https://www.bizcommunity.com/196/109.html South Africa WPC8 news 15 WPC8 news - South Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/res/img/logo.gif https://www.bizcommunity.com/196/109.html en-us Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:22:35 +0200 https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/109/5599.html Although the World Print Congress concluded Wednesday to allow for visits to print and pack plants in the Cape, the issues and ideas raised will continue to be relevant, not only to printers and their suppliers, but also to business players, marketers and publishers, till WPC9 takes place, in Santiago Chile, four years from now in 2007: 21-26 October 2007 www.wpc9.com. 1-5599 Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:30:00 +0200 Bizcommunity World Print & Communication Congress 2005 South Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/109/5592.html There are two notable trends in the print industry that are turning traditional printing on its head, commented Frank D. Steenburgh, Xerox Senior Vice President: Business Growth, at WPC8 this week: the world is going digital, and the world is going colour. 1-5592 Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:23:00 +0200 Bizcommunity World Print & Communication Congress 2005 South Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/109/5577.html Magazines and newspapers are fighting an invasion of alternative media that is threatening the very survival and consumption of print in the future. This was the view of Thomaz Souto Correa, Editorial Vice President, Abril Group, and a board member of the Federation of International Print Publications (FIPP). Correa was speaking at the World Print Congress (WPC8) in Cape Town, where diverse views were presented on the survival of print publishing and the printing industry. 1-5577 Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:05:00 +0200 Bizcommunity World Print & Communication Congress 2005 South Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/109/5576.html Print's future in a wired age was the subject of the presentation on 'The Power of Print - Keys to Profitability' by Michael Makin, President and CEO of the Printing Industries of America and the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation, at the World Print Congress (WPC8) in Cape Town, Wednesday. 1-5576 Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:04:00 +0200 Bizcommunity World Print & Communication Congress 2005 South Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/109/5575.html Newspapers need to develop alternative revenue streams to remain successful, building relationships with their readers that go beyond providing them with daily news, according to The Honourable Jeremy Deedes, Vice Chairman of the Telegraph Group in the United Kingdom. Deeds was speaking to the almost 700 delegates at the World Print Congress in Cape Town (WPC8). 1-5575 Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:03:00 +0200 Bizcommunity World Print & Communication Congress 2005 South Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/109/5578.html Hers is the voice that broaches the thorny subject of environmental threats, in the otherwise back-patting, award-chasing nature of our industry. Your livelihood may depend on familiarising yourself with the issues, because, as Sally Cartwright pointed out at WPC8 Tuesday, "if paper publishing gets to be seen as environmentally-unfriendly, then we are all doomed anyway". Cartwright, the Publishing Director of celeb bible HELLO! magazine, has been Chairman of the Federal of International Print Publications (FIPP) Environmental Committee for seven years (www.fipp.com). 1-5578 Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:50:00 +0200 Bizcommunity World Print & Communication Congress 2005 South Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/109/5567.html Only three weeks into the new year and already my desk looks like Russell Crowe's pinboard out of Beautiful Mind. It is not the paperless office you've heard so much about, and neither it seems is anybody else's. This will be good news to all presently assembled at the CTICC for the WPC8 (8th World Print Conference) - subtitled "The World of Print - Profiting Today & Tomorrow". 1-5567 Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:35:00 +0200 Bizcommunity World Print & Communication Congress 2005 South Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/109/5569.html Paper manufacturers must become more aware that they are not only competing against each other to sell their specific paper, but are fundamentally competing with alternatives - from television and radio, to the Internet, email, movie screens, billboards and airport hoardings, DVDs, computer games, and word-of-mouth marketing, said Jonathan Leslie, CEO of Sappi Limited, in his speech to the World Print Congress (WPC8) in Cape Town yesterday. 1-5569 Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:42:00 +0200 Bizcommunity World Print & Communication Congress 2005 South Africa /InBrief/196/109/2107.html 2-2107 Sun, 23 Jan 2005 23:32:00 +0200 Bizcommunity World Print & Communication Congress 2005 South Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/109/5556.html The print industry now competes with alternative media and technologies that did not exist less than two decades ago. The fact that newspapers are not the main influence of public opinion any longer, is just one of the threats to the survival of the printing industry being debated by the international print industry, which has gathered in Cape Town to debate these and other challenges at the eighth global World Print Congress (WPC8). 1-5556 Sun, 23 Jan 2005 14:32:00 +0200 Bizcommunity World Print & Communication Congress 2005 South Africa