Newspaper & Mailroom

The biggest exhibition for the French-speaking newspaper publishing and media groups in Africa

Monday 14. December 2009 - On 1st and 2nd April 2010, WAN-IFRA will organise an exhibition in Casablanca, Morocco, of various software, solutions and equipment for news publishing operations on the African continent (www.ifra.com/afrique-expo). This event is the essential gathering for the French-speaking newspaper publishing groups.

On show will be the latest innovations and products designed to improve organisation, newsrooms, sales departments, prepress workflows, printing and distribution. Several major suppliers to the news publishing industry have already confirmed their participation as exhibitors: Atex, EidosMedia, Ferag, Graphic Web Systems, Goss and Kodak.

This exhibition is free of charge for all newspapers and magazines in the French-speaking regions of Africa (with the exception of suppliers) but that advance registration with WAN-IFRA is obligatory.

Parallel to the exhibition, participants will be offered the opportunity to attend training sessions and conferences free of charge.

Topics include
– Optimise your printing:
How to improve the quality of the print products to give them added value and satisfy advertisers and readers.
– Preparing files for printing:
The 10 key points for generating, checking and certifying a PDF for printing.
– Innovation in prepress:
A review of prepress solutions (newspapers and magazines) designed to optimise the workflows.
– Modernise the layouts:
Develop the layout to improve readability and better organise the content in order to catch the attention of the readers.
– Copy and page make-up workflow:
In a newspaper company, the copy workflow must be optimised in order to make page make-up simple and in some cases automatic.
– Find out how to improve the editorial quality of the publication:
Heading, photos, layout, etc.