Hello

September has been busy and it’s not over yet. After producing two editions of the Content & Media newsletter at the Delhi Book Fair, we are geared up to produce the official daily IFRA Gazette at the Publish Asia Conference and IFRA Expo at Chennai on 24 and 25 September 2009. The show is from 23 to 25 with special pre-conference seminars on 22 September.

WAN-IFRA has just announced a Special Report on “New Printing Plants.” Based on a project managed by a German-Indian research group it will be the subject of a presentation at the Publish Asia-IFRA conference next week.

Ferag has set up its India office in Delhi. Swedish manufacturer Tolerans recently introduced a revolutionary alternative for trimming – the Double Motorised Tab Slitter. Other stories in this newsletter include our interaction with translators in their own words. Si milarly women in printing speak about some of the industry issues from their point of view. HP has started its exploration of various verticals for digital printing – their first attempt was a matchmaking event for digital printers with end-users in the hospitality vertical. Sakata INX, India inaugurated its Panoli, Gujarat plant on 27 August 2009.

Apart from the newsletter have a look at our three blogs — Print Asia; Print Experts Asia Pacific (which discussion technical issues including colour standardization and ISO12647-2); and, Content and Media AP. The addresses are respectively, www.indianprinterpublisher.blogspot.com, www.printexperts.blogspot.com and www.contentmediaap.blogspot.com. Do comment and let us know if you want to join any of the blogging teams.

We suggest that you include newsletter@ippgroup.in in your address book or otherwise make sure our newsletter gets through to you and not your junk mail box. However if you do not want the newsletter please use the unsubscribe option at the bottom. If you like the newsletter and think it is useful, please pass it on to your friends.

Our magazine, email newsletters and websites need support in terms of feedback, information and advertising. In order to advertise, you can contact at ads@ippgroup.in and +91-9999115816. European supporters should contact Michael Seidl at +43-6764109330 m.seidel@printernet.at.

Regards, Naresh Khanna editor@ippgroup.in, +91-120-2540258 extension 10