… and yes, you can acquire them by subscription.

A new version of the Smart Styles productivity plug-in also includes new features, in addition to compatibility with InDesign CC and InCopy CC. WoodWing says it will also provide a new version of its Enterprise multichannel publishing system this year, supporting Creative Cloud products.

Users of Smart Styles can drag a formatted object into its library panel and then apply the same formatting to other elements. Smart Styles CC features include support of Liquid Layout rules and actions applied to buttons, both of which speed up the creation process in digital publishing. It also makes use of the QR code features offered by InDesign CC.

Historic Italian newspaper Provincia di Cremona is reinventing itself with new CMS, archiving, web and mobile publishing. The publisher has signed for a full multichannel publishing solution with Miles 33 distributor GMDE.

At the heart of the new system will be a GN4 editorial content management system, with archived content managed by Tark4 DAM and GNPortal looking after automated content ingestion from external sources. A VirtualNewspaper system – powered by VirtualCom Interactive – will be used to publish to smartphone, tablet and HTML5 platforms using a single login and crossplatform subscription system.

The GN4 suite replaces an Atex Hermes system, and will be deployed on the existing hardware and operating infrastructure.

Online oldies say they get their news digitally now.

An Oxford University study shows the extent to which online news services have gained over print.

Even over-55s in an online survey across nine countries preferred online sites over printed newspapers as their source

for news, as did all other age groups.

The findings are a sharp reminder of the rate at which reading habits are changing. The survey of 10,843 individuals in the UK, USA, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain and urban parts of Brazil found that a majority of consumers in every age group said online media were their main source for news. The study was conducted by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University.

Institute director David Levy says that – because the survey was conducted only online – results “will underrepresent the consumption habits of people who are not online”.

Offline individuals were typically “older, less affluent and with limited formal education”.

“Despite this limitation, the findings demonstrate a consistent and unmistakable generational divide in media consumption in all of the countries surveyed,” he says.

Two years after its acquisition of Swiss virtual sports technology company, Vizrt has reorganised LiberoVision into a new division focussed on its complete sports offering.

A complicated 2010 deal which began with the payment of CHF6 million for 60 per cent of the company, included a last installment based on 2012 financial performance.

With that past, Vizrt has announced that the former LiberoVision team will “pursue Vizrt’s vision to change the sports experience on all media platforms as the world leader in sports media enhancement technology”.

The Emmy nominated technology covers sports including, soccer, American and Canadian football, Aussie Rules, basketball, baseball, beach volleyball, handball, hockey, tennis, cricket, rugby and volleyball.

It is used by broadcasters including s ESPN, NFL Network, Univision, ZDF, Canal+ and Globosat. nngx

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substantial digital newspaper printing application.

Church newspaper Kerk & Leven (Church & Life) – which has a weekly circulation of 340,000 copies – has switched its 508-edition local section to digital, printing on two Océ ColorStream 3900 inkjet webs.

Production of the catholic title at printer Halewijn in Antwerp has started following installation of the first of two presses. The second is going to Belgian post office subsidiary Speos, which will provide technical support and back-up.

Halewijn had been printing a 16-page main section on a manroland Mediaman newspaper press, and the four-page local news section – which

personalisation (addressing). All copies are currently lodged directly to mail.

Rather than change the product to suit the presses, the ColorStream inkjets have been modified to increase their web width to 560mm from the standard 540mm. The twin-tower inkjet webs will print in full colour on 49 gsm improved newsprint at 127 metres a minute. The plan is to complete half the run on Thursday, completing it on Friday and Monday.

Stefan Vanysacker of project manager P3 Print Publish Package says that while they were keen to keep production control inhouse, they realised they needed the support of a partner such as Speos. “Digital production of newspapers will allow us to manage content and to interact with our readers in a much more flexible way and so extend the capabilities of the newspaper.”

Research indicates that copies of are read by an average of ten people and kept for three days. “Thus the visibility of print is much greater than an online publication can achieve,” says Vanysacker. “Switching to digital printing allows us to both continue with a recognised publication and to reinforce its impact.”

In the first stage, the localised four-page wrapper will be printed on the digital presses and assembled with the offset section. Apart from providing back-up, Speos – which prints a billion A4 page equivalents a year of transactional and other work at sites in Anderlecht and Fleurus – will test the digital-only printing of the whole 20-page publication using Hunkeler newspaper finishing.

The order with Canon-Océ – which is integrating the whole project – stems from a meeting at the WAN-Ifra Expo in Vienna in 2011.

Halewijn has a mix of web and sheetfed equipment. The coldset Mediaman press – configured to print four colours on one side and two on the other – has an 840mm web width, with the Drent narrow-webs handling 420mm webs, both with a cutoff of 578mm and spot colour. Owned by the Flemish dioceses, the company also prints books and journals, including other church newspapers and bulletins. nngx

has edition runs of as little as 200 copies – on two narrow-web Drent Vision presses which have UV curing. Halewijn has also commissioned software which will enable parishioners throughout the country to submit and edit content for their local editions.

Parts of the digitally-printed wrapper are produced from a four-layer PDF, with elements for local and diocesan news, advertising and

WHEN dIgITAl PrINT cOUld crEATE THE OPPOrTUNITy-so you want to get close to your readers and advertisers? Digital printing allows you to focus… down to an audience of one if the marketing objectives and dollars add up… which they can on premium products. Use it to deliver hyperlocal advertising and editorial content to a geographically or demographically targetted community, either in a special section or a complete newspaper. Hand-delivered personal newspapers with premium or upmarket auto advertising are a great attention getter.

-in a remote town or city where print is still in demand (and internet not ubiquitous) digital is ideal to produce a small number of newspapers within hours or even minutes of the last page being closed, without the time and cost of trucking or airfreight. A distributor or publisher cooperation could see a mix of different titles produced consecutively, even to the extent of presorting for delivery runs. Might help restore paid circulation to ‘uneconomical’ remote areas, especially with local advertising.

- when an existing (and perhaps underutilised) offset press is reaching its end-of-life, or perhaps needs an expensive upgrade to meet OH&S requirements. manroland Australia managing director Steve Dunwell suggests an inkjet web-plus-folder line would be an economical alternative requiring fewer and less-skilled staff… although others might suggest a modern replacement such as Goss’s highly automated Magnum Compact would be a better option.

-international newspapers for expats, business travellers and holidaymakers remain a substantial market for newspaper printers with digital equipment. Advertising can be changed for the local market, although limited numbers mean this option is rarely taken up. Promotional material, booklets and niche magazines – which may require different offline finishing equipment – can help fill presstime.

don’t try this at home?-a couple of digital print ideas that haven’t lasted are the free afternoon edition Handelsblatt News am Abend and print aggregator niiu.Between 20,000-30,000 copies of the Handelsblatt edition were printed at 14 sites distributed to first class rail travellers and other at premium locations until 2009. Berlin startup niiu offered subscribers the opportunity to nominate the pages (from European regional dailies) they wanted in their digitally-printed newspaper the following morning. Both are now emailed PDF editions, niiu driven by an innovative app.

Church puts faith in print with ‘first substantial’ inkjet newspaper project

PDF layers will be combined

‘on the fly’ to personalise each issue

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yperlocal publishing is just one of a raft of opportunities created as digital newspaper printing becomes viable.

The concept is seen as one – perhaps the only – future for print newspaper publishing.

In the UK, a year-long experiment by Sir Ray Tindle’s South London Press series has seen a reported sales increase of 35 per cent since the 147 year-old paper Friday paper was split into seven hyperlocal editions.

In essence a smallish suburban newspaper – audited sales were already down from almost 19,000 in 2008 to under 15,000 in 2011 – is being split into a group of very focussed community titles for Streatham, Brixton, Wimbledon, Wandsworth, Dulwich, Deptford & New Cross and Forest Hill & Sydenham. Tindle has since announced the launch of a further hyperlocal title as an offshoot of another 180-year-old London suburban series.

The thinking goes against a trend of recent years of reducing the number of geographical editions… but then it may also be bucking a trend of falling paid circulations.

Against the naysayers who believe printed newspapers will have completely disappeared within ten years, there are many who believe that daily titles may morph into weeklies or biweeklies, and that there will be a growing divide between massmarket titles and the local or hyperlocal.

Whether or not you would print a couple of thousand newspapers offset

or digital is a moot point – many publishers have smaller editions, especially in regional and remote communities – but certainly inkjet digital printing has emerged as a viable option for these and much-smaller circulations.

Recent improvements in print quality and speed, coupled with better finishing options and more flexible cost models have meant that the ‘window of opportunity’ is properly open.

And the anticipation in the vendor community is palpable.

Yet with very few exceptions, hardly a newspaper publisher in the world has made the plunge to install its own digital printing equipment. Contract printers abound – especially those serving the niche expat, holiday and business traveller market – but their locations typically determine the segment in which they operate.

Centro Stampa Quotidiani in Italy (see page 14) – a shared production facility owned by two daily newspaper publishers – is an exception. A large offset-anchored facility, it uses an

HP inkjet web to digitally print local sections for its parent titles as well as other short-run newspaper work.

Much talked-of – because it had originally been expected to be the first user of manroland’s new ‘fully variable’ pin-type VPF211 folders, (with each of two Océ JetStream 4300s) – the cooperation between communist daily L’Echo and newspaper printer Rivet Press Edition in Limoges in regional France has been delayed, and manroland expects its first two customers will be a newspaper in Germany and a book printer in Italy.

The stalled Limoges project would see the regional daily – currently with a circulation of 36,000 copies – producing editions with targetted editorial and advertising content to an audience within 90 minutes of the production plant. Rivet is currently an offset newspaper printer with equipment including manroland Uniman and Heidelberg Web 16 web presses plus sheetfed and mailroom.

By contrast, RotOcéan in the Indian Ocean island of Réunion, is

remote in the extreme. Another joint venture – it is part owned by local newspaper Temoignages – it installed a Kodak VL4200 in 2010 to print a variety of local (French) national and international daily and other newspapers.

British newspaper printing entrepreneur Malcolm Miller figures prominently in the application of digital print technology to newspapers in Europe. A shareholder in one of the UK’s largest newspaper printing businesses – offset and digital-equipped Newsfax in Stratford, east London – Miller is also owner or partner in digital sites in Malta, Cyprus, Greece, Spain and Italy. Newsprint Italia – a joint venture between Miller Group and a German magazine and newspaper distributor – in Rome and Milan has two VL4200s at each site, bringing his tally to nine of the Kodak inkjet presses.

Last year they were printing 60 different titles with circulations varying from 20 copies to 3000, but he says (in a WAN-Ifra report) that publishers are slow to take advantage

of the technology’s unique possibilities, including content updates, local advertising and personalisation.

The technology which was “not ready” when Miller was a member of an Associated Newspapers team looking at remote sites in 2006, may be increasingly inappropriate for newspaper readers in 2013 who can readily access digital editions on their tablets and laptops. Delivery systems such as DTI Solutions/NewspaperDirect – and the spread of onboard wireless – are also beginning to cater for inflight readers.

To say that the potential offered by digital print is not fully evolved would be an understatement, but it seems likely that distributors such as Miller, or distribution partnerships are likely to play an essential part.

Whether it is to deliver timely printed newspapers to a remote locality such as a mining town, or to segment a city audience for hyperlocal or even personalised publishing, there’s likely to be a need for publishers to get together to support and share print facilities,

distribution and even door-to-door customer delivery knowledge.

In Australia, one might imagine that News Corp Australia’s (currently suspended) T2020 plan to urge newsagents into larger home-delivery businesses might seed such a structure, were it not for the difficulty the major publishers sometimes have with working together.

In Europe and especially Nordic countries, it’s not of course unusual for newspapers to go out overnight through the normal postal system.

Miller says the ‘à la carte newspaper’ – based on the interests of an individual reader – may still be some years away, but sees potential in personalisation. The prospect of the ‘audience-of-one’ in a print publishing context is a tough call, but there may be a place for it. Digital imprinting (personalising offset-printed copies ‘on the fly’ and at high speed) offers some of this potential, but again requires relevant delivery infrastructure for its full use.

So it may not be a question – as Miller suggests – of digital offerings

developing and becoming more sophisticated, but of increased sophistication and flexibility in delivery systems.

Jack Knadjian, Kodak’s business development director for the digital newspaper segment, says there’s an opportunity for low volume, highly-targeted “and maybe even personalised newspapers delivered directly to the reader”. And new advertising applications that can make use of the variable printing. “What we need now is creativity and imagination in the advertising world to make use of it,” he says.

A start would be something on the lines of Benny Landa’s 1996 ‘Ask for Indigo’ campaign – which used bus sides and other advertising to stimulate interest in digital printing – to bring these new opportunities to the attention of advertisers and creatives. Perhaps inkjet press vendors, like newspaper publishers, need to learn to work together to promote the potential of digitally-printed news publishing to the people who will ultimately be paying for it.Peter Coleman nngx


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a visit to the website of Centro Stampa Quotidiani – even through the hazy lens of Google’s translation – indicates

that this is not a typical newspaper printing operation.

How many print sites carry reports and analysis of industry issues and technology as CSQ does in a blog of comment and events?

On the face of it, the joint venture between the publishers of two Italian dailies – L’Eco di Bergamo and Giornale di Brescia – is just a well-resourced and well run facility. The website, and the company’s venture into digital printing belie its greater vision…. and an investment of 120 million Euros (A$171 million) in 12 years.

Established in 2000, it has four double-width Wifag presslines – two OF370s with 530 cutoffs and two Evolution 373/6s with 450 mm cutoffs – Agfa prepress workflow including four Polaris platesetters, and a Müller Martini mailroom with Sitma single-copy wrapping.

The presses produce the newspapers of its partners, plus the four editions of 437,000-circulation daily La Provincia and Catholic daily Avvenire. It also prints Dutch daily De Telegraaf from June to September and German Sunday tabloid Bild am Sonntag from Easter to October.

The HP T230 inkjet web provides an

“Newspaper publishers need to create local editions in order to collect new local advertising,” says general manager Dario De Cian.

Installed last December, the digital press handles stock from 45 gsm newsprint to 115 gsm matt reel-to-reel – for finishing on a Hunkeler newspaper line – in a variety of formats including the sizes of the two dailies. Prepress is integrated into the existing Agfa Arkitex workflow.

It has been printing newspaper work – including Russian dailies Kommersant and Vedomosti, and Italian weekly Il Monviso – since January, plus covers and posters.

Digitally-printed sections for Giornale di Brescia contain hyperlocal edigtorial and advertising, and are virtually indistinguishable from the offset-printed paper.

De Cian says the press allows quality equivalent to traditional offset, and – thanks to its bonding-agent technology – enables the use of lightweight and porous papers of 45gsm without show-through.

Other digital products including one-to-one products – including ‘memorabilia’ front pages – business magazines and catalogues are planned.

“The new facility means we can print runs of 500-2000 copies to localise sections of publications and integrate them with conventionally printed sections,” De Cian says. nngx

extra dimension, printing hyperlocal sections for the Bergamo and Brescia dailies, extending the facility for foreign publishers to very short print runs, and producing customised glossy covers for free weekly magazines.

TKS scores inkjet site with Hawaii’s Japanese newspaperTKS has its second inkjet web user site – and third US press sale – with an order from Japanese publisher Hawaii Hochi in Honolulu.

The company – a subsidiary of Shizuoka Shimbun – prints Hawaii’s only Japanese language newspaper and will use the JetLeader 1500 press to supplement current printing operations. They also print a variety of commercial products.

The four-colour digital press – which prints at 150 metres/minute using piezoelectric drop-on-demand

printheads – will include a variable cutoff folder with chopper units for broadsheet products, and TKS workflow. It is due for startup in December of this year.

President of Hawaii Hochi Keiichi Tagata says the publisher has been watching development and implementation of the technology “for the last few years”.

“Not only will this facilitate our current product portfolio in Honolulu, but allow us to bring in new business, including newspaper

titles from the US mainland,” he says.

TKS (USA) president and chief executive Nobuyuki Nakajima says he is excited to be expanding the

JetLeader install base: “This will be our second JetLeader 1500 order this month, which brings our North American install base to a total of three.

“The more you look at what ink jet printing can accomplish and the flexibility it has, it makes a lot of sense, especially compared to offset solutions.” nngx

Pictured: Nobuyuki Nakajima and Keiichi Tagata shake hands on the deal, watched by Haruki Masuda (bureau chief of the Shizuoka Shimbun’s printing department)

Digital visionlocal: A digital section (top right) is a perfect match for offset ones De Cian – ‘Newspapers need local editions’ Above: the HP press Below: CSQ site houses four Wifag presses

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a number of vendors now offer inkjet web presses suitable for newspapers. These include (in alphabetical order) Dainippon Screen, Fujifilm, Fuji Xerox (which also owns Impika) and

Océ all have systems suitable for reel-to-reel applications or inline finishing with the popular Hunkeler newspaper finisher.

KBA (with its RotaJet, below) and Japanese maker TKS have integrated systems, the latter with its own variable-cutoff folder, capable of multiple sections. KBA sold the first RotaJET 76 to a German direct mail printer in June and says it is currently negotiating additional projects “in the final stage” with printers in different market segments, including the newspaper industry.

manroland Web Systems has developed fast variable-cutoff finishing systems for newspapers (above) and books, offered through a close cooperation with Océ. How close is close? Could you buy a manroland VPF211 folder to put onto the end of KBA’s RotaJet, for example? We’ve had different answers to these questions, and it would probably take a serious order to find out. nngx

Who are you going to call?

Fujifilm is ready to ship the Jet Press 540W inkjet web press it showed at DRUPA last year and at Australia‘s PacPrint.

The press, known originally as the Jet Press W, is unusual in that it prints duplex within a single tower, making for a relatively compact footprint (6.6 metres long and 2.8 metres wide).

The company is targeting newspapers alongside high quality, short run digital print markets such as leaflets and personalised magazines, as well as school textbooks and book printing.

The 540W prints webs up to 540 mm wide using a range of stocks between 64-157 gsm, at speeds up to 127 metres/minute. Top print resolution of 600 dpi will be upgradeable to 1200 dpi later this year.

Front end is Fujifilm’s XMF workflow with FM-based Fujifilm screening.

Graphic system division product development and marketing manager Taro Aoki says the company is excited to be launching the press to the market, and hopes to have beta sites “in the near future”.

canon has introduced new PrismaProduction V5 workflow and output management software for its Canon and Océ digital printing systems.

InkControl allows job-specific ink consumption to be estimated and reported on high speed inkjet presses, working with device controllers to facilitating the quotation process.

Professional print marketing manager Damian Schaller says facilities also allow it to integrate more

easily into offset prepress workflows. “JDF/JMF-based connectors help printers design automated print workflows,” he says.

A file enhancer feature allows last-minute changes to print files without having to modify the original applications.

Sydney’s SOS Print & Media Group has added a Fuji Xerox 2800 inkjet web to a diverse digital print fleet which includes Ricoh, Kodak, Xeikon and Océ equipment. The company also has two HP Indigo 7500s it bought in an auction of former Geon assets.

KBA has introduced its RotaJet inkjet web to Taiwan in a first roadshow in the country.

Well established in China, the Asia-Pacific and India, the event visited Tainan, Taichung and Taipei in the south, central and northern regions.

In addition to the new digital web press, topics covered the Rapida 106 sheetfed – and UV applications – as well as in-mould label printing. Process developments and product innovations were presented by Jürgen Veil, KBA head of sheetfed marketing.

Akio Pong, managing director of sales partner Shining Graphics, welcomed guests with addresses given by the presidents of the printing associations in the three regions and presentations by KBA users following. Among speakers were Wu Weng Hsiung, chairman of the Just Shine Printing Company, and Chen Cheng Hsiung, president of the Printing Technology Research Institute.

In Taipei, the managing director of KBA Greater China Walter Zehner (pictured right) marked the installation of Taiwan’s first Rapida 106 and thanked David Liu from the Glory Innovations Group for the opportunity to show it to other Taiwanese printers.

canon’s professional print division took more than 50 key customers to OnDemand in Port Melbourne during PacPrint.

The opportunity to see the Océ ColorStream 3700 in operation was also a focus on the ‘lean and green’ manufacturing of the top-selling inkjet web system, with features such as print from start to stop without paper waste. Canon says the ColorStream family has the lowest carbon footprint in its class.

Owner of OnDemand Bruce Peddlesden answered questions and shared his business philosophy with visitors. He says the press has been instrumental in gaining new business through a range of vertical market opportunities, and said its print quality had been backed by 98 per cent uptime. nngx

Pictured: Some of the visitors to OnDemand in Port Melbourne n e w s pa p e r a n d p u b l i c at i o n s y s t e m s & t e c h n o l o g y

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JJcs‘ JReporter is allowing newspapers to be the centre of their community

News Corp Australia breaks records with eidosmedia’s Méthode

agfa graphics helps platerooms go green and has smarts for mobile publishing too

manroland australasia keeps busy on projects... while looking forward

Groundbreaking concepts at a US newspaper are underpinned by Qipc technology

New Magnum Compact from goss international prompts ideas

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➤ The transfer of more than 160 titles and their associated digital editions from over a dozen separate editorial systems to a centralised editorial and publishing platform, is an ambitious objective. Even more ambitious was the plan to cut deployment time for the project from the initial estimate of three years to just over a year.

Nevertheless, as the first metro dailies have gone live with EidosMedia’s Méthode solution, publishers News Corp Australia look to be on track for realising their goal. By mid August, and 15 months after kick-off, a total of 81 publications are live. These include 75 community

papers and six metro dailies, each with their associated websites and e-paper digital editions. 1700 members of News’ staff have been trained to use Méthode and the system has 650 concurrent users at peak times.

From 14 systems, News now produces more than 7600 pages a week on a single Méthode system.

“In terms of titles, users and territorial coverage, this is the largest-ever deployment of the Méthode platform,” said Lodovico de Briganti, general manager of EidosMedia Australia.

As well as being the largest deployment of the Méthode platform, the News project is also set to be one of the fastest. How has the speed of the roll-out been achieved?

Careful project planning was

essential. Many processes had to be carried out in parallel and careful determination of dependencies allowed choke points and bottlenecks to be avoided. In redesigning the group’s portfolio, priority was given to the development of standardised formats and data structures which could be applied across different titles.

This ensured that once created, an editorial environment could be easily adapted for another title.

The same approach which developed standard page sizes, column widths, advertising grids and a foundation body font meant that content could easily flow from title to title in both print and digital formats.

Substantial commitment of human resources was also key to the speed

of deployment: “There are a lot of people dedicated to the project,” said de Briganti. “At the same time, there’s very close integration between the EidosMedia and News teams – in fact, there’s only one team, the project team,” he continued. “Our staff and the NCA people are working side by side to push the project forward.”

Another key factor was an intensive programme of staff training carried out in parallel with the technical deployment. Eight teams of trainers and ‘super users’ were created to make sure that, as the new system became available, journalists and editors at the various

geographic locations were quickly up to speed in the use of the new functions.

“It’s been an intense few months” said Lodovico de Briganti. “We’ve had to meet some very tight deadlines, but, thanks to everybody’s hard work and commitment, we’ve

managed to deliver.”As well as a change of

technology, the deployment of Méthode is a key step in a major makeover of the NCA group’s organisational structure.

The network is based on a single digital platform located in Sydney, providing separate but communicating editorial environments for each of the group’s titles. This arrangement delivers

significant savings and synergies through content-sharing, while allowing close local focus in community news publishing, both in print and digital channels.

Now that the local and metro titles have gone live, the next phase of the project will see the group’s national and regional papers, including The Australian, brought on board.

news corp australia breaks records with méthode roll-out

the transfer of the group’s metro dailies is an important milestone

in what will be the world’s largest deployment of the eidosmedia

editorial and publishing platform

EidosMedia Pty ltdcentennial plaza, tower b280 elizabeth streetsydney, nsW 2000phone: +61 (02) 9112 3000 [email protected]

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business where one-on-one customer communication is valued.

Today, JJCS continues to market JReporter to various newspaper and media businesses. Recent transitions of major newspapers and smaller chains to new, private ownership – ownership that is almost compelled to invest in order to survive – have opened many new opportunities for JReporter.

New iterations of JReporter are being developed for usage in other industries where initial marketing queries were received with high praise and anticipation. And so, JJCS continues to Innovate ahead of the curve.

➤ Mobile engagement app Jreporter is the latest product of a long tradition of understanding news publishers’ needs.

Developer JJCS was formed in 1982 to introduce and deliver advanced technology products to the publishing business, primarily newspapers. Over the next two decades it evolved from a developer of niche products that fill specific needs during times of technology upheaval to a seller of products and consulting services with a growing reputation for marketing new technology applications.

JJCS saw great exposure and success with its Expressway family of software solutions with installations at some 50 newspapers on three continents.

Early on JJCS focussed on product development for direct sale, technology consulting, introducing new vendors to the American marketplace/market analysis, mergers and acquisitions, marketing, press relations and vendor-client relations including contract negotiations and disputes.

JJCS also raised the international profile and customer satisfaction level of an Italian software vendor in preparation for the company’s successful sale to a UK company.

After almost 30 years of marketing new technology applications for existing processes and advising on software upgrades, John Juliano, the JJ in JJCS, brought together five, seasoned media business executives all with varied experience and expertise to form a media consultancy. The JJCS Group, probably more to do with the composition of the assembled team then for any other reason, proceeded to develop a unique approach to the upheaval facing the media industry and more specifically, newspapers. The JJCS Group focussed on three primary business characteristics – relevancy, engagement and profitability.• Relevancy because successful media enterprises are relevant to the communities which they address; they are an integral part of that community and their influence is rooted in the community they serve.• Engagement because successful media enterprises encounter the audiences of their communities, be they readers, users, followers, friends or customers on a scheduled basis

willingly agreed upon by the content provider and the members of the community served by the provider.• Profitability because successful media enterprises are first and foremost a business required to cover the cost of creating and delivering the content they provide and earning a return for the enterprise.

The JJCS Group, employing market specific analytics, developed and executed various paths forward for transitioning traditional media to digital and mobile platforms, often delivering results that were relevant and engaging to the communities served and with profitability always a primary focus.

Despite some initial successes and profound interest, many potential clients struggling though a recession lacked the resources to engage outside consulting, regardless of their needs for options and direction. So in another renewed effort and adhering to what was becoming their mantra, the JJCS Group proceeded to develop mobile apps to meet the needs of the rapidly-changing newspaper industry.

Several months of meeting and wide input encompassing operations, technology, editorial need, audience attrition and the ever-present need for more revenue, resulted in the development of JReporter.

JReporter is a mobile app designed to work on both iOS and

Android phones with the capability to literally engage members of a community in a conversation with the newspaper. Among its features were the ability to engage audiences, deliver User Generated Content (UGC), provide options for generating revenue and, most importantly, permit newspapers to re-establish their importance to the community and markets they serve. In other words, it allowed newspapers to become the place Where the community comes to learn about itself.™

Numerous presentations and demonstration were held for newspapers in major markets, as well as for small community newspaper chains. The responses were always immediate and very positive. Comments like “this is far better then anything we have seen in the marketplace” and “JReporter could provide the coverage we’re missing due to staff reductions” and even “this app could re-establish our impact on the community and our market”.

Several magazine publishing groups have shown real interest which has spurred JJCS to look at all options for this unique mobile app. Although originally developed for the newspaper industry, JReporter could easily be utilised for any media business or for that matter, any

JJcS Mobile Solutions for Business2152 Willivee place, decatur, ga 30033, Usaph: +1.404.327.6010 fax: +1.815.301.8581http://jjcs.com

JJcs: innovating ahead of the curve

JReporter is allowing newspapers to become the place Where the community comes to learn about itself.™

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PECOM and include tablet-based controls announced at DRUPA.

In a major future-orientated project, Fairfax Media is relocating presses from its Tullamarine (Melbourne) print centre to existing print sites in North Richmond (NSW) and Ballarat (Victoria) and to a greenfield site in Auckland, New Zealand.

Work is underway decommissioning and dismantling the Geoman press equipment in readiness for shipment to the first two sites. Four of the Geoman towers and one folder are being installed in North Richmond, where one will be combined with the single-width Uniset press via a specially-designed turner bar system.

In Ballarat, the existing Uniset is being extended with a new tower, splicer and extra quarterfold unit. A Geoman tower from Tullamarine is being converted for heatset, with manroland supplying a new dryer, chill rollers, turner bar and a folder with superstructure, to produce

the picture is positive➤ There’s no time – and no reason – for gloom or doom at manroland in Australia, where some 20 engineers from the german head office are busy working alongside the manroland Australasian technicians on installation and upgrade projects.

And that’s a picture reflected in Augsburg, Germany, from which Australian managing director Steve Dunwell has just returned: “The whole picture is very positive, things are going well for the new company and we’re making money,” he says.

Dunwell attended recent management meetings at manroland web systems and visited the Langley-owned sheetfed operation in Offenbach – for which manroland Australasia holds the agency – and was able to report to both on the stack of local projects at home.

Two major commercial web projects are underway in Australia. With the installation of the ‘world-

first’ duplexed 96-page Lithoman at PMP Limited’s Clayton, VIC, site, and the work has started on delivery and installation of Franklin Web’s second 80-page Lithoman with expectations of a November start-up.

Print tests on the PMP press – which is effectively two 48-page webs which can run singly or combined to produce much higher paginations or multiple copies of the same product – are underway and on schedule to go into production next month.

Dunwell says manroland won 90 per cent of the current web projects in Australia (the only exception being a KBA in Darwin) and is also busy with major upgrade projects for the country’s two largest newspaper publishers.

A complex upgrade at News Corp Australia in Brisbane is well underway, and has a few months to run. manroland is upgrading drive systems and press controls on the 1990s Newsman 40 presses there. Systems are being brought up to manroland’s latest specifications for

newspapers and commercial products. This will enable the heatset web from the double-width Geoman to run through one of the Uniset folders in mixed heatset and coldset production.

The turner-bars give the double-width equipment variable web width capacity and the ability to produce ‘square’ tabloids.

The final stage of the project will see a complete Geoman press installed in Auckland with an upgraded folder and superstructure from Sydney.

In both cases, the publishers have entrusted the original press maker with projects which are fundamental to the ongoing future of their print products. It’s a message about value and confidence which Graham Wickham has been expounding around the world, following the Australian’s promotion to manage a new ‘print.competence’ business unit.

No wonder then that, in difficult times, manroland Australasia managing director Steve Dunwell has plenty to smile about.

Variable digital folder‘faster than the fastest’

First installations of manroland’s variable-cut off digital print folder are likely to be in germany and Italy, following signing of two new orders for newspaper and book applications.

With an initial project in France delayed, manroland has taken the time out to develop the Foldline system to offer a range of options. A one-up newspaper tabloid version provides an entry point for new users, and can be upgraded to include features such as chopper fold, gluing, stitching and perforation.

Said to be faster than the fastest current inkjet web presses, they run at “speed of press” and the folder can operate inline or offline, perhaps serving two presses.

“The options make it possible for users to ‘grow’ with the folder, installing a system for their own needs and then adding to it when they know what commercial work they might want to engage,” says Steve dunwell.

digital newspaper print technology offers a range of new business opportunities for publishers and printers, and manroland has also been busy with a number of imprinting projects.

Some 33 digital systems have been installed at 13 Axel Springer print sites in germany for a range of promotional initiatives which include printing a

unique Id code which gives Bild readers a ‘day pass’ to the paper’s website. manroland installed Kodak’s Prosper S30 printheads on its own, as well as goss and KBA presses in the project.

The high speed inkjet imprinting technology is also being used by News UK ‘red top’ The Sun for a football promotion, with 22 printheads being

installed on Newsprinters’ triple-wide colorman XXl presses in Broxbourne, Knowsley and Eurocentral, and at contract sites in Kells (Ireland) and Belfast.

With interest in both digital print options evolving, dunwell says he is hopeful of local developments – especially in the newspaper segment – in coming months.

manroland AustralasiaV5, 391 park road, regents park, nsW 2143 australiaph: +61 (0)2 9645 7900www.manroland.com.au

manroland Indiaph: +91 11 47 00 29 00Indonesia, ph: +62 21 531 1169Malaysia, ph: +60 3 7955 5566Thailand, ph: +66 2 714 3070-5Hong Kong, ph: +852 2897 3398Taiwan, ph: +886 2 8228 2368www.manroland.com

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your tablet edition ...automatically

can be enriched with online content, audio and video. Publishers also have complete control over the look and feel, important for branding purposes.

Eversify uses HTMl5, which allows clear separation of style from content and delivers a powerful presentation in form of sophisticated image handling, audio and video animation. Embedded JavaScript allows search, bookmarks, and access to other online links, such as social networking sites, and other publisher-specific functionality. It runs on any iOS and Android device. Other popular mobile operating systems to be added.

Adopted already by publishers in Europe and elsewhere, Eversify is delivered as a cloud-based ‘software-as-a-service’ solution with a transparent cost structure and fast rOI. It could be just the automated tablet solution you’ve been looking for.

mapping and template technology to create an issue in both portrait and landscape versions.

All that needs to be done is to preview the issue, and make any final edits before delivery to brand-specific hosting environments or individual reader applications. The Eversify app also supports dynamic content, and

offers readers a highly interactive and robust reading experience.

regardless of the templates, this reading experience is a key feature: good looking and self explaining newspaper apps that don’t require a ‘how to read this newspaper’ guide.

The same content being used for daily and weekly print editions

➤ In the search for new ways to find revenue from digital publishing, Agfa graphics has an innovative answer in :Arkitex Eversify.

you want a iPad or mobile version without the extra staffing needs of creating each edition? Eversify can do that, effectively loading up each edition from your print-based editorial and advertising workflow with minimal intervention.

It’s not design-programme centric, unlike many other e-media solutions, and the template-based system removes the problem of customising content for different mobile devices… including new devices which may be introduced.

As part of an automated workflow from a newspaper’s cMS, Eversify captures content, analyses and processes the data in the style of a newsfeed, using intelligent content

Agfa graphicsAustralia 1300 364 695, koni neuhofer, business manager, pre pressph: +61 (0)3 9756 4202email: [email protected] marshall, newspaper manager, ph +61 (0) 3 9756 4243 email: [email protected] +60 3 7953 5800Singapore +65 62140103www.agfagraphics.com

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Arkitex EversifyBringing the news to mobile devices is no longer an option. It’s a necessity.

:Arkitex Eversify makes it easy. Agfa Graphic’s cloud-based solution lets

you publish newspaper content automatically on a wide variety

of tablets and smart phones.

With :Arkitex Eversify we’ve put our workflow automation experience to work to bring you a system that automatically gathers content, formats it for multiple devices, updates content, lets you edit and publish—all while maintaining the look and feel of your brand. Best of all, you can do all of the above with minimal investment.

ABSOLUTE AUTOMATIONWith :Arkitex Eversify data is analyzed and automatically processed through Agfa Graphics’ intelligent content mapping and template technology producing an issue based on your desired publishing schedule for multiple devices.The :Arkitex Eversify cloud-based server puts common tasks at your fingertips. You can preview issues, modify content and preview for approval. And you’ll be able to see exactly how the content will appear on all targeted devices.

FLEXIBLE CONNECTIVITYWe understand workflow complexities and we understand that publishers cannot always have the latest systems. That’s why we designed :Arkitex Eversify with unlimited flexibility. That means it is compatible with multiple data sources. And because it can be configured to work with whatever you have available, it eliminates the need for costly technology upgrades.

agfa: getting on with greener platemaking➤ With the help of their supplier partner, Agfa graphics clients throughout the Asia Pacific are quietly getting on with the business of becoming greener.

In the newspaper context, the key element is the chemistry-free N94-VCF plate, based on proven photopolymer technology but without the need for a developer.

In Australia, the chem-free technology has been adopted by a number of regional print sites including most of Victoria and South Australia’s country newspapers, and News Corp Australia’s new sites in Hobart and Darwin.

Following the successes with the N94-VCF plate at the Hobart Mercury and Northern Territory News, trials are following in some of the bigger metro sites, especially where product run lengths now make its use possible.

The N94-VCF combines outstanding lithographic quality with easy handling and excellent durability. The plate is

gummed with a dedicated pH neutral gum, during which process the soft, unexposed non-image area is easily and cleanly removed.

Advanced electrochemical graining and anodising yield the reliability and robustness needed on a newspaper press and the durability required to produce long press runs.

A further environmental benefit is being achieved across all Agfa newspaper plates with the customisation of bulk packaging to reduce packaging and weight: “New packaging for palleted plate consignments is available for large users who have the facilities to take

advantage of it,” says Oceania regional newspaper manager Steve Marshall.

“Frequently we supply pallets of 3000 plates which had previously contained separately packaged batches. Now we’re able to offer a new form of shrink-wrapping which allows users to remove the quantity of plates they’re happy with and reseal the remainder, greatly reducing the amount of packaging material involved. We do this ‘on request’ and the system is already in use at News in Sydney and being taken up in Brisbane. It’s just another way we can help with our own and our customers’ green credentials.”

• Agfa Graphics representatives will be at all the upcoming major industry events – including the PANPA Forum, ASEAN Newspaper Printers, Ifra India Expo (Publish Asia) and the World Publishing Expo – to discuss needs and developments.

with Agfa Graphics, the standard in newspaper prepress production

Prepare for Take-Off

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➤ Following the launch of goss’ highly-automated single-width press at china Print in May and enthusiastic receptions there and at trade shows in Europe, one question seems to be on everyone’s lips.

The new Magnum Compact simply inspires new business models: “The more people look at it, the more they see applications for it,” says Goss International Asia Pacific sales vice president Peter Kirwan.

In the same way that digital print is seen as presenting a new opportunity for newspapers – without the familiar practicality of web-offset – the Magnum Compact offers a ‘best of both worlds’ option in a changed publishing environment.

Kirwan even has one prospective customer who has pulled up on plans to install digital equipment following the release of the new Goss press, which is capable of a complete edition change in three minutes and prints at many times the speed of the fastest inkjet web.

“A customer who was thinking digital is having second thoughts after finding out about the new press, and I believe there are similar cases elsewhere in the world,” says Kirwan.

Projections put the time to print 1000 copies of an all-colour 48-page tabloid at nine minutes, compared to half-an-hour on a digital press; increase the print order to just 5000 copies and a six-tower Magnum Compact streaks ahead, ready for the next job within 17 minutes while a digital press would have another couple of hours to run.

Following showings of the tower

and its automatic plate-change system at China Print in Beijing, and at tradeshows in Turkey and Poland, Kirwan says there has been “a lot of activity” with a large number of proposals being worked on… from two and three-tower presses to an eight-tower configuration. Some current single-width customers see the opportunity to reinvigorate their plant with the automated towers, while

integrating existing folders, splicers and other infrastructure.

“Interest in Asian countries is mainly for newspapers and some book and schoolbook printing applications,” he says.

The compact 2.2 metres-high tower is also an ideal solution for those who want to upgrade from mono to full colour without literally raising the roof to accommodate a ‘traditional’ four-high.

Most would-be customers will wait to see the press in operation: Live demos – with the opportunity to see your own work printed – are planned for an open house in Shanghai in October or November.

And while the demo press is likely to be a simple two-tower affair with one folder, variations with UV or gas dryers – and even integrated digital imprinting – are also being considered.

“We’re very excited about the development and I believe that everyone throughout the company is the same,” says Peter Kirwan.

As it did when the first trusty Community presses appeared in the 1960s, Goss could just have a product which ‘walks out the door’.

goss graphic Systems Australasiamelbourne: +61(0) 3 9560 [email protected]

goss International Singapore singapore: +65-6462 4833www.gossinternational.com

With print speeds of up to 70,0000 cph, goss international’s magnum hps is proving a valuable alternative to double-width in many regional markets.

The jaw-droppingly productive single-width single-circumference press addresses concerns where the larger format might be considered, without the infrastructure complications of double-width.

“Double-width is not for everyone,” says Asia Pacific sales vice president Peter Kirwan. “In markets such as India, where speed is needed, it provides a very viable alternative.”

Introduced at last year’s DRUPA,

design of the Magnum HPS drew on the strengths of the entire Goss portfolio to achieve its high performance-to-cost ratio. It uses an ergonomic H-frame to improve access, printing cylinders with triple-race bearings, through bearers and narrow gap, reel-rod lock-ups.

Among other performance-enhancing technical features is optimum web tension control with synchronised shaftless drives for infeed and outfeed as well as on the

printing towers. Centralised control of all essential press operations covers adjustment to ink keys, spray bars and registration.

Mono to four-high tower configurations are available, with three-form inking and automated controls with remote inking and presetting among options. A range of broadsheet, tabloid, quarterfold and double-parallel products can be produced at up to 70,000 copies per hour in heatset, coldset, UV and hybrid configuration, making it an ideal choice for newspapers, advertising inserts, semicommercial work or a combination of product applications.

...and a magnum that rivals double-width?

Magnum Compact: when can we have it?

What the excitement is all about:• three-section compact four-colour tower slides apart for maintenance access;• rated 45,000 cph production speed can be increased to 50,000 cph with ink drum temperature control;• advanced, easy-to-operate control systems include automatic start-up and stop sequences, with ink presets, dampening and tension;• fast cost-effective Autoplate system based on proven M-600 and Unliner S technology;• multiple-drive shaftless design allows all towers to be replated at once (with nonstop options available for mono, spot or even four-colour);• proven components and concepts from Community SSC and Magnum press models reduce cost and risk;• shaftless infeed and tape web-up system is standard, with reelstands to side or underneath;• optional automatic closed-loop colour registration and density controls allow almost unmanned running.

open hoUse: planned for shanghai, october/november

goss magnum compact makes its debut with technology demonstrations at China Print; Right: Automatic plate loading

press controls

A full mrc-3d packageQ.I. Press Controls advised a closed-

loop system to control colour register, unit-to-unit register, ribbon register and cut-off register. Q.I. Press Controls had no problems showing convincing references of comparable automation packages they had implemented. The proposed project will encompass 124 mRC-3D register cameras with AIMS (automated ink mist shield). With regard to technical execution and lead time, Q.I. Press Controls was able to fulfill The Columbus Dispatch’s requirements, implementing this large project while the production of newspapers continued as usual.

Print2Finish, agent for Q.I. Press Controls in North America with Wayne Anderson as project leader and business development executive, assisted in the planning and negotiations, forming an important link, and will be a key player during the implementation and service phases.

About Q.I. Press controlsQ.I. Press Controls develops and

delivers innovative, high quality optical

measure and control systems. We are globally active in the newspaper and magazine printing industry. Our total solutions are supported by a worldwide service network. These reliable systems are proven in the market of existing and new printing presses and offer our customers structural better results.

➤ The Columbus Dispatch – which converted their newspaper production to a compact format in January – has again invested to improve quality and efficiency. Q.I. Press controls mrc-3d is playing an important role in this process.

Ronald Reedijk, managing director of Q.I. Press Controls North America in North Kingstown, USA, reports that the company received a large order from The Columbus Dispatch for the delivery, implementation and putting into operation of 124 mRC-3D register cameras on the Dispatch’s TKS newspaper presses. This order is part of a large quality and efficiency improvement programme in the printing process of The Columbus Dispatch.

Reedijk is enthusiastic: “As Q.I. Press Controls, we are very proud of this level of trust in our quality automation systems, as shown by this great and very important order.

“Our systems have proven to play a decisive role in newspaper printing processes around the world, and improve the quality and efficiency of newspaper products and printers,” he says. “Time and time again, our references are confirming that Q.I. Press Controls’ quality automation systems upgrade their print facilities. And all that with a reduced operating factor, while achieving a higher product quality and efficiency.’

3V formatThe order for 124 mRC-3D register

cameras is part of an extensive project at The Columbus Dispatch.

First, the four TKS newspaper presses were adapted to the compact 3V format. A new jaw folder was added to the drive-side of each press – replacing the existing 3:2 drive-side rotary folder – enabling it to cut and fold three times the newspaper length from the total cylinder circumference,

instead of twice on the old folder. Where one cylinder rotation used

to result in 16 newspaper pages, it now gives 24 pages, with the new format 61 per cent of its original size. Before, the TKS presses were 4/2 (four pages wide and two pages per cylinder circumference). Now, the presses are 4/3 (four pages wide and three pages per place cylinder circumference). The operator-side of the press retains the 3:2 rotary folder.

The new format is 373 mm (14.7 inches) high and 266 mm (10.5 inches) wide compared to the previous size of 560 mm (22 inches) high and 29 mm (11.5 inches) wide (limited by the maximum press width). The direction of the spine fold remains the same, parallel to the grain in the paper. For the project, the printing cylinders were converted to one-around (filling the unused plate gap) to allow the presses to produce either the 3:2 or 3V formats.

Focus on quality and productivity

The 3V format brought about a complete ‘rethinking of what a newspaper could be, which resulted in a redesigned editorial and advertising content model. This new design targeted improving the customer experience, putting a renewed emphasis on the quality of the product. Additionally, the 3V format enabled The Columbus Dispatch to increase capacity and take on other products. As part of the continuing emphasis on improving product quality, timeliness, and meeting the needs of commercial accounts, the production management team needed a solution to equip their existing presses with additional technology to boost efficiency and quality, achieve shorter set-up times, reduce waste, and achieve faster colour register and cutoff capability from each TKS line.

This was the dilemma they put before Q.I. Press Controls… who had the answer.

Left: The handier 3V format is about 40 per cent smaller Below: mRC-3D AIMS will be added to the TKS printing towers to check the colour register.

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p late management systems developer Nela has bought

key assets of failed Barenschee in a deal which replaces last May’s licence agreement.

Nela had acquired rights to Barenschee technical knowhow from the liquidator after the company closed its operations in Lüneburg, Northern Germany at the end of April, with former service manager Detlef Brandes (pictured) and other software and operation planning staff joing Nela.

Now Nela has bought

the company’s technical and commercial know-how, taking on rights on engineering data including BOMs and parts lists, source codes and customer databases.

Nela says the acquisition also guarantees customers continued supply of

parts, technical support and upgrades. Its own global service network – with Brandes as system integration project manager – become available to former Barenschee customers. In May, Nela president Frank Neumeister said rationalisation in the industry was “an economically inevitable result” of the overall consolidation process among suppliers of the printing industry. About 250 Barenschee user sites worldwide are affected by the arrangements. nngx

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Fujifilm wins $30 million contract to supply all Fairfax’s print sites

Fujifilm has landed a $30 million tender to supply plates to all Fairfax Media’s sites in Australia and New Zealand. The new three-year contract, announced by Fujifilm Australia and Fujifilm NZ, covers the “entire printing plate business” for Fairfax across all of its newspaper and magazine printing sites in the two countries.

It is valued at an estimated A$30 million, and includes “some new computer-to-plate equipment”. Currently Fairfax uses a variety of CTP equipment which also includes Agfa and Kodak platesetters.

Fujifilm says the project which led to the awarding of the tender contract was driven by its national newspaper specialist Warren Hinder. “Above all, this new contract demonstrates the continuing need for quality, targetted newspapers and magazines,” he says. “Only by understanding the dynamics of the newspaper market and forming long-term relationships can contracts like this be gained”

Fujifilm will supply violet light-sensitive and thermal heat-sensitive plates from its Brillia range, dependent on site location. nngx

Nela buys Barenschee assets after licence deal

The parent of Swiss press maker Wifag has bought CTP developer Luscher in partnership with flexo/gravure specialist Heliograph.

The deal sees Wifag-Polytype Holding and Heliograph Holding jointly take over all intellectual property and current assets, and some employees, relocating to Bleienbach, Switzerland. Former chief technology officer of Lüscher Peter Berner will manage the products and support.

Agfa’s Apogee Suite 8 PDF workflow upgrade runs natively on 64-bit Windows Server operating

systems, optimising use of the available processing hardware and virtualisation, the company says. Other features include new automatic web printing imposition, tight integration with StoreFront and improved colour management on Preflight.Kodak has been showing the next generation of its award-winning workflow solution, Prinergy 6 at trade shows. The upgrade brings automation and integration from print production into the manufacturing process, and is integrated with new Preps Imposition 7 and ColorFlow 2 software. nngx

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Industry struts its best ideas in UK awards festAmong bright print ideas in this year’s UK Newspaper Awards, was a part-width ‘bookmark’ in The Guardian newspaper and printed on its manroland presses. Judges were “very excited”, asking why it hadn’t been thought of before. The panel called it “clever, beautifully simple innovation that would hold huge appeal for its advertisers.”

Winners included panorama posters from Trinity Mirror Printing Midlands and Webprint Ireland – both making use of the extended format of their presses – a first sticker using Ferag/WRH Marketing’s MemoScent in the Daily Telegraph, translucent wrap in the Hull Daily Mail (Mortons of Horncastle), and a digitally-printed Racing Pocket Post, printed by Stroma for a special event.

Fragrance maker Coty Prestige is hoping to sniff success following the pioneering promotion on the front page of the Daily Telegraph.Arcade’s Liquatouch ultra-flat technology was used to incorporate the Davidoff ‘The Game’ fragrance sample in a stick-on note applied to 240,000 London and regional copies of the daily newspaper.

It was delivered using MemoScent from Valecom, the Ferag associate which now also handles the WRH group’s MemoStick concept. The promotion extends the

use by Telegraph – which is printed at News Corporation’s Newsprinters site in Broxbourne, north of London – of MemoStick for several front page campaigns over the last year.

In Australia, Ferag trade general manager Ian Martin reports “quite a bit of interest” in the product. nngx

Busy French publisher takes KBA’s first CL 4x1a 4x1 Commander CL

press for French media group Ouest-France will

be the eighth maker KBA has installed but the first in this plate format. Five four-high towers and one mono units will print up to 48 pages (40 in four colour) in up to three sections at up to 84,000cph.

The specification includes a KF 5 jaw folder with ribbon stitcher, and six Pastomat reelstands. Automated pagination change, automatic RollerTronic roller locks, ink feed and ink unit washing systems, automatic colour and cut-off register controls, and semi-automatic plate changing systems cut makeready times,

waste and operation and maintenance. ErgoTronic control consoles will include automatic press start-up and run-down modules, together with an interface to existing job scheduling and press preset systems. It is planned to go live in Rennes in late 2014.

France’s largest daily newspaper, Ouest-France was founded on 4 August 1944 by Paul Hutin-Desgrées and today has a daily circulation of about 800,000 copies and 50 editions. A Sunday newspaper, Dimanche Ouest-France was launched in 1997.

The publisher focusses on the Brittany, Pays de Loire and Lower Normandy regions. nngx

the first Goss Colorliner CPS press – at DC Thomson in Dundee, Scotland – has

had a right royal send-off from Charles and Camilla… despite the company’s Dennis the Menace thumbing his nose at the heir to the throne.

The Duke and Duchess of Rothesay (their Scottish title) were at the newspaper and comic publisher’s Kingsway print centre, where £25 million ($41.12 million) has been spent on a refurbishment project which includes the new press.

DC Thomson publishes eight newspaper titles with a total print run of over 700,000 including the Evening Telegraph, Press and Journal and Evening Express, and a string of magazines including the Beano and the curiously titled Oor Wullie.

Goss showed a tower from the new compact hybrid press at DRUPA. At Publish Asia in Bali last year, Raymond McRobbie told how a press staff of 45 at the Dundee site would produce “more work than had previously been handled by 120 at two (Dundee and Glasgow)”.

The investment has seen three existing Colorliner presses refurbished and reconfigured as a single line, new Agfa/Barenshee CTP and Müller Martini mailroom equipment, and the installation last year of the new shorter cutoff CPS press with eight towers, two heatset dryers and two 2:5:5 folders.

Installed into the existing press hall, the 90,000 cph press

has automatic plate changing, reel loading and web width change, with Baldwin blanket cleaning and QI colour controls. Mailroom equipment includes two identically configured Müller Martini ProLiner newspaper inserting systems automatic preprint feeders

and three insert stations, a NewsTrim fanflex trimmer

and a FlexiRoll buffer with eight rolls, plus

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of the Aberdeen Press & Journal (established 1747) and originator of the Dennis the Menace

comics had closed its gravure plant and outsourced

its magazines when revenue plunged during the recession. Glossy products previously produced gravure were being brought back inhouse.

The Duke and Duchess toured the plant and met staff, with the ‘Bash Street kid’ living up to expectations by thumbing his nose at the royal couple. The couple appear in a special edition of The Beano with Charles teaching the Bash Street Kids about organic food and healthy eating and taking part in a monumental school dinner food fight

A link to ITV television footage of Dennis the Menace thumbing his nose at the Prince – and Camilla returning the compliment – is on our website. nngx

Pictured: Charles points out a monitor feature to Camilla, watched by (from left) team leader Craig Bertie and Jim McBride (Picture Kami Thomson/DC Thomson; cartoon image copyright DC Thomson)

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manroland has floated the concept of an

18-page newspaper press with the introduction of a new folder. Designed for three-around production, the PFN 35 folder is being pitched for simultaneous printing of “up to three” different editions, delivering a total of 120,000 copies an hour.

Using double or triple-wide print units, it presents an alternative to the Pressline Services 3V ‘triple-cut-off ’ conversion of four TKS presses at the Columbus Dispatch newspaper in Ohio, USA.

Both address the desire for a shorter cut-off as North American publishers opt for narrower page-widths to reduce newsprint costs. At Columbus, the new configuration – now in production for the Dispatch and the neighbouring Gannett Cincinnati title – delivers three tabloid-sized sections instead of two narrow broadsheets previously.

In its announcement, manroland shows a sectional

view of the three-around PF 35 folder in which one section is split form the downstream product, with the remaining two then separated or delivered together.

manroland Web Systems describes as “a holistic solution

for 150 per cent productivity”, the system in which six broadsheet newspaper pages in the web width and three in the circumference are printed in a cylinder revolution… equivalent to 1.44 million pages per hour.

“Up to three different editions can be produced simultaneously, and with

deserting even more,” says a statement. On the press units – as a new installation or retrofit – the concept is similar to that at Columbus, with a single plate is fitted around the cylinder. Slitting and turning the web 90° after the units – a concept pioneered with Goss International’s FPS press – can present a ‘single-width’ web to the new folder, making full use of the original width of the press.

The PFN 35 pin folder has a three-part blade cylinder and a five-part collecting cylinder. Another option is the use of an off-set former for the ‘deserting’ of copies as well as for the collection, if a larger number of pages is to be produced.

The company is eyeing the North American market, where web width have been reduced on existing machines to lower costs. “With triple circumference production… the proportions of the ‘golden rule’ are returning.”

It says the concept has been well thought-out, “right up to the details” and relies on know-how from heatset offset with 96-page systems. nngx

QI wins complex rego order for Dispatch

manroland has brought a new

folder to the ‘three around’ party

QI is to install its colour register system at the Columbus Dispatch, the US newspaper which has pioneered the triple-cutoff technology for sectionalised tabloid production. The order for a system based on installation of 124 of QI’s mRC-3D register is the latest stage in a transformation which has seen its double-width TKS presses converted to three cutoffs per cylinder circumference.

The conversion in January this year saw the Dispatch switch to a folded tabloid page two-thirds the height of its previous format, and with 50 per cent more sections.

Managing director of QI Press Controls North America Ronald Reedijk says the order is part of a large quality and efficiency improvement programme at the plant. “We are very proud of this level of trust in our quality automation systems, as shown by this great and very important order.”

Four TKS presses have been adapted to the compact 3V format, with new jaw folders replacing the existing 3:2 rotary folders. The closed-loop QI system will control colour, unit-to-unit, ribbon and cutoff register using 124 register cameras with automated ink mist shields. nngx

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a PN Print’s Edmond Huch was named SWUG NZ apprentice of the year at

the group’s gala dinner.The event was the climax of

a three-day event in Greenlane, being hailed as its best ever, attended by 74 user delegates and 52 sponsor representatives, including several from overseas.

“That is a fantastic response from the industry,” chairman Dan Blackbourn says. “It shows we are in good stead.

“When we restarted SWUG in 2010, we held it in Taupo on the back of the PrintNZ conference to save costs and a lot of people suggested it wouldn’t succeed. But when you look at so many people here – and so many sponsors backing SWUG – it sends the message we have a real belief in print.”

Blackbourn says the line-up of technical and professional speakers helped underpin the core conference message that ‘print endures’ in the magazine and newspaper sectors.

The programme of 16 speakers gained a humorous lift from celebrity speaker Billy Graham. A further highlight was a visit to the new PMP

headquarters in Manukau, to which the company relocated in 2011.

The final dinner included the naming of Huch of APN Print Ellerslie, as apprentice of the year, the raffle of a wooden Maori taonga carved by APN Print Ellerslie’s Phil Ost – which raised $2700 for the Starship Children’s Hospital in Auckland – and presentation of SWUG Quality Awards. nngx

Winners were:coldset tabloid 42gsm: Gold Gisborne Herald for the Wairoa Star; Silver APN Print Hastings for Hawkes Bay Today; Bronze Gisborne Herald for the Gisborne Herald.coldset broadsheet: Gold The Dominion Post for the Dominion Post; Silver Allied Press for the Southland Times 20/5/13; Bronze Allied Press for the Southland Times 21/5/13.coldset tabloid enhanced: Horton Media for Platinum Sports Co; Gisborne Herald for the Weekender; APN Print Ellerslie for Kuk Punjabi.heatset retail catalogue: Gold PMP for Land & Lifestyle; Silver Webstar for Warehouse Winter Bargains; Bronze Webstar for Warehouse Stationery.heatset tabloid: Gold PMP for Prestige Property; Silver PMP for AG Trader; Bronze PMP for Straight Furrow.

Pictured: SWUG committee member John Green (left) and celebrity speaker Billy Graham congratulate Apprentice of the Year Edmond Huch

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Fairfax offers Waikato Times site ahead of Auckland plansFairfax Media NZ has put its Hamilton offices and print site on the market ahead of plans for a new greenfield plant in Auckland.

The move in the next two years will bring to an end 138 years of production of the 42,000-circulation daily Waikato Times – first published in Ngaruawahia in 1872 – in the city.

Fairfax has announced plans to move one of the three manroland Geoman presses

from its The Age Print Centre in Melbourne – which is set to close next year – to anchor the new Auckland plant, together with equipment from Chullora, Sydney, which is also being closed.

Plant at the site includes a manroland Uniman press and Ferag mailroom including inline inserting.

Real estate agent Bayleys are offering the 3.3 ha site in Foreman Rd, Te Rapa, by tender with expectations of

$2-3 million. Fairfax plans to lease the administration offices, press room and paper store for three years at $350,000 net a year, but wants the right to vacate as early as April 2015.

The property includes a seven-metre stud warehouse, a building containing the press and an office building, which what agents describe as an underground rail system between the press building and store. nngx

QuadTech takes agency back to Feraga circle has turned with

the appointment of Ferag Australia –

which represented the press control systems maker a decade ago – as QuadTech’s exclusive Australia/New Zealand agent.

The move follows the collapse earlier this year of Plunkett & Johnson, the Sydney headquartered company which had represented QuadTech in some ANZ market segments for more than a decade, sharing it with Ferag in others. Ferag – which had been agent for UK-based PressTech Systems when it

was acquired by QuadTech (then QTI) in 2002 – had since held the gravure-focussed Italian Grafikontrol agency, but without making significant inroads into the Australian market.

QuadTech, which is owned by US commercial

printing giant Quad/Graphic, develops a range of systems for press register and colour control used by newspaper and commercial web printers, and increasingly packaging printers. It is this segment that QuadTech regional sales manager David Mitchell sees as important to future growth in Australia and New Zealand as newspapers enter a consolidation phase. nngx

Pictured: David Mitchell (left) with Ferag Australia general manager Ian Martin (right) and postpress senior executive David Kane who will look after the QuadTech business

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Four new guides from Digital Dots under the title ‘Standardised Print Production (SPP) – How to implement ISO 12647-2 for offset printing quality control’ simplify implementation and act as companion documents for use with certification schemes. Four parts cover document preparation and prepress, setting up the press, quality management, and an executive summary.

Authors Laurel Brunner and Paul Lindström have contributed to the development of ISO 12647-2 through their membership of the ISO TC130 technical committee.

Australian paper importer Oceanic Multitrading says it has received FSC chain of custody registration for its newsprint range.

Advanced nanofibre technology featuring ceramic nanofibres on a micro-glass matrix – originally engineered for medical applications to filter out particulates down to two nanometres – is behind Digital Information’s InkZone fountain solution purification system, the company says. Zero discharge and waste of incoming water is claimed, promising “virtually unlimited” fountain solution life cycle.

The manroland Aurosys roll handling system at the Des Moines Register in Iowa is to be added to the Harland Simon press control upgrade which went live in May. A upgrade of reelstand controls is underway and work on the roll handling system will follow this month. Two rack mounted servers running Microsoft Server and two client PCs are to be supplied, and obsolete HMIs replaced with off-the-shelf Siemens hardware. Eckelmann will port the existing Aurosys calibration, setting and database, enabling current processes to continue as well as increased monitoring and data collection.

Eight ribbon stitchers in two manroland Colorman newspaper presses were part of the “extraordinary” requirement when Helsingin Sanomat went tabloid this year. Vendor Tolerans supplied its Speedliner 2.0 system which features new controls with a graphical user interface.

With two new contracts to print evening newspapers Aftonbladet and Expressen in Ornskoldsvik, Sweden, Mittmedia Print is upgrading for quality and security. A Goss pressline installed in 1999 and 2004 is being brought-up-to-date by DCOS with a

Some 322 Baldwin spray bars are central to an upgrade of presses at four Schibsted Trykk plants in Norway.

The preripherals company will also install filtration systems and four sites.

Schibsted – Norway’s largest print group – expects to dramatically decrease print waste costs and meet stringent water pollution control standards as a result of the upgrade.

Baldwin will install 322 EvenSpray World2 bars to upgrade existing systems on four presses and add its PureFiltration systems to three facilities. The Baldwin bars will replace Goss and Baldwin dampeners on a five-tower Goss Newsliner, a 22-tower Colorliner, a nine-tower Wifag OF370 and a 34-cylinder Wifag OF470, as part of a programme to revitalise the midlife presses.

KBA’s retrofit subsidiary PHS has got the contract to move a manroland newspaper press across Germany.

A 13-year-old four-web Geoman press belonging to Märkische Oderzeitung is to be moved from from Weingarten to the publishing headquarters in Frankfurt/Oder.

The deal includes comprehensive upgrades to the press – which consists of two four-high towers, folder and four reelstands – and console technology, and KBA’s PrintHouseService will work with EAE on the project.

Media house Märkische Oderzeitung publishes daily newspapers, advertising frees, and websites, belongs to Ulm-based Neue Pressegesellschaft, which in turn holds a half share in the Ulm-Oberschwaben print centre in Weingarten, where the press has been in operation.

Parallel to the relocation, PHS perform an extensive overhaul, with a range of retrofits on the printing units

new control system installed and a first tower refurbished, freeing parts for other towers.

Whiled installing two new integrated control desks, DCOS is also replacing and integrating the colour control system, which is independent at present.

At Markbladet Tryckeri in Skene, a similar project will upgrade a Manugraph press. The original colour control system is being integrated with DCOS controls and prepress data for presets. Existing control cards are being replaced when they expire, and a new learning function will enable the system to learn the colour transfer capability of the print unit on a continuous basis, and adjust the pre-set values.

Senegal daily newspaper Le Soleil is to install a new Tensor T-1400 web press. The new ten-unit single-width press consisting of two towers plus two press units mounted on Tensor reelstands, and a T-1 jaw folder, will be installed in Dakar during fourth quarter this year.

The publisher plans to produce Le Soleil and various semicommercial products. One tower is being equipped with a UV curing system to provide additional capability for ad inserts and magazines.

“The addition of this press will make a positive impact on Le Soleil’s business model, especially as the UV technology will help expansion into semicommercial production,” says Tensor’s chief operating officer and sales vice president Mike Pavone.

Le Soleil dates to 1933 when French press publisher Charles de Breteuil founded the Paris-Dakar as a weekly newspaper. It then became the first daily newspaper in sub-Saharan Africa in 1936.

and folder. The present PECOM system is to be replaced with an EAE production planning and press presetting system.

At the same time, the settings of the impression cylinders, the dampening and inking units and the ink ducts are to be optimised. The refurbished press will be brought in over the roof, without disturbing production on the other presses in the press hall, and is scheduled to come on stream at the beginning of 2014.

Märkische Oderzeitung management board chairman Andreas Simmet says the tailored retrofit solution will “firm up” the press for the future, “and will hopefully give us another eight to ten years of good service together with the other Geoman presses at our print centre in Frankfurt/Oder.”

Wifag and its Swiss partner GAMAG have signed orders to refurbish and reconfigure two KBA and Wifag presses. In Denmark, KBA satellite units from Trykkompagniet are to be dismantled, refurbished and reinstalled on an existing KBA Express at the plant of Herenco in Jonkoping, Sweden. The extension will expand capacity to 80 tabloid pages in full colour (straight) or 160 pages collect, using two folders. Scandinavian specialist DCOS will handle the control retrofit, with the overall project coordinated by GCON.

The reconfigured press will be in full production at the end of 2013.

Hallpressen, the newspaper division of Herenco Group, is one of Sweden’s leading regional newspaper groups and has over 330, 000 readers across southern Sweden on a daily basis, which represents seven out of ten inhabitants in the region.

Their order is the second in which Wifag and GAMAG have refurbished a KBA press in the Nordic region. A similar project for Finnish Esa Lehtipaino Oy to reconfigure and install an Express in Lahti is also due for completion at the end of this year.

And in Wollerau, Switzerland, Wifag and GAMAG will work on a secondhand Wifag OF7 press acquired by regional print and publishing company Theiler Druck. The shafted press will be reconfigured, refurbished and reinstalled as a shaftless with Wifag automation, drive and controls, to replace an existing Solna single-width.

• In Wuppertal, Germany, Wifag is to retrofit drives and controls on a tower and reelstand of Rheinisch-Bergische-Druckerei’s large Wifag pressline. The press maker has been updating the ageing WPOS 2 controls on its early shaftless machines, typically in stages so as not to interrupt production. nngx

Framework sets a standard on carbonn ew ISO 16759 sets a standard framework for quantifying and

communicating the carbon footprint of print media – not as a carbon calculator but a specification for what carbon calculators should cover

for print media products.The first standard of its kind, ISO 16759 is a sector-specific

implementation of generic carbon footprinting methodologies such as PAS 2050 and TS 14067. It provides a common reference for the development of carbon calculators for all sectors of the graphic arts industry, from labels and packaging to books, transactional documents and newspapers. Print users can use it to ensure that carbon calculations of print media products are produced using a common framework, minimising variables that might otherwise confuse results.

Carbon impacts of print produced in different markets – or by different printing companies and methods – can be compared.

Agfa, Kodak and Ricoh played a key role in the development of its content under a Verdigris organised project. nngx


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Quick learning and summit sessions at WAN-Ifra IndiaWAN-Ifra’s India Expo in

September will include sessions for ‘quick learning’

in what is expected to be the world’s second-largest newspaper trade event.

This year’s 21st annual conference includes Publish Asia and presentation of the Asia Media Awards during a gala evening.

The conference has three parallel tracks – the Printing Summit for production and technology executives, Newsroom Summit for editors, and Crossmedia Advertising Summit for advertisement and business executives. Organisers promise a top line-up of topics and speakers from India and abroad.

Among confirmed exhibitors at Bangalore International Exhibition Centre from September 11-13 are ABB, Atex, CCI Europe, Ferag, Goss, Kohli Graphics, manroland Web Systems, Manugraph, Mitsubishi, Newstech, PPI Media, red.web, Tolerans, QI Press Controls and QuadTech.

Side events include the free ‘quick learning sessions’ on topics such as 3D printing, digital storytelling and publishing on tablet devices. These will be held in a dedicated ‘media port’ in the expo.

WAN-Ifra board member K N Shanth Kumar, who is a director of The Printers Mysore says the event

comes at a time when the industry is looking for innovative solutions to augment growth. “Suppliers and publishers can expect to benefit from mutual interactions. Bangalore provides the ambience necessary for such interactions and new learning,” he says. “We invite everyone to come to Bangalore and to be inspired by new ideas that the event promises to provide.”

More than 600 conference delegates and 1500 expo visitors – from all the south Asian countries and Gulf states – are expected.

For the event update, visit www.wan-ifra.org/events/india2013 or email [email protected] nngx

Issues and technology at ANP’s Penang conferenceASEAN Newspaper Printers tackle the industry’s big issues at their conference in Penang next month.

The annual delegates conference (September 3-5) is being co-hosted by Star Publications – which has its northern print hub nearby, and by partner Goss International.

The theme of ‘Newspapers: Forging ahead?’ reflects current scenarios in an industry in which newspapers face a number of challenges, yet are still seen to be an effective channel for disseminating information and an efficient platform for advertising.

Have we gone over the turbulent years? Are we seeing the calm to forge ahead? Is the digital platform assault over? Speakers will address these issues in a plenary session,

as well as updating delegates in breakouts on issues and technology in press, prepress and postpress, maintenance and management.

Highlights include a visit to Star Northern Hub (September 3) and a poolside dinner the following evening. ANP holds its annual meeting of board and corporate members on September 6.

Venue is the Equatorial Hotel in Penang – the island known as the ‘Pearl of the Orient’ – and is close to the international airport and Star hub.

More information at www.aseannewspaperprinters.com or contact Farouq Affandi, email [email protected] nngx

Conferences support WAN-Ifra’s Berlin Expo

s trategic conferences during WAN-Ifra’s World Publishing Expo complement the

newspaper trade exhibition, being held in Berlin from October 7-9.

Five conferences provide an opportunity to hear best cases and practices from media markets around the world. They include: • Three one-day Shaping the Future of News Publishing forums on digital printing strategies, audience analytics and new revenue streams;• The 6th Tablet & App Summit looks at how the app economy is

energising the publishing business. It will present successful cases in what the organisers say, “appears to be a golden age of experimentation”;• The WEF 12th International Newsroom Summit aims to provide strategies for breaking down barriers in the newsroom and increasing collaboration between editorial and technology and between broadcast, print and digital operations.

Full details about the Berlin events – Expo, conferences, workshops, social and networking events and more – are at http://www.

wan-ifra.org/ifraexpo2013 Axel Springer chief executive

Mathias Döpfner – a digital pioneer – will be the opening speaker of the World Publishing Expo. “The digital age offers all sorts of chances to become the ‘golden age’ of journalism,” he says.

Phillip Crawley, publisher and chief executive of Canada’s The Globe and Mail and an ambassador for print, will kick off a venue dedicated to the Power of Print.

More on all the projects, initiatives and events at http://www.wan-ifra.org nngx

Role for newspapers, says Huffington as Post expands

more global editions are in the pipeline as the Huffington Post takes its ‘watercooler’ publishing formula to

the world. International versions of the news and blog site – launched in 2005 – now appear in the UK, Canada, France, Spain and Italy, and others including German, Brazilian and Japanese editions are planned, in addition to a HuffPo Live video network launched last August.

In an interview with WAN-Ifra’s World News Publishing Focus, Arianna Huffington says its formula for success is deceptively simple: “From the beginning, the whole point was to take the sort of conversations found at water coolers and around the dinner tables – about politics and art and books and food – and open them up and bring them online. Our success has to do with our ability to do that, and to tell the most important – and the most entertaining – stories of the day,” she says.

But she warns that it is time to redefine success, with a third metric, beyond money and power, “that places value on well-being, wisdom and our ability to make a difference in the world”. While the Huffington Post is dedicated to remaining free, it relies on other models including sponsorship and native advertising. “Sponsorships have already been very important to us, making possible several of our verticals committed to making the world better, including Global Motherhood (sponsored by Johnson & Johnson), Good News (Capella University), TED-Weekends (Chevy Volt) and Impact X (Cisco),” she says.

Despite the massive changes occurring in news media, she is optimistic about the future of newspapers: “I believe that the obituaries for newspapers are premature. Many newspapers are belatedly but successfully adapting to the new news environment (like the New York Times). And it’s my feeling that, as long as they keep adapting, there will be a market for newspapers.

“There is something in our collective DNA that makes us want to sip our coffee, turn a page, look up from a story, say, ‘Can you believe this?’, and pass the paper to the person across the table. The future of news is a hybrid future, as traditional outlets adopt the tools of digital journalists – including speed, transparency and engagement – and new media adopt the best practices of traditional journalism, including fact-checking, fairness and accuracy. And the line between old media and new, between digital and print, will be increasingly blurry,” she says. nngx


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Press makes front page as SCMP celebratesnot surprisingly, the

proposition that “newspapers will

keep their place in the media world in years to come” was embraced enthusiastically at a printing blanket maker’s technical forum.

The event at ContiTech’s Northeim, Germany, headquarters presented speakers from print sites and vendor partners, in addition to the host. ContiTech’s Markus Gnass told visitors, “Newspaper printing companies will continue to be successful and to work economically if they embrace innovative ideas and new approaches. Publishers need to see themselves as service providers for their customers and not purely as information mediums.”

Other speakers include WAN-Ifra director Manfred Werfel, focussing on innovative products in newspaper printing. Among practical examples he talked of Brazilian daily newspaper Correio de Bahia, which reinvented itself with a complete redesign and employed unusual marketing campaigns to almost triple its paid circulation figures and share of young readers within just three years.

Allgäuer Zeitung established a foothold as a local brand with campaigns under the name of Griaß dià, which had a powerful impact on the market. He says the German daily newspaper has a well-designed online participatory portal, publishes a free monthly magazine of the same name, hosts events from Oktoberfest to Hüttengaudi under the brand name, and markets brand products ranging from baby socks and Seppelhüte (traditional Bavarian hats) to six-packs

of beer with a matching mug under the label.

Interesting technical solutions including formats such as half cover or flying page, open up or bottom down, or even super panoramas are another way for printing companies to reposition themselves in the market. Unusual advertising methods such as adhesive advertising posters or booklets with discount coupons are ideas that could respark interest among advertising customers and consumers alike.

In his conclusion, Werfel argued that there is one thing that makes newspapers virtually unbeatable: You can take them with you wherever you go and read them anytime and anywhere in the world.

More creative ideas came from Klaus Schmidt of press maker KBA, who showed a supplement from Würzburg daily Main-Post, featuring five advertising formats: By folding, glueing and perforating, three panorama pages were combined with two zips designed to be ripped open.

“Using this level of creativity, printed media can secure additional brand advertising,” he says.

Oswald Grütter of Swiss consultancy quality&more explained the importance of quality assurance and process

excellence. “The good-quality appearance of a newspaper does not start with printing,” he says. “It starts a lot earlier with good photography and suitable editing – a modern layout must be aligned to the process, the printing ink, and the format.

“Printing companies need to master all of their processes perfectly at each stage of production and produce high-quality and cost-efficient publications. This includes standardising work processes just as much as standardising all output systems,” he says. “However, it is not the technology itself that determines the quality but rather the employees who operate the technology.”

Manfred Janssens, production manager at Belgian waterless newspaper plant EPC discussed the potential for energy savings. The company uses ‘green’ production techniques including waterless printing and internal optimisation to achieve huge savings on water and energy costs.

Cooling on presses using compressors, pumps, and towers is being replaced by free cooling in a cooling tower – outside temperatures permitting. Hans Leuenberger of Müller Martini talked about flexible mailroom technology: “Newspapers not only offer an unparalleled mix of information and entertainment and constitute an ideal advertising medium, but they are also a masterstroke of logistics – current, punctual, and updated every single day,” he says. nngx

Pictured: WAN-Ifra’s Manfred Werfel (Photo: ContiTech)

a special cover of free daily am730 marked the handover of a new press

for South China Morning Post subsidiary Brilliant Star.

Representatives from supplier manroland Web Systems joined executives for the celebration at the Hong Kong plant this month. The new Geoman press is part of a contract which included upgrades to existing Geoman and Regioman presses including modifications to allow a narrower web width. PECOM press controls on the older Geoman were also upgraded.

manroland sales deputy vice president Gerald Benz says the group has always been known for its outstanding quality: “We congratulate them on the popular free sheet and are pleased to be able to contribute to its success.”

South China Morning Post is a regular winner of industry awards for printing excellence. nngx

Pictured at the handover are (from left) SCMP chairman David Pang, am730 publisher and executive director Alan Lo and SCMP chief executive Robin Hu (Picture: Brilliant Star Printing Services)

Creative ideas support newspapers’ print future

demonstrations of the autoplate system on Goss’s new Magnum Compact

single-width press will feature in the company’s stand at Print 13 in Chicago.

The display continues the ‘See things differently’ theme, emphasising first-in-class advantages and opportunities for commercial and newspaper printers. Goss will highlight its own technology and that of mailroom systems vendor Ferag for which it holds the Americas agency, together with recent projects and its manufacturing and support resources. Print 13 takes place in Chicago from September 8-12.

“This is a major show that continues to provide a constructive, energetic environment for suppliers and printers to collaborate,” says Graham Trevett, who heads commercial and packaging press

sales for Goss in North America. “Print gives us a forum for discussing new developments, challenges and requirements.”

The new Goss Magnum Compact – “the world’s first 2x1 press with autoplate” – will be introduced with live demonstrations of the system.

Regional newspaper sales vice president Wesley Clements says the press addresses the demands of customers for an automated, cost-effective press that will support multi-product business models and ultra-short, as well as traditional, run lengths for newspaper, book and semi-commercial production.

Among recent projects Goss says it will highlight Sunday web presses, a triple-width newspaper press at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Goss-Ferag finishing solutions and creative aftermarket projects. nngx

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This year’s InterTech technology awards – now presented by US-based Printing Industries of America – reflect the graphic arts preoccupation with collaboration and online integration.

Among winners were:• Aleyant Systems’ Pressero web-to-print system with its eDocBuilder variable data publishing and online design solutions;• CGS Publishing Technologies’ cloud-

based Oris Lynx colour management, based on technology for which they won awards in 2003 and 2005;• the Aproove online review and approval system, which is not tied to proprietary prepress or content management systems;• HP’s Indigo 10000 digital press; and• Sinapse’s DLMS system to enable trainers to manage the use of its print simulators.

Other winners were Arjowiggins Powercoat, GMG’s OpenColor system for package printing collaboration; Heidelberg’s Speedmaster XL VLF press with twin-gripper delivery and remote fanout control, Kodak’s Flexcel flexo plate engraving system; MGI’s JetVarnish 3D and Scodix Metallic.

The awards will be presented at Print13 in Chicago on September 8. nngx

Wifag-Polytype Holding – which owns press makers Wifag and Solna – has expanded its packaging interests with the acquisition of OMV Machinery of Italy.

The Swiss group has taken over Verona-based OMV shares with all its intellectual properties, products, assets, brand/logos and employees from ISAP Packaging.

Founded in 1963, OMV makes high output, high quality thermoforming equipment for

plastic containers, as well as other shaped products. It has a team of about 45 employees.

The acquisition expands Polytype’s technology portfolio, with thermoforming complementing its own decoration, offset printing, new Polyflex printing and inkjet printing solutions. ISAP Packaging makes thermoformed cups, plates, lids and other disposable products for food packaging and consumer markets in Europe. nngx

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... and Wifag adds thermoforming

KBA buys upmarket bottle printing systems makera fter agreeing the takeover

of an Italian flexo press manufacturer, KBA is

pushing further into packaging with the acquisition of luxury systems maker Kammann.

The deal – in which KBA will replace current private equity shareholders to become the majority shareholder – continues moves to counteract the shrinking sales of web presses for publications heavily affected by the advance of online media.

Kammann mainly offers presses for decorating hollow containers made from premium-quality glass, plastic and metal. From a process point of view, direct printing with high-quality screen printing systems is the most challenging and costly finishing method. These technological demands prevent newcomers from entering this luxury segment.

• KBA says further rationalisation of its web press business is “indispensable” and is considering alternative business models to combat sharply declined

sales volume. The company cut staff numbers by 94 in the year to June, and says further reductions still have to be negotiated with employee representatives. Pre-tax profits of 10 million Euros in the second quarter were supported by substantially increased sheetfed orders, despite sluggish demand in web and special presses.

“Despite several orders from Germany, France and the Middle East, KBA has felt the reluctance of newspaper and commercial printers to invest in web presses,” chief executive Claus Bolza-Schünemann says.

At 210.4 million Euros the “future markets” of the Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Africa contributed 41.9 per cent to group sales. nngxPictures: Kamman has ‘almost no production facilities’

APN axes Ballina as print runs fallaPN Print has closed the second of the

four Manugraph-equipped Australian print sites it built six years ago.

Some 15 permanent staff and 25 casuals are understood to be affected by the closure of the Ballina, NSW, site. Most of the papers printed at Ballina – including the Lismore daily Northern Star and Grafton Daily Examiner – will be produced in Yandina on the Sunshine Coast.

In 2011, APN axed four paid newspapers covering the area between Coffs Harbour and the Gold Coast, reaping a reported $25 million in savings the following year. All were printed at Ballina, and print runs for the remainder are understood to be declining following an increasing focus on digital publishing.

Ballina is the third of six sites built or upgraded in a programme between 2006-2007. It has a six-tower Cityline Express press. nngx

Queensland venture ends as cash dries upmackay and

Toowoomba start-ups within

Queensland Media Holdings have ceased publication after running out of funds.

Efforts to instill new capital into the publisher of the Mackay Telegraph after it went into liquidation in July appear to have failed.

The newspaper – a partial response to APN’s closure of its printing plant in the North Queensland

city – and sister publication the Toowoomba Telegraph, were part of a bold plan to establish new titles in towns benefitting from the mining boom.

APN has daily newspapers in both

centres. Its Daily Mercury reported that liquidator BRI Ferrier had said a QMH director had hoped to find funds to continue publication and support a deed of company arrangement to creditors, but this had not happened.

The paper said Mackay Telegraph general manager Tim Shinnick said staff members were devastated but “in good spirits”. About 30 jobs are understood to be affected. nngx


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p rinting Industries of America is giving its Wadewitz graphic arts library collection – thought

to be the world’s largest – to Cal Poly. Rare materials from the collection will be added to the special collections and archives department of the university’s Robert E. Kennedy Library., with the main Edward H. Wadewitz Memorial Library collection housed at a new on-campus site.

First established in 1923 at the Lithographic Technical Foundation’s headquarters in Chicago, the Wadewitz Library moved to Pittsburgh in 1965, when the LTF became the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation. GATF consolidated with Printing Industries of America in 2003, taking its name in 2008.

For 90 years, the library has been a valuable resource for industry professionals and a unique tool for researchers, chemists, physicists, educators, scholars and students.

The library’s holdings include more than 180 currently published magazines and periodicals; 100 inactive or no-longer-published magazines dating back to the first issues of National Lithographer published in 1894; more than 15,000 books, texts and reports describing every aspect of the graphic communication and print processes; past and present GATF/LTF-published materials; Printing Industries of America publications, reports and

affiliate information; information on related industry associations; and a variety of directories and other reference material.

Collections of historical interest and value include:• The1,400 books collected by ‘father of densitometry’ Frank Preucil, and thought to be one of the most complete historical libraries on the graphic arts process. It includes rare books on printing and a complete collection of the Penrose Annual.• The Dr. Fred W. Billmeyer Collection of more than 200 books on colour and related subjects. Billmeyer was a world-renowned colour scientist, and his collection includes materials from the International Commission on Illumination. • The 200-plus books and journals on photography and photographic processes in the R.S. Fisch-Robert L. Leslie Graphic Arts Collection, published between 1855 and 1999. Notable are Photographic Chemistry by Thomas Frederick Hardwich (1864) and Photographic Mosaics by Edward Livingston Wilson and Mathew Carey Lea (1866). Fisch worked for 35 years as a corporate scientist in the Printing and Publishing Systems Division of 3M Co. and holds 37 U.S. patents on colour photography, photo resist imaging, non-silver imaging, colour proofing, silver recovery, and substrate addendum.• The Lee Augustine Collection of

more than 500 rare volumes on the history of printing, including The Printers Manual dated 1817, believed to be the first printing manual published in the USA.• The William Stevens Collection, named after a former GATF research committee chairman, contains more than 50 graphic arts books, clippings and advertisements dating from the early 1900s. • The Printing Industries of America Collection of early PIA books, reports and early board meeting minutes.• The Al Materazzi Collection includes early research department reports from GATF and LTF. Materazzi was deeply involved in environmental issues and compliance work and was involved in preparing data and documentation related to lithographic platemaking. • The Seybold Collection of all published Seybold Reports, including reports and books.

The agreement to transfer the monumental collection to Cal Poly concludes months of negotiations, with the Wadewitz Library expected to become a major resource for students, professors and members of industry.

Physical transfer of the collection will commence once financial commitments are confirmed.The project will cost about $100,000, and then $20,000 per year, of which an initial $25,000 has been received. nngx

Stamps make headlines for collectorsf our news events in headline

styles “evocative of each era” form a new release of

Australian stamps.The 60c stamps feature the end

of World War II in 1945, the Moon landing of 1969, Cyclone Tracy (1974) and Australia’s America’s Cup win in 1983.

But while they look like facsimiles, they aren’t: Melbourne-based designer Stacey Zass of Page 12 Design uses “elements of typography and photographs evocative of each era represented”, the utility says.

Australia Post philatelic

manager Michael Zsolt says the events all made news around the world, especially in Australia where they have figured significantly in the memories of many Australians.

“We hope these stamps trigger interest with the public and collectors alike.”

A souvenir pack containing a replica of the Sydney Morning Herald of August 16, 1945, announcing the end of WWII, and “exclusive” block combinations of three of the stamps is available, along with various other combinations. nngx

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the Western Champion was conceived in Cooktown, Queensland, born in Blackall and lived most of its life in Barcaldine – a conservative newspaper that took root in the same soil that

nourished the Labor movement’s famous ‘Tree of Knowledge’. The newspaper survived more than 57 years and died shortly after the 1930s depression, when the proprietorial families ran out of male family members able and willing to produce the paper.

The ‘Tree of Knowledge’ – the ten-metre ghost gum under which meetings were held during the shearers’ strike of 1891 that led to the formation of the Australian Labor Party – was added to the National Heritage List in December 2005 and died six months later, poisoned by a person or persons unknown. It was removed in 2007, but a lasting memorial was opened on the spot in May 2009.

During the shearers’ strike in 1891, Western Champion editor William Campbell wrote his anti-strike editorials within a few metres of the strikers’ headquarters and in 1892 he was the conservative candidate who contested the by-election against the strike leader Tommy Ryan (and lost).

William Henry Campbell (1846-1919) was born at St Saviour’s, Jersey, Channel Islands, the sixth child of Major-General Charles Stuart Campbell, and his second wife, Elizabeth. William received his primary education at private schools in England and later at London’s Blue Coat School, a military institution. He showed great natural ability for drawing, and in later years sold pencil sketches to illustrated magazines. In July 1861, Campbell left school, two days short of his fifteenth birthday, and was then privately tutored. He may have visited New Zealand in the early 1860s to act as an interpreter during the Maori wars, in which two of his brothers fought.

By 1865, William was in Australia and was said to be working on the leading Melbourne daily, the Argus, and possibly writing and sketching for several papers in New South Wales. Henry Parkes reportedly took “a great fancy” to him and offered him as much as £1,000 a year to work on one of the Sydney papers.

Few concrete details are known of his newspaper career from 1864 until the end of 1878, except that on February 12, 1870 he took charge for at least five months of the Manning River News, Tinonee (near Taree), NSW.

In late 1878 Campbell stopped over at Cooktown on his way back from reporting on the New Guinea gold discovery for the Melbourne Argus and producing sketches for its sister publication, the Australasian Sketcher.

He visited the Lower Palmer goldfield, inland from Cooktown, became ill and nearly died. He returned to Cooktown and, while awaiting instructions from Melbourne, assisted in the Cooktown Herald office where Charles John James and Reginald Spencer Browne had been joint owners since April 1878.

Frederic Robert James, younger brother of Charles, was a printer there. One evening in a chat with Charles James, Campbell spoke “in glowing terms of the possibilities for a successful newspaper in far central Queensland, with Blackall as its headquarters”. James agreed to the scheme and his brother, Frederic was also keen to take part. Both would have known that the Cooktown Herald was in dire straits. It was forced to close in March 1879, but publication resumed in May.

Seven newspapers had already been started in three western towns in Queensland before Campbell and the James brothers discussed their plans. In colonial Australia, many newspapers were started by public subscription and so in 1879 Campbell left for Blackall to seek support for the proposed newspaper. Campbell was able to raise only £96 ($192). Eventually a Blackall stock and station agent, John Monahan, financed the newspaper, with Campbell as his partner. When it first appeared on June 21, 1879, Campbell (32), Charles James (23) and his brother Frederic (21) were independent, self-made men.

Campbell reflected a year later that they had “started under all sorts of difficulties … we

incurred heavy expenditure without the sure hope of satisfactory returns, and altogether embarked upon a hazardous enterprise without any other support than that afforded by a few of the business people of Blackall, and several station holders and managers”.

As the rail link with Rockhampton approached Barcaldine in the final months of 1886, many businesses moved from Blackall to Barcaldine. Campbell and the two James brothers wasted no time in following suit, shifting there at the end of December 1886 and missing only one issue of the Champion. Blackall got another newspaper in April 1889 when the Barcoo Independent opened.

At Barcaldine, testing times came in 1891 with the shearers’ or bushmen’s strike, which was a battle with the employers over the closed-shop principle and lowered shearing rates. With the unionists refusing to sign the contracts, free labour being brought in by train, and police and volunteer militia being shipped in from the south, an explosive situation soon developed.

Of the 18 strike camps throughout Queensland, Barcaldine was the main one, with about 4,500 people said to be in the town or camped nearby. In addition, about 29 nine officers and 509 men were in the Barcaldine military camp at the end of March 1891.

Crowds milled around the office of the Western Champion, near the strike committee’s headquarters, to read the bulletins posted on a noticeboard. Words were part of the war. In the Worker, editor William Lane wrote of “a wild

front line in a War of WordsThe steam-driven press of the anti-union Western Champion was just metres from strikers’ headquarters, Rod Kirkpatrick discovers

champion times: (clockwise from top left) William Henry Campbell; the Champion office in Barcaldine; a Heritage Trail plaque marks where the Barcaldine office stood; the memorial to the ‘Tree of Knowledge’; and Campbell with his family

howl going up from the champions of ‘law and order’ for the illegal arrest of union officials and the legal suffocating of an industrial quarrel in blood”. Henry Lawson famously wrote in May 1891 of the possibility that “blood should stain the wattle”. Two months earlier John Alexander Stuart, one of the strikers eventually arrested and tried, wrote a poem from Barcaldine of the “coming dawn” showing the world “a glorious light”, and presented his view that “heroes for the cause must bleed/Before the glorious light shall come”.

The Central District Strike Committee was publishing a weekly Labour Bulletin, which was “dashingly edited” and told “straight what bushmen think on various lively topics”. The editor until late March was Tommy Ryan, strike leader and a central figure in the political developments at Barcaldine a year later.

On the other side of the verbal struggle, the Western Champion was at the forefront. Lane saw the Champion as part of what he labelled “the capitalistic organisation and its parasites – press, premiers, and pulpits”. Gaps in the Western Champion’s files mean that no issues of the paper for the first six months of 1891 are extant (although the newspaper published in its final issue in 1937 a strike flashback, extracted from its June 23, 1891 edition).

F.J. James noted in his diary: “Mr Campbell ... did not spare the unionists and became the most unpopular man in the west. Strike headquarters was only 14 feet away from the Champion machine room, and while the strike leaders were in conference in a room the press would be running off hundreds of copies castigating them. This resulted in the name Western Champion becoming anathema in every strike camp throughout the length and breadth of Australia.

Rockhampton’s Morning Bulletin noted in 1919: “In the troublous days of the nineties when the Central-West was simply seething with unrest owing to the 1891 and 1894 strikes, Mr Campbell fought the Australian Workers Union tooth and nail. His pen was vitriolic and his caustic criticism hurt.”

Campbell, who became a Member of the Queensland Legislative Council from 1906 to 1919, was the senior partner of the Champion throughout his life, and the editor until he moved to Brisbane during his parliamentary term. He died on June 17, 1919, only hours after celebrating the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Champion.

During the 1920s the paper was generally a 20-page sixpenny weekly, cluttered with news and advertisements, and appearing on Saturday mornings. It was never a daily, as some have claimed. Descendants of the James’ brothers – Frederic died in 1926 and Charles in 1930 – kept the paper in print until February 20, 1937. nngx• Digitised copies of the Western Champion, 1892-1922, are accessible through Trove, a National Library of Australia website.


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Finalists in the 2013 PANPA Newspaper of the Year contest have been named.

Is your paper – or favourite daily or local – up for a gong; what’s the secret of Apple Daily’s high volume single-width success; will APN’s soon-to-be-closed Ballina print site (two nominations) go out with a bang?

All these questions and more are set to be answered at the gala presentation dinner in Sydney on August 29 as a highlight the annual Future Forum

Finalists in the Newspaper of the Year, Digital News Destination of the Year, Marketing and Technical Excellence categories were announced following weeks of evaluation by judges around the world. Those in photography categ).

Chief executive of The Newspaper Works (and former PANPA chief executive) Mark Hollands reports a strong field of entries and a “great response” from mastheads around the region. “the awards recognise the importance of industry community and the value and benefits of recognition,” he says.

“Tough conditions in the market – and the major structural changes in our businesses that are now taking place – mean it is important for everyone to focus not only on the challenges but also on the great work we do, and our contribution to society, our readers and commercial partners and clients.”

Winners will be announced at the dinner on August 29 at The Four Seasons Hotel in Sydney, during the Future Forum, an event designed to help newspapers discover new strategies to win audiences and increase revenue by hearing from some of the world’s leading publishers.Finalists are: neWspaper of the year dailies (5-6-7 days per week): Up to 10,000 circulation– Ashburton Guardian, Bundaberg NewsMail, Gladstone Observer, Shepparton News, The Daily Examiner, The Queensland Times, The Rotorua Daily Post , Wanganui Chronicle. 10,000-25,000 circulation– Bay of Plenty Times, Bendigo Advertiser, Geelong Advertiser, NT News, Sunshine Coast Daily , The Border Mail, The Cairns Post, The Chronicle, Toowoomba, The Courier, Ballarat.25,001-90,000 circulation– Australian Financial Review, Canberra Times, Gold Coast Bulletin, Newcastle Herald, Otago Daily Times, The Dominion Post, The Examiner, Launceston, The Fiji Times, The Mercury, Hobart, The Press, Townsville Bulletin. 90,001+ circulation– Daily Telegraph, Manly Daily, mX (Sydney, Melbourne & Brisbane), Sydney Morning Herald, The New Zealand Herald, The Age, The Australian, The West Australian. non-daily: Up to 10,000 circulation– Fiordland Advocate , Albany Advertiser,

Armidale Express, Augusta Margaret River Times , Centralian Advocate, Geraldton Newspapers, The Courier, Narrabri, The Mining Chronicle, The Riverine Herald. 10,000-25,000 circulation–Busselton Dunsborough Times, Camden-Narellan Advertiser, Noosa News, Rosehill-Stanhope Gardens News, South Western Times, Stock Journal, Strathfield Scene. 25,001-90,000 circulation– Blacktown Sun, Comment News , Macarthur Chronicle, Redcliffe & Bayside Herald, The Land, The Senior - South Australia, The Western Weekender, Wentworth Courier, Western Suburbs Weekly. 90,001+ circulation– St George & Sutherland Shire Leader, The Senior - New South Wales.

sUnday neWspaper of the year: Fiji Times Limited for Sunday Times, Herald on Sunday , The Sunday Age, Sunday Mail SA, The Sunday Mail QLD, The Sun-Herald. digital neWs destination of the year news Website: Metropolitan/National– The New Zealand Herald for nzherald.co.nz, The Sydney Morning Herald for smh.com.au, Brisbane Times for brisbanetimes.com.au, Herald Sun for heraldsun.com.au,Singapore Press Holdings for One ST, Stuff.co.nz for Stuff.co.nz, News SA for adelaidenow.com.au. Rural/Regional/Suburban–

NT News for ntnews.com.au, The Chronicle, Toowoomba for thechronicle.com.au, The Courier, Ballarat for thecourier.com.au, The Advocate, Tasmania for theadvocate.com.au, Bay of Plenty Times for bayofplentytimes.co.nz, Port Macquarie News for Port News Flooding, The Rotorua Daily Post for rotoruadailypost.co.nz Newcastle Herald for theherald.com.au. mobile site or app (not website): Metropolitan/ National– Stuff.co.nz for Mobile apps, Australian Financial Review for afr.com.au. Rural / Regional / Suburban– The Courier, Ballarat for Smartphone App, Newcastle Herald for App. specialty / niche sites and niche apps: Singapore Press Holdings for The Straits Times Asia Report, Newcastle Herald for Red and Blue HQ, dompost.co.nz for Wellington Report, Stuff.co.nz for Stuff Nation, Stuff.co.nz for School Report, Singapore Press Holdings for Myanmar Sunrise e-Book. innovation in digital publishing: Australian Financial Review for Budget Explorer, The New Zealand Herald for nzherald.co.nz, Brisbane Times for Brisbane Live @ Work, West Australian Regional Newspapers for iNFOGO, Stuff.co.nz for Stuff Nation, Stuff.co.nz for School Report, Canberra Times for 2013 Digital Storytelling.

The winners of the Hegarty Prize, and awartds

for Environment, Health & Safety, Innovation (pre-production process or technology) and Marketer of the Year will be annoinced on the night. Marketing finalists are on our website. technical eXcellence newspaper printed on a single width press: Up to 25,000 circulation– APN Print Toowoomba for QT; Ballina APN Print for The Nimbin Good Times; Ballina APN Print for Northern Star(Weekend Star); Fairfax Media Nth Richmond for The Guardian Weekly; Narrabri Courier for The Courier, Narrabri; WA Newspapers for Geraldton Guardian. 25,001-90,000 circulation– APN Print Toowoomba for The Chronicle; Fairfax Media Nth Richmond for The Land; Fairfax Media Nth Richmond for Blue Mountains Gazette; Fairfax Regional Printers for Newcastle Herald; WA Newspapers for Bunbury Herald. 90,000+ circulation– Apple Daily Publication Development Limited for Apple Daily (Taiwan); Apple Daily Printing (Hong Kong) for Sharp Daily (Hong Kong); Apple Daily Printing (Hong Kong) for Apple Daily (Hong Kong); MediaCorp Press Ltd for Today. newspaper printed on a double-width press: Up to 25,000 circulation– APN Print Yandina for The Gympie Times; APN Print Yandina for Sunshine Coast Daily APN Print Yandina for Fraser Coast Chronicle; Fairfax for

Australian Financial Review, Sydney Morning Herald; Fairfax Media NZ for The Timaru Herald Weekender; Fairfax Media NZ for The Timaru Herald. 25,001-90,000 circulation– Capital Fine Print for The Canberra Times Fairfax Media NZ for The Weekend Press; Fairfax Media NZ for The Press; News Limited for The Australian; WA Newspapers for Comment News. 90,000+ circulation– News Limited for The Sunday Telegraph; News Limited for The Daily Telegraph; WA Newspapers for The West Australian; News Limited for Manly Daily; South China Morning Post Publishers Limited for South China Morning Post. pre-print or supplement: Up to 25,000 circulation– Print Leader Tamworth (Fairfax Media) for Barrington Towns; WA Newspapers for Broome Happenings. 25,001-90,000 circulation– Border Mail Printing for New Homes and Land; Capital Fine Print for Investing in property; WA Newspapers for Community Residential; Print Leader Tamworth (Fairfax Media) for Tamworth Building Supply. 90,000+ circulation– Fairfax Media printing The Age for Life&Style/Traveller preprint; MediaCorp Press Ltd for Today Supplements; News Limited for Body + Soul; South China Morning Post Publishers Limited for Timepieces; WA Newspapers for Habitat; WA Newspapers for Travel.

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g et your boots on… and maybe have a soufflé ready. The Newspaper Works has ideas in

abundance at its annual Future Forum, and Annabel Crabb’s coming to dinner!

The two-day programme (August 28-29) includes ‘bootcamp’ learning sessions, industry-leading plenary sessions and the annual Newspaper of the Year and Advertising Awards presentation evenings.

For the plenary sessions (August 29) Chris Wharton, newly-appointed chief executive officer of broadcaster and publisher Seven West Media, presents the ‘state of the industry’ address, followed by a chief executives’ forum which lines up Greg Hywood (Fairfax Media), Michael Miller (APN News

& Media) and Chris Wharton (West Australian Newspapers) with new News Corp Australia appointee Julian Clarke taking the spot from Kim Williams.

The morning session continues with INMA executive director and chief executive Earl Wilkinson (Global trends and ten new business models), Mediacom head of planning and investment Nick Keenan (Our date with data) and Martin Clarke, publisher of the UK’s top-rating MailOnline website.

Speakers at the afternoon session include Jim Brady, Alexander Nilo Fonseca, The Newspaper Works chief executive Mark Hollands, Matt Cunningham and Anthony Baxter.

Political journalist and TV personality Annabel Crabb hosts the

Newspaper of the Year awards dinner that night.

Preceding all of this is a day of learning, built around embracing an interactive environment. Topics cover digital journalism and sales, print and logistics.

AAP editor-in-chief Tony Gillies is the key speaker at a Journalism Bootcamp, pitched at delivering online stories rich in content and context and deep in fact – in real time.

A Digital Sales Bootcamp is led by Patty Keegan, managing director of Digital Chameleon, which has worked with APN, Sensis, SBS, Fairfax Media and News. She promises a ‘top-level guide’ to advertising trends and what they mean for the professional future

as publishers embrace increasingly sophisticated multi-platform strategies.

In a parallel Print & Logistics session, key speaker is Arthur Shelley, founder of Organisational Zoo and an expert on organisational culture and knowledge management. “Keeping your corporate memory has never been more important,” he says. Shelley will provide key strategies and tips for ensuring business continuity amid the tumult of change and efficiency initiatives.

The first day’s programme (August 28) concludes with the Ad Awards Cocktail Party, hosted by Mark Hollands.

The event is being held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Circular Quay. Details from www.panpa.org.au nngx

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Up to 550 jobs worldwide could be affected by a “long-term reform” of mailroom and finishing systems maker Müller Martini.

Chief executive Bruno Müller says the group is suffering from difficult economic conditions and continuing structural change in the graphics industry. Although it has preserved its market position, revenues have “fallen massively” over the last four years, leading to consideration of a fundamental restructuring over coming months.

“In order to survive in strong shape, we cannot avoid the need to operate on a smaller scale,” says Müller. “However, by concentrating our forces, we will do our utmost to continue to intensify the comprehensive advice we provide to our customers on new investments and in particular in the service area.

“Our sales and service network regionalisation program, which was initiated last year, gives us a good starting point in this context.”

Options under consideration include consolidating the two main manufacturing sites in Zofingen and Felben, Switzerland, which are not operating at sufficient capacity. The company expects to make a decision “in the next few months”.

Reform is needed to preserve a future role as a leader in the shrunken global graphics industry through innovative printing and print finishing products together with a high-quality customer service, and to put the company on a sustainable and future-oriented foundation, a company statement says. “In addition, Müller Martini must adapt the size of the company to a scaled-back market to enable it to continue investing in future-oriented product developments.

“The reason behind the on-going difficult situation is the fundamental transformation of the graphics industry. Consolidation among printing companies has significantly reduced the customer base. Many existing and potential customers are holding back on investment – or are being prevented from investing in new equipment due to the lack of credit. There is significant pressure on prices and margins; in addition the strong Swiss franc exchange rate is having a detrimental impact on profit margins,” Müller Martini says in its statement.

In addition to the current plants for print finishing systems in Zofingen and bookbinding systems in Felben, Muller Martini has printing press operations in Maulburg and a book technology centre in Bad Mergentheim, both in Germany.

Intuit, Digivive, Slice, Karbonn Mobile, Himalayan… and HT Media.

Kathuria says the Indian digital marketing landscape is characterised by explosive growth in mobile usage, social media and video consumption. “As Digital Quotient, we’re going to be able to offer our clients a rich array of solutions across mobile and social media, and leverage the power of multimedia to help establish a strong, meaningful connect with consumers,”

The acquisition is the latest in a string of digital deals in India, with HT Media acquiring social networking site Desimartini.com and a share of online recruitment site MyParichay.

Terms of the Webitude deal have not been announced.

Top Australian recruitment portal Seek is extending its international reach with a 25 per cent stake in One Africa Media. AIM Group’s Christo Volschenk and Ross Hoddinott report that the US$20 million investment in Africa’s leading classifieds company values One Africa Media at US$80 million.

Created late last year, One Africa owns or invests in the recruitment sites Jobberman (Nigeria) and Brighter Monday (Kenya); auto site Cheki (Kenya, Nigeria); real estate site Private Property (Nigeria, South Africa) and travel site Safari Now (South Africa).

One Africa was launched when Kenya-based Carey Eaton and South Africa-based Justin Clarke merged their classified businesses.

It is majority owned (53 per cent) by Tiger Global, a New York-based investment manager that is also majority owner of Navent, which operates some of the leading recruitment and real estate advertising sites in Latin America.

Newspaper cTP OEM manufacturer Xeikon is set to be acquired by Belgian private equity company Bencis after Punch International agreed the sale of its shares. Punch, which holds a 65.68 per cent interest in Xeikon says it has reached a “conditional agreement” for the sale to Bencis at Euros 5.85 a share. Xeikon says that if the sale goes ahead, Bencis will be obliged to make an offer for the remaining Xeikon shares.

The conditions require agreement between Xeikon and Punch on ending existing ties between the two companies.

Apart from digital printing systems for label, packaging and commercial printing, Xeikon makes OEM CTP systems – notably Agfa Graphics’s newspaper systems – and through its own basysPrint and ThermoFlexX brands.

Indian publisher HT Media will get closer to its readers with the acquisition of social media-focussed marketing agency Webitude this week.

The business – acquired through the HT Mobile Solutions division – will form part of Digital Quotient, a new unit committed to providing mobile and social media solutions and services to clients.

HT Mobile chief operating officer Vinish Kathuria says the deal positions HT to offer advertisers “not only the large reach of media like print and radio, but also the engagement possibilities of mobile and social media”.

Digital business head Amit Garg added, “Social forms one of the biggest aggregator for audiences. Any media company cannot ignore it.”

Based in Gurgaon, Webitude has delivered digital solutions to more than 50 brands, including Cleartrip,

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emma-chisit? Readership metric sets a start dateW ith the pieces all in place, The Readership Works has set a date for

the launch of its Emma measurement study.Newspapers and magazines are covered by the new survey,

Enhanced Media Metrics Australia, which starts on August 19. The metric is backed by Australia’s biggest newspaper companies as

a solution to address multimedia publishing of content across multiple platforms. First results will combine data from all platforms including tablets and mobile with Nielsen Online Ratings. Readership Works general manager Mal Dale says he believes the development has “met and exceeded” calls from media agencies and advertisers for cross-platform accountability and greater accuracy, transparency and frequency of data.

Developed with research company Ipsos MediaCT, the survey will publish results monthly after the launch date. Fusion of Emma and Nielsen data follows techniques from other markets in which Ipsos conducts audience surveys including the UK.

Magazine Publishers of Australia has announced that it would support the project, bringing more than 118 magazine titles and a number of their apps into the data. nngx

“OAM’s businesses and operations are in countries with rapidly growing Internet and mobile penetration rates,” Seek said in its announcement. “OAM has a track record of revenue growth but is investing in building marketplaces and is not currently profitable.”

Seek, which is highly profitable, funded the investment from its cash reserves. One Africa will have a cash balance of about US$22 million following the transaction.

Seek has expanded both vertically and horizontally in its development. With little more growth available in Australia, it moved into takeovers in Malaysia and then China, followed by Brazil. Horizontally it has moved into education, offering English language courses and testing along with international student recruitment in partnership with a conglomerate of all Australian Universities. Its chairman is one-time media mogul, now casino mogul, James Packer.

Seek’s international holdings include 78.2 per cent of Zhaopin in China; a majority interest in JobsDB (Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong and more); a minority stake in JobStreet (Southeast Asia); 57 per cent of Online Career Center in Mexico, and 51 percent of Brasil Online.

Butterflies, neon and ‘talking’ newspapers won publisher attention at an open day in Moscow to explore innovative advertising formats and production ideas. manroland web systems’ Russian market organisation VIP Systems teamed with newspaper printer Extra M for the seminar focussed on collaboration between publishers, printshops and advertisers.

“The current challenge is how to create attractive newspaper products that impress the readership as efficient advertisement and information carriers. Inspiration came from around the world: “With their added-value concepts full of ideas, creative materials, and cross-media models, newspapers are impressing their customers worldwide,” manroland newspaper product marketing executive Sabine Sirach told guests. She explained the concepts’ use in technical printing, with options including hybrid heatset/coldset combinations, and the use of colour, papers, fold variants, booklets and adhesive cards.

Advertisements from India – where the market has gained a reputation for innovation –featured neon colours, scented and even ‘talking’ newspapers. And with the application of glue, creative advertising combinations include halfcovers, flaps, and butterfly applications. nngx


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pper News not a good look in a tumultuous week, deadlines get in the way in a digital world, while

displaced journalists find other fun ways to make a living, as Peter coleman wraps it up

A s we’re going to press, a tumultuous week in which the local newspaper industry didn’t always display its best side. A headline in the Sydney Daily

Telegraph in which the Murdoch tabloid laid out its election position with ‘Kick this mob out’ was questionable judgement: Notice to readers, in effect, that anything they saw in the paper in the cmoning weeks would lack balance.

I took greater objection to the ‘Plonker’ headline in the Courier-Mail soon after, especially in the ‘one voice’ town that Brisbane is: An issue targetted at schoolchildren under the Headstart readership programme was not one I would want in a house with young children... or at all for that matter.

The end of the same week saw the sudden departure of Kim Williams as News Corp Australia’s chief executive. OK, so Rupert made a wrong appointment – it’s been known before – but the rubbishing of Williams in the media section of The Australian on the following Monday was not a pretty sight. Usually it’s Fairfax’s dirty washing they hang out in those columns, not their own.

on the other side of news corp’s world, A minor landmark with the announcement that the troops are leaving London’s Docklands for trendy southbank. More wiping of the slate, as the industry moves forward (?). Printing left for the Broxbourne superplant with the second plant upgrade since the original (already elderly) Goss letterpress kit at Wapping fired up – the second was with the 1987 order for manroloand Newsman presses which also took Australia into the colour newspaper era – and journos moved to nearby Thomas More Square a couple of years back.

The former Wapping print site, sold last

year for £150 million ($250 million), is to have 1800 homes and 18,000 m2 of shops and offices there. Perhaps there will be space for a living museum on the site: An unused Linotype from Wapping’s ‘new technology’ collection; a letterpress plate from one of the Goss presses, and even one of the buses in which members of the electricians union ran the gauntlet of pickets. Oh, and squeeze in a printed newspaper.

whAt do you do when the print deAdline is looming, and the story hasn’t broken yet? Newspaper editors faced a recurring problem with the birth of Prince George, the much-anticipated third in line to the English throne.

Australian tabloids responded by filling ‘special’ pages with feature content without regard to whether the birth (or appearance, or naming) had taken place. Weekly mag New Idea even resorted to augmented reality to present the front page they would have run, when the young man was actually born. Maybe it’s a trend we shall see more of as newspaper plants get further from their population centres and deadlines, as a result, get earlier.

forwardplanning2013Aug 28-31 Pack Print International, 4th

International Packaging & Printing Exhibition for Asia, BITEC, Bangkok, Thailand.

Aug 28-29 PANPA Future Forum, Four Seasons Hotel, Sydney, Australia (including bootcamps and Ad Awards Aug 28; plenary sessions and Newspaper of the Year presentation dinner Aug 29).

Sep 3-5 ASEAN Newspaper Printers conference, Equatorial Hotel, Penang, Malaysia.

Sep 8-12 Print, McCormick Place South, Chicago, USA

Sep 9-13 WAN-Ifra Study Tour: Digital Advertising, USA East Coast.

Sep 11-13 Publish Asia and WAN-Ifra India Expo, Bangalore, India

Oct 7-9 World Publishing Expo/IfraExpo, Berlin, Germany.

Oct 21-23 WAN-Ifra Study Tour: Strictly digital - West Coast Innovators, San Francisco Bay area – USA.

Nov 12-14 Digital Media Asia, Kuala Lumpur.

2014Mar 26-Apr 2 Ipex 2014, ExCel Centre, Docklands,

London, UK

Sep 3-6 Indoprint (with Indoplas and Indopack),

Jakarta International Expo, Kemayoran,

Indonesia (www.indoprint.net)

Oct 13-15 WAN-Ifra World Publishing Expo, RAI

centre, Amsterdam.

Contact the organisers for fuller information about any

of the above events and to confirm dates. nngx

cover story: New Idea goes to press before the Royal sprog arrives, and (right) the Courier-Mail front

the depArture of colleAgues At mediA outlets is also something we can expect to see more of as the industry changes. Errol

Simper – who may be holding on for a super cheque – notes in The Australian that “we’re sleepwalking towards something”… but isn’t clear about what.

But journalists have always been ready to move on, originally to freelance or PR

and these days to blogs and outsourcing businesses. And witness the rise and rise

of Mia Freedman, who had been a freelance as well as a top magazine editor before launching her mamamia.com.au website in 2007. A continuing role as a print columnist is helping propel her to fame which may one day rival that of Arianna Huffington.

But little hope that the reduction of numbers in journalism may lead to better pay for those that remain; not while it’s so much fun, at least!

Proof that there is life after journalism comes in many forms. Alan Whicker, who has died aged 87, is better known for his travel shows than for the journalistic colour pieces I recall. His was the first big name I was to encounter as Fleet Street descended on the Parkhurst high security prison when the Great Train Robbers (or was it the Kray twins?) were being moved there… and I was the greenest of cadets at The News’ nearby Newport office.

Technology has also moved on from the days when it was necessary to block the nearest phone box in order that it would be available for a colleague to file copy.

I wasn’t much help to Whicker, into whom I bumped – almost literally – as he was adjusting his dress before leaving the public toilet: “Hell-oo, what do you knooow”, was both the greeting and immediate farewell. nngx

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peoplenewstechnotrans has sent Andreas Harig from its German head office to a new business development role in Singapore.

Harig (53), who has been leading the temperature control business unit in Sassenberg, has a long record of roles in sales, product management and technology.

With the transfer to technotrans Technologies Pte Ltd in Singapore today, he becomes responsible for group business development in the Asia Pacific region.

“We are pleased that we can provide our customers in Asia with an expert contact, who is fully conversant with the core competences of technotrans and will therefore ensure streamlined processes within our group company particularly for development projects”, says management board spokesman Henry Brickenkamp.

“The addition of Andreas Harig to our Asian team is a clear sign of the relevance of the Asian markets for our company.”

Ralph Pernizsak will now head temperature control in Sassenberg, with Eike Moes managing the dampening solution technology sub-department. Both are long-standing employees of technotrans AG.

german web viewing, register and control systems maker eltromat has upped its presence in the region with the establishment of a Melbourne office.

Paul Garside takes responsibility for sales in Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia, as part of a strategy to increase market presence in Australasia and to expand international sales.

An Australian national, Garside has 29 years experience in printing and packaging starting as a flexo and gravure printer at Wrightcel in Melbourne.

In 2000, he moved into sales as a product manager covering products including Windmoeller & Hoelscher, Daetwyler and BASF plates.

Fujifilm Australia has appointed prepress specialist Franca Balsamo to a new role of product manager for plates, CTP and workflow. She was most recently prepress and workflow analyst with STI Lilyfield, for which she had worked in the 1990s prior to Reg Hammond’s sale to the global STI group. she worked in technical and marketing roles with CPI (BJ Ball Group), Fuji Xerox, Canon, Ricoh and Edward Keller (Esko Graphics), and spent three years with Dainippon Screen, a manufacturer of Fujifilm’s thermal CTP system offerings.

Outside work she us known from voluntary work and her presidency of the Junior Printing Executives Association NSW, which she has served for 17 years from 1997.

“She brings to this position a rare combination of marketing, sales and technical skills,” says Sturt Eastwood, Fujifilm graphic systems general manager. “She understands intimately the technical issues facing busy prepress departments and builds on this with sound business and commercial experience, planning, strategy and training.”

robert Holliday has taken over as managing director of Sitecore’s Australian & New Zealand region, replacing Philipp Heltewig, who moves to Sitecore Corporation in Europe as senior global markets sales vice president. Prior to his three years with Sitecore, Holliday was the founding managing director of RedDot Asia-Pacific.

Kyle McManus, formerly regional sales director at Objective Corporation, has been appointed sales director. nngx

on tehe move: (from top) Harig,

Garside and Balsamo

n ext year’s WAN-Ifra World Publishing Expo (IfraExpo) will be in Amsterdam. The global

organisation has announced the event will be “going back to its roots” after this year’s event in Berlin.

More than 300 exhibitors and 8000 visitors are expected in the German capital from October 7-9 October this year. The event will return to Amsterdam – which has hosted it 16 times in 44 years – from October 13-15, 2014.

Organisers say the Amsterdam RAI exhibition centre has invested heavily in infrastructure and optimised exhibitor services, and that the city is “one of the world’s most innovative” and is ranked in the top ten in the latest Innovation Cities Global Index.

“The decision to hold World Publishing Expo 2014 in Amsterdam will bring new energy to our dialogue with the innovation centres in the media industry, and allow us to tap a great creative ecosystem to engage in a more robust discussion on the future of news publishing,” says WAN-Ifra chief

executive Vincent Peyrègne.“A fundamental mission of ours has

always been to connect innovators and media professionals and to support the transformation of the news industry.”

World Publishing Expo is the largest global trade exhibition for the news publishing and media industry. In addition to the exhibition, which showcases the latest technologies, the event features 200 speakers sharing their success stories, four Media Port stages focusing on developments in print, workflow efficiency, social-local-mobile and revenue generation, and five strategic conferences focused on future business models.

Full details on the 2013 event at http://www.wan-ifra.org/ifraexpo2013

Executive director of exhibitions Ioana Sträter says many exhibitors have already registered for both shows: “Thanks to them and their customers – and the innovations and best practices they produce – we will be able to offer visitors a comprehensive range of topics, more than ever before,” she says. nngx

Amsterdam innovation tapped for 2014 show

New exhibitor reps join DRUPA committeeHP, manroland web and technotrans are among the seven global players joining the DRUPA 2016 organising committee.

President and chief executive Werner Matthias Dornscheidt says the move recognises current developments in the printing and media industry, including the growing significance of digital printing, its demands on postpress and automation, and “the mega trends value-added printing and packaging”.

The 26-member committee – together with Messe Düsseldorf, which has organised drupa since 1951 – makes key policy decisions about the print media trade fair, including the decision to shorten the fair to 11 days. It consists of industry representatives and five domestic industry associations. KBA chief executive Claus Bolza-Schünemann is president of the 2016 steering committee, supported by vice-president Jürgen Vutz (Windmöller & Hölscher) and second vice-president is Rolf Schwarz (German Printing and Media Industries Federation).

Among other committee members are EFI corporate marketing vice president Frank Tückmantel, HP worldwide marketing manager Francois Martin, manroland web systems managing director Eckhard Hörner-Marais, Sun Chemical group managing director Robert Fitzka, technotrans Sassenberg board member Christof Soest, and UPM Sales sales director Ulrich Neumann. nngx

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