Category: Digital packaging

  • Interview: Mike Rottenborn, CEO of Hybrid Software Group

    Interview: Mike Rottenborn, CEO of Hybrid Software Group

    At the end of last year I caught up with Mike Rottenborn, CEO of Hybrid Software Group and discussed the history of the company and where he sees it going forward.

  • Screen shows inkjet packaging press

    Screen shows inkjet packaging press

    Screen used IGAS to show off its Truepress Pac520P, a single pass inkjet printer

  • MGI launches B1 AlphaJet

    MGI Digital Technology has finally announced the commercial availability of its B1 single pass inkjet press, the AlphaJet, which was first mooted as a B2 device back in 2012. It has since been reinvented as a complete printing and converting line, mainly aimed at packaging – though MGI also says that it wants to target…

  • Comexi to launch Digiflex

    Comexi has announced a new digital printing solution for flexible packaging and labelling called the Digiflex, which mostly seems to be designed to print variable marking codes, either in their own right or in addition to graphics that have been printed on a flexo press.  

  • Scodix introduces smart high definition technology

    Scodix has announced a new generation of its enhancement machines with a new Smart High Definition – or SHD – technology that’s mainly aimed at packaging. For now, Scodix has shown off a new version of its Ultra 6000 powered by SHD. 

  • HP targets corrugated with new T700i press

    HP has shown off a new web-fed inkjet press, the PageWide T700i, that’s designed for printing to paper-based packaging, namely pre-printing to the top liner for corrugated as well as folding carton. It’s a 1.7m wide press and comes from HP’s existing collaboration with Koenig and Bauer, which has already yielded the 2.8m wide T1100…

  • Notes from Milan

    As a general rule, most journalists look to construct a narrative out of an exhibition in order to pull all the announcements and interviews from the different vendors together into one coherent story. But I found it hard to do this at the recent Print4All show in Milan.

  • Lombardi shows Astra Digital

    The Italian flexo press manufacturer Lombardi used the recent Print4All exhibition in Milan to show off a new hybrid digital press, the Astra, combined with a narrow web flexo line.

  • Agfa acquires Inca Digital

    The Agfa-Gevaert Group has signed an agreement with Screen Graphic Solutions to acquire its Inca Digital Printers subsidiary, which is based in Cambridge, UK, in what is likely to be a significant boost for both Agfa and Inca and a major realignment in the wide format and packaging printer markets.

  • Highcon teams up with Tilia

    Highcon Systems has signed an arrangement with Tilia Labs to supply Tilia’s Phoenix automated planning and imposition system with Highcon’s range of digital post-production devices for corrugated and carton board converters.

  • CCE and inkjet

    Last week I wrote about the recent InPrint trade show in Munich, Germany so this report is the second half of that story. The ticket included entry to three shows, with the International Converting Exhibition or ICE being the main event, while InPrint shared its hall with the Corrugated and Carton Exhibition or CCE.

  • Solucan invests in second Cyclone

    Canadian firm Solucan, which specialises in printing short run beverage cans, has installed a second Tonejet Cyclone in order to meet increasing demand in a validation of both Solucan and Tonejet’s approach.