Offset Printing - Sheet-Fed

TPC Printing & Packaging, a Chattanooga, Tenn.-based printer specializing in high-end folding cartons and promotional packaging, will install a new 10-color, 41˝ Koenig & Bauer Rapida 105 PRO in early 2020. The press will join an existing eight-color Rapida 105.

During Heidelberg Label Day, an event the company hosted in September at its Wiesloch-Walldorf site, attendees witnessed multiple product debuts, including the FoilStar Cure and the IML Performance Package. The FoilStar Cure allows for the application of cold foil on in-mold label foils across the entire run on a Speedmaster XL 106.

Offset printing may have a lengthy history, but that does not mean it lacks in innovation. Printers and converters rely on the latest in offset for high-end packaging.

Today's Package of the Week showcases how the right combination of offset printing, along with multiple tactile and visual packaging embellishments, can make for a stunning folding carton. Diamond Packaging's carton for Anna Sui Fantasia Mermaid was so impressive, it earned third place in Best of Show and first place in the Folding Cartons: Offset category in the Packaging Impressions Excellence Awards.

Graphic Village has added a new RMGT 940 LED UV press, which will grow the company's commercial and package printing services. On the packaging side, the press is expected to help Graphic Village expand in the high-end food and beverage markets.

Slate Group, a full service commercial printer in Lubbock, Texas, has added a new five-color Komori Lithrone G40 press with coater and LED UV curing system. The new press has allowed the company to expand on its finishing capabilities and enter the short-run packaging market.

A full-service packaging provider, PaperWorks held a special ribbon cutting ceremony to mark its investment in a seven-color, 57˝ Koenig & Bauer Rapida, along with two new Koenig & Bauer-Iberica 144K diecutters at its Baldwinsville, N.Y., printing facility.

With impeccable offset printing and a variety of embellishments, Diamond Packaging received third place in Best of Show in the 2019 Packaging Impressions Excellence Awards for its Anna Sui Fantasia Mermaid folding carton.

Adams Litho invested in several Heidelberg devices to produce unique and high-quality packages as sales are predicted to grow. The company has been a partner of Heidelberg for decades, and continues to operate as a complete Heidelberg shop.

Since its founding, Carlson Print Group has differentiated itself by providing specialized print techniques to a variety of brands. With the addition of a new six-color, 41˝ Koenig & Bauer Rapida 105 PRO, the company will be able to run complicated jobs faster and with reduced makeready times.