Golden West Packaging Group, a leading West Coast packaging converter, has launched a new digital corrugated solution that is allowing its wine and beverage industry customers to adopt a new operating model based on fast speed-to-market and improved sustainability.

Take a moment to think of all the plans that the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown into turmoil. Goodbye to that holiday you had planned, to the trade show you’ve been prepping for all those months, to family trips, meals out, face-to-face meetings with clients. It has taken so much from us, from the personal to the professional, from the trivial to the essential.

FuturePrint announces the launch of the FuturePrint Tech Fest, a forward-looking event focused on the technical development of print technology, taking place 29th-30th June. In an exciting move, the event will feature a combination of sessions delivered on-site at a central London studio as well as sessions produced remotely by partners and speakers worldwide.

Impresos Gráficos de Chihuahua is a 26-year-old printing company in northern Mexico that manufactures and prints adhesive labels, PVC films for heat-shrinked sleeves, thermal tags, and other commercial printed products. The company prints approximately 300,000 labels a day.

As we slowly but surely emerge (at last) from lockdown we should all be looking forward to some kind of boom. Exactly who will benefit from a hopefully steep incline of new demand is still a little unknown at this time but betting on retail, travel and hospitality is a pretty good idea right now. This article looks at why expertise can simply get in the way of innovation and creativity.

FuturePrint and content partner HP invite you to a panel discussion on the business importance of sustainability. On May 6th, 5pm CET, FuturePrint’s Frazer Chesterman will be joined by leading converters and HP Product Manager Adi Shorer to examine how HP’s corrugated technology helps converters contribute to a circular economy.

SICPA and FuturePrint are pleased to announce its partnership for 2021 where SICPA will be participating in upcoming virtual events and online communications that will bring combined expertise in providing innovate solutions in support of today’s leading printing technology.

In this article, we report results from 12 months of activity of building the FuturePrint Community during lockdown by running 4 large virtual events, publishing reports, surveys, hosting webinars, talks, and sharing over 100 articles.

Challenge - How to reduce operating expenses and increase output with clean energy? InDeco Serigrafia, located near Milan in Italy, stands out in the screen printing market for luxury applications with its 30 years of experience and constant search for new, innovative solutions. UV LED curing technology is more accessible than ever and it is bringing a host of advanced printing capabilities. Indeco did several retrofits switching from old UV mercury curing systems to a Phoseon high-performance UV LED solution. Let’s see why.

Today, all the major brands are requiring their suppliers to deliver more sustainable printing practices. The environmental benefits of UV LED curing in the printing process have proven to be a much more sustainable process compared to traditional mercury UV curing. This article will discuss some of the sustainability aspects of UV LED curing compared to mercury UV and why so many printers are upgrading to UV LED.

The Atlas Software Suite, developed by Global Inkjet Systems, has continued to evolve over the years, but remains a unique modular software solution that can be used for a range of digital printing software applications. A collaboration with Esko is opening new doors for customers through bespoke solutions and enhanced productivity, but with the GIS Atlas open platform and customisable features, why partner with Esko?

Leadership really comes to the fore in times of crisis. You tend to see the true mettle of people when they are truly up against it. It’s pretty easy to be a leader in the good times, but when things get tough, then a leader either rises up and leads, or they tend to disappear into the background.

The FuturePrint Leaders Summit is taking place on the 23rd and 24th of March, where global leaders in print technology will offer insight, opinion and a vision for the future as the world emerges, a new market materialises, and new opportunities are revealed. Mary Ann Rowan, Chief Experience Officer and Jonathan Malone-McGrew, Senior Director of Engagement, Solimar Systems, will be joining the leadership discussion with a focus on how they have guided and supported customers during COVID, the importance of strong relationships with customers and partners and much more.

The FuturePrint Leaders Summit is taking place on the 23rd and 24th of March, where global leaders in print technology will offer insight, opinion and a vision for the future as the world emerges, a new market materialises, and new opportunities are revealed. David Tomer, General Manager of HP Scitex division, will be expanding on HP’s sustainability actions that were at the centre of the company’s FuturePrint Conference session.

The FuturePrint Leaders Summit is taking place on the 23rd and 24th of March, where global leaders in print technology will offer insight, opinion and a vision for the future as the world emerges, a new market materialises, and new opportunities are revealed. The possibilities of digital inkjet, particularly those that were once solely the domain of analogue processes, are growing all the time. Doug Edwards, Chief Technology Officer, EFI, gives us a taste of EFI’s focus ahead of his session at the event.

The FuturePrint Leaders Summit is taking place on the 23rd and 24th of March, where global leaders in print technology will offer insight, opinion and a vision for the future as the world emerges, a new market materialises, and new opportunities are revealed. In this article, Stephen Tunnicliffe-Wilson, CEO, Inca Digital, offers some insight into Inca’s journey from graphics to packaging ahead of his session at the upcoming event.

The FuturePrint Leaders Summit is taking place on the 23rd and 24th of March, where global leaders in print technology will offer insight, opinion and a vision for the future as the world emerges, a new market materialises, and new opportunities are revealed. John Corrall, Managing Director of Industrial Inkjet Ltd is an inkjet veteran, with 34 years in the business under his belt. Working at Domino, Elmjet, Videojet, Xaar, Xennia, before founding Industrial Inkjet in 2005, John held a number of R&D and engineering roles, as well as service and manufacturing, and credits the high amount of field work in his experience as being key to the founding of IIJ. We caught up with John ahead of his participation in the event.

Back in 2012, Frazer and I ran the first EcoPrint Show in a converted railway station in Berlin. The focus was we sustainability, and at the time we thought that sustainability would become the most important defining factor for business and life. Sadly, this didn’t turn out to be the case back then for a number of reasons too numerous to delve into here. Regardless, the event made a big impression on the market and we pulled leaders together to focus on this topic.

The packaging industry is at a crossroads. With the combination of an unpredictable external environment, ever-increasing requirements for shorter runs and faster time to market and a surge in technological innovation, there is understandably some new opportunities to grasp for all converters across the globe. At BOBST, we believe there is a clear path ahead – a profound transformation of the entire industry built on four pillars: Connectivity, Digitalization, Automation and Sustainability.

Will everything in the future be thin-film inkjet heads?

As innovation in inkjet technology continues un-phased by the global pandemic, and as the world begins to rise up again as COVID-19 begins a welcomed retreat from society, at the FuturePrint Leaders Summit, we ask will everything in the future be thin-film inkjet heads?