Packaging

Irongate has invested in additional digital print firepower from Xerox to expand its personalised product range, including photo gifting.

Welsh chocolate manufacturer Michton has opened a new digitally printed packaging subsidiary called Personalised Printed Products.

Few sectors have had their business model so radically altered by the recession than grocery retailers.

Upon learning that two well-known packaging boards have a combined age of almost a century, one might imagine that innovation in packaging substrates is in short supply.

Two of the key requirements for the colour reproduction of packaging print are for the products to fly off the shelves while the colour stays on-brand.

More than two years have passed since Drupa 2012 saw the announcement of a whole raft of digital carton printing presses, but so far we have not seen any real signs of an impact on the packaging...

Digital printing per se is not new in the label market. However, evolving market requirements and production technologies are leading to some big changes.

To say last year’s Share a Coke campaign was a success would be something of an understatement. As teenagers and mums alike rummaged through chiller cabinets (and Wilhelminas and Wilfreds begrudgingly...

Print for packaging proved to be one of the most resilient sectors in the recent downturn, with many exponents reporting significant growth at a time when their marcomms peers were battling to keep...

The development of hover boards and flying cars may not seem to have much in common with commercial printers taking on packaging printing, but there is a key similarity: for years all three have been...