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Bennett Graphics, an Atlanta-based print service provider, hosted an open house on Thursday, June 13, showcasing its digital workflow of printing, enhancement, and finishing equipment. The event featured demonstrations of Bennett's HP Indigo, Scodix, and Highcon equipment.

During its Xeikon Café North America event, Xeikon unveiled its Power of Dry Toner campaign. The campaign serves to promote dry toner as a complement to high speed inkjet solutions.

Brian Cleary, Category Manager for HP Indigo Label Solutions, joined packagePRINTING Editor-in-Chief Cory Francer at the Digital Packaging Summit to discuss HP's leadership in digital printing for labels and packaging. Cleary detailed how HP stands out with product offerings for all packaging segments and in the development of unique imaging technologies.

Xeikon hosted its second edition of Xeikon Café North America last week, highlighting its latest innovations in digital printing, sharing digital printing success stories, and providing a glimpse into what the company has in store for Labelexpo Americas in the fall.

The Xerox Iridesse is the only digital press that can print metallic gold or silver dry ink, CMYK and clear dry ink in a single pass.

As digital printing expands its reach in packaging, its ability to create high-quality versioned packaging lines is becoming popular among brands with a variety of products. Tap Packaging Solutions earned first place in the 2017 packagePRINTING Excellence Awards' Folding Cartons: Digital category for these versioned folding cartons for UliMana chocolate truffles.

Kodak recently hosted a two-day gathering of about 250 customers, Kodak personnel, and trade media representatives at the company’s historic manufacturing complex in Rochester, N.Y. Led by Kodak CEO Jeffrey Clarke, senior executives gave a state-of-the-company report that outlined Kodak’s current business strategy and detailed its progress in developing solutions for print markets.

In 2017, printers and converters of folding cartons enjoyed an industry that offered stability and opportunities for growth. packagePRINTING's 2017 Folding Carton State of the Industry report outlines the packaging industry trends and forecasts folding carton converters need to know.

EFI has released a new Fiery digital front end (DFE) for the Xerox iGen 5 press. The new Xerox EX-P 5 Print Server Powered by Fiery supports the iGen 5 Press’ new White Dry Ink capability, and is the first commercially available DFE on the new Fiery FS300 Pro platform.

During the opening session of the Digital Packaging Summit, Bob Leahey of Keypoint Intelligence provided a look into the latest statistics in digital package printing to outline where the technology stands across all packaging segments, including labels, folding cartons, flexible packaging and corrugated.