Drupa

drupa
drupa
Genre	Printing equipment
Begins	16 June 2020
Ends	26 June 2020
Frequency	Every 4 years
Venue	Düsseldorf Fairgrounds
Location(s)	Düsseldorf, Germany
Inaugurated	1951
Participants	1828 from 54 countries (2016)
Attendance	260,165 from 183 countries (2016)
Organised by	Messe Düsseldorf
Website	www.drupa.com

The drupa is the largest printing equipment exhibition in the world, held every four years by Messe Düsseldorf in Düsseldorf, Germany. The word drupa is a portmanteau of the German words druck und papier; print and paper respectively.

Thousands of industry experts are usually present, and corporate representation typically includes companies such as Agfa Graphics, Océ N.V., Muller Martini, EIZO, Esko, Hewlett-Packard, Xeikon, Flint Group, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen, Manroland, Kern, Pitney Bowes, New Solution, Xerox, Kodak, Canon, Transeomedia, DirectSmile, Konica Minolta, Ricoh, Martin Automatic, Komori Corporation, Fujifilm, Siegwerk, Inspectron and Koenig & Bauer AG.^[2] Several new technologies are typically demonstrated during Drupa.

Key data[]

drupa-year	Exhibition space in m²	Visitors from countries	Exhibitors from countries	Highlights	President
1951	18,450	195,185	527 from 10	"Platen Press" with 5.000 printed sheets/h	Hubert Sternberg
1954	35,000	226,388	764 from 13	Stereotype-engraving machine	Hubert Sternberg
1958	43,000	185,936	688 from 13	Phototypesetting	Hubert Sternberg
1962	48,000	180,483	678 from 16	Offset printing	Hubert Sternberg
1967	57,785	214,694	945 from 19	Stacker	Hubert Sternberg
1972	100,789	268,713	958 from 27	Small offset printing with 8.000 sheets/h	Kurt Werner
1977	99,639	284,806	1108 from 22	UV-hardening colors	Kurt Werner
1982	104,291	293,059	1275 from 29	Web offset printing	Kurt Werner
1986	122,711	373,656	1465 from 33	Data Exchange	Kurt Werner
1990	126,811	444,214	1760 from 36	Fully digitized machines and secondary systems	Kurt Werner
1995	142,056	385,098	1670 from 44	Computer to plate	Hans-Bernhard Bolza-Schünemann
2000	158,875	428.248 from 171	1943 from 50	Complex solution providers	Albrecht Bolza-Schünemann
2004	161,000	394.478 form 127	1866 from 52	Networking, Book-on-Demand	Albrecht Bolza-Schünemann
2008	175,272	389,993	1968 from 53	Digital technologies	Albrecht Bolza-Schünemann
2012	165,159	314,500	1844 from 52	Hybrid-Technologie, Nano ink, Printed electronics	Bernhard Schreier
2016	158,237	260,165 from 183	1828 from 54		Claus Bolza-Schünemann
2021

Theme song[]

Since 2000 every drupa had its own theme song. The idea started in 1986 with a song featuring a country folk style which was later nominated as one of the worst corporate anthems ever by The Register.^[3] Nevertheless, they are one of the drupa trademarks since the theme song concept was resurrected with a dance/pop power ballad in 2000. The drupa 2004 theme song used a techno dance style while the song for 2012 was performed by Dirk Zeisler.