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

December 2015 | Volume 36 | Issue 12 | Rs 40www.pressinstitute.in

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GOING THE EXTRA MILE TO SATISFY THE CUSTOMERIf you wish to stand up and be counted, there is little room for error or (colour) deviation. No system can ever be completely foolproof but investing in the latest technology usually helps improve efficiency. Malayala Manorama, Jagran Prakashan and Lokmat Media have just done that, all of them investing in QI Press Controls’ mRC-3D detection cameras, complete with double sensors and automatic self-cleaning. At Manorama, the mRC-3D cameras were installed in Kollam on a Manugraph Smartline double-width printing press with four towers and one folder. Jagran had them installed at their plants in Allahabad and Muzaffarpur, each on a Manugraph Cityline Express with six towers and one folder, while at Lokmat the cameras were for two new Orient presses in Nashik and Mumbai. The picture above shows an operator at the controls at Jagran Prakashan. For the full story, see page 24.

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Achieving efficiency and excellence in newspaper production is the goal

After the 23rd edition of the WAN-IFRA India Annual Conference in Mumbai in September, two people got together to painstakingly produce what is titled the WAN-IFRA India 2015 Printing Summit Conference Summary – WAN-IFRA India Research Manager Anand Srinivasan who is responsible for the activities at its Research and Material Testing Centre in Chennai (at the premises of RIND), and our assistant editor, Susan Philip. The summary has a foreword by Manfred Werfel, deputy CEO and executive director, Global Events, WAN-IFRA, who is also executive director of the World Printers Forum. The publication will be particularly useful for those who could not attend the Mumbai conference. Many of the points Werfel mentions are pertinent for the newspaper printing industry.

Werfel points out that achieving efficiency, excellence and innovation in newspaper production is important today because of the pressure to cut down operational cost, reduce waste, and increase revenue in all areas of newspaper production. Efficient use of energy and newsprint, procuring raw material at low cost, and an ISO-based integrated management system to manage plant operations are thus all key focus areas today, he says. One major trend identified by WAN-IFRA is the increasing usage of 42 GSM newsprint in the Indian newspaper industry. Light-weight newsprint comes with several cost benefits but brings with it several production challenges. Another important trend is the environmental initiatives from publishers to reduce carbon footprint and pollution. Dwelling on the aspect of improving print quality and benchmarking it within the global newspaper community, Werfel says one way to restore advertiser confidence (considering that advertising revenue is declining) is to print high-quality newspapers and sustaining such quality.

At the Printing Summit, WAN-IFRA launched a report on new and emerging business models of newspaper printing companies, available to all WAN-IFRA members. The report showcases several emerging and tested business models followed by printing companies worldwide. It examines the main

options chosen by printers in the light of recent and ongoing developments – how the change benefited publishers and printers, the hurdles and pitfalls they had to contend with, and how they see the way forward. It presents a number of cases from around the world that illustrate the development from different points of view.

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The 12th edition of the competition for member-ship to the International Newspaper Color Quality Club will commence at the start of the New Year. The registration deadline is December 31. WAN-IFRA offers tutorials to help participants familiarise themselves with the relevant ISO standards and INCQC rules. INCQC is the only worldwide quality printing competition for newspapers. The competition has been organised every two-years since 1994 by WAN-IFRA. It is open to all newspapers and all newspaper printing plants, whether WAN-IFRA members or not, independent of the printing processes and materials used. INCQC membership is open to all companies that show they can produce high-quality newspapers consistently over an extended period. Achieving a given number of points is all that is needed for attaining membership to the exclusive club. The new club members for the period 2016–2018 will be confirmed with the mailing of the final evaluations in June 2016. They will be awarded at World Publishing Expo 2016 in Vienna (10–12 October 2016), Austria. You can read more about this in Anand Srinivasan's article on page 12.

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You need to keep the newspaper relevant 6Interview with Rahul Kansal

'You have to master the digital ecosystem' 8Thomas Jacob at the WAN-IFRA Conference

Earning INCQC membership - tips from a winner 10P.T. Bhasi at the WAN-IFRA Conference

Preparations grow apace for INCQC 2016-18 evaluations 12WAN-IFRA's Anand Srinivasan explains how

There is indeed a future for newspapers 14

Point of view by Som Nath Sapru

Key quotes and takeaways 17From Editors Forum in Washington / WNPF article

Transformation takeaways 20 From strategy sessions at World News Media Congress

Industry Updates 24

Other News 44

Events Calendar 46


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You need to keep the newspaper relevant

What are some of the recent developments in terms of initiatives taken at BCCL?

We have a new CEO, Mr Raj Jain. It has been a year of consolidation and helping grow all our editions. Now we are leaders in the city of Chennai, we are leaders in the city of Hyderabad. The journey had involved meeting challenges there. So it was a journey of consolidation and progressively strengthening our network everywhere.

You have interests in print, electronic and digital. How does one supplement the other?

Basically, I think newspapers and digital need to have a coordinated strategy. What stories you kick off in the print could have follow-up and interactivity happening through online. Similarly, interesting comment and content you get online can come back in the newspaper. It’s a loop really. Print to online and back.

You have several printing sites across India. How do you ensure uniformity of excellence on the editorial side as well as in print production?

The newspaper industry in India is doing well and there is a lot of untapped potential, Rahul Kansal, executive president, Bennett, Coleman & Company, tells RIND Survey in an exclusive interview. Kansal says his company also faces the challenges that editors across the world face, such as regaining readers who had ventured into social media, for example. Gayatri T. Rao interviewed Kansal in Mumbai

all the 50 editions of The Times of India. Similarly we have a common production leadership across all our printing centres. And we have absolute quality standards, which we ensure in each market.

What are some of the tough challenges you think editors face today?

The challenge faced by editors all over the world is how to keep bringing back readers to the newspaper. How do you ensure that young readers, who are digitally savvy with their smart phones and their Facebook all day long, find value in reading newspapers? That’s a challenge for the world editors. You need to keep the newspaper relevant even as new media develops.

What is your impression of the media scene in India?

Basically, that’s a very big question. The media is basically a fast growing industry in this country. Newspapers, which are fairly in a declining phase in the developed world – in India the growth may be gradually slowing – is really healthy in absolute terms. In all industry estimates like the Pitch-Madison Reports, the newspapers have done well at high single digits. The industry is doing well and there is a lot of untapped potential. Still overall, newspaper penetrations are low. Therefore, there is ample opportunity for language newspapers to pick up new readers and convert non-readers to readers. Similarly, due to the social desirability of English, there is a lot of opportunity for the English newspapers to convert all language readers to English readers. I think the newspaper industry in this country has many years of high-pitch growth ahead.

Rahul Kansal says there is ample opportunity for language newspapers to pick up new readers.

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First of all, having a common and a consistent national structure of quality control helps. So obviously, while we empower different unit managers and different editions, there are controls and processes to ensure that there is a national outlook. So we have an executive editor, a common editorial leadership across


RIND Technical SeminarsStarting this year, PII-RIND (RIND amalgamated with the Press Institute of India in 1990) commenced a series of technical seminars. The first one held in April focused on Running a Web Offset Press: Best Practices, the second in July on Printing Plant Maintenance. Details for the third, scheduled again at the RIND Premises in Taramani, Chennai, are as under:

On Friday, 18th December

10 am to 5 pm

CTP SYSTEMS IN NEWSPAPER PRODUCTION

The subject, useful for pre-press executives/ managers and quality control executives, will include:

Session 1: Optimising reproduction in CtP What are factors that can affect dot reproduction in CtP, how to optimise these factors and what are the periodic tests that has to be done to maintain the optimisation

by G. Nagarajan, Senior Manager, IT Pre-Press, The Hindu

Session 2: Plate processor and maintenance Best practices and maintenance methods for plate processors

Session 3: CtP plate technologies Working principles of thermal and photopolymer plates. Environmental friendly initiatives by plate manufacturers

by P.V. Manohar, Chief Operating Officer, Newspaper Systems, Technova

Session 4: Screening technologies What are the different screening technologies available? How to choose the right screening technology and optimise production?

by Prof Kanchana, Dept of Printing Technology, Anna University

Session 5: RIP calibration How to achieve plate linearisation and calibrate RIP to achieve the right dot gain?

Session 6: Automation and other possibilities with CtP Ink key values to press, adjusting fan out in plates, plate sorting and automatic transportation. What are the possibilities with CtP and its workflow?

(Names of other speakers will soon be confirmed. There will be breaks for refreshments between sessions; lunch between 1 pm and 2 pm.)

The participation fee is Rs 2500. Payment can be made by DD/ payable-at-par cheque favouring Press Institute of India and mailed to the Director, Press Institute of India, Second Main Road, Taramani CPT Campus, Chennai 600113. For more details, please contact Geetha at 044-22542323/ 2344 or [email protected].

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Thomas Jacob, the chief operating officer of WAN-IFRA, quoted statistics about advertising and circulation trends worldwide.

Print circulation revenue stood at $89.9 billion, up 0.4 per cent in 2014 while print advertising declined 5.2 per cent to $77 billion, he said, pointing out that the situation isn’t as grim as it is projected to be. Global newspaper revenue amounted to around $179 billion – one of the highest among other information and news industries. Digital circulation went up to $2.5 billion, an increase of 45.3 per cent, and digital advertising rose 8.3 per cent to reach $9.5 billion in the year under review.

Giving the breakup of media consumption patterns time-wise, Jacob said broadcast leads the pack with 125 minutes, followed by mobiles with 97 minutes. Newspapers took up the least of the consumers’ time, with 33 minutes. Jacob told the audience that the media industry has seen seven dramatic changes in the recent past:

From print to online• From text and photo to multimedia • storytelling

‘You have to master the digital ecosystem’The pattern of disruption and what publishers can do about it was the focus of Thomas Jacob’s presentation at the WAN-IFRA India Annual Conference in Mumbai earlier this year. A report

From desktop to mobile• From search to social media• From linear TV to streaming video on • demand From traditional ad sales to programmatic • and nativeFrom anonymous Internet to identified • internet

Newspaper print advertising revenues registered a 17.5 per cent decrease over five years from 2010, he said, adding, on the other hand, newspaper digital advertising revenues saw a 59.5 per cent increase over the same period. Social media advertising revenues have also shown a rapid rise during the five years. Changing revenue streams in the US market saw newspaper advertisements accounting for only 46 per cent of the revenue, and digital ads 9 per cent, in 2013, whereas the advertisement revenue in 2007 was 81 per cent.

Defining disruptionJacob saw a pattern of disruption in the changes.

He quoted The New York Times Innovation Report to define disruption as “the predictable pattern across many industries in which fledgling companies use new technology to offer cheaper and inferior alternatives to products sold by incumbents. Today, a pack of new startups are hoping to ‘disrupt’ our industry by attacking the strongest incumbent.”

Continuing to draw from the report, he said incumbents treat innovation as a series of incremental improvements. They focus on improving the quality of their premium product to sustain their current business model. Disrupters introduce new products that at first do not seem like a threat. Their products are cheaper, with poor quality, to begin with. Over time, disrupters

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improve the quality of their product, usually by adapting a new technology. The flashpoint comes when their product becomes “good enough” for most customers and they are poised to grow by taking market share from incumbents.

Suggestions for publishersWhat can publishers do? Jacob asked the

audience. He offered the following pointers: Understanding the disruption patterns and • mastering the digital ecosystem are primary steps to be taken, he said. After that, efforts must be made to create an entrepreneurial mindset and culture. He suggested that technology could be made • an ally in the newsroom by hiring a digitally savvy chief technology officer. Stressing the importance of optimising audience engagement on the various platforms available, he said this consideration could be

taken care of by a chief content officer with a good understanding of these platforms. Learn from best practices and invest in skills • development. “We have to upgrade the skills of our operations to meet the demands of the next generation,” he advised.

(Thomas Jacob is responsible for developing and implementing WAN-IFRA’s strategy to be the platform for exchange of

ideas, information and experiences among the global news publishing industry. He began his career as an engineer with the

Mathrubhumi newspaper from Kerala, India, and has more than 29 years of experience in media. He holds an MBA degree from the

University of Chicago, Booth School of Business. As a summa cum laude, he is also a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, an

honour society for management in the United States. This report had appeared in the WAN-IFRA India 2015 Printing Summit Conference

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In his presentation, outlining the paper’s step-by-step approach to the competition, P.T. Bhasi said “We started our preparations eight months

before the competition. That gave us ample time to look at all areas of colour reproduction and improve it.”

Step 1: Understand INCQC rules and regulations

Before the start of the competition, it is important to understand each and every word of the instructions, especially the timeline of the competition and the way points are calculated, Bhasi said. He drew the attention of the participants at the conference to one particular component of the instructions, called Success Table. “It shows how many points you have to score in each criteria to win the club membership,” he said, adding that another way of looking at it, is to calculate how many points a participant can afford to lose in each criteria. “Then, an analysis of our strengths and weak areas will tell us exactly where we should focus,” he explained.

Step 2: Get a basic idea of colour management

Usage of the right ICC profiles is important for good colour reproduction. It is essential to know what profiles to use and where to use them. “For the first two steps, we took the support of WAN-IFRA and organised a training session for our key staff, who were involved in the INCQC project,” Bhasi said.

Step 3: Improve pre-press picture qualityPicture quality is important to score points in

the General Print Quality (GPQ) evaluation. “One area of weakness we noted was that the obituary pictures that we publish are always of poor quality. We can do nothing to improve them,

Earning INCQC membership — tips from a winnerWhat does it take to win a membership of the International Newspaper Color Quality Club? The Mathrubhumi, an Indian vernacular newspaper, is in a great position to provide guidelines, having won two club memberships in their very first attempt in 2014-16. P.T. Bhasi, GM - Production and Maintenance, presented a case study at the WAN-IFRA Conference in Mumbai. A report

as the originals that we get from clients are poor and we cannot bother them to provide better originals,” Bhasi said. He told the audience that in many cases, clients asked them to use the same bad pictures for anniversaries. They converted that into an opportunity. “Our Ad Department contacted all the advertisers and asked them to give better originals for anniversary photographs,” he said.

The Mathrubhumi’s core INCQC team also worked closely with editors to ensure that no bad quality originals were selected during the competition period. “We also worked with designers to make sure that photographs are not placed in newspaper folds and behind the WAN-IFRA cuboid,” he said.

Step 4: Press inventory standardisationThe competition required brighter shades

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of paper to be used during the test runs. Since preparations began well ahead of time, they did not want to procure brighter newsprint for the sake of the competition and store it for more than a year. What they did was test all the newsprint that was routinely used, and the best brand of them all was chosen. They also worked closely with suppliers to get ISO 12647-3 compliant ink.

Step 5: Standardising measuring instru-ments

There is always a possibility that different brands of instruments measure differently. At Mathrubhumi, different brands of densitometers are used at different branches. To overcome the problem, the newspaper procured an X-rite eXact (the instrument that WAN-IFRA uses for the CQC competition) and did an inter-instrument agreement study (to determine the differences between equipment). Because they began the preparations well ahead of the competition dates, they were able to assess the differences and take corrective action.

Step 6: Pre-press and press calibrationDot gain calibration was done with the help of

the Actual and Intended Press curve method in Harlequin RIP. First, the right ink density for the paper and ink combination had to be found, and then used to achieve the right dot gain.

Step 7: Form a team“We selected a team from the pre-press and

press side,” Bhasi said. Skills were identified, and the team was accordingly split into groups. The members divided up the responsibilities and each mastered his role. Proper usage of colour profiles, instruments and raw materials was ensured. As the final touch, a leader was selected to coordinate the whole set of activities.

Step 8: Simulate the competitionSimulated competitions were organised towards

the end of the preparation period. Each team was mandated to ensure proper working patterns. Repeated simulation exercises were conducted to make sure all team work proceeded smoothly and in co-ordination.

Step 9: Actual competitionAt the actual competition, “everything went as

planned and both our printing plants won club membership,” Bhasi concluded proudly.

(P.T. Bhasi is in charge of Corporate Responsibility of Production and Maintenance Functions of all press and post-press

equipment and activities. He played the lead role in setting up plants in 10 production centres in the Indian state of Kerala where

Mathrubhumi has its base. He was also instrumental in procuring state-of-the-art press and post-press equipment for the paper. This

report had appeared in the WAN-IFRA India 2015 Printing Summit Conference Summary.)

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English news channel Times Now has expanded its international presence with the launch of the channel in the UK. "The success of Times Now among the viewers here (in India) has encouraged us to launch it for Indians who live abroad and want to be completely abreast of all the important news of their country and its growing eminence in the world," said M.K. Anand, chief executive officer of Times Network, the broadcast arm of Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd (BCCL) that owns Times Now.

The flagship channel of Times Network has remained a leader in the English news space in India for the past seven years. "With this launch, we have just started building our presence in the European market and we intend to enter France and Germany, too, by next year," Anand said. Times Network channels have now reached over 80 countries in five continents in a little over four years.

Naveen Chandra, head of international business at Times Network, said: "We are now building our local sales team and will enlist for BARB (Broadcasters' Audience Research Board) ratings soon." The company is planning a marketing blitz using all forms of media, including television, radio, print, digital and OOH to create a buzz around its arrival in the UK where Times NOW will be distributed on Sky, one of the largest distribution platforms with a reach of over 12 million households.

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For the first time, the International Newspaper Color Quality Club (INCQC) competition is being organised entirely at the WAN-IFRA

Research and Material Testing Centre (RMTC) in Chennai. RMTC, established in 2007, offers newsprint and ink testing, training and consulting services for newspaper industry. Running an international competition calls for highly organised working procedures and, hence, needs a lot of preparation. Keeping that in mind, RMTC started its preparations about a year ago.

The foremost requirement for INCQC evaluation is procuring the Spectrodensitometers for evaluation. X-rite has been a long-term partner at the INCQC competition. This year, too, they have sponsored two X-rite eXact spectrodensitometers, the latest they have introduced in the market. Other sponsors are Krause and Macro Solutions.

Based on past records, WAN-IFRA anticipates that about 160 newspaper titles would participate in INCQC 2016-18. Receiving copies from so many publications, storing them, evaluating and generating reports is also not an easy task.

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Preparations grow apace for INCQC 2016-18 evaluationsThe International Newspaper Color Quality Club (INCQC) is the only worldwide competition that evaluates the print quality of newspapers. The bienniel competition was started in 1994 with the aim to promote One Quality Standard for the newspaper industry. ISO 12647-3, the quality standard for newspaper production, is taken as the basis for evaluation, says WAN-IFRA's Anand Srinivasan

First, a 5S project was undertaken and the existing laboratory equipment were re-arranged to create space for storing newspaper copies from the participants of the competition. RMTC procured custom-made black colour cardboard boxes to store the copies. The boxes are light proof, designed for specific sizes to suit newspaper copies of varied sizes and for storage in an air-conditioned laboratory.

Each participating newspaper title is assigned a unique number and a box. When a parcel arrives, it is unpacked and the copies are stored in the respective box and later taken up for measurement and evaluation. Once measurement is done, the values are stored as a text file with a unique file name. Reports are then created with WAN-IFRA’s automatic report generation software.

RMTC is currently evaluating the pre-check copies, a free evaluation for those newspaper titles who had registered in the competition before 30th October. Pre-check is a preliminary evaluation that aims to simulate actual competition so that participants can get a feel of the real competition. It also gives participants an indication of where they stand and what further preparations are needed.

The last date for registering in the competition is 31st December, just over a month away. The competition starts in January and ends in March 2016. Newspapers, who successfully demonstrate that they can print high quality consistently in accordance with international quality standards will be awarded a club membership for a period of two years. Results will be announced in June and the awarding ceremony will be held at World Publishing Expo in October in Vienna, Austria. A view at RMTC of the custom-made black colour cardboard

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The first newspaper in India - the Bengal Gazette, popularly called Hicky’s Gazette - was

published in 1780. It was a two-pager in foolscap size. From then on, newspapers grew rapidly in number. In 1861 there were eight Hindi and 11 Urdu newspapers. They mushroomed in the Bombay Presidency, North West Province, Oudh and Central Provinces and the Madras Presidency. Their total readership was not perhaps more than 150000. Around 1500 to 3000 copies of each paper were printed, and the readers were Englishmen working for the East India Company or the government and a few well-off Indian families. From the start, newspapers in India were dedicated to fighting for social causes, rights and civil liberties. The campaign for freedom was carried out through them.

Today, newspapers in India are adopting new methods to present news, and adapting to changing times. Electronic and digital technologies are now posing serious challenges to the print media.

There is indeed a future for newspapers

In the ever-evolving media world, the newspaper in India plays a lead role in highlighting important issues facing society in general besides educating the country’s over 1.2 billion people about their constitutional rights. Print media experts and corporate publishers are quite confident about the continued growth of newspapers in India, says Som Nath Sapru

Publishers are producing regional editions and newspapers in the vernacular, backed by the growth of literacy (from 12 per cent literacy rate at the time of Partition, it grew to 75.8 per cent in 2013) which has enhanced readership. Statistics show that people prefer newspapers in their regional languages, which is why vernacular newspaper publishers are bringing out editions from other cities and even mofussil towns where there is sizeable population of particular linguistics groups.

Thanks to the availability of new and fast communication methods that can carry visuals and the printed word with speed and clarity, the print media is finding that it has to do something different. And that difference lies mainly in providing perspective to readers. As a result, print media experts and corporate publishers are quite confident about the continued growth of newspapers in India. The Indian newspaper industry is expected to grow by 17.9 per cent in the coming five years. In the developed world, of course, the Internet has dealt a sizeable blow to traditional newspaper publishing and readership. However, analyses shows that the decline in newspaper readership and circulation in the US and Europe pre-dates the Internet era. In other words, the story of the decline of the daily newspaper goes beyond the Web.

Radio and television must surely shoulder some of the blame; changing lifestyles, too, has impacted newspaper readership regardless of competing media.

A couple of years ago, a sample survey was conducted by a leading media institution in the US about readership of newspapers over the years and the results displayed a declining trend:

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Question asked: Did you read a newspaper yesterday? Eighty per cent said yes in 1961; 58 per cent in 1999; and only 45 per cent in 2014.

The enduring strength of newspapers is local coverage. The reality is that metro city newspapers have more ‘feet on the ground’ than competing news websites. Of late, newspaper managers are translating their local strength onto their websites as well. A journalist who recently conducted a survey of over 2000 readers in metro cities shared with the author one question and its response: Question: What is the main reason you subscribe to local newspaper of your choice? Answers varied: National and international news (14 per cent), columnists (4 per cent), habit (14), job openings (6), obituaries/ local news (4), matrimonial (5), and others (4).

Many newspapers are trying to attract younger readers by including more youth-oriented entertainment and lifestyle subjects more relevant to people's daily lives than international affairs and politics (The Times of India and Hindustan Times are good examples). They are trying to create new businesses on- and off-line, besides investing in conclaves and conferences which are socially relevant.

In the early 1990s, many newspaper establishments upgraded technology, and computers were installed even by regional newspapers published from mofussil towns. This was followed by the Internet in 1995. In the past five years there has been a total change of scenario in technology and means for the transmission of text and visuals thanks to smartphones, tablets, etc. Newspapers are creating new methods of disseminating news and other material through TV stations, websites and radio stations to give their target audience information as it happens 24x7, and at cost-effective prices. All leading Indian newspapers have their own websites and major media houses such as The Times of India, Ananda Bazar Patrika, India Today, The Hindu, Dainik Bhaskar, Sakshi Newspapers and Malayala Manorama have their own TV channels.

The other point is the commercial aspect. There is constant conflict between newspaper circulation, readership and advertising. The Government of India is one of the largest advertisers in the country and its standard criterion for the release of a newspaper advertisement is the circulation figures of that paper. Benchmarks show that on average, newspapers are left with around a third of their circulation revenue after costs are deducted. Subscription rates of any newspaper are astonishingly low compared with

figures for Western countries. Typically, as much as 70 per cent of a newspaper’s revenue comes from sale of advertising space and only about 20 per cent is from subscription and street sales. If circulation is not the answer to the newspaper industry’s profitability, obviously advertising is, and newspaper advertising rates have traditionally been based on total readership, rather than circulation alone. The newspaper industry found gold in the concept of shared readership, and began to measure total newspaper readership as an adjunct to circulation – and thus cashed in on government advertising.

The results of a recent study by the School of Management Studies, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, revealed “that the future of newspapers is safe and robust”. The strategic thinking of newspaper publishers for upgrading technology and competence has boosted the Indian newspaper industry’s growth. Over the past five years there has been a steady growth of 16 per cent in newspaper circulation in Asia; India showed a growth of 7.2 per cent during the period.

Hindi newspapers dominate the market with a total circulation of more than 15 million copies a day, followed by English newspapers with over 9 million copies. Among regional languages, Marathi newspapers sell 5.4 million copies a day, followed by Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Kannada, Gurumukhi and Oriya. Almost all the regional language newspapers have online editions.

(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.)

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World News Publishing FocusYour Guide to the Changing Media Landscape

BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH WAN-IFRA

“It’s hard to be first today,” said Bill Nichols, editor-at-large of Politico. “It’s Twitter, Facebook, or Reddit that are usually first. So

we have diversified our journalism and made it deeper, and smarter, and more issue-based,” he said.

Tom Rosenstiel, executive director of the American Press Institute, noted that media organisations have traditionally acted as general stores, having content that spans a range of topics. But the Internet rewards specialisation – a better source on a topic is just a click away. To build audience, media companies should thus develop a few pillar topics, coverage areas they can become known for. Then, readers can find additional content once they’re there.

The challenges of leading a newsroom in 2015“The biggest challenge is that we are just being asked

to do so much,” said Martin Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post. “We’re doing audio, we’re doing video, we’re having to do such a wide range of things and resources are fewer. We’re asked to do more – constantly more. It’s a huge challenge.” “It’s a huge mistake to think we don’t need editors,” he added. “They’re our quality control. People remember our mistakes a lot longer than our successes.”

Valuing and listening to our audiencesDeeply understanding audience members as people,

not just numbers, and involving them in journalistic

Key quotes and takeawaysFROM EDITORS FORUM IN WASHINGTON

Speakers at this year’s World Editors Forum in Washington, DC, discussed the trends, challenges and advantages of running a modern newsroom. In this article, WAN-IFRA research fellow Julie Posetti offers her top takeaways from the WEF sessions as well as a preliminary look at some of the findings of a study on source protection in the digital age, which the WEF has undertaken for a UNESCO report

coverage is a key element of building reader-informed news.

Greg Barber, director of Digital News Products at The Washington Post, told the WEF audience that “readers” are news production partners:

a) Audiences have been starting conversations for decades, ever since the beginning of the letters to the editor section.

b) They’ve helped tell stories. NPR in the USA asked its readers which lobbyists were in the room during the early health care debates, which helped the news company identify people who influenced conversations and, potentially, policy. WNYC asked its readers to track cicadas on the East Coast, including the submissions on a map.

c) They’ve funded journalism. Readers not only receive the news, but also give support through Kickstarter campaigns and other solicitations.

d) They’ve even challenged journalism. Facebook comments from Iraq War veterans questioning NBC television anchor Brian Williams’ story led to his suspension.

e) But audiences can help only if journalists listen to them.

The evergreen analytics debate James Robinson, director of Analytics Innovation

at The New York Times, said he often fields this question from newsroom staff: “How well did my


story perform?” And they often focus too much on quantitative measurements, such as assuming that more page views mean a better performance, Robinson said, instead of qualitative factors. “Trying to measure engagement by looking for a number is like trying to measure how much I love my wife by how many flowers I buy her every week,” he said. ”Numbers alone cannot describe the value of factors such as emotions.”

Baron checked The Washington Post’s analytics just before hitting the stage at the World News Media Congress, but reminded editors that they have deeper editorial responsibilities: “We’re not just followers, we have to be leaders. Don’t be a slave to the metrics.”

Objectivity 2.0Politico’s Bill Nichols differentiated between object-

ive journalism and non-partisan journalism: “I sometimes refer to ‘Objectivity 2.0,’ he said. “I

don’t believe in the notion that was prevalent 20 years ago that journalists are somehow different from other human beings, that we don’t have personal or political views, and that we are able to shield ourselves from those. That’s ridiculous. What is integral for the Politico brand is that we are non-partisan. When we started a few years ago, that was viewed as idiotic, old-fashioned, and archived. No one wanted non-partisan journalism.”

Platform neutralityToday’s news audiences consume news across

platforms on multiple devices. There are not separate groups of print readers and social-media readers.

“Technology is a behaviour, not an audience,” said API’s Rosenstiel. ”Organisations that accept that and work to better distribute content across platforms, along with better tracking of it, will do well.” Baron added, “We have to recognise that the vast majority of people are getting their news digitally – and most of them access it through mobile. The big challenge is that we still have a newspaper, and that print product represents the biggest portion of our revenue.”

Protecting our sources in the digital ageActs of journalism should be shielded from targeted

surveillance, data retention and handover of material connected to confidential sources. That’s a key finding of a study of the state of journalistic source protection in 121 countries undertaken for a UNESCO report by the World Editors Forum.

The report (cover page pictured below), edited by WAN-IFRA Research Fellow Julie Posetti, is titled Protecting Journalism Sources in the Digital Age. Launched at a Pew-Research sponsored breakfast in Washington during Congress, the report will be published by UNESCO this year.

The legal frameworks that protect confidential sources of journalism – essential to reporting information in the public interest that may otherwise never come to light – are under significant strain around the world in the digital era. There’s now a need to revise and strengthen them – or introduce them where they don’t exist.

In many of the 121 countries examined in this new study, it was found that legal source protection frameworks are either actually or potentially: • Eroded by national security and anti-terrorism

legislation;• Undercut by surveillance – both mass and

targeted;• Jeopardised by mandatory data retention policies

and pressure applied to third-party intermediaries (such as ISPs, telcos, search engines, and social media platforms) to release data; and• Outdated when it comes to regulating the

collection and use of digital data. Examples include the admissibility, in court, of information recorded without consent between a journalist and a source, and the extent to which existing source protection laws also


5. Affirm that state and corporate actors (including third-party intermediaries) who capture journalistic digital data must treat it confidentially (acknowledging also the desirability of the storage and use of such data being consistent with the general right to privacy).

6. Shield acts of journalism from targeted surveillance, data retention and handover of material connected to confidential sources.

7. Define exceptions to all the above very narrowly, so as to preserve the principle of source protection as the effective norm and standard.

8. Define exceptions as needing to conform to a provision of “necessity” and “proportionality” — in other words, when no alternative to disclosure is possible, when there is greater public interest in disclosure than in protection, and when the terms and extent of disclosure still preserve confidentiality as much as possible.

9. Define a transparent and independent judicial process with appeal potential for authorised exceptions, and ensure that law enforcement agents and judicial actors are educated about the principles involved.

10. Criminalise arbitrary, unauthorised and wilful violations of confidentiality of sources by third-party actors.

11. Recognise that source protection laws can be strengthened by complementary whistleblower legislation.

How does your country’s source protection framework shape up against this model?

(This article was originally published in the July-August 2015 edition of World News Publishing Focus, the bi-monthly magazine

published by WAN-IFRA.)

cover digitally stored material gathered by journalistic actors.

The study also found that source protection frameworks are challenged by questions about entitlement to claim protection, such as: “Who is a journalist?” and “What is journalism?”

When source protection is compromised, the impacts can include:• Pre-publication exposure of journalistic

investigations which may trigger cover-ups, intimidation, or destruction of information; • Revelation of sources’ identities with legal or extra-

legal repercussions on them;• Sources of information running dry; and• Self-censorship by journalists and citizens more

broadly. Many journalists are now adapting their work in

an effort to shield their sources from exposure, sometimes even seeking to avoid electronic devices and communications all together. However, while such tactics do help, they may be insufficient if legal protections are weak, encryption is disallowed, and sources themselves are unaware of the risks.

The study concludes that editors and publishers can play an important role in promoting public understanding of these issues, and in advocating for change at all levels.

11-point framework for assessing source protection

A major output of the study is the following 11-point assessment tool for measuring the effectiveness of legal source protection frameworks in the digital era. A model source protection framework should:

1. Recognise the value to the public interest of source protection, with its legal foundation in the right to freedom of expression (including press freedom), and to privacy. These protections should also be embedded within a country’s constitution and/or national law

2. Recognise that source protection should extend to all acts of journalism and across all platforms, services and media (of data storage and publication), and that it includes digital data and meta-data.

3. Recognise that source protection does not entail registration or licensing of practitioners of journalism.

4. Recognise the potential detrimental impact on public interest journalism, and on society, of source-related information being caught up in bulk data recording, tracking, storage and collection.

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Tips from US publishersOne of the first panel discussions served as a good

indication, as three legacy media publishers took the stage to discuss their companies’ growth while undergoing digital transformations.

Larry Kramer, president and publisher of USA Today, Terry Kroeger, president and CEO of BH Media Group, and Stephen P. Hills, president and general manager of The Washington Post, shared insights, but a central theme for this panel and others was the idea of harnessing technology.

Of course The Washington Post and BH Media Group enjoy the rare luxury of wealthy owners – Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffet respectively – but their recent success and innovation cannot be ignored. The Post has benefitted greatly from Bezos’ injection of a more innovative and technological spirit into the company, something that emerged in various Post presentations through the event. Meanwhile, Kroeger said Buffett, who admittedly is not as tech-savvy, has given his team the leeway to build for the long-term future, not just the next quarter.

USA Today’s Kramer noted that publishers cannot influence how quickly new technological forms emerge and are embraced among the public. “We don’t control that. Look back at the past year: You’ve seen bigger and more powerful phones, and the ability to be mobile happens so much faster and easier. The marketplace drives this – we don’t,” said Kramer.

How do you master the engineering equation?To keep up with developments, it goes without

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saying that media companies must create and cultivate an experimental, technology-driven culture within their organisations. “Everything we do is about excellence in engineering, and we were on this mission before Jeff Bezos came aboard. He just threw more gas on that mission!” said Shailesh Prakash, chief information officer, The Washington Post.

As Prakash explained, the Post’s goal is to demonstrate excellence in both journalism and engineering. Thus engineers are considered integral to operations – to the extent that they are embedded in the newsroom. Recruiting, training and retaining a talented engineering staff is given high priority. The Post has hired more than 70 new development-oriented staff in the past few years, and retrained about 40 percent of existing staff. The need to retain talent is factored into budgets, and compensation is partly based on that need.

But the Post knows that despite its seemingly firm financial support, publishers cannot go it alone these days. “We cannot do everything today with our own resources, so we have to be clever and innovative in who we partner with,” said Hills. “We will take all of our technology, whether it is our CMS, our metrics, whatever, and make that available for others, not to make money but to learn and innovate. … We have to experiment, and developing an engineering mindset is critical, but we can’t be afraid to partner.”

American Press Institute executive director Tom Rosenstiel recommended that media organisations continue to operate their legacy businesses, but think like start-ups when it comes to the rapidly changing aspects of publishing, “You will need to do things a

For news publishers looking to benchmark their transformation progress, the strategy sessions at the World News Media Congress in Washington provided much food for thought. Here’s a World News Publishing Focus staff report with contributions from American Press Institute and the Newspaper Association of America


Silicon Valley company does. What will matter in innovation, at least for the short term but also with a longer vision, is what you learn, not what you earn,” said Rosenstiel.

Who runs the news agenda in this tech world?The recent emergence of Facebook’s Instant Articles

– not to mention Snapchat’s Discover, Apple News, etc – underscores the tenuous position in which news publishers find themselves.

Of course those new platforms give some publishers an opportunity to reach wider audiences and earn additional advertising revenue. The downside, said Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, is that until news publishers can harness technology the way those platforms do, they will continue to lose “paths” between content creation and consumers. “Until we’ve got something that competes with [tech companies], we are always going to be in a position of weakness,” said Bell. “Losing control of distribution is a really significant change for the journalism industry.”

Vivien Schiller, formerly CEO of Twitter, said, “News organisations are using these platforms as ends in themselves, as the dominant platform. What’s interesting now is publishers using it as their primary publishing spot. So what you’re seeing now is a number of news organisations that are dropping their sites altogether… This is fascinating to me.”

Buying their way to growthStart-ups – investing in them and adopting their

approach – ran like a thread all the way through Congress. For instance, a panel discussion titled “Can mainstream media buy its way to growth?” examined investment strategies that do not require the spending power of a big tech company or an investment fund.

Miriam Grut Norrby, Investment manager, Schibsted Media Group, Sweden, said her company has made more than 40 investments in start-ups. Even legacy media operations were once start-up companies, she reminded the audience. “All of our investments are treated as independent companies. If you want people to succeed and take risks, you have to give them incentives to do so,” said Norrby.

Chris Hendricks, corporate VP, Interactive Media, The McClatchy Company, USA, said, “We invest a lot in things that help our print and digital assets, but we also invest in adjacent companies to help grow our business. Recent investments include one we announced today

in a company called Moonlighting.” The company’s service, a digital job exchange focused on short-term employment, will be integrated in all McClatchy print and digital properties in all its 28 U.S. markets.

Perrine Albrieux, Marketing and Digital Development director of Groupe Télégramme, France, said her company has grown 80 per cent in the past 10 years, which is unusual for a traditional newspaper company. The group’s investment strategy centers on events, sports and music. More than 30 such companies have received investment from the group, which now runs two of the five biggest festivals in France.

Groupe Télégramme’s digital investments date back to 2000, starting with an investment in a startup operation for employment ads that was the first job board in the country. Today, half of group revenue is derived from the printed newspaper, about one-third from events, and the remainder from digital operations.

Worldwide, investing in classified-ad ventures remains popular among publishers. In fact, said panel moderator Raju Narisetti, senior VP & deputy head of Strategy, News Corp, his company “is probably one of the biggest digital real estate companies in the world.”

Another popular investment area is the daily deals sector, which generally has yielded success, the panel members agreed. Hendricks pointed to dealsaver.com, a wholly-owned subsidiary of McClatchy launched in 2011. McClatchy now has a deal saver sales representative in each of its markets.

(This article was originally published in the July-August 2015 edition of World News Publishing Focus, the bi-monthly magazine published by

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Who owns the news agenda in today‘s tech world? Tackling that question at the Congress were, from left: Emily Bell, director of Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University; Vivien Schiller, former CEO of Twitter; Liam Corcoran, Social Media editor, NewsWhip, Ireland; Tom Rosenstiel, executive director, American Press Institute; and Marcelo Rech, executive director of Journalism, RBS Group, Brazil.

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Press Controls’ automated solutions work effectively on the Malayala Manorama printing presses. Not only have they brought about less wastage, fewer operators are needed and it takes significantly less time to print an edition. Most importantly, the systems enable them to print in high quality. Adds Pandya: “Our service engineers provide an excellent service and we are able to give Malayala Manorama the level of support they require.”

Malayala Manorama owns around 25 leading daily and weekly newspapers in India, publishing in both English and Malayalam. The organisation operates from 19 plants spread across India. The Malayala Manorama daily is one of the most widely circulated newspapers in the world. It has a readership of over 16 million readers, with a circulation of over 2.1 million copies. Says Menno Jansen, managing director of QI Press Controls: “Receiving the order for the mRC-3D cameras demonstrates that Q.I. Press Controls fit in with the leading players on the world stage, so we are justly proud.”

... and for Jagran, Lokmat, too

Jagran Prakashan and Lokmat Media have once again opted for QI Press Controls. Both companies ordered mRC-3D cameras for different printing sites. Jagran Prakashan ordered for its printing sites in Allahabad and Muzaffarpur, while Lokmat Media ordered for its printing sites in Nashik and Mumbai.

Over the past three years, QI Press Controls has installed various systems in the numerous plants owned by Jagran Prakashan. The IRS, the mRC+ and the mRC-3D are fitted on over 100 towers. This time, Jagran Prakashan placed an order for the installation of the mRC-3D for its plants in Allahabad and Muzaffarpur. Both locations house a Manugraph Cityline Express with six towers and one folder. QI Press Controls plans to equip the printing presses with a total of 24 cameras for colour register. The cameras will be fitted with AIMS (Automatic Ink Mist Shields) to keep the system dirt-free. In the future, Jagran Prakashan aims to install an upgrade on the systems with additional functions, such as inkductor control, IQM (Intelligent Quality Management) and even colour control.

Jagran Prakashan’s adherence to QI Press Controls’ solutions is primarily down to its reliable systems

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QI Press Controls has received yet another order from Malayala Manorama. The latter has purchased the mRC-3D for its Manugraph Smartline press in Kollam. The new order for the plant in Kollam consists of the new mRC-3D, the successor to the mRC+. Eighteen mRC-3D cameras are being installed for colour register and cut-off on a Manugraph Smartline double-width printing press with 4 towers and one folder.

Says Vijay Pandya, managing director, QI Press Controls: “This is a very important order for us that states that we deliver proven and reliable solutions. It also proves the effects of our continuous efforts to provide high standard services offered by a highly skilled technical team that speaks the language of the customer.”

Collaboration between QI Press Controls and Malayala Manorama started in 2011. Manugraph’s first Smartline double-width printing press in India was sold to Malayala Manorama, so the organisation went in search of a supplier of automation solutions able to provide the best possible support in this area. References on the India market pointed to the reliability offered by QI Press Controls, as a result of which Malayala Manorama opted for 48 of mRC+ cameras.

The mRC+ is now being installed at four other sites. Malayala Manorama explains that the systems have proved their worth several times over. They say that QI

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which help bring about high-quality printed products. The systems currently operating in other plants are delivering exceptional results: quality is consistently good and start-up times for presses have been significantly reduced. The expectations are that the system being installed will match the results of those already in situ. The two consecutive orders of Lokmat Media consists of 12 mRC-3D cameras for colour register and cut-off control for their location in Nashik and 10 cameras for their location in Mumbai. All cameras will be equipped with Automatic Ink Mist Shields (AIMS). The system will be installed on two new Orient newspaper presses present on the different printing sites.

After the installation, the system makes sure that the organisation reduces its waste. This is the effect of a shorter make-ready period and a constant good quality of colour register and cut-off register of the product.

Jagran Prakashan publishes 12 print titles in five different languages spread across 15 states with over 100 editions. Lokmat is the leading newspaper in Maharashtra & Goa, with 11 editions and a circulation of 1.4 million copies.

Whitepaper on colour measurement technology

Colour measurement stands for quality guaranty for printing and at the same time saves resources. Manuel Kosok, managing director at grapho metronics Mess und Regeltechnik (measuring and control technology) and Ing Gregor Enke, leader of Development and Technology at manroland web systems, describe how the new generation of colour measurement technology has evolved, how it works and what has to be considered by printers when choosing their color measurement technology. The complex topic is explained in four steps: pre-setting, color measurement, reducing of costs and reporting. The whitepaper can be downloaded at the manroland web systems website (www.manroland-web.com.)

Weser-Kurier goes for Content-X

Weser-Kurier Mediengruppe has decided to use the editorial solution, Content-X, a joint development of ppi Media and Digital Collections. This means that the editorial offices at the Bremer Tageszeitungen AG will be working with Content-X. The editorial solution simplifies multi-channel publishing and provides the technical basis for introducing the report/editor model. This model increases the agility of the editorial offices at the publishing house in Bremen and provides the reporters with the opportunity to focus more closely on creating content.

The Weser-Kurier Mediengruppe would like to start working with the ppi Media and Digital Solutions’ editorial solution Content-X from coming March. The three main titles Weser-Kurier, the Bremer Nachrichten, and the Verdener Nachrichten, the Sunday edition Kurier am Sonntag as well as eight regional editions and five local newspapers are going to be produced using Content-X. In addition, the editorial solution will provide the Bremen publishing house's digital channels with copy, photos and videos.

One particular aspect of Content-X convinced the decision-makers in Bremen: the editorial system allows editors to work according to the reporter/editor model. This means that reporters and layout artists can use the system to distribute work efficiently. While the reporters are investigating stories and conducting interviews out on the road in Bremen or Lower Saxony and reporting on local occurrences on site, the editors or layout artists in the central newsroom are busy playing out content at

The whitepaper on colour measurement technology for commercial and newspaper printing can be downloaded from the manroland website.

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the right time along the appropriate channel, on web sites, into apps or to print.

Content-X incorporates copy and photos from press agencies and freelance editors. Once installed and integrated with DC-X, which the editors in Bremen have been using for 15 years, the editorial solution will allow them to work also from mobile clients. Eric Dauphin, CEO of the Bremer Tageszeitungen AG, views the new editorial system with anticipation: "Content-X lets us get closer to the people and the events in our region. Our reporters can file their reports from anywhere into the web-based system. This gives them the freedom that they need to produce high quality journalism.""We are happy that the Bremer Tageszeitung AG has

been able to implement such a quick and cost-effective installation of Content-X. Because they have already been using our classic planning and productions solutions for years as well as the DC-X system that we have developed with our partners at Digital Collections, we can seamlessly connect Content-X to the other systems. From this combination comes a perfectly tuned workflow," says ppi Media managing director, Norbert Ohl.

Content-X combines the digital asset management system DC-X, which allows content to be created in a media-neutral format, with InDesign, Adobe's layout tool. Content stored in DC-X can be directly placed in InDesign as well as automated for output to digital channels. In that sense, multi-channel publishing is a breeze with Content-X. In particular, the connection that ppi Media implemented from the InDesign server to the web-based Story Editor in DC-X has really proven advantageous in the newsroom. The reporter gets an exact preview of his articles in the appropriate layout and can write the exact number of lines needed. Even externals have access to this

browser-based preview. Production status is traceable at all times.

People’s Daily orders Rotoman HiPrint

Chinas most influential newspaper, People’s Daily, has invested again in a commercial press from manroland web systems to further strengthen their market position. The Rotoman HiPrint shines with its excellent price-performance ratio. The 16-page printing system was developed for all-round printers in dynamic markets as a cost-effective solution to print magazines and supplements. And this is exactly what one of Chinas biggest newspaper printers was aiming for. With the new Rotoman press, the company now can extend its already existing insert- and magazine production in-house.

A major part of the copies is usually provided with commercial inserts. Besides, the People’s Daily printing centre is also running a growing number of weekly lifestyle-, sports-, TV-, broadcast and advertising magazines. The present production is based on a manroland web systems Polyman commercial press that has been already delivered 15 years ago and which cannot solve the growing demands for such a product portfolio anymore. This shall now be extremely pushed forward with a stronger in-house base.

The director of People’s Daily, Wang Jinghu, says in his statement during the signing ceremony: “People’s Daily therefore demands a constant high quality with, at the same time, a maximum of flexibility and efficiency. The commercial web offset press Rotoman HiPrint from manroland web systems is the ideal press for these demands. Therefore, People’s Daily decided to invest in the new technology for the new printing centre in Beijing. This is also a further step in developing our strategic cooperation with manroland web systems. The contract for the Rotoman is already the 7th contract with our reliable partner from Germany.”

The Rotoman HiPrint combines high performance with robust design. Its proven printing couples are equipped with automation options, such as automatic plate change PPL or blanket washing for fast changeovers and less maintenance. The manroland web systems Inline Control Systems for ink density, colour register and cut-off register ensure a consistent

Representatives of Weser-Kurier and ppi Media at the contract signing.

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premium quality for commercial products. The PFC pin folder with a multiple motor drive and a quarter fold provides absolute folding precision and a service-friendly design. The Rotoman HiPrint will be delivered with the new manroland web systems ControlCenter and its PPM station, which will be connected with the already existing commercial press. The Rotoman HiPrint for People’s Daily has a cylinder circumference of 546 mm and a maximum web width of 965 mm with a production speed of 60000 cyl-rev/h. The new commercial press will help to continue the impressive success story of manroland web systems installations for People’s Daily in China. Besides the new Rotoman Hi Print and the Polyman for commercial production, the company runs a Geoman and eight Uniset newspaper presslines from manroland web systems to print their daily. The new Rotoman HiPrint will be installed in the second half of 2016.

Latin America group opts for CCI solution

The publishing system based on CCI NewsGate and Escenic will be the future newsroom platform for the more than 3500 journalists at the largest newspaper group in Latin America, Organizacion Editorial Mexicana called OEM. According to the CEO, Francisco Torres Vázquez, the new venture prepares to meet its strategic business goals. “Journalism will never die; on the contrary, it is becoming increasingly relevant. But how can we survive and keep up with the current times and try to anticipate what is to come? This is the challenge that OEM is attempting to tackle,” Torres Vázquez says.

OEM publishes news and opinion articles for the more than 120 million people living in Mexico. But as many other media companies around the world, OEM is entering a new digital era. “Our current management team is conscious of the need to drive technological advances in a bid to develop a multimedia strategy. This vocation for transformation is what is guiding our current efforts,” he says. The organisation started to look for a supplier of technical solutions to help it transform. The company has chosen the complete CCI NewsGate and Escenic Content Studio platform, which includes publishing for print, online, tablet and mobile, as well as detailed newsroom performance analytics.

OEM is inspired by what other large publishing groups around the globe have accomplished with the CCI and Escenic platform. For example, OEM has looked at how the American publishing company Gannett works with one CCI NewsGate data center and five production hubs, to achieve cross-sector benefits in the publishing domain for 5000+ newsroom employees across 92 titles. OEM has also looked at how The McClatchy Company works with CCI NewsGate and Escenic across 29 U.S. markets.“When the decision was made to break into the

digital era, we sought a company that shared our philosophy and had a product that was sufficiently developed and had the proven ability to meet the needs of a group as big and diverse as OEM,” says Torres Vázquez, adding, “In this search for a company with a worldwide profile and prestige, we felt that CCI met these requirements. One of the deciding factors was that it had a range of products - NewsGate and Escenic - to meet our needs in terms of mobility and collaboration.”

People’s Daily and manroland web systems – a successful strategic co-operation. From left: Frank Tietsche, VP Sales, manroland web systems; Wang Jinhu , director People’s Daily Printing Centre; Yang Xinghua, general manager, Beijing People Printing Business Center.

To meet its digital initiatives and to work more efficiently across markets and channels, Organización Editorial Mexicana has selected a full suite of publishing solutions from CCI and Escenic. Once implemented, it will serve 63 titles in 25 Mexican states and be used by 3500 newsroom employees in different news departments.

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The goals of the transformation project include the following, according to the OEM CEO: multimedia strategy, coordinated and complementary workflow for print and digital editorial teams that retains their own identity but avoids duplicating tasks, dramatically speed up publishing and production times, greater integration between different editorial teams across geography, and dynamic flow and placement of advertising.

8-colour Rapida 106 with LED-UV in Austria

Austrian printing firm Oberdruck recently invested in an eight-colour Rapida 106 perfector for 4-over-4 production with LED-UV kit. The courage for the investment is rewarded with a raft of major advantages. Austrian trade journalist Knud Wassermann looked at the concrete benefits when visiting Lienz.

Around one year ago, Hans Oberbichler and production manager Michael Platter visited KBA in Radebeul as an investment was on the cards to replace the company’s old eight-colour press. The two gentlemen were able to see the differences first hand between conventional, HR- and LED-UV as part of an open house at KBA. Production manager Michael Platter sums up his first impressions: “LED-UV is the future. You can forget everything else. Even HR-UV with its iron-doped UV dryers is only an interim step towards LED-UV.”

Oberdruck is a printing service provider with strong regional roots. It predominantly serves the market in East Tyrol, Austria. “Word of this naturally spread quickly and people value our flexibility and reliability.” Says managing director Silvia Oberbichler: “Our customers know that we offer the whole package.” 20 employees ensure that this remains the case and provide the company with the necessary flexibility in pre-press, printing and post-press. As the site in Lienz “is rather out of the way”, as described by Hans Oberbichler, production security is of great importance. This means that the technology is safeguarded and back-ups are made in all areas. A generously sized paper warehouse allows the company to react extremely quickly to market demands.

Several periodicals, such as the Osttiroler Bote which is produced in sheetfed offset in very narrow time

frame with a circulation of some 17000 copies, guarantee a fundamental level of capacity utilisation. The final data arrives Wednesdays at 7:30pm and a large part of the 96 to 112-page periodicals have to be delivered by midnight. The Osttiroler Bote is without a doubt the company’s largest periodical, nevertheless its know-how and established workflows also benefit other projects. Furthermore, the company works closely with local agencies and graphic artists to produce challenging commercial printwork. Whereby there is clearly an upward trend in terms of quality, as Silvia Oberbichler affirms. The new Rapida 106-8 SW4+L ALV2 LED-UV FAPC was installed at the beginning of May. Its rather longwinded name refers to an eight-colour perfector for 4-over-4 production and a coater for dispersion or UV coating, double-delivery extension and automatic plate changing. Its highlight is LED-UV technology which opens up new possibilities for the company. Hans Oberbichler does not underline the faster lead times delivered by the press as a priority, but rather focuses on the topic of quality, especially in connection with uncoated stock: “Creative minds recognise the role that haptic qualities play in communication time and again, this is in contrast to the way electronic media conveys emotions.”

The look and feel of uncoated stock, which is valued by many agencies, is retained with LED-UV technology. Hans Oberbichler takes this opportunity to display a wealth of print samples and lays some extremely convincing examples on the table. Above all, these samples show high colour brilliancy and crisp details even with heavy solids. At a closer look it is noticeable that the fold is not inclined to crack given

The team from Oberdruck poses beside its new eight-colour Rapida 106 perfector featuring LED-UV technology.

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the elastic polymerisation of the LED-UV ink even with high ink coverage. Furthermore, the fact that LED-UV ink dries immediately is also an important factor at Oberdruck. The efficiency of the folder and gang-stitcher can be increased substantially as powder is almost dispensed with completely cutting cleaning efforts during printing and in post-press. Speaking from experience Silvia Oberbichler states that the higher costs associated with LED-UV ink are no longer an issue if you take these and other factors such as fewer risks when delivering sheets onto the pile into account.

Oberdruck relies on the starter pack from KBA when it comes to consumables. It includes coordinated inks, cleaning agents, fount solution and blankets, “The materials have been tested and ensured that we had a trouble-free start with LED-UV,” says Hans Oberbichler. He says that of course money can be saved here or there, but often at the expense of the press’ productivity. This is why he was happy to rely on KBA’s recommendations. What is more, an entire range of colours is available.

LED dryers have a reputation of being expensive. Nevertheless, there are concrete arguments that can undermine this. These include the service life of LED dryers which stands at around 20000 hours. Conventional UV or HR-UV dryers manage only around 2000 operating hours. This fact alone justifies the extra cost, Hans Oberbichler points out, and names lower energy consumption as another plus point. What is more, he emphasises that LED-UV dryers are ready for immediate operation and do not produce any waste heat. This heat can lead to problems in other processes with swelling of blankets, ink misting or dissolving of the coloured film in the ink duct and even processing temperature-sensitive substrates is not made any easier. This is why KBA positions its HR-UV dryers in a separate tower and can thus avoid these problems. LED-UV technology is much more flexible when it comes to positioning the dryers. Oberdruck positions its dryer before perfecting and after the coater. KBA gives LED-UV technology preference due to all of these reasons.

Goss International appoints Uberoi as CEO

Goss International has announced the appointment of Mohit Uberoi as its new president and chief

executive officer. Mohit joins Goss having previously served as president/chief executive officer at B&W Megtec. Mohit joined Megtec in 1997 and led the business from 2003 to 2015. He has significant experience overseeing the transformation of global industrial mid-market companies with multiple product lines and global locations, with both private equity and public shareholders.

Prior to Megtec, Mohit worked in research and new business development for WR Grace & Co, a diversified industrial conglomerate. Mohit earned a BS in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, before moving to the United States to pursue his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arizona. Mohit says, “I’m delighted to join Goss at such a pivotal time and look forward to working with American Industrial Partners, our management team, and employees to build a customer responsive, financially strong company with great products and services.”

New media partner for ppi Media

Those who attended the World Publishing Expo in Hamburg at the end of October know that ppi Media, the Northern German software producer, is expanding its activities in the Nordic market. Joakim J. Hvistendahl is re-enforcing the ppi Media team as a ppi Media sales representative and key account manager. The Norwegian, based in Denmark, is focusing on sales in the Scandinavian countries.

Joakim J. Hvistendahl, the new ppi Media partner, runs JHV Media Consult and is quite familiar with the Scandinavian media sector. Being eleven years with a regional daily newspaper in Norway, he worked his way up to management. Later he switched to a Danish software supplier where he worked for another 14 years. His 25 years of experience in Scandinavian media make him a very valuable partner for ppi Media."In Joakim we have found a partner with a deep

understanding of the Scandinavian media industry,” says Hauke Berndt, ppi Media’s senior VP Sales. Hvistendahl is excited about the new partnership as well: “ppi Media has a modern and future-proof product suite which meets the changing needs of the Scandinavian publishing market. For me it is important that ppi Media is a well established

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European company with a strong focus on close co-operation with their customers.”

manroland is preferred partner for EDS

The Euro-Druckservice GmbH (EDS) has again opted for manroland web systems as their preferred partner for the relocation of a second-hand Lithoman. Additionally, another Lithoman will be upgraded with the proven Closed Loop systems.

The Euro-Druckservice GmbH (EDS) was founded in 1992 and is the leading print service provider of Central and Eastern Europe with seven companies in five countries – Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary and Romania. The company sees itself as an integral part of the supply chain of its customers. With comprehensive, international offset print services and service offerings that are up-and-down streamed, EDS is on top when it comes to making their customers more successful. What makes a contribution to this are regular investments and the latest technology – investment in a second-hand Lithoman. “It is our target, to constantly strengthen our

position as the leading print service provider in Central and Eastern Europe. Therefore, we are always looking for the best possible equipment that helps us reaching our goals. For this, we furthermore trust in the extensive project expertise of manroland web systems“, says Peter Krummholz, head of Processes and Technology at EDS. And theses are not just empty words: during the last two years, EDS has been investing in numerous presslines from manroland web systems and finished several service projects with the partner from Augsburg. Main investments have been made for upgrades and retrofits at existing presses.

There are altogether 15 commercial presses from the manufacturer in Augsburg that are producing at five different printing sites. Additionally, from 2013 to 2015 about 1,5 million Euro have been invested in retrofit- and upgrade actions from manroland web systems. In 2015, even a service contract for three years has been signed.

The milestones of the cooperation are so numerous that they cannot be listed all: almost everything has been included during the last years – from retrofits

at the control desks, the folders or drive retrofits, via upgrades with silicone units, PPM servers or quarter folds, up to numerous web extensions for more production possibilities. It is a joint target for all projects to manage the printing facilities at all sites more economically, efficient and flexibly. Due to this, EDS is even able to react much better on customer demands. Furthermore, the realized actions increase the production stability, secure high quality standards and are the basis for an optimized production.

The latest project – the relocation of a second-hand Lithoman from Austria to the printing facility in Hungary as well as the integration of high-quality Closed Loop systems from manroland web systems at a Lithoman press that is already producing – is a further continuation of the long-term cooperation. With this project, EDS strengthens its competitiveness and its leading market position.

The success factors of the long-term cooperation with manroland web systems are trust and reliability.

“At a challenging and competitive market, quality and an ideal utilisation of the press are very important. Together with our long-term partner, manroland web systems, we have been successfully working on achieving the best possible performance over the entire life-cycle of our presslines and have been increasing it for many years now,” Peter Krummholz explains. “Therefore, not only new investments are of great importance but also keeping the presses ‘state-of-the-art’. The complexity of the presses and the production processes is always perfectly analyzed by manroland web systems and all necessary optimisations are realised without any problems. Due to this, we always opt for a cooperation with the manufacturer of our printing systems, when it comes to making our machinery even better.”

KBA announces healthy results

In the third quarter of 2015, the Koenig & Bauer Group (KBA) achieved the turnaround in earnings announced with continued good order intake. After nine months EBT came to +€2.1m and the group posted a net profit of €2.4m. In the company’s current interim report the management board affirmed its outlook for 2015 again with annual group revenue of over €1bn expected and a planned EBT margin of up to 2 per cent. At the end of September group order

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KBA supplies the diverse fields of packaging printing with a range of solutions. One special application is the direct decoration of premium glass packaging using screen and digital printing systems from KBA-Kammann.

intake of €859.6m was up 28.5pc and order backlog of €597.3m was up 36.6% year-on-year although the economic climate for the engineering industry has cooled in China and other key threshold countries.

The group’s largest segment, sheetfed offset, was able to compensate for the somewhat slower business with China with more orders from other regions, especially the USA and Japan. Compared to 2014, all business divisions posted a double-digit rise in the volume of new orders. In spite of some postponed deliveries KBA was able to increase its quarterly revenue over the summer to €252.8m q-o-q. Nevertheless, at €679.7m revenue for the full nine months was 14.2pc down on the prior-year figure and clearly proportionally behind the annual target. The especially high-revenue fourth quarter of 2015 will contribute more strongly to achieving the press manufacturer’s sales and earnings targets with greater earnings contributions and a higher margin product mix.

The volume of new orders rose in the reorganised Digital & Web Solutions segment by 47.4pc to €89.9m compared to 2014. Given low order backlog at the start of the year, after nine months revenue in this segment of €63m was significantly below the prior-year figure of €93.8m. In contrast, order backlog climbed from €61.9m the year before to €77.8m. Higher development costs for new digital printing markets hit earnings in the third quarter. The segment posted a loss of €12.2m for the full nine months (2014: –€12.8m). In the fourth quarter the KBA management board expects the turnaround targeted due to higher revenues and the sizeable reduction in costs resulting from the restructuring and capacity adjustment. Group results to 30 September were +€2.4m (2014: –€2.3m), which corresponds to earnings per share of +€0.16. At –€28.6m cash flows from operating activities were clearly below the prior-year figure of €32.9m. The free cash flow came to –€27.8m following €21m the year before. Given reduced receivables and a rise in customer prepayments, higher inventories for the sales catch-up in Q4 and redundancy payments as part of personnel adjustments ultimately led to the cash outflow. Nevertheless, funds at the end of September 2015 stood at €183.4m. Less bank loans, net liquidity was €166.8m. The equity ratio rose to 24.1%.

At 85.4% KBA’s export level was on par with the previous year (85.3%). Fewer web and special press installations led to a decline in the proportion of

group sales attributable to other parts of Europe from 35.8pc in 2014 to 29.4pc. In contrast, North America’s contribution jumped from 10.1pc to 14.1pc and Asia and the Pacific rose from 24.2pc to 33.6pc. Latin America and Africa generated 8.3pc of group sales.

The scheduled delivery of the large order backlog and the generation of the revenue planned in KBA’s individual business units for 2015 have priority at present. Special measures to cushion peaks in capacity utilisation and increase output result in costs included in our earnings planning. However, the management board is confident that the targeted group revenue of over €1bn can be achieved by the balance sheet date.

The KBA management board expects a significant increase in revenue and a sizeable earnings improvement over the next quarters at KBA-Digital & Web following the elimination of capacity underutilisation and a stronger focus on the growing digital printing market. Good market opportunities in digital decor printing and the alliance with HP in digital corrugated printing provide the division with considerably brighter prospects.

Following a speedy implementation, the management board will complete the core of its restructuring programme Fit@All at the end of 2015. Says President and CEO Claus Bolza-Schünemann:

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“The optimisation of our product spectrum and the organisation at our sites remain ongoing. Sustainable profitability in all business fields is our highest priority for 2016, also in order to reduce the influence of cyclical and market-driven special effects in security printing on profitability further.”

Sandhills re-invests withGoss again

Sandhills Publishing, headquartered in Lincoln (NE), USA, has decided to re-invest with Goss International to double production output and extend efficiencies at its new high-performance print and bindery facility. A Goss Sunday 2000 press and Pacesetter 2200 saddlestitcher will enable Sandhills to fulfil a greater proportion of its print requirements more cost-effectively and sustainably through the company’s own rigorous in-house processes.

The eight-unit, two web, 16-page Goss Sunday 2000 press scheduled for delivery in May 2016 is almost identical to one installed in 2007 and, like its counterpart, will be configured in a stacked layout for operational ease. The press line will include a Goss Contiweb FD splicer and an Ecocool dryer with integrated pollution control. Sporting a new 22¼-inch (545 mm) cut-off, the new press will further enhance paper savings delivered through the extended printable area of gapless blankets and pinless folders. The efficiency features were a key requirement for Sandhills Publishing as the company has a policy of advanced environmental responsibility. Its commitment to this purpose has resulted in a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) gold rating for its Data Center, which houses Sandhills’ servers and was constructed largely from recycled and reclaimed materials.

According to Chris Lee, Sandhills purchasing manager, the overall “comfort level” of press operators with the equipment was equally significant.

“Our pressmen know this technology inside out, not only how to get the very best print quality and productivity out of it on a daily basis but also through handling all the routine maintenance and servicing in-house. This familiarity will ensure the most efficient and seamless start-up with the new capabilities.”

The level of expertise and familiarity with Goss technology among the Sandhills press crews is evidenced through daily performance statistics. The

facility prints 24/7, five days a week, producing an average of 912000 magazines per week on the existing Sunday 2000 press. Average make-ready waste stands at six percent and the average lifespan of each gapless blanket is more than 60 million impressions.

Sandhills has also been impressed with performance from its existing Goss Pacesetter 1600 stitcher, resulting in the decision to install another Pacesetter saddlestitcher. Scheduled for delivery in March 2016, the new Pacesetter 2200 is capable of delivering up to 22000 stitched books per hour. It also allows on-the-fly hopper adjustments and offers advanced selective binding and inkjet personalization. “There’s no point installing the best press technology and not matching the capability at output,” states Lee.“This installation will be part of a truly state-of-

the-art operation,” comments Goss director of commercial sales, Tim van Driessche. “Sandhills Publishing has established an outstanding business model, which continues to go from strength to strength. The excellence of its production capabilities is fundamental to this success, supported by a policy of ongoing reinvestment in the company and its team members. I expect the integration of the new equipment and the changeover to double the production capacity will be almost seamless.”

Founded in 1978, Sandhills Publishing serves the trucking, agriculture, construction, heavy machinery, aviation, and technology industries with a diverse range of products and services from well-established trade publications and websites to hosted technology services. The company publishes around twenty different titles in a variety of localized editions, distributed principally in North and Latin America.

Goss keeps scoring on efficiency and sustainability.

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ppi to implement Adpoint at Russmedia

An ad booking system and CRM solution in one: Russmedia, one of Europe's most innovative media houses, is planning to introduce Lineup's AdPoint at locations in Austria, Romania and Hungary. Only three weeks after ppi Media and Lineup announced that they would be working together, the first joint deal has been landed. It is a start that trumps all expectations. As Lineup's partner, ppi Media is taking on the responsibility for implementing AdPoint.

By deciding for the ad system AdPoint, Russmedia takes a giant leap towards a digital future. AdPoint processes all commercial aspects and offers integrated CRM, booking and finance systems. The state-of-the-art and sales-driven architecture lets the media consultants at Russmedia put together and sell market-driven and sophisticated ad packages to customers. Russmedia can rely on the professional expertise of ppi Media during each step along the way from the specification phase right up to the installation and going live of this multi-channel system. As the expert in the field of European publishing and the business partner for Lineup, an internationally recognised supplier of ad sales solutions, ppi Media is assuming responsibility for implementing AdPoint.

Markus Raith, CEO of Russmedia, is certain that the implementation of Lineup's state-of-the-art ad and CRM system AdPoint will be a success;

"AdPoint's various functionality, ppi Media's expertise combined with Russmedia's experience in pushing the envelope on new trends and technologies, will certainly pave the way for this project." Norbert Ohl, Managing Director at ppi Media, is confident:

"We are really very excited to be implementing this solution at Russmedia and pleased by the trust they have placed in us."

Vogel Druck inks agreement with KBA

Following the successful production start of a 48-page KBA C48 in August 2014, Vogel Druck und Medienservice (VDM) in Höchberg near Würzburg, Germany, and KBA-Digital & Web Solutions have recently expanded their longstanding partnership with a long-term service agreement. KBA will

provide an extensive service package at one of the most modern web offset printing firms in Germany for the new KBA C48 and a twin-web 32-page KBA Compacta 217 delivered in 2006.

Along with the supply of spare parts the agreement stipulates regular maintenance of the commercial presses and monitoring production including rectifying any technical malfunctions that occur via KBA PressSupport remote maintenance. Preventative maintenance and continual press monitoring performed by experienced KBA technicians result in a high level of press reliability. Managing director Christoph Müller who is also a member of the KBA Group executive board: “Concluding service contracts offer our customers the security to get fast professional help at foreseeable costs on demand.”

VDM managing director Rolf Lenertz: “In this difficult competitive environment a high level of production efficiency and security have become increasingly more important for the long-term economic success of our printing company. An essential element of this is the routine maintenance and permanent monitoring of our commercial web presses by experienced professionals. We have had a trusting business relationship with KBA for decades. Therefore also from an economical point of view it was clear that we would work with KBA.”

With its 380 staff, Vogel Druck und Medienservice specialises in perfect-bound and wire-stitched magazines, catalogues and brochures in the medium-volume segment. Beyond its web and sheetfed offset printing activities, the company sees itself as an all-

Steffen Raunecker, technical director, Vogel Druck und Medienservice (right) and Thomas Potzkai, head of division services and project management, KBA-Digital & Web Solutions, look forward to the expanded service partnership.

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round media service provider. The services offered include a wide range of post-press offerings (four gang-stitchers, four adhesive binders, single shrink-wrapping, online and offline addressing), advertising specials, print and online media design, database publishing, comprehensive address management and individually tailored mailroom and logistics services. Vogel Druck places the needs of its customers at the forefront of all its decisions, and accompanies them through the whole media process as a reliable professional partner and advisor.

Inca Digital has new benchmark

Inca Digital has announced a new benchmark for throughput, quality, supreme reliability and ‘future-proof ’ scalability with the launch of the new Inca Onset X series of large-format, flatbed UV inkjet printers, sold globally and exclusively by Fujifilm. A major evolution of Inca’s pioneering ‘scalable architecture’ concept, each Onset X printer is based on a new common scalable architecture platform

which features a larger 25-zone vacuum table and UV control system to eliminate masking, and a carriage that can incorporate up to 14 ink channels. This allows print service providers to configure their Onset X printer for the combination of productivity, colour and quality that best matches their changing production requirements.

If they wish, users can start out with the Onset X1 (560m2/hr /6027sqft, 112 full-bed sheets/hr) and, as their business develops, upgrade to the Onset X2 (725m2/hr /7803 sqft, 145 beds/hr) and eventually to the new ultra-high-productivity high-quality printer that sits at the pinnacle of the Onset X Series - the Onset X3 (900m2/hr /9687 sqft,180 beds/hr).

The speeds and productivity of the Onset X Series printers are dependent on the choice of Fujifilm Dimatix printhead and can be configured for each customer depending on their desired quality/speed requirements. Each model in the Onset X Series can handle substrates in sizes up to 3.22m (126 inches) x 1.6m (63 inches) and thicknesses up to 50mm and is compatible with different types of automated media handling systems to optimize productivity.

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Color-Logic certifies Xerox presses

Color-Logic has certified that the Xerox Color 800i/1000i Presses, with the silver toner specialty dry ink option and using the XeroxEX-P 1000i print server powered by Fiery, fully supports the Color-Logic file formats required to produce the widely used Process Metallic Color System. Confirming the certification, Color-Logic chief technical officer Richard Ainge commented: "Production sheets from the Xerox Color 1000i press were thoroughly evaluated in the Color-Logic laboratory and found to meet all criteria for certification. Businesses may purchase these machines with confidence that their customers will have complete access to the striking metallics and special effects available with Color-Logic."

Color-Logic director of Sales and Marketing Mark Geeves also commented: "Printed sheets from the Xerox Color 1000i Press with the EFI Fiery DFE were shown to attendees at Graph Expo 2015 in Chicago, where the reaction to Color-Logic metallics was very positive. Color-Logic is pleased to work with Xerox and EFI to bring the Color-Logic process to printers eager to broaden their offerings."Developed for brand managers, product managers, corporations and advertising agencies, the Process Metallic Color System gives licensees the ability to differentiate themselves and their clients from the competition by simplifying the design and print production process and implementing eye-catching decorative effects into their branded products and associated collateral. The optional metallic silver dry ink in the Xerox Color 1000i press, together with the Color-Logic software, turns standard designs into sparkling examples of metallics. The Color-Logic system is compatible with offset, inkjet, flexography, digital presses, screen printing, and gravure processes.

Accreditation for Kernow inkjet media

Color-Logic has announced its certification of Kernow Gloss Silver 119SGM high-performance inkjet media for solvent and latex printers. Commenting on the certification, Color-Logic

director of Sales and Marketing Mark Geeves says: "Color-Logic certification tests demonstrated the compatibility of Kernow Coatings Solvent Gloss Silver 119SGM 119 Microns high performance inkjet media with the Color-Logic process. Printers producing point-of-purchase materials, displays, end caps, signage and other materials can confidently use Color-Logic and the Kernow substrate to create striking metallic solutions for clients."

Kernow Coatings is the global leader in optimised high-performance coatings for print, security, engineering, and industrial substrates. Printer OEMs and leading national brands trust and certify Kernow for wide- and narrow-format specialised print media-synthetics, self-adhesives, colours, fabrics and much more. Kernow Coatings media is recognised as the benchmark for quality, consistency and best-in-class performance.

Registrations open for PrintSkills contest

The third worldwide PrintSkills contest is now open for free registration from graphic education centers around the globe. Schools will be invited to compete in both design and print, using printing simulators over the Cloud. The finalists and their coaches will receive an all-expenses paid trip to decide the winner in a live competition at drupa 2016. The PrintSkills contest is sponsored by PIA (Printing Industries of America), EFIA (European Flexographic Industry Association), PTAC (Print Technology Association of China) and the screen manufacturer Elo Touch Solutions. Contest registration is free and is open through December 2015 (www. Sinapseprint.com).

For the first time, Flexo technology will become a competition process in addition to Sheetfed. The contest will use Sinapse Print simulators for Sheetfed (6-colour press) and Flexo (8-colour press) to assess problem solving skills.

The Cloud versions of these simulators will be available for practice, problem solving and competition rounds. Practice problems will include those used in recent WorldSkills competitions. Contestants can use the simulators in any of a dozen languages and the Sinapse multi-lingual learning management allows the results between all contestants to be easily compared and posted regularly on the competition website. In each round, contestants will practice with

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simulators then compete to solve Flexo and Sheetfed problems. Each team will also submit individual print job designs each for sheetfed and flexo. The winning designs (judges from PIA- US, RMIT - Australia) will be incorporated into the simulator to be used in the final rounds of the contest. Each competing center will form a team of students with 1 coach to compete in 4 rounds. The designer of the best poster, the designer of the best package, the print finalists and their respective coaches will all win an expense-paid trip to the world’s most prestigious print fair where the ‘live’ final will be held.

The winning school gets two-year connection to the simulators of their choice. All participants will be listed on the contest website and receive official certificates or achievement.Visit www.Sinapseprint.com to find out more and register for the contest or contact: [email protected]

First UV sheetfed offset press in Bangladesh

Just a few weeks ago, Dhaka-based Swisstex Printers finalised an order for a six-colour Rapida 105 with inline coating facilities from KBA-Sheetfed Solutions in Radebeul. The press is configured for both conventional and UV production, and is scheduled to go into operation in Bangladesh in spring 2016. Swisstex Printers is a subsidiary of Swiss Tex Group, a producer of labels for the clothing industry.The company has been producing tags and labels using various technologies since 1995. It took up offset printing around the turn of the century and the first multi-colour press was purchased in 2007. In the meantime, Swisstex is a fully integrated print enterprise with a total of eleven single- and multi-colour sheetfed offset presses. In addition to offset, the company is also active in flexo and screen printing, as well as producing woven labels. Some 200 of the company's 1000-odd employees are responsible for the print production and work a three-shift system, six days a week.

International clients expect their work to be handled on modern equipment. That applies equally to print products, and it was not least for this reason that company chairman Shibbir Mahmud, his son and managing director Sajjad H. Mahmud and Mohammad Iqbal Ahmed Kahn, director of Swisstex Printers, decided to install the new KBA

Rapida 105. Highlight features include CleanTronic Impact washing systems, an emission extraction system (EES), three UV interdeck dryers, VariDry dryers (IR/hot air/UV) in the triple-length extended delivery and the density measuring system ErgoTronic ColorDrive.

In addition, the press is raised by 450 mm to enable higher sheet piles and incorporates both a CX accessory package for board handling and provisions for mixed operation with conventional and UV inks and coatings.

According to the Swisstex management, the new press will be the first UV sheetfed offset press in Bangladesh.

Saima Packaging invests in KBA technology

In January 2016 KBA-Sheetfed will be delivering a seven-colour Rapida 106 with raised press foundations, double coating facilities for mixed UV/conventional operation on board and plastics, and a cold foil transfer system to Saima Packaging in Karachi, Pakistan.

The company founded and managed by the Tinwala family is today one of the country's largest producers of high-quality packaging. When Muhammad Yousuf Tinwala first set up his business as a sideline in 1972, it operated from a shop measuring just four square metres.

Printing became his principal occupation in 1975, and the past 40 years have seen the company grow into a major player with over 23000m2 of production

Group photo at the KBA customer centre: Wolfgang Ley, head of the customer centre, Mohammad Iqbal Ahmend Kahn, director of Swisstex Printers, Swisstex group chairman Shibbir Mahmud, Bhupinder Sethi, KBA, and Ali Amzad Hossain and Shohag Hossain, managing directors of the sales agency Graphic Solution Limited in Bangladesh (left to right)

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floor space. A Rapida 105 universal with five printing units, coater and hybrid equipment has already been in production at Saima Packaging for the past two years. The company produces both rigid and flexible packaging, for which eight sheetfed offset and eight gravure presses are available. The substrates used range from paper to polypropylene or polyethylene, and run lengths vary between 200 and 1.5 million sheets. In sheetfed offset, the company offers its brand-name clients the desired added value in the form of a broad colour spectrum and an endless diversity of finishing options. The list of clients includes names such as Unilever and McDonalds.

Water-based coatings (matt and gloss), UV coatings (matt and gloss), printing and finishing on plastic films and metallised board, embossing, window cut-outs and additional security features are daily business for Saima Packaging. And the new Rapida 106, with its seven printing units, twin coaters and cold foil transfer, is the ideal press for the job.

When it comes to ecology, Saima Packaging is setting the standards in Pakistan: All ink canisters are recyclable, and 95 per cent of the solvents used are similarly returned to the recycling system. The company's premium substrates consist of recycled paper for 95 per cent of the production, and the top priorities throughout the production process are reduced resource consumption and minimised wastage. Another important criterion for Saima Packaging is compliance with the highest quality standards. Corresponding tests are performed at every stage of the production. Modern quality labs with the latest measuring equipment permit exact monitoring, and the quality management system is certified to ISO 9001:2008.

Altacel fires up KBA flexo press

Following an intensive selection process Dutch film printer Altacel Flexible Packaging in Weesp has fired up an EVO XG flexo press from KBA-Flexotecnica. Says managing director Alec Frijlink: “We didn’t just pick any machine, we invested in the difference.” The press operator looks at his touchscreens while the clean grey pressroom floor reflects the futuristic machine. The gearless ten-colour EVO XG from KBA-Flexotecnica picks up speed following an automatic film roll change. Altacel Flexible Packaging prints, laminates, cuts and produces pouches for the food industry. “This is fantastic,” says managing director Alec Frij-

link. “We stand out from the crowd with our knowledge. The Netherlands is one of the most expensive places in the world to have a production site. Nevertheless, we have to produce our products at market prices. This can only be done with a streamlined organisation. We rely on smart and qualified staff who get the most out of the machines, and we strive to have a state-of-the-art production fleet. Together with his project manager Frans van Baren, Frijlink likes to look for technological limitations. “Some of our customers are still convinced that gravure is the only technology that can offer an optimum print quality. We wish to change this way of thinking and enjoy showing them the possibilities delivered by today’s flexo technology. However, the right machines are paramount in order to do this.”

Muhammad Yousuf Tinwala (centre) with his management team at the ErgoTronic console of the KBA Rapida 106.

Anilox sleeves can be changed fast even during production with the press’ pneumatic ejectors and the patented SSC – Safe Sleeve Change – system.

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In 2011 the management team put their plans for updating their press fleet on paper. Frijlink and Van Baren’s most important requirements for the new machine were production stability and short make-ready times. Additionally, they definitely wanted a high level of automation and the machine to integrate seamlessly into the process flow. “If you see a person carrying out the same task ten times a day then you could equally let a machine do the task. “Ultimately, Altacel wanted a ten-colour press with carbon-driven and extremely robust bearings permitting the handling of the most challenging substrates in a high quality.”

In 2012, a team from Altacel visited the relevant European press manufacturers. Frans van Baren:

“We wanted a flexo press that was tailored to our every need. An example, around the corner from us is QuadTech, a global player specialising in quality control with cameras. We wanted some of these in our machine and the engineers from KBA-Flexotecnica made it happen.”

He adds: “I want to see clear structures when I look at a press’ inking unit, an oasis of calm. Our EVO XG features pipeless technology which means that the unit no longer has any hanging inking pipes. This solution is extremely robust and makes cleaning the printing unit a lot easier.”

Explains Van Baren: “Another example of the press’ robust design are the fully automatic bearings which open by themselves at the end of every job, allowing for the fast and safe removal and changing of sleeves and anilox rollers from the press with a plastic adapter. Another important detail: The ink must be allowed to dry in order to fulfil the demands of food packaging safety.

A drum with a diameter measuring 2.40m (7.87ft) helps with this as there is more space between the individual inks. This is in addition to KBA-Flexotecnica’s highly efficient dryer.”

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G-20 accreditation process in Turkey condemned

The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the World Editors Forum have condemned the Turkish Government’s failure to provide accreditation to journalists from critical media outlets to cover the G-20 summit, the latest evidence of declining press freedom in the country. According to reports, several Turkish media organisations known for expressing criticism of the Justice and Development Party Government were not granted accreditation to cover the G-20 summit in Antalya on November 15-16.

Most Turkish media organisations received accreditation from the Office of the Prime Minister, Directorate General of Press and Information (BYEGM) about a month ago. However, the Zaman daily, Today’s Zaman, the Cihan News Agency, the Sözcü daily and Samanyolu TV were not granted accreditation. Another critical outlet, the Taraf daily, reportedly did not apply for accreditation as it is subject to a general ban on events where the President, Prime Minister and ministers attend. When contacted about the accreditation, BYEGM informed journalists that their applications were still under consideration, despite there being only four days before the summit began.

The government’s failure to accredit critical media follows deterioration in press freedom in Turkey, including, most recently, a police raid on the Zaman Media Group on Wednesday, and a prosecutor's demand for an arrest warrant for Ekrem Dumanlı, the ex-editor in chief of Zaman, on charges of attempting to topple the government.

WAN-IFRA and WEF have written to the president on several occasions in recent months to express their concerns over issues, including a series of violent attacks on and intimidation of the daily Hürriyet and its staff, the arrest and detention of two British journalists and their interpreter working for Vice News on charges of working for a terrorist organisation and assisting Islamic State, and the detention of a columnist for the daily Bugün for

"attempting to overthrow the government".WAN-IFRA and WEF are seriously concerned that

these incidents form part of a systematic campaign by the Turkish Government to intimidate independent media. Such a campaign would constitute a breach of the right to freedom of expression, which is guaranteed by numerous international conventions, including the

Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Article 19 of the Declaration states: “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes the freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media, regardless of frontiers.”

The organisations calls on Turkish authorities to take all possible steps to ensure that accreditation is not used as a tool to censor critical media. WAN-IFRA calls on the government to respect the universal right of freedom of expression. The Turkish people have a right to be informed of events at the G-20 summit, which is of critical importance to their safety, security and prosperity. Defending the press freedom in Turkey must be a priority issue on the agenda of all democratic G-20 countries.

Indonesia asked to address media freedom concerns

An international delegation of media and freedom of expression organisations met with the Indonesian Government to discuss the state of media in the country. It highlighted concerns regarding journalist safety and an environment that poses significant threats to freedom of expression.

At a meeting on Thursday, Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Luhut Binsar Panjaitan re-committed, on behalf of the Widodo administration, to free press access to Papua and promised to review outstanding cases of killings of local journalists raised by the mission. The minister was open to further communication with the media and civil society, and welcomed further recommendations.

The International Partnership Mission to Indonesia travelled to the country to meet with journalists, government and civil society representatives to review the media environment one year on since its first visit in December 2014. Significantly, it also conducted a fact-finding visit to Papua.Publicly declared open to foreign journalists by President Joko Widodo in May 2015, Papua and West Papua have been restricted for international media for half a century. Access remains problematic, with obstacles being raised by local military and police.

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The mission met with Papuan journalists and media activists who described an atmosphere of surveillance and intimidation, as well as claims of security agents posing as journalists.

The mission also heard about challenges to freedom of expression more broadly across the country. Continued violence against the media and the failure to bring perpetrators to justice fuels further attacks, and leads to self-censorship. The digital space is an emerging front line for the media, meanwhile the Electronic Information and Transactions Law and the broader Criminal Code are being abused to silence critical voices.“In a region where the press is under sustained

attack, Indonesia has a leadership role to play in defending media freedoms,” the mission said. “There has been little demonstrable progress following the recommendations offered by the mission a year ago, and despite significant interventions by local civil society organisations. The government of President Widodo should do moreto advance media freedom and protect journalists.”

On its first visit, the mission was briefed on the 2009 Anak Agung Prabangsa murder case in Bali, which as a result of cooperation between media, police and local government resulted in the prosecution not only of the killers but also of the mastermind.

“The Prabangsa case proves that Indonesia can tackle impunity,” the mission said. “We welcome the dialogue that has begun with the Widodo administration.” The Mission will publish a report of its findings and recommendations by the end of November. Recommendations from the IPMI visit in 2014 are available here: www.tifafoundation.org/international-partnership-mission-to-indonesia.

Bastiat Prize for BLink columnist Amit Verma, columnist with BusinessLine’s weekly

supplement BLink, has won the 2015 Bastiat Prize for Journalism. He had previously won the prize in 2007. The prize, given by Los Angeles-based Reason Foundation, recognises the efforts of “journalists who are advancing the principles of free minds and free markets by educating their readers about individual liberty, free markets, and the rule of law”.

Mumbai-based Verma also blogs at indiauncut.com. In Lighthouse, his column in BLink, he regularly dissects the dynamics of a free market and the evolving role of the consumer in it. “The Bastiat

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Prize is special for me because I have always held Frederic Bastiat’s writing as a model for me. He is remembered for spreading classical liberal ideas, and the values of a free society, in lucid and compelling prose, often using humour as a surgeon uses a knife.

“His ideas are relevant in India today, where personal and economic freedoms have been denied to us since Independence,” Verma had said on making the shortlist. He was shortlisted for the prize along with four journalists from the US and one from the UK, and was announced the winner at an event held in New York City on Tuesday. (Courtesy: BusinessLine)

Asian Digital Media Awards 2015 winners announced

Some of Asia’s leading news media companies, including Apple Daily, South China Morning Post and Thomson Reuters were among the winners of the 6th annual Asian Digital Media Awards, presented in Hong Kong by Google and the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA).

The ceremony, which also honoured magazine publishers such as Mongoose Publishing and digital pure players such as lifestyle website WardrobeTrendsFashion (WTF), was marked by the outstanding achievement of Singapore Press Holdings (SPH), the publisher of The Straits Times, which scooped no less than 12 trophies.

SPH’s Gold Best in Online video award for their 'It changed my life' series also triumphed at WAN-IFRA´s World digital Awards last October. All Asian Digital Media Awards top winners automatically enlist for WAN-IFRA’s global Awards, where they compete with their peers from Europe and Latin America.

The Asian Digital Media Awards are the most prestigious recognition in Asia of outstanding work in the fields of news website, online video, data visualisation, digital advertising campaign, news mobile services, tablet publishing, reader engagement and outstanding new product. Two new categories were added this year to honour the best lifestyle website and best lifestyle mobile service. The full list of this year's winners can be found at http://www.wan-ifra.org/adma

Sanghamitra Chakraborty is editor, Reader’s Digest

The India Today Group announced the appoint-ment of Sanghamitra Chakraborty as the new editor of Reader’s Digest magazine. Formerly editorial director of Prevention India and Women’s Health, two of the group’s properties, she has taken over the editorial leadership of the magazine from Mohan Sivanand, who retired on October 9. Chakraborty joined the India Today Group as the founding editor of Prevention India in 2006. She brings to the table a track record in news and features, both daily and long form, from Outlook magazine, The Times of India and Sunday magazine.

Mini Kapoor joins The HinduThe Hindu has been on a hiring spree over the past

month. The organisation is hiring editors at all levels in New Delhi and Mumbai. In a recent development, the news daily has brought on board senior journalist Mini Kapoor as Ideas editor. Recently, the newspaper brought Mahesh Langa and Sachin Kalbag on board as senior assistant editor and editor, respectively.In her most recent role, Mini Kapoor has been working as a senior journalist and columnist for The Indian Express.

Ajay Shukla joins Hindustan as editor, Multimedia

Hindi daily Hindustan has appointed Ajay Shukla as editor, Multimedia. Shukla joins with experience in both print and TV news reporting. He was previously the group editor for Aaj Samaj and India News Channel where he worked for approximately five years. Prior to that, Ajay Shukla was with Amar Ujala for three years.

He has also worked with Dainik Bhaskar, Dainik Jagran, Swatantra Chetna and Kuber Times and Aaj. Shukla holds an LLB as well as a PG Diploma in Journalism. Hindustan is considered the second most popular Hindi newspaper in India.

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