Yes the organizers take promised the more 2,000 exhibitors that we the informed technologists, technical tourists, critics and customers who actually purchase equipment, technology, software and consumables volition be in that location. And thanks to Mr. Modi, the whole world thinks that our markets in S Asia are full of opportunity and our pockets are full of greenbacks. That nosotros are eager and this is actually true  – a recent visit to Surat revealed that several of the city'south heavy hitters are continuously shopping  – and they accept their cheque books to exhibitions nowadays and are happy at having gambled on Landa at the final drupa iv years ago. Although they are happy to have just played, they are going this time to see the upshot of their hunches and bets. In fact, one of the Surat printers said to me, "This is going to exist the nearly of import drupa of them all!"

Actually what makes drupa special is that the organizers do not take y'all for granted. In a fast changing print industry and an even faster changing information and communication global environment, the Messe Dusseldorf squad works and runs very hard to maintain the show's relevance. They keep researching the change and keep inventing new exhibition ideas such equally Innovation Parc which is now several drupas quondam, but as they have this time brought the packaging exhibition to the centre of the event. The drupa cube has likewise grown as a platform for showing innovation and value add-on in print by printers and in engaging make owners and designers. Important themes at this drupa are 3D printing and the printing on all kinds of 3-dimensional objects. The CIP3 and CIP4 initiatives of providing equipment with data interfaces and communication protocols could take the print manufacture toward Impress 4.0 and the integrated factory continued its processes and its customers through the deject. Of course the upshot this yr is the pre-eminent time and place for the new sheetfed digital inkjet presses in the works to actually being widely saleable.

However, there is no drupa without you lot although at every drupa I encounter the cynics who point out "at that place is nothing new this time." We demand these know-it-alls to be at drupa likewise as the acute technical critics who caution that every new paradigm and infotainment may not lead to a practical concern solution. The great matter well-nigh the Indian print entrepreneurs is their spirit of using new Indian engineering to solve uniquely Indian marketing and advice problems. This is what I learned in Surat and with all due respect to that city's unique qualities and entrepreneurs, I firmly believe that there are many other uniquely Indian problems that our entrepreneurs in many other cities and situations will solve by using a hybrid of the newest emerging print technologies. And this is why, apart from the hardened veterans and cynics, drupa is likely to be visited by a new generation and a new kind of Indian printer hungry for the future.

Packaging South Asia is the cooperating media partner for drupa 2022 which is scheduled to be held from 31 May to 10 June at Dusseldorf, Frg

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