Presses

HP unveils C500 Press and prototype label line at Drupa

HP (Hall 17) is targeting the corrugated market with the announcement of the PageWide C500 Press at Drupa.

Me & my: Domino N610i

When you’re a dedicated corrugated packaging company and a big customer asks you if you’ll print its labels, what are you going to do? In the case of Charapak, the answer was to set up a new labels...

Label presses that pack more punch

The basic concept behind flexo is a flexible relief plate similar to the way that letterpress works. It can print to a very wide range of substrates, from flexible films through to folding carton and,...

Cleaner and dryer days with LE-UV

Picture the scene. A client calls and urgently needs a job printed on uncoated stock, finished and ready by tomorrow. Not a difficult scenario to envisage in this day and age, but a job that many...

Digital’s diversity of opportunities

At the last Drupa, the undoubted star of the show, Benny Landa, claimed that only 2% of worldwide print volumes are produced on digital presses. Whatever margin of error you build into that, it’s...

Philtone Litho upgrades Speedmaster

Bristol-based Philtone Litho has purchased a five-colour Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 106 with coater to replace its current five-colour Speedmaster CX 102.

Star product: Canon Océ VarioPrint i300

New features for this B3 sheetfed inkjet to be shown at Drupa.

Drupa stand highlights: presses, ancillaries & consumables

The second in a series of round-ups of all the launches attendees can take a closer look at at Drupa 2016.

Revamps outstrip new launches as market picks up

If you look back over the four years since the last Drupa, or even the past decade, you won’t see much that’s revolutionary happening in conventional printing presses. Yet they’ve steadily become more...

Landa: Serial showman lifts the tempo again

"It’s like composing a symphony and conducting an orchestra where none of the players have played together before, and they are all playing new instruments. For that to come together and turn into a...