Update: Digital Printing (CONT’D FROM PAGE 1 )
digital printing update. They have conducted extensive studies in other packaging markets, such as labels and corrugated, and drew some correlations to paperboard. A Slow Start Folding carton converters have been slow to adopt dig- ital printing in their businesses. There are only about 19 presses running production digital cartons today in North
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America. That number is expected to increase this year with new installations planned by HP Indigo, Landa, Ko- mori and Koenig & Bauer. A short run market study prepared by Karstedt Partners in 2016 revealed that 92 percent of PPC members were CONTINUED ON PAGE 26 Koenig & Bauer’s 40-inch VariJET 106 will be installed at a Eu- ropean carton plant in 2021 with North American installations expected in 2022.
Robyn Smith at 910-553-4055 /rsmith@nvpublications.com Len Prazych at 518-366-9017 / lprazych@nvpublications.com
Do you need printed sheets? We have your answer.. Introducing Heartland’s ColorCorr. This is “flexo-printing in the round”. On our corrugator we can print up to 109” wide. The advantage is that we can print the equivalent of ½ roll at a time and not be required to keep several rolls of very expensive preprinted paper on the floor. Much less waste and risk. In continual print mode, we use either laser-engraved rubber rolls or solid rubber rolls to print a “flood coat” or a repeating pattern. If we are printing a repeating pattern, we can run a two-color design on the paper. Customers have found that running sheets we print can allow them to run a lighter-grade due to reduced caliper loss, and in some cases eliminate one or more machine passes.
For more information contact: Charlie Freeman | 816-500-8889 | cfreeman@heartlandsheets.com Tim Kramer | 816-841-8317 | color@heartlandsheets.com
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