The paper-based packaging industry has faced many challenges in 2019, including fewer orders, shorter run lengths, lower profit levels, environmental and capacity pressures, and increasing paper and labor costs.
The paper-based packaging industry has faced many challenges in 2019, including fewer orders, shorter run lengths, lower profit levels, environmental and capacity pressures, and increasing paper and labor costs.
INFOX upgrades new inkjet web press with high performance Tecnau Cut & Stack line, enabling highly and hyper-customized print media to be produced at short notice
Since INFOX GmbH & Co. Informationslogistik KG’s entry into digital back in 2008, printing has developed into an important pillar of the service portfolio. Established more than 40 years ago in Troisdorf, not far from Cologne, the company is known in the German tourism industry as the market leader for information logistics and communication solutions. INFOX belongs to the 7Days Group, a provider of logistics services, and specializes in the development and production of highly and hyper-customized media.
Czech media group Mafra operates two printing plants that are increasingly developing into coldset printing service providers, able to offer a broad portfolio of selected commercial products as well. The latest addition to the mailroom at the Prague printing site is a Ferag SNT-50 trimming drum, which came on stream in June 2019.
European market leader invests in inline production of sophisticated printed direct mail envelopes
When Jerry Ward at Boelte-Hall, a top commercial printer in the Kansas City metro area, bought a 45-inch Colter & Peterson PRISM® paper cutter in 1999, he was just happy to have a new machine. Five years ago, he was so impressed with its performance he replaced an old Seybold cutter with another same size, reconditioned PRISM, even though it was over 20 years old. And now?
Esko, a global supplier of integrated hardware and software solutions for leading display, signage and packaging customers, has extended its Kongsberg digital cutting table range with the Kongsberg X Edge - a completely new, fully upgradeable table design offering the perfect combination of productivity, flexibility and best in class reliability.
The Swedish regional newspaper market is in a state of constant change. Pressgrannar AB is the leading newspaper plant for the region around the capital Stockholm – from Uppsala in the north all the way down to Småland and Gotland in the south. The past 15 years have seen a range of local newspapers produced under the company umbrella. In order to ensure reliable production and supply for a region of this size, Pressgrannar relies on Ferag mailroom technology. Pressgrannar has now taken the next step in safeguarding this reliability and also opted to upgrade to the latest PRA Plus control technology.
During the last few years, the world of online content has become more prevalent, impacting businesses and consumers alike. There has been a war brewing between electronic digital content and traditional physical book printing for a long time. While many may think that digital is winning, this could not be further from the truth, especially for Phoenix based D&L Press Inc. “2018 was our best ever in our 58 years of operation and 2019 is progressing to be even better,” declared Mike Pinch, President of D&L Press Inc. The company started in 1961 as a traditional offset printer, but over the years it has evolved by incorporating new technologies and entering different markets.
Collaborative app helps customers get their machines back up and running quickly
Implementation of new ideas, faster setup, high end product quality in all print runs, quieter production – when the Acoro A7 perfect binder is retired at bookbindery An der Reuss in Lucerne in a couple of weeks and is replaced with an Alegro A7 the traditional Swiss company will be able to play several trump cards and live out its print finishing dreams.
Kompac has announced the release of the ONYX 30, a high production priming and coating system for the application of UV, Aqueous, Primer/Sapphire, and specialty coatings to a wide variety of substrates. The nearline finishing unit provides commercial printers and in-plant facilities a flexible, cost-effective way to prime, flood, and spot coat sheets up to 22” x 32” (560mm x 800mm) wide at speeds up to 6000 sheets per hour. The first install of the ONYX 30 took place in August with a US-based prepress & print shop with multiple HP Indigo Digital Presses in operation.
By installing a Kluge Remanufactured EHD Automatic Platen Press, Tovar Printing effectively eliminates the need for two presses and is able to produce more efficiently with one press.
It was another successful year in Chicago for seasoned PRINT veterans Brandtjen & Kluge.
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