Standup Pouches and Digital Presses Bring Change to Folding Cartons

"The 30000 allows us to reduce lead times from weeks to days," says Craig Curran, Nosco's VP for sales and marketing. "Printing digitally also allows us to achieve greater color consistency than conventional printing, plus we eliminate printing plates."

This is a harbinger of presses to come. Economic run lengths on some digital folding carton presses that are expected to reach the market in 2015 are in the 14,000 to 20,000 sheet range, with minimal changeover times, capabilities that will inexorably shift a segment of folding cartons to digital production.