Today at drupa 2016, HP announced that Smurfit Kappa, a world leader in paper-based packaging solutions with over 100 converting plants in Europe, has entered into a strategic collaboration agreement with HP to further develop the recently announced digital corrugated post-print solution, the HP PageWide C500 Press.
During the drupa 2016 tradeshow, EFI and Esko has announced that they have signed a letter of intent to bring a combined workflow solution to market that will enable companies to produce packaging with a single seamless and integrated workflow.
Coors Light Canadas celebration of backyard, amateur sports continues this year with the launch of the second annual Coors Light Games in Canada. This years competition is expected to be bigger and better than before, launching with a series of seven Coors Light Games Variable Print cans from CROWN Beverage Packaging North America, each of which represents a different backyard sport featured at the 2016 national event.
The launch is set for 29 June with a conference dedicated to “Industry 4.0”, the factory of the future which will change the way we work and create new values thanks to robotics and automation
Domino Digital Printing Solutions is proud to display its expanding range of technologies to the global print industry at drupa 16 (Stand A23, Hall 5 Messe Düsseldorf, 31st May – 10th June). The company is treating this international event as an opportunity to launch its new solutions for digital booklet production and B2 sheet-fed printing, and to demonstrate its latest Textures by Domino label printing solution.
To date high-quality luxury packaging is very expensive to manufacture, since the process is usually divided into several process steps. On the contrary, single pass web in-line packaging printing opens up completely new possibilities for printers to produce cost effective with a very short lead time. In-line hot-foiling, embossing and hologram insetting is possible, since high-performance systems like the rotary stamping system CHEETAH or the flatbed RHINO by Pantec GS Systems speed up to 150 m/min to produce POS teasing brilliance in-line.
Saueressig and Merck are developing ways to print packaging with RGB colors.
