More than 30 member companies and associates will be exhibiting at PrintCity's Hall 1 at Ipex.

The overall theme will be "smarter printworks", where ideas will be presented on working "smarter" and more effectively over the whole value and process chain.

Value added printing and related technology will be demonstrated in a number of centres featuring production workflows and linked equipment for live displays at the event.

A packaging integration centre will have a complete packaging process production line demonstrating integrated manufacturing operations linked in a JDF workflow.

An automated manufacturing integration centre  will  demonstrate lean manufacturing using a sheetfed press. This will happen in conjunction with applied colour standardisation and JDF-enabled network integration.

The colour standardisation centre will show how to expand by becoming approved suppliers within international standards.
PrintCity has also set up a "Webline Caf" within the hall as a meeting area for web offset printers, publishers and print buyers to update themselves on new trends.

New technologies and cross-processes will be explained as well as an assessment of the issues related to increasing paper roll diameters to 1,500mm.

Print City members include Axima, Baumller, Bobst, EIZO, Eltosch, Esko, Eurografica, Ifra, M-real, MAN Roland, Merck, Oc, OneVision, Optimus, Prima, Sappi, Shinohara, Sun Chemical andWorld Association of Newspapers.