Automated colour control on a waterless Koenig & Bauer (K&B) Cortina press seemed like future music for the time being. But K&B and Q.I. Press Controls (QIPC), together with Coldset Printing Partners, have started a project to integrate the IDS-3D system for automatic colour control in the already highly sophisticated press. During the K&B Cortina User Workshop on Wednesday 25 September, QIPC presented the revolutionary system and the first results at the Coldset Printing Partners printing facility in Paal-Beringen, Belgium.

Premiere of the Digital Printbar

Numerous Gallus presses sold
Crowded live demonstrations of Gallus Labelmaster with new features and Gallus Labelfire with Digital Embellishment Unit

More effective processes and better performance lead to an average productivity gain of around 13 percent

Data is the key to the improvement process
Heidelberg also taking over consumables inventory management for Klampfer, as planned

Successful introduction of ‘Beyond the Machine’ and wider hybrid EF SYMJET press

The digital transformation with Big Data, Smart Data, AI, Machine-Learning or Neuronal Networks, just to mention a few promising technology fields, is profoundly altering the daily production routine in the printing sector. But how can Printing houses benefit concretely from this situation? Maintellisense, the in-house developed service platform from manroland Goss provides the appropriate answer. The combination of the terms Maintenance, Intelligence and Sense, shortened to Maintellisense, embodies the understanding of the web offset specialists from Augsburg of Service Solutions 4.0, in just one word. The focus of Service today lies in the development of practicable applications for the Next Generation, which optimise the production processes via the deployment of intelligent technologies, increase the systems efficiency and thereby sustainably reduce the total costs.

Every Printing house is sooner or later faced with the decision: retrofit or new investment? Basically, almost any existing press, independent of age or manufacturer, can be transformed into such a condition that it meets current customer expectations. The most significant benefits of a retrofit are obvious: it secures the press availability of the existing system for many years to come and it reduces operating costs, thanks to improved spare part availability. And it doesn't always have to be a comprehensive and expensive retrofit. manroland Goss has developed solutions as part of its Smart Retrofit Solutions program which makes it possible to upgrade individual sub-areas or to raise them to current state-of-the-art technology. The team of experts accurately determine what fits the business model best in each separate case, through individual consultation sessions.

New market segment, new format

Evo XC to be presented for the first time

Live shows during the fair
K15 M18 with numerous innovations
High-resolution digital printing
KAMMANN Digital Foiling

This modified saying applies to Austria’s Offsetdruckerei Schwarzach’s entry into the field of large-size offset printing. By taking the leap in format to the 6-series printing machine class, the whole production chain had to align with the preliminary stages of flatbed die-cutting and gluing of folding cartons, right through to internal logistics.

Regardless of the primary market segment of a business, Heidelberg has scalable solutions to impact printers of any size. With educational presentations every 30 minutes, Heidelberg’s industry experts will take the stage in Booth 10143 at PRINTING United to address how new technology advancements are drastically improving all areas of customers’ print shops – from prepress to press to postpress and beyond.

Award for Koenig & Bauer's artificial intelligence: For the project "Kyana - predictive maintenance with a digital twin" the subsidiary Coding received the Steinbeis Foundation's transfer prize - the Löhn Prize - on 27 September 2019. The award has been presented since 2004 for outstanding projects and achievements in entrepreneurial knowledge and technology transfer.

For almost two decades, Borås Tidning Tryckeri (BTT) has been a cornerstone in Bold Printing Group, one of the largest printing groups in Nordic countries. The printshop in Viared (west of Borås) was established in 2002 following a joint venture between media groups Bold Printing and Gota Media.