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Stay Ahead. With Agfa Graphics.
Agfa Graphics in the Agfa-Gevaert Group
Agfa HealthCare
• Imaging Technologies
• Healthcare IT solutions
Agfa Graphics
• Prepress Systems
• Industrial Inkjet
50%
Agfa Materials
• Film-based products
7%
43%
Our business
Commercial printers
Packaging printers Newspapers Sign and display
printers
We offer complete prepress solutions like software, hardware, consumables and digital inkjet printing systems
We offer complete prepress solutions like software, hardware, consumables and digital inkjet printing systems
Agfa’s position in the printing industry
Text
Images
Adver-tising
Editorial Process
Page Layout Preflight
Creation Pre press Printing and finishing
Proofing Printing FinishingPlate-
making
Facts and figures
54%
21%
7%
Turnover 2006: 1.7 billion €
Sales office manufacturing site
18%
•Nr. 1 WW:•in Visual Light Offset Plates
•in Newspaper CtP Systems
•Nr. 1 in Europe:•in Offset plates
•in CtP Systems
•Personnel 5900 worldwide
History – Milestones Agfa Graphics
1866
AGFA founded in Berlin
1894
Gevaert founded in Antwerp
1964
AGFA and Gevaert merge to form Agfa-Gevaert
1981
Agfa-Gevaert acquired by Bayer
1996
Agfa acquires Hoechst plates division
1999
Bayer Lists Agfa on Frankfurt and Brussels exchanges selling 70% of stock EURO:BAGFB
1997
AGFA acquires DuPont film and plate operations
AGFA acquires Compu-graphic Typesetters
1988
History – Milestones Agfa Graphics
2001 2002
AGFA acquires Autologic newspaper systems
AGFA opens Wuxi plate factory in China
Agfa invests in Xaar inkjet head manu-facturing plant in Sweden
Agfa acquires ProImage newspaper systems
2003 2004
AGFA acquires Dotrix enters indus-trial inkjet market
AGFA acquires Lastra becomes the largest plate manufacturer worldwide
THIEME
Agfa starts industrial inkjet coop-eration with Thieme and Mutoh
Bayer sells remaining 30% stake in Agfa
Technology Trends
Image qualitymediumlow high
Industrial printer
In-house printer
SOHO
Professional presses
Office printer/ copiers
Desktop printer / copiersDigitally printed
Conventionally printed
1990
2000
2010
# prints per site
Technology Trends:
Automated Workflow
Web2Print
Chemistry Free CTP
Finishing
Digital Printing
Graphic Arts Trends
Print Quality
Av. Runlength
Office
Digital
Offset
10.000
Job Print(Sheetfed Offset)
Web Print(Webfed Offset)
Digital Print(Xero & ElectroInk
& Inkjet)
Transactional Print(Inkjet & Xero)
1.00010050 500 20.000
SOHO(inkjet &
Xero)
5.000
Graphic Arts Trends:
Automation on all levels
Versioning & personalisation
GA suppliers under pressure
Delocalisation
More, shorter print runs
Business Trends
ElectronicPaper
35%
2020
65%
70%
1995
30%
Business Trends:
ROI
Shorter product life cycles,
Faster turnaround of info
Communication mix:
Globalisation
Electronic vs paper
48%
2010
52%
Graphics: productportfolio
Complete Systems: Completeness to the Power of 3
Complete Services
Complete Benefits
Complete Integration
inks
heads
engine
financing
training support
delivery installation
service
vibrant colours
Resistant, durable images