Executives speak out on their view of digital printing’s impact in package printing.

By Tom Polischuk

Bar-Shany—For labels, digital already can address 65 percent of the jobs; with faster speeds, this will increase. The range of inks is still smaller than flexo. For mainstream packaging, a larger format will help accelerate conversion to digital.

Stack—Reliability and image quality need to continue to improve. Both of these factors have come a long way in the last few years and, in the label markets, inkjet is quickly becoming the norm.