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A Journal of the Press Institute of India - Research Institute for Newspaper Development

February 2016 | Volume 37 | Issue 2 | Rs 40www.pressinstitute.in

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There are always new things to learn, and we must constantly improve

Sustaining high and responsible standards of journalism is part of the credo at the Press Institute of India – Research Institute for Newspaper Development. The workshops we conduct straddle editorial as well as technical. However, often, we find ourselves asking the question: what would be of use to journalists or technical staff in newspaper offices. Sometimes, inputs are sought from senior editors and technical heads. And that is how subjects for some of the workshops or seminars are chosen.

In this connection, it was interesting to read an article posted on journalism.co.uk by Mădălina Ciobanu, which says listening sessions, classroom workshops and intensive bootcamps are some of the approaches used by the Financial Times and National Public Radio (NPR) to train their journalists. Towards end-2014, FT conducted a survey among its journalists, asking how they wanted to be trained and what the best time of day was for them. The majority of people expressed interest in classes that took place between noon and 2pm.

Ciobanu says the practical sessions are taught both by FT journalists and external trainers as needed, and last between one and one-and-a-half hours. They aim to tackle a variety of topics, using productivity tools, or an entire series of workshops focused on spreadsheets, numeracy and charting. Ciobanu quotes Lisa Pollack, head of New Projects at FT, who oversees the outlet's internal digital training, as saying that as part of the training, journalists are also encouraged to learn "how different newsrooms are doing things differently than us or the same, so sometimes, through that, we are made aware of something we should do more training on". Podcasting, video and coding training courses are designed in a similar way to help attendees develop a better understanding of what these entail, even if journalists who attend the workshops might not necessarily use that knowledge on a daily basis. One of the significant things Ciobanu mentions Pollack as saying is: "... there are always going to be new things to learn... there is a huge spectrum of people who want to learn”. And summing it all up so well is Eric Athas,

the editorial training manager at NPR that supports high-quality journalism and storytelling: "We need to get much better at what we do, whether that's audio, podcasts or writing, and increase the quality of our journalism, because that is the way to stand out as new platforms, tools and trends emerge."

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website, Africa’s first data-driven investigative journalism initiative launches this week (as we go to press) with $500000 in grants and technical support for reportage that changes lives. Called impact-AFRICA, the initiative will seek to support pioneering data journalism that tackles development issues, such as public healthcare, in six initial African countries: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia.

The first of four impactAFRICA calls for applications opened on January 18. The deadline for submissions is April 15. Proposals should focus on in-depth reportage into hidden, neglected or under-reported health and development issues. The resulting projects should offer compelling storytelling, told in an original way that uses digital techniques for improved audience engagement, and that also uses data to personalise or localise stories for maximum impact.

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analyst Andreas Pfeiffer offers a quick overview of some of the trends that will shape the publishing landscape in the coming months. Adblocking was one of the key topics in 2015, and it will continue to be a major preoccupation in 2016, Pfeiffer says, adding that the key trend to observe is the increasing fragmentation of an already very complex market: more and more competing technologies, and increasingly diversified methods of dealing with ad-blockers. More food for thought for advertisers.

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Cover page photo: KBA

A case for the compact web press 6Gayatri T. Rao

How inkjet has arrived in newspaper printing 8Manfred Werfel

The Star Malaysia experience 10Mohamed Hassen Mohammad Ali

Washington Post leads the way in mobile apps 12Raquel Devis Sanchis interviews Julia Beizer

Is standardisation necessary for newspapers? 16Anand Srinivasan

Making an impact on the publishing scene 20Som Nath Sapru

Industry Updates 24

Other News 31

Events Calendar 33


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A strong case for the compact web press

The business case for the use of the compact web press for newspaper production was the topic Kumar Nadesan, managing director, Express Publications (Ceylon), spoke on at the WAN-IFRA Conference in Mumbai a few months ago. He based his address on his Group’s experience with the Goss Compact, one of only two such machines to be installed in the world. Gayatri T. Rao reports

Kumar Nadesan emphasising a point.

newspaper be started for the Tamil-speaking people. Gandhiji’s suggestion was taken up by Subramania

Chettiar, a businessman hailing from Karaikudi in Tamil Nadu, India, and two years later, in 1930, Veerakesari was born. Subramania Chettiar had to leave the country after the Citizenship Act came into effect in 1948, but Veerakesari continues to flourish, Nadesan said.

Over the past 15 years, the Group has focused on global trends and kept pace with technological improvements. Originally, it was publishing a daily and a weekly newspaper as well as a weekly magazine. Today, it has 17 publications and 13 websites. The publications comprise four dailies, five weeklies, one weekly magazine, three fortnightly magazines and seven monthly magazines. They are read by most, if not all of the Tamil population. “Our model is similar to the Lever Brothers’ model - that there must be at least one product per household from the house of Veerakesari,” Nadesan said with pride.

With the end of the ethnic strife in Sri Lanka, new opportunities arose. “There was population relocation and it increased the chances for new editions. The Tamil-speaking residents of the four different provinces in the island republic had distinct needs, and Express Newspapers brought out separate publications to specifically cater to each. The Group

The Goss Magnum Compact Press has made an impact on production and productivity at the Express Publications (Ceylon) Group.

Goss describes the equipment as combining proven technologies and print quality with important agility features. Benefits for single-width newspaper product and new, short run multi-product business models lead to expanded uptime and cost effectiveness.

Setting the context for his Group’s decision to invest in the Goss Compact, Nadesan said “Express Newspapers is a Tamil newspaper. Our flagship publication is Veerakesari. There are other regional or local publications available only in the towns or the regions, where they are printed.”

Delving deeper into the background, he said Tamil-speaking people make up 16 per cent of Sri Lanka’s 21 million population. Most of them are descendants of migrant labour brought in by the British colonisers to work on the plantations. When Mahatma Gandhi visited the island in 1928, he found businessmen and skilled workers like goldsmiths, besides plantation workers, who were Tamil speaking. Based on his experience in South Africa, where the migrant population did not have a voice, he desired that a

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also began looking at new markets, in order to grow, develop and continue the company. That was the basis of the decision to enhance technological capability.

The existing Goss Community printer was overworked, with long queues to complete the four daily publications. “So we felt that we needed another machine,” Nadesan explained. They zeroed in on the Goss Compact.

The machine was expensive, and there were certain inherent risks involved, Nadesan admitted. “I am not sure if the electronic parts will require a different temperature than what we are used to in our country. I am not sure if it has been tested for liability, because we are only the second machine in the world and the availability of spare parts is also something to think about.” Nevertheless, he was confident that these problems could be sorted out.

Another issue was that of noise pollution. Sri Lanka was a “green country”, said Nadesan, who is also chairman of the Sri Lanka Press Institute. “So while Goss was being installed, we put up 60000 sq

Two delegates exchange notes as Nadesan who had completed his presentation looks on.

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Discussing the features of inkjet presses at the WAN-IFRA India Technical Conference, Manfred Werfel, WAN-IFRA

deputy CEO, said they offered several advantages over web-offset presses. For example, there was no start-up waste, job changes could be done on the fly, there was complete flexibility with format change, content could be personalised, there was no variation in quality over print run and even a single copy could be printed.

However, they had a flip side too, he told the conference. The per-copy cost of inkjet was still very high. The cost per copy was very low in offset as the print order increased, while it remained the same in digital presses, making it unsuitable for longer runs, he pointed out. Better grades of paper needed to be used and the speed of the presses was low.

The Kodak Prosper 6000P was one of the fastest inkjet presses and could print up to 300 metres per minute, Werfel said. The HP T400 press could print up to a web width of 1067 mm. The numbers paled in comparison with a web-offset press. Web-offset presses could print up to a speed of 900 metres per minute and web width up to 2100 mm. Moreover, web-offset presses could print multiple webs at a time while digital presses could print only a single web, which meant that the number of copies that could be printed per hour was far lower than in a web offset press.

Inkjet presses making stridesHowever, Werfel said it should be noted that

industrial inkjet press had made rapid strides in all the three areas in the past few years and further improvements could be expected. Inkjet presses were becoming popular and were used for unique applications that could be done with conventional web-offset presses. Here is a list:

Inkjet arrives in newspaper printing, makes a markWeb inkjet printing is evolving rapidly. The three key parameters that decide the usage of inkjet presses for newspaper applications are speed, web width and print quality

Personalised products with variable data •printing and customised advertisingShort-run remote printing in niche markets. •For example, regional newspapers can be printed in a capital city; newspapers can be printed for island and expat populations; universities, associations companies etc. can have their own papers, too.With micro zoning, national and •international news can be printed in conventional offset press; Local and hyper-local pages are printed in digital presses and inserted to the main edition in the mailroom.

The applications were also expanding, Werfel pointed out. For example, a Belgium Catholic Weekly called Kerk & Leven with a circulation of about 294000 copies and 481 local editions was being printed entirely with digital presses. Walliser Bote, a Swiss daily newspaper with a circulation of about 22000 copies, was also printed entirely with digital presses.

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“Inkjet presses cannot replace offset presses in the near future. However, they can be used as a complement to offset, and they can open up new business opportunities,” Werfel said, citing the example of Newsweb, a printing company based in Chicago. The company had both offset presses and digital presses. The choice between the presses for a job depended on the print order.

Inkjet heads could also be attached in web-offset presses to convert them to hybrid presses to offer personalised content, Werfel said. The inkjet heads could be used to print lottery numbers, games and targeted advertisements. The best part was that the inkjet heads could print at the same speed as the offset press. Axel Springer and News International, which had invested in 33 and 22 inkjet heads respectively, were cases in point, he said.

Printing plants worldwide were looking at new business models for a sustainable future, he stressed. Newspapers were going to be one of many products that could be produced in printing plants. Newspapers were also changing. Customisation and micro-zoning were quite common. Since the newspaper was changing, inkjet had arrived in newspaper production, Werfel added.

(Manfred Werfel is also executive director, Global Events, WAN-IFRA, based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He takes care of the World Printers Forum, the print community within WAN-IFRA. He heads a department with Expo and sales specialists as well as newspaper production experts. This report had appeared in the WAN-IFRA India 2015 Printing Summit Conference Summary.)

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Forthefirsttimesinceitsinceptionin1992,theWAN-IFRAIndiaAnnualConferencewillbeheldinKolkata,themetropolisintheEastofIndia,during21-22September.TheconferenceistheannualmeetingpointofnewspublishersinSouthAsiaregionandattractsover350delegatesfromacrossSouthAsiaandaroundtheglobe.TheeventalsobringstoIndiaforthefirsttimetheWorldPrintersForumConference.TheeventwillfeaturetwoparallelsummitsonNewsroomandCrossMediaAdvertisingtodiscusstrendsandpracticesimpactingthemediabusiness.K.Balaji,chairmanoftheWAN-IFRASouthAsiaCommittee,chairmanoftheWorldPrinters

ForumBoardanddirectorofKasturi&Sonssaid:“Indiaisthegrowthcentreformediabusinesswherebothprintanddigitalbusinessesarethriving.Kolkataholdsapre-eminentpositioninthedevelopmentofnewspaperpublishingandprintinginIndiaandIamsurethatthecitywillplaytheperfecthosttoWAN-IFRAIndia2016andtheWorldPrintersForumConference.”Welcoming the decision to host the event in Kolkata, D.D. Purkayastha, board member,

specialadvisortothepresident,WAN-IFRA,andMD&CEOofABPGroupsaid,“IamextremelyhappythatKolkataischosenasthevenueforWAN-IFRAIndia2016andWorldPrintersForumConference. The publishers of East, Northeast and Bangladesh would be greatly benefitedfromthisconference.Kolkataoffersunparalleledcombinationoflearningatmosphereandthecreative heritage of India. I look forward tomeeting the industry colleagues and discussingsomeofthehotbuttonissuesimpactingourindustry.”The conferencewill include three parallel pre-conferenceworkshops on 20 September on

printing, newsroomand advertising topics. The eventwill also offer limitednumber of info-tableexpoboothswheresuppliersfromIndiaandabroadwillshowcasetheirproductionandservices.“The support for Kolkata as the venue for WAN-IFRA India 2016 is overwhelming,” saidMagdoomMohamed,managingdirectorofWAN-IFRASouthAsia. ‘Weareworking tomakethisamemorableeventforthenewspublishingindustryinSouthAsiaregion.”

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In 2001, The Star Publications, Malaysia, made a huge investment in equipment. They went in for three Goss Colorliner double-width, double-

circumference towers, a 2:5:5 Jaw Folder and seven MEGTec DSC 2100 Paster, a Bosch Rexroth Indramat shaftless drive, Printa press control from Honeywell, a Digital Pagepack inking system and Spray Bar dampening system. The press had a maximum speed of 80000 cph for a printing capacity of 96 pages (64 colour, 32 B/W). Ten years later, they had several concerns about the press

The press controls and drives were getting obsolete, frequent errors were cropping up in the drives, spray bars were getting clogged often and there was high linting, leading to recurrent unplanned stops, wear and tear in folders and manual cut-off and register control, leading to increased start-up waste. The issues prompted the group to think about a press upgrade.“While considering press upgrade, we had to

answer many questions,” Mohamed Hassen Mohammad Ali, senior GM, Star Publications, told the audience. The questions were chiefly: What is the current condition of the press? What are the market requirements and what add-ons are required to make the press relevant for another 10 years? And importantly, what is the capital investment required?”

Audit and action planTo start with, The Star did a complete mechanical

audit of the press with the help of Goss Engineers. They found damaged drive couplings, corrosion in blanket cylinders and severe wear and tear in the folder. After the audit, The Star drew up an action plan and it was decided to replace all motors and

PRESS RETROFIT

Learning from the Star Malaysia experienceMohamed Hassen Mohammad Ali, senior GM, Star Publications, took delegates at the WAN-IFRA Conference through the process of approaching a retrofit project, and briefed them on his company’s learnings from the experience

drives, controls, the spray bar dampening system, slitters and web detectors. It was also decided to add a web cleaning device and automatic cut-off and register control. “We discussed our needs with several vendors, saw their products in action by visiting many printing plants and finally decided on the products and vendors for our retrofit project,” Hassen said.

At the end of the exercise, The Star selected Goss for press controls and drives, Baldwin for spray bars and web cleaning, QIPC for cut-off, register and fan out control. Hassen highlighted some salient features of the systems in his detailed presentation. The Baldwin web cleaning device was a suction mechanism that removed loose fibres and other particles from the web, thereby reducing fluff accumulation in the press. The system, in fact, removed about 7 to 8 kg of

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dust every month. The new spray bar system had a cover that protected the nozzle from dust and ink particles, thus preventing nozzle clog.

In the folder section, where there was heavy wear and tear, the pistons and bushings of the Expansion Band segments at the Collect Cylinder, worn-out pin assembly and tucking shafts were replaced.

The conventional slitters were removed and replaced with a motorised slitter at the former board. Now, the web slits were very smooth and

helped in improving the quality of the finished products.

Repair work on the corrosion in blanket cylinder was underway at the time of Hassen’s presentation. The retrofit project had produced excellent results, he said. The downtime of the press due to nozzle clogging was reduced to one-third of what it was before the retrofit project. The amount of waste and downtime due to fluff accumulation declined to one-fifth after installing the web cleaning device.

“Our overall waste percentage, which used to be about 2.3 per cent, has now come down to about 1.7,” Hassen added.

(Mohamed Hassen Mohammad Ali has been senior general manager, Technical Services, at Star Publications (Malaysia) since 2013. His responsibilities include managing the prepress, press and post-press areas of the newspaper production. He was the chairman for ASEAN Newspaper Printers from 2011 to 2013. He is currently a board member of the World Printers Forum. This report had appeared in the WAN-IFRA India 2015 Printing Summit Conference Summary.)

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World News Publishing FocusYour Guide to the Changing Media Landscape

BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH WAN-IFRA

Director of mobile products at Washington Post Julia Beizer launched The Post’s first iPad app and has worked on every mobile product the

company has developed since. She is currently leading the initiative to create a new suite of products geared toward national and international audiences. Here, she shares some lessons learned from the Apple Watch project.

WAN-IFRA: At The Post you have bet on the success of the Apple Watch. How do you distinguish the hype from real opportunities for publishers?

Julia Beizer: We evaluate new opportunities on a couple of different dimensions. Will the project provide us an innovative way to tell stories? Will it give us experience with a new technology? Will it provide scale? When we made the decision to build for Apple Watch, it was clear we’d hit the first two goals. We made a bet, based on Apple’s impressive track record, that we’d probably hit the last one as well. But the key is that, even if we didn’t, we’d be achieving two other goals that are important to us. The Apple Watch project gave us an opportunity to keep pushing forward with both new story forms and new technologies.

What are the most surprising findings from users after the first months of the Apple Watch app?

Washington Post leads the way in mobile appsJeff Bezos’ influence on innovation at The Washington Post continues to unfold, and mobile is no exception. The Post was one of the first publishers to release an app for the Apple Watch, and in July it unveiled a new iOS app to attract new audiences. As director of mobile products at The Post, Julia Beizer is responsible for keeping the paper at the forefront of mobile innovation. WAN-IFRA’s Raquel Devís Sanchis interviewed her

We knew our push notifications would be the biggest hit with Apple Watch users and that has been borne out. That’s definitely something we plan to expand considerably, with greater customisation for users.

We took a big bet on visual storytelling for this

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project, investing in a regular feature for our Apple Watch app we call Big Story, Small Screen. For that feature, we turn a largely text story into an infographic that can be digested in six swipes. Readers who come to our watch app use this feature more than the real-time story feed we offer. And when they do go into this story, they flick all the way to the end.

Can we already talk about ‘watch-first journalism’ at The Post?

When we talk about efforts like the watch, we talk about them in the broader context of what we call

“adaptive journalism.”[…] When we choose to invest in a platform, we put a lot of effort into making sure our content, our product experiences and our technology are built for the way a reader expects to use them within that environment.

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In August, you released a new iOS app with the goal of attracting new audiences. That and other moves represent a significant change in your mobile strategy. How and why did that happen?

We got a blue-sky opportunity in 2014 to dream up a new tablet-app experience for national and international readers. Our goal was making digital browsing easier and more enjoyable than scrolling through the feeds of headlines we’re all used to from crowded homepages and overstuffed social feeds. The end result was the

app we launched on Kindle Fire Tablets, which puts our stories and news design first, pushing all other distractions out of the way. Readers really took to it, so early this year we began expanding. How could we push these content-first principles to a phone app, to the mobile web?

(This article was originally published in the September-October 2015 edition of World News Publishing Focus, the bi-monthly magazine published by WAN-IFRA.)

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TheWomen In News (WIN) initiative, a highly regarded editorial leadership programme for Africanwomenworkinginmedia,launcheditssixthyearbybringingtogether37womeninmiddleandseniormanagementofnewspapersinBotswana,Kenya,Malawi,Tanzania,ZambiaandZimbabwe,aswellasateamofcoachesandmentorsfromlocalmarketsandabroad.Thegoaloftheproject,organisedbytheWorldAssociationofNewspapersandNewsPublishers(WAN-

IFRA), and supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and theNorwegianMinistryofForeignAffairs,istohelpwomenmediaprofessionals,whoareunder-representedintopmanagementpositions,toexcelintheircareers.“WAN-IFRAaimstoclosethegendergapinthenewsroombyensuringwomenwithstrongleadershipskillsandpassionforthenewsindustrycanreachthetoppositionsinnewsmediahouses”,saidAlison Meston,headofcapacitybuildingforWomeninNews.“Alreadywithjusttwodaysintotheirfirstmediamanagementtraining,theparticipantsaresayingthisisalife-changingcourse”.Thewomen,meetinginSouthAfricalastweek,heardfromBongiweMlangeni,ofSouthAfrica’sSocial

JusticeInitiative,whotoldthegroupthataswomeninnews,theywere“notjustresponsibleforeditorialleadership,butmustviewthemselvesasinfluencersoftheircommunities”.FerialHaffejee,editorofCityPress,alsoaddressedthegroup,sayingthatgenderbiasinnewswasmade

worsebywomennotbeingusedassources.“Oneofthefirstthings Ididasaneditorwasensureournewsroomhadadedicatedwomensourcebook,sotherewasnoexcusenottoaskforacommentfromawomaninfinanceorpoliticsorhealth”.TikhalaChibwana,projectdirectorofWINAfricaEastsaid:“Thereissuchahighlevelofanticipation

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participantscanusethecertificationtofurthertheireducationtowardsanhonoursdegree.TheSouthAfrican meeting included sessions and workshops on gender bias in news, social impact reporting,managingdiversity in thenewsroom, strategies to attract young readers,managingpersonal finances,projectmanagementskillsandtimemanagement.Theinitiativealsoengagesthemediaindustryatthegloballeveltosensitizeandpromotechangefrom

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Earlier this year, the WAN-IFRA World Printers Forum Board decided to intensify working in the area of print standardisation in cooperation

with newspaper printers worldwide. A new version of the newspaper ICC colour profile was developed and tested by the Swedish Graphic Companies’ Federation in cooperation with WAN-IFRA. The new version adapts the modifications of ISO 12647-3:2013 especially with regard to reduced total ink coverage.

The World Printers Forum Board also decided to update the WAN-IFRA report on ‘Revision of ISO 12647-3’ (Special Report 2.37, 2005) accordingly. In this excerpt, the author of the newly published report, WAN-IFRA Research manager Anand Srinivasan, explains the importance of standardisation for newspaper printers and how they implement the revised standard.

Full-colour newspapers now the normIn the past 20 years, there has been a dramatic increase

in colour printing in the newspaper industry. Black and white pages are becoming rare, and many newspapers worldwide have increased their colour printing capacity and print in full colour. Having all pages in colour has become a fundamental feature of newspaper printing.

Globally, we see a decline in the revenues that newspapers make from print. Advertisement revenues are shrinking. Still, print accounts for 93 per cent of newspaper revenues. Print is the unique selling point

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Is standardisation necessary for newspapers?Print standardisation based on agreed international norms like ISO 12647-3 has been a great success for newspaper printing worldwide. In conjunction with the development of full-colour printing based on process colours (CMYK) replacing the old spot colour concept in newspaper production, the first ISO newspaper print standard was released in 1998 and improved over time

of a news publisher and is still very strong. Publishers should make the most of print. An attractive, high quality printed product is the key. It can be argued that the lifespan of a newspaper is a few hours or at most a day. Why is print quality important for such a short lived product? It is true that readers do not spot or c o m p l a i n about many quality errors.

However, for a reader, the clarity of pictures and advertisements are very important and over time, the readers develop an overall assessment of the quality of a newspaper. On the other hand, newspaper advertisers are very critical about quality errors. Unless a publisher provides an excellent reading and advertising experience, it is difficult to retain them. Bad reproduction results in loss of readers and many free

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‘make-goods’. Therefore, there is tremendous pressure on newspapers to standardise.

Suitable for all newspaper printersThe ISO 12647-3:2013 has some significant

revisions to the earlier version of the standard. It takes into account the latest market requirements in the industry. CTP has become a norm worldwide; run lengths of plates have improved; newsprint quality has improved; 40 and 42 GSM newsprint are being used; higher screen rulings and FM screens are common; and improved newsprint is being used to increase the colour gamut of newsprint. The standard addresses all those developments.

The important feature of the ISO 12647-3 standard is that it is flexible and suitable for all newspaper printers irrespective of the technology that is used. It provides a minimum specification and printers are free to better the minimum specification depending upon their technology. That is the reason WAN-IFRA has opened its Category 4 in International Newspaper Color Quality Club (INCQC) competition to newspapers who prefer to follow their own in-house standard.

WAN-IFRA’s recommendation to those printers is to maintain a written document on the in-house standard and maintain one standard for all the printing presses and plants. WAN-IFRA endorses most of the new <

In conjunction with the publication of thisreport,WAN-IFRA’sGlobalAdvisorydivisionhosted a webinar in August that offereda preview of the report and included tipsfor helping publishers standardise. AnandSrinivasan,WAN-IFRA’sResearchmanageronPre-PressandProductionandmanageroftheInternationalNewspaperColorQualityClub(INCQC) competition, led the webinar anddiscussed what was new in the revision ofISO12647-3standardandhowitcouldhelppublishersachievehighqualityinproduction.To replay the webinar, go to: http://tinyurl.com/iso-webinar-replay.

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recommendations. A new ICC colour profile is also now available, developed and tested by the Swedish Graphic Companies’ Federation (Grafiska Företagen) in cooperation with WAN-IFRA. Therefore, it is high time to take a close look at the revised ISO 12647-3.

(This article was originally published in the September-October 2015 edition of World News Publishing Focus, the bi-monthly magazine published by WAN-IFRA.)

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The Delhi Press has been a pioneer of sorts in the magazine scene in India.

Surprisingly, it was founded, not by someone with roots in Journalism, but by a qualified chartered account – Vishwa Nath. Set up in 1939, the first magazine to come out of the Delhi Press stable was Caravan, a literary publication in English (1940). It enjoyed a steady readership throughout the country and, five years later, was joined by Sarita, a Hindi monthly magazine.

From the very first issues, Sarita became a favourite with the Hindi-speaking population, especially since at the time there was only one family-type Hindi magazine, Sarswati (started in the year 1900 by Indian Press, Allahabad). Sarita continues to be the product that best captures the ideology of the Group.

Over the years, the Group has launched a number of magazines that have been just as popular and successful: Mukta, Champak, Grihshobha, Woman's Era, Alive, Suman Saurabh and Saras Salil to name a few. Today, it publishes a total of 36 magazines in 10 languages. With its corporate office at New Delhi, the Delhi Press has 12 regional offices in various state capitals that serve as distribution centres and as regional language editorial and advertising offices. The publications can be described as ‘consumer magazines’; advertising revenue is much more than circulation revenue. The group has always maintained the price tag of the magazines at affordable rates using cost-effective methodology to turn out products that have a pleasing appearance.

The Group has developed a highly integrated distribution network and reportedly is in direct

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contact with more than 3000 distributors. It prints and publishes more than 4.6 million copies of the 36 magazines each month from its own ultramodern state-of-the-art print plants based in Delhi, Faridabad and Ghaziabad.

The Delhi Press has been a pioneer in adapting the latest printing technology. An associate company, Pramod Engineering, was started by Vishwa Nath’s eldest son, the late Naresh Nath, a visionary who felt that if post-press (binding) operations were slow and time-consuming besides being labour-oriented, the enterprise would never be cost-effective. He envisioned automating all the steps of binding operations – from the printed form stage to the finished product – in the interests of cost-effectiveness, quick turnaround and international quality. He introduced the flow-line (for centre-stitched publications), the gathering-machine and the 3-knife trimmer. As of now, an estimated 315 machines from Pramod Engineering are installed in

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With a basket of 36 publications in 10 languages and two associate companies, the Delhi Press Group is upbeat about the future, given the growing literacy rate in India. Som Nath Sapru dwells on a bit of history and about how the Group has developed a highly integrated distribution network with more than 3000 distributors, as also its own state-of-the-art print plants in Delhi, Faridabad and Ghaziabad

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various parts of the country and overseas. Pramod Engineering is currently managed by Naresh Nath’s elder son, Divesh Nath.

During a recent inter-action, Paresh Nath, publisher and editor-in-chief of the Gro-up, while expressing concern over the dwindling readership of magazines, said part of the problem was because newspapers had eaten into magazine readership by penetrating deep into markets through multiple, localised editions of their products at low cover prices. Newspapers also had the advantage of higher revues from advertising and highly advanced systems of distribution, when compared to magazines, he pointed out. Elaborating on the distribution aspect, he said newspapers usually paid contractors to handle the service, while magazines had to rely heavily on postal services, and there were never-ending battles between magazine publishers and post offices about the extent of postal subsidy and concessions.

Nath was, however, quite confident about maintaining the dedicated readership of his own magazines. He stressed that his group did not allow any stagnation in the content of the periodicals and that it made it a point to keep up with fast changing social patterns. Caravan, which was discontinued in 1988, was revived in 2009, and is being handled by a group of dedicated journalists, headed by Nath’s son, Anant Nath, a graduate of Columbia University.

The growing literacy rate in the country has encouraged the Group to expand its basket of periodicals – it bought over BS Motoring magazine from Business Standard in 2013 and publishes Manohar Kahaniyan and Satya Katha, two popular crime fiction magazines belonging to Mitra Prakashan, an

Allahabad-based publishing house. Recently, two Kannada magazines -- Butti and Manasa -- were added to the list.

Another associate company, Vishv Books, named after its founder Vishva Nath, has published over 1500 titles so far, both fiction and non-fiction, focused on children up to Standard 8. “Our books are marketed and distributed across India and in other countries in South East Asia, Europe, USA, Africa and Mexico, Nath said, adding, “Keeping pace with the growing and changing technology, we have created e-books out of a few titles, compatible for all varieties of tablets and mobile phones.” However, as far as the magazine business is concerned, he was of the opinion that the ‘digital fever’ would be short-lived, and the digital conversion of his long list of magazines would not be as popular as their print versions.

On the whole, the growing literacy rate augured well for the publishing industry, Nath felt. While people with English-medium and public school education were less interested in reading magazines and periodicals, the neo-literates held out hope for the industry, he said.

(The writer has a master’s degree in Print Technology & Management. He served 33 years with the United States Information Service at the American Embassy in New Delhi as chief of Publications. During 2005-2011, he was editor of the IPAMA Bulletin. He is now general manager, Pramod Engineering, part of the Delhi Press Group.)

Over the years, the Delhi Press Group has launched a number of magazines that have been popular. Covers of some of the better known titles are pictured here. The Caravan, for example, is known for its high quality of long-form journalism and can easily rank amoung the best magazines in the world.

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Content-X now available on tablets

Content-X, the multi-channel editorial solution from the ppi Media and Digital Collections stable, has been enhanced by one important function. The Simple UI, a simplified user interface, makes the editorial solution ready for use on mobile devices. As of now, reporters can not only work on their desktop PCs but can also use a smart phone or tablet to submit copy, photos and entire stories into the web-based eaditorial system. The new simplified GUI lets journalists report remotely with even greater flexibility than ever before.

The Reporter Tool's simplified user interface concentrates on Content-X's four core functions: displaying information from news agencies in the news cloud, researching the archive, creating story content in the Story Editor, and uploading files.

The Nordkurier, a media house in Northern Germany, is running Content-X using tablets. Content-X offers editors the freedom they need to create quality journalism. The simple and user-friendly interface allows quick import of stories into the editorial system. This lets reporters dedicate more time to researching on stories rather than trying to figure out complicated technology.

Content-X saves time and money for the publisher. The editorial solution can be integrated quickly with existing systems if needed. Content–X reduces production costs by allowing efficient multi-channel

publishing; any content in the system, is stored in media neutral format until it is published on the desired channel.

The solution paves the way for a smart and efficient division of labor. While reporters collect stories and upload them in Content-X, graphic artists lay the newspapers or magazine pages out at the publishing house. They find the copy and photos they need in Content-X. The articles can also be quickly formatted for publication in a variety of media including newspapers, magazine and mobile news. This makes the editorial workflow easier and more efficient.

ProImage ink optimisation software scores

ProImage has announced two new successful implementations of their already widely used SaaS ink optimisation software OnColor ECO at two newspaper printers. The Newport Daily News/Newport Life Magazine, RI and the Manteca Bulletin, CA both recently installed the software and state immediate ink savings and print quality improvement.

The Newport Daily News in Rhode Island prints an average of 80 pages with a circulation of up to 24000 and was experiencing ink rub off and high ink costs. After installing ECO, they reported ink savings of 15 per cent and less ink offset – visible in ads with multicolour drop-outs that are now much more legible and have an improved image quality. “Using ECO SaaS service has not caused any production delays and ECO also corrects problems with RGB pages being sent as it converts them correctly to CMYK,” states Kevin Schoen, Operations director of The Newport Daily News. “ECO SaaS is very easy to set up and seamless once implemented. Support when needed has been outstanding.”

A similar feedback was reported by Morris Newspapers of California that prints the Manteca Bulletin plus six other titles and other commercial work. Pressroom manager Ron Randall reports a cleaner looking paper with less ink rub off and a slight improvement with press start-up. Furthermore, he states that their “staff found that the installation was easy with assistance from ProImage” and that “using the program required little to no training”.

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Gray Component Replacement (GCR), replaces an equal amount of CMY ink (the gray component) with lower cost black ink to produce a top quality printed result that uses much less ink. The SaaS (Software as a Service) solution provides all the benefits of ink optimisation software without any up-front cost and is a great solution for smaller newspapers and commercial printers.

First established in 1995, New ProImage is a leading developer of browser-based content management, prepress digital workflow, ink optimisation, tablet and mobile solutions, colour image processing and production tracking solutions for the commercial and newspaper printing and publishing industries.

Japanese firm improves productivity with KBA tech

Japan used to be a trendsetter when it came to LED-UV curing in sheetfed offset, making it all the more noteworthy that one of the country’s largest printing companies has fired up two KBA Rapida 106 presses both with future-focused LED-UV curing technology. It once again highlights the trailblazing role of KBA-Sheetfed Solutions regarding the implementation of new processes.

Tosho Printing, a subsidiary of the global Toppan group, has installed a highly automated four-colour and a five-colour high-end Rapida 106. The two new Rapidas have raised the bar with regard to productivity within the company. They are equipped with a camera system for monitoring sheet travel, DriveTronic SPC dedicated drives at the plate cylinders, CleanTronic Impact combined blanket, impression cylinder and

roller washing units, Emission Extraction System (EES), ErgoTronic ACR auto-register, QualiTronic ColorControl for quality control and inspection, optimum control strip height for improved paper format utilisation, DataMatrix-Select and the LogoTronic Professional production management system.

The management of Tosho Printing knew that their new Rapidas would produce more per hour than their other machines and just one month after installation the two presses met the company’s ambitious targets. Even Tosho’s executives, who would have preferred to invest in Japanese technology, now trust in KBA presses from Germany. Despite high press speeds of 18000sph, the press operators can relax during production thanks to the high level of automation. The sheets that are cured with LED-UV can be sent straight to post-press reducing lead times, minimising short-term storage requirements and enhancing overall productivity.

Tetsuo Ouchi, corporate officer, Production Control at Tosho Printing, describes the situation as follows: “Japanese press manufacturers will have to work even harder. We hope that they will also develop the solutions already offered by KBA.” Nevertheless, he expects significantly more than the contractually agreed delivery and efficient service from KBA.

“It’s all about working together as partners, even when it comes to developing new print products.” The company recently tested FlyingJobChange. It permits the even more efficient production of 1/1-colour Mangas on a four-colour perfector. While units 1 and 3 are printing, units 2 and 4 are set up or vice versa.

Founded in 1911, Tosho Printing now operates 30 sheetfed offset presses and other newspaper and

High production output is standard at Tosho Printing: The management team and KBA sales manager Michael Grieger (centre) at the sign-off of the two Rapida 106 presses.

Two Rapida 106 presses with LED-UV curing in Tosho Printing’s cutting-edge press room.

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commercial presses at five sites. Yomiuri, Japan’s largest daily, and others, are produced at the firm’s three newspaper operations. The other two specialise in commercial products, books and magazines. The same is true of the plant in Kawagoe-shi on the edge of Tokyo that operates the two new Rapidas. 1700 employees work at the company.

Adam NG opts for manroland control systems

After finishing a successful e-upgrade for two commercial web offset presslines, printing company Adam NG in Bruchsal has again opted for its long-term partner for the installation of inline control systems. manroland web systems offers a wide range of service upgrade solutions that help the customer to reduce costs and improve the quality. It develops the in-house Inline Control Systems that enable an integrated, holistic production with huge operating comfort.

Adam NG decided to replace the entire infrastructure of two existing commercial presses. It wanted a confident production control to supply its customers reliably and at best cost-per-copy. The printer has implemented some retrofit projects together with manroland web systems at the beginning of 2015. As part of a comprehensive e-upgrade, the hard- and software of the existing Lithoman and Rotoman presslines have been updated as well as the control systems of the folder of the Lithoman. The former Pecom PressManager including software was replaced by a state-of-the-art model for using the optimum of the workflow range. For offering the best possible quality to its customers, Adam NG has invested in another upgrade – a complete replacement of the inline control systems of a third-party-supplier at the Lithoman. The printer decided to choose the control systems for ink density, colour register and cut-off register from manroland web systems, part of the brand family Pecom-X, which includes all manroland web systems solutions and functions for networking and automation for printing houses.

The inline control systems for ink density, colour- and cut-off register, as integrated at Adam NG, are part of the quality initiative of the printer. The difference between IDCm and the well-known InlineDensity Control (IDC) are traversing measuring modules. The significantly lower costs for the investment and

the proven measuring quality and -accuracy are a success factor, combined with the easy integration to existing presslines.

The new Inline Control Systems at the Lithoman will be installed and integrated in April. “The greatest benefits result from the reduced waste rates and, at the same, time higher quality”, says Paul Haas, Technical director at Adam NG. “We are looking forward to again working with manroland web systems on these projects and the optimizations that result from this.”

Adam NG GmbH in Bruchsal with 75 employees is a web offset printer for complicated jobs. The middle-class family managed company offers new possibilities for individualisation and versioning of the printed communication to its customers – from small to large runs. Adam has special imprint units that enable a plate change while the press runs at full speed. Due to this, large runs can be differentiated fast and cost-effective at the web offset printing via imprint change – into almost any number of individual versions (e.g. different outlets, languages, prices, coupons, codes, etc.)

Goss appoints Alles as agent in S Korea

Goss International has recently appointed Alles International as its agent for South Korea with a view to gaining advantage from the company's established presence in the market as well as its expertise across a broad range of print disciplines. Alles International will be responsible for the sales, installation, parts and servicing of Goss' web offset systems and ancillaries for commercial printing, newspaper publishing and packaging print production.

According to managing director B.S. Park, the addition of the Goss brand to the Alles International portfolio is a great win for the company. "Goss has an excellent range of well-established products for this market, offering choice and flexibility in all key areas. Being able to offer a wide variety of technologies purposely designed for 4x1 newspaper production is a real strength, for example. It will help create an open dialogue and exchange of ideas with customers about possibilities for both immediate requirements and future aspirations."

In addition to the tried and tested press models with longstanding reputation in the market - such as the Goss Uniliner, M-600 and Sunday press systems -

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Park says he and his colleagues are especially eager to start exploring the opportunities of Goss solutions for packaging and label producers in Korea. "South Korea continues to see steady growth in packaging and is predicted to rank solidly among the world top 10 packaging producers across almost all packaging sectors over the next five years," he explains. "The versatility of the Vpak platform across film

and board applications and its easy integration with other packaging processes and technologies offers great potential as developments unfold. What's more, here as in many other countries, we're seeing a clear trend towards more package versions or SKUs, which makes us optimistic that the timing is right to introduce Vpak technology to this market."

Based in Seoul, Alles International was founded in 2012 and promotes itself as a total solutions specialist for print service providers in Korea. The company has carefully selected its manufacturing partners and equipment suppliers over time, according to Park. With a client portfolio that includes Fuji Xerox, x-rite, technotrans, Heidelberg and Agfa, Alles International currently represents leading manufacturers in prepress, digital, sheetfed and web presses, quality control systems and consumables, as well as suppliers to the used press market.

New head for ABB Printing

ABB has announced a change in its management. Damian Staedeli has been appointed head of ABB Printing with effect from January 1. Staedeli is well known within the newspaper production industry. He has been with ABB Printing for over 20 years, working primarily in the fields of service and sales.

In both fields his deep know-how was greatly appreciated by ABB’s customers and will be a major asset in his new role. He succeeds Markus Greiner, who is taking up a new challenge outside ABB Printing.

Staedeli looks forward to the challenges of his new role. “We have tuned our organisation to increase our competitiveness and to further emphasise our commitment to long-term support of our customers. We have a great team in Switzerland and across the world and are well equipped to handle whatever challenges come our way.”

The magic of digital and print can be alluring

Coating manufacturer Actega Terra, KBA-Sheetfed Solutions, Sappi and Rudolf Reproflex have joined forces to create a calendar for 2016. The highly finished, large-format monthly calendar titled ‘Under the deep blue sea’ displays fascinating underwater scenes and simultaneously unites print with the online world. The new approach delivers added value while at the same time creating a meaningful symbiosis between digital and print media.

The title page sparkles with the first highlight: extraordinary 3D effects with an impressive perception of depth are rendered with the unique application of the magnetic special coating from Actega Terra on a transparent protective film. The coating contains metallic effect pigments that can be aligned magnetically by means of a special magnetic foil on the impression cylinder. Various types of finishing with water-based and UV coating, including drip-off, matt/gloss, pearlescent gloss, cold foil and metallic effects as well as combinations of these can be seen on all of the following 12 monthly pages. The sophisticated calendar was printed and finished on a Rapida 105 PRO with six inking units, twin coaters and ColdFoil Infigo SF 110 cold-foil module in the KBA-Sheetfed Training Centre.

Every sheet is linked via a QR code to a microsite developed by Actega Terra and KBA (www.calendar-insights.com/en/). Further information about the individual pictures can be found here as well as on the finishing technique used. Users can find out

The ‘Under the deep blue sea’ calendar from Actega Terra and KBA unites a high quality finished print product with digital media.

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what production steps are necessary for creating the individual finishing types, and also which coatings were used. Short, clear video clips inform users about the steps involved in producing the individual images. What is more, interactive animations show the colour separations and coating formes used.

The calendar and respective website thus build the ideal platform for finishing experts and printers who have yet to fully get to grips with inline finishing technology. Information on the KBA Rapida 105 PRO rounds off the process technical contents and contribute in this way to an almost playful transfer of knowledge on details regarding how the calendar was produced.

About 3500 copies of the calendar were produced exclusively for customers and partners of the companies that worked together to create it. This year’s calendar is the fifth to be produced as part of a joint project by Actega Terra and KBA-Sheetfed. While a highlight of past calendars were aerial pictures, now the focus has been turned to the fascinating underwater world.

Remy-Roto orders 72-page Lithoman

The Belgian printing company Remy-Roto, a member of the Rossel Groupe, ordered a 72-page Lithoman from manroland web systems in late 2015. Delivery to the Beauraing site is planned for late 2016. Since 2009, a Lithoman has already been performing reliably at the location.

In the course of restructuring of the Remy-Roto printing house, a freshly ordered 72-page Lithoman from manroland web systems will replace an older 2-1 newspaper/semi-commercial Continent-type press from Koenig & Bauer. The new high-volume rotary press will ring in a new era of increased productivity for the Belgian printing institution, which has been successful on the market since 1905. From 2017 it

will employ two Lithoman presses to print renowned magazines such as Soirmag (formerly Soir Magazine). In addition, the production schedule includes advertising brochures, advertising and newspaper inserts along with flyers.

To Pierre Walravens, director-general at Rossel Printing and Remy Roto, the new Lithoman press is an investment in the future: “The Lithoman offers us expansion and back-up capacities for the existing press. Currently, the market, which we supply with newspapers and magazines for example, is undergoing some changes. We are counteracting this development with increased flexibility and more efficient manufacturing based on technical innovations, higher speed, and comprehensive automation features.”“The new press is also customised to the needs

of Remy-Roto,” explains Lodewijk Salomons, sales director of manroland web systems Benelux. “What’s more, both presses have the same operating philosophy and the same processes for their maintenance and spare parts supply. This also facilitates processes for the customer,” said Salomons. The Belgian printers are particularly impressed by the automated control devices of manroland web systems. This includes the InlineDensity Control (IDC) ink density control and the InlineCutoff Control dynamic (ICCD) cut-off register control. “They are the perfect equipment for cutting down on waste,” Salomons adds.

The Brussel-based Rossel Group is a family-owned business with more than 100 companies. It is primarily active in Belgium and France. The media business sector of the Group includes, in addition to publishing and printing at five locations, radio and television activities.

New 3D printing chief for Xaar

Xaar plc, the world leader in industrial inkjet technology, is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Neil Hopkinson to a new role as director of 3D Printing. Professor Hopkinson, who joins Xaar in March 2016, is the original inventor of the transformational High Speed Sintering (HSS) technology.

He brings with him 19 years of experience in additive manufacturing technology gained at the University of Sheffield, Loughborough University, De

The calendar was printed and finished on a medium-format KBA Rapida 105 PRO with twin coaters and cold-foil kit.

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The results for the awarded designs (the best poster and the best package) will be announced on February 19th on the Sinapse website and Facebook page. Sarah Jones, from RMIT Australia and the official chief expert for Graphic and Communication Department at Wordskills Sao Paulo 2015 and M. Jon Hall, graphic and design manager at PIA USA are the official jurors for the design competition.

The print competition starts on February 1, 2016. The teams solve print problems and the ones with the lowest production costs (and the best quality product) will be chosen for the finals at drupa. The first print jobs they will see are the winning designs from Worldskills SaoPaulo 2015 that have been integrated into the simulators. The winning designs will become ‘print jobs’ in the contest and will get world-wide recognition.

The finals will be live at drupa 2016 at Campus Avenue Hall 7a B01 on June 3rd. You can follow the contest on: www.Sinapseprint.com or contact: [email protected]

QI Press forays into labelling, packaging

The products of German-based company Intro International has become part of QI Press Controls. QIPC, developer and supplier of measurement and control systems for web offset printing presses, has acquired the assets and the intellectual property of Intro International as part of a so-called asset deal. Like QIPC, Intro International is responsible for developing and supplying optical measuring and control systems to the print industry.

However, the German-based family business has a greater focus on narrow web presses and digital printing, as opposed to QIPC, which has hitherto concentrated on web offset printing presses.

Montfort University, 3D Systems and the University of Nottingham.

In his new role with Xaar, Neil will build a world-class team to continue the development of HSS technology as well as other additive manufacturing processes; the team’s focus will be to accelerate the success of Xaar’s OEM partners in the exciting area of additive manufacturing. HSS is a revolutionary technology which uses inkjet printheads and infrared heaters to manufacture products layer by layer from polymer powder materials at much higher speeds than other additive manufacturing processes.

Professor Hopkinson has already achieved significant success leading the Innovate UK funded Factum Project. The three-year project, which concludes in 2016, was set up to develop supply chain and full scale production capabilities for novel additive manufacturing technologies for application in major industrial sectors within the UK economy through three key partners; Unilever (FMCG), BAE Systems (Aerospace) and Cobham Technical Services (Space and Communications). Xaar’s role, which is integral to this project, has focused on optimising the performance of specialist third party fluids in combination with its market leading printheads.“Industrial 3D printing is entering an important

phase of maturation and I am excited to be joining Xaar at this critical time,” says Professor Hopkinson. “It is clear that inkjet printing will be an important enabling technology as the 3D printing sector scales up to be an integral part of mainstream manufacturing. As a leading supplier to printing equipment manufacturers all over the world, Xaar is in a strong position to accelerate the adoption of HSS technology within a number of key applications.”

50 teams register for Sinapse Packaging Contest

Fifty teams from five continents have registered for the Sinapse International Packaging Contest. They include 24 teams from North and Latin America, 17 teams from Europe (including Russia), 7 teams from China, and 2 teams from North East Africa. Each team has to submit packaging designs for Sheetfed and Flexo, and to solve print problems on the Sinapse print simulators for Sheetfed and for Wide Web Flexo.


China-India Dialogue launched, Chinese team visits PII

L-r: Wen Zhihong, editorial director of China Pictorial and China-India Dialogue; Liu Haile the English editor; Sashi Nair, director-editor, Press Institute of India; Qiao Zhenqi, executive chief editor, China-India Dialogue; Commodore R. Seshadri Vasan, who retired after serving the Indian Navy and headed the Strategy and Security Studies, Centre for Asia Studies, India, and is now director Chennai Centre for China Studies; and D.S. Rajan, former director, Chennai Centre for China Studies, Chennai, and an expert on China, at the meeting.

The Press Institute of India played host on January 11 to a visiting editorial team of China-India Dialogue on their maiden visit to India.

The inaugural issue of China-India Dialogue was launched the previous day at a well-attended event at the New Delhi World Book Fair. China-India Dialogue, a monthly, is wholly supported by the China International Publishing Group (CIPG).

Present at the informal meeting at the Press Institute of India were Wen Zhihong, editorial director of China Pictorial and China-India Dialogue; Liu Haile the English editor; Qiao Zhenqi, executive chief editor, China-India Dialogue; D.S. Rajan, former director, Chennai Centre for China Studies, Chennai, and an expert on China; Commodore R. Seshadri Vasan, who retired after serving the Indian Navy and headed the Strategy and Security Studies, Centre for Asia Studies, India, and is now director Chennai Centre for China Studies; Magdoom Mohamed, managing director, WAN-IFRA South Asia; and Sashi Nair, director-editor, Press Institute of India.

Zhihong said the journal had been well received and the feedback was positive, appreciative and encouraging. She and her colleagues introduced the China-India Dialogue project and discussed the prospects of cooperation with interested Indian publishers. What followed was a fair exchange of ideas and experiences about India’s media industry and the kind of articles that might find favour with readers of the newly launched journal, as well as trends in India’s media industry and the practical aspects of China-India media cooperation. “We envisage China-India Dialogue as the first-ever

magazine that will feature prominent people in cultural, economic and academic circles in China and India. We plan to publish the China-India Dialogue both in India and in China,” said Zhihong. Later, after her return to China, she pointed out that the Chinese team had gained much by visiting India from January 8 to 12. “Besides a successful launching ceremony, we were deeply inspired by the adequate acceptance of

China-India Dialogue in India. I do believe that China-India Dialogue will lead to the blooming of dialogues between China and India thanks to your support and help.”

Founded in 1950, CIPG is China’s earliest and largest international communications group. Presently, it has 20 subsidiary book and periodical companies as well as 22 overseas branches, with its products distributed in more than 180 countries. China Pictorial, also founded in 1950, publishes four print monthlies in Chinese, English, Russian, and Korean, as well as online content in nine languages including Chinese, English, French, Korean, Russian, German, Italian, Japanese, and Arabic. The English edition of China Pictorial, which caters to educated readership in English-speaking countries, has a monthly circulation of 50000 copies. Zhihong mentioned the inaugural print run for China-India Dialogue as being 5000 copies. <

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Veteran journalist Narayanan deadVeteran journalist V.N. Narayanan (75), who had worked

for various national newspapers for over five decades, passed away in Singapore recently. His last rites were performed there. Narayanan was editor-in-chief of The Tribune Group of newspapers, Chandigarh, before he took over as the editor of The Hindustan Times. He was also the resident editor of Indian Express in Bangalore and Chandigarh. He was known for his fearless reporting of the Khalistan movement. Narayanan was a prolific writer and his works include Tryst with Terror - Punjab’s Turbulent Decade, I Muse, Therefore I am, and India at 50. He had a masters in economics from Madras University and a diploma in public administration from the Indian Institute of Public Administration. A Fulbright scholar and Jefferson fellow, he was a recipient of many journalism awards.

Narayanan had served as the chief editor of Bhavan’s Journal and also as the principal of HB College of Communication and Management of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in Bangalore. Narayanan was the son of the late V.K. Narasimhan, the legendary editor of Indian Express.

(Courtesy: Deccan Herald)

110 journalists killed in 2015India was among the three most dangerous countries

for journalists in 2015, with nine reporters losing their lives during the year, according to the annual report of Reporters Without Borders released on Tuesday. The media watchdog said the deaths confirmed “India’s position as Asia’s deadliest country for media personnel, ahead of both Pakistan and Afghanistan”. Only war-torn Iraq and Syria recorded the deaths of more journalists than India. Four of the nine Indian journalists murdered in the past year were killed “for still undetermined reasons”, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said.

Besides India, the eight other countries where the most journalists were killed were Iraq (11), Syria (10), France (eight), Yemen (eight), Mexico (eight), South Sudan (seven), the Philippines (seven) and Honduras (seven). A total of 110 journalists were killed in connection with their work or for unclear reasons in 2015, and at least 67 were killed while reporting or because of their work. “These 67 deaths bring to 787 the total number of journalists killed in connection with their work since 2005,” RSF said in its

report. Indian journalists “daring to cover organised crime and its links with politicians have been exposed to a surge in violence, especially violence of criminal origin, since the start of 2015”, the report said.

(Courtesy: Hindustan Times)

Women in News Programme launched

The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers, WAN-IFRA, is launching the Women in News (WIN) Programme in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine, starting March 2016. Applications are now open until 31 January for women who have editorial or senior journalist roles in newspapers or online news media organisations. Women from media companies in Jordan and Lebanon are particularly encouraged to apply. The editorial leadership progamme includes one-to-one career mentorship and intensive training in media management and leadership skills. “The launch of the programme in the region

is an exciting and much needed development,” said Fatemah Farag, publisher of Welad el Baled in Egypt and a Women in News Steering Committee member. “Audiences are demanding more from their news media and we need to ensure women have a voice by encouraging strong female leadership in newsrooms. WAN-IFRA’s Women in News programme is an essential first step for establishing women leaders in the news industry,” Farag said.

Candidates can apply in either Arabic and English, by visiting www.womeninnews.org. Applications close 31 January 2016. The programme has seen success in other regions, notably Southern Africa, where 44 per cent of WIN participants had been promoted in their newsrooms and 84 per cent felt more motivated to remain in the industry as a direct result of the programme.

Women in News works with newspapers and their high-potential female employees to overcome the gender gap in management and senior editorial positions. It does so by equipping programme participants with strategies, skills and support networks to advance their careers and contribute to the growth of strong local media enterprises.

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Through this initiative with its partners, WAN-IFRA raises awareness and provides practical advice to news media on the business case for diversity in leadership, and how to create an environment that supports the progression of women to management positions. WIN is a four-year, multi-million Euro program conducted by WAN-IFRA in partnership with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The program addresses the gender imbalance in media, while mobilising the industry to collectively create an environment that supports conditions for women in media, and their organisations, to succeed.

(Courtesy: WAN-IFRA)

India sees 5.8 per cent rise in print publications

According to data released by the Registrar of Newspapers in its 59th Annual Report, ‘Press in India - 2014-15’, on the print industry, India had 105443 registered publications in 2014-15. This includes 14984 newspapers and 90459 other periodicals. The report said that 5817 new publications were registered during the year; a rise of 5.8 per cent over the previous year while 34 publications ceased operations during the year.

There were 42493 publications in Hindi; the highest for any Indian language, while there were 13661 English publications (the second highest for any language). UP had the largest number of registered publications (16130) followed by Maharashtra (14394). Total claimed circulation of publications stood at 510521445 in 2014-15 as against 450586212 copies per publishing day in 2013-14. In terms of circulation, the report said that Hindi publications had 257761985 copies, English publications had a reported circulation of 62662670, while Urdu publications reported a circulation of 41273949.

The largest circulated daily was Anand Bazaar Patrika with 1178779 copies. The Delhi edition of Hindustan Times (English) was the second largest circulated daily with 1018367 copies. The largest circulated Hindi Daily was the Punjab Kesari, Jallandar with 742190 copies. The largest circulated multi-edition daily was The Times of India, English (33 editions), with 4630200 copies. The second largest

circulated multi-edition daily was the Dainik Bhaskar, Hindi (34 editions), with 3694385 copies. The largest circulated periodical was The Sunday Times of India, (English/Weekly edition, Delhi) with 885201 copies. The largest circulated periodical in Hindi was the Sunday Navbharat Times, Weekly edition, Mumbai with 704257 copies.

The Annual Report ‘Press in India - 2014-15’ was prepared on the basis of analysis of annual statements filed by the registered publications. It was launched in New Delhi by Arun Jaitley, minister of Information & Broadcasting, Finance and Corporate Affairs and Rajyavardhan Rathore, minister of State for Information & Broadcasting. The registered publications were required to file annual statements giving details including circulation figures under the Press & Registration of Books Act 1867. The report provided broad analysis of the general trend of the Indian press based on the claimed circulation.

(Courtesy: Deccan Herald)

Malini Parthasarathy resignsMalini Parthasarathy has resigned as editor of The

Hindu. Suresh Nambath, national editor, The Hindu, has been entrusted with the responsibility of managing the news and editorial operations of The Hindu until a new editor is appointed. The KSL Board placed on record its appreciation of the contribution of Malini Parthasarathy as editor of The Hindu. She will continue as a wholetime director of Kasturi & Sons.

(Courtesy: The Hindu)

Rahul Kansal quits TOIRahul Kansal has stepped down as president,

Brand Function, BCCL. He is joining the Future Group. Kansal had worked with JWT, O&M, Mudra DDB and Leo Burnett before joining Times of India (BCCL). He was elevated from chief marketing officer BCCL to executive president in April 2012.

(Courtesy: exchange4media.com)

EVENTS CALENDAR


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May

March 8-11, organised by FESPA, in Amsterdam: FESPA Digital 2016. More details at http://digital.fespa.com/en/.

March 10-11, organised by INMA, in Seattle, USA (Microsoft HQ): INMA Mobile Strategies Conference. More details at http://www.inma.org/modules/event/2016seattle/.

March 11, organised by INMA, in Frankfurt, Germany: INMA Ideas Day on Advertising. More details on INMA website.

March 29-31, organised by WAN-IFRA, in Manila: Publish Asia 2016. More details from [email protected].

April 11-15, organised by INMA, in New York: Big Data for Media Week. More details on INMA website.

April 17, organised by Newspaper Association of America, in Washington DC: NAA mediaXchange 2106. Only for NAA members/ more details on NAA website.

April 20-22, organised by WAN-IFRA, in Vienna: Digital Media Europe 2016. More details on WAN-IFRA website.

May 19-20, organised by INMA, in London: INMA Study Tours/ Media Disruption/ Legacy Media Reinvention. More details onINMA website.

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June 12-14, organised by WAN-IFRA, in Cartagena, Columbia: 68th World News Media Congress/ 23rd World Editors Forum/ 26th World Advertising Forum. More information from [email protected]

June 17, organised by INMA, in Amsterdam: INMA Ideas Day on Audience Development. More details on INMA website

May 22-24, organised by INMA, in London: INMA World Congress/ INMA Global Media Awards. More details at www.inma.org/worldcongress.

May 23-26, organised by WAN-IFRA, in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Hamburg : Study Tour: Newsroom meets Revenue. More details from [email protected].


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