12/09/2012
DRUPA is the largest printing equipment exhibition in the world, held every four years at Messe Düsseldorf in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The word Drupa is a portmanteau of the German words druck and papier; print and paper respectively.
390,044 visitors attended Drupa in 2008, and 1,953 exhibitors from 54 countries covered a total of 17.9 hectares of space. The most recent Drupa exhibition was held from May 3 to May 16, 2012.
Thousands of industry experts are usually present, and corporate representation typically includes companies such as Agfa Graphics, Océ N.V., Muller Martini, EIZO (Eizo Nanao Corporation), Hewlett-Packard, Punch Graphix, Flint Group, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen, MAN Roland, Kern, Pitney Bowes, Xerox, Kodak, Canon, Transeomedia, DirectSmile, Konica Minolta, Ricoh,Martin Automatic, Siegwerk Inspectron and Koenig & Bauer AG. Several new technologies are typically demonstrated during Drupa.
print media fair - International Trade Fair for prepress, premedia, printing, book binding, print finishing and paper converting, 3rd to 16th May 2012, Düsseldorf, Germany
