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Feature
The Designer’s View
Art Director Masahiro Aoyagi and Printing Director Akihiro Takamoto of Toppan
Printing describe the making of the Komori 2013 calendar, Perfection on Earth,
made jointly by Komori and Toppan. The image selection and editing, the colors
and varnishes, the pages that went smoothly and those that caused headaches —
everything that went into creating the Komori identity and environmental theme in ink
on paper.
Art Director Kiyotaka Takeuchi outlines the challenges facing packaging designers
working in Japan’s frenetic consumer sector. Driving the development of new creative
expressions are shifting demographics, regulations and technologies. All for the fivesecond
window of opportunity.
User Profiles
Feature
PESP to Offer Advantages to Customers
New products, new business lines and new ways of interacting with
customers are part of Komori’s plan to evolve into a print engineering
service provider. A graphic look at some of the specifics as they might
play out in a typical print shop.
Looking Ahead:
Users See the Future in a Komori Press
Sheetfed and web offset presses, H-UV-driven machines as well as presses that print
with conventional inks, both publishing and commercial printers. Every Komori user
has a view of his future. Their markets and outlook and how they are partnering with
Komori to create new business.
Topics
Techno Service Center and KGC
Outline of case studies of two web offset printers — one in the
U.S. and another in Tokyo — where Komori Techno Service Center
attention paid off in quantifiable ways. Plus, a look at the Komori
Graphic Technology Center as it turns three.
Show Reports
New Initiatives Spell Change Ahead
Open house events, printing exhibitions and critical moves at key distributors in major
markets. All the news and quotes plus pics from Frankfurt, New Delhi and Tsukuba.
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Printing specification of this issue:
All pages printed by 4-color process H-UV.
Cover laminated with gloss polypropylene film.
Komori On Press
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