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Network at the table-top display area, and talk face-to-face with industry leaders about all the issues you need answers for.

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About the market potential for packaging in the Philippines alone, As of 2011, the Philippines has become the world’s 12th most populous nation, with a population of over 94 million.

The National Statistics Office reports a simple literacy rate of 93.4% (one of the highest in the world) International Monetary Fund and the World Bank listed the Philippines as number 43 in the world, and represents a major growth market for packaging in the future.

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Start collecting your entries for the bigger and better Asian Flexo, Gravure and Labeling Awards 2013.

Go for Gold and prove you are the best of the best in Asia. entries submission closes on 1 october 2013 at 5pm.

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12TH ASIAN FLExO, GrAVUrE AND LABELING AwArDS 2013 This annual competition has received tremendous response within the Asian packaging region.

Over the years, the committee has witnessed escalating print qualities in entries. Alf Carrigan, Chairman of the Independent Judging Committee, said: “The judges were heartened to see contenders taking more pride in their work; the time and effort spent to assess and place entries are nothing less than worthwhile.

Conditions oF Entry 1. Entries may be submitted by individuals, companies or associations involved in any area of packaging production, and be from the following countries: Singapore - Malaysia - Korea - Hong Kong China - Indonesia - Thailand - Vietnam Myanmar - Japan - Philippines - Sri Lanka India - Cambodia - Pakistan - Taiwan Mauritius - Brunei - Bangladesh - Cambodia Laos - Nepal

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Entries are invited from: Advertising agencies - Packaging companies - Advertisers and brand owners - Art and Design Studios - Paper Merchants or any other person or company associated with the production of packaging or the purchase of packaging in the Asian region.

2. A company can enter as many jobs in as many different categories as it wishes, but the company must make sure that all correct information is completed on the entry form for each individual job entered.

3. All winning entries will be reproduced and featured in the awards catalogue to be distributed during the awards dinner presentation.

4. Entries in the 12th Asian Flexo, Gravure & Labeling Awards must be printed between 3rd October 2012 and 1st October 2013, are produced within the Asian countries specified in clause 1. All entries must be sent to and be in on the 1st October 2013 before 5pm.

5. There is no restriction on the types of stock used or the method of printing. All printing and finishing must be produced entirely within the designated Asian regions. All other printed works submitted from other countries will be immediately disqualified.

6. An official entry form must be completed for each entry (photocopies are acceptable).

This form has sections “A” and “B”.

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Section “A” will be used to catalogue all entries and to determine the person or company to receive the awards. This section is not shown to the judging panel.

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Section “B” is for technical details to be considered by the judging panel and must be taped to the back of each entry.

Details submitted on the entry form are used as copy for the Award catalogue.

The Committee accepts no responsibility for any inaccuracies in the details submitted.

7. The judges will be appointed by the Asian Flexo, Gravure and Labeling Awards Committee and the judges’ decision is final. Each entry will be considered and evaluated for print quality or if otherwise stated in the categories listed.

8. The awards are for outstanding achievements in printing and more than one award may be made in any category. Gold, Silver & Bronze medals will only be presented to the Print Company.

r e b m e v o N Make a note in your diary now!

Join us in Manila, Philippines on 15 November 2013 for the

12th Asian Flexo, Gravure & Labeling Awards 2013

If your company wins a Gold Award, a representative(s) from your company MUST be present in Manila to receive the award on stage, we will not send any Gold awards to you if you are not present!

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The awards cover every process for the Gravure printing industry.

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1. Narrow Web Flexibles (Web widths up to 500 mm) a: Paper b: Film 2. Mid Web Flexibles (Web widths 501 to 914 mm) a: Paper b: Film 3. Wide Web Flexibles (Web widths 915 mm or more) a: Paper b: Film 4. Beverage Carton & Cups 5. Post Print for Corrugated

1. Paper and Metallised paper - surface print 2. Metallised Films and Aluminium Foil - surface print 3. Films a. Surface Print b. Reverse Print 4. Security - any substrate 5. Carton Board -surface print 6. Publication - surface print Samples to be packed to avid damage and creasing 7. Specialty -any substrate - any type that does not fit the above categories such as decorative wall or floor covering, vinyl’s etc

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• Post Print for Corrugated must provide five(5) consecutive sheets/boxes.

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Each flexible substrate entry must be wound onto a cardboard core.

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Gravure Awards Conditions of Entry: An entry must be from a commercial production job, printed between 3rd October 2012 and 1st October 2013 within the Asian region. Entries can comprise line, stipple and/or colour halftone.

Web entries must provide a minimum of five(5) cylinder repeats at full web width, not trimmed, slit or die-cut.

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Entries can comprise line, stipple and/or colour halftone.

Web entries must provide a minimum of five(5) cylinder repeats at full web width, not trimmed or slit and wound onto a cardboard core.

1. Flexo 2. Letterpress 3. Offset 4. Gravure 5. Combination Printing Any number of printing processes or embellishments.

6. Non Pressure Sensitive Material any Process 7. Digital Printing

Sheetfed entries must provide two(2) full, untrimmed sheets of each entry and either supplied in a tube or flat between two sheets of rigid board.

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Label Awards Conditions of Entry: An entry must be from a commercial production job, printed between 3rd October 2012 and 1st October 2013 within the Asian region. Categories one to five(1-5) are for pressure sensitive die cut web labels only.

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12th Asian Flexo, Gravure and Labeling Excellence Awards entries sUbMission CLoses 1 oCtober 2013 PLEASE INDICATE BELOW WITH AN

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Print method Number of ink colours

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Name of press used

Other technical details (finishing processes etc)

Attach a separate sheet if necessary.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION All entries must be from a commercial production run: 2 samples of each entry to be supplied: Web entries must be a minimum of 5 cylinder repeats, full machine width, not trimmed or slit and wound on a core to avoid creasing: Sheetfed entries must be full sheets untrimmed and supplied in a tube or flat between 2 sheets of cardboard to avoid creasing. All production details must be provided in all sections of the entry form and in English. (Otherwise, an entry will not be deemed eligible). Please note that all entries are non-returnable, unless a self addressed courier pack is supplied with an entry.

Send all entries to: AFTA Pte Ltd 57 Ubi Ave. 1, #03-06 Ubi Centre, Singapore 408936.

Tel+65 6733 5342 Fax +65 6733 3586 Entries submission closes on 1 October 2013 www.afta.com.sg

We bring you the latest technology in gravure and flexo to help your business Arcotest Series of Test Pens and inks

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Covering the Flexo, Gravure & Labeling Industries across Asia MICA(P)046-11-2010 - KDN PPS 1529/05/2012(022768)

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Advanced technology delivers best quality

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Combination of digital and conventional printing methods

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nyloprint® NExT Exposure for letterpress printing plates

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Southern Graphic Systems spreads network in Asia

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Press strengthens the link between BOBST and academia

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The changing world of label printing

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Chambered doctor blade technology raises the productivity of flexo

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NX System Helps Delta-Pack Boost Quality and Win Work

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Chairman Paul Callaghan paulftw@cpublish.com.sg Managing Director Elizabeth Liew eliew@cpublish.com.sg

Winning Label Printed on MPS Press by Japanese Label Printer Takara

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AFTA Pte Ltd 57 Ubi Ave. 1, #03-06 Ubi Centre, Singapore 408936.

Tel+65 6733 5342 Fax +656733 3586

Oris CGS Technologies flexes packaging prowess

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QuadTech places emphasis on packaging in Asia

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Next milestone in sight

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Leaving fraudsters a bad taste

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Ten guidelines for effective front-panel design

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What Matters Most!

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Almost 800 million personalised Coca-Cola® labels printed on HP Indigo digital presses

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Sovereignty shaken by ‘market forces’

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Further expansion into the growing packaging market

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New toner opens up a range of new opportunities for label converters

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High-impact train livery and on-board campaign targeted at business travellers

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Fuji Xerox’s DocuWide C842 enters Singapore

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Dispensing systems for label runs and process colorst

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Foil-free pouch scores sustainable packaging points

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Industry news and happenings from around the world

Advertising Sales Matthew Callahan matt@cpublish.com.sg Accounts Radika PS accounts@cpublish.com.sg Chairman Judging Panel 2013 Packaging Excellence Awards Head Judge - Alf Carrigan

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Advanced technology delivers best quality In the quest for quality, until now the combination of smooth highlight printing and gravure-like solid ink densities for flexible packaging remained difficult. Esko, who significantly improved flexo platemaking with its HD Flexo technology, now provides a crucial answer by releasing Full HD Flexo for flexible packaging.

First introduced at drupa 2012, Full HD Flexo today is a proven technology, implemented at more than twenty flexo tradeshops and converters worldwide – all of whom confirm the outstanding benefits of this technology. ”With Full HD Flexo, Esko once more raises the standard. Esko flexo customers are asking for the combination of the benefits of HD Flexo together with a gravurelike ink laydown and a fully digitally controlled platemaking workflow.

This is what Full HD Flexo brings and it moves flexo to an unseen level of quality and consistency with no need for compromises. Our unique, patented technology stretches the possibilities of flexo printing, allowing it to perfectly match gravure and offset quality for flexible packaging,” explains Jürgen Andresen, Esko Vice President, Flexo Business. “Since the introduction of HD Flexo, the high quality results achieved have created a growing demand for more packaging and labels to be printed in flexo. Also the proven sustainability and cost benefits contributed to the raising success of flexo printing. Now, Full HD Flexo will help to further accelerate this demand.”

No need for compromises HD Flexo quickly has set new standards thanks to the fine highlights, transitions to zero, sharp text and brilliant image details it produces. Full HD Flexo adds gravure-like solid ink laydown of the correct solid density, along with vibrant brand colors, supreme platemaking consistency and the only fully digitally controlled platemaking workflow

available in industry.

The unique Full HD Flexo dot shape delivers a superior flexo plate suitable for the highlight, shadow and solid areas of a print job. “We went beyond the binary discussion of flat top or round top dots, and created the best possible combination of print dot structures on one plate. This enables to differentiate the ink laydown on the substrate for different parts of the artwork on one single plate. This is a giant step forward for flexible packaging converters as the result is high quality flexible packaging that stands out. In addition, users report better performance of the flexo plate on the press for print consistency and printing speeds," explains Jan Buchweitz, Senior Product Manager Digital Flexo at Esko. Customer Successes

HD Flexo technology today. DFTAAward winner Glatz Klischee (Austria), specialist in packaging prepress as well as plate production for flexo printing and plate assembly for corrugated board, is particularly positive about Full HD Flexo. "We’ve achieved a quantum leap forward in flexo printing,” says Manfred Schrattenthaler, Managing Director at Glatz Klischee. "In the first printing tests using the new Full HD Flexo plates, we had the ‘luxury problem’ of solid densities over a density of 2.0,” reports Holger Stier, Technology Manager at Glatz Klischee.

“This was completely unexpected with the fine anilox rollers used. The tests proved that the option of combining flat top and round top dots technology on one printing form offers previously unheard opportunities in high-quality flexo printing.”

Over 20 customers worldwide are running production using the new Full

Clicherlux, based in Valinhos near São Paulo (Brazil), is one of the largest

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Fully digital platemaking workflow – the one and only “Esko offers a plate imaging process that is truly, completely digital: one integrated workflow from prepress right to the finished flexo plate. A Full HD Flexo CDI in combination with our digital back exposure solution goes beyond the analog compromises platemaking departments must make today,” states Buchweitz.

Unlike other processes that require intermediate analogue or manual exposure steps, this is the first and only fully digital platemaking workflow in the industry. Full HD plates are prepared completely within an Esko CDI imager and are immediately ready for processing after unloading.

How does Full HD Flexo work?

The CDI combines plate imaging with inline digital main exposure in one and the same device. The digital Inline UV2 exposes through an LED-array light source delivering the necessary UV power density to assure full control over the polymerization process during exposure. All UV exposure settings are digital controlled within the platemaking workflow. This guarantees platemaking consistency – long-term stable and repeatable quality well beyond what is achievable with conventional UV exposure frames.

Freedom to choose Full HD Flexo works with all popular digital flexo plates and sleeves, giving users the freedom to choose whatever plate best fits their business needs. The technology can be achieved thanks to the quality of a broad range of commonly used digital flexo plates from different brands, including DuPont, Flint, MacDermid, Asahi and

others. Esko continues to expand the portfolio of supported plates.

Full HD Flexo Certification To support this new technology, Esko will initiate a Full HD Flexo certification program for customers, vendors and partners – similar to the one in place for HD Flexo. The Full HD Flexo Certified seal is only offered to those companies that have passed Esko's strenuous certification tests, a rigorous

process that requires expert inspection of different print samples from five different customer production jobs that have been printed consistently. Full HD Flexo Certified companies are able to differentiate their solutions from their competition. The certification is a strong marketing asset, offering print buyers more confidence that its tradeshop and printer is among the best in its field, constantly innovating to offer the very best in flexo quality.

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tradeshops offering the most flexo plate services in Latin America. “I can say we have reached the quality of offset printing, with no gain, or bump-up curves. Full HD Flexo is really producing the full tonal range from highlights to shadows. An Esko CDI digital flexo imager along with Full HD Flexo is the best combination in the market,” comments Luciano Trombeta, Gerente Técnico. “We’re getting the flat top dots we wanted in the shadows, along with great screens in the highlights.”

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Combination of digital and conventional printing methods At Labelexpo Europe from 24 to 27 September 2013 in Brussels, Gallus will be using its Gallus Print Shop concept to demonstrate how the benefits of digital and conventional printing methods can be combined to produce labels faster and more cost-effectively.

The Gallus Print Shop at Labelexpo will feature the new Gallus ECS 340 with the “Plus” update package, the Linoprint L digital drop-on-demand (DoD) system from Heidelberg with the Gallus ECS C digital finishing solution, and the Gallus EM 430 S with the high-tech short-web concept.

The Print Shop will combine and control the entire order planning and processing workflows of the three machine systems via central MIS workflow software. In cooperation with its industrial partner Siegwerk, Gallus will also be demonstrating the benefits of LED UV drying technology on the Gallus EM 280 using the latest UV LED inks from Siegwerk.

The Gallus Print Shop concept – cost and time savings of up to 20 percent The Gallus Print Shop concept is a new way of producing labels faster and more cost-effectively. It combines the advantages of digital and conventional printing methods by networking the individual presses and centrally controlling the production process using innovative MIS workflow software and operating data capture.

The Gallus Print Shop concept transforms traditionally machineoriented production planning and

The Linoprint L from Heidelberg for cost-efficient and high-quality digital label printing.

control into an approach focused on targeting overall benefits. This leads to improved machine utilisation, dynamic and flexible application and combination of all printing methods (new, innovative design and product decoration options) and lower outlay for the entire order planning and processing workflows. Gallus offers the complete range of printing methods – both digital and conventional – from

a single source, thus ensuring that the Gallus Print Shop concept provides a complete solution for fast and costeffective label production.

The new Gallus ECS 340 with the “Plus” update package to boost cost efficiency At Labelexpo Europe 2013, the new Gallus ECS 340 is taking the extremely successful market launch to the next

The new Gallus ECS 340 with the “Plus” update package for opening up new fields of business.

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18 highest demands and enables UV flexographic printing, rotary screen printing, hot foil embossing, cold foil printing, relief embossing and diecutting.

This unique Gallus hybrid press can switch quickly and easily between flexographic printing and screen printing without affecting the web.

Customers estimate that the Gallus EM 430 S cuts costs for some jobs by up to 30 percent when time, material and labour costs are all taken into account.

he exceptional flexibility of the EM 430 S provides real added value for label printers. level. The global best-seller Gallus ECS 340 – with the 200th machine soon to be installed since the market launch in 2009 – is to be equipped with the highly cost-effective “Plus” update package, which delivers key technical improvements and paves the way for opening up additional areas of application. This further development was pursued in close cooperation with Gallus customers and enables label printers to boost their cost efficiency and provide existing customers with even better service.

Linoprint L from Heidelberg for integrated digital full-colour label printing Due to the rapid rise in demand for short and/or variable print runs, professional label printers increasingly require digital printing systems that enable flexible, high-quality and costefficient production of such runs.

The recent signing of an international sales and service agreement for the Linoprint L digital printing systems from Heidelberg enables Gallus to add the Linoprint L digital drop-on-demand (DoD) system from Heidelberg to its portfolio.

The Linoprint L uses the drop-ondemand inkjet method and supports a resolution of 600 dpi and a printing speed of up to 48 metres per minute in four-colour mode. This makes the system an ideal addition for high-quality flexographic, offset and screen printing applications where small batches need

to be produced cost-efficiently as and when required or variable data needs to be printed on prefabricated labels. The digital printing system is also suitable for new applications such as smart labels, security printing or trackable labels.

At Labelexpo, the Linoprint L will be demonstrated live in combination with the Gallus ECS C digital finishing solution. Based on the revolutionary Gallus ECS 340, Gallus has created the high- performance digital finishing solution Gallus ECS C with the innovative, format-free die-cutter at its heart. Minimal changeover times and virtually waste-free job changes are made possible by front loading, a sleeve system, chambered doctor blade, presetting and an extremely short web path. The robust design, based on technical granite, and the Gallus register control function combine to ensure exceptionally smooth operation and high processing quality even at very fast speeds.

Gallus EM 430 S – maximum flexibility and shorter web path cut costs by up to 30 percent With its shorter web path of 2.2 meters, faster response times for register adjustment and a quick- change sleeve system, this latest Gallus shortweb solution reduces waste by up to 40 percent compared to conventional label printing machines, which also leads to a substantial improvement in productivity. The combination printing press can be configured to meet the

Complete LED UV drying system on the Gallus EM 280 In cooperation with its industrial partner Siegwerk, Gallus will be using Labelexpo 2013 as a platform to showcase a Gallus EM 280 equipped with a complete LED UV drying system that uses the latest UV LED inks from Siegwerk and state-of-theart radiators. Gallus will also be the only manufacturer to demonstrate live production of a label that combines the benefits of digital and flexographic printing and is dried entirely with LED UV technology.

Unique multiprocess capability of the Gallus RCS 330/430 The Gallus RCS 330/430 combines a limitless range of applications with a high level of automation to deliver maximum productivity. The ability to combine printing and finishing processes almost at will makes the Gallus RCS 330/430 a real all-rounder at the highest possible level. Labelexpo will be used as an opportunity to demonstrate the unique multiprocess capability of the Gallus RCS combined with maximum job change efficiency in the form of a multifunctional unit.

Wide selection of Gallus Screeny Genuine screen printing plates Screen printing is ideal wherever a high degree of coverage, precise detail and colour intensity are required to obtain brilliant, high-quality print products. At Labelexpo, Gallus will be presenting a wide selection of Gallus Screeny Genuine screen printing plates that set new standards in rotary screen printing.

The unique microstructure of this Gallus in-house development delivers optimum print quality for the finest of lines, solid areas or relief printing, maximum print speeds and easy cleaning when reusing screens.

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nyloprint NExT Exposure for letterpress printing plates ®

Flint Group’s innovative exposure technology, nyloflex® NExT,has been globally established for flexographic printing and offers a variety of advantages to the user.

The innovation is based on the latest generation of UV-A LEDs, which allow a more precise image reproduction of the finest relief elements and gradations reproduction accuracy of the digital data. The exposing speed of the LED bars can be customised to specifically define dot shape and shoulder angle.

Additionally, the finest highlights and open shadows increase the image contrast.

It shows outstanding results in the reproduction of flexo printing plates and significantly improved printing quality. For flexible packaging, it enables an excellent ink transfer, particularly in solids. In corrugated printing, a considerable reduction in fluting can be observed. nyloflex® NExT technology provides high reproduction quality and long-term stability. Moreover, all the advantages of Flat Top Dots and surface screening can be utilised.

Now with the new nyloprint® NExT technology, Flint Group Flexographic

Products launches an exposure unit for letterpress plates, which is targeted to the security and banknote printing as well as the high-end segment of labels, tubes, cups and can printing.

The innovation is based on the latest generation of UV-A LEDs (> 250 mW/cm²), which allow a more precise image reproduction of the finest relief elements and gradations. Compared with conventional light sources, the high-power LEDs enable a virtual 1:1 copy of the digital data onto the printing plate, thus optimising the

Flint Group Flexographic Products’ new nyloprint® NExT Exposure

The constant UV output of the UV-A LEDs during the complete life cycle of the nyloprint® NExT exposure results in among the highest long-term repeatability, especially for rework.

In this application, it shows clear advantages against the conventional tube exposure as well. The temperature control of the exposure bed ensures consistent production conditions.

The new exposure unit is suitable for processing every high quality photopolymer letterpress plate up to a maximum size of 1200 x 960 mm (47.2” x 37.8”).

The new technology can be used for all digital letterpress plates, regardless of plate thickness and format. It is compatible with all standard prepress and HD software and can be easily implemented into the existing digital workflow.

This innovation has been presented for the first time during the SDW (Security Document World Conference) from 21 to 23 May 2013 in London.

Furthermore, interested customers can convince themselves of the nyloflex® and nyloprint® NExT Exposure technology by visiting Flint Group Flexographic Products’ Technology Centre in Stuttgart (Germany).

IST METZ presents: The new MBS®-6 Most efficient UV system of the world

Thanks to the completely new URS® Duo Reflector Geometry the MBS®-6 sets new standards. The system requires a lamp output of just 120 W/cm in order to achieve the same curing results as standard 200 W/cm UV units. The energy saved has a direct influence on electricity bills.

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Southern Graphic Systems spreads network in Asia With an already-robust operation in Hong Kong, the renowned artwork agency has recently established their branch in Singapore in a bid to be closer to clients. Christel Lee reports.

SGS (Southern Graphic Systems), is one of the largest global end to end artwork agencies, with branches strategically located across North America, South America, Canada, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Their clientele (and ever-expanding) include Proctor and Gamble, Wrigley, Unilever and Philips.

In 2012 SGS increased their capacity in a purpose build state of the art facility just outside Manila in The Philippines.

This operation already runs a three shift pattern, offering round-the-clock services to global and national clients.

The company is still aggressively hiring talent to cater to their large client base.

SGS enjoys currently over one hundred team members in both their Hong Kong and Philippine locations, added to this they have a heathy number of employees located in smaller branches around the region, including Shanghai and a purpose built 15,000 sqf Photography Studio in Kowloon.

In mid-July this year, the company opened their sixth Asia Pacific branch,

this time in Singapore. Paul Hornsby, Regional Vice President for Asia Pacific, spearheaded the project. He explains the rationale of Singapore¹s setup. ³SGS has been in the region for several years, we have an aggressive strategy of organic growth coupled with a number of strategic acquisitions.

We are at the stage of development where we wanted to grow our footprint further across the region". ³Over the years our industry partners have been shifting to Singapore, if not there already. We obviously want to be as close as possible to our partners supporting them with SGS solutions coupled with our talented people who have been driving our success.

SGS feels a Singapore presence has huge significance to be able to do that better,² shares Hornsby.

Jim Dahmus, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer,

Paul Hornsby, Regional Vice President for Asia Pacific commented: ³Asia is extremely important to us. It¹s pertinent we have a successful presence in Asia to maintain our global consistency of service. We will deliver this with the brightest and best talent within the region".

If you are suspecting the Singapore office having the potential to ³replace² Hong Kong¹s operations, Hornsby stresses it¹s nothing more than being where the clients want SGS to be, we are growing aggressively, NOT consolidating. Hong Kong is our regional corporate head office and will remain so for years to come. Hornsby adds: "The SGS branch in Singapore will predominantly deliver strategic leadership, project management with business development". In response of speculations of the company going head-on against the next biggest competitor, Hornsby is quick to smash it with "We have an estimated business segment enjoying billions of dollars of opportunity" There¹s enough work to go around!²

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Press strengthens the link between BOBST and academia The best of the German academic printing world and the gravure printing industry gathered at the Hochschule der Medien (HdM) – Stuttgart Media University - for the inaugural print run of the university’s brand new BOBST Rotomec MW 60 gravure printing press.

Over 200 participants attended the event at HdM, a prestigious institute which educates and trains specialists across all fields of print and media technologies and is the only university in Europe with a dedicated Chair for gravure printing studies.

HdM’s new BOBST Rotomec MW 60 - which replaces a 57 year old press is a 4-colour machine fully equipped to carry out fully-fledged production runs. Hence, the press is fitted with an insetting system enabling production of 8-colour jobs, 2m long dryers, and BOBST Registron® register control.

The machine is also equipped with latest generation ESA electrostatic print assist system from Enulec (3 units with Top loading and 1 unit with direct charge) and a 100% web inspection system from BST. The inauguration event started with a social breakfast in the University lobby before guests were jointly welcomed

by Prof. Armin Weichmann and Prof.

Ulrich Reiser, Head and former Head

of HdM gravure printing dept.

Thomas Reckert, BOBST Area Sales Manager, presented a technical overview of the MW 60 press and its efficiency in very short run printing.

This was followed by other technical presentations providing an overview of the state-of-the-art in the gravure printing industry. An emotional moment was provided by the honouring of the work of retiring Prof. Ulrich Reiser for 27 years of commitment and dedication to the development of education at HdM. The actual print demonstration on the Rotomec MW 60 press was divided into two parts. Firstly the machine printed the front page of a special magazine, aptly called “The First Print”; then following a lunch break, printing resumed using new gravure cylinders which had been etched in-house. Using the remaining pages, photographs of the event shot earlier that morning were reproduced.

The Rotomec MW 60 gravure press is not only an extraordinary educational tool for students & researchers but as a technology focused university, HdM now offers state-of-the-art technical facilities that businesses can access for a range of activities, such as trial runs for testing substrates, inks, ESA test for direct-indirect current, choice of the most suitable cylinder type, etc.

The excellence of BOBST technology is one reason why BOBST machines can be found in educational institutions around the world. In Stuttgart, the Technology Centre of the DFTA (the German Flexotechnical Association), which cooperates closely with HdM, houses a BOBST F&K CI flexo press.

Equally important is the technical partnership that BOBST establishes with the academic world on projects that create a bridge between university and industry. This fosters the transfer of knowledge and generates technological innovation for all.

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The changing world of label printing

by Mike Fairley, on behalf of FINAT

With the next edition of Labelexpo Europe around the corner, Mike Fairley looks at how label printing technology has changed over the years and considers some of the press investment decisions that label converters are facing today.

It’s now more than 400 years since the first recorded printed labels were being produced. At that time they would have been printed on hand-made paper using relief letterpress type or images cut into wood or metal, with impression pressure applied through a wooden hand press and simple screw mechanism.

The ‘Pre-‘ History of Labels It was a further two hundred years before much began to change. Yes, the hand presses were now being made of iron with a lever system to apply pressure, but the paper was still made by hand. However, by the early 19th century the industrial revolution was bringing significant changes to the world of printing – the first cylinder printing presses (powered by steam), the offset printing process, continuous papermaking machines.

The 1800s also brought coated paper, the halftone process, colour printing – and a whole host of new label market application requirements that were to see the early beginnings of what we now call the label industry.

These new 19th century applications

included automatic volume production of standardsized glass bottles and bottle filling lines, the first canning factories, the rapid growth of pharmacy products, labels on boxes, labels on luggage, labels on cigar boxes and bands, matchbox labels and all at this time now being printed on sheet-fed offset or letterpress presses.

The first part of the 20th century saw the introduction of the first narrow-web presses for printing gummed and self-adhesive tape. The key innovations for the narrow-web printer were developments

by Stan Avery that enabled selfadhesive materials to have a backing carrier and be cut to shape on the press. It was die-cutting materials on a liner that now enabled sticky labels to be produced on a roll. It was not long before press manufacturers such as Gallus, Nilpeter, and Mark Andy were producing the early dedicated roll-label letterpress and flexo presses.

Late 20th Century: emergence of self-adhesive in Europe Later came narrow-web screen, hot-foil and combination process presses, UVcuring inks and more advanced platemaking technology. By the late 1970s self-adhesive labels had already attained a 7% share of the European label market – with all printing processes being used. Today, self-adhesive labels make up around 40% of label usage, fuelled by a whole host of technology and press innovations over the last

Early Years label thirty years that have enabled labels to be printed faster, on wider webs, using rotary and wrap-around tooling, servodrive presses, and press controls that include web inspection, r e g i s t e r control, colour management, and much more.

Unbelievably, it was not until 1978 that the first retail bar codes were being produced for the Fine Fare Supermarket’s own label products, and the very first time that a velocity code was incorporated on the film masters for the production of the dark vertical bars on the codes. Today, bar codes are an essential element of every label sold through retail outlets across Europe.

At this time bar coded labels for labelling fresh produce in store and at pre-packers was being undertaken with heat-sensitive label stocks. It was not until the 1980s that thermal direct and then thermal transfer printing of bar coded price-weigh labels using selfadhesive materials began to take place and grow rapidly by the later part of the decade.

At about the same time the use of new types of polypropylene and polystyrene (later polyethylene) film materials for more demanding label applications were being introduced. High quality printing of filmic materials used for labelling shampoos, toiletries, industrial products, etc, were now required by the leading brand owners. This presented

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27 more demanding label printing and converting challenges for press manufacturers and converters.

Three decades of evolutionary changes in label printing technology To meet changing label printing requirements over the past 30 years the dominant label printing technology of the time has undergone several changes: in the 1980s it was rotary letterpress that dominated new press sales. Then came growth in the flexo process during the 1990s. Much of the early part of the 21st century has seen UV flexo as the dominant technology for new label press sales. Since the mid2000s, digital printing has also begun to evolve quite rapidly, initially with electrophotographic liquid and dry toner technologies and, most recently, with new generations of UV and waterbased inkjet.

In the pipeline for launch in 2014 is the newly developed Landa nanographic printing process, an offset inkjet process that has already created significant market interest amongst label, folding carton and flexible packaging printers.

Without unduly wishing to worry the label converter, there is also

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considerable development work being undertaken at the present time with the longer-term aim of eventually using inkjet technology to print direct onto glass or plastic bottles or onto a variety of can shapes and sizes. Maybe not a concern for today, but possibly a more real threat for the future.

UV flexo analogue press? Or maybe an offset or combination process press?

Some converters are perhaps still deciding whether to go digital. If so, will the investment be in toner or inkjet technologies?

What will the future bring? Factors to consider Put together, the key challenge today for any label printer is to decide what his new label printing press investment will be this year, next year or the year after. Will it be another conventional

In the past, the decision, which press to invest in was perhaps rather simpler.

Today there are even more factors to be considered – even with conventional analogue press technology. A press’s environmental footprint and energy consumption might be an important

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28 potential of batching jobs across or along the web for maximum economics and performance.

factor. So might the press colour gamut and the number of colours or print stations available on the press.

What added-value finishing options are available? What inspection or control technology is required on the press? What kind of output speed is demanded for the type of work being produced? How long does the press require to changeover from one job to another? Does the converter want to print other products as well as labels, such as flexible packaging, tube laminates, folding cartons, sachets, etc. These factors may well influence press investment. Each of the main press manufacturers undoubtedly has their own technology variations and solutions they wish to promote and offer.

Going Digital: Additional Factors When it comes to investing in digital there are various other factors to be considered as well as just investment in a press. Digital printing is all about new ways of working. It’s about enhanced colour management. It’s about making decisions whether to go conventional or digital as late as possible. What throughput of different jobs can be handled each day without getting bogged down in administration and paperwork? All these factors are likely to require more sophisticated Management Information Systems (MIS). Yet another key investment decision to be made.

Then there is the additional challenge with digital of what dpi resolution to go for; does the work produced need a white ink in one of the printing heads; does the press have an extended colour gamut. Press running speeds between all the digital label press technologies also vary quite considerably. How important is speed with many shortrun job changes?

Go digital and the converter also needs to decide whether to invest in in-line or off-line finishing. If inline, every job change may mean a press stop to change cutting dies. If there are multiple short run jobs to be produced the die-changes can take up a considerable part of the press day and offer reduced press running time. That means reduced output and potentially lower profitability. Off-line finishing can mean that one finishing line can handle the output of several digital presses, so maximizing press production time.

Another finishing investment option for the label converter might be laser die-cutting; a higher-cost investment, but offering significant benefits where multiple short runs are required each day. Used with say, inkjet, laser cutting technology combined with inkjet (or Xeikon) technology where there is no fixed repeat length, offers the exciting

Accelerating Changes in Technology: What is There to See at Labelexpo Europe 2013?

Looking back, it seems that more changes in printing technology, particularly for self-adhesive label printing processes and technologies, have occurred over the past 50 years than at any other period in the last 400 years. Even today, change in label printing and converting technology is still continuing to take place. This will become evident at Labelexpo Europe this year, where new makes and models of label presses will be launched, including ever more printing machinery emanating from Asia and the world of digital printing technology.

About FINAT FINAT, founded in Paris in 1958 with headquarters in The Hague (The Netherlands), is the world-wide association for manufacturers of selfadhesive labels and related products and services. With 600 members in over 50 countries around the world, FINAT has much to offer to label converters and all suppliers to the labeling industry in terms of information exchange and the opportunity to network internationally. www.finat.com

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30 TRESU FlexiPrint IMW E Line Chamber Doctor Blade

Chambered doctor blade technology raises the productivity of flexo TRESU Group a global supplier of flexo printing lines and ancillary products, introduced a range of chambered doctor blade systems and a new ink circulation system at China Print 2013.

TRESU's chambered doctor blades ensure a uniform, smooth, splashfree and uncontaminated lay-down of flexographic inks and coatings in the anilox roll cells, preventing microfoaming and blistering. Together with the ink circulation systems, they enable accurate pressure, flow and viscosity control, efficient temperature regulation and cleaning, fast bladechangeover and airtight sealing of the chamber. This ensures consistent quality and minimises the need for manual maintenance of the ink circulation during the print process.

The systems are suited to printing speeds of up to 500 m/min and cover

all narrow and mid-web flexo printing and coating applications.

The TRESU chambered doctor blade technology includes a proprietary, patented rubber Seal System, forming an airtight closure at the chamber sides, eliminating leakage. The airtight environment ensures leftover ink can be stored for long periods without evaporation or perishing.

Pressure of the ink or coating is maintained at a constant rate so that the pressure of the ink or coating inside the chamber is high enough to create a wall of liquid at the point

where the rotating cells meet the blade.

This prevents air-bubbles, which can cause ‘microfoaming', from penetrating into the chamber.

The chambers feature TRESU's fast ‘E-Line' doctor blade-changing system, enabling blades to be slotted into position and released safely, within one minute, by a clamp.

Mid-web chambers For mid-web applications, TRESU offers the FlexiPrint IMW E-Line Chamber Doctor Blade System. It is suitable for solvent-, water- or UV-inks and virtually all paper, folding carton and film substrates. The unit has an ink volume of between 1.35l/m and 2.2l/m depending on chamber size, and is suitable for anilox diameters between 64mm and 250mm, web-widths up to 1800mm and printing speeds up to 500m/min.

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32 Narrow-web chambers For narrow-web applications, the FlexiPrint Reservoir Chamber Doctor Blade system has a ‘closed cassette' design. Designed for UV and waterbased inks, it has no moving parts and works without a pump. With minimum volume requirements only 0.2 litres, FlexiPrint Combi is built for anilox lengths up to 800mm and anilox diameters ranging from 64mm to 150mm.

The chamber is situated at right angles to the anilox roll, with point-ofcontact either in the three o'clock or nine o'clock positions, enabling even ink transfer without suction. Fast, effortless changeover is possible by sliding and locking the chamber with ease into any position in the printing sequence of the press. Reservoir levels are topped up manually, and human eye judgment is enough to determine when to replenish the reservoir. Alternatively, a float with a sensor can indicate when more ink is needed. The system also features the company's E-Line doctorblade changing system for safe blade change in less than one minute.

Offset Coating Concept For sheet- and web-offset printing applications, TRESU offers the Offset Coating Concept. This comprises the TRESU UniPrint Combi chamber doctor blade E-line and TRESU Coating

Circulator and a TRESU Coating Conditioner. This system enables sheet-fed and web offset printers to coat printed products at faster speeds, without the risk of micro-foaming. It is suitable for all possible anilox roll up to 1200mm wide and between 80mm and 250mm in diameter, and at print speeds of up to 300m/min or 18,000 sheets per hour. The circulator automatically adjusts to the coating supply and initiates either a 6-minute or intensive 12-minute cleaning program, enabling fast job changes.

Anti-corrosion chamber surface protection The TRESU CPG Anti-Corrosion surface is a guard that offers surface protection of the chamber doctor blade system. Its aluminium and carbon fibre structure offers resistance against corrosive ink, coating and cleaning liquids. The guard is retrofittable to all TRESU chamber doctor blade systems with the TRESU D4 and D5 profiles.

F10 iCon Ink Supply System TRESU's new F10 iCon ink supply system features TRESU's own patented viscosity and flow control, as well as temperature control over the ink as it circulates from ink bucket to anilox roller. This keeps the ink at constant viscosity to ensure stable ink density on the printed substrate, and constant pressure and flow to stop air mixing

TRESU F10 iCon Ink Supply System

with ink in the anilox chamber, in turn preventing blistering and ink starvation. Its airtight environment allows safe handling and storage of solvent inks in environments where solvent evaporations are likely.

Strokes are counted to determine when fresh ink is pumped into the system, to ensure precise amounts are dispensed to the chamber, leaving minimal residue at the end of the production run. Excess ink can be returned to the bucket for reuse, without wastage.

Other features include automatic cleaning after each production run and touch-screen operated real-time viewing. Cleaning cycles are completed in less than a few minutes. The pump minimizes manual intervention of the ink flow. This is especially beneficial for central impression (CI) presses, where a closed architecture makes ink control and leakage prevention a manually intensive affair during the production run.

The F10 iCon Ink Supply System is 1000mm height x 500mm in both width and depth and has a flow range of 5 to 30 litres / minute.

Henrik Kristensen, sales director of TRESU Ancillary, says: "There is a need for improved control of the the ink or coating supply because of faster printing speeds, the trend to shorter production runs and - in the case of central impression machines - the limited possibility of manual intervention production. Our range of chamber doctor blade systems assure quality results at high print speeds and minimise make-ready time. TRESU is constantly working with leading flexo, offset and coating press manufacturers to develop adapted chamber and ink and coating supply solutions that seamlessly fit into any press design."

TRESU has partnerships with several of the world's leading flexo and offset press makers, developing a wide range of auxiliary products for narrow-, midand wide-web printing and coating situations. The company has also recently launched TRESU Webshop, so customers can order original ancillary and spare parts as well as consumables directly and at highly competitive prices with authenticity guaranteed.

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NX System Helps Delta-Pack Boost Quality and Win Work

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Russian print house DeltaPack is celebrating a number of contract wins after boosting its flexographic plate production quality with a KODAK FLEXCEL NX System. The investment has helped strengthen the company’s position in the flexible packaging market and secured work with large food manufacturing clients.

“We were pleasantly surprised with the KODAK FLEXCEL NX Plates,” explains Director of Development Roman Viktorovich Doroshevsky.

“There were no colour differences between the start and the end of the first print run. After a while, we launched the print run from the same plates for the second time, and again the results were good. So I checked four print runs of about 30,000 each, but still found no differences.”

Delta-Pack’s decision to invest in the KODAK FLEXCEL NX System became a simple one when it saw the solution’s obvious stability, durability

and quality advantages. The company’s clients were also very impressed when they were shown some samples.

“Some colleagues who saw our 175lpi resolution output couldn’t believe it was flexographic printing,” explains Doroshevsky. “They thought we were showing them gravure printing.”

Winning over the large manufacturers The Delta-Pack team has steadily built up the business.: “We worked hard to be taken seriously in the market,” says Inna Svetlichnaya, Head of the Development Department. “We mailed out huge volumes of product samples, and went to clients’ sites just to prove we could deliver the standard of work they expected.”

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Delta-Pack’s efforts paid off, and today the company enjoys the respect of major foodstuffs manufacturers. In

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35 fact, some Moscow-based clients claim they prefer working with this regional print house because it is less expensive and provides a better service.

Based in Rossosh in the Voronezh Region, Delta-Pack was established in 1996 as a producer of household cling wraps and polythene dairy packaging.

Boosting quality with the KODAK FLEXCEL NX System

So the company added an ink mixing station and completely rebuilt the plate floor. The digital flexographic plates Delta-Pack had used in the past did not offer sufficient stability, prompting the company to start testing the innovative KODAK FLEXCEL NX System. The result was flexographic plates with flat-topped printing components that offer better ink transfer. Streamlining processes Delta-Pack, which in 2012 received ISO 9001 certification, is today focusing on improving its proprietary software in order to optimize document flow. It uses KODAK PRINERGY POWERPACK Workflow with automatic trapping and imposition modules, as well as the KODAK INSITE Prepress Portal System, which allows clients to coordinate their orders via the internet.

Doroshevsky says the software has ‘streamlined our prepress operation, and helped us simplify communication with clients’.

“Despite the challenging economic climate, investing in new technology is crucial for a print business to move forward,” concludes Doroshevsky.”

Cutting-edge systems allow you to create a more efficient, cost-effective production line, and ensure each print job is more profitable.”

Sergey Tomilovsky, Kodak Packaging Manager for Russia comments: “Delta-

Pack is a great example of how a smaller print house operating in the regions can hold its own against larger competitors by investing in the latest technology. From their experience it

is clear that brands do not mind where the packaging originates from, as long as it meets their quality expectations – which Delta-Pack is able to do with the KODAK FLEXCEL NX System.”

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Winning Label Printed on MPS Press

by Japanese Label Printer Takara MPS has announced their customer Takara Pac Ltd. was awarded the “Supporter's Association of Chairman's Award” at the 22nd Seal and Label Contest on behalf of The Japan Federation of Label Printing Industries (JFLP). The winning label entitled “Tuki No Shizuku” (Japanese for “moon dew”) was printed on an MPS EC330 UV full servo 8-colour flexo press.

Mr. Tsuda, President of Takara commented: “Takara is very proud to win the “Supporter's association of chairman's Award” for our label printed on a MPS press. Being one of the pioneer flexo printers in Japan, receiving this award is confirmation that Takara chose the right path investing in flexographic printing technology of MPS.” Awarded for its fine print quality, the winning label was printed in one pass using 5 colors and special varnishes on a matte silver polyester self-adhesive material. The fireworks imagery on the label was printed with a clear varnish to achieve a metallic and twinkling finish. For the expression of water movement, a UV released OP varnish was applied to an underlying layer of UV coat varnish for the pre-embossing effect, in combination with Japanese paper patterns. The summer night sky was created using deep gradation.

The combination of using converging colours and semitransparent designs gave the label a classical Japanese look.

Takara purchased their MPS EC330 UV full servo 8-colour flexo press in 2011 to increase production capacity and to upgrade quality standards supplied to their Japanese customers. The press has a high degree of automation due to built-in MPS innovative technology including Automated Print Control (APC) to set print pressures automatically, Automatic Register Control, and the iControl press control system.

About Takara Pac Ltd. Established in 1955, Takara Pac Ltd. is a label printer & converter and manufacturer of packaging machinery, including label applicators with headquarters in Tokyo and a factory facility in Yokohama, Japan. With an annual turnover of around 100 million euros, and 230 employees, Takara produces unique labels for the food, pharmaceutical and security industries.

Being a pioneer in flexo printing, Takara bought their first flexo press back in 1967 and today offer over 50 years’ experience in flexo printing.

About MPS MPS builds printing and converting machines for the self-adhesive and packaging printing market. MPS is responsible for a large number of revolutionary innovations like Crisp.

Dot Flexo printing, Quick Change Die, automatic plate mounting and Automated Process Control (APC), including Job Memory. A user-friendly interface including iControl guarantees optimal operator satisfaction. The presses are developed with the absolute focus on print quality and the lowest cost per 1,000 labels.

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Oris CGS Technologies flexes packaging prowess at China Print For Oris CGS Technologies, China Print 2013 held in Beijing last May was nothing more than an extension of revenue network. Print World Asia takes a look at their booth on site.

The prepress specialist company is known to dominate in proofing and colour management. To date, Indonesia has been the most lucrative source of revenue. However, there is a shift in focus, according to Yan Wei Phin, Regional Manager, who is responsible for the Southeast Asian market.

Observing the clear decline in visitor numbers, Yan remains unfazed – with confidence in the advantages Oris CGS is known to offer. “This time at the show, we chose to place the spotlight onto packaging – Oris Flex Pack // Web – with the increasing

popularity of metallic and white inks on packaging. However, this software is not limited to this sector of colours.

Through the Oris Flex Pack customers can also achieve the best accuracy for spot colours. Roland DG is the co-star of choice for us on-site,” he explains.

“Another product highlight at China Print is the Oris Media Transferfilm.

It is a breakthrough when it comes to producing packaging mock-ups or proofs on original stock. It is an open-pored synthetic mesh, which can be thermal-transferred at low temperatures on almost any original

media, used a standard laminator,” he demonstrates with a sample to Print World Asia.

When asked if there is any distinct observation on customers from this part of the world, Kenny Chan, General Manager responsible for Greater China, had his own takes. “The concept of colour management was not very well-received due to lack of awareness and understanding of how it works. Customers today are more savvy and aware it’s an important aspect to their business; they have been exposed to colour standards like ISO, although many may not readily admit this as part of a deliberate erroneous omission,” he comments.

Chan adds customers’ knowledge about colour management has transcended mere controlling of shades on press – the importance of colour management is recognized as a means to stabilising prepress processes which is pivotal to the overall printed result.

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QuadTech places emphasis on packaging in Asia QuadTech is renowned in the market for its strength in newspapers.

However, market forces seemed to have opened new doors. Randall W. Freeman, Vice President and GM for Packaging, sheds some light. Christel Lee reports.

QuadTech’s control and data management products have been an active staple in newspaper pressrooms up until the last few years when online content gained a stronger position. This challenge prompted the United Statesbased company to relook at business strategies.

“For packaging in Asia, our work is primarily with gravure printers. Our strength is in registration control and quality inspection. Our showcase at China Print is a new product: measuring inline colour for packaging. For web offset, a large number of Chinese customers have been using QuadTech equipment – registration systems and inline colour control. comments Freeman .

For packaging printers, the new Color Quality Solution simplifies colour preparation in packaging printing.

This provides a standard spectral colour measurement throughout the

ink dispensing and printing stages. It includes in-line spectral data obtained from QuadTech’s SpectralCam™, ink formulation data from X-Rite and ink dispensing technology from Huber Group or other ink dispensing system suppliers.

This is not to say however, that the company has withdrawn from newspapers. Charles Irons, International Sales Manager, comments: “Typically

we work on an OEM basis, working with all of the OEMs selling presses in the market. ” Freeman adds, “Our market in India continues to grow especially in packaging and newspapers, . For commercial printing, we face the challenge of pre-owned presses coming into the market. However, they often have older auxiliaries and offer opportunities for upgrades.

We are in the process of appointing agents primarily for packaging for different countries throughout Asia. We see a lot of potential for QuadTech in Thailand and Indonesia.”

When asked about QuadTech’s strategy, Freeman is not one to mince words.

“QuadTech was formed many years ago to find ways to improve print quality. We have been looking at ways to keep print viable. Quality is paramount, minimising waste is essential,” he explains.

From left: Charles Irons, International Sales Manager, Randall W. Freeman, Vice President and GM for Packaging

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Next milestone in sight Following on from large format printing, hybrid finishing and pinning, LED UV technology is now moving into narrow-web printing

For more than five years the advantages of LED UV technology have been discussed in the print industry. This alternative to established Lamp based UV curing has gradually proven its worth in special fields of application and has pretty much followed the path once predicted by companies expe- rienced in UV technology, such as IST METZ. At this year‘s sixth UV DAYS, taking place from 17 to 20 June in Nürtingen, Germany, this new techno- logy will be showcased with a number of live demonstrations.

At the same time, IST METZ will be offering visitors an insight into the next steps and demonstrating the process of LED UV curing on a narrow-web flexo printing press.

There will be live demonstrations showcasing a number of LED UV applications from the inkjet UV sector that are already successfully established, such as large format printing and digital label printing. The company will be presenting the new LED UV system LEDZero Solidcure 2 from Integration

Technology Ltd. (ITL), the next step in the development of this technology.

Two LED UV units are installed on a 2 colour narrow-web flexo printing press, 430 mm wide, the water-cooled LED UV unit generates an output of up to 12 W/cm2 and under laboratory condi- tions, IST METZ has already achieved printing speeds up to a maximum of 200 m/min with this unit. At the UV DAYS event, the printing of two-tone labels at 150 m/ min will be demonstrated. “We have met a basic requirement here that many experts have been demanding as a pre requisite to the introduction of LED UV technology into traditional market segments,” says Dirk Jägers, Managing Director of IST. “Having increased the performance of LED systems, we are now in a position to achieve printing speeds in line with label printing standards. The move into narrow-web flexo printing is thus within reach.”

Output tripled The new LEDZero Solidcure 2 system generates a peak optical irradiance

output of 12 W/cm2, treble the 2008 available peak power in the market which was just 4 W/cm2.

“For narrow-web printing, the LED UV technology boasts a performance comparable to that of conventional UV curing”, explains Stefan Feil, Director of Technical Marketing at IST METZ. “Special note should be made of the wave- length being 385 nm, the output here is considerably higher than in a compa- rable LED UV system that normally works at 395 nm.” In addition to enhanced optical output performance, the design of the shorter wavelength provides better opportunities to formulate suitable inks and varnishes, allowing for the closer coordination of photoinitiators and light sources, among other technical benefits. Furthermore, this wavelength means that the chemistry has less sensitivity to daylight which, in turn, makes it easier to manage.

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44 Open LED solution for the narrowweb market When Labelexpo Europe opens its doors this September in Brussels, LED UV will no doubt be top of the agenda for many of its visitors. Having already laid the foundation stone with the live demonstration during UV DAYS, IST METZ will be focused on exhibiting the LED UV narrow web concept, and demonstrating how it can be integrated into all established machine systems.

The UV specialist is convinced that

The advantageous installation properties of LED UV systems, as well as the possible omission of cooling rollers, has made it easier to implement more direct a web pass, making the machines even more suitable for short print runs.

this is how to provide users with an option to compare against today‘s conventional lamp based UV curing systems.

instanta- neously, breaks in production mean no power consumption, which is in contrast to conventional lamps that require a warm-up phase and mean the lamps are left switched on during short breaks. On the other hand, ITL has developed a patented system which means only the required sections of zones in a unit are used for curing. This saves energy, for example, when webs are used that are narrower than the printing width.

“Ideally, a user can choose a machinery model from the entire market range that best meets his individual requirements when investing in new technology.

Similarly, he should also be able to choose the best possible ancillary equip- ment” continues Stefan Feil.

When it comes to drying equipment in particular, users would certainly benefit from the standard inclusion of models compatible with LED UV in the manufacturers‘ portfolios. The use of LED units is opening up possibilities that favour the latest development trends in machine construction. As a result, manufacturers are becoming increasingly more focused on configurations that are more suitable for short web (print) runs, in order to reduce waste, amongst other things.

Saving potential and cost development The LED UV systems from Integration Technology Ltd. offer some interesting savings potential. On the one hand, as the units are switched on and off

With an increasing uptake of LED UV systems, the market is hoping for a reduc- tion in investment costs, but to date, the hopes of users have yet to be realised. However consideration should be given to the trebling of output, as already mentioned, in just a few years. Taking this into consideration, a noticeable reduc- tion in costs for what is still a modest market volume is probably an unrealistic expectation.

Investment in LED UV curing for label printing may however be worthwhile under current conditions

if, for example, special requirements mean that the specific advantages of this relatively new technology make the process viable.

Strong market position in the UV inkjet market For classic UV applications within the graphics industry, the market share for LED UV technology is still clearly less than one percent. In the UV inkjet market, the procedure is already well established and makes up almost a 30% share – and is growing steadily.

One of the first application areas for LED UV technology is what is known as “Large Format Printing” (LFP). The typical multi-pass systems for large format printing require UV units that take up little space, have a relatively low mass and do not disturb the printing.

This application will be demonstrated during UV DAYS with a large format printing press, printing photos in poster size. For the curing of UV inks, the system comes equipped with two air-cooled SubZero LED units from Integration Technology Ltd. These are LED versions of the well-established SubZero product family, specifically designed for large format printing, that boast a maximum output of 7 W/cm2 and work within the wavelength range of 395 nm.

First a niche, then a broad market LED UV units are being frequently used in the single-pass process for inkjet printing. In this niche market, they are used for both the pinning of the ink drops, between inkjet heads, and as the final curing of the inkjet inks.

During UV DAYS, IST METZ will be printing a sample adhesive label using an inkjet system with 140 mm printing width. It is equipped with Pincure Plus LED UV units for pinning. They have an extremely slim form factor, a very discreet light output and are scalable in increments of 80 mm to allow for the adjustment of their length to suit the various application widths. If necessary, they can be smoothly expanded to a maximum length of 2800 mm.

These LED systems also come from Integration Technology Ltd., as is the water-cooled Solidcure unit which facilitates end-of- press drying using LED technology as demonstrated with the label printing.

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Leaving fraudsters a bad taste Fake wine has caused a major stir in the Republic for connoisseurs.

Winemakers have resorted to printing verifiable barcodes to differentiate themselves. Christel Lee reports.

“The Chinese are asking for a lot of information and for reassurance regarding the origin of the product," said Franck Crouzet, spokesperson for Castel. However Chinese crooks are by no means the only perpetrators of wine scams. “China is the most notorious but the problem is worldwide,” said Christophe Chateau, spokesperson for the Bordeaux Wine Council.

We last watched Chinese companies get busted for producing fake wines in Chateau Lafite Rothschild’s name.

Some 10,000 bottles of the questionable liquor were uncovered in the eastern city of Wenzhou in Shanghai, China.

The owner denied any involvement in the counterfeit production and was appalled his property was a place to stash the loot. Analysts have estimated some 70% of wines sold in this name are fakes. To date, legal actions against Chinese firms over fake wines have been successful.

However, barcodes have achieved a new role in their purposes – verifying authenticity, corroborating the seriousness of counterfeiting in foods.

Castel, the largest producer of French wine, uses the technology on 13 million bottles for the Chinese market as well on exports to other emerging markets such as Vietnam where counterfeiting is most prevalent.

Security-printed bottling?

It’s becoming an appalling norm a simple brand such as “Adidas” can appear as “Adidadas” on shoes bearing a strong resemblance to the authentic models. I saw this with my own eyes in a big mall in Singapore, on a pushcart.

Obviously, a Chinese national mends the stall. However, picture the same error on another label. People like us will need no effort to call the retailers’ bluff. Atrocious print quality can easily give the fake away.

A QR (quick response) code is a two dimensional barcode invented by the Japanese corporation Denso Wave.

Information is encoded in both the vertical and horizontal direction, thus holding up to several hundred times more data than a traditional bar code. Data is accessed by capturing a photograph of the code using a camera (e.g. built into a smartphone) and processing the image with a QR reader.

Barcodes have been around for decades. They are versatile with a large variety of uses — especially in retail and manufacturing settings, and in transport and shipping. We’re used to seeing the common barcode printed on packaging at the grocery store or in other retail outlets, when items are passed over the barcode reader at the checkout counter to ring up a sale.

Barcodes are valuable at the point-ofsale, also for managing inventory and raw materials internally.

Common in shipping, barcodes enable greater accuracy and speed in getting packages delivered. And barcodes are used to manage large filing systems, library books, and a host of other purposes where large numbers of items need to be tracked efficiently.

The barcoded wine has been aggressively demanding attention in the market – especially with drinkers who are too paranoid with “hangover juice”. Castel, the largest producer of French wine, uses the technology on 13 million bottles for the Chinese market as well on exports to other emerging markets such as Vietnam where counterfeiting is most prevalent.

“The Chinese are asking for a lot of information and for reassurance regarding the origin of the product," said Franck Crouzet, spokesperson for Castel. But Chinese crooks are by no means the only perpetrators of wine scams. China is the most notorious but the problem is worldwide," said Christophe Chateau, spokesperson for the Bordeaux Wine Council.

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Ten guidelines for effective front-panel design While there are no hard-and-fast rules in front-panel package design, here are some guidelines to help you define your brand on today’s cluttered retail shelves.

Branding, marketing, and advertising all converge on the front panel of a retail package. Dedicated package designers would argue a package does all of that and more, and that nothing represents the brand more than the retail package. That’s because the package is the last place the consumer interacts with the brand prior to making a purchase decision.

There are certainly no hard-and-fast rules in front-panel package design, and some categories have much more freedom to experiment. But here are some guidelines that will help you define your brand on the front panels of packages on today’s cluttered retail shelves.

1. Determine the brand “position.”

Know your company and your brand and your core values. Ask the hard questions again and again, and don’t underestimate the savvy of today’s consumers. Is there a unique value

proposition? What is the primary product benefit, lifestyle advantage, or convenience gain? For a new brand or brand extension, remember that getting noticed is often the most important goal.

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Explore the competitive environment. Use differentiation in a category for one goal—giving consumers a reason to pick up the package. Go to the retail environments where the package will live, and ask these questions from the perspective of the brand: • Who am I? Do I represent something tangible? Do I inspire trust?

• What makes me special? Where do I fit in among competitors?

• Why would they buy me? What’s the most important benefit or advantage?

• How can I connect with consumers emotionally? What cues can I use?

3. Settle on a hierarchy. Information organization is a critical element

of front-panel design. Broadly, the importance of the information hierarchy goes: 1) brand; 2) product; 3) variety; and 4) benefit(s). Analyze all the messages you want to convey and put them in order of importance. This doesn’t necessarily mean that they’ll be in that order, top to bottom, on the package, but it’s a good reference point to start with. Having a very organized, consistent information hierarchy across multiple product varieties helps your customer find the variety they desire and allows for a satisfying experience. Saving the shopper time in picking out a product should always be a priority.

4. Make one element the hero. Is the personality of the brand strong enough Fragrant, fun, modern, and irreverent, Burt’s Bees still planned well ahead for current and future brand extensions by designing a güd front panel architecture that could easily transfer to other shapes and forms.

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49 to stand on its own? Determine what is the most important single idea to communicate about your product. If you’re going to “own” something, what is that something? Align secondary brand messages under the primary umbrella message. If your brand is the hero, consider “locking in” a tagline with the logo. But make sure you’re committed to that tagline for the long haul.

Otherwise, look for inspiration outside the category, which can often lead to breakout design. Use shapes, colors, illustrations, and photographs to reinforce the hero of your brand story.

Above all else, make it easy for repeat buyers to find you the next time.

5. Keep it simple. Less is often more— communication-wise. Be succinct, both verbally and visually. Three main visual cues are all that the typical eye will tolerate. Successful package design is often an exercise in constraint.

Remove overloaded messages on the front panel. Limit marketing claims and benefit statements. Any more than two or three, and the points will be counterproductive.

Too many benefits will dilute the core brand message, and it will actually

Packaging for new HONEST Fizz naturally sweetened sodas from Honest Tea uses whimsical product shots and lots of bubbles to convey fun and effervescence while clearly being grounded in the heritage of the parent brand.

cause the consumer lose interest in the store aisle. Remember, most packages have secondary panels for more information. That’s where shoppers look when they want to learn more. Use the secondary panels, but don’t skimp on design for those either. If secondary panels are unavailable, consider a hangtag to tell a deeper brand story.

6. Manage stakeholder expectations.

Expect some stakeholders to want to put all the information or marketing claims they have on the front panel.

Remind them that a package is not an advertisement. Be prepared for the counter-arguments by having a repeatable design development process. Back the process up with

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checkpoints and transparency and show progress with visual aids. Explain how the process is both expansion and contraction, and have everyone sign off on the process before starting. Quickly develop three to five options so you can establish a common language to talk about the objectives. Be prepared with questions and suggestions should a stakeholder come to you with a printer or converter already in mind before design begins.

7. Communicate value visually. Of course, having a transparent window that shows the product inside is almost never a bad idea. Consumers want visual confirmation of the choices they make. Aside from that, you can say things non-verbally with shapes, design, graphics, and colors. Use the elements that will best communicate attributes and equities, sensations and feelings, emotional associations, and textures. Create an association with a sense of place. Suggest use occasions with graphics that have the elements of that use occasion. Involve a lifestyle.

Today’s consumers judge products in relation to how the values of that brand fit into their values and lifestyle.

Create a singular “reason to believe” that is capable of closing the sale in isolation.

8. Be mindful of category-specific rules. Each retail category has its own conventions. Some should be followed religiously. Some are important because bucking the convention can set a newcomer brand apart.

For food products, however, the product itself should almost always

be the hero. Spend the money on production and printing to create a photorealistic representation of the ideal serving suggestion. Conversely, for pharmaceutical products, the brand and product’s physical characteristics can be secondary—sometimes even unnecessary. The parent brand logo may not need to be on the front panel.

Instead, emphasize the name of the product and what it does. Across all categories, though, it’s advisable to err on the side of less clutter on the front panel.

9. Don't forget findability and shopability. Learn how consumers shop the particular category you’re in. Make sure they won’t be confused by the format or the information hierarchy. Remember, cognitively and psychologically, colors communicate ahead of everything else. Next come shapes. Words matter, but mostly as a support role. Words and typography are for reinforcement, not high-level brand communication.

Findability can be either about having a brand-first strategy or about creating a “blocking” element in the store aisle that draws shoppers in. Shopability is about having a consistent system of colors, shapes, materials, or frontpanel hierarchy that guide both new and repeat shoppers in finding the specific product and variety he or she desires. If there are multiple lines under a parent brand, consider good/ better/best strategies that indicate each value proposition clearly and succinctly. For instance, the relative strengths of different products in a line can be indicated by “strengths,” or relative saturations, of color.

10. Plan for future brand extensions. A brand that is flexible enough to extend to other categories also has a core brand identity that it owns. After that, a successful brand platform is one that can grow by adding product varieties or lines, or extending outside its original category. Test the versatility of a front panel’s design by applying it to new products and to new categories.

Look at a wide swath of imaginary products and extensions, not just the flagship variety. Make sure they all work together, united as a brand but easily understood as separate offerings.

Even plan for future redesigns of your core product line. Don’t inhibit the future growth of your brand by creating a platform that is not both extendable and flexible.

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Fuji Xerox hosted the 2013 Premier Partner Conference with a view to exposing its top clients to the latest and greatest in the print and graphic communication.

This year the Fuji Xerox Premier Partner Conference was hosted at the Crown Convention Centre in Melbourne with the theme “Focus on What Matters Most.” More than 170 of the Asia Pacific region’s Premier Partner members attended the two-day event with the intention of getting the latest industry information, networking with their peers and previewing the company’s latest inkjet engine and the new iGen150.

The event opened with local welcome from a bush band performing some well known Australian songs followed by an introduction from Fuji Xerox Australia’s Managing Director Nick Kugenthiran and a welcome from Fuji Xerox Corporate Vice President Shuji Aso. The keynote speech of the conference was delivered by creative thinking specialist and Tirian Group Chief Executive Officer Andrew Grant, who spoke of the central importance of creativity in the workplace and how to nurture it to positively impact business. The audience was sympathetic

to his view that all children when young show creativity and that our traditional education systems mean we lose it by the time we are adults. Andrew believes that this creativity is key to business success in today’s competitive environments and he highlighted some techniques to start the process of regaining this skill.

Mr. Grant’s talk was followed by two Fuji Xerox user presentations. The first on innovative multi-media and web-to-print services and another on how the Premier Partner Program can be used to expand overseas business.

The morning was then capped off by a roundtable discussion on creativity moderated by Fuji Xerox Australia’s Industry Marketing Manager for Graphic Communications, Stephen Ball. An interest insight into agency thinking and excellent advice on how to be more successful in addressing the needs of a community that is very influential in specifying how campaigns are fulfilled.

The afternoon was spent on visits to four customer sites in Melbourne where participants were able to view the applications and solutions being produced in the local environment. Day one of the conference culminated with a gala dinner at Melbourne’s Showtime venue on the banks of the Yarra River.

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53 a paralysing nerve disorder known as Guillain-Barre Syndrome, inspired the audience and testified to the power of positive thinking. He related his experiences of leadership and linked them to business and gave some tips on being a more effective leader.

David Lim Day two of the event was spent on more customer presentations, firstly inkjet printing, that is predicted to have a massive impact on print in the next few years, a technology that is coming of age and where digital printers need help in understanding where it may fit within their business. This talk was followed by Steve Smith, an industry consultant, who outlined some dynamics driving the packaging market and how he saw the future. Packaging is crucially important market for print as it is one of the few areas of that is growing and it has a unique quality in that it cannot go online unlike so many other types of print, for example

billing, statements, etc. Steve’s session was followed by a customer who was excited by the new opportunities that he saw for his business with a recently installed a Fuji Xerox inline packaging solution, print, uv or aqueous coating and die-cut in a single pass.

The closing remarks of the conference were delivered by David Lim, the Singaporean mountaineer and motivational speaker best known for leading the first successful Singapore Everest Expedition. His story of conquering Mount Everest, coming from a country without mountains and him subsequently suffering from

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All that was left was to take advantage of the timing of the conference and make a visit to PacPrint13—the largest, most comprehensive, and significant trade exhibition for printing and graphic technologies in the Pacific Rim. Staged every four years since 1970, PacPrint13 featured the latest and most innovative printing technologies available and gave the visitors access to advanced solutions to expand their business. Giving its top customers a chance to participate in this rare event—that also featured Fuji Xerox’s newest inkjet press—was actually one of the major reasons Fuji Xerox chose Melbourne to host the 2013 Premier Partner Conference.

All in all, the 2013 Premier Partner Conference proved to be a resounding success, and demonstrated anew Fuji Xerox’s focus on “What matters most”… their customers.

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54 AT A GLANCE Industry:Labels&Packaging Business names: The Coca-Cola Company, Europe Headquarters: Brussels, Belgium Websites: coca-cola.com Headquarters:Dalfsen,theNethe rlands Business names: Eshuis BV Websites: eshuis.nl

CHALLENGE EngagemembersofGenerationZ with ‘Share a Coke®’ personalised marketing campaign leveraging product packaging and suited to today’s social media-saturated environment.

Printhundredsofmillionsof personalised bottle labels for Coca-Cola®, Coca-Cola Zero® andCoca-Cola®light,featuringthe most common first names for each European country, while meeting stringent quality, technical and deliveryrequirements.

Combinedigitalandconventional printing while delivering completelyconsistentprintquality and colour, including matching the iconic Coca-Cola corporate red.

SOLUTION Combinationofbothdigitaland analogue printing, with integrated support from Netherlands-based label converter Eshuis to maximise productivity and print consistency across all print sites and presses.

• Eshuisformedandmanageda multi-country network of 18 label converters: eight digital label converters,includingEshuis, printing the variable data; and 10 conventional printers of static areas, plus priming and finishing.

• EightHPIndigoWS6000Digital PressesandfourHPIndigo WS6600 Digital Presses, dedicated tothe‘ShareaCoke’campaignran 24 hours 5 to 7 days a week across three months.

• Specialink,pre-mixedbyHPIndigo, developed to match Coca-Cola red.

Almost 800 million personalised Coca-Cola® labels printed on

RESULTS • Successful,on-timelaunch of personalised packaging for European ‘Share a Coke’ campaign, amplified by an integrated social media and broadcast media campaign – thelargestCocaColacampaign integrating personalised physical packaging with electronic media.

• Approximately800million personalised labels were printed with the top 150 names in each of more than 32 European countries, in15languagesandfivedifferent alphabets,withtotalconsistency across the eight digital printing sites.

• Outstandingcolourmatch accuracy of the HP-developed red ink prompted Coca-Cola to use it as the standard for the conventionally printed part of the labels. Coca-Cola is using the red that HP developed throughout Europe to standardise its red colours on all the conventional labels that the company prints.

• Finishedlabelswerecompatible with CocaCola standard printed labels’ weight and surface and web tension. This allowed bottling plants to continue running at regular speeds while integrating the digitally printed personalised labels.

HP Indigo digital presses empowerment via TV and other strong mediums, and from there it goes back to the store, back to the bottle.”

Generation Z is core to the ongoing success of Coca-Cola, but engaging with this market is becoming increasingly harder. With so many other brands all clamouring for their attention, Coca-Cola Europe looked for a way to transcend media channels and really get personal with young people.

Fewer things are more personal than a person’s name.

So, Coca-Cola decided to use actual names on its products to address members of Generation Z directly and personally in the ‘Share a Coke’ campaign.

“Getting personal is something that helps us to win the hearts of teenagers, to start talking to them one-on-one and not generally or globally,” explains Marit Kroon, marketing manager, Coca-Cola Europe. “We invited teens to start sharing bottles of Coca-Cola by printing names on bottle labels.

You could buy a bottle with the name of your best friend, and this created a cute trigger for you to start sharing a bottle of Coke® with your friend.

From Down Under to all over Europe The original idea came from an Australian promotion in which common names were printed (using conventional technology) on CocaCola bottle labels. But, translating the campaign that had run Down Under to the larger and exponentially more complex, multi-lingual and multialphabet European market brought with it huge challenges, particularly in the areas of printing and distribution.

Gregory Bentley, European packaging innovator, Coca-Cola Services SA, explains: “We were very interested in what they’d done in Australia. They’d really pushed the boundaries of what our system is able to do and what we’re willing to do with our brand. At the same time, our European technical team realised that there would be entirely different technical challenges in Europe. So we immediately started investigating the supply chain routes that we might be able to use.”

“It really starts with the key hero of the campaign, which is the bottle in the store. Then it travels to social media and digital media, while getting

Enormous volume and challenges While the original Australian campaign had run in a single country and language and for a single product, in Europe

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55 it had to run in multiple markets and on three products: regular Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola Zero and Coca-Cola light.

“Not only did we have more than 32 European countries, each with a different set of the 150 most common names, 15 languages, five alphabets, and in excess of six bottling groups, we also had to deal with multiple label designs, including red, two versions of silver labels, and black labels with red text,” recalls Bentley.

“The ‘Share a Coke’ campaign is all about talking to the hearts of teenagers, and personalisation is the very powerful tool for doing so. Packaging is key to marketing and the HP Indigopress made the packaging part of the campaign much more powerful.

– Marit Kroon, marketing manager, Coca-Cola Europe

“The biggest challenge was finding a digital printing platform that would allow us to produce personalised labels with the volume, quality, variety and geographic spread that we required.”

What’s more, the bottling companies would only accept labels perfectly tuned to their equipment, so matching the standard conventional labels in terms of weight, surface tension and other specifications was crucial. Another potential game stopper was matching the iconic red colour of Coca-Cola.

HP Indigo delivers the digital solution Digital printing with HP Indigo technology proved crucial to the campaign.

Without it, Coca-Cola Europe may not have been able to use its product packaging to address so many people in such a personal way.

“When we looked at the technical criteria and deliverables that we had as a project brief, it became clear that the HP Indigo digital technology was the answer,” says Bentley. “The ink weight, colour matching, print quality and con-

sistency, and the installed base of the HP Indigo press in Europe made it the only option for this volume.”

Eshuis BV, a leading Dutch label converter with extensive expertise in project management and 10 years’ experience in digital printing with HP technology, was called in to manage

everything around the printing of the labels for the campaign. It also handled part of the digital printing, using its own two HP Indigo WS6000 Digital Presses.

Eshuis played an important role in exploring and defining the right technical solutions in combining conventional and digital technology. Eshuis and Coca-Cola performed many trials, labels were tested at some bottler sites and all possible options were researched. Finally the best proposition was to only print two hits of colour Red or Black to achieve the highest digital output.

The digital printing process was therefore defined as a bypass process of the conventional printing process. The finishing and slitting into end reels for the bottler is done by the conventional printers, so the usual bottler in the supply chain did not change.

Leveraging the best of two worlds – digital and analogue “The high volumes could not be delivered in the time available with digital alone,” says Peter Overbeek, CEO, Eshuis.

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56 “It had to be the HP Indigo press. The ink weight, colour matching, print quality and consistency, and the installed base of the HP Indigo press in Europe made it the only option for this volume.”

– Gregory Bentley, European packaging innovator, Coca-Cola Services SA

“We needed to combine conventional printing and HP Indigo digital printing so that digital could be used for the variable data.” Using digital and analogue printing on the same label was a first for Coca-Cola Europe. But, with Eshuis managing the entire printing process across all suppliers, the combination came together smoothly and with outstanding results.

Eshuis assembled a Europe-wide network of eight HP Indigo label converters and 10 conventional label converters.

As project manager and also a printer of millions of the Coca-Cola labels, Eshuis was responsible for providing ready-made print files to all the digital printers. It developed a powerful web tool specifically for the project, which enabled efficient project management across the entire network.

The HP Indigo digital printing technology used for the Coca-Cola project is based on 20 years of digital printing experience and evolving development. Used by many of the world’s top brands for their marketing campaigns, labels and packaging, as well as for transactional and commercial printing, HP Indigo digital printing technology is widely recognised for its high-quality, colour accuracy and media versatility.

As with many campaigns for different types of brands, these attributes made HP Indigo technology ideal for CocaCola’s requirements.

Colour and brand reinforcement A key element in the success of the project was the ability of the HP Indigo presses to match Coca-Cola’s iconic red colour. HP provided the digital label converters with pre-mixed CocaCola red ink, ensuring they would all be printing the exact same colour. Bentley

says: “This was a critical milestone in the project. Without the Coca-Cola red ink, we wouldn’t be where we are today launching this project.”

The pre-mixed red HP Indigo ink was so successful that Coca-Cola is now using it to standardise the red colour on all conventionally printed labels.

Marit Kroon notes: “We are completely happy with the way our labels turned out. The quality and the look are absolutely great. This project has increased the standards against which we measure the quality of all our labels on the market.”

Bentley adds: “Now we are using the red that the HP Indigo team developed throughout Europe to standardise our red colours on all of the conventional labels that we print. So when this project’s finished, we will still be reaping the benefits of it from that.”

One campaign; many ground-breaking achievements On many other levels, and even before its official market launch, the ‘Share a Coke’ campaign proved to be a ground breaker. The ‘Share a Coke’ promotion became the largest ever personalised marketing campaign combining CocaCola product packaging with electronic and social media in a single, integrated campaign. This campaign not only broke new ground in the annals of Coca-Cola marketing, it also created a new model for integrated marketing in which physical product advertising is combined with online media.

On the colour level, Bentley is now looking at ways that digital printing can enhance the use of colour by CocaCola: “Full-colour digital technology is really the next step for us and we’re seeing now how we can embrace that change.” Likewise, the ‘Share a Coke’ campaign has illuminated new directions for the role of digital printing.

Bentley explains: “With this project, we showed that digital printing can be used in large-volume marketing campaigns.

And, with HP Indigo, it can be done with superb high quality. Once you consider the many ways that digital and analogue can be combined, well, the possibilities just go up and up.”

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Sovereignty shaken by ‘market forces’ China and india have dominated the industry over the last few years with massive sales and imports.

However, the twist of events seems to have tossed these massive markets into an economic tailspin.

Christel Lee reports.

no serial numbers accompanied by different packaging, not to mention the world’s apart difference in sound quality.

Despite the intellectual property theft, his product reaped S$33M in revenue.

Loss of market share In 2012, several multinational companies retreated from China. US consumer-electronics retailer Best Buy closed all of its outlets in China.

Next, the US soda-maker Pepsi Cola sold its bottling operations in China to the China-based Taiwanese company Tingyi. Shortly after, global food giant Danone suspended operations of its Shanghai company, followed by Nestlé, which suspended the sales of its ice cream in eastern China.

Intellectual property battles China is deemed (without a doubt) the world’s factory.

However, counterfeiting issues have brought so much bad press that many big names have decided to cut their losses and exit. In 2010, China announced plans to require Western companies doing business in China to turn over sensitive technologies and patents to Chinese competitors in exchange for access to the country’s markets. According to a 2010 American Chamber of Commerce report, U.S. businesses were losing Chinese sales because of rules to support homegrown technologies.

In late 2012, Chinese companies were busted for producing fake wines in Chateau Lafite Rothschild’s name. Some 10,000 bottles of the questionable liquor were uncovered in the eastern city of Wenzhou in Shanghai, China.

The owner denied any involvement in the counterfeit production and was appalled his property was a place to stash the loot. Analysts have estimated

some 70% of wines sold in this name are fakes. To date, legal actions against Chinese firms over fake wines have been successful.

Foreign companies doing business in China lament instances of unpaid bills, piracy, counterfeiting and theft of ideas and technologies. The policy of having to surrender patents has proven disastrous for developers and certainly played a part in foreign companies reassessing their dealings with Chinese companies.

A case in point is Ryan Lee, a Singaporean who invented a mini speaker that could fill a room with music. Reportedly six months into production under Xmi (company name), Lee received calls from European clients asking for a discount. The European clientele has been offered a dead-ringer at a cheaper price.

The counterfeit was personally verified with a similar looking speaker with

With the withdrawal of overseas companies, foreign direct investment in China has slowed as well, reports the China Economic Weekly in Beijing, citing statistics edited by the Ministry of Commerce, which show that foreign direct investment grew by 9.72% in 2011, compared to 17.4% in 2010.

One of the notable withdrawals includes Time Warners in 2006, a global leader in media and entertainment with businesses in television networks, film and TV entertainment and publishing. The American multimedia conglomerate cited policies in the republic, such as disallowing the holding of controlling stakes in the set up.

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59 Many foreign companies were also losing their market share to domestic companies, which are familiar with local consumers’ habits and concentrate their efforts on producing cheap substitutes for foreign goods. Yet this may seem ambiguous for obvious reasons.

Press reports state that factory production has been subdued for most of 2012, hurt by moderating consumer demand and a drop in exports as the global recovery falters. The Reserve Bank of India had signaled it may lower interest rates in the first quarter of 2013 to aid growth as inflation cools, after resisting calls from the Finance Ministry for a cut.

Manufacturing dropped 1.5% in mid2011, while capital goods output decreased 12.2%. Mining rose 5.5 percent and electricity output increased 3.9 percent. India’s exports merchandise shipments fell 1.6 percent in October from a year earlier to $23.3 billion, while imports climbed 7.4 percent to $44.2 billion, according to the Commerce Ministry.

Indranil Pan, chief economist at Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. in Mumbai, admitted there has been a weakness in demand.

One of India’s packaging giants, Parikh Packaging, recently announced that Austria-based Constantia Flexibles Group headquartered in Vienna will acquire 60% of its stake. Pranav Parikh, director at Parikh Packaging, said, “World over, we are witnessing consolidation. Today, Indian firms are looking to expand their business and also their presence in countries which have huge potential. This acquisition

will help Parikh Packaging to cater for domestic and international markets.”

A top official of Constantia Flexibles said, “This acquisition will help Constantia operate in a highly attractive growth market. India has an everincreasing middle class with growing demand for packaged food and health care products, which we want to address with top quality products and services.

We also want to support the growth of our international key accounts in this market. The acquisition is part of the international growth strategy of Constantia Flexibles and constitutes another important step for further

growth and expansion in Asia.”

Parikh Packaging, which has been a regular participant in the annual Asian Flexo Excellence Awards, was started in 1999. The company caters to flexible packaging for pharmaceutical and food sectors and has clients in India, UK, US, South Africa, African Continent, the Middle East and Far East, Sri Lanka, Canada, New Zealand, UAE, Egypt, Yeman, Nigeria and Kenya.

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Further expansion into the growing packaging market Following the planned takeover of Flexotecnica an Italian press manufacturer active in the growing print market for flexible packaging (film) in February, Koenig & Bauer (KBA) now announces a further acquisition in a luxury segment of the packaging printing sector.

KBA is continuing its successful niche strategy with the majority takeover of Kammann Maschinenbau GmbH in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany.

The world’s second-largest press manufacturer aims to expand into this growing market to counteract the shrinking sales volume of web presses for publications heavily affected by the advance of online media.

Koenig & Bauer takes over 85% of Kammann Maschinenbau GmbH. The previous majority shareholder, private equity firm Perusa in Munich, has successfully restructured and realigned this medium-sized press manufacturer over the last years. Kammann’s two managing directors will continue to

hold a 15% stake. All parties have agreed not to disclose any further details concerning the takeover at this time. The acquisition is still subject to minor formal conditions.

Kammann mainly offers presses for decorating hollow containers made from premium-quality glass, plastic and metal. Along with screen printing, Kammann’s precise and flexible

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In systems for directly decorating glass containers Kammann is the global market leader. The firm, which has almost no own production facilities, was founded in 1955 and has a total of 175 employees. In 2012 it generated annual sales of over â‚Ź30m ($39m) and posted a net profit.

Directly decorated glass containers are mainly used for cosmetics, perfume and spirituous beverages in the top price class. Premium glass packaging is a growing business even in threshold countries, such as China, Brazil and Russia. It is regarded as a differentiation medium and is continually gaining importance as a status symbol compared to cheaper alternatives.

Market forecasts predict above-average growth for this segment.

From a process point of view, direct printing with high-quality screen printing systems is the most challenging and costly finishing method due to the mechanic handling of different forms

of glass containers. These technological demands prevent newcomers from entering this luxury segment which is serviced by very few manufacturers. On supermarket shelves directly decorated glass containers for premium perfume or beverage brands compete with more simply labelled containers for cheaper brands. These are often undervalued

by customers looking for luxury goods.

While direct printing of containers is a new territory for KBA, the group is already well-established in some areas of label printing and other packaging forms. Management therefore views this acquisition as a useful addition.

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New toner opens up a range of new opportunities for label converters Xeikon, an innovator in digital color printing technology, today announces the launch of a new toner for its digital label presses. The ICE toner will be demonstrated at Labelexpo Europe in Brussels, and will be available for customers as from Q4-2013.

Part of the Xeikon Label Suite, the new toner is ideal for heat sensitive substrates including PE facestock (polyethylene) and thermal labels.

This will open up the potential for a whole range of new applications. PE has a good flexibility and pliability, making it widely used for the surface of packaging that is used on regular and irregular containers that have to be kept away from humidity and chemical solvents. Typical examples include tubes and bottles which need to be squeezable, or bags that need to be pressed.

“Until now, dry toner technology was not expected to be able to work with substrates for this type of jobs.

Following requests from our user base, Xeikon specifically developed the ICE toner to be suited for heat sensitive materials. We pushed back the boundaries in toner development and digital label printing. ICE toner is undoubtedly again a real breakthrough in dry toner technology driven by Xeikon,” says Lode Deprez, Vice President Consumables & Process Group at Xeikon.

ICE toner is based on the proven Xeikon QA technology, bringing the renowned benefits including top printing quality, high lightfastness, top opaque white quality and being able to print on conventional substrates without the need of specific priming.

ICE toner will run on all new and installed Xeikon 3000 Series digital presses, and has already undergone extensive tests in the field with a number of existing customers.

“The new ICE toner is tailored to the needs of our label customers. Xeikon listens to its customers, and has a team dedicated to product development in this area of the market. ICE toner has been designed to perform at the right temperature, and has been engineered to perfection for this additional demand, delivering only the very best in Xeikon quality. With ICE toner digital label production has just become even more versatile and powerful,” adds Filip Weymans, Director Segment Marketing and Business Development Labels and Packaging at Xeikon.

Label converters have a tremendous opportunity to evaluate their own PE labels printed on a Xeikon 3000 Series digital press through www.

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This website enables converters to upload their files and have them printed on several substrates including PE. The printed results can be picked up at Xeikon’s booth, 9H45, at Labelexpo Europe in Brussels, September 24 to 27, 2013.

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High-impact train livery and on-board campaign targeted at business travellers Aura Graphics, of Lowestoft, Suffolk, utilised its HP Scitex TJ8350 Industrial Press to print graphics displayed on two First Great Western power cars running daily on some of the country's most popular business routes, as part of a major experiential campaign for the new HP ElitePad 900.

The two train wraps were printed and installed in just three days and formed the centrepiece of the HP ElitePad 900 campaign targeting business travellers.

The vibrant graphics will be displayed for the entire six-month campaign and be seen by passengers and bystanders as the branded train cars travel over First Great Western's rail network from Paddington to South Wales, the West Country, and large parts of southern England.

The HP ElitePad 900 campaign is aimed predominantly at business travellers, which account for the majority of First Great Western's customer base.

In addition to the train graphics, it also incorporated social media activity and direct customer engagement with live demonstrations of the new HP ElitePad on board the wrapped trains.

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Aura Graphics used its HP Scitex TJ8350 Industrial Press to print graphics displayed on two First Great Western trains

the first, big impression on the target audience so, although it required a quick turnaround, the print quality couldn't be compromised," said Mark Rowland, regional business manager Greater Western Europe & UK&I, HP Scitex. "With the two wrapped trains operating an average of three routes a day, that's 12,000 people per day who will have the opportunity to see the train graphics. This initial impact is key to creating an immediate buzz around the new product, helping the HP ElitePad teams to then start direct communications with passengers during the journey. This campaign perfectly demonstrates how highquality print can play a crucial role in the success of an integrated campaign."

Aura Graphics is a European leader in delivering graphics, signage, paint and refurbishment services for transportation, retail, promotional, architectural, events and petroleum markets. The company's core business is to provide large, high-visibility graphics such as public transport vehicle wraps, fleet graphics, and large scale displays at major public venues including airports and railway stations.

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65 The two train wraps were printed and installed in just three days and formed the centrepiece of the HP ElitePad 900 campaign targeting business travellers

background was sufficiently dense and the end result met the expectations of First Great Western and the HP ElitePad team."

In addition to the requirement for opacity, the ink and media must be able to withstand wind, rain and sunlight as well as adhere to the train at high speeds for the duration of the campaign. Print quality was also of prime consideration as text and images will be viewed from station platforms to distant horizons.

"There are often many challenges when producing graphics for high-profile, blue-chip brands and turnaround times and print quality are always among them," said Andrew Pritchett, key accounts manager, Aura Graphics.

"We' have two HP Scitex TJ8350 Industrial Presses. We've had the first one for eight years, and the second was installed in 2012. The speed, print quality and reliability of these printers make them ideal to meet these challenges and deliver high-impact graphics within a short deadline. This particular project was printed in just one hour and installed on the trains over three days."

The graphics are printed on an opaque white self-adhesive vinyl film and laminated with a clear film. For

jobs like this, Aura Graphics carefully measures the train units, digitising them and creates templates for the graphics in this case, specific to First Great Western's Class 43 HST power cars.

"With First Great Western's distinctive rich blue livery, it was essential that the wrap was completely opaque as the graphics' design was predominantly white," explained Pritchett. "The TJ8350 prints from roll-to-sheet, and the wrap was assembled from panels with a total area of about 75m2 for each set. The excellent coverage and colour reproduction achieved with the HP printer, plus the combination of substrates used, ensured that the white

The versatile HP Scitex TJ8350 Industrial Press uses a rotating drum to print at speeds up to 480m2/ hr (5166ft2/hr), or 80 165 x370cm (65 x 145in) sheets per hour, making it capable of 24,000m2/month (260,000ft2/month) production. This unique drum technology also applies up to six colours simultaneously, delivering high output quality without compromising speed.

"Over the years, the TJ8350 has proved itself a reliable workhorse, suitable for a large percentage of the jobs we do," concluded Pritchett. "The HP ElitePad campaign is just the latest of the colourful and eye-catching initiatives we create with this powerful press."

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Fuji Xerox’s DocuWide C842 enters Singapore Targetted at architectural, display graphics and fast-movingconsumer-goods (FMCG) markets, Singapore has already one installation for an upcoming campaign in a local mall. Christel Lee reports.

Launched last May in Australia, New Zealand and China, the printer has clocked fourteen installations in these markets. The wide-format colour inkjet printer made its first appearance in PacPrint Australia. Fuji Xerox team were demonstrating the printer’s prowess through holding the printout by the metres, stretching across the booth.

The printer is able to print seven A0 size in a minute and supports continuous printing of various paper types up to 999 sheets at a consistent rate. “The DocuWide C842 Printer is the latest to join Fuji Xerox’s portfolio of wide format printers, with the aim of helping businesses increase workflow productivity and offering them new media possibilities. We are confident DocuWide’s professional specifications will be a boon especially for those in the design, advertising, manufacturing, engineering and print industry,” adds Adeline Goh, Senior Marketing Manager, Fuji Xerox Singapore.

This new solution platform is unlike the common printer system, which employs moving printheads. It is built with a revolutionary fixed line head system where five high-definition, four-colour (CMYK) print heads are aligned in a zigzag formation to deliver high-speed printing. In addition, the printer allows the loading of up to four different paper types and sizes simultaneously. This allows users to prepare the device in advance for print efficiency.

The DocuWide C842 can print up to 42 inches wide and 5m long in standard mode up to 30m long when enabled in administrator mode - on a wide range of paper types from plain paper

to matte coated and films (subject to testing), it can produce a wide range of creative applications including exhibition banners, tracing paper drawings, backlight advertising displays and in-store large size displays.

Equipped with an ink circulating system which eliminates air bubbles and impurities, the DocuWide C842 uses technology that sprays ink miniaturised to 1.4 picolitre to reproduce high gradation of colour for poster photographs with fine texture requirements to half-tone outputs for documents as well as high-resolution printing of fine lines in drawings. This again goes beyond industry standards of 4.0 picolitre for fine image production to help users realise perfection in the finest details. The water-based ink contains up to only 20% solvent.

Understanding the high demands in the various design industries to reproduce accurate images and extremely fine

lines, water-based dye ink is used to ensure that all printouts remain true to the original copy and without graininess at an output of 1600 x 1600 dpi so that all details are captured. This will give advertisers, designers or engineers more time to spend thinking about their design concepts, rather than put work to an abrupt stop just to spot that change in detail from revised prints.

The first Singaporean printer to install is also an Asian Print Awards contender, iSuccess Solutions. iSuccess Solutions will be showing off its latest on Singapore’s National Day. The Smile! Campaign, organised by Central Mall, targeted to print out 4,000 colourful 18 by 18 inch sticker posters capturing smiles of shoppers of all ages. In celebration of the nation’s 48th birthday, these sticker posters will be pasted across the mall as a floor montage showcasing smiling faces of Singaporeans.

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Dispensing systems for label runs and process colors At Labelexpo Europe this year, GSE Dispensing (brummen, nL, stand 7n 125), under the theme ‘(Th)ink lean’, will exhibit ink logistics innovations that deliver spot and process colour ondemand, repeatable colour accuracy, batch traceability, cost transparency and a waste-free workflow. The company’s combined ink logistics offering comprises gravimetric and volumetric ink dispensing systems, integrated ink management software and table-top flexo proofing systems.

GSE expands its Colorsat® program of gravimetric flexo, gravure and screen ink dispensing systems with the introduction of the Colorsat Switch dispenser for label / narrowweb print runs. Designed to dispense aqueous, UV or solvent ink batches into 5-litre buckets, the Switch features

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GSE Dispensing’s program of ink dispensing systems covers all packaging print applications, from short-run labels to lengthy corrugated board production. Accurate to one gram, the systems eliminate risk of overproduction and ink shortfalls, and can reuse press-return mixes in new recipes. The resulting waste elimination typically means ink-yield improvements of up to 30 percent compared with manual preparation methods. Moreover, by reducing preparation time to a matter of minutes, the dispensers offer much improved production flexibility, reducing risk of bottlenecks in the ink kitchen.

Integrated software The company’s ink management software, designed for all GSE Colorsat dispensing systems, can be fully integrated into the corporate IT network, logs consumption by material and volume to each job and allowing improved order management, transparent per-job ink costings, improved stock-control and batch traceability.

Table-top offline proofing A third offering, table-top flexo proofing systems, provide a fast offline means of assuring color perfection, including of half tones, without the need for fingerprinting. Print Proof Solutions, a company within the GSE Group, will exhibit its Perfect Proofer®.

With a photopolymer proofing head, and anilox roll, the proofer provides a perfect miniaturized simulation of the conditions of the target flexo press. It is estimated to save up to 15 minutes of

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Automatic bucket washing and ink mixing GSE Dispensing has increased the efficiency of its Colorclean Indigo bucket washer and added new mixers to the Colormix range. GSE’s drum and bucket washers offer a fully automated, easy and efficient way of cleaning containers used to store ink or paste. The enhanced Colorclean Indigo bucket washer, for cleaning one bucket at a time now includes a detergent dispenser that offers extensive cleaning to remove tough substances. An optional water-saving system enables savings of 50% 80% of the water consumption for a

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Foil-free pouch scores sustainable packaging points Mars Africa finds a better way to package its line of instant dry soup mixes by replacing foil in its laminated structure with a coextruded barrier polymer.

One line is anchored by a horizontal form/fill/seal system from Bosch Packaging and the other by a machine from Laudenberg. Ronquest-Ross adds this: “During the development phase the team faced significant challenges, not only from initial trial reels that disintegrated on line, but also due to shifting mindsets skeptical about whether non-foil packaging would provide enough barrier and would be sufficiently puncture resistant and food-safe.”

By replacing a paper/foil lamination with a non-foil lamination that includes a special coextrusion of polyethylene polymers with high-barrier additives, Mars Africa has brought about a 25% carbon footprint reduction in the packaging of its Royco brand instant dry soup powder. “The carbon footprint calculation is based on the energy used to produce an equivalent material using foil as a barrier compared to the energy used to make this new material,” says Lisa Ronquest-Ross, R&D director at Mars Africa in Capetown, South Africa.

She also notes that this project is consistent with the Mars Global objective of “Better Food Today. A Better World Tomorrow.” Supplied by packaging partners Afripack and Mondi Extrusion Coatings, the new packaging material is an extrusion lamination of a 60 gsm clay-coated paper and the special coextrusion of polyethylene polymers.

It was specifically designed for Mars Africa.

“The barrier properties have been designed to mimic those of foil without the challenge of pin holing and flexcracking that foil is prone to,” says Ronquest-Ross. “These barrier proper-

ties have allowed us to achieve a shelf life equivalent to the previous foil barrier material.”

The material is supplied in rollstock and sent through a horizontal form/ fill/sealing system at the Mars Africa plant. Although the development took a couple of years to perfect, the material change has been implemented without any need to modify either of its current packaging lines.

An added benefit gained in the material switch is that the new structure costs about 10% less than the one it replaces. Further savings are achieved because the introduction of a special sealing polymer has brought about extensive energy and cost savings by reducing sealing temperatures from 175º C to 115º C on Mars’ high-speed filling lines. “We haven’t yet calculated the additional carbon footprint reduction that comes with the lower sealing temperatures,” says Ronquest-Ross.

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Bencis to acquire Xeikon Bencis Capital Partners is the organisation to take over of digital print specialist Xeikon, after agreeing a deal with Punch International to acquire its 65.68% stake in the company for a price of €5.85 per share. The price offered for the 18,856,298 shares in Xeikon held by Punch International amounts to a value of €110,309,343.30.

Bencis Capital Partners is an independent private equity firm targeting medium-sized companies in the Benelux countries.

Its portfolio ranges from sports and outdoor retail operations, construction and facility services, to personal care products, confectionery and printing. Its investments have occurred through management buy-out (MBO) and institutional buyout (IBO) deals, including Stork Prints, which it acquired a majority stake in during November 2007. Bencis took full control of Stork Prints in March 2013.

The Gimv-XL fund will co-invest alongside Bencis and, upon completion of the transaction, acquire an indirect minority interest of approximately 20 percent in Xeikon. Bencis and Gimv-XL hope to reinforce Xeikon’s competitive position by supporting the company’s strategy and growth plan on an independent basis, with the goal to create long-term value.

The agreement is subject to a number of conditions that must be fulfilled by no later than 17 September 2013. Among other things, the transaction is subject to the effective provision to and reception by Bencis of the necessary financing and that Xeikon’s half-year figures as at June 30 are in line with the average of the previous two years.

As part of the agreement, Punch International will acquire customer receivables from Xeikon for a maximum amount of €6 million. These receivables relate to machines supplied

by Xeikon that customers have not yet paid for in full. As the receivables are repaid, Xeikon can transfer up to €1.5 million of extra receivables per year on condition that the total outstanding balance does not exceed €6 million. This facility reinforces Xeikon’s working capital and would be made available until 2019.

A further condition is that the remaining ties between Xeikon and Punch International must be severed prior to the transfer of the controlling interest. For this reason, Punch International is acquiring all of Xeikon’s interests in Accentis at a price of €9.6 million. Xeikon is taking over Point-IT, which provides it with IT services, at a price of €800,000.

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73 The property on where the offices and production facilities of the Xeikon pre-press division are based will be transferred, as planned, by Accentis to Xeikon for a gross price of €9.2 million.

If the sale as detailed becomes unconditional, and the transfer to Bencis of Punch International’s share interest in Xeikon is consummated, Bencis will be obliged to make a mandatory offer for all remaining Xeikon shares.

Avery Dennison expands production in Malaysia Avery Dennison has added wide web, high-speed coating capabilities to its plant in Bangi, Malaysia, on the back of strong growth in South East Asia.

Avery Dennison currently has two manufacturing locations in the ASEAN region, the Bangi plant, opened in 1997, and a plant located in Rayong, Thailand. Both facilities serve customers in Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam and Indonesia.

an increasingly competitive region.

‘Our customers expect high-quality solutions and a competitive value proposition, which we will continue to deliver through our latest investments in the ASEAN region. We are supporting our customers’ growth through industry leading coating technology, capabilities and a team who are excited to deliver on our promise.

‘Not only are we increasing our capacity in line with demand, but we are also investing in the capability to offer a broader product offering and make ourselves more competitive.’

Variable Size Web Offset Printing Offers Numerous Advantages for Flexible Packaging Muller Martini will present its process know-how and varied substrate range, as well as innovative samples from label printing and flexible packaging, at LabelExpo, which will be held in Brussels from September, 24 to 27.

firsthand from the Muller Martini experts about the latest developments for the VSOP and Alprinta V printing presses. In this respect, areas of focus will include not only pre-press and print finishing, but also the printing process itself. Numerous different interesting and innovative print samples will demonstrate the breadth of the range of printable substrates, such as polyethylene.

Web offset has numerous financial benefits for package printers, including lower printing process costs, more varied substrate options and a reduced environmental impact. Muller Martini will illustrate these advantages using the VSOP and Alprinta V. Both variable size printing presses enable a high degree of diversity in offset printing. The integration of flexo, rotogravure and digital printing for package printing is possible, as are a wide range of inline finishing processes for print products. Muller Martini will show visitors to its

The addition of the 1.5m-wide high-speed coater will enable Avery Dennison to keep pace with the rapid growth it has experienced in the ASEAN region. The technology offers higher coating speeds and filmic capability, providing the company with the capacity to meet increasing demands.

David Martin, vice-president and general manager of Avery Dennison, Materials Group in the ASEAN region, Australia and New Zealand, said: ‘Our growth in the region has been robust, and we are excited to deliver such innovative technology in

As the market leader in variable size web offset printing, Muller Martini will be showcasing the numerous options that its printing press range offers for the production of labels, shrink sleeves and flexible packaging at its booth D40 in hall 5. Trade fair visitors will learn

booth possible layout combinations using printing press jigsaw pieces on a special magnetic wall so that they can identify the optimal printing press configuration for their needs.

GSE Dispensing’s Colorsat® Switch offers universal lean ink logistics solution for narrow-web and label printing The new Colorsat® Switch gravimetric flexo and gravure ink dispenser from GSE Dispensing provides an immediate, precise, waste-free means of providing spot colours for label and narrow web production runs, regardless of ink set.

Designed to dispense aqueous, UV or solvent ink batches into 5-litre buckets, the Colorsat Switch features a dispensing unit and a control cabinet connected to a maximum of 20

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74 This partnership is the latest expansion for Lohmann in the Asia Pacific market. Lohmann products and services are already distributed in Singapore, Thailand, Australia, and New Zealand.

Printing Industries of America Judges present CGS’ ORIS Lynx with the InterTech™ Technology Award for 2013 The Printing Industries of America has distinguished CGS’ new cloudbased colour management system — ORIS Lynx — with the prestigious 2013 InterTech Technology Award.

This year’s award will be presented to CGS at PRINT 13 in Chicago, on September 8, 2013. base colour components of max. 25 kg, conveniently stored by modular “waterfall frames”. It is also possible to connect 200-litre barrels or 1000 L containers to the dispenser. Couplers to the hoses make faster and cleaner exchange of barrels possible without risk of leakage. The Switch can be specially adapted for dispensing solvent inks thanks to long-lasting hoses, fittings and pumps and a fully closed, pressurised control cabinet, ensuring compliance with the ATEX Equipment Directive 94/9/EC.

It is the perfect complement to a workflow where maximum flexibility and frequent job changeovers are the norm.”

Designed for both speed and accuracy, the Colorsat Switch mixes and dispenses a four-colour 5 kg recipe of water-, UV- or solvent-based ink in three to four minutes to an accuracy of 1 g. Powered by GSE’s proprietary Ink Management Software IMSTM, which provides a user friendly interface, the Switch provides a means of achieving the exact volume requirements without performing complex, time-consuming manual calculations. Any excess ink left over from a print job can be easily calculated into new recipes, thus greatly reducing waste.

Flexo Plate Digital will represent and support all of Lohmann’s graphic segment products in Indonesia.

“Lohmann’s DuploFLEX will provide a powerful addition to Flexo Plate Digital's portfolio of flexographic products and services,” says Eric Oh, CEO of Flexo Plate Digital.

Maarten Hummelen, marketing director of GSE Dispensing, comments: “The trend towards shorter production runs in label printing has made greater control of the colour mixing stage a necessity, to avoid production bottlenecks and overconsumption.

The Colorsat Switch offers the safe, automated and universal solution to achieving the desired quality while removing ink waste from the process.

Lohmann appoints Indonesian distributor Flexo Plate Digital, a leading flexographic repro house in Southeast Asia announced that it has become a Partner of Lohmann, an official distributor of DuploFLEX plate mounting tapes for flexo printing in Indonesia.

“Lohmann’s award winning tapes will provide Indonesian flexo printers and converters with a wide range of tools and reliable solution to process the most demanding jobs that would set them apart from the rest.”

It is the third time that CGS has been honoured with the InterTech Technology Award, each time for its ORIS family of products. Since 1978, the Award has been given to companies for their hardware or software products that are expected to have a major impact in the graphic arts industry.

Colour Management in the Cloud ORIS Lynx is a unique, cloud-based application, using the same colour management technology that garnered InterTech Awards in 2003 (for ORIS Color Tuner) and 2005 (for ORIS Press Matcher). The technical challenges for ORIS Lynx were formidable, however.

“To apply professional-grade colour matching algorithms to a cloudbased service required significant innovation—and the development of a completely new product architecture,” says Jan de Mayer, CGS’ Chief Technical Officer.

ORIS Lynx provides true, iterative colour management—generating robust device links and/or ICC profiles that ensure consistent, high quality colour output from any and/ or multiple devices (Other so-called

laminated food foil that can remain stable up to 121 degrees Celsius The Teapod is the idea of Bistrotea founder Ronald Nicholas. The product is described as a single-use filled tea diffuser that requires no squeezing, eliminates the need for a teaspoon and does not drip when removed from the cup.

The Judges’ Take The judges were impressed by the SaaS approach offered by of ORIS Lynx, utilising device link profiles to meet colour targets and match specifications, says Dr. Mark Bohan, Printing Industries of America Vice President of Technology and Research.

They also appreciated that the solution makes it easier for small and medium sized printers to achieve effective colour control within their processes.

The product is so versatile that even novices can take advantage of ORIS Lynx’s robust colour management. “A Press Matcher user will be familiar with the interface items in ORIS Lynx,” points one customer out, “but in addition, a novice user will be able to successfully use the product without prior experience thus enabling fast and accurate colour reproduction every time.”

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cloud-based systems only generate ICC profiles.) It does this with a very simple web based user interface, and without the need to install an on-site system. ORIS Lynx neutralizes gray balance, whereby overall colour quality is improved. Thus Users significantly increase colour print job consistency, repeatability, and productivity.

It comes in 12 different blends, including English Breakfast, Early Grey and Apple Cinnamon.

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76 Neo-futuristic red bibs designed by Yuima Nakazato for his 2014 Collection, 3D printed on a Stratasys Objet500 Connex 3D Printer Photography by Yasunari Kikuma provides amazing 16 micron precision, the multi-material capability and a variety of material choices.

"Innovative technologies enable us to go beyond traditional limits. They will not only change reality, but also a world of imagination," Sun explains.

Yuima Nakazato, a 28 year old Japanese fashion designer who graduated from the Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts with an MA in fashion design, began building his career in 2009 with his first collection in Paris. Since then, his name has been decorated with awards and accolades, including the Coccodrillo award for shoes, along with the International Talent Support Vertice Award for Innovation from Ann Demeulemeester's company, BVBA"32." His professional fame was firmly established when he created stage costumes for Lady Gaga and world tour costumes for Fergie.

Stratasys 3D Printing Helps Japanese Fashion Designer Flex His Muscles at Yuima Nakazato 2014 Collection in Tokyo Stratasys Ltd., a leading manufacturer of 3D printers and production systems for prototyping and manufacturing, today announced that its Objet500 Connex multi-material 3D Printer has been used to produce unique numbered neo-futuristic bibs for the "Yuima Nakazato 2014 Collection" which premiered on July 25 in MinamiAoyama Tokyo, Japan.

The concept of the collection is based on Nakazato's vision of a neo-futuristic sport: "young street punks, riding on motorcycles, playing a basketballlike sports game in an underground dune stadium." For this imaginary game, Nakazato designed an original uniform and used the Stratasys multimaterial 3D Printer to design bibs that combine numbers and images of human muscles, reflecting his artistic

obsession with the idea of "clothing as extension of the body."

Sun Junjie, another young designer who collaborated on this project, worked to shape Nakazato's imaginative vision, using 3D CAD software and the Stratasys multi-material 3D Printer. Starting with the modelling of a muscle fiber for the bibs, he used rubber-like and transparent materials simultaneously 3D printed to enable the clear, soft and flexible parts. These were then colored to achieve the desired look and feel.

"Without the Objet500 Connex multimaterial 3D printing technology, it would never have been possible to make these complicated geometries in such a short timeframe. I made two or three design iterations with the help of prototypes for each piece before it was completed," says Sun. "The Objet500 Connex is perfect for this kind of creative, iterative manufacturing. It

Nakazato agrees with Sun's appreciation of 3D printing, saying, "3D printing is revolutionizing the industry. Traditionally, dress making is a short combination of planes and fabrics to make 3D shapes. But with more advanced materials available in the future, such as one with the feel of fabric, using a 3D printer we could create a dress of any shape instantly, just as it is imagined.

Nakazato continues, "I sometimes get an urgent order from the US for which a customer might say, ‘Send me this dress today. I have an award ceremony tomorrow.' Currently, it's impossible for us to meet her requirements because it would take days to make a dress and ship it to Hollywood from Tokyo. However, in the future when we begin making dresses with 3D printing, all we will have to do is to send her 3D design files by e-mail. She could 3D print it in Hollywood and make it to the red carpet the next day."

Aya Yoshizawa, Marketing Manager at Stratasys Japan, says, "Mr. Nakazato's

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78 unique talent in couture is clearly evident through this collection. We can see here yet another example of 3D printing technology enabling unique artistic creations. Especially in the fashion industry, a designer's requirement for manufacturing is not limited to geometry, but also includes quality of texture. The Objet500 Connex multi-material 3D Printer is able to meet this uncompromised requirement and help visionaries like Nakazato shape their imagination."

TRESU Group to Showcase Intelligent Systems for Improved Print Quality, Production and Profitability at PRINT 13 The TRESU Group will be featuring its "Intelligent Systems" concept with solutions for litho printers at PRINT 13, 8 -12 September 2013, McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois. Performancebuilding technologies from TRESU for flexo and gravure printers and converters will also be presented on the TRESU booth (1484).

Launched at drupa 2012, TRESU's Intelligent Systems use innovative technology to increase operational efficiency and minimize down-time, contributing to competitiveness and bottom-line improvement. At the heart of the Intelligent Systems is the interconnectivity of the pressroom, TRESU and its service suppliers.

A dedicated modem connects the system direct to a programmable logic controller PLC enabling sophisticated remote diagnostics and corrective action. Should the problem not be able to be remedied remotely, IDMS coordinates the supply of the correct parts and the despatch of a service technician - ensuring that necessary parts have been received before the technician's visit.

Solutions for litho printers The company will display the TRESU iDWC (dampening water circulator) at the booth, and promote its TRESU iChilling (press temperature control, process chilling and fountain dampening) systems and TRESU iDrying (hot air and IR drying) systems. Each system can integrate with TRESU's IDMS (Internal Diagnostic Monitoring System) to provide advanced operational monitoring of critical components and integrated alarm functions.

For TRESU iDWC units, intelligent systems are a useful tool for large, central dampening water circulators that are dedicated to a single offset press, or multiple offset printing presses. TRESU iChilling intelligent systems are a uniquely integrated technology that bolsters operating efficiency of the equipment and selected optional add-on components, such as Fount-N-KleerÂŽ AFS 3IC Advance Filtration System, where all critical functions of the devices are internally monitored by IDMS. For TRESU iDrying, the same technological application of IMDS can be applied to the full line of InfraRed and Hot Air Drying Systems.

TRESU's three featured smart systems can be chosen individually or as a total ancillary press solution.

Also on display in the folding carton sector is the TRESU Offset Coating Concept, from TRESU Ancillary.

This self-regulating coater comprises the TRESU UniPrint Combi chamber doctor blade E-Line and TRESU Coating Circulator and a TRESU Coating Conditioner. This versatile system enables sheet-fed and web offset printers to coat printed products at faster speeds without the risk of micr0-foaming and blisters in the coated surface.

TRESU Group's three divisions, TRESU Solutions, TRESU Ancillary and TRESU Concept, will present solutions and information on the booth with representatives introducing the full portfolio to visitors.

For digital printers Featured at the booth will be the recently launched TRESU Digital Sheet Coater, from TRESU Solutions, that integrates into sheet-fed digitally printed folding carton converting lines. The new flexo coating system can be configured for use with UV-curable coatings or for hot air

drying of water-based coatings. Flexo sleeve technology delivers flood, pattern or spot coating in a single pass.

The quick changeovers possible with the TRESU Digital Sheet Coater make it ideal to integrate into the short-run, on-demand environment of digital printing folding carton production.

TRESU Solutions offers custom product designs for flexo and gravure suppliers and converters requiring precise systems or components to integrate into their press or finishing lines. Drawing on TRESU's engineering expertise and innovative approach, TRESU Solutions works with press and finishing suppliers as well as individual customers to devise and deliver the perfect product resolution.

And for flexo and gravure printers TRESU offers a new generation of customised solutions for converters, based on an established platform and designed for today's converting requirements. This results in costeffective production while meeting the demands of today's market.

As suppliers of flexo printing technology, TRESU helps companies see the broader picture and work with them to provide the equipment best suited for integrated production solutions that ensure speed, quality and versatility. For example, TRESU Concept offers The Flexo Innovator, an inline press that can comprise an unlimited number of print stations with dryers on each unit, ensuring colour quality without the issues that can arise if printing wet-on-wet as with some CI or stack presses.

"TRESU's Intelligent Systems concept can benefit most litho, flexo, gravure and digital printers operating in the packaging market," said Scott Hibbs, Executive Vice President, TRESU Royse, Inc. "TRESU's engineering skills and innovative thinking about packaging solutions mean that we are able to offer tailored solutions for large and medium-sized businesses that help them differentiate themselves and improve their bottom lines."

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