Newspapers in the Middle East: Booming and In ... - Dynagraph

Newspapers in the Middle East: Booming and Innovating 

Dynagraph at the cutting edge of transfer of web-printing technology 

Web presses in the Gulf region have gone a long way, since the first ever 

sold webpress in Dubai in 1992, a CROMOSET press installed at Gulf 

News, which was the first press allowing 2 heatset webs in the same 

newspaper product. 

Actually most web printers in the region use web presses manufactured by 

MAN Roland. Gulf News one of the first English-language newspapers 

launched in 1978 in Dubai and owned by Al Nisr Publishing LLC was 

among the first customers. 

Gulf News current machine is equipped with a very special configuration. 

Its MAN Roland CROMOMAN is composed of six parallel Cromoman lines 

with inline reel splicers. Each machine is equipped with a heatset dryer. 

In 1986, it was the first newspaper with heatset color printing with glossy 

paper. Always a step ahead, Gulf News has never hesitated in investing in 

a top of the line machinery to print its numerous publications, going from 

newspapers, tabloids, to entertainment and design magazines. Gulf News 

on its own has a weekly circulation of 91,985 from Saturday to Thursday 

and 94,247 on Friday 1 . 

While during these years Gulf News has evolved, with changes in the sizes 

of the broadsheet pages, or the use of brighter and improved color quality, 

so did its rotary press, which has been extended several times between 

1999 and 2003. 

Actually, although print media still dominates, there are a growing number 

of regional newspapers that have launched their Online version, among 

which, Oman News and Al Watan (Oman), Ad-Dustour (Jordan), Gulf 

Times (Qatar), Al Khaleej Newspaper (UAE), Gulf News (UAE) and Al Bayan 

Newspaper (UAE). This trend will probably play an important role in 

shaping the future development of this industry For instance, it is projected 

that Kuwait and the UAE – the more mature regional markets that have a 

current circulation growth of about 1-2% - will experience a slow down in 

1 according to BPA worldwide audit bureau, published on September 19, 2006 

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Dubai, 2007-11-11 

Dynagraph traces its roots back to the 

1970s. Dynagraph is at the cutting 

edge of transfer of printing technology. 

Dynagraph for Printing Industry llc, 

Dubai serves as a regional hub, operating 

from the commercial capital of 

the United Arab Emirates to coordinate 

all activity in the Gulf. 


(Offshore) and Dynagraph Lebanon 

sal cover the near eastern markets. 

Dynagraph is a small to medium size 

business with 90 employees. 

Dynagraph aims for a balanced product 

mix between supplies, pre-press, 

press, after press, converting, consumables 

and services 

In prepress with both standard and 

bespoke hard and software solutions 

from DTP to high-end systems Dynagraph 

deals with manufacturers such 

as Fuji Film Graphic Arts or DuPont. 

In press, sheet and webfed MAN Roland 

is Dynagraph’s partner provides 

a wide range of highly developed 

presses and services, whether in 

commercial, packaging or publishing 

printing. 

In after press, our partners in this sector 

are leading manufacturers like 

Kolbus, MBO, Schneider_Senator, 

Theisen & Bonitz, and others. 

Kolbus offers the most extensive machine 

range in the industry. Hardcover 

as well as adhesive bound products 

such as catalogues, magazines, 

schoolbooks, paperbacks, and a variety 

of other products. 

For special types of projects for the 

packaging and converting industry, 

Dynagraph works together with world 

leading manufacturers and foremost 

suppliers of products for solid board, 

corrugated board and flexible packaging 

industries e.g. Mark Andy, 

Winkler+Dünnebier, 


Corporate Marketing & Communication 

P.O.Box 35495 

Dubai, United Arab Emirates 

Press Officer: Juliana Kara Matta 

Phone: +971 (4) 3477724 

Fax: +971 (4) 3476761 

E-Mail: [email protected] 

Dynagraph 


–is a member of the Dynagraph Group

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the circulation number, as the impact of online content distribution starts to 

be felt. 

Besides Gulf News, Khaleej Times, which is owned by the Galadari Printing 

and Publishing L.L.C., also uses a CROMOMAN heatset/coldset hybrid 

press that was installed in 2002. Khaleej Times is a daily English language 

newspaper published in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Within the pages of 

Khaleej Times popular weekly magazines were added such as 'Week-end' 

and regular supplements on various topics, a pink-paged business section, 

and the supplement 'Young Times'. Khaleej Times also benefited from the 

wide variety of combination possibilities provided by the CROMOMAN 

press made of 8-couple-towers, one H-type printing unit and two stacked 

hot-air dryers with which it is able to produce 44 broadsheet pages, 28 of 

these four-color pages, and 12 pages can be heatset. 

It makes no doubt that the CROMOMAN press is popular in the Gulf region, 

the first one was installed in 1998 at the Oman Establishment For 

Press, News, Publication And Advertising, publisher of the Oman Daily. 

Among the CROMOMAN presses that have recently been ordered and will 

be installed in 2008, one will be housed at Dar Al Khaleej, one of the oldest 

and most important Arab-language newspaper in the UAE. 

The new web offset press will consist of two lines with a total of 16 reel 

splicers, eight eight-couple tower printing units, four heatset packages, and 

two folders. The system can simultaneously produce 64 broadsheet pages 

with 16 four color pages in heatset, four four-color pages, four pages with 

spot colors and 40 pages in b/w; or 32 pages all in four-color, 16 of them in 

heatset – or virtually any conceivable combination thereof. 

The new printing system will be delivered early next year and begin full 

production in mid-2008. 

Another CROMOMAN press is planed for Gulf Printing and Publishing 

(GPPC), a major printing and publishing company located in Qatar, publisher 

of Qatar’s largest-circulation dailies, the English-language newspaper 

Gulf Times and the Arabic-language newspaper Arayya for their Al 

Rayah project GPPC is building a new printing complex of nearly QR200m, 

with a built-up area of 22,000sqm in the industrial area of Doha. 

Finally a third CROMOMAN press this time with eight couple towers will be 

installed at British Industries for Printing & Packaging Co. in Kuwait at the 

end of 2008. 

Finally, from 2002 on, 14 web presses have been installed in the Gulf 

countries (Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the UAE), and five to six are 

either under installation, or will be installed in the year to come, mostly 

CROMOMAN presses.

Jordan - 2 UNISET 

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MAN Roland web press installations in the Middle East. 

Kuwait - 2 Cromoman 

Qatar - 2 Cromoman 

UAE- 13 Cromoman 

Oman - 1 Cromoman 

* The grey area refers to the Dynagraph market, which includes: Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, The 

UAE, Oman, Yemen, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain.

Newspapers in the Middle East: Booming and In ... - Dynagraph

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