U.S. Digital Packaging Design Develops Rapidly

Mail-Well, headquartered in Minfred, specializes in producing product labels for a variety of large and small brands of alcoholic products, food, beverages, and other products. It is a pioneer in digital printing technology for label printing companies. The company uses Packpilof, the packaging and label design production system of Heidelberg, whose live parts can carry out the necessary RIP processing, trapping processing, and can fully complete the digital imposition. At present, most label printers still perform continuous drying of the film by hand. The efficiency is low. For example, the red label may take a whole day. With digital processing, it takes only about 90 minutes. In addition, the system also has one of the most important features. It can digitize archive files and make changes to the customer's manuscript easily. Even if the job was done last time, it was done manually by film stripping.

In terms of flexible packaging, digital technology is also playing an increasingly important role. In the past five years, Atlanta-based packaging company Prinfpack has been continuously purchasing digital prepress equipment, including computer-to-plate hardware, and is currently digitizing. The degree of work has reached 85% to 95%. Since Prinfpack specializes in long-run printing, when the customer requests printing of short-lived samples, the company often works with ST. Zoith's all-digital printing company WatsomIakelProducfs cooperated. Wasfon recently installed an Ommins One-Shof color press. This computer direct printing system prints a short version with a short delivery time, and the printing cost is much lower than the sample cost of the flexographic printing.