NAPCO Research recently published a study that engaged package printers and brand owners on their use of and views on digital printing.
Cory Francer
The shift in mindset regarding packaging materials has spurred several brands to explore alternatives to plastic packaging formats.
At the Fortis Solutions Summit held on April 20, 2023, approximately 100 of the printer's brand-owner customers were empowered with personalized education and service at Fortis’ facility in Lewisville, Texas.
In this column, industry experts unpack the momentum behind the record growth in the flexible packaging sector.
Total job, label versions, and output volumes are growing, while average run lengths fluctuate. Add in ongoing material and labor shortages, and the time to optimize workflows is now. The latest report from NAPCO Research delivers data and perspectives converters and suppliers can do to stay ahead.
Attendees of the eighth annual Digital Packaging Summit started Day 2 with a warm breakfast and friendly networking, before diving into the robust educational agenda, case study presentations, and 1:1 meetings for the day and a lively Casino Night in the evening.
225-plus attendees filled a room in at Ponte Vedra Inn in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, for the eighth annual Digital Packaging Summit.
Labels and packaging offer commercial printers intriguing growth opportunities, but making the transition is easier said than done.
Demand for labels is high. And while that’s good news for label printers and converters, emerging and evolving production challenges are introducing new obstacles to the production process.
A new report from NAPCO Research, sponsored by Memjet, offers essential information about how printers and converters can their customers reduce their environmental footprints, including an exploration of packaging materials and their sustainability pros and cons.
Dean Kenan of SCREEN Americas discusses the company’s strong presence in the U.S. digital printing market through SCREEN and Inca Digital, SCREEN Americas' growing commitment to the digital packaging market, and the evolution of SCREEN’s label press.
Whether it’s unscrewing a cap, tearing open a sachet, or unzipping a resealable closure, opening a package and accessing the product inside is not always the easiest task to complete while on the go. Antonio Burattini had an idea for packaging that could solve this problem.
NAPCO Research, a division of Packaging Impressions’ parent company NAPCO Media, is launching an annual service initiative that will quantify the variation in job quantities that label printers are contending with.
Dan Maurer, vice president of digital print at Heidelberg, and Cory Francer, leading industry analyst for the printing and packaging market at NAPCO Research, discuss Heidelberg continues to innovate indigital and conventional printing technologies to help PSPs in the tenacious pursuit of operating efficiency.
Cory Francer, packaging and printing industry analyst with NAPCO Research, interviews Joseph Sanchez, digital business development manager, Dantex Group. They discussed how Dantex leverages its long history in the printing market to develop presses that deliver high quality digital printing of labels.
