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Singapore, March 2006. What is standardisation, and how to achieve it?
Asia Color Alliance, a colour management consultancy firm, in conjunction with EFI, held a seminar cum workshop on standardisation at the new EFI Colour Lab in its regional office in Singapore.
Frits Beurskens, director & owner, Printmedia Consulting International and CEO, Printmedia Global Solutions, was invited down to Singapore to speak on: What is Standardisation & how to achieve it?


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PIAP Seminar, Manila
On March 11, 2006 the Printing Industries Association of the Philippines (PIAP) organized their first printing update seminar with the title “digital developments and standardization”. It was carried out by the Technical Committee (TC) of PIAP. The event took place in the Galleria Holliday Inn Hotel in Manila. They invited two Dutch experts and consultants, Mr. Bert Talens (pre-press expertise) and Mr. Frits Beurskens of Printmedia Global Solutions (printing expertise) to talk and discuss on four different topics.

These topics where:

-	CtP, which was aiming on the difference in CtP systems and what to take in account when you want to invest in CtP.
-	Digital Printing – a thread or an opportunity. This was aiming on the differences between conventional printing and digital printing and what to take in account when you want digital printing to become successful.
-	PDF workflow, which was aiming on the correct creation of a PDF file and how to set up an acurate working PDF workflow.
-	Standardization, which was aiming on the reasons why printing companies should standardize, how they should standardize and especially on the ISO 12647 standards for printing.

Photo: From left to right:
Mr. Lanny Go of Par Excellence Packaging Corp. (member of PIAP TC)
Mr. Bert Talens of the Knowledge Share Foundation
Ms. Maripil Ergino of Phil. Fuji-Xerox (member of PIAP TC)
Mr. Frits Beurskens of Printmedia Global Solutions
Mr. Johnny Tamayo of Globis Inc. (member of PIAP TC)
Mr. Dong Ybud of M Plus Print Graphics (head of TC of PIAP)

The seminar was attended by 50 participants, representing 24 graphic companies from the Manila area. This exceeded the expectations of the organization. After each topic, the participants where invited to ask questions or to discuss their problems with the speakers or other participants. At the end of the day the participant where given the opportunity to have a one-on-one discussion with the speakers or to make an appointment for further discussions on a later moment.
This seminar was the first one in a series of similar events which the PIAP is planning to organize. The aim of these seminars is to provide the graphic industry with up to date and independent information on development in the graphic industry. Graphic companies need this information to be able to take the right decision when the want to invest in equipment or when they have to decide in what direction the want to grow. International competition and growing quality demands of customers force graphic companies to think and decide in the correct way. To do this independent information is necessary. The two resource speakers of this first seminar could give useful and important information on their topics.
It can be concluded that this first update seminar was a successful one and is the basic for more event to come.


Seminar at Barcelona, Spain
In 2003, Frank van den Bosch, as former Managing Director of MWT, held a presentation on the future of Multi Channel Publishing solutions to a broad worldwide audience.
The main goal was to get the Graphic Art Industry be acquainted with the advantages in combining ICT with traditional Print and Publishing. Al based on the principal of input once, output many. Useable for all kind of media expressions as there are in Print, Digital Print, Web, Cellphone, PDA, Narrow Casting, etc.

A proven case for the real-estate market was explained, but more solutions where mentioned such as Educational Book Publishing, Retail, Automotive, Mailorder Catalogues productions, etc. All based on the use of a Content Management System and a fully automatic workflow to one of the mentioned media output.

If you want to have more information about this subject, or if there is a need to gave you inspiration about
Multi Channel Publishing , please contact us at info@pgsglobal.com.

Read the article (in dutch) about this event published in Graficus 24, 2003.



Published in:
2003 International Conference on Digital Production Printing and Industrial Applications

Subject:Information Handling/Workflow Management;
Barcelona, Spain;2003; p. 86-87; ISBN / ISSN: 0-89208-246-1