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34 LABELEXPO OVERVIEW
The big North American show has just taken place, with a smattering of Aussies there. We look at the industry impressions from Chicago.
36 LABELEXPO HIGHLIGHTS
The floor of the Chicago expo centre had plenty of new developments for visitors to peruse, Print21 brings you some of the highlights.
38 SUSTAINABLE LABELS
The country’s biggest print media suppliers, Ball & Doggett and Spicers, are both bringing new sustainable label solutions to the market, to address the environmental imperative.
40 MOVING INTO DIGITAL LABELS
Print businesses of all kinds are now entering the labels market thanks to digital print technology. Print21 looks at three companies that have just made the move. They include commercial outfits Revolution Print in Ballarat, Footprint in Mandura, and trade printer CMYKhub.
42 REID FRUITS CUTS COUNTERFEITS
Tasmanian cherry grower Reid Fruits has seen a dramatic decline in product counterfeiting, as a result of a Smart Fingerprint solution.
43 DIGITAL DISRUPTOR
HP Indigo is the world’s biggest digital label press manufacturer; now it is getting ready to launch its 120 metres- a-minute V12.
44 XEIKON RELEASES HYBRID LABEL SOLUTION Digital pioneer Xeikon has launched a fully digital hybrid solution, based on its Cheetah and Panther digital press series, recently developed Label Converting Unit, and X-800 digital front-end.
46 EPSON LAUNCHES WHITE INK SUREPRESS Epson Australia has launched the new SurePress L-4733AW water-based, resin ink, digital label press, which it says continues its legacy of providing white ink primer label printing, while delivering improved automation.
48 KURZ TO BRING NEW SECURITY WITH SCRIBOS
As counterfeiting of all kinds of products and brands shows no sign of slowing down, Kurz has invested, by acquiring the tesa scribos business, to develop more rigorous anti-couterfeiting solutions for brand authentication on labels
and packaging.
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abels represent one get what you pay for, even them to enable then to buy
of the major growth the lower cost systems offer 1000 labels economically, opportunities for the ability to make a buck, as opposed to 100,000, print business. And matched as they are to small they were using their digitally not just for label scale food, nutrition and printed labels to drive sales,
printing businesses, although beverage entrepreneurs, of whether that was through
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they are clearly well set. The arrival of digital label printing technology, and accompanying converting systems where necessary, is opening up a whole new world to commercial print businesses, who until now would no more have considered printing labels than printing newspapers.
Digital print systems are available from $20,000 upwards, and while you
whom there are a multitude. As product choice
proliferates, and the shift to craft-produced goods surges, short run, on demand labels are in, well, high demand. At the Print21+PKN LIVE event Amplify & Engage, which
has just taken place, there was stron g evidence of new bespoke brands using the services of print providers offering short run digital print.
And they weren’t just using
maximising the real estate, personalising the product, versioning, or taking advantage of the dramatically reduced lead times.
Digitally printed labels clearly offer a real opportunity. We trust the following pages of Labels21 helps to inform and inspire you on your journey.
Wayne Robinson Editor – Labels21