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In addition to announcing its third quarter results last week, EFI indicated that it intends to spin off its inkjet label line. The company also detailed its intent to continue its growth in both the textile and corrugated segments of the printing industry.

During the opening session of the Digital Packaging Summit, Bob Leahey of Keypoint Intelligence provided a look into the latest statistics in digital package printing to outline where the technology stands across all packaging segments, including labels, folding cartons, flexible packaging and corrugated.

With more than 19,000 attendees and nearly 600 exhibitors, the 2017 SGIA Expo, held from Oct. 10-12 in New Orleans, highlighted the strengths of the printing industry.

From single-pass, direct digital printing to the rise of e-commerce, the corrugated packaging segment is booming with new opportunities.

NAPCO Media and nGage Events, producers of the Digital Packaging Summit and Inkjet Summit, have announced that Landa Digital Printing has signed on as a sponsor of 2017 Digital Packaging Summit.

If you associate inkjet printing strictly with inkjet presses, take a step back. Memjet, which recently launched DuraLink, its second generation of inkjet technology, has shown it's the technology that makes it a printing device.

Complete Design & Packaging will become the first U.S. business to install the EFI Nozomi C18000 single-pass inkjet corrugated press. CDP will use the six-color press for cost-effective, high-quality, direct-to-board digital printing that extends client brand presence in retail corrugated packaging.

The third annual Digital Packaging Summit will provide opportunities for converters, brand owners and suppliers to network and share their perspectives on digital printing in packaging. The Summit will be held from Oct. 23-25 at the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.

Since digital printing burst on the scene in the packaging industry, converters have been seeking ways to leverage the many opportunities it provides. This white paper details the many digital packaging opportunities in labels, folding cartons, flexible packaging and corrugated.

The Mouvent Cluster is a radical new approach, which uses clusters instead of fixed size print bars by color, arranging them in a modular, scalable matrix. The result is one system that can be simply adapted for all substrates, of all widths, for all markets.