DRUPA INT

EFI has been able to grow by 12% yearly in the past couple of years. They focus on big growth markets. Packaging,  sign and labelling are the most important markets which they are entering. According to CEO Guy Gecht this is the reason why EFI will not work on sheet printing. The future is fast,…

The combination of digital and paper will be the future of direct mail. It is the right moment, the right way to the right reader which will result in a conversation. The company will introduce new software solutions at drupa. Pitney Bowes will introduce its Clarity solution suite. A cloud-based software which collects data from…

The world is changing and the way we communicate has become dramatically different says Xerox. We live in a mobile world. That is reality. This has a significant influence on the printing industry. Print is a bridge between the physical world and the digital world. Xerox sees the document market as 50 billion printed pages…

Konica Minolta will show technology which will add value for the customer. Important items are a simple path to digital and more unmanned printers. According to Konica there is a long way to go, because only 2,7% of packaging, label and textile is digital. Konica Minolta will have a live band playing at drupa and…

Canon uses its imaging experience to claim world leadership in production print. Canon currently has a markt share of 60% in industrial inkjet printing. With the acquisition of OCE this market position has been strenghtened and hte company claims to be number 1 in digital print. Technology itself is not enough. We will need to…

DIP-ping into Lenticular Print – Hall 7, stand 70F09  at drupa innovation park (DIP) Dun Laoghaire, Ireland, 25 February 2016 – DP Lenticular, the only European company dedicated solely to the promotion and sale of lenticular plastic sheets and rolls for the offset, digital and label markets, will be presenting its creative portfolio of solutions, including a…

Fuijifilm´s drupa slogan will be “Value from Innovation” The company will introduce the new series Jetpress inkjet sheet printer, also available with UV curing. Separately Fuijifilm will show a wide portfolio of hardware for large format printers especially for the sign industry. Its topmodel is Onset. New is a hybrid printer named Uvistar Hybrid which…

Drupa is expecting 300,000 visitors, the same as in 2012, despite what is happening in the industry, with 1,600 exhibitors of which 500 new ones. Drupa will take place every three years and the show is now 11 days long instead of 14 previously. And what is it that Drupa does to attract the younger…

Kodak will introduce the whole new Nexpress platform at drupa. The new platform has LED technology and focuses on higher volumes and less operator time. The Nexpress ZS3900 digital colour press will be shown for the first time by Kodak at their stand F09 in Hall 5. Press Release Kodak will showcase its new KODAK…

Drupa 2016 will be the first Drupa since 1967 which I will not attend, but will follow, from home, for Blokboek.com. I will also try to draw parallels, based on the 11 Drupas I did attend, to what we can expect in 2016, product introductions, and, even more importantly, the effects on our industry. Nearly…