On page 3 you find the list of new members in alphabetic order a complete list of members is available at the end of this brochure. This year 3 new members are joining the Star Club hall of fame, which now counts 49 members in total. But to successfully prove consistently high print quality over many years is what distinguishes those printers who provide their customers with only the best print products. Certification is valid for two years, after which it can be renewed The successful participation in the International Color Quality Club is already a great achievement. Two Stars are awarded for the successful WAN-IFRA certification of a printing plant.
Membership is presented to a printing company in recognition of outstanding printing quality if it achieves five or more stars by participating successfully in the International Color Quality Club or by obtaining WAN-IFRA certification for standardised printing One Star is awarded for each successful ICQC participation in a competition year, independent of the number of successful entries. The key to the future of your printing business lies with ABB.ĥ 5 Star Club Number of ICQC participants over time The Star Club has been inaugurated at IFRA exhibition in Hamburg in 200. Whether looking for replacement drives, new controls, conversion to shaftless or a complete press reconfiguration, ABB has the right solution for you. Worried about the availability of spare parts for your existing controls? With an ABB retrofit you know that spares will be available worldwide for ten to fifteen years. ABB s retrofit solutions for newspaper presses will extend the productive life of your press, improve print quality, reduce waste and improve efficiency for a fraction of the cost of a new press. With retrofit solutions that give your press another ten years of life. Bangaluru India V-TAB AB Västerås SwedenĤ Let s write the future. Cordoba Argentina Landsprent (Arvakur) Reykjavik Iceland Presse-Druck- und Verlags-GmbH Augsburg Germany Pressedruck Potsdam Potsdam Germany Printing Partners Paal-Beringen SA Paal-Beringen Belgium Süddeutscher Verlag Zeitungsdruck Munich Germany The Printers (Mysore) Pvt. Veit / Glan Austria DZB Druckzentrum Bern AG Bern Switzerland La Voz del Interior S.A. Bogota Colombia CIL Centre D Impression Lausanne Bussigny Switzerland Druck Carinthia GmbH & Co KG St. New members of the Star Club Company City Country Alma Manu Oy Tampere Finland Casa El Tiempo S.A. The Color Quality Club is more than a technical printing competition, as it offers participating companies the additional possibility to benchmark their printing quality against recognised international standards and improve it. By their successful participation in the competition, the companies have demonstrated that they can supply printing in outstanding quality and offer readers and advertisers high-quality products. This competition rewards those companies that not only print within approved international standards but also establish a fool-proof system for print production. Participating companies had to meet the defined quality criteria and print without quality defects. The quality evaluation is composed of two parts an evaluation based on objective measurements made on a print test element (WAN-IFRA Cuboid ) that participants had to print every day of a specified week per month for a period of three months and a visual inspection of the general print quality by a jury of international newspaper experts. Club membership is offered to all companies who have successfully produced high-quality print publications consistently over an extended time-period by following international printing standards. The qualified International Color Quality Club members are listed on pages 8 and 9 in alphabetic order. 2 publications from all over the world participated in this year s competition. The competition has been organised by the World Printers Forum (WPF), the print community within WAN-IFRA.
In the 23 rd edition WAN-IFRA has opened the competition to magazines because many publishing and printing companies are no longer printing only newspapers but magazines as well. Once every two years since 994 the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers, WAN-IFRA, has offered newspapers worldwide an opportunity to demonstrate their colour printing excellence by organising a print-quality competition.
3 3 Foreword Manfred Werfel, WAN-IFRA Deputy CEO 67 publications, newspaper and magazines, produced by 54 publishing and printing companies in 20 countries have achieved membership in the International Color Quality Club (ICQC) for two years.
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