Narrow-web press manufacturers’s products evolve to keep up with the changing package-printing market.

By Chris Mc Loone

van den Heuvel explains that the most important press development within the Drent Goebel group is sleeve offset technology, or the Variable Sleeve Offset Press (VSOP). “This is a true web offset press with all the advantages of a flexo press, a high degree of flexiblity to run all kinds of substates, and change to various repeat sizes cheaply and in the shortest possible time.” The web offset sleeve technology is mainly targeted at label printing and packaging applications.