Japan's Graphic Arts Show Goes International

Now, after many years of persistent efforts, the organizers of IGAS have at long last agreed to fit into the four-year cycle of the major international graphic arts shows: Drupa, Ipex and Print.

Business in Japan is only beginning to come out of a severe recession. The buying and investment effects of a renewing confidence, though, will probably take another year to make themselves felt. Profits of printing companies are down. At giant Toppan Printing they declined by 4.7 percent. Never- theless, that company recently bought the first two large imported web offset presses: two Heidelberg M-3000 Sunday gapless blanket cylinder web offset presses.