The World Printers Forum within WAN-IFRA promotes the printed newspaper. Its mission is to serve WAN-IFRA members in promoting and sustaining the printed newspaper business and technology through collaborative research and development, global exchange of experience, creating new standards, implementing environmental guidelines, developing new strategies, and fostering innovations.

All these years, numerous reports have been published on the latest trends and critical developments in the newspaper industry and those reports gave all the necessary inputs to implement the findings in the business and process.

This recent COVID-19 is unprecedented and has created a deep impact in every industry. To be resilient to the impact, and to work from ground zero, we thought, some of our old reports would give you some stimulus.

We have planned to send one selected report every day, for 30 days, excluding weekends, from our repository to the top management and a selected group of executives from our member companies. In the email, you will find a link to the report page where members can download it by providing their email id.

In the email, you will also see a link to this page. This page will be updated regularly with the report link being sent to you over email. Anytime, or after 30 days, you can visit this page to find all the reports.

NOTE: Printed copies could be arranged on a chargeable basis.

Day 1: Envisioning the newspaper in 2020

Day 2: Implications of changing to lower grammage newsprint 

Day 3: New and emerging business models of newspaper companies

Day 4: Web break prevention and diagnosis

Day 5: The inter-instrument agreement in color and density

Day 6: Newsprint waste management

Day 7: Conformance of Indian and imported newspaper to DIN 19306-4 

Day 8: ISO 12647-3: 2013 Quality standards for newspaper production 

Day 9: Specifications for Blankets in newspaper offset production

Day 10: Print innovation awards 2018

Day 11: Extend the life of your press

Day 12: Inkjet applications in newspaper production

Day 13: Alternative revenue streams for news publishers

Day 14: Blockchain and the future of news 

Day 15: High-value print production 

Day 16: Value added coldset: How to run coated paper in newspaper press

Day 17: The sustainability of newspapers 

Day 18: Innovative advertising

Day 19: Automatic image processing

Day 20: Optimising productivity in newspaper production lines

Day 21: New Printing Plants

Day 22: Guidelines for the Acceptance of a Newspaper Press

Day 23: Going green

Day 24: Semi-commercial print process standard

Day 25: Print online performance gap

Day 26: Vision of a newspaper production system

Day 27: Broadsheet and compact formats

Day 28: RGB in the newspaper press

Day 29: Automated process control in the CTP production

Day 30: Time spent on reading news brands

Day 31: Outsourcing

Day 32: Inter-instrument agreement in color and density measurement

Day 33: The phenomenon of listing in newspaper printing

Day 34: Practicability of reel unwrapping and splice preparation robots

Day 35: Publishing to targeted audiences

Day 36: Reasons for smearing, set-off and rub-off of offset newsinks on newsprint

Day 37: The influence of the quality of raw water in damping solutions on newspaper printing

Day 38: Runnability and printability of newsprint

Day 39: Changing print - Turning points in newspaper technology since 1970