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With digital printing technology becoming an increasingly common facet of the packaging production arena, the death knell of offset printing has been rung time and time again. And on the [...]

The press, also referred to as a Platen press, has been supplied through UK agents Intellcare. The model Is a LabPro 1000, a hydraulically operated two-column press with prism guiding, [...]

Barley Print has taken delivery of a high-tech computer-controlled ink management system that will increase efficiency and reduce wastage at its production plant in Hertfordshire, England. The firm has invested [...]

KBA-Sheetfed and ACTEGA Coatings & Sealants have forged a strategic alliance in the field of in-line finishing. The new cooperation agreement further intensifies their existing partnership and places activities on [...]

Idealliance, a leading industry association for print and digital media has announced that Fujifilm's J Press 720S is the first inkjet production printing solution to achieve a digital press system [...]

Bischof + Klein UK is expanding its consumer packaging. Over the past 15 years, the company's focus has gradually shifted from industrial packaging solutions to the production of high-quality packaging [...]

The Komori Sheetfed Inkjet Digital Printing System Impremia IS29 is an example of Komori's product portfolio moving towards digital technology. The Impremia IS29 arrived in Komori International Europe's recently refurbished [...]

Heidelberg is bringing new business models and printing applications for its customers with the Gallus DCS 340 digital press for label printing. The press is supplied with Heidelberg's Prinect digital [...]

Goss is introducing its Contiweb hallmark of tension excellence to a new market with a range of six unwinder/ splicers and rewinders, developed specifically for digital web printing. The unwinder [...]

A new version of the Ovation sheet-fed flexo press from Gopfert features QuadTech's inspection System to provide 'total quality assurance' for corrugated packaging products A collaboration between German converting press [...]

Outlook Group Corp purchased a 17in, ten-colour EF Press with APC (automated print control). The EF is MPS's flagship press. It is an automated, multisubstrate flexo press that excels at [...]

Bobst Bielefeld recently held an open house with a focus on high-speed and wide-web-width flexo printing. The event was divided into a seminar session in the morning and a print [...]

A new Bobst F&K 20SIX CS 8-colour CI flexo press for water based inks and coatings applied to quality paper based substrates is to be installed by East Riding Sacks [...]

EKS-Label of Kirchlengern, Germany, has invested in an 8-colour DSI (Digital System Integration) UV inkjet press from SPGPrints to meet growing demand for short runs of self-adhesive [...]

Dutch label converter Decolabel has invested in the new FA-4* flexo press from Nilpeter. It is the company's fourth machine from the Danish press builder. Decolabel is one of three [...]

MPS staged live demonstrations of its brand new EB flexo and EF multi-substrate presses at an open house on 14-16 May, at the company's headquarters in Didam. * [...]

The new EB flexo press from MPS is claimed to combine several 'unique features' while providing a lower cost investment. Technical director and company co-founder Bert van den Brink comments: [...]

UK manufacturer of narrow web presses and converting machinery Edale is using Fujifilm's UVivid Flexo JD inks on the Flexo Line range of presses in its showroom. UVivid Flexo JD [...]

Major new developments to Landa's SlOFC and S10C Nanographic Printing Presses are said to enhance print quality and upgrade the press design. Landa founder, chairman and CEO Benny Landa says, [...]

Italian flexo press manufacturer Uteco is now offering its 8-colour Onyx 810 flexo system fitted with two integral Kodak Prosper S20 Imprinting Systems, one for black and one for colour. [...]

InfoTrends has expanded its 'Ultimate Guide Online' platform to include digital presses for Colour Digital Labels and Packaging (CDLP). This guide details product specifications for more than 50 CDLP printers [...]

France-based label converter Stratus Packaging has invested in an all Esko digital flexo solution, including a CDI Spark 4835 with HD Flexo technology. Stratus is also the first label converter [...]

Folex of Switzerland and Flint Group Flexographic Products have jointly developed a laser ablative dry film for imaging on infrared laser systems, such as digital flexo or letterpress imagesetters. The [...]

Schwabach-based Leupold is the first German folding carton converter to install an HP Indigo WS6600 digital press, together with an Inline-Priming-unit and a fully integrated post-processing workflow. Leupold has also [...]

Superfast Labels is the first company in the UK to install Epson's SurePress L-4033A digital label press. Some four months after its installation, the Sittingbourne-based 'fastest label printer in the [...]

Mark Andy's P3, P5 and P7 Performance Series presses have a special printing platform that is 'proven to significantly reduce setup times and material waste'. For Performance Series users, these [...]

Unipack Fort, one of the biggest packaging printers in Bulgaria, has ordered a high-tech KBA Rapida 1066-colour B1 (41 inch) press with two coaters, KBA DriveTronic SPC dedicated plate cylinder [...]

See www.convertingtoday.co.uk for the full stories Unipack Fort, one of the biggest packaging printers in Bulgaria, has ordered a high-tech KBA Rapida 106 6-colour Bl (41 inch) press with two [...]

UK-based Hamilton Adhesive Labels is investing £ 500,000 in a Multi Print Systems 8-colour UV flexo press to improve the quality and consistency of its offering to customers. It will [...]

The cradle of the printing press, Germany continues to be a centre for innovation in printing technology. After inventing the printing press in 1440, German goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg devised the [...]

Mark Andy is the first in-line flexo press manufacturer to receive full certification for EskoArtwork's HD Flexo process for making digital flexo plates. To achieve certification, presses are print tested [...]

GEW showed the latest version of its VCP UV lamphead at the recent Labelexpo Europe 2011. It was displayed with an infra-red (IR) cassette system for water-based inks. The GEW [...]

Bobruisk IPH Nepogodin is the first company in Belarus to own a fully servo-driven flexo press - an Edale Gamma. association The company purchased the 430mm wide, 8-colour machine for [...]

RR Donnelley and KBA have agreed to develop, manufacture and sell next generation piezoelectric digital inkjet printing systems to the packaging and other markets. RR Donnelley will license its Apollo [...]

K2 International has installed a fourth flexo press at Turkish packaging contractor Toros Ambalaj Sanayi. The 410mm wide, 6-colour 3 Series machine will be used to meet increased capacity for [...]

New from Soma Engineering is the Imperia 8 CL flexo press for printing and converting flexible packaging materials in web widths from 1,100-1,700mm, in extended print repeats ranging from 330-1,300mm. [...]

UK based Berkshire Labels recently fitted its latest Mark Andy 2200 XL 6-colour flexo press with a Martin Automatic MBS unwind/splicer which has allowed continuous running with a noticeable improvement [...]

German label specialist Bossert has installed another Edale Alpha narrow-web printing and converting press at its Birkenfeld factory. The new machine, a 5-colour UV flexo press, is needed to meet [...]

When Woolworths of Cape Town, South Africa, launched a new range of cooking oils, dessert sauces, syrups and glazes, Rotolabel produced the labels for the Cooks' Essentials premium product range [...]

PCMC's iMpact 2010 symposium for the flexo industry was 'a tremendous success'. The highlight was the unveiling of the technologically advanced' Fusion flexo [...]

Comexi North America has named Fast Technology - an Austin, Texas, based manufacturers' representative group -as its agent for the central region of the USA. Fast Technology will represent the [...]

KBA and other press builders have teamed up with the VDMA (German Machinery and Plant Manufacturers' Association) to introduce an energy consumption value for printing presses. Where printing presses are [...]

Baker Self Adhesive Labels, of London, has installed the first HP Indigo WS6000 digital press in the UK. Baker has been an advocate of digital printing since it installed its [...]

The first Presstek 52DI-UV digital offset press has been installed at LSD GNeumann, a Hamburg based specialist in high end screen printed packaging designs for the food, beauty and tobacco [...]

UK based AB Graphic International has launched the Omega VSR vertical inspection slitter rewinder, claimed to offer 'new levels of production'. It will handle a wide range of label substrates [...]

London based Baker Self Adhesive Labels has increased its digital printing and converting capability by installing a Roland Soljet XC-540 inkjet printer/ cutter. The 1,371 mm wide format system will [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Swiss based group Model Holding employs KBA's Rapida offset press technology at its Czech production plants. The most recent addition, the third Rapida 105 (formerly Rapida 105 universal) [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It is a year since label producer John Watson Printers installed the world's longest B2 Speedmaster, and the Scottish company says it has had clear commercial and environmental [...]

Italian manufacturer Gidue has expanded the options for label converters available on its Xpannd combined offset/flexo press by introducing a 450 mm web width model suitable for printing both self-adhesives [...]

Soma Engineering has developed Falcon 66, a fully automatic impression and registration setting system for its Soma Flex flexo printing presses. The Falcon 66 consists of two sub-systems--the first is [...]