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Punch Graphix Hosts Trade-Media Open House

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

A Xeikon 8000 digital press in operation at the world headquarters of Punch Graphics in Belgium. Seeking a higher profile for Xeikon digital presses and its other print market technologies, Punch Graphix today opened the doors of its international headquarters in Liel, Belgium, to a contingent of more than 70 print ...

Briefings in Brussels Give Technical Preview of IPEX 2010 (continued)

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Today’s briefings continued with a presentation by Kodak, which operates a technical center nearby the conference site. John O’Grady, Kodak’s managing director for Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, spoke of the company’s comprehensive portfolio of solutions, both digital and analog, for the printing, publishing, and packaging markets. Chris Payne, director ...

Briefings in Brussels Give Technical Preview of IPEX 2010

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Four exhibitors at IPEX—Atlantic Zeiser, EskoArtwork/Enfocus, Kodak, and Punch Graphics—are giving previews of their show plans at a combined media briefing taking place today and tomorrow at a conference center near Brussels, Belgium. Among those presenting today are Atlantic Zeiser and EskoArtwork/Enfocus. In this morning’s lead-off presentation, Oliver C. Mehler, CEO, ...

Printing Trade Show Postponement Is Said to Provoke “Kiwi Outrage”

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

The U.S. isn’t the only country where some soul-searching—and some hand-wringing—is being done about the future of graphic arts trade shows. Print21online, an online journal for the printing industry in Australia and New Zealand, reports “Kiwi outrage” over the postponement of Printech, New Zealand’s quadrennial printing trade show, from 2010 to ...

Just when we thought we were safe …

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

… another print trade show turns up. With all of the discussion about how many trade shows we really need in the printing industry and whether they need to be held annually, a consolidation theme that has been on the table for some time, a new printing trade show pops up ...

Its Not Technological Change, Its How The Message is Presented and Financed

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

I read Frank Romano’s interesting opinion article last Friday concerning both Heidelberg and Komori deciding not to exhibit at Graph Expo this year. Frank puts the reasons for this down to the changing industry and timelines for different technologies. While in most cases Frank and I sing from the same ...

Print 09 Show Numbers Are Out – What Do You Think?

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

The Graphic Arts Show Company (GASC) has released the numbers for Print 09: While overall attendance was lower than at the previous PRINT, which took place in 2005, when the economy had been enjoying relatively steady growth from the previous few years, PRINT 09 drew a total 28,678 attendees, which included ...