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LABELS&LABELING |35<br />
JIM TODD, Heidelberg UK sales director<br />
What to run line inline depends very<br />
much on the technology, the volume<br />
of finished work, run lengths, speed<br />
and quality required. Adding value and<br />
creating new services has to be cost<br />
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asking for advice. By standing out you<br />
can become outstanding – and more<br />
profitable.<br />
PERFECTING IMPACTS PACKAGING<br />
At a press conference in the historic<br />
Stationer’s Hall in London, Heidelberg<br />
UK announced it has delivered 110 B1<br />
Speedmaster perfector units since Drupa<br />
– with increasing interest from packaging<br />
printers.<br />
The installations include the world’s longest<br />
B1 press, the 17 unit Speedmaster XL 106<br />
perfector at Chesapeake East Kilbride,<br />
consisting of 10 printing units, three coating<br />
units, four drying units as well as an inline<br />
cold foiling option.<br />
Commented Jim Todd, Heidelberg UK<br />
sales director, ‘The Speedmaster XL 106<br />
has taken productivity to a whole new level.<br />
Some of our customers believe it could easily<br />
achieve 75 million impressions when running<br />
at 18,000sph and combined with Inpress<br />
Control automated spectral and register<br />
measurement and Autoplate XL simultaneous<br />
plate-changing.’<br />
Todd believes that more packaging printers<br />
will look at perfecting in this format as<br />
demand grows for printing information inside<br />
packaging in addition to brand-conscious<br />
print outside.<br />
Looking at broader trends in the packaging<br />
sector, Todd said consolidation and<br />
globalization continue to be key factors. At<br />
the same time single pass processes are<br />
replacing multi-pass processing, presses<br />
are getting longer and finishing technology<br />
has become more efficient and capable<br />
of matching the performance of the new<br />
generation of presses.<br />
Looking to the future, Todd said packaging<br />
printers would have a key role in global color<br />
management using spectral standards. ‘And in<br />
food packaging we see a move away from UV<br />
inks to low migration inks.’<br />
Legislation changes are also changing the<br />
package printing landscape, and Todd cited<br />
the changes in pharma leaflet font size, braille<br />
and sustainability as both key challenges and<br />
opportunities to offer new solutions.<br />
For carton converters the issue of ‘no<br />
brand’ cigarette cartons remains a major<br />
cloud on the horizon.<br />
Todd said Heidelberg has had some<br />
success with its B2 Anicolor ‘short inking’<br />
press in the packaging sector because of its<br />
ability to produce short runs economically<br />
with fewer variables.<br />
Heidelberg’s statistics show that the global<br />
volume of printed products by value has<br />
remained remarkably stable since 2000<br />
despite the advance of the internet, and by<br />
2017 volumes are actually expected to exceed<br />
2000 levels. Sheetfed offset packaging is<br />
expected to be worth over 131 billion euros<br />
by 2020, accounting for some 28 percent of<br />
total global sheetfed print volumes.<br />
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NOVEMBER 2013 | L&L