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General Assembly 2015, World Printers Forum
General Assembly 2015, World Printers Forum
Submitted by Manfred Werfel on Wed, 2015-09-16 17:12
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Proposed agenda of the General Assembly on 8 October 2015
No.
Topic
Time
Arrival of participants, coffee / tea
09.00
1
Welcome
K Balaji, R. Stunt
09.30
2
Introduction
Roundtable
09:35
3
Report about the work of the World Printers Forum
World Printers Forum Organisation
World Printers Forum Conference
Website and Online Forum
Newsletter
K Balaji, M. Werfel
09:50
Teabreak
10:30
4
Report about the work of the World Printers Forum
Projects
Optimized Paper Handling and Logistics
Procedure of Color Quality Club evaluation
Update of Report on print standardization, ISO 12647-3
New newspaper color profile (WAN-IFRAnewspaper26v5)
New business models for newspaper printers
Manfred Werfel, Anand Srinivasan
11:00
5
New projects – discussion on World Printers Forum work in future
all
11:30
6
Other business
all
12:00
7
Next meeting
all
12:15
8
Wrap-up
K Balaji, R. Stunt
12:25
Lunch
12:30
End
13:00
The World Printers Forum Board met on 1 September 2015 and discussed possible topics for the coming working period. We present these ideas here.
Please comment on the different topic proposals, create your own proposals, and discuss the topics with your colleagues here in the Online Forum.
No.
Possible Research Topics, World Printers Forum, 2015-09-16
1
Newsprint
Recommended standards: colour of newsprint (according ISO 12647-3), general paper properties (according DIN 19306)
Trend toward lower grammage: How to print on 40 g/m2 newsprint? Interviews with practitioners
Improved (whiter) newsprint: What is most common? Can we specify one or two colour sets of improved newsprint?
2
Inkjet
Inkjet newspaper case studies based on interviews: Belgium, France (La Réunion), Italy, Malta, Switzerland, UK (Jersey), USA (Chicago)
What is the colour gamut of web inkjet newspaper presses? Print and measure standard colour charts on different inkjet presses
3
Adding Value
Different methods oh value added printing: heatset, UV, waterless, varnishing/coating, LC and LWC paper grades; pros and cons of different solutions
4
Business Models
“New & emerging business models of newspaper printing companies”, an update report based on the survey of 4c trade magazine
5
Drupa 2016
Newspaper production trends at Drupa 2016, a Drupa guide for visitors from news publishing companies and newspaper printing companies
The General Assembly of the WPF met for the first time on 8 October 2015 in Hamburg.
Discussion topics were: Report on the work of the WPF from January to October 2015, WPE 2015 and 2016, and posible new projects for the coming period.
Attached please find the minutes of the meeting in PDF format. The presented slides can be downloaded as well as a PDF files (see 2 attchments). Photos from WPE 2015 and the connectd conferences can be found HERE.
Manfred Werfel
WAN-IFRA Deputy CEO