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Modern marketing means brand extensions, on pack promotions, packaging to tie in with events – all designed to increase sales and enhance relationships with consumers. drupa veteran Gareth Ward says this provides opportunities to printers that can meet these demands. When Heidelberg predicts that digitally printed packaging is set to grow at double digit rates for the immediate future, printers need to sit up. And Heidelberg is not alone. The prospects for printing packaging of all types on digital presses are exciting every press manufacturer. If digital printing on paper is understood and developing at a steady pace, digital

Masterpiece Graphics, a custom coater of films, foils, papers, and plastics for digital printers in the narrow web and cut sheet market, has been named a technology partner by Color-Logic.

Xeikon announced that the company will display the unique label and package printing capabilities of its versatile Xeikon 3000 Series of digital color presses at Pack Expo.

Xeikon announced that the company will display the unique label and package printing capabilities of its versatile Xeikon 3000 Series of digital color presses at Pack Expo.

Digital printing and workflow implementations by package printers, including items on Meritage Specialty Packaging and Roland DGA.

Meritage Specialty Packaging Ltd., a provider of value-added printing and packaging solutions and systems, has purchased and installed a Xeikon 3500 digital color label press to help expand the company’s packaging production.

Color-Logic has introduced Version 2.0 of its Process Metallic Colour System Design Suite. The company's director of sales and marketing, Mark Geeves, commented: 'We have significantly expanded the capability of our Design Suite. New features available to graphic designers include the ability to output separation files specifically tailored for printing on offset, flexographic, digital (HP Indigo, Xeikon, and EFI Jetrion), and certain wide format presses. Graphic designers can now prepare cross-media metallic separations for execution using any process desired by their clients. The Color-Logic Process Metallic Colour System enables printers to produce metallic special effects on their presses. Printers

Digital Printing And Workflow Implementations By Package Printers, including items on GPA, Roland DGA Corp., InfoTrends, Spartanics and OKI Data Americas.

WEST CHESTER, Ohio—Color-Logic, developer of the popular Process Metallic Color System, has announced that the process is now available for all print processes. Color-Logic Director of Sales and Marketing Mark Geeves commented: “Color-Logic has significantly expanded the capability of our Process Metallic Color System. Licensed Color-Logic printers will now find the software produces specific files…

InfoTrends published its 2011 forecast for production level color digital presses used to print labels and packaging. InfoTrends estimates that converters worldwide spent $166 million on this category of color digital presses in 2010.