With the start of the new apprenticeship year, Koenig & Bauer is once again setting important tracks for the future. The international company welcomes its new apprentices across its various Group locations. Despite a deliberately adjusted and focused demand for apprenticeship places, the printing press manufacturer underlines its unchanged stance: the sustainable training and development of young people is and remains the core of its strategy for securing skilled staff and driving innovation.

Indian packaging specialist Canpac Trends continues its dynamic growth trajectory unabated and is stepping up its close partnership with Koenig & Bauer. By signing the contract for a new Rapida 106, the company is investing in its tenth sheetfed offset press from the German manufacturer within ten years. The seven-colour press with coating tower and complete UV package will be installed at the Tirupur plant. As part of the capacity expansion, the press currently operating there will be relocated to another site.

IST is presenting the modular swap4cure platform at Loupe Americas 2026 (Stand 3310, Hall B). The system combines UV, LED UV and thermal curing on a single platform, enabling rapid switching between the technologies.

Inkcups announces the launch of its newest laser plate-maker, the Cobalt Pro+. Replacing the Cobalt PRO, Inkcups highest wattage laser available in the Inkcups Cobalt line, the new Cobalt Pro+ is up to 20% faster, enabling users to boost productivity, reduce turnaround times, and take on more work without compromising quality.

Erbi Group, a specialist printing group providing end-to-end production solutions for the pharmaceutical sector, has installed a Screen Truepress JET 520HD Mono at one of its production facilities to expand its pharmaceutical leaflet capabilities with digital inkjet printing, supported by fully integrated post-press inspection and automated defect rejection.

Duraluxe today introduced a new sublimation-ready steel panel designed to make printed displays changeable. Its magnet-receptive surface lets print providers move beyond a single, static metal print and create products customers can add to, rearrange, personalize and update over time.

Kornit Digital announced that USColorworks, a North Carolina-based apparel decoration and fulfillment company specializing in custom and on-demand printing for retail and promotional markets, has expanded its Kornit digital production platform with the addition of Atlas MATRIX and Atlas MAX PLUS systems to deliver high-quality, on-demand apparel across cotton, blended fabrics and polyester.

The integration combines Enfocus Switchs advanced workflow orchestration with PDFixs PDF accessibility remediation engine, enabling print and documentworkflows to automatically convert incoming PDF jobs into tagged, accessible, PDFUA-ready output, with no manual handling required.

For an industry built on precision, print and packaging has an uncomfortable secret. The colour you approve may not be the colour I see. Not metaphorically. Literally.

Color-Logic is pleased to announce that GAM Graphics and Marketing (GAM), a Color-Logic Certified Printer based in Sterling, Virginia, has adopted the Visualis3R visualization solution. Visualis3R, distributed exclusively by Color-Logic, enables GAM clients to preview, in remarkable detail, how metallics, foils, and print embellishments will appear on their projects before productionbringing unprecedented confidence and creativity to every job.

The market for product protection, brand protection, and traceability has hitherto been highly fragmented. To offer brand manufacturers a holistic and flexible response to this challenge, Bosch Secure Authentication and Koenig & Bauer Vision & Protection are combining their expertise in a new partnership: at LUXE PACK Monaco 2026, the partners are presenting their joint ava platform (a verification app) for the first time.

Offering outstanding tensile strength, superior mechanical performance and up to 70% lower weight, Poly-rafia extends the potential of wide-format printing far beyond visual communication

A clear signal for Augsburg as a business location: The Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper inaugurated its new rotary newspaper press a Koenig & Bauer Commander CL 42 on Monday. Since the projects launch in September 2024, a completely new, state-of-the-art production infrastructure has been created, ranking among the most efficient and advanced systems on the market.