Revisiting the Japan printing tour online

The online tour covers:

• presses running at 100,000 copies an hour,
  
• hybrid printing,
  
• printing the world's largest-circulation newspaper,
  
• digital newspaper presses etc.

The blog can be found at www.wan-ifra.org/blogs/japan_tour, with words and images provided by Manfred Werfel, WAN-IFRA¹s executive director of newspaper production, and Sergio de Oliveira, senior programme manager, who guided the tour participants.

Users will be able to see the production executives visit the Yomiuri Shimbun, the world's largest-circulation newspaper with more than 10 million copies for the morning edition alone. Then follow the tour to Kyoto, where the Kyoto Shimbun relies on a TKS Century Press running at a speed of 100,000 copies an hour.

Also online is a look at printing plants with production capacities reaching 2200 tons of newsprint consumption a day and the technical feats of newspapers like the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, which handles two daily editions totalling more than 4.5 million copies, 50 percent of the pages in full colour.

WAN-IFRA offers a range of study tours, each with the goal of showcasing the best solutions from newspapers and media companies across the globe. For more details on upcoming tours, go to the WAN-IFRA events calendar at www.wan-ifra.org/events.