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

By Chris Mc Loone

van Wijk describes two enhancements to the compnay’s presses that are of interest to the label printing industry. The first is the company’s flexo-insert, which allows an offset printing unit to change into a flexo printing unit. “This creates enormous flexibility within the press line and takes away the need to invest in ‘pure’ flexo units,” he says. The second is Drent Goebel’s staggered offset plate, which enables the printer to cut an offset plate in any shape that is most economical for the image he has to print.