Gravure Printing

PRINTING United Alliance, the most comprehensive member-based printing and graphic arts association in the U.S., announces the winners of its prestigious Premier PRINT Awards international printing competition. The highly coveted competition recognizes and honors excellence in print across 71 different categories.

BOBST has revealed several new solutions to support its packaging industry vision, all built on the four cornerstones of Connectivity, Digitalization, Automation, and Sustainability, helping customers to deal with packaging production transformation.

BOBST is developing successful water-based applications on its gravure presses, utilizing Siegwerk’s new formulation WB inks. The partnership with the ink manufacturer aims to present ink formulas that will set unprecedented performance and quality levels in gravure printing, and which have much lower VOC content than current WB offerings on the market.

The Gravure Association of the Americas wants to recognize the best of the best in packaging, labeling, gravure-created products, publication, technical innovation, and more. The deadline for entries for this year's Golden Cylinder Awards is Wednesday, March 31.

This folding carton from Dubai-based Emirates Printing Press for Lipton Gold Label black tea is a great example of how gravure technology provides incredible depth of color, and clarity in both text and images.

Despite its limited adoption in North America, rotogravure printing thrives at American Packaging Corporation’s DeForest, Wis., facility. In fact, two new presses have recently been added to the site.

Gravure printing technology has a well-deserved reputation for its excellent print quality, depth of color, and vivid images and text. In the 34th annual Packaging Impressions Excellence Awards, Print Master, a Thailand-based printer and converter, demonstrated its gravure printing skills, earning first place in the Flexible Packaging: Gravure category and second place overall in Best of Show.

Fast time to market and sustainability are increasingly important to today's brand owners. To address these needs, BOBST has unveiled the EXPERT RS 6003, a new gravure press designed for today's challenges.

For 33 years, the Packaging Impressions Excellence Awards have been showcasing some of the best examples of package printing from around the world. In this week's episode of POW!, Sara unveils which package earned the top prize of Best of Show in the 2019 competition.

When Hershey’s was on the hunt for a new packaging format for its iconic Special Dark Nuggets with Almonds, it turned to American Packaging Corp. to get the job done. The result was the winner of Best of Show in the 33rd annual Packaging Impressions Excellence Awards.