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Print is back in business: Key message from Indian Printers Summit 2022

2022-09-16. After a string of online events and conferences, this year’s Indian Printers Summit brought together more than 215 media executives from around 50 organisations for the 30th edition of this WAN-IFRA event.

Publishers pushing the prices of their print products higher and higher – trend or coincidence? Survey says trend

2022-08-11. During consecutive sessions at our recent Asian Media Leaders eSummit, we heard two CEOs share how they had raised the price of their print product dramatically in the last year. Surprisingly, they had experienced little to no churn as a result of the increase. Trend or coincidence? We wanted to find out…

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World Printers Summit brings international production experts together

2022-07-25. The virtual World Printers Summit 2022 – the annual meeting point for the global print community within WAN-IFRA – once again addressed all print-related questions, bringing together printers, materials suppliers and equipment manufacturers for the print production value chain from prepress to press and to product finishing and delivery.

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World Printers Summit 2022 discussed sustainable procurement and disruptions in supply chains

2022-06-14. The recent virtual World Printers Summit – the annual meeting point for the global print community within WAN-IFRA – once again addressed all print-related questions, bringing together printers, materials suppliers and equipment manufacturers for the print production value chain from prepress to press and to product finishing and delivery.

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Snehasis Roy: ‘Back to business’ is key priority for Times of India

2022-05-25. In this latest instalment of our ongoing interview series with leading industry experts, Snehasis Roy, Director – Technical of Bennett Coleman Co Ltd., which publishes The Times of India in Mumbai, talks with us about production quality, Artificial Intelligence and supply chain issues.

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Schibsted: new automation tools streamline print and audio production

2022-05-11. Implementing an automated print layout workflow and launching a text-to-speech feature have brought new efficiencies and freed newsroom resources for the Nordic publisher.

An homage to Manfred Werfel: ‘We just lost a true friend’

2022-05-05. WAN-IFRA lost a big part of its family this week when Manfred Werfel, the association’s former Deputy CEO and Director of the World Printers Forum, passed away. He was 68. Industry friends and colleagues pay homage to Manfred in this article, and you have a chance to do so as well.

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Sally Pirri: ‘Our print product is an important part of The Globe and Mail brand’

2022-04-13. We continue our series of interviews with leading industry experts with Sally Pirri, Vice President of Print Operations for The Globe and Mail in Canada. Here, she tells us about their current priorities, why they decided to outsource the printing of their newspapers and why the print version of The Globe and Mail remains vital to them.

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Webinar highlights what European Green Deal means for printers

2022-03-24. A recent World Printers Forum webinar addressed how the European Green Deal will impact the printing industry in 2022 and beyond, focusing on areas that range from the sourcing of raw materials to the placing of the end product on the market.

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Potsdam’s Matthias Voß: ‘Printed newspapers will continue to exist’

2022-03-23. After more than 30 years in the industry, Matthias Voß retired as Head of Printing at Pressedruck Potsdam GmbH at the end of February. In this interview, he shares his insights about the major production changes of recent decades as well as how he sees regional newspapers in Germany developing in the years to come.