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.

Brodnax 21C Printers, headquartered in Dallas, USA, was founded in 1957 by John Brodnax and has grown from a small commercial print shop into a marketing services company. With a revenue of approximately $25 million, the company is offering lithographic printing, small-format digital printing, large-format printing, and promotional materials.

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.

Engineered Printing Solutions (EPS) will showcase one of the widest ranges of direct-to-object (DTO) printing technologies at Printing United Expo, with a focus on helping brands and manufacturers identify their ideal product printing solution. Visitors to booth C2137 will have the opportunity to compare decoration technologies side by side, including pad printing, single-pass inkjet, multi-pass inkjet and robotic printing solutions

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.

Direct One, a leading Florida-based direct mail and print production company, has become the first company in the world to put EMT Internationals new Vira CS1 cut-to-stack solution into production, marking another major investment in the companys growing national production platform.

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.

INX International will feature advanced digital print technologies for reliable, high quality digital printing and the next phase of digital manufacturing for packaging applications in booth C2649 at the PRINTING United Expo. The three-day event takes place September 23-25 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

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.