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News Release from: IPEX 2010 | Subject: Printcity hall 1
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 22 February 2006
Printcity's Complete Workflows At Ipex
2006
Creative print products and new business ideas will be at the heart of Printcity's hall 1 of Ipex in Birmingham's NEC (UK) from April 4-11.
Creative print products and new business ideas will be at the heart of Printcity's hall 1 of Ipex in Birmingham's NEC (UK) from April 4-11 The overall theme within Printcity's hall 1 will be 'smarter printworks', where ideas to work more effectively over the whole value and process chain will be presented
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 21 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Value added printing and related technology will be demonstrated in production workflows and cross-functional competence centres, where customers will be able to share combined expertise for important market challenges.
Manufacturing and packaging integration centres will feature equipment linked together in workflows for live demonstrations and presentations.
More than 30 Printcity member companies and associates will be in Printcity's hall 1.
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Members will link on complete workflows that include all elements from pre-press to converting, as well as product-orientated presentations from participating companies.
JDF applications will link the integration centre to the workflow integration, where there will be a condensed presentation of JDF.
Colour and workflow integrations will be at the heart of Printcity's hall 1, where demonstrations will show how the industry is becoming fully integrated through automated business and manufacturing processes.
The digital integration are will bring together customers, designers, printers, suppliers and service providers in to a virtual production chain.
The ultimate goal is to demonstrate where each production step responds automatically to the outcome of the preceding one, said Printcity.
The packaging integration centre will have a complete packaging process production line that demonstrates integrated manufacturing operations linked in a JDF workflow.
The manufacturing integration centre will bring together tools that include automation, information systems and standards to demonstrate how they can be linked to improve total production performance with lean manufacturing.
Demonstrations will feature an automated sheetfed press in conjunction with applied colour standardisation and JDF-enabled network integration.
In the colour standardisation area, demonstrations will underline how brand owners and print buyers increasingly insist that the end products, whether they are brochures, magazines or packages are exactly the same, irrespective of where they are printed.
According to Printcity, standards and quality procedures are the basis for consistent process results and for colour management and demonstrations will show how printers who become approved suppliers within international standards can expand their businesses.
Printcity said that the keys to success in colour process standardisation are to use defined standards, and to calibrate and profile the entire workflow.
The value added print and processing centre will include examples of 'smarter' working for value added print attention, differentiation and positioning.
Project teams will explain how printers and converters can apply the techniques to develop new business opportunities and competitive differentiation by technical innovation.
That will include UV printing and coating (looking at quality and productivity techniques), brand protection (strategies and products for more efficient anti-counterfeiting) and food packaging (best practices for food packaging printing and converting).
Printcity's webline cafe will provide a meeting area for web offset printers, publishers and print buyers to update on new trends from leaders in the industry.
New technologies, services and how the cross-processes work together will be explained.
That will include an assessment on the issues related to increasing paper roll diameters to 1,500mm and the comparative process choices for value added printing on newspaper presses.
John Dangelmaier, the president of Printcity, said: "The innovative techniques and technologies within Printcity's hall 1 will be a another example of just how far we have come since our first showing at Drupa in 2000.
Printers will have the chance to see how they can provide even better products for their customers through true differentiation." The alliance said that its key objectives are to enable its members to combine in working partnerships and projects to provide value to their customers through the integration of technology and worldwide expertise.
The organisation aims to promote the value of print as a media to generate increased demand and to promote networking within the industry to stimulate worldwide co-operation among all partners.
Printcity is an alliance that connects worldwide expertise from over 40 independent companies within the industry.
Its members work together in partnerships within a complete workflow - from pre-press to press to post-press - within the packaging, commercial and publishing sectors.
Printcity members work together through different suppliers to demonstrate practical solutions through using complete, compatible systems to industry-wide issues and to promote the power of print in today's communications mix.
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