mailing and distribution

Salmat’s profits up with jump in delivery and online traffic [mailing and distribution]

2010-02-27T03:00:00+01:00

Salmat’s profits were up 21.9 per cent to $24.3m in the first half of 2009-10 compared with $19.9m during the same period the year before. While the company reported total mail volumes were down four per cent, its Targeted Media Solutions division earnings increased by 40.5 per cent to $20.7m following strong outcomes from efficiency programmes and new business wins.

Zipform on track with Sitma from AMT [mailing and distribution]

2009-09-07T17:00:00+01:00

This WA digital, mail and fulfilment house has just installed its third Sitma, from AMT, which comes with a host of added value features

Galloping to mailing win [mailing and distribution]

2009-09-07T16:47:00+01:00

Galloping Press has installed a new mailing and fulfillment line from MailPack in order to help grow its business

Opportunity in mailing [mailing and distribution]

2009-08-29T15:51:00+01:00

For many commercial printers mailing and fulfilment services are being recognised as potential new revenue streams, after all the printer already has the customer, and a fair amount of print is in need of mailing

The Hitchhiker’s guide to personalisation [mailing and distribution]

2009-08-27T15:35:00+01:00

If you’re not familiar with the term ‘personalisation’ and the opportunities it offers, then it’s probably time that you retired

Digital newspaper printing – a future application? [mailing and distribution]

2008-11-07T13:55:08+01:00

Among the more interesting demonstrations at the recent drupa exhibition was the digital printing of newspapers, says Andrew Tribute

HP Indigo Centre of Excellence, Singapore [mailing and distribution]

2008-10-15T14:40:00+01:00

The 1135sq m HP Indigo Centre of Excellence in Singapore is divided into five main areas: Commercial Printing, Photo Specialty, Direct Mail, HP Indigo Finishing Solutions and Label Converting & Specialty Printing.

Mailing and Personalisation [mailing and distribution]

2008-08-21T14:38:00+01:00

Personalisation and mailing are two areas which offer printers added value opportunities, Wayne Robinson looks at how you get involved

ADMA Intimacy at Forum [mailing and distribution]

2008-08-19T04:00:00+01:00

The secrets to achieving customer intimacy and heightened marketing results were revealed at Australia’s premier marketing conference & exhibition, ADMA Forum, which has just taken place in Sydney

Digital newspaper printing - a future application? [mailing and distribution]

2008-08-09T15:23:07+01:00

Among the more interesting demonstrations at the recent drupa exhibition was the digital printing of newspapers, says Andrew Tribute

Kingmaker dead 100 years [mailing and distribution]

2008-03-16T07:00:00+01:00

Australia's nineteenth-century press magnate, David Syme, died 100 years ago on February 14, and the Canberra-based Melburnian, Dr Elizabeth Morrison, who is working in a book about Syme, took special note. Here are some of the reflections she shared with the Australian Newspaper History Group

Newspaper ghost towns [mailing and distribution]

2007-07-11T14:00:00+01:00

Visiting the country towns where pioneering newspapers operated is always fascinating, but if the town no longer boasts a newspaper the fascination is tinged with sadness.

Le Figaro orders biggest-ever KBA Cortina press line [mailing and distribution]

2007-06-10T14:00:00+01:00

Le Figaro, one of France’s leading national titles with a daily circulation of around 480,000 copies, is planning to make the technology leap to waterless with the biggest KBA Cortina installation to date – a six-wide version comprising two press lines with five towers apiece. KBA won the contract following an intensive screening of all the newspaper technology on the market.

KBA making a splash [mailing and distribution]

2007-05-24T14:00:00+01:00

KBA Australasia is offering a wealth of information about the innovative KBA printing press range, which extends from small, half, medium and large format sheetfed offset presses through commercial web offset presses to single, double and triple-width newspaper presses.

World premiere at Main-Post in WÃ¼rzburg [mailing and distribution]

2007-04-25T14:00:00+01:00

Zip’n’Buy, an invention patented* by press manufacturer Koenig & Bauer (KBA) some years ago, made its pressroom debut recently at Würzburg-based German media house Main-Post when the C&A retail chain pounced on the idea of a “zip” in a newspaper for an ad campaign. The zip took the form of a perforated line applied – with no reduction in press speed – during production of the Main-Post’s flagship title on a KBA Commander press line.

When it is hot for the critic [mailing and distribution]

2007-04-04T00:51:27+01:00

Newspaper editors never ran short of difficulties, according to the Burrangong Chronicle, Young, 1874.

Quick-fire production of coldset newspapers and heatset semi-commercials with the same inks. [mailing and distribution]

2007-03-22T13:00:00+01:00

Waterless expands business options

Open house: world’s first KBA Cortina with heatset capability in action at De Persgroep’s new Eco Print Center in Belgium.

Quick-fire production of coldset newspapers and heatset semi-commercials with the same inks Waterles [mailing and distribution]

2007-03-22T13:00:00+01:00

More than 100 representatives from European newspapers and their suppliers witnessed a world premiere on 22 March at Eco Print Center (EPC), Belgian media house De Persgroep’s gleaming new production plant in Lokeren, near Brussels.

Slugging it out on the field [mailing and distribution]

2007-03-12T20:21:18+01:00

I entered journalism because I had dreams of one day becoming a sports writer and covering Australian cricket tours of England, just like Tom Goodman (Sydney Morning Herald) or Ernie Christensen (Sydney Sun). My dream changed over the years, but I still love cricket – and newspapers.

Waterless remains a core topic [mailing and distribution]

2007-03-06T22:00:00+01:00

First Cortina user meeting at Koenig & Bauer in Würzburg

“Waterless and keyless offset printing with the compact KBA Cortina press, despite the many parallel innovations for conventional wet-offset newspaper printing, will remain a core topic of development and marketing activities at Koenig & Bauer AG”. This was just one of the central messages to emerge from the first official get-together of the current Cortina users from Germany, Belgium, Holland and Switzerland, which was held in Würzburg in mid-February.

Four KBA Commander 4/1 presses for Gazzetta dello Sport [mailing and distribution]

2007-03-04T22:00:00+01:00

Less than two years after completing the installation of nine KBA Commander 4/2 and two KBA Comet newspaper presses at six production locations, Italy’s leading media group, Rizzoli Corriere della Sera (RCS), has placed an order for a further four KBA Commanders 4/1.

4/2 productivity and 2/2 flexibility combined in one press [mailing and distribution]

2007-03-01T22:00:00+01:00

A KBA Colora that came on edition a few months ago at Independent Newspapers, Inc. (INI) in Dover, Delaware (USA) incorporates a groundbreaking advance that dramatically expands the capabilities of newspaper presses.

Double quarterfold enhances output [mailing and distribution]

2007-01-18T23:00:00+01:00

Newspaper printers throughout the world, and particularly in Europe and the USA, are switching from broadsheet to more easily manageable tabloid and compact formats. At the same time there is an ever-stronger focus in the newspaper and semi-commercial markets on efficient inline production, fast edition changes and a high net production output. So it follows that quarterfold capabilities – which are being used increasingly to support a wider choice of products and formats – must also keep pace with market demands.

Best from Bottcher [mailing and distribution]

2004-05-21T07:00:00+01:00

Bottcher showed its full range of pressroom consumables, including its 5600 newspaper blanket, designed for four high and ten cyliner satellite presses. It also showed its new BottcherPro Rol-O-Gel roller protecting paste, used on dry running rollers when not printing on all printing units, and which can be used for UV printing rollers. Other products on show were the ClanCoat polymer based roller coating, and the InkStop fluoroplastic sleeve, which is designed as a coating for path rollers.

Goss gets flexible [mailing and distribution]

2004-05-14T07:00:00+01:00

Despite considerable interest, Goss weren’t ready to make any announcment at drupa about the acquisition of Heidelberg Web. Instead, the newspaper giant announced its biggest major technological leap since it became Goss International some two years ago.

KPG in major drupa expansion [mailing and distribution]

2004-05-14T07:00:00+01:00

Kodak Polychrome Graphics (KPG) unveiled its expanded digital, conventional and business solutions portfolio for commercial, newspaper and packaging industries. The portfolio provides a comprehensive range of solutions for graphic arts requirements from input to output and includes computer-to-plate and conventional lithographic plate products, digital halftone, inkjet, and monitor proofing products, digital printing applications, colour workflow tools, consulting services, storage solutions and Kodak branded graphic arts films.

Baldwin cleaning up [mailing and distribution]

2004-05-12T07:00:00+01:00

Baldwin introduced a raft of new products for pressrooms of all types, leading off with the new Tower Clean for newspaper printing. Aimed at single width and semi commercial presses Tower Clean utilises the press dampening system, along with cleaning modules from Baldwin to automate the cleaning process.

MAN Roland innovations exceed 70 [mailing and distribution]

2004-05-12T07:00:00+01:00

MAN Roland says all its drupa developments and innovations are aimed at optimising production in commercial, publishing and packaging printing. The some 70 innovations range from the Roland 700 with DirectDrive; automated plate changing, zero-makeready imprinting units and optimised ergonomics for commercial web offset presses; new newspaper concepts; right through to the variable-format DICOweb.

Agfa shows multiple solutions across drupa show [mailing and distribution]

2004-05-07T07:00:00+01:00

Agfa has announced that it is giving its violet CTP newspaper platesetting systems a boost of speed, with the addition of new, high speed, :Polaris systems. The enhanced versions, the :Polaris XTV-S and XCV-S, are now more than 25 per cent faster than the XTV and XCV. Each system is now capable of producing 260 plates per hour, enough to satisfy even the most demanding newspaper environments.

ContiTech breaks new ground in alcohol-free printing at drupa [mailing and distribution]

2004-04-02T07:00:00+01:00

ContiTech Elastomer Coatings is showing not only CONTI-AIR® EVOLUTION and CONTI-AIR® SYNCRO – its classic blankets for modern, high-speed newspaper web printing – but also CONTI-AIR® ZENITH, a blanket developed for alcohol-free heatset printing at Print City, drupa hall 6, stand A66.