Planning for the unique publication, which will be written and produced entirely within the confines of the NEC, began in January 2009, with the first meeting of the 13 production partners: Citipost, Domino, Friedheim International, IIR, J&G Environmental, Kodak, Komori, Logitrans, Muller Martini, PrintWeek, Tharstern and UPM.
“To the best of our knowledge, no other show can boast a daily paper being produced live on the show floor. This really is a unique project, and proof that Ipex remains at the forefront of realising the power of print,” said Ipex 2010 event director Trevor Crawford.
PrintWeek’s journalists will be scouring the halls for news and their copy will be subbed and laid out in Adobe InDesign and turned into print-ready PDFs.
These will be submitted to the Kodak Insite Portal server and preflighted by Kodak Prinergy workflow, which will work in conjunction with Tharstern Primo MIS to create the JDF files.
Kodak Trillian SP plates will then be imaged by the Kodak Magnus 800 Quantum platesetter and loaded onto the Komori Lithrone S840P eight-colour long perfector, which will print on UPM Finesse Premium Silk.
The sheets will be taken to Friedheim by the Logitrans Panther Maxi AC and Logiflex Mini AC pallet trucks, for folding on the MBO T765 Efficiency Automatic.
The folded sections will be jogged and piled by a Palamides Alpha 500 and then bound and trimmed on the Muller Martini stand by a Primera saddlestitcher, which is fitted with a Domino Bitjet+ on the stacker for the personalised 2D data matrix code for a daily competition.
Citipost will distribute 2000 copies to 44 key Ipex hotels and circulate 8000 copies to Fujifilm-produced distribution bins at the NEC.
