Printing Company Increases Profitability With Xerox Production Press

Africa Print News - Commercial Print, Digital Label & Digital Packaging | Week 5 NOV 2022 | VIEW IN BROWSER

Africa Print provides the latest news, insights and trends for the commercial print, digital label and short run digital packaging industries in Southern Africa.

The Xerox  Iridesse Production Press  delivers CMYK  print  quality for a full array of digital jobs. It’s best suited to short run,  quick turnaround  work  with  technologies that dramatically improve image quality.

Tetra Pak South Africa Partners With PETCO

The success of a circular economy requires collaboration beyond the traditional boundaries of business operators. In an increased effort to drive collection and recycling of liquid board packaging (LBP) in South Africa, Tetra Pak South Africa will join the PET Recycling Company NPC (PETCO), a well-established Producer Responsibility Organisation (PRO).

ROTOCON Ensures Continued Operation Of Recently Installed Press Kit

Since 2019, Labelton has purchased five pieces of equipment from ROTOCON, with each investment made specifically around key customers or market opportunities.

Trends In Label And Textile Printing

According to Focus Label Machinery, sustainability is becoming a strong factor for retailers wanting to ensure their business image reflects the need to reduce impact on the environment. In turn suppliers and manufacturers are doing the same with retailers auditing their processes to ensure they meet social and environmental needs.

Lessebo Introduces New Paper Series For Luxury Packaging

Lessebo Paper now introduces Lessebo Colours, a new series of environmentally friendly coloured paper. The palette is carefully curated and consists of 48 unique, trending nuances, from elegant green hues to energetic yellow tints.

FLEXcon Expands Sustainable Packaging Line

Designed with sustainability in mind, optiFLEX® THIN ecoFOCUS™ is a line of downgauged versions of the company’s other optiFLEX® ecoFOCUS™ products. TApplications include food and beverage, personal care and cosmetics, and household chemical.

Agfa Offset Packaging Conference Outlines Key Trends

The European Offset Packaging Value Conference saw industry experts, customers and the trade press join Agfa to hear how growth opportunities in packaging can be turned into a competitive advantage with new sustainable solutions.

Highcon Installs Digital Finishing Solution

The Highcon Beam 2C digital finishing solution eliminates the wood, metal and rubber used to produce a conventional die, as well as removing their required transportation and storage. Highcon’s non-crush process also maintains the integrity of the box, enabling light-weighting and rightsizing – facilitating the production of strong boxes, but with dramatically reduced waste.

Labelling Business Invests In Fujifilm LED UV Curing System

Following recent investments in Fujifilm’s Flenex water-washable flexo plates and Sericol JJ LED UV inks, Aztec Label has now also invested in Fujifilm’s Activ LED UV curing system as part of a drive to more sustainable production. The new system was installed in October 2022.

Axaio Announces Print Software Product Enhancements

With the new features and improvements in Adobe InDesign 2023, such as to automatically format texts using content-based style packages as well as the support of new graphic formats including HEIC, WEBP and JP2K, the experience of working with InDesign has been enhanced even further.

SCREEN Updates Product Logos For Its Brand Of Digital Printing Systems

SCREEN Graphic Solutions Co. Ltd. has over the years targeted the commercial/publishing, label and packaging fields. In recent years, expectations around the capabilities of digital presses have grown fast in each of these markets.

Kongsberg Cutting Table Selected For DuPont’s Demonstration Centre

Marking the latest successful collaboration between the two companies, a new Kongsberg X20 Edge cutting table enables DuPont Cyrel® Solutions and Kongsberg Precision Cutting Systems (Kongsberg PCS) to deliver demonstrations and tests on automatic plate cutting and workflow automation to all flexo users.

Enfocus Announce Software Release

According to Steven Nuyt, Head of Product at Enfocus, deploying PitStop Library Container as part of a cloud-based workflow brings unlimited scalability and ideal flexibility to the company’s PDF processing technology.

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