Manroland Inc.

News on suppliers to the packaging printing industry, including items on design firm Hornall Anderson, Esko/Germany-based Bischof + Klein, Color Ad Packaging, Technicote, Century Packaging, and GMG and matchmycolor LLC.

News on suppliers to the packaging printing industry, including items on Heidelberg, Bobst, Wilson Manufacturing, Multi-Plastics Inc., Nilpeter, Emerald Packaging and Gintzler Graphics.

Large-format offset press suppliers are working to keep pace with the industry's needs for higher efficiencies by offering faster speeds, quicker makereadies, and a high-degree of on-press automation. Printers are investing in the latest technology developments to improve productivity in their operations and to attract new business and new customers.

Relative to digital printing for packaging, drupa 2008 was a time for investigation and generalized discussion regarding product concepts and market requirements.

True to its history of introducing new technology to the printing world, drupa 2012 offered plenty of new things, including a great deal of packaging specific offerings in printing and finishing technologies.

For Central Florida Press (CFP), a division of The MATLET Group, in Orlando, FL, much of its success in Web-to-print (W2P) has been driven by its expertise in versioning—customization or personalization based on differences in geographical, linguistic, and/or regulatory content. "We help our customers by giving them the tools that will enable them to automate and manage their brands by reducing and simplifying their versions, and by controlling inventory and logistics," said CFP's Senior VP of Sales John Glick.

News on suppliers to the packaging printing industry, including items on Anderson & Vreeland, Mark Andy, Chicago Tag & Label and the Paperboard Packaging Council (PPC).

News on suppliers to the packaging printing industry, including items on Harper Corp., Avery Dennison Label and Packaging Materials, DWS Packaging Associates, Smyth Companies and UPM Raflatac.

With manroland's telePresence Remote Service System, customers can get their equipment back into production 93 percent of the time solely with remote service. Remote repairs are done typically within hours and sometimes within minutes of initiating a remote service request through telePresence.

Our last day at drupa ended up being full of promising packaging solutions, much more than we expected and we wished we could have extended our stay another few days.