If the first week of DRUPA was good for QI Press Controls and partner EAE, it was nothing on the second.

The companies say their total for the 11-day show was 6.3 million Euros, more than three times the two million Euros taken in the first week. And chairman Menno Jansen (pictured) says even more orders are likely to follow.

"It's beyond our wildest dreams," he says. "It's clear that the printing industry is enjoying a renaissance at the moment - the print media are alive and kicking."

Nor are the impulses just commercial ones, with the investment climate improving in the newspaper segment as well. "Our sales team had an incredibly busy time answering the questions of interested visitors. It was demanding, but hard work pays off in the end," Jansen says.

During the final week of DRUPA 2016, QIPC received orders from Gulf News in Dubai for mRC-3D for colour and cut-off register on its manroland Cromoman, from Merkur Zeitungsdruck in Switzerland for mRC-3D colour and cut-off register and IDS-3D colour control, and from Mittelrhein-Verlag in Germany for colour register, fan-out and cut-off register control. Details of a further, even bigger order are still to be released.

There has also been a "flood of enquiries" for the IBS-100 and Desk 7.0 products released at the show.

Upgrade orders for existing systems came from Maroc Soir in Casablanca (Morocco), adding to those from Israel Today, Rotativos Patagonia (Argentinia) and Sanmarg (India) received in the first week, along with an order from German-based Funke Medien for EAE.