Rob van den Braak
German newspaper publisher, Mindener Tageblatt, has streamlined production of the mobile version of its newspaper using Eversify, the mobile content publishing software from Agfa Graphics. The cloud-based solution has automated the entire production and publication process, enabling the publisher to deliver content optimized for smartphones and tablets.
Mobile requires different approach to print and web
J.C.C. Bruns-owned Mindener Tageblatt produces various versions of its newspaper, with a printed circulation of 32,000 copies and a website that gets up to 25,000 visits per day. The publisher began developing in-house a version for mobile devices, as part of its multi- channel strategy. However, the growing diversity of viewing platforms complicated production, as the processes became too complex and labor intensive.
Christoph Pepper, editor-in-chief, realized a different solution was required: “Producing a mobile newspaper is a completely different ball game. Our page layout systems are optimized for printed newspapers, not for producing dynamic content for mobile devices. We needed an automated solution that could blend XML data from our editorial systems into an optimized layout for a variety of mobile devices and operating systems.”
The Mindener Tageblatt five-step mobile publishing strategy
- Adopt ‘Responsive Design’ philosophyAll content was customized for an optimal viewing experience on all digital-display media, such as monitors, tablets or smartphones. This was crucial for making production and process structures more lean and cost-effective. The publisher also redesigned its website and related digital content according to this philosophy.
- Assess the publishing optionsMindener Tageblatt wanted to bring all versions of its ePaper together on one production platform, including the web versions. This left the publisher with two options – create its own solution or adapt its own setup. Both options would be costly, either from a capital investment or labor perspective.
Reach for the cloud
Maximize use of existing resources
Eversify integrates easily with newspaper editorial and production environments, enabling Mindener Tageblatt to make best use of its existing editing and production resources. It automatically creates appealing ePapers, which can also be edited via an easy-to-use back-office when needed. The final app presentation is created using full HTML5 functionality, making it suitable for various digital output devices.
Test the output
During the production process, Eversify can simulate how the final content will be presented on various virtual media, such as tablets or smartphones. Currently, Mindener Tageblatt isn’t using these options to produce its ePaper+, but Pepper plans to exploit it in future: “It will play an essential role when we develop additional products. It’s all part of a unified publishing workflow that combines print, digital products, and publication apps, to create a premium reading experience, whatever platform the reader is using.”
For Pepper, the partnership between Mindener Tageblatt and the Eversify team has proved very successful: “They were very professional in terms of product conception, design and support. We were able to develop our ePaper+ edition in a record time. Believe me, it doesn’t get much better than this.”
Rainer Kirschke, Business Manager Mobile Publishing for Eversify, Agfa Graphics, comments: “The software is really easy to integrate, whatever the platform. It has enabled Mindener Tageblatt to cost-effectively produce an optimized mobile version of its newspaper, and offer its mobile-device readership a highly engaging experience.”
Read Christoph Pepper’s blog on mobile publishing via this link.
Inkjet ink comes in different varieties, each with their own characteristics. In number 20 of the Wild Format series journalist and consultant Sophie Matthews-Paul lists them for us. Read her article on our articles page about how substrates and applications influence ink choice.
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Inkjet inkt is er in verschillende soorten met ieder hun specifieke eigenschappen. In aflevering 20 van de Wild Format serie, zet journalist en consultant Sophie Matthews-Paul ze voor ons op een rijtje. Lees in haar bijdrage op onze artikelenpagina hoe substraten en toepassingen de inktkeuze bepalen.
The success of startup Build Your Own Handbag shows that you can earn money with a good idea, but it also got us thinking about a similar concept for graphic products. There is a number of examples such as personalised packaging or web2print solutions for letterhead, etc.
Something that we think is not available yet, but could potentially have a market is Make Your Own Book. By which we don´t mean writing and publishing, because there are plenty of solutions catering to the self publisher. We mean a solutions where readers choose a personalised version of an existing book. With various formats, paper and binding methods. Think of various materials for the cover, from leather to special materials such as bamboo or other fibers. The reader could create a beautiful copy for themselves or as a gift.
And yes, of course this has been done since the beginning of printing. But with the help of the internet this should be a much more available and accessible option. Good idea? Who will get this going? Let us know via rob@blokboek.com and we´ll publish your story.
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Het succes van de startup Build Your Own Handbag geeft niet alleen aan dat je met weinig middelen maar met een goed idee geld kunt verdienen, maar zet je ook aan het denken of een dergelijk concept kan werken voor grafische producten. Daar zijn al een aantal voorbeelden van, zoals het maken van je eigen verpakking en web2print toepassingen om zakelijk drukwerk te maken.
Wat er volgens ons nog niet is, en waar ongetwijfeld een markt voor is, is het concept van Make Your Own Book. Daarmee bedoelen we niet het zelf schrijven, vormgeven en uitgeven, want daar zijn plenty oplossingen voor. Wat we bedoelen is, dat lezers hun eigen versie van een bestaand boek kunnen maken. Een versie die de keuze biedt uit een aantal formaten, papiersoorten en vooral bindmethoden. Zo zou een lezer kunnen kiezen uit verschillende materialen voor de omslag, van exclusief leer tot speciale materialen, zoals bamboo en andere vezels. Met die keuze kan de lezer voor zichzelf of als geschenk een super gepersonaliseerde versie maken van een boek naar keuze.
En ja handboekbinders leveren deze service al vanaf de uitvinding van de boekdrukkunst, maar het internet kan deze toepassing vindbaar en beschikbaar maken voor de grote massa. Goed idee? We gaat er mee aan de slag? Laat het ons weten (rob@blokboek.com) en we publiceren er graag over.
Meer info over Build Your Own Handbag via deze link naar een uitstekend artikel op Fastcompagny.
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Esko is een wereldwijde leverancier van geïntegreerde oplossingen voor verpakkingen, etiketten, sign en displays, handelsdrukwerk en professionele publishing. De Esko producten en diensten brengen winstgevendheid in de print- en verpakkingsketen, door het verkorten van de time-to-market en het verhogen van de productiviteit.
Dit jaar heeft FESPA voor zijn Wrap Masters Design Competition een wel heel bijzondere hoofdprijs. Het winnende ontwerp zal gebruikt worden door het Haugaard Racing Team in de 2017 World Formula 4 UIM Powerboat Championship. Daarmee kan je ontwerp wereldberoemd worden en veel publiciteit opleveren. Lees meer over Wrap Masters Design 2017, en hoe deel te nemen, in onderstaand persbericht.
FESPA INVITES ITS COMMUNITY TO ENTER WRAP MASTERS DESIGN COMPETITION
Winning design to be used by Haugaard Racing Team in the 2017 World Formula 4 UIM Powerboat Championship.
FESPA is setting its global print community a new challenge for its 2017’s World Wrap Masters. This year, FESPA has launched the Wrap Masters Design Competition, inviting contestants to create a striking design for a Formula 4S speedboat that will be used by the Haugaard Racing Team in the 2017 World Formula 4 UIM Powerboat Championship.
In order to qualify, participants will need to produce an attention-grabbing design, that puts their creative skills to the test and includes the boat number (22), as well as the racing team’s logo and World Wrap Masters sponsor, Hexis’ logo. All entries must be submitted to wrapmasters@fespa.com by Friday 10th March 2017.
Entries will be judged by Formula 4 race boat driver, Sebastian Haugaard, and World Wrap Masters Head Judge, Ole Solskin Ravn. The winning design, which will be announced on Friday 17th March 2017, will be used in the World Wrap Masters Final during FESPA 2017 (8-12 May 2017) in Hamburg, Germany.
The winner will also receive a free trip to Hamburg, where they will have the opportunity to meet driver Sebastian Haugaard in person and see the racing boat being wrapped with their design during FESPA 2017.
The design will be used by Haugaard Racing Team and will adorn the powerboat until the final of the World Formula 4 UIM Powerboat Championship.
For more information on the Wrap Masters Design Competition and the World Wrap Masters Final, visit: www.fespa2017.com/whats-on/wrap-masters-competition
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FESPA is setting its global print community a new challenge for its 2017’s World Wrap Masters. This year, FESPA has launched the Wrap Masters Design Competition, inviting contestants to create a striking design for a Formula 4S speed boat that will be used by the Haugaard Racing Team in the 2017 World Formula 4 UIM Powerboat Championship.
In order to qualify, participants will need to produce an attention-grabbing design that puts their creative skills to the test and includes the boat number (22), as well as the racing team’s logo and World Wrap Masters sponsor, Hexis’ logo. All entries must be submitted to wrapmasters@fespa.com by Friday 10th March 2017.
Entries will be judged by Formula 4 race boat driver, Sebastian Haugaard, and World Wrap Masters Head Judge, Ole Solskin Ravn. The winning design, which will be announced on Friday 17th March 2017, will be used in the World Wrap Masters Final during FESPA 2017 (8-12 May 2017) in Hamburg, Germany.
The winner will also receive a free trip to Hamburg, where they will have the opportunity to meet driver Sebastian Haugaard in person and see the racing boat being wrapped with their design during FESPA 2017.
The design will be used by Haugaard Racing Team and will adorn the powerboat until the final of the World Formula 4 UIM Powerboat Championship.
For more information on the Wrap Masters Design Competition and the World Wrap Masters Final, visit: www.fespa2017.com/whats-on/wrap-masters-competition
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Van 10 tot en met 12 mei organiseert PROKOM, de Konica Minolta gebruikersgroep, zijn eerste wereldwijde conferentie. Registratie voor deze conferentie in Wenen is gratis voor leden van deze gebruikersgroep. Lees meer over de conferentie in het onderstaande persbericht.
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PROKOM, the independent community of Konica Minolta production printing users, has announced its first global conference that will give members from all over the globe a ‘hands-on’ opportunity to network, learn and grow their business in a multi-channel world.
The Power of PROKOM conference in Vienna, Austria, from May 10-12, 2017, is being sponsored by Konica Minolta and will be “packed with industry-leading keynote speakers.”
PROKOM, Konica Minolta Production user association, went global following a US launch last September. “The PROKOM community is a game changer for anybody who is a Konica Minolta production user,” said Andy Barber, Managing Director – imail, UK Mail PLC, who is chairman of PROKOM.
“This first event will be packed with industry-leading keynote speakers, first class education mixed with a social programme that will allow all of us to get to know each other in Vienna. I am confident of our industry’s future and, through the Power of PROKOM, we can support each other to share ideas through our community’s core values which are to connect, learn and grow members businesses.”
Toshitaka Uemura, General Manager, Konica Minolta Inc, said: “Our commitment has always been to give shape to our customers’ ideas. We want to help them to transform their approaches and to capitalise on the many new market opportunities in a connected, online world, where print is very much a strong and valued part of the marketing mix.”
“To give shape to their ideas, we need to allow our customers a forum where they can express their views, share experiences, learn and profit knowing they have a strong organisation that is committed to their needs. We believe in PROKOM and are pleased to be the headline sponsor of this first conference. It’s a conference package designed for members by our members and it has been a fantastic experience to listen and speak with board members about how they want to develop PROKOM.
He added: “This community allows the members to learn new skills, share experiences and create new opportunities either through face to events that PROKOM are planning to deliver or from the web portal www.prokom.org.”
Topics for the conference programme include “The Future Of Digital IS Print”, “Making Print And Marketing Human”, “Print And Marketing – Two Sides Of The Same Coin”, Learning A New Skill That Could Kill You”, “So You Want To Be A Print And Marketing Services Provider” and “How To Achieve Predictable Profits.”
In addition to speakers that will also include Konica Minolta customers, there will be many sessions including panel debates. Delegates will stay at the Imperial Riding School Renaissance Vienna Hotel.
More details from www.PROKOM.org
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Canon has announced the next generation of its continuous feed colour inkjet press. The ProStream not only offers higher print quality thanks to the 1,200 dpi Digidot printhead and new pigmented polymer inks, but can, because of ColorGrio, print coated and uncoated paper qualities of between 60 and 160 gr/m2. The ProStream is able to print 80 meters a minute with a maximum width of 540 mm. The ProStream is said to go for 1.6 million Euro and could produce up to 35 million A4 pages a month.
Read more about the new inkjet production printer in the press release below.
New Canon press, the Océ ProStream, offers unrivalled quality and media versatility from continuous inkjet
Canon Europe, world-leader in imaging solutions, is launching the Océ ProStream, its next generation continuous feed colour inkjet press.
The ProStream combines the best features of Canon’s existing high-performance inkjet technologies with new innovations to take high-speed inkjet to the next level of colour output quality and media versatility.
This creates valuable new opportunities for many print service providers (PSPs) by enhancing their capability to deliver high-value variable content applications such as premium direct mail and marketing collateral, personalised catalogues, brochures and books.
Christian Unterberger, Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President Production Printing Products at Océ explains: “The ProStream is a natural addition to Canon’s established portfolio of continuous feed inkjet solutions, meeting the needs of progressive customers who are looking for higher quality and improved media choice for sustained high-volume production.
“With this new press, customers can now confidently migrate high-value work from offset to inkjet. This will enable PSPs and brand owners to exploit the full creative potential of variable data printing to elevate print’s effectiveness within data-led multi-channel campaigns.”
With a printing width of 540 mm and maximum print speed of 80 metres per minute, the ProStream offers best-in-class productivity of up to 35 million A4 pages per month.
Excellent output quality is achieved by means of a new high-definition 1200 dpi Océ DigiDot print head, which produces sharp images with fine details, smooth greyscales, as well as large areas of solid ink coverage.
A new pigmented polymer ink set matches or exceeds offset colour gamut for high quality applications. The press also features new, non-contact flotation drying technology. This minimises physical stresses on the paper and leaves the printed image untouched until dry, enabling dense ink coverage for vibrant colour reproduction.
The ProStream incorporates Canon’s ColorGrip paper conditioning technology, ensuring optimal print quality on standard coated and uncoated offset papers from 60 to 160 gsm.
Peter Wolff, Senior Director Customer Groups Commercial Printer and Production CRD concludes: “We talk to many customers who are looking for a continuous inkjet press that combines the vibrant colours associated with offset with variable data capability on standard coated papers, allowing for cost efficient white paper solutions with fast time-to-market. With the ProStream, we can now give them that solution.”
Canon will exhibit the new ProStream press at Hunkeler Innovationdays in Lucerne, Switzerland from 20-23 February 2017, where it will be demonstrated producing direct mail items, calendars, photo books and brochures. The press will be commercially available from summer 2017.
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Canon heeft de Next Generation van zijn continuous feed colour inkjet press aangekondigd. De ProStream biedt niet alleen een hogere printkwaliteit dankzij een nieuwe 1.200 dpi DigiDot print head en nieuwe gepigmenteerde polymeer inkten, maar kan, dankzij ColorGrip, printen op coated en un-coated papiersoorten, met gramsgewichten tussen de 60 en 160 gr/m2. De ProStream kan tot 80 meter per minuut printen met een maximale baanbreedte van 540 mm. De ProStream gaat naar verluid 1,6 miljoen euro kosten en produceert tot 35 miljoen A4 pagina’s per maand. Lees meer over de nieuwe inkjet production printer in onderstaand persbericht.
New Canon press, the Océ ProStream, offers unrivalled quality and media versatility from continuous inkjet
Canon Europe, world-leader in imaging solutions, is launching the Océ ProStream, its next generation continuous feed colour inkjet press.
The ProStream combines the best features of Canon’s existing high-performance inkjet technologies with new innovations to take high-speed inkjet to the next level of colour output quality and media versatility.
This creates valuable new opportunities for many print service providers (PSPs) by enhancing their capability to deliver high-value variable content applications, such as premium direct mail and marketing collateral, personalised catalogues, brochures and books.
Christian Unterberger, Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President Production Printing Products at Océ explains: “The ProStream is a natural addition to Canon’s established portfolio of continuous feed inkjet solutions, meeting the needs of progressive customers who are looking for higher quality and improved media choice for sustained high-volume production.
“With this new press, customers can now confidently migrate high-value work from offset to inkjet. This will enable PSPs and brand owners to exploit the full creative potential of variable data printing to elevate print’s effectiveness within data-led multi-channel campaigns.”
With a printing width of 540 mm and maximum print speed of 80 metres per minute, the ProStream offers best-in-class productivity of up to 35 million A4 pages per month.
Excellent output quality is achieved by means of a new high-definition 1200 dpi Océ DigiDot print head, which produces sharp images with fine details, smooth greyscales, as well as large areas of solid ink coverage.
A new pigmented polymer ink set matches or exceeds offset colour gamut for high quality applications. The press also features new, non-contact flotation drying technology. This minimises physical stresses on the paper and leaves the printed image untouched until dry, enabling dense ink coverage for vibrant colour reproduction.
The ProStream incorporates Canon’s ColorGrip paper conditioning technology, ensuring optimal print quality on standard coated and uncoated offset papers from 60 to 160 gsm.
Peter Wolff, Senior Director Customer Groups Commercial Printer and Production CRD concludes: “We talk to many customers who are looking for a continuous inkjet press, that combines the vibrant colours associated with offset with variable data capability on standard coated papers, allowing for cost efficient white paper solutions with fast time-to-market. With the ProStream, we can now give them that solution.”
Canon will exhibit the new ProStream press at Hunkeler Innovationdays in Lucerne, Switzerland from 20-23 February 2017, where it will be demonstrated producing direct mail items, calendars, photo books and brochures. The press will be commercially available from summer 2017.
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Ultro International BV uit Schiedam : de stille kracht achter de signmaker, dus ook achter uw bedrijf. Wij leveren een totaalpakket aan de Nederlandse en Belgische sign industry en aanverwante bedrijfstakken. Een ongekend breed programma : van (klik)lijsten tot bewegwijzering, van zuilen tot stoepborden, van spansystemen tot informatiestandaards. En bijna alles uit voorraad. Uw eigen catalogus met onze producten erin ligt ook al voor u klaar.
Op deze beurs demonstreren wij ons spansysteem E-tex voor deco-doek, en ook een prachtig alternatief voor rolbanieren. Van harte welkom op stand I 102 !
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