KOMORI ON PRESS 2009 No.67

KOMORI ON PRESS No.67 CONTENTS

P.2-3	CONTENTS
P.4-15	Feature Print 09: Staying Ahead of the Game with Komori Print 09 in Chicago is the largest graphic arts show in the US and the place to be from September 11 to 16 for the movers and shakers of the global industry. A rundown on the Komori stand that will keynote the show with the revolutionary LSX40 — Komori’s new flagship machine — and the infinitely versatile LSX29. North American Market Trends/Users on Top of Their Game The outlook for the US printing market and keys to positioning now for maximum advantage when the upturn comes. Ten US Komori users with different strategies to achieve a common goal — ‘Stay Ahead of the Game.’ Ali Industries, Digitalpro, Graphic Visual Solutions, Essence Printing, Quality Color Graphics, Consolidated Press, Western Container, Forum Communications Printing, Essential Direct, and Brown Printing.
P.16-19	Feature: Komori-Chambon First Light on the New OS Series A close-up look at Komori-Chambon, the specialist manufacturer of package printing presses that is using experience and technology to change the game in a unique market. Plus, marketing chief Denis Branger explains the background and promise of Chambon’s new OS lineup of sleeve offset machines.
P.20-31	User Profiles Building Businesses with Ink on Paper Komori users come in all shapes and sizes and, fortunately, so do Komori solutions. On Press visits Paarl Print in Paarl, South Africa, Ateliers Réunis in Marne-la-Vallée, France, Pure Impression of Mauguio, France, GrafArt in Turin, Italy, Eastern Press of Shah Alam, Malaysia, and the UK’s imageData Group in Willerby. Also a look at four Nordic Lithrone perfector users: Follotrykk of Langhus, Norway, It-Grafisk in Oslo, Norway, CA Andersson of Malmö, Sweden, and Oslo Forlagstrykkeri in Oslo, Norway
P.32-33	Exhibitions Pictures Tell the Story Pictures, pictures and more pictures from some of this spring’s biggest graphic arts shows — China Print in Beijing, Grafitalia in Milan, and Graphitec in Paris.
P.34-35	Notes on Progress Environmental Initiatives and the Tsukuba Plant Think Creatively, Work Sustainably , a guide to green design and printing practices produced by Komori America, and the latest steps that company is taking for the environment. Plus, the photographic record of construction at the Tsukuba Plant as Phase 3 work nears completion.