Primera Technology

Primera Technology, a global manufacturer of specialty printers, has announced the availability of a new cost-per-label calculator program for its popular LX900 Color Label Printer.

Digital print has taken hold in several areas in commercial print and book publishing, driven by the need to maximize the return on the investment (ROI) in print. However, packaging print, book printing, and commercial printing are all very different.

Digital printing and workflow implementations by package printers, including items on Primera Technology, GPA and Kodak.

Primera Technology, Inc. announced shipping of its new CX1000 Color Label Printer. Designed for in-house production of professional-quality product labels, CX1000 is ideal for producing short- to medium-run jobs.

The latest information for packaging printers about adding digital capabilities, including digital offset, inkjet and toner-based technologies.

No business serious about its commitment to its customers would shy away from enhancing its product offerings. Current trends in the package-printing industry reflect just that, especially the trend toward short-run printing. One such enhancement is adding digital printing capabilities for your existing product lines. But just what is digital printing? When people say “digital printing” what do they mean? Defining digital printing “It really depends on what aspect you’re looking at,” says Dan Briley, North American category manager, industrial products, HP Indigo Digital Press. “In general, when you’re talking about the packaging application, digital printing refers to the fact that every single package,

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Just when it seems like inkjet has reached its pinnacle of capabilities, innovations in the printing technology open new markets. INKJET PRINTING IS not the first thing most printers think of when they wake up in the morning. Inkjet's most common use in packaging is coding and marking—the least of printers' worries. But times are changing and so is inkjet technology, which may one day soon, play a much larger part in the printing of packaging materials. Currently, inkjet printing has many benefits to boot. It prints very high resolution, up to 4,800 dpi, said Mark Strobel, vice president, sales and marketing, Primera Technology,