Executive Outlook
Bobst Group
Todd Blumsack Vice President Business Unit Web-Fed
How is Bobst poised to assist flexo printers in growing their business in today's environment? To sum it up with few words that syntheze the strength of our offerings: machine reliability and upme. We provide the most upme in our range of flexo presses, be they narrow to mid web inline UV flexo presses or mid , wide web CI flexo presses. As an example, BOBST Digital Flexo automaon when fied on its range of inline flexo presses, re sults in up to 95 percent press upme, no change of ink and no downme for color matching, 1 minute onthefly changeover, very lile waste, while pro viding brand owners the assurance of worldwide color consistency of packaging. Due to the precision of the impression seng ad justments, sophiscated mechanics in conjuncon with servo drive technology for anilox roll and plate cylinder slides, BOBST CI flexo presses also make a perfect fit for using the expanded gamut process and the manifold advantages it offers in terms of in creased efficiency and standardiza on of the process. Since the same sets of aniloxes and inks are used for all jobs, no me is wasted on changeovers, wash
What one thing, more so than any other, should flexo printers be most concerned with at the mo ment? What is it they should most be focused on? The quality control of the output: control of the register, control of the color and of its consistency and repeatability. Basically, control of all the vari ables so as to make the output exactly conform with the master request. We believe this — the digital world of prinng — is the way forward of the prinng industry, namely to print consistently repeatable quality, which can be digitally measured and validated by global digital standards. This can be achieved through the control of the process from prepress to output, which is something only a digital workflow can ensure. What areas of technology will most guide the fu ture for flexo printers? What new areas of tech nology will open up the most opportunies? Again all systems of digital automaon managing all the press operaon. And the press room taking advantage of the workflow opmizaon. IoT, the Internet of Things for machine connecvity, en abling the machine to dialogue with the environ ment. In the future an IoT prinng process can monitor automacally the press status, the require ments of maintenance, the use of energy, etc. What current developments in the retail environ ment (including CPG demands) do you see most creang opportunity for flexo printers? The connecon between brand owner and retail er with machine manufacturers and printers and consumers. The flow of the value chain is transi oning from a linear to a circular supply.
ups, and spot color matching. In addi on, the ink inven tory can be dramacally re duced and jobs with completely different colors can be print ed in one run. At the same me, digital
BOBST M6 equipped with Digital Flexo.
processes for color separaon like contract proofing and color control at the press foster the standardiza on of the flexo process and ensure perfect process consistency and repeatability of jobs.
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