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Fedrigoni 2024 Independent European
IN BRIEF

calendar ‘s design packaging specialist Van
Genechten Packaging (VGP)
has acquired 100% of its
UK joint venture with
printing and packaging
Fedrigoni has launched a composer server from HP for specialist CartonCare
showcase charity calendar the complex task. “That was Group. VGP said the deal,
for 2024 with a two-day the only way we could RIP all which was announced at
the end of last week,
event at London’s Crafts the variable data on the files,” strengthens its position in the UK market, providing
Council. Printed by FE Onabanjo explained. enhanced value to customers through expanded design
Burman, the Fedrigoni 366 The designs themselves and production capabilities. The Belgian printing group,
calendar – so called for the were generated using HP’s which is located in Turnhout and has an annual revenue of
around ¤450m (£387m), had initially entered a 50:50 joint
366 days in 2024’s leap year Mosaic generative colour venture partnership with CartonCare Group a year ago.
– was designed by studio TM, design software, the first CartonCare Group consists of MSO Cleland – the oldest and
which worked with 731 crea- time it has been used at this largest company in the group, with over 145 years of experi-
ence in the printed packaging industry; CartonCare; and
tives from the UK and across scale. Mosaic effectively Pendragon Presentation Packaging.
the world to make each copy It has used the HP Mosaic tech shuffles colours within a set
unique. tive print specialist produced design to give different Administrators from FRP
Over two million individ- 3,000 copies of the calendar results each time. The fact Advisory have now been
formally appointed at PFI
ual vector files were gener- overall, with 1,500 printed that the calendar was printed Group’s Works Manchester
ated for the project, giving FE with a green palette, and on 10 different Fedrigoni operation.FRP’s David
Burman a challenging job, 1,500 in an orange palette substrates, treated specifi- Acland and Anthony Collier
according to Ade Onabanjo, using FE Burman’s HP cally for use with HP Indigo were appointed as joint
administrators of the busi-
one of the firm’s directors. Indigo 12000. machines, presented another n e s s y e s t e r d a y ( 1 3
He told Printweek: “It was a Onabanjo said: “Basically, complication in the intricate December). In a statement,
very challenging and inter- with 460 pages in each calen- job. Among them was one FRP said that Works
Manchester had “suffered cash flow pressures in recent
esting project, pushing the dar, we were looking at over single page printed on Sirio months and efforts to secure a sale of the business were
boundaries of production.” two million files.” FE Ultra Black to represent unsuccessful. Regrettably, the company was unable to con-
The London-based crea- Burman used the PrintOS 2024’s leap day in February. tinue operating due to its financial position and has now
ceased to trade, and all 91 members of staff have been
Fujifilm and ePS partnership made redundant. The joint administrators will now focus
on maximising returns for creditors and will support all
impacted employees with their claims to the Redundancy
Fujifilm has partnered to manage print production 2024. Payments Service.”
with eProductivity Software to Fujifilm’s Revoria and The businesses said the A copy of the first ever
(ePS) on a new extended Apeos ranges of digital partnership will let custom- Panini World Cup sticker
end-to-end print workflow presses. ers see real examples of an album from 1970 went
production offering. The two Both technologies will be end-to-end workflow, from under the hammer for
£2,000 on 5 December,
companies have come showcased at Fujifilm’s job onboarding via a web-to- beating its pre-sale esti-
together to showcase how European Print Experience mate of £1,200-£1,800.The
Fujifilm’s XMF PressReady Centres in Germany and print system, to registering 1970 album was the first to
workflow can be paired and Belgium, and will be a major the job in an MIS system and be distributed in the UK in
integrated with ePS’ focus at Fujifilm’s Peak the full management of a advance of the Mexico World Cup, where England’s 1966
world champion squad was knocked out 3-2 by Germany in
MarketDirect StoreFront Performance Print event, print job to organise, impose, the quarter-finals.Printed by Edizioni Panini in Modena,
e-commerce and MIS system taking place in late January gang print, and finish. Italy, the iconic album features past football heroes, such as
West Ham and England skipper Bobby Moore, Germany’s
Ricoh Pro Z75 first installation Franz Beckenbauer, and the victorious 1970 Brazil 11’s cen-
tre-forward, Pelé. The album was consigned by Andrew
Knott of Arthingworth.
A French online printer France, Spain, and Italy.
has installed the world’s first The business employs Newspaper printer Sharman and Co has taken on a Horizon
AFV-566FKT fully automated folder to help deliver greater
post-beta Ricoh Pro Z75 B2 around 140 staff at an application flexibility. The new system, which was supplied
sheetfed inkjet press. 8,000sqm production cen- by Intelligent Finishing Systems (IFS) and installed in
Realisaprint.com has taken tre near Nice, and offers October, will support production from the Peterborough
on the new duplexing press products including bro- operation’s two Xeikon 9800 digital presses. Sharman and
Co director Mark Sharman said: “We had been producing all
to target new markets. The our work on a Tensor T-400BE newspaper printing press,
machine has joined a Pro chures, flyers, signage, rigid but decided to offer much shorter print runs, and invested
VC70000 high-speed inkjet panels, and POP displays. in our first Xeikon 9800 with a Tecnau newspaper finishing
colour press and two Pro Its first post-beta installation The press can print at speeds line. The Horizon AFV-566FKT is the evolution of the AFC-
C9200 sheetfed digital founded in 2007 and pro- of up to 4,500sph in straight 566FKT automated cross-folder. IFS said an Auto Interval
function adjusts to the optimum production speed auto-
presses from Ricoh at the vides commercial printing printing or 2,250sph in matically for higher productivity.
company, which was services to customers in duplex/perfecting printing.
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