Excellent business deals, an outstanding climate for investment, a remarkable number of extremely promising contacts, an even more international character, and a positive spirit for the global print sector: That was drupa 2016.
drupa’s new positioning and its focus on tomorrow’s topics with huge potential for growth – such as 3D-printing, functional printing, and packaging printing – have really proven themselves. Whether printing for publication, advertising, packaging or industrial applications, print technology offers the appropriate solutions for all application areas and enables new areas of business and business ideas.
we touched success
we touched our target groups
What our exhibitors say
“drupa 2016 has completely exceeded Kodak’s expectations. [. . .] The fact that we had already reached our sales target on day 7 – and 168 % of the target on day 9 – demonstrates the sector’s trust in wholly new technologies [. . .].”
Kodak John O’Grady, Managing Director, Worldwide Sales, Kodak Print Systems Division and Vice President, Eastman Kodak Company
“Visitors’ reactions [. . .] were unbelievably positive. Customer investment was 30 % up on the figure for drupa 2012. [. . .] The decisive factor for many of Canon’s customers here at drupa 2016 was ideas from the live print demonstrations – so much so, that this drupa will go down in history as the ‘applications drupa.’”
Canon Jeppe Frandsen, Executive Vice President Canon Europe
we touched economy
What our exhibitors say
“drupa 2016 will be remembered as the turning point in the sector’s transition from mechanical to digital print.”
Landa Digital Printing Benny Landa, Vorsitzender
“drupa 2016 was a real turning point for our business. [. . .] Sales to new and existing customers have far exceeded our expectations. drupa 2016 confirmed that digital technologies – and post-processing in particular – have become a matter of course.”