Rob van den Braak
Laurel Brunner, one of the driving forces behind the new ISO 21331, mentions in her Verdigris blog that this norm for the deinking of paper is increasingly being used. Read her blog on our articles page to hear her opinion about why it is important for our industry and society in general that this norm is being used to find environmentally conscious clients.
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Laurel Brunner, een van de stuwende krachten achter de nieuwe ISO 21331, meldt in haar Verdigris blog dat deze norm, voor het ontinkten van papier, steeds meer wordt toegepast. In haar blog op onze artikelenpagina zet ze op een rijtje waarom het voor onze industrie en samenleving zo belangrijk is, hoe je met deze norm milieubewuste klanten kunt vinden.
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De Flint Group, eigenaar van Xeikon, meldt dat Benoit Chatelard, ex. Ricoh en IBM Printing Systems, de opvolger is van Wim Maes. Chatelard wordt tevens President en CEO van de Flint Digital Solution Group. Lees meer over de benoeming in onderstaand persbericht.
PERSBERICHT
Xeikon, a division of Flint Group, and market leader in digital colour printing technology today announced that Benoit Chatelard will assume the role of President & CEO of Flint Group’s Digital Solutions effective May 8th. In his mandate to further develop Flint Group Digital Solutions portfolio and customer reach in that arena, for which Xeikon is a strategic element, he will be proposed as CEO of Xeikon (to be confirmed by the Xeikon shareholders meeting).
BENOIT CHATELARD
Chatelard has a rich history in the digital production printing market. Most recently, he was Vice President, Production Printing Business Group for Ricoh Europe. His digital production printing career began in 2002 when he led the IBM Printing Systems Division for France, Belgium and Luxembourg. With the creation of the InfoPrint Solutions Compoany Joint Venture between Ricoh and IBM in 2007, Chatelard was appointed Vice President & General Manager for the joint venture in Asia Pacific based in Singapore, and continued to take on increased leadership responsibilities within Ricoh Europe over the ensuing years.
INVALUABLE CONTRIBUTION
“First, I want to thank Wim Maes for his years of service to Xeikon, and for the great work he did in getting the Flint Group Digital Printing Solutions division off the ground following our acquisition of Xeikon. His contributions have been invaluable in our ability to continue growth at Xeikon, better integrate sales efforts among our divisions, implement proper market segmentation, develop and implement investment strategies, and build a product roadmap for the Digital Printing Solutions division. Under his leadership, Xeikon fully developed its labels and packaging domain, expanded market coverage, and thanks to customer-driven innovation, leaves the company in a strong position with a robust product portfolio. As Wim leaves our organization, we are thrilled to have an executive of the quality and with the experience of Benoit to carry the business forward. His mission is to continue executing the plan and further grow the division. Flint Group’s mission is to be a global provider of digital printing equipment and overall printing supplies, and his knowledge and expertise will be important as we continue to move that mission forward.”
Xeikon, a division of Flint Group, and market leader in digital colour printing technology today announced that Benoit Chatelard will assume the role of President & CEO of Flint Group’s Digital Solutions effective May 8th. In his mandate to further develop Flint Group Digital Solutions portfolio and customer reach in that arena, for which Xeikon is a strategic element, he will be proposed as CEO of Xeikon (to be confirmed by the Xeikon shareholders meeting).
BENOIT CHATELARD
Chatelard has a rich history in the digital production printing market. Most recently, he was Vice President, Production Printing Business Group for Ricoh Europe. His digital production printing career began in 2002 when he led the IBM Printing Systems Division for France, Belgium and Luxembourg. With the creation of the InfoPrint Solutions Compoany Joint Venture between Ricoh and IBM in 2007, Chatelard was appointed Vice President & General Manager for the joint venture in Asia Pacific based in Singapore, and continued to take on increased leadership responsibilities within Ricoh Europe over the ensuing years.
INVALUABLE CONTRIBUTION
“First, I want to thank Wim Maes for his years of service to Xeikon, and for the great work he did in getting the Flint Group Digital Printing Solutions division off the ground following our acquisition of Xeikon. His contributions have been invaluable in our ability to continue growth at Xeikon, better integrate sales efforts among our divisions, implement proper market segmentation, develop and implement investment strategies, and build a product roadmap for the Digital Printing Solutions division. Under his leadership, Xeikon fully developed its labels and packaging domain, expanded market coverage, and thanks to customer-driven innovation, leaves the company in a strong position with a robust product portfolio. As Wim leaves our organization, we are thrilled to have an executive of the quality and with the experience of Benoit to carry the business forward. His mission is to continue executing the plan and further grow the division. Flint Group’s mission is to be a global provider of digital printing equipment and overall printing supplies, and his knowledge and expertise will be important as we continue to move that mission forward.”
- “There are very few occasions in any industry when leading players across all relevant disciplines can usefully get together,” says Jules Lejeune, Managing Director of the international labelling association FINAT. “Our FINAT European Label Forum is certainly one such opportunity – and it represents a present-and-future business briefing that encompasses both the global environment and industry-specific topics across the many aspects of this diverse packaging business sector.”
Broad spectrum of participants
Familiarly known as ‘ELF’, the annual European Label Forum takes place this year in Berlin, 7-9 June, and will bring together a broad spectrum of industry participants, from raw material suppliers to end users, to debate current major strategic business topics and gain in-depth wide-spectrum market knowledge from the formal speaker agenda.
Focus: label industry future
An extensive keynote session will feature the definition and impact of ‘the fourth industrial revolution’ on the label industry, a special agenda item will see all the session’s individual speakers come together on the podium: Andy Hobsbawm, co-founder of Internet of Things ‘Smart Platform’ EVRYTHNG (UK/US); Stephen Lechel, partner in Porsche Consulting (DE); and Jan Denys (BE), Labour Market Expert at employment group Randstad. FINAT ELF Committee Members Niklas Olsson (SE) and Marc Büttgenbach (DE) will interview them, and drill down into their combined expertise to determine their focussed vision of the future for the label industry.
The FINAT business debate
Equally valuable insights will be provided the next day by the FINAT business debate, featuring three international label industry leaders – Geoff Martin, President of CCL Label (CN); Adrian Tippenhauer (DE) from All4Labels, the recently-merged international label converter group; and Dan Muenzer (US), Vice President, Marketing, for Constantia Flexibles Labels Division. They will debate with the audience on label industry scenarios for, specifically, 2020-2025 – led by moderators Paul de Ruijter (NL) of De Ruijter Strategy and Chris Ellison (UK), incoming FINAT President and owner/CEO of OPM Labels & Packaging. The highly-relevant focal point for the debate will also form the core of a full afternoon’s workshop, hosted by De Ruijter Strategy, on the prior day.
Comprehensive event programme
Major innovations, challenges, and opportunities for the label industry will be addressed in the event’s full schedule of presentations, and FINAT ELF participants can also benefit from extensive networking around a supplier tabletop exhibition, a lively social programme and the annual presentation of the prestigious FINAT Label Competition and Recycling Awards
Ricoh announced that its new Pro L4100 wide format latex printer was awarded a Color-Logic™ certificate.
Color-Logic™ is a worldwide standard for metallic and decorative colour effects. With the Process Metallic Color System it is possible to achieve significant savings when printing metallic effects. the system can generate hundreds of metallic colours with only five inks plus white and silver.
The Ricoh Pro L4100 series contains the L4130, max media width of 1371mm, and the L4160, max. media width of 1620mm. It works with fast drying latex inks which do not need heat for drying so that materials such as film, tarpauling, synthetic paper OPP. PET films, self-adhesive vinyl and textiles and be processed without any issues.
Read more on this option in the press release below.
RICOH PROTM L4100 SERIES IN COLOR-LOGIC FIRST
Ricoh meldt, dat zijn nieuwe Pro L4100 grootformaat latexprinter een Color-Logic™ Certificaat heeft behaald.
RICOH PRO L4100 SERIES IN COLOR-LOGIC FIRST
Roland DG announced their new product, Roland PrintStudio (RPS) by Caldera, for Europe and North and South America. The new software package for RIP and print management offers a wide scale of state-of-the-art time-saving tools which enhance efficiency. Roland DG technology users will be able to optimise their print production processes even in the busiest environments.
Roland PrintStudio by Caldera is suitable for he newest Mac OS, and is equipped with APPE 4, in various languages. The software speeds up image processing and improves organisation for large format companies. It has a newly designed interface, extensive colour management, improved file preparation and very fast RIP speeds so users can deliver on time and on specification time and time again.
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Colour management is the cornerstone of digital workflow for any printer. In Eizo´s handbook you can read about how to optimise or set up this workflow. Download the handbook from our downloads page via this link.
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Kleurenbeheer is voor elke printer de hoeksteen van zijn digitale workflow. In het handboek van Eizo kun je lezen hoe je deze workflow kunt optimaliseren of compleet opnieuw opzetten. Download het handboek op onze downloadpagina via deze link.
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Tijdens de feestelijke prijsuitreiking, met zo’n honderd bezoekers in het Awarehouse in Scherpenzeel, reikte topcouturier en KW-jurylid Ronald Kolk, op 22 maart 2017, de KW Award uit aan Geeke Voortman van ontwerpbureau Wie Maakt Het voor haar Design-agenda. De agenda was door de vakjury genomineerd en via de website kalenderwedstrijd.nl door het publiek gekozen tot uiteindelijke winnaar.
KW-jurlikd Ronald Kolk en Geeke Voortman winnaar KW Award 2017
Voor het eerst in de 35-jarige geschiedenis van de Kalenderwedstrijd ging de hoofdprijs naar een product bedoeld voor winkelverkoop. De even stijlvolle als functionele agenda van Geeke Voortman werd met 30 procent van de stemmen verkozen tot winnaar. In totaal werd er op de genomineerden 1600 keer gestemd.
Marga Scholma en Marco Zwaan winnaars KVGO Prijs
De KVGO-prijs ging dit jaar naar de Zwarte Zwaan van Zwaan Printmedia. De drukkerij brak met deze bureaukalender met een 33-jarige traditie van “Lange Zwaan”-wandkalenders.
Els Vansteenkiste en Anne-Sophie De Smet met de Febelgra-prijs
De Febelgra-prijs ging naar de bureaukalender “Beleef de 5 zingtuigen” van milieu- en preventiepartner Consultes. De prijs werd in ontvangst genomen door Els Vansteenkiste (Something Els), de bedenker van de kalender.
Frans Van Heertum, winnaar Publieksprijs Vakbeurs Gorinchem
Op de stand van de Kalenderwedstrijd stemde het publiek van de Grafische Vakbeurs & Vakbeurs Sign op “Anniversary 170 years” van Van Heertum Design. Aan deze bijzondere kalender werkten maar liefst 9 grafische bedrijven mee.
● Cayman ontving de Typografie-prijs voor de Cayman scheurkalender, een ontwerp van Ann Maelfeyt.
● In de studentencategorie werd het ontwerp van Anita Okrasa van Haute École Francisco Ferrer, “Kalender van Sterrenbeelden” verkozen tot overall winnaar KW Award Studentenwedstrijd.
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In zijn Wild Format artikel gaat Paul in op het opzetten van een sluitend systeem van kleurmanagement voor groot formaat print projecten. Van soft proofing op gekalibreerde beeldschermen tot de controle op trapping komen in dit artikel dat je kunt lezen via deze link aan bod.
Kandidaten gezocht
De trainingen voor 2022 staan gereed. Kijk voor het volledige online aanbod van bestaande- en nieuwe trainingen op de website.
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