The German Druck&Medien Awards were presented at the beginning of November 2022. The winner of the drupa-sponsored Crossmedia Service Provider of the Year category is MyPostcard. We spoke to the founder Oliver Kray.
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Soon the Japan Inkjet Technology Trade Fair will start in Tokyo. As a special partner of this exhibition, drupa interviewed the organizer Aki Ohno, who gave some information on his career and an overview of the trade fair and the Japanese printing market.
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The 5th edition of the reference book "Web-to-Publish|Web-to-Media: Guidelines for Cross-Media Production" has just been published and has already been presented at the PRINT & DIGITAL CONVENTION 2022. drupa is a long-standing cooperation partner of author Ira Melaschuk, who also gave a presentation on the topic at the convention. We spoke with her.
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Away from spare parts, towards end products: There is an ongoing revolution in the 3D printing industry. Vulkaza and its 3D print on-demand platform envision the bright future of 3D printing and manufacture in which the community spirit is also included. What’s more, the start-up Vulkaza makes the creators’ ideas come true, supports local product production and thereby has a share in ecological resilience. Odeta and Ap, co-founders of Vulkaza and 3D printing gurus, throw light on the evolution of 3D printing, analyze the current market and foresee the potentials of on-demand 3D printing exclusively in our interview.
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The PRINT & DIGITAL CONVENTION diary has guided every attendee via its congress programme and has provided space for taking notes since the beginning of the congress trade show. At this year's #PrintDigitalCon, participants can do this in a more personal way than ever before. Thorsten Kinnen, Business Development Manager Commercial Printing at Konica Minolta, gives you a preview of the soon-to-be-presented highlight project in our interview.
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Time for a new chapter: Succeeding Claus Bolza-Schünemann, Dr. Andreas Pleßke has been elected as the new chairman of the drupa committee and in this function is proactively pursuing the goal of strengthening the unique selling proposition of the world's leading trade show.
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There can be no doubt that meatballs at IKEA are as iconic as the world’s largest furniture retailer on its own. The Swedish home furnishing company has just launched its recruitment campaign “Taste the Future“ and thereby it is scouting data scientists, software developers and engineers by inviting them over to have 3D printed meatballs. The question on everybody’s lips is why IKEA started to 3D print the meatballs. What is the connection between plant-based meat in the shape of a ball and a job interview?
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In October PRINT & DIGITAL CONVENTION was held in Dusseldorf where it was possible to linger at the exhibition stands and see many different products from the various companies that were there. One of these stands had a special book to show, which was already the second part of a series. We introduced these books in a previous blog post, and now the interview with the creators follows.
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In the run-up to glasstec VIRTUAL and drupa preview, our colleagues from the MD Stories team spoke to Sabine Geldermann and Birgit Horn via video conference about these new, digital offers, that give a glimpse of the two fairs next year.
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Can additive manufacturing processes like 3D printing be described as future technologies? Rainer Gebhardt, Project leader of the VDMA working group Additive Manufacturing, has answered our questions and has given us an overview of the opportunities and potentials.
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