Category: Newspaper and Mailroom

In the Smart Factory, we Realize Visions

At Hunkeler Innovationdays in Lucerne, visitors and customers were able to discover our latest digital solutions for postpress live and on site, including two world premieres. CEO Bruno Müller reveals what has been driving us at Muller Martini to keep developing new and pioneering ideas for smart factories for many…

At Hunkeler Innovationdays in Lucerne, visitors and customers were able to discover our latest digital solutions for postpress live and on site, including two world premieres. CEO Bruno Müller reveals what has been driving us at Muller Martini to keep developing new and pioneering ideas for smart factories for many…

Trade Press Makes an Impact

Currently, the poor economic conditions are also causing problems for the trade media. However, trade journals will remain important decision-making aids for executives in the future.   Particularly in the printing industry, which has been exposed to media change over the past ten years with increasing Internet dominance and changing…

Currently, the poor economic conditions are also causing problems for the trade media. However, trade journals will remain important decision-making aids for executives in the future.   Particularly in the printing industry, which has been exposed to media change over the past ten years with increasing Internet dominance and changing…

Plump Promotion with Paper and Cardboard

Promotional items are often viewed with suspicion and skepticism – yet there are always original discoveries among them.   Every year, the Cologne-based publishing house WA Media presents the so-called “Promotional Gift Award”. This time a five-headed jury had met virtually for two days and evaluated 164 submissions of 130 enterprises…

Promotional items are often viewed with suspicion and skepticism – yet there are always original discoveries among them.   Every year, the Cologne-based publishing house WA Media presents the so-called “Promotional Gift Award”. This time a five-headed jury had met virtually for two days and evaluated 164 submissions of 130 enterprises…

What Times… (Part II)

In his five-volume “Diary of Bookbinding and Print Finishing” (in German: “Tagebuch der Buchbinderei und Druckweiterverarbeitung”), which he published himself, Hans Joachim Laue, a trade journalist who was born in 1943 and has been retired for several years, looks back on 500 years of the graphic arts trade and printing…

In his five-volume “Diary of Bookbinding and Print Finishing” (in German: “Tagebuch der Buchbinderei und Druckweiterverarbeitung”), which he published himself, Hans Joachim Laue, a trade journalist who was born in 1943 and has been retired for several years, looks back on 500 years of the graphic arts trade and printing…

What Times… (Part I)

In his five-volume “Diary of Bookbinding and Print Finishing” (in German: “Tagebuch der Buchbinderei und Druckweiterverarbeitung”), which he published himself, Hans Joachim Laue, a trade journalist who was born in 1943 and has been retired for several years, looks back on 500 years of the graphic arts trade and printing…

In his five-volume “Diary of Bookbinding and Print Finishing” (in German: “Tagebuch der Buchbinderei und Druckweiterverarbeitung”), which he published himself, Hans Joachim Laue, a trade journalist who was born in 1943 and has been retired for several years, looks back on 500 years of the graphic arts trade and printing…

People Who Sit in Front of a Screen All Day Want to Leaf Through Paper in the Evening

During the pandemic, advertising sales fell sharply worldwide. But figures from Switzerland prove it: advertising on paper – especially direct marketing – was not hit that hard by the decline. On the contrary: printed advertising even celebrated a small renaissance. Reasons for this include screen fatigue among advertisers and the…

During the pandemic, advertising sales fell sharply worldwide. But figures from Switzerland prove it: advertising on paper – especially direct marketing – was not hit that hard by the decline. On the contrary: printed advertising even celebrated a small renaissance. Reasons for this include screen fatigue among advertisers and the…

Forecast for Print: Things are looking brighter

As we emerge from a challenging few years to a new business environment, what can the printing industry expect, and what should you be looking to do to prepare?   Brighter skies ahead Recent reports from establishments like the BMI and other printing industry experts, along with business analysts across…

As we emerge from a challenging few years to a new business environment, what can the printing industry expect, and what should you be looking to do to prepare?   Brighter skies ahead Recent reports from establishments like the BMI and other printing industry experts, along with business analysts across…

Paper with a New Recipe

Cotton or wool, grass or hemp as ecological components: Numerous innovative paper products characterize today’s product ranges. Paper mills are frequently launching new, original products, taking the train directly in the direction of environmental protection, conservation and resource conservation. International competition for original ideas for ecologically sustainable specialty papers based…

Cotton or wool, grass or hemp as ecological components: Numerous innovative paper products characterize today’s product ranges. Paper mills are frequently launching new, original products, taking the train directly in the direction of environmental protection, conservation and resource conservation. International competition for original ideas for ecologically sustainable specialty papers based…

The virtual.drupa 2021 as a Digital Take-Away

Rolf Steiner (54) has worked in the graphic arts industry for 29 years and has been managing director of Vogt-Schild Druck AG in Derendingen, Switzerland, for two decades. He writes in the following blog why he misses drupa in Düsseldorf so much as a beacon in the printing industry and why…

Rolf Steiner (54) has worked in the graphic arts industry for 29 years and has been managing director of Vogt-Schild Druck AG in Derendingen, Switzerland, for two decades. He writes in the following blog why he misses drupa in Düsseldorf so much as a beacon in the printing industry and why…

Faced with unprecedented challenges, the print industry thrives

2020 was a watershed year that challenged us in ways we had never anticipated, upending both lives and livelihoods. Everything we knew about business and communication changed in an instant. While these challenges have been disruptive, they have also been transforming.   Printing Is Essential As frontline workers rushed to…

2020 was a watershed year that challenged us in ways we had never anticipated, upending both lives and livelihoods. Everything we knew about business and communication changed in an instant. While these challenges have been disruptive, they have also been transforming.   Printing Is Essential As frontline workers rushed to…