Looking back at Düsseldorf-Drupa2004
Drupa 2004 is recognized as the most advanced international printing exhibition with its 1862 exhibitors.
It is very exciting to achieve such results after three years of economic recession. The significance of this exhibition is to promote the confidence of printers to invest and restore the growth of the advertising industry. Advertising is the source of printing. power. Almost every exhibitor returned fully from the exhibition.
The 14-day exhibition was held in Düsseldorf, Germany, with a total of 17 exhibition halls, covering an area of ​​1.7 million square feet, which is equivalent to 36 football fields. The exhibition attracted a total of 394,000 visitors from all over the world. Although it was slightly less than 428,000 visitors in 2000, it also surprised the organizers.
In the first week, the famous US printer Quad / Graphics placed a $ 150 million order to push sales to a peak. They ordered 10 new rotary presses in one go, and they ordered another 50 million in the second week. Post-processing equipment.
During the exhibition, AGFA sold 10 sets of Delano, more than 400 sets of ApogeeX workflow, and signed 27 new JDF and CMS Consultancy contracts. In addition, Agfa's CTP system and proofer are also very popular, with a total of 250 CTP and 275 Sherpa proofers sold.
Creo has also gained a lot in CTP systems, workflow management software, printing plates and some of the latest products. A Russian daily newspaper Pravda purchased 20 Trendsetter (winning) newspaper CTP systems. These equipment will be installed in 22 newspaper printing houses in the Russian economic belt. After the network connection, it will become the largest printing company in Russia It is expected to start trial operation this fall.
Goss International sold Doyan Yayin three sets of Universal newspaper press production lines with a total of more than 40 units, which will be installed in the company's branches in Turkey and Germany in September.
Heidelberg claimed that the company's total order amount reached 960 million US dollars, and can live comfortably in the second half of the year.
KBA (KBA) company's sales orders also exceeded the expected target. KBA's sales orders this year are said to exceed twice the upper bound Drupa.
MAN Roland's orders for single-sheet paper, commercial rotation and newspaper rotation products exceeded US $ 560 million, far exceeding the expected target.
Focus on innovation
This year's exhibition was held under tight budgets and difficult economic conditions. There are not many new equipment prototypes and concepts, but mainstream equipment manufacturers have made various innovative attempts on their own equipment, mainly used in traditional In the printing press and industry, the seven leading ideas are to shorten the printing preparation time, improve production efficiency, speed up production, and provide some on-line advantages.
At the exhibition, we can see exhibitors everywhere emphasizing workflow, JDF compatibility, CIP4 integration, and collaborative work between systems, in addition to some customer application software and value-added services.
A person in charge of MAN Roland said: "PrintCity provides us and our 57 partners with an opportunity to demonstrate the effective application of our new technology in the work environment. This gives visitors a clear message: these innovations are feasible Yes, it can immediately speed up the workflow. "The organizers of PrintCity estimate that more than 70% of the visitors visited the printing city in Hall 6. In the printing city, an American printing company became the first batch of companies to purchase 6-color Roland700 sheet-fed in-line coating and hybrid UV coating.
Some unique new technologies
Although many manufacturers claim that their technology is innovative, only a small part stands out. On such a big stage, Goss International has for the first time launched the "concept" product rarely seen at the exhibition, providing a "flexible printing system" for newspaper publishing and product printing.
The purpose of this new method is to provide publishers with a solution for newspaper cutting and folding, featuring a small-sized cylinder designed for low-height towers; front and rear ink roller configurations, central plate, Blanket and impression cylinder combination; modular lowering and lifting of plate cylinder and blanket cylinder settings, allowing replacement of multiple-format printing jobs.
In addition, MAN Roland's Prindor component is also more creative. This is an additional one that can be installed on two printing units. For example, if it is installed on a Roland 700 sheet-fed printing press, a cold metal foil lamination process can be used for high gloss. Degrees of gold and silver printing. The result is very similar to hot metal foil stamping, and the gloss is better than metal ink or coating.
Digital becomes mainstream
At this exhibition, inkjet and toner-based digital printing have become mainstream products, not just as an alternative to sheet-fed offset printing, but as a very valuable investment supplement, has become More and more mature.
Some visitors who are interested in digital printing may find that the quality of digital printing products has reached a fairly high level, while the cost is also continuously reduced. This indicates that the type of output technology is undergoing a huge change. Some companies, such as Agfa (Dotrix), Canon, Delphax, Domino, Epson, Flint Ink (Jetrion), Hewlett-Packard, nca, Kodak (Encad and Versamark), MacDermid Printing Solutions, Riso, Roland, Scitex Vision, Vutek, and Xerox all have their own leading products and corresponding solutions.
The page output speed and quality level of digital printing equipment are astonishing. For example, the CR2000 launched by Delphax has a speed close to 2000ppm, and is a double-sided printing. It is considered to be the world ’s fastest roll-to-roll monochrome printer with Ehret installed. Unwinding unit, rotary die cutting and vertical cutting equipment, MBO folding machine and Palamides packing machine.
Jetrion's 3025 monochrome drop-on-demand inkjet system is considered to be the most flexible and efficient device. It can reach 250 fpm at 300 dpi resolution and uses UV ink; if it uses solvent-based ink, it can reach 400 fpm. The 2.4-inch wide device can be expanded to a 9.6-inch device using multiple print heads, and can be used to print addresses, barcodes, and various information posted on printed matter.
In addition, direct imaging (DI) printer technology is also a hot spot at the show. DI presses based on the technology provided by Presstek were displayed on the booths of Heidelberg, KBA, KPG, and Ryobi respectively, while the DI printing technologies provided by Agfa, Creo, Komori, MAN Roland, and Screen also attracted the majority s concern.
Process automation technology is increasing
Process automation in the form of computer integrated manufacturing as well as JDF and CIP4 systems that support industry standards also showed off at the show.
Each equipment manufacturer strives to develop a standard interface on its own equipment to accommodate various operations, management and business information through the network, connecting the entire enterprise as one.
This time Drupa also showed a strong interest in some old technologies, such as RFID (radio frequency identification-radio frequency identification), this technology has been used for a long time as a barcode replacement product, used to track packaging and logistics industry product. Unlike barcodes, RFID does not rely on visual contact, but emphasizes the ease of registration, mailing, and checkout of the merchandise stream.
Embedding RFID on packaged products is an effective and low-cost printing method. It mainly applies the RFID structure online on the printing machine, and adds conductive polymers to the ink.
trend
The trend of the exhibition shows that the industry is very interested in some "green" systems, especially some non-alcohol printing equipment, and some low-volatility sheet-fed printing machines, which can reduce noise, pollutants and waste water (cleaning fluid , Fountain solution, ink mist or volatiles of coating materials, etc.), these devices are also popular because they can protect operators and consumers of printed materials.
At the exhibition, some exhibitors provided customers with some production cycle management service plans and projects, such as maintenance, spare parts, plant services, system upgrades, and packaging. The purpose is to maximize the system's entire life cycle.
The value-added plans provided by some other suppliers include business consulting, financial management, training, and so-called project management, which can extend simple equipment management to logistics, technical support and expansion operations, quality certification, establishment of plans, and distribution of printing machines. Every aspect.
Asia has more buyers
Overall, visitors from Asia and Western Europe have a stronger desire to purchase equipment. According to the organizers, Drupa2004 has more visitors from regions and countries outside Germany (54%, only 47% four years ago). Although European visitors account for about 1/3, the number of visitors from Asia It was about double that in 2000.
Drupa's official delegation is quite international, with more than 30 delegations from 18 countries participating in the opening ceremony. The largest group is from India and consists of more than 800 printing houses, packaging experts, pre-press experts and other experts. The smallest official delegation is from El Salvador (El Salvador).
Other major delegations are from Australia, Brazil, Belgium, China, Indonesia, Luxembourg, Morocco, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
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