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Digital Printing


Neopac launches new online shop for digitally-printed tubes


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offmann Neopac has launched a direct purchase microsite for DigitAll360°, its recently-introduced digital tube decoration service. The new marketplace, accessible via shop.neopac.com, walks tube customers through an intuitive process that includes downloadable design guides and templates, an initial portfolio of stock tubes from 50-200 ml in volume, simple artwork uploads 3D renderings and a comprehensive pre-purchase artwork check. DigitAll360° Online shop was developed to meet the demands of beauty start-ups, fast-tracked projects of larger companies, and the needs of contract manufacturers or small- quantity pharmacy orders. The service prints photorealistic graphics and text on the entire surface of cylindrical containers. Available for a wide variety of substrates and almost unlimited colour palettes.


True to its name, DigitAll360° offers 360° decoration with no slit or overlap, and also delivers outstanding seam and shoulder


printing. DigitAll360° can employ up to seven simultaneous colours with white and glossy lacquer at up to 600 DPI resolution. This ultra- wide colour gamut and micron-level colour registration yields photorealistic images and superb colour matching ideal for half-tones, gradients and other special hues. Digital printing makes variating decorations or text far more economical. From mosaic printing, promotions and prototypes, to packages printed in different languages, DigitAll360° offers great versatility. In addition, on-cap decoration capabilities will be added to the Digital360° marketplace in the near future. DigitAll360° also delivers major sustainability enhancements. Offering a mono-material PE tube portfolio, digital printing also helps lower resource waste and consumption, as well as energy and chemicals usage.


Hoffman Neopac head of marketing, Cornelia Schmid says: “The new site simplifies the most advanced digital tube printing


techniques for an intuitive, step-by-step process to designing and decorating precisely the right tube for products in a variety of sectors... Importantly, the site’s 3D view and comprehensive artwork checks show customers what their finished tubes will look like. In addition, customers can order a test quantity of individually-printed tubes to evaluate the print quality and test the compatibility of the product.”


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Konica Minolta launches the PKG-675i corrugated packaging printer


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onica Minolta has launched a digital inkjet press for corrugated packaging. The PKG-675i provides printers, converters, and brand owners with an easy- to-use solution for on-demand packaging production – matching the trend towards customised printing for corrugated boxes. The PKG-675i is a high-quality inkjet device that can print short run and personalised corrugated boards and folding cartons, flat or pre-die cut, quickly and economically. For packaging converters, it also offers a perfect solution to create quick mock-up packaging designs, helping to improve time to market and reduce waste. Typical applications are short run ‘box-to-shell’ corrugated packaging for personal and household care and processed food, where the box is required to protect, promote, and deliver the product. Today’s packaging market has been deeply affected by COVID-19, and many of the changes are likely to remain long-term. While


overall volumes of corrugated packaging declined during 2020, it is expected they will recover in line with international trade. However, it is in the way that goods are being sold and distributed that the big changes have come, with a move away from retail-ready designs, and towards mail order, distribution, internet, and e-commerce formats. Research by Smithers suggests that the pandemic has accelerated the demand for e-commerce packaging by two to three years, compared to pre-COVID forecasts. The global e-commerce packaging market was worth more than $49billion in 2020, and Smithers says that 80% of that value is for corrugated packaging.


Konica Minolta senior manager professional print, Edoardo Cotichini says: “The growth of e-commerce is one of the defining trends of the packaging industry going forwards, and this will have a major impact for those in the corrugated packaging


sector. In particular they need to be able to react fast, developing e-commerce-specific packaging designs that solve the inherent challenges of postal distribution, rather than those of retail. Versioning and personalisation are also on the rise. Creating high quality proof-of-concept prototypes and short run, individualised batches is the sweet spot for the PKG-675i digital inkjet printer.” Manufactured by Konica Minolta’s partner MTEX NS, and based on five Memjet CMYK printheads, which enable it to achieve a print width of 1,067 mm, the PKG-675i prints rich graphics on corrugated board at 1,600 x 1,600 dpi. With minimal pre-press interaction, on-demand jobs can be produced in high resolution at speeds of up to 18 meters per minute. The printer comes with a Caldera RIP and uses water-based inks which are FDA- approved for indirect food contact.


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