Packaging is the Next Frontier for Digital Technologies

Many packaging companies have tested digital printing over the last decade, but almost all have abandoned these trials claiming that the business model did not exist or that the quality was not adequate.

But the problem of meeting demands for faster turnaround has remained, pushing litho press manufacturers into delivering presses with high levels of automation to handle short runs effectively. This means adding tools to monitor quality on press and to reject sheets that fall short, using scanners to check that what is printed is exactly the same as on the PDF that the client approved, and using all the plate changing, presetting and color control tools that have become standard for commercial printers.