Wan-Ifra: IT boost to newspaper; focus on mailroom and plates

Around 1500 visitors attended the Wan-Ifra India 2015 three-day conference and exhibition

Patrick Daniel of Singapore Press Holdings inaugurated the conference

Magdoom Mohamed of Wan-Ifra India welcomed the delegates and visitors

K Balaji: "We are the hot-spot for newspaper growth around the globe."

Full House: The inauguration ceremony and the conferences had full attendance

Wan-Ifra World Young Reader News Publisher of the Year award was presented to Indonesia’s Kompas Daily, for its multimedia approach to reaching put to a young audience

"In Singapore, only mobile is growing, the rest of the mediums are going down. Yet, mainstream media is still the most effective source of news," said Patrick Daniel of Singapore Press Holdings

The Wan-Ifra India Expo inauguration: A participation of over 60 machine manufacturers and service providers

TechNova displayed its Asura green plates at the expo

The Goss team during a discussion at the expo

The Manroland Web Systems team with its customers. In an interview with PrintWeek India, Joern Gossé, managing director, Manroland web systems, said, "We developed a press line for the Indian market: The Cromoman 4-1."

Rekha Bhagwat and Harshad Borude of Fujifilm India shared light moments during the expo. The Fuji team is proud of the successful trials of the Pro-VN at major Indian newspapers

A new launch and bookings for Prakash Offset: Saurabh Gupta of Prakash shared details of his machines and developments with his customers. The company displayed its new launch SG 50, a flying paster

Yashpal Bindra of Summit showed a demo to his customers

A demo of the ppi workflow systems during the exihibtion. Gerhard Raab, vice-president, sales, ppi Media said, Our latest products include small browser-based solutions."

Mafred advocates inkjet printing for newspaper production, especially for short run

Thomas Jacob, chief operating officer, Wan-Ifra, Germany talks about the global media trends

Benedicte Gercke of News UK and Ireland talked about optimisation of paper and energy

In a presentation themed 'stay together, win together', Thomas Isaksen emphasised on the strength in unity and explained how the Procurement Association of Danish Press worked to keep the cost of Danish newspapers low for their readers

Anand Srinivasan says, "Better print quality for better revenue." The research manager, Wan-Ifra South Asia, reiterated that better print quality could help newspaper publication houses increase their advertisement revenues and maintain the clients

None steps to the INCQC club: PT Bhasi of Mathrubhumi explained the agenda that helped the newspaper publisher win the worldwide printing quality competition. Read the full story here

Anjan Mazumdar of HT Media talked about implementation of FM screening in newspaper production

Newstech and Wan-Ifra team together

One of the biggest web offset printing press manufacturers, The Printers House team at the exhibition

Memory Repro Systems displayed its blanket wash system for web machines and its colour registration system device. The company's colour registration system is in operation at Eanadu

Mohamed Hassen of Star Publication, Malaysia shared his views on how to approach a retrofit project and what were his learnings

Emmy D'Silva, newspaper consultant said fluctuation in paper demand plays a key role in the price game

The award winners at Wan-Ifra India 2015

VK Seth of Sakata Inks

ABP's S C Roy says, "Innovation is the key and UV is helpful." He talked about the publishing house's 28 innovation initiatives to attract readers and advertisers

Neeraj Mahajan of Lokmat emphasised on green initiatives to save water, electricity and environment. The PrintWeek India team visited the largest read Marathi newspaper's plant last month. See the here

Shrijeet Mishra of the Times Group shared his business strategies especially for tough times

The last presentation of the conference was focused on digitisation by Rainer Esser from Zeit Online, Germany