Technical diagnostics keeps your press going

pme maurer is a worldwide acting service company that specialises in technical inspections to determine the condition of a printing press. The goal is to identify potential problem zones before they cause damages and production disruptions. The company offers regular inspections and complete retrofits. The picture shows Managing Director Hans Jörg Maurer.

Goss Magnum Compact Autoplate

The big attraction to the Goss International booth is the Autoplate system for its new single-width Magnum Compact press that is demonstrated to interested visitors. As Marketing Director Eric Bell explains, one of the benefits is that the plate can be pre-loaded for the next print job while the press is running.

Better quality for wider webs with Air Bustle Device II

Q.I. Press Controls is introducing the Air Bustle Device II, a new contact-free fan-out control device that is installed between the printing units to compensate the fan-out effect by lifting the web with a flow of compressed air. One of its most interesting features is the low air consumption of 20 litres per minute.

The new journalistic long tail

Publishers who want to increase engagment with their readers should ask themselves: “What are the things that people can do only on your site?” says Grig Davidovitz, CEO of RGB Media, Israel. “One of them is to do a blog, which is a very different thing than doing one on Facebook.”

Press retrofitting secures production

“Retrofit is not just the replacement of old parts that results in an ‘as good as new’ machine,” says Sven Payson, CEO of Rotapress Saarburg, Germany, who reported on his experience Wednesday morning at the Media Port Power of Print. For his company, retrofit represented an opportunity to secure its production without having to invest in a new press.

There is no turning back from reader engagement

At the Hyperlocal Publishing session at the SoLoMo Media Port, Mark-Oliver Multhaup, Managing Director and CEO of WAZ NewMedia, explained how the newspaper managed to engage its local audience with the help of Scoopshot, an online store that sells photos and videos made by readers and citizen journalists worldwide.

Automation for better quality and efficiency

For Jussi Pekkarinen, Quality Manager of Alma Manu Oy in Finland, automation is the way to reach better quality and improve efficiency. He spoke at the Power of Print Media Port in the Efficient Printing session on Wednesday, which was moderated by Martin Schwarz, Editor-in-Chief of the magazine 4c.

Brazilian publisher rethinks Facebook

“Facebook is not this walk in the park we thought it was a few years ago. It is at the centre of a new advertising model,” according to Mariana Correa Esteves, Product Development Manager at Globo.com, Brazil.

Total Production Management

The first speaker of the Power of Print session on Efficient Printing was George Donaldson, Group Continuous Improvement Manager of Newsprinters in the UK. He explained, based on the example of Broxbourne, how to transform a printing plant into a lean enterprise. “We want to be the best in the world and continuous improvement is the way to get there,” he says.

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