Labels & Packaging
This section of WhatTheyThink focuses on emerging trends in the Labels & Packaging print sectors. It feature discussions on technical and business trends that affect all those in the Packaging Supply Chain.
Commentary & Analysis
Leaving Labels—Heidelberg Selling Gallus
Miyakoshi Flexes its Packaging Muscles with New Inkjet Press
Hybrid Software Brings Packaging Workflows to a New Level of Automation
Survey: Highlights on the State of Digital Packaging
Kodak Rebuilds and Innovates with New Digital and Offset Products to Support Future Growth
Postprint Corrugated: Xeikon IDERA Coming Out Strong
What Happens When You Ask a Man’s Opinion in Sephora?
Why Implement a Hybrid Flexo/Digital Printing Solution? G2 ID Solutions Has the Answer
Sustainably Putting the Wrap on Shrink Sleeves and Labels?
Breaking the Electrophotographic Barriers—HP Indigo LEPx and V12
4 Ways To Increase Profitability In 2020
When It Comes to Packaging Sustainability, It Takes a (Business) Village
News
Expertise for the Resource-Saving and Flexible Filling of Sensitive Products
Prestigious Global Achievement Award goes to Federico D’Annunzio
PPD&G Expands and Adds Two HP Indigo 6900 Digital Presses to Expand High-Quality Packaging
Poland’s First Rapida RDC 106 Rotary Die-Cutter Now Being Used in Production at Top-Pol
Domino Welcomes Shane Govert as Product Manager
Hudson-Sharp Names New Regional Sales Directors
Durst Promotes Steve Lynn to Lead North America Label and Specialty Packaging Business
Brad Klimek Joins PCMC’s Tissue Sales team as a Sales Engineer
Comexi’s Jordi Puig on Energy-Curing Ink for Flexo
Published: August 3, 2020
Jordi Puig, Technical Director Flexo for Comexi, talks about the 60-year-old company and the latest trends in flexo printing—namely, sustainability and a transition to UV- and EB-curing inks. Watch Video
Ashland Adds New Textures to Labels
Published: June 10, 2020
Amy Gran, LA&C Radcure Tech Service & Product Development Chemist at Ashland, talks about Ashland’s energy-curing adhesives and coatings for the food packaging markets, some of the new product trends coming to market—such as tactile materials like soft-touch coatings, sand textures, and raises images—and the advantages of UV curing for these kinds of applications. Watch Video
Marci Kinter on the Increased Importance of Sustainability in Packaging
Published: May 20, 2020
Marci Kinter, Vice President, Government Affairs, SGIA (now Printing United Alliance) talks about the increased importance of sustainability and the circular economy to packaging producers, brand owners, and consumer products companies. Watch Video
EFI’s Josh Samuel on UV Inks for Packaging
Published: May 11, 2020
Josh Samuel, Director of Ink Development for EFI, talks about ultraviolet (UV) and electron beam (EB) curable inks and their advantages for use in packaging printing, especially corrugated. Watch Video
Miraclon Celebrates Its One-Year Anniversary
Published: April 27, 2020
David Zwang talks to Chris Payne, CEO of Miraclon, the former Kodak flexo unit, about Miraclon’s one-year anniversary as an independent company, how the company has fared over the past year, as well as the state of business during the current crisis. Watch Video
Edward Maguire on Energy Curing
Published: April 20, 2020
Edward Maguire, President & COO of Energy Sciences Inc., the world’s largest manufacturer of electron-beam curing equipment, talks about the primary differences between ultraviolet (UV) and electron beam (EB) curing, and some of the applications and advantages of EB in packaging production. Watch Video
S-One Labels & Packaging Working to Help the Flexible Packaging Industry Address Its Digital Transformation
Published: January 6, 2020
Ralph Giammarco, Vice President at S-One Labels & Packaging, discusses the similarities of the analog-to-digital transformation in flexible packaging to the sign industry's transformation. Digital now comprises 1% to 2% of flexible packaging, and Giammarco estimates growth to a double-digit share over the next few years and delivering a more sustainable product. Watch Video
GMG and Epson Partner for Packaging Prototyping
Published: December 5, 2019
Eric Dalton, Director of Sales, Western Region, for GMG, talks to Cary Sherburne about the company's package prototyping solution using GMG ColorProof, GMG OpenColor Software, and an Epson SureColor S80600 printer to print and proof with white ink on clear materials and other specialty substrates, such as shrink sleeves for bottles. Watch Video
Bobst’s D’Annunzio on Digital Label Printing
Published: November 25, 2019
David Zwang talks to Federico D’Annunzio, Senior Innovation Advisor for the Bobst Group, about some of the new innovations surrounding digital label printing, and how the same automation process can be applied to digital inkjet, flexo, offset, or hybrid label printing equipment. Watch Video
Canon Offically Enters the Digital Packaging Market at Labelexpo in Brussels
Published: November 5, 2019
Crit Driessen, VP of Labels & Packaging for Canon, talks to David Zwang about the Océ LabelStream 4000 Series, Canon’s initial entry into the digital packaging marketplace. Watch Video
Hybrid Software on Packaging Prepress
Published: October 29, 2019
Mike Rottenborn, President and CEO of Hybrid Software, talks about how prepress for packaging has changed over the years, and how Hybrid Software has developed prepress solutions for flexo, offset, digital, and hybrid packaging printing. Watch Video
Anderson & Vreeland Signs on as Xeikon's North American Distributor
Published: October 28, 2019
David Miller, Director of Digital Business for Anderson & Vreeland, talks to David Zwang about the company’s portfolio of solutions for the corrugated packaging market, and the company’s just-announced agreement to distribute Xeikon’s label and packaging presses in North America. Watch Video
Xeikon on the Latest Label Printing Trends
Published: October 16, 2019
David Zwang talks to Filip Weymans, VP of Marketing for Xeikon, at Labelexpo about the trends that Xeikon is seeing in the label industry and how they are addressing them. Watch Video
HP SPS OEMs launch wide format, full color solutions for mail and specialty printing applications
Published: October 9, 2019
Paul Barton from HP Specialty Printing Systems (SPS) talks about the SPS division and how it allows OEMs to leverage HP’s engineering and manufacturing scale to bring products to market. At PRINT 19, HP SPS introduced the Fixed Imager (FI) 1000, a print engine that allows boxes, bags, corrugated, and cardboard to be printed at the desktop level. Watch Video
Printware announces their new full color mail solution based on HP FI-1000
Published: October 9, 2019
Printware’s Tim Murphy talks about a new entry in the company’s iJetColor line of benchtop and industrial inkjet printing systems: the iJetColor Pro, a light industrial press based on the FI-1000 printhead technology from HP SPS, allowing customers to create short-run, personalized packaging. Watch Video
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