Drupa

The drupa is the largest printing equipment exhibition in the world, held every three years (4 years in the past) 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.

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

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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. 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.

Drupa (gastropod)

Drupa is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Species

Species within the genus Drupa include: