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MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG is the world's second largest printing press manufacturer and the global leader in web press and newspaper printing technology. In fact, every third newspaper produced in the world is printed on a MAN Roland press. With main facilities in Offenbach and Augsburg , Germany , MAN Roland generates annual sales of EUR 1.8 billion. Exports account for 79% of the figure. MAN Roland produces web and sheetfed offset presses as well as digital printing systems for commercial printers, newspaper printers, publishers, packaging producers, quick printers and in-plant shops. The company is a subsidiary of MAN Aktiengesellschaft, Munich . The MAN group is one of Europe 's leading suppliers of capital goods, with 77,000 employees whose expertise ranges from commercial vehicle manufacturing to engineering. Its annual sales total EUR 16 billion.

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- MAN Roland Inc. will be getting personal at Graph Expo 2003 The press maker is populating pavilion #1030 with printers who are using MAN Roland systems to successfully implement the advantages of Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) in their shops and plants.

- In an interactive presentation, sheetfed printers, packaging printers, newspaper executives and commercial web printers from across the country will tell their production stories, sharing their thoughts on the workflow enhancements that are making a profitable difference in their facilities.

- Simultaneously, a six-color ROLAND 500 will be put through its paces, producing a project designed to delineate the productivity of the press by benchmarking the costs involved in the job rather than the time it takes to do it. The concept is to let the 500 tell its success story in terms of dollars and cents. MAN Roland will use metrics from its exclusive Press Operating Profitability (POP) analysis to set some baseline parameters. it will also incorporate actual bids from printers across the country to get average production numbers.

- MAN Roland commissioned an independent research group and worked with the NAPL to create POP . It's based on live performance data collected on the world's most popular presses. The program cross references those factors with input about a facility — the number of shifts run, coverage requirements, job mix, and run lengths. The result is an objective analysis that tells a printer which press will be the most cost-effective choice for the way he operates.

- A live feed to MAN Roland's Graphic/Training Center will facilitate the creation of CIM network from the show floor to the company's working demonstration facility in Westmont , Illinois . A ROLAND 700, the company's 41-inch press, will demonstrate makeready and production that is controlled from the Graph Expo show floor via the PECOM press operating system.

- The MAN Roland exhibit will focus on process rather than product. The goal is to give the North American graphic arts community working knowledge of the benefits of Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM).

- A CIM Classroom will present mini-workshops featuring experts from MAN Roland and Creo. CIM-based innovations, like the advanced PECOM modules and the Rover remote diagnostic system will be demonstrated—participants will be invited to use JobPilot to makeready a press.

- The centerpiece of the exhibit will be a live/multimedia presentation — titled Success Spoken Here — that will transport Graph Expo visitors to a variety of pressrooms that are putting CIM into action. The purpose of the presentation is threefold:

- Demonstrate how its presses can be networked and controlled digitally through the power of the company's PECOM automation and press operating system. - On-site visits will provide a blueprint for printers on putting CIM into action in their facilities.

- Video clips will provide a sneak preview of some of the systems MAN Roland will be introducing at Drupa next spring to further advance CIM in print.

- Show jobs will be printed both on the show floor and in the remote location. They are limited edition prints by internationally renowned photographer/illustrator Ryan Roessler , who will be on hand to sign the lithographs.

ADVANCEMENTS MAN Roland WILL DISPLAY AT ITS EXHIBIT INCLUDE:

- DICOweb: A unit from the industry's only plateless offset press — DICOweb — will illustrate the ongoing commercialization of the advanced technology and demonstrate how DICOweb is the ultimate CIM printing system.

- ROLAND 900 XXL: The largest sheetfed press in the industry will show-off its extra capacity in the form of a complete printing unit. The 900 XXL had its world premiere in Germany in April.

- LITHOMAN IV: A unit from MAN Roland's largest commercial web press will show why a variety of North American printers have broadened the capabilities of their workflows with the LITHOMAN IV.

- ServiceVision: The Rover remote service diagnostic tool will show how it plugs in to MAN Roland's ServiceVision package to provide North American printers with increased press uptime and lower service costs. Get a sneak preview of the exhibit's presentation by visiting www.manroland.com and clicking in the "Success Spoken Here" section.

MeadWestvaco - Booth #1000/Heidelberg & Booth #2641/Xpedx

Recognizing the performance and value of Meadware, both the Xpedx Import Group and Heidelberg have chosen to run the Meadware line in their respective booth's at Graph Expo.

- About MeadWestvaco: MeadWestvaco Corporation, headquartered in Stamford , CT is a leading global producer of packaging, coated and specialty papers , consumer and office products and specialty chemicals. Among the principal markets it serves are the automotive, beverage, consumer products, healthcare, media, entertainment and publishing industries. The company operates in 29 countries and serves customers in nearly 100 nations.

- MeadWestvaco Papers Group manufactures coated paper in four mill locations. These four mills combined produce 2.0 million tons of coated number one through number four grades for commercial printing and publishing. Brands include Signature TrueTM, Sterling® Ultra, Focus®, Anthem®, Vision®, Escanaba® and Dependoweb®. www.meadwestvacopapers.com

Mohawk Paper Mills, Inc. - Booth # 2880

At Graph Expo this year, Mohawk Paper Mills, Inc. is unveiling one of its biggest initiatives ever, setting new standards in image quality for today's high-resolution copiers.  

- Mohawk Color Copy:  the next generation color copy paper.  Four breakthrough products, uncoated and gloss, feature Mohawk's proprietary new Digital Imaging SurfaceTM, a unique technology from Mohawk that creates an even, uniform, smooth paper for superior color copies with extraordinary toner adhesion.  For more information and samples of Mohawk Color Copy, visit the Mohawk booth #2880. www.mohawkpaper.com

Muller Martini - Booth #1062

OVERVIEW

Muller Martini is the world's leading producer of finishing solutions for commercial printers, newspapers and trade binderies. The company is also the top manufacturer of OnDemand Web Offset Presses™. Headquartered in Hauppauge , New York , with facilities throughout America, Muller Martini Corp. serves as the nation's expert source of bindery and printing know-how, providing innovative systems, targeted training and responsive service to printers and binderies from coast-to-coast.

Muller Martini will feature a live/multimedia presentation titled "Connect to the Finish" at its Graph Expo exhibit — #1062. Videotaped visits of several facilities that use Muller Martini systems combined with live demonstrations will provide show goers with a working vision of how CIP3's PPF architecture is making finishing an integral part of the Computer Integrated Manufacturing workflow. The result: printers and finishing experts who visit the exhibit will learn how they can slash their makereadies while broadening their profit margins.

Among the featured finishing systems that Muller Martini will demonstrate at its exhibit are:

- AmigoDigital: This short-run automated perfect binding system is based on Muller Martini's popular AmigoPlus model. The major advancement is that the AmigoDigital is equipped to connect directly a digital printing system and produce up to 1,000 fully variable books per hour in-line. The AmigoDigital brings a new level of commercial quality finishing to the shortest of production runs. It is purpose-built to plug into a facility's on-demand workflow, so that the parameters of each individual book are automatically transferred to the binder for hands-free setup.

When used in-line with a digital press, AmigoDigital sets itself up directly from data supplied by the upstream printer or press. When configured near-line, AmigoDigital takes its settings from a built-in measuring/loading station to automate makeready on conventional short-run jobs. In either case, the electronic book size data is used to adjust the length, width, and thickness settings of the binder. The result – the machine makereadies itself.

In the exhibit's multimedia presentation, executives from RR Donnelley will comment on the AmigoDigital is an integral part of their companies digital book production system — the Inventory Management Solution. (IMS).

- BravoPlus AMRYS: This saddle stitcher's Automatic Makeready System automates one of the most time-consuming jobs in the bindery — setting up saddle stitching systems between jobs. Job parameters can be entered by the operator or captured directly from a company's MIS system and BravoPlus does the rest, utilizing a network of servo motors to adjust itself.

Muller Martini's AMRYS technology received the 2002 GATF InterTech Award as the first system of its kind. Now Muller Martini has taken it a step further by integrating the CIP3 interface into real world applications while others are still talking about it. And today GATF runs an AMRYS-equipped Prima saddle stitcher in its research and training facility near Pittsburgh . George Ryan, executive vice president and chief operating officer for GATF, will comment on what's in store for AMRYS's future as part of the presentation.

- Presto with Inline Die Cutting: Presto makes saddle stitching affordable for short-run and mid-range facilities, equipping them with a valuable profit center. At Graph Expo Presto will connect with a new Multi 450 die cutter to produce miniature and uniquely shaped saddle-stitched books in a single productive pass. The resulting integrated system will provide printers and trade binderies with new business building opportunities. Examples: the production of mini-booklets that fit into CD and DVD cases, creation of pharmaceutical literature, and the development of scaled-down saddle stitched books of all sizes. The combination makes its worldwide premiere at Graph Expo 2003.

- CombiStack: This combination stacker/labeler/bundler makes its premier for the commercial printing world at Graph Expo 2003. Designed for use in newspaper mailrooms, the system stacks, labels and straps in one station a high volume of publications coming off a finishing line or press to prepare durable bundles for distribution. In doing so CombiStack eliminates the need for a multi-machine tyline, saving space, doing away with multiple machine makereadies and streamlining the process overall. CombiStack can directly interface with a press or binding line or be fed by a gripper conveyor. The bundle is then wrapped, labeled and strapped in a single process, for speed and packaging integrity. The package is then directed either right or left to match the configuration of the plant's distribution flow.

Partnering Progress

Several strategic partnerships have been forged to advance the concept of connectivity at the show and in the bindery.

- Version 2.0 of CREO's UpFront print production workflow software will feed PPF-formatted job information to a Muller Martini BravoPlus AMRYS saddle stitcher. That connection will automate most manual procedures out of the makeready process.

UpFront 2.0 streamlines the flow of production data from estimating right through printing and finishing. The combination of tighter integration with prepress via Preps imposition jobs and templates and the new ability to export binding data directly to the finishing department dramatically increases productivity and reduces errors for printers.

SoftSolutions' productivity software, called FactoryAnalyzer , will be linked to the data stream from the Automatic Makeready System on Muller Martini's BravoPlus saddle stitcher at Graph Expo. The combination will demonstrate to show goers how they can trim production costs by using the automated analysis tools. In its strategic partnership with Muller Martini, SoftSolutions has implemented FactoryAnalyzer as a measurement and analysis toolkit that completes a facility's closed-loop connected system. "It's based on the axiom: If you can't measure it, you can't manage it," notes John Pecaric, Executive Vice President at SoftSolutions

The Chicago Public Schools will be the recipients of books finished on a Muller Martini AmigoDigital at the show. Three classic works of literature will be produced in softcover at the show and donated to CPS as part of the ongoing Books for Schools Program that is conducted by Delphax and Muller Martini. Last March, Muller Martini and Delphax completed a similar partnership with the New York City Department of Education. That school system chose the classics: The Last of the Mohicans , Little Women and The Odyssey. At Graph Expo the AmigoDigital will produce the titles: The Last of the Mohicans , Peter Pan and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. A top Chicago official will start up the AmigoDigital during one of the days of Graph Expo.

National Association for Printing Leadership (NAPL) - Booth #846

NAPL staff will be on hand to greet members and to give non-members insights into how this national trade association's comprehensive slate of programs and services can help give their company a competitive edge in today's demanding business environment. NAPL members receive:

- The latest industry economic information and analysis , including the NAPL State of the Industry Report.

- The most comprehensive industry management information available, with targeted periodicals for executive management, financial management, sales and marketing, human resources, production management, and customer service.

- Real-time, toll-free answers to any industry-related question through NAPL's Information Central experts.

- A complimentary membership in the R&E Council of NAPL.

- Twenty-four-hour access to an extensive industry information archive in the Members-Only pages of NAPL's www.napl.org website.

- Access to a nationwide network of industry executives who share their interests and concerns—an unparalleled peer resource.

- Member discounts on NAPL products and programs, as well as business insurance, shipping, overnight delivery, office products, phone service, personnel recruitment, and print buyer promotion.

NAPL membership is both comprehensive and affordable. In a special Graph Expo ‘03 promotion, NAPL offers anyone signing up for Corporate Membership in the Association at the show a beautiful Land's End denim shirt or fleece top featuring the NAPL logo.

Visitors to the booth can also help move their companies forward with a selection or two from NAPL's Printer's Preferred Bookstore . NAPL publishes books and other media exploring the full range of issues affecting printing and graphic communications. NAPL authors and respected sales trainers Séan McArdle and Peter Ebner will be at the booth at various times during the show for scheduled live presentations and question and answer sessions.

The NAPL booth bookstore offers the latest titles in technology, sales and marketing, human resources, and strategic management. Some recent releases: Understanding Information Technology for Print Management and Print Production Workflow: A Practical Guide , by technology specialist Chuck Gehman; Building a Digital Services Portfolio and Understanding Customers by industry expert Cary Sherburne; and Designer's Postpress Companion by Malcolm Keif.

NAPL will be offering a number of Graph Expo Show Specials at the booth bookstore, where shoppers can take advantage of deeply discounted pricing on such products as the NAPL Pocket University Series and PrintShop 101 interactive training software.

Visitors may also view live demonstrations of both the PrintShop 101 training module and NAPL's ProfitXL™ financial management software at the booth. For a preview of NAPL products and services featured at Graph Expo. www.napl.org