News from Poland

6 Dec 2016 14:43

Polish Accents at drupa 2004 In the opinion of many people in the printing industry, this year's drupa marked a turning point by changing the market climate and for many companies it was an occasion for signing new contracts or at least making new contacts. It is very uplifting that among 1850 exhibitors from around the world, companies representing Poland also took part in this great festival of the printing business. AC&C HSH Group appeared at Drupa Innovations Parc. The company manufactures among others PuzzleFlow workflow system. Other representatives of Poland included: Estyma, producer of spiral binding systems; Introma, producer of bindery machines; PPUH Poligrafia, second-hand printing press and equipment dealer and PLFTA Đ Polish Flexographic Technical Association. Many Polish printers signed contracts for new printing presses and equipment. Poland's biggest printing house, Winkowski Sp. z o.o., purchased five Heidelberg Harris web offset presses, a Creo Magnus large-format CtP system and nine QuadTech colour-control systems. Also Poligrafia SA purchased a web offset press Đ an M-600 by Heidelberg. Overall at drupa, Heidelberg Polska signed contracts for dozens of printing units, binding machines and prepress systems. Worth mentioning here is the contract between MAN Roland Polska and Print & Dis-play Polska poster printing house for a Roland 904 XXL large-format sheet-fed printing press. In the first week of the fair Deva-Print (Polish representative of KBA) contracted two Rapida 105 printing presses. In the field of digital print, signing of a contract by Xteam for the first in Poland Xerox DocuColor iGen3 system was another major event (more about it further). Furthermore, Agfa signed a contract for a CtP system to be installed in the Krakow Eurodruk printing house, announcing at the same time a few more initial contract drafts for more platesetters. MŸller Martini Sp. z o.o. sold a Diamant hard-binding production line and a Ventura stitching machine to Warsaw-based Drukarnia Naukowo-Techniczna. Many other suppliers of prepress systems, printing presses and postpress equipment, as well as representatives of various printing houses, expressed their satisfaction regarding this year's exhibition. 21st Rotary Press at Winkowski A new web offset press Đ a Heidelberg Sunday 3000 Duplex began working in one of the printing houses of the Winkowski Group in Pila. It is already the twenty first rotary press installed in the printing houses belonging to Tadeusz Winkowski. Sunday 3000 Duplex is one of only two of this type heatset printing presses currently operating in Europe. It was purchased from Tusch, an Austrian printing house. It is additionally equipped with a QuadTech RCS 4000 Icon web-guidance and cut-off control systems (for six webs) as well as QuadTech CCS Icon colour control system for all eight printing units. Soon, in the Group's printing houses there will appear more printing presses and systems purchased by the Winkowski company at drupa. IPI Congress in Warsaw World Congress of IPI (International Press Institute) and its 53rd General Meeting were held in Warsaw from 15th to 18th of May. The event was hosted by Agora, the publisher of ăGazeta WyborczaÓ, which is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year. The congress was attended by President Aleksander Kwasniewski, Prime Minister Marek Belka and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, who, besides making speeches prepared for the occasion, answered questions from journalists and publishers from all continents. The 15th anniversary celebrations also gave the world's top journalists cooperating with IPI an opportunity to learn more about the details of the historical peaceful takeover of power in Poland by the opposition and the change of political system, which later gave rise to similar changes in the Soviet Union. Media activity on a global scale was the subject of a three-day debate of the congress. Many countries now struggle for democracy and the freedom of speech. It was also discussed how dangerous the journalists job is and how many of them are still being repressed by the authorities. The message of the congress was the fight for protection of human dignity. First DocuColor iGen3 in Poland and in Central-Eastern Europe At drupa 2004 Xteam, an authorised representative of Xerox in Poland, received the first order for its DocuColor iGen3 digital printing system. It will be the first system of the kind not only in Poland, but also in the whole Central-Eastern Europe. At Drupa the same customer also ordered the first Nuvera 120 Printer-Copier system Đ the newest medium-run black-and-white printing and copying system.