photokina LightArt Congress 2016

Premiere at photokina: LightArt Congress 2016

 

The photokina LightArt Congress 2016 (phoLAC 2016) will take place for the first time from 23 to 24 September 2016 as a cooperative event in the context of photokina 2016. The phol LAC 2016 is a cooperative event realised jointly by the German Light Painting Union (GLPU) and the renowned light art photographer and artist JanLeonardo Wöllert and his team.

Light art photography and light painting have become trend themes. Corporations, camera manufacturers and advertising have already discovered the magic and fascination of the theme of light. photokina 2016 sets the interplay of light, performance and photography on the agenda with the phoLAC 2016 for light art photographers and trade fair visitors. With leading art photographers from Canada, China, USA, the UK, France, Belgium and Spain, as well as Germany, the congress will feature international speakers and artists. In addition to lectures and workshops revolving around the themes of LightArt photography, term exposure and light painting, which will take place on Friday and Saturday in the Congress Centre East, an international light painting screen exhibition and light painting photoBOX will be presented on the fair grounds. Already in advance of photokina, the organisers are planning outdoor events, public workshops and flash mobs to present the theme effectively for the media. Further information on the programme and the application form can be found at http://www.glpu.de/congress/:

About JanLeonardo Wöllert
JanLeonardo Wöllert has for many years been one of the most renowned international light art photographers. His works enjoy a great deal of international respect and recognition. The artist has realised global campaigns for corporations like the computer manufacturer Lenovo, Japan Tobacco, Nike, the Japanese Automotive Assocaiation or the band Coldplay. He is the organiser of the International Light Painting Award and has created a major international stage for light painting through his considerable commitment.
www.lightart-photography.de

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PHOTOKINA
www.photokina.com

photokina 2016: Imaging unlimited - New concept, new campaign

Photokina 2016
Cologne
20 - 25 september 2016

A good eight months prior to photokina, the leading international trade fair for the entire photo, video and imaging branch, the organisers present a new concept and a new campaign for the show. Under the claim of 'Imaging unlimited', photokina should continue developing into a content and solution-oriented event. "photokina stands for the unlimited possibilities of imaging. Thanks to smartphones and tablets, new target groups of image enthusiasts are arising which we want to reach with the concept", according to Katharina C. Hamma, Chief Operating Officer of Koelnmesse GmbH. "The concept exploits the full potential of the imaging branch and offers chances for sustained growth in the changing imaging environment." The Photoindustrie-Verband e.V., co-organiser of photokina, is just as convinced. "With the reorientation and the focus on future-related themes and strategic growth areas of the industry, we have set the course for the expansion and reinforcement of photokina as a leading international show", says Christian Müller-Rieker, managing director of the association. The concept is initially visible in the form of the new advertising campaign, which convinces with a fresh and dynamic presence. The colour world and the key visual express this with strong visuals. The new presence can already be seen online at www.photokina.com. The new advertising presence is flanked by PR measures, social media promotions and events that have already been presented in an attention-getting fashion in the city of Cologne prior to the trade fair.

Photography and filming take place everywhere and all the time these days. Anyone with a smartphone, a tablet or, of course, a camera can record his world without limits in unusual and exciting images. photokina expresses precisely this with 'Imaging unlimited' and the new key visual. The colour world in red and cyan lends the event a dynamic, fresh appearance. The two colours contrast one another and generate maximum brilliance and colour effect through this contrast. The field of tension underlines the limitlessness of the "Imaging unlimited" claim. The campaign and the claim were developed and realised by the Webguerillas agency in Cologne.

In order to communicate the new concept of photokina to a broad public and make the show a more intense experience, events in the city and at photokina, as well as new themes are planned. In live performances, in the Copter World or the Action Hall, visitors have the possibility to themselves become part of "Imaging unlimited" and try out new camera, film and photo technologies and techniques. The theme of moving images becomes an area of focus in the context of a short film festival and through cooperation with influencers from the branch, for example, AlexiBexi, familiar from YouTube. The city of Cologne will also celebrate the show with a photokina festival in the form of photo promotions, workshops and major projections.

PHOTOKINA
www.photokina.com

Sun Chemical: Digital, Screen and Industrial Printing at FESPA 2013

Sun Chemical will present its wide portfolio for the screen and digital printing markets at FESPA 2013, 25 - 29 June at the ExCeL London exhibition centre

Sun Chemical offers ink and coating solutions for a wide variety of applications including, wide and superwide format inkjet printers, promotional and display printers, industrial printing, sign makers and digital commercial printers, highlighting Sun Chemical’s strong positioning in the digital, screen and industrial sectors.

Sun Chemical’s digital print offering delivers high quality reproduction for a variety of presses, which will be showcased on its stand at FESPA. Sun Chemical produces robust aftermarket products with physical and colour properties equivalent to the original products, which includes ranges in solvent, oil and water based products.

Sun Chemical’s commitment to the screen printing market will be displayed on the stand with new products for both graphic and display printing and industrial screen printing. Sun Chemical’s comprehensive range of inks and consumables have been designed to meet the rapidly evolving needs of the graphic display market as well as high performance industrial application such as hi-tech automotive, plastic card and glass decoration.

SunJet will be presenting its capability in the joint development of graphics and industrial inkjet ink solutions with OEM partners and in collaboration with all of the major print head manufacturers. There will be enhancements to SunJet’s wide range of conventional UV and UV LED curing ink platforms which are tailored to OEM needs in terms of print speed and press architecture. Visitors to Sun Chemical’s stand will see presentations of ink technology for glass substrates and for traffic signage with extended outdoor durability which are in accordance with EU wide standards and matched to specific traffic colour requirements and reflectance. 

Jonathan Sexton, Sales and Marketing Director, Screen and Narrow Web Europe, Sun Chemical, comments: “We’re excited to show our extensive offering and commitment to the screen and digital printing markets at FESPA 2013. Our impressive product portfolio shows our ability to offer our customers quality solutions across multiple sectors, showing that we’re more than just an ink supplier. We place a lot of emphasis and investment into our R+D to ensure the highest quality product.

“We work closely with our customers, listening to what they say in order to create a product fit for purpose before launching into the market. This underlines the confidence customers have in Sun Chemical as a global brand and in our products - demonstrating to them that we’re a partner that can help our customers to grow and develop their business.”

Sun Chemical at FESPA 2013, North Hall, Stand B20N. 

Sun Chemical's website: www.sunchemical.com

Roland Soljet Pro4 XF-640 at Fespa 2013, London

Roland to exhibit its new flagship 64-inch SOLJET PRO4 XF-640 beast at FESPA 2013

Roland Soljet Pro4 XF-640

Roland DG will be showcasing its recently announced 64-inch SOLJET PRO4 XF-640 at this year’s FESPA exhibition in the ExCeL centre, London 25th- 29th June. The new XF-640 is the company’s fastest wide format printer to date and has been dubbed ‘the beast’. It incorporates next generation dual print heads, a redesigned take-up and pinch roller systems, plus a host of other advanced features for high quality imaging at a maximum print speed of 102m²/hr.

Designed for both durable and stunning outdoor and indoor applications, the XF-640 is the ideal production tool for signs, banners, vehicle wraps, window graphics, POP displays, exhibition show graphics, posters and more. Roland’s newest eco-solvent inks, Eco-Sol MAX 2, offer an expanded colour gamut as well as fast drying times to boost production and the dual mirrored CMYK ink configuration virtually eliminates banding for consistent colour imaging. Visitors to the show can battle with the XF-640 beast on the Roland stand (P30S) to win prizes.

The XF-640 will also be joined on the stand by Roland SOLJET PRO4 XR-640. The 64 inch printer/cutter has been a great commercial success since its launch late last year and visitors to the stand will be able to see both machines in action and speak with Roland’s experts to learn how the PRO4’s series high quality and versatility can boost their business and offer a great return on investment.

Available in both seven and eight ink configurations and compatible with Roland’s latest Eco-Sol MAX 2 ink technology, the XR-640 comes with a choice of nine ink colours – CMYK, light magenta, light cyan, white, metallic silver and light black. Alongside the PRO4 XR-640, the VersaCAMM VS-640 printer/cutter will also be on stand, representing the best-selling VersaCAMM series.

Gillian Montanaro, Head of Marketing, Roland DG (UK) commented: “FESPA is a great opportunity for us to reach out to wide format print companies and with two outstanding new machines in the shape of our PRO4 series on the stand, it’s going to be a great show for us. In addition to exhibiting our new flagship models and some of our best-selling machines, we will also be highlighting the great after-sales support Roland offers through our RolandCare warranty service and training courses held at the Roland Academy.”

Roland DG UK website: www.rolanddg.co.uk

Canon & Océ wide format portfolio, Fespa 2013, London

Canon & Océ wide format portfolio at FESPA 2013 in London

At FESPA 2013 (25-29 June), Canon will showcase its entire wide format portfolio on one stand (H5S, Entrance S4) for the first time since the acquisition of Océ.

With Océ’s expertise and technology now part of its wide format portfolio, Canon is better positioned to help Print Service Providers (PSPs) to extend their service offering and expand their businesses, and the Canon stand will be designed to help visitors see the bigger picture and explore the wide format opportunities it presents.

Whatever a customer’s core business, said Canon, its stand will provide the insight, inspiration and innovation to help them identify areas in which to grow their business across the fast-growing wide format market. It will demonstrate to visitors how the combination of Canon’s imaging heritage with industry-leading Océ technology provides customers with the ultimate business partner, supported by real-life examples of its customers’ success stories.

Further inspiration will be provided by demonstrations of the vast range of applications possible in wide format.

These applications are made possible by Canon’s expanded portfolio of wide format technologies. This full portfolio of solutions being demonstrated will range from rollfed inkjet printers and UV flatbed devices through to solutions and digital cutting tables. These will include:

- The versatile UV flatbed printer Océ Arizona 480GT with its eight independent ink channels and capability to spot and flood varnish or white layer on a large variety of substrates, including glass, lenticular media and membrane switch overlays. It can create exciting and high value applications for Point-of-Sale (POS), signage and specialty applications

- Océ ColorWave 650 Poster Printer with its Océ CrystalPoint imaging technology for instantly dry poster prints for cost-effective, high-quality POS prints delivered on demand

- The high-speed eco-solvent wide format printer – the Océ CS9360 – ideal for advertising, including fleet graphics, banners, backlits and posters

- Océ ProCut digital flatbed cutter – an automated cutting system that can streamline wide format digital printer workflow from prepress to finishing, delivering exceptional cut quality, versatility and productivity for all display graphic applications

- Canon imagePROGRAF iPF6450 and the award-winning Spectrophotometer, which delivers great colour consistency across a fleet of wide format printers, all managed from one host device.

Jaap van ’t Ooster, Director of Technical Document Systems (TDS) and Display Graphic Systems (DGS), Canon Europe, comments:

“The fast-evolving wide format market offers many opportunities through a variety of exciting applications, and the expanded Canon portfolio has all the necessary qualities to meet the demands of this growing market. There is increasing customer demand for higher quality output, colour stability, serviceability and productivity and Canon delivers all of these. We are ideally positioned as an organisation to provide customers with the product design, vision and financial services to help them see the Bigger Picture and to help them be a success over the long term.”

Functional Printing China at 2013 China Print initiated by Messe Dusseldorf and PEIAC

Messe Düsseldorf and PEIAC to initiate new event format Functional Printing China on the Occasion of China Print 2013

Messe Düsseldorf GmbH as the organiser of the world’s leading trade fair Drupa and the Chinese association PEIAC (Printing and Printing Equipment Industries Association of China) will provide tomorrow’s topic of Functional Printing with a dedicated platform: the 1-day conference Functional Printing China with accompanying table-top presentations will be held for the first time on 16 May 2013 in parallel with China Print 2013, the trade fair for printing technology running in Beijing from 14 to 18 May 2013. The new series of events is planned to be held annually and will be extended to include an exhibition area from 2014. Conference delegates can look forward to a line-up of national and international experts delivering talks on current trends, solutions and applications for functional printing and printed electronics. Speakers include acknowledged experts like Wolfgang Mildner (CEO of PolyIC and Board Member at the Organic Electronic Association/VDM), Stan Farnsworth (Vice President NovaCentrix/ USA) and Dr. Martin Schmitt-Lewen (Senior Manager, New Print Applications Research and Development Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG).

Hans Werner Reinhard

“Functional printing in China is in the early stages of very promising  developments. Be it in medicine, consumer electronics, in the field of packaging, be it on paper, film, metal, glas or other printing substrates – the spectrum of applications for this “bridge technology” makes for exciting functionalities opening up completely new markets,” says Hans Werner Reinhard, Deputy Managing Director at Messe Düsseldorf and Chairman of Messe Düsseldorf China Ltd., summing up the potential functional printing holds. A current study by the China Printing Technology Association forecasts a 21% growth in market volume to EUR 955 million between 2009 and 2016. 

Sabine Geldermann

The topics revolving around printed electronics already played an important role at drupa 2012: at the drupa innovation park and numerous stands exhibitors presented innovations and application examples with a high market potential for a wide variety of industries. With the planned joint stand “PEPSO – Printed Electronics Products and Solutions” Messe Düsseldorf focuses on this topic at seven relevant trade fairs for retail, glass processing, packaging, plastic converting, print and medicine. “As part of our strategy of international product families we want to establish a dedicated platform for functional printing on the Chinese market. In cooperation with our subsidiary Messe Düsseldorf China and PEIAC we will gradually develop this subject, which increases in importance and opens up new potential business,” says Sabine Geldermann, responsible for drupa as a Director since the beginning of this year, commenting in this new project. 

www.drupa.com

Messe Düsseldorf GmbH

Printing and Printing Equipment Industries Association of China

Messe Düsseldorf China Co. Ltd.

Photos Courtesy Messe Düsseldorf 

MUTEC 2010 Leipzig – Museums and the digital challenge

MUTEC 2010 - LEIPZIG - GERMANY
International Trade Fair for Museum and Exhibition Technology
18 - 20 November 2010

Germany is a country of museums: More than 8000 galleries and museums and constantly more than 100 million visitors per year during the last years have been an impressive proof.

However, the financial crisis and the state’s and the municipality’s need to economise do not leave this culturally and socially important sector unaffected and confront museums with the problem to offer exciting exhibitions in a modern and attractive area despite their short budgets.

At the MUTEC, 65 exhibitors show which investments museums can make to meet these requirements. The MUTEC 2010 will be in Leipzig from tomorrow, 18 November, to 20 November. Its central topics are Museum Architecture, Fittings and Scenography, Multimedia, Visitor Service, Data Management, Archiving and many more.

MUTEC 2010: MUSEUMS AND THE DIGITAL CHALLENGE

The show also focuses on the digital challenge. Numerous meetings and conventions proved: The topic is highly explosive and affects not only conventional industries but also politics, the media and the cultural sector.

The Digital Century makes museums face new challenges but it also offers new chances. Mulitmedia-based techniques increase the attractiveness of a visit to a museum and can quickly and smoothly provide background information. Immersive installations and 3D-systems can create a unique experience for the visitor. The new techniques impart knowledge by interactive information portals, make use of the possibility to attract and retain visitors through social networks such as facebook or twitter and build up virtual worlds and augmented realities for the generation Web 2.0 and the digital natives – the visitors to the museum of the future. 

How can museums prepare for the digital society? Which possibilities are there, and which actions and initiatives are required not only to survive the competition of the internet, but to make use of own resources and  treasures? Which investments offer a sustainable solution? How do other institutions deal with these challenges and how can museums benefit from the possibilities of mobile marketing? Which part can museums play in this “new” world? The ancillary program of the MUTEC with the topic Museums and Digital Life will deal with these questions and show possible trends.

MUTEC 2010 is organized by Albrecht gmbh parallel to DENKMAL – European Trade Fair for Conservation, Restoration and Old Building Renovation.

Venue: Leipzig Exhibition Center – Leipziger Messe – Hall 2

www.mutec.de