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From labels to folding cartons, four companies find that digital presses reshape the way they do business.

The creative team from a customer of Steinhauser Inc., a Newport, KY-based printer of labels and flexible packaging, was shown several bottles decorated with the same label. They were asked to determine which were printed flexo and which were digital.

Digital presses have been taking on a growing share of the market for labels and folding cartons, and making inroads into flexible packaging. Now, corrugated containers are feeling the influence of digital printing, and as with other types of packaging, the flexibility digital presses can provide is an asset for corrugated carton printers.

SUN Automation Group has released the Extend-O-Feed Lead Edge Feeder for the CorrStream digital printing solution.

ICON Digital Productions has received the first Canadian installation of the Durst Rho 1312 UV inkjet digital printer.

drupa 2012 promises even more digital technology developments than "digital drupa." Both toner-based and inkjet technologies are relative newcomers in package printing, so the upside potential for developments that move these technologies forward is tremendous.

Digital printing and workflow implementations by package printers, including items on Roland DGA Corp. and FLEXcon, INX International Ink Co., and Color-Logic. 

There is a digital option for almost any criteria package printers have. packagePRINTING asks leading suppliers about what is available today.