{"id":16270,"date":"2024-07-30T15:31:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T13:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postprintleipzig.com\/?p=16270"},"modified":"2026-06-05T14:08:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:08:25","slug":"review-of-drupa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-2025.postprintleipzig.com\/en\/news\/review-of-drupa\/","title":{"rendered":"Applying pressure for greater efficiency \u2013 our review of DRUPA"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a long hiatus, PPL was finally back at one of the most important international trade fairs for the printing industry this year \u2013 and what a success it was! Smyth<\/a> proved to be the excellent partner we expected, and the concept of a joint stand was a strategically sound decision that generated a great deal of attention. Our team had productive and promising discussions and made many new contacts. While the total number of visitors, at 170,000, was lower than in some previous years (2016: 250,000), the proportion of trade visitors from Germany and abroad was significantly higher than in previous years.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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PPL Drupa-R\u00fcckblick 2024 Stand gesamt<\/div>
Ansicht des Stands von PPL und Smyth auf der Drupa 2024<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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PPL Drupa-R\u00fcckblick 2024 Standaufnahme<\/div>
Aufnahme des PPL-Standes auf der Drupa 2024<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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PPL Drupa-R\u00fcckblick 2024 Perspektive<\/div>
Perspesktivaufnahme vom PPL-Stand auf der Drupa 2024<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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PPL Drupa-R\u00fcckblick 2024 Gruppenbild<\/div>
PPL-Gruppenbild auf der Drupa 2024<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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PPL Drupa-R\u00fcckblick 2024 Teamfoto<\/div>
Teamfoto von PPL und Smyth auf der Drupa 2024<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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PPL Drupa-R\u00fcckblick 2024 Fachsimpeln<\/div>
Jan Sch\u00f6lzel im Gespr\u00e4ch mit einem Interessenten auf der Drupa 2024<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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PPL Drupa-R\u00fcckblick 2024 Manfred<\/div>
Manfred Oftring im Fachgespr\u00e4ch am PPL-Stand auf der Drupa 2024<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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PPL Drupa-R\u00fcckblick 2024 Messehalle 6 Detail<\/div>
Detailansicht der Messehalle 6 auf der Drupa 2024<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\"PPL<\/div>
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Panoramabild der Messehalle 6 auf der Drupa 2024<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>
[vc_custom_heading text=”Digital printing, robotics, sustainability \u2013 trends and topics at DRUPA 2024″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”]

As expected, there wasn’t one major innovation dominating DRUPA 2024<\/strong><\/a>. Instead, many exhibitors presented optimized solutions for all the topics that have been at the top of the industry’s agenda for years. We took the following impressions back to Leipzig.<\/p>\n

The trend toward digital printing continues unabated.<\/strong> While offset printing continues to lose market share, digital printing is on its way to becoming the leading technology for book printing. With increasingly sophisticated technologies, books with a higher degree of personalization can be produced economically in small print runs or on demand. This aligns with a time when large print runs are becoming less common. It’s quite possible that offset printing will only survive in the long run in the packaging sector with its high-volume production.<\/p>\n

Nearly all manufacturers of digital printing presses\u2014e.g., Fuji, Canon, Konica, Minolta\u2014presented new, high-performance machines. Another new development is that nanoprinting, once a niche technology, has finally arrived in mass production. It combines the high output of offset presses with the versatility and individualization of digital printing.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Panoramabild auf der Drupa 2024<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Sustainability:<\/strong> Although almost all exhibitors touted sustainability as a key focus, only a few innovations on the topic truly stood out. One such innovation was a digital printing press from Fuji that uses extremely little ink.<\/p>\n

Robotics:<\/strong> Acceptance of increasing production automation through robots is growing. However, we are still only at the beginning of its implementation. Robots with gripper systems that move paper into and\/or out of machines are the most common. Two collaborative robots from a Danish developer particularly caught our attention. They have special grippers that work together in space (fanning out paper and transferring it to a cutting machine).<\/p>\n

Besides the high investment costs, the lack of open interfaces or overarching standards currently hinders the wider market penetration of robotics. This increases dependence on specific manufacturers or service providers.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Roboter mit Greifersystem auf der Drupa 2024<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Verbindung Smyth DX-80 Plus mit der Canon Titan 6330 Digitaldruckmaschine<\/div>
Von Smyth und Canon produzierte Buchfadenheftmaschine mit vorgelagerter Druckmaschine auf der Drupa 2024<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
[vc_custom_heading text=”The future belongs to integrated solutions” use_theme_fonts=”yes”]

At PPL, we see the future not in automating individual production steps, but in integrated solutions. A striking example of this is a bookbinding and thread-sewing machine with an upstream printing press, jointly produced by Smyth and Canon. It combines various production steps into a single unit, steps that previously required multiple machines. In this respect, digital printing is ahead of offset printing.<\/p>\n

Also noteworthy in this context is Smyth’s new DX-E folding and thread-sewing system for producing small and medium print runs of books. With its compact design and attractive price, it is a prime example of the latest generation of integrated solutions.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a long hiatus, PPL was finally back at one of the most important international trade fairs for the printing industry this year \u2013 and what a success it was! Smyth proved to be the excellent partner we expected, and the concept of a joint stand was a strategically sound decision that generated a great...","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-2025.postprintleipzig.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-2025.postprintleipzig.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-2025.postprintleipzig.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-2025.postprintleipzig.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-2025.postprintleipzig.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging-2025.postprintleipzig.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17270,"href":"https:\/\/staging-2025.postprintleipzig.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16270\/revisions\/17270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-2025.postprintleipzig.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-2025.postprintleipzig.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-2025.postprintleipzig.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-2025.postprintleipzig.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}