Interpack China 2026
PRESS RELEASE

Driving innovation in labels with digitalization and automation

Default Image

In today’s fast-changing label market, agility is essential in meeting brand owners’ demands for rapid turnarounds, shorter run lengths and excellent quality. But fierce competition, a shortage of experienced staff and rising costs challenge label printers. To remain competitive, adopting digitalized and automated solutions is no longer optional – it’s a necessity.

Facing the challenges

A major pain point is brand color consistency across different printing technologies and applications, along with the flexibility to produce high-end labels and demanding applications, such as shrink sleeves and multi-layer constructions. Another is the increasing emphasis on sustainability, which means lowering waste, reducing energy consumption and using new eco-friendly materials.

In digital, the industry is solving these challenges by moving towards highly automated inline processes with ‘All-in-One’ workflows gaining ground. These advanced integrated solutions can produce ready-to-ship labels in one pass with less waste, while being operated by just one person.

However, flexo remains the primary technology for labels in the short to medium term. Like digital, narrow-mid web flexo presses are being optimized with automation and digitalization technology to improve efficiency and minimize waste regardless of the operator’s skills.

oneECG: extended color gamut printing

Addressing the color consistency issue, oneECG is BOBST’s proprietary solution for extended color gamut printing. Through the digitalization of color information, converters can ensure highest color repeatability between jobs and between flexo and digital, faster and more efficiently.

The implementation of oneECG in inline flexo streamlines operations and improves sustainability. In combination with automatic job change, flexo machines like the BOBST MASTER M6 become not digital, but highly digitalized, improving productivity by as much as 67%. oneECG also reduces setup waste by up to 65%, while lowering energy and ink consumption.

DIGITAL MASTER series: All-in-One production

The transition to All-in-One manufacturing – with digital and flexo printing, embellishment, die-cutting and quality control on the same machine – is accelerating. This is driven by the need to deliver high quality results, quickly, with less waste and at competitive costs.  

Configurable with multiple modules, BOBST DIGITAL MASTER series gives label printers the capability to produce a much wider variety of superior quality products. By eliminating idle time between processes and reducing complexity, the DIGITAL MASTER series also ensures faster turnaround, speeding up time-to-market.

Combining multiple processes also reduces the need for additional equipment, such as offline embellishment, and the number of operators, which lowers costs, simplifies the workflow and optimizes the factory floor.

 

Source: bobst.com

Report here

We take inappropriate content and abuse seriously. If you find this press release objectionable or believe it contains inappropriate content, please let us know.

Press Release Details

Published On 29 November 2024
Category
Industry
Companies
Region USA