Offset Printing - Sheet-Fed

Tepel Brothers has invested heavily in its packaging capabilities to make a place for itself in this segment.

Package printing is all about high-quality printing and eye-catching graphic presentation. One segment that is getting more and more attention is the corrugated packaging market. Accurate Box Company is one package-printing company that got into this game early.

One company that successfully made the move into packaging is St. Paul, Minn.-based Impressions Incorporated (www.i-i.com). It made the move more than ten years ago at a time when its base business was on a steady increase.

DALLAS—KBA North America announced that Hanover Packaging, a packaging firm based in Hanover, Pa., is installing a new KBA Rapida 106 41-inch six-color sheetfed press with conventional and UV capabilities during the summer of 2009.

Offset printing is a standard bearer for quality in package printing and has a long history of successful use in the folding carton arena. As much headway as flexographic printing has made during the last decade, its quality is still measured against that of offset. It is not surprising that offset printing is still the process of choice for many folding carton converters in the packaging market. Many suppliers with a long history of providing high-quality printed products to their customers hold firm to their successful roots. Carded Graphics, located in Staunton, Va., is one such folding carton converter that focuses entirely on

J HEIDELBERG Visit www.heidelberg.com Model Max. Sheet Size (in.) Max. Printing Area (in.) Speed (sph) Speedmaster 23.62x29.13 23.031x29.134 15,000 CD 74 Speedmaster 28.346x40.157 27.559x40.157 15,000 CD 102 Speedmaster 29.53x41.34 29.13x41.34 18,000 XL 105 See Ad p. 92 KBA North America, Sheetfed Division Visit www.kba-usa.com Model Max. Sheet Size (in.) Speed (sph) KBA Rapida 74 (2-10 units) 20 x 29 15,000 KBA Rapida 105 (2-10 units) 29 x

Caraustar's Chicago Carton Plant uses its strengths in sheetfed offset printing to be a best-value supplier of paperboard packaging. SHEETFED OFFSET PRINTING is a specialty at Caraustar's Chicago Carton Plant. They've been doing it for the past 40 years, since the founding of the original Crane Carton Company by Alan Crane. The plant provides printed virgin and recycled paperboard materials to a variety of end-use markets, including dry and frozen foods, hardware, automotive, entertainment, and software. With Caraustar's status as one of the largest North American producers of recycled paperboard, Paul Curtis, general manager of Caraustar's Chicago and Grand Rapids, Mich. plants, says