HP has launched the new HP Indigo 6K Secure label and flexible packaging press, the first HP Indigo machine designed especially for the security printing market, featuring multi-security layers printed in one pass in a secure environment.
The new press uses the newly launched HP Indigo Secure platform, which includes hardware, software, media, and inks for security printing and brand protection, based on proprietary HP Indigo LEP technology and industry-leading partner solutions.
It offers printers the ability to mix and match a wide range of advanced security elements and designs that are easy to print and hard to copy. The capabilities include multi-layered measures of overt and covert elements, with any combination of invisible inks, infrared inks, variable data printing, unique serialized IDs, QR codes, serialized microtext, guilloche patterns, and cloud-connected track and trace.
Global Graphics Group Launches SmartDFE for Labels and Packaging Designed to be the heart of a fully automated manufacturing system
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Global Graphics announces its first product co-developed by all group companies today. Global Graphics Software, HYBRID Software, Meteor Inkjet and Xitron have all collaborated to create a smart DFE for labels and packaging applications to transform the role of the digital press in the smart print factory of the future.
The SmartDFE™ is designed to be part of a fully automated manufacturing solution supporting Industry 4.0 telematics and MIS integration, plus connectivity with automated manufacturing lines via OPC UA. It brings together in one powerful solution the creation of optimized print-ready PDF files; workflow and job automation to connect with enterprise IT systems; RIPping; screening; optimized image quality; and, via Harlequin Direct™, it
Esko has launched the latest generation of its award-winning native PDF editor for packaging and label prepress – ArtPro+ 21.0.3. Basically, ArtPro+ increases packaging prepress efficiency by eliminating errors and increasing automation of the editing process. With a new Variable-Data Printing (VDP) module and full integration with Hell gravure equipment, the latest version of the software delivers a further boost to prepress operational excellence. Established as one of the leading native PDF editors for the packaging prepress process, ArtPro+ enables users to reduce unintentional errors when editing, and to automate repeating tasks without the need for any special programming skills.
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y Jonathan Malone-McGrew, Senior Director of Engagement, Solimar Systems
Printers are on a mission to find better ways to win more business and operate more efficiently. Their experience from last year is driving a renewed energy across the printing industry as they embrace the continued variability of print markets and its impact on how print production environments receive, produce and deliver work.
The bottom line is that the print industry continues to evolveâa notion confirmed in the latest market study from Madison Advisors (January 2021). Madison Advisorsâ research focused on post-composition solutions for volume print production environments. Why is post-composition important for the future success of volume print production industries? Madison Advisors puts it into context in their press release about the new study: