Digital Label and Package Printing


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Digital Label and Package Printing incorporates much of the combined knowledge of many of the world's leading experts to provide a comprehensive guide to understanding how these technologies work - whether electrophotographic liquid and dry toner or inkjet. It also explains the enhanced requirements that digital printing brings to color management, origination and pre-press, workflow, demands on substrates, digital analog and laser finishing, and how converters should look to manage and market the digital printing operation. Chapters include: Digital label and package printing - evolution and trends Digital printing - technology, imaging and terminology Digital drop on demand color label presses Digital package printing - new solutions and opportunities Pre-press strategies for profitable digital printing Substrate selection and print quality Digital print finishing - options and opportunities The potential of laser die-cutting and finishing Managing the digital process in label and package printing plants Markets and applications for digital printing




Digital Label Printing


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This book brings together the combined knowledge and expertise of some of the world's leading experts to provide an understanding of how digital label printing technologies work.




Die-Cutting and Tooling


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The die-cutting and tooling process is among the most critical areas of label converting and finishing. The sophisticated technology it uses enables the production of quality die-cut and converted labels and their application to multiple surfaces, using a wide variety of substrates, on many different presses. With a better understanding of this often overlooked discipline, you can improve production standards and significantly reduce costly downtime due to pressure-sensitive quality faults. This book explains the complex and vital role die-cutting and tooling plays. Through a series of detailed explanations, photographs, diagrams and charts, the author provides a detailed look at modern tooling technology - how the tools are manufactured, their use and applications, how they should be handled and stored. It includes a section on troubleshooting on the production line and a glossary of terms to ensure any unknown phrases are quickly understood within context. Label converters, industry suppliers and label buyers and all other professionals involved in label converting and finishing will find this book a valuable reference source that helps them run a more profitable business. Chapters include: The label printing and converting process Die-cutting of label webs to shape and size Optimizing the die-cutting process Special tooling for cutting, perforating, hole punching and slitting The nature, use and manufacture of embossing dies and cylinders The hot foiling process and the use and manufacture of foiling dies Cylinders, anvils, support rollers and magnetic cylinders Ancillary equipment for setting, measuring, testing, monitoring and adjusting tooling Inspecting, cleaning, handling, storage and safety considerations A guide to troubleshooting when using label dies and related tooling Glossary of die-cutting and tooling terminology




Digital Printing of Textiles


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At present the textile industry produces the majority of its 34 billion square yards of printed textile fabric by screen printing. However as we move into the digital age developments in digital printing of paper are being adapted more and more for the textile market. Inkjet textile printing is growing while growth in analog textile printing remains stagnant. As digital print technologies improve offering faster production and larger cost-effective print runs, digital printing will grow to become the technology that provides the majority of the world's printed textiles.This comprehensive introduction to the subject is broken into five sections. After two introductory chapters, it goes on to look in a number of detailed chapters at printer and print head technologies. The next section examines the printer software required for successful colour design and management. The digital printing colouration process is explored next, with chapters on substrate preparation, pigmented ink, aqueous inkjet ink, pre-treatment and printing on cationized cotton with reactive inks. The book is concluded with three chapters on the design and business aspect of digital printing.Digital printing of textiles contains fundamental technical explanations along with recent research, and is an invaluable guide for product developers, retailers, designers and academic researchers. - Provides coverage of all the current developments in digital textile printing - Covers important areas such as printer and print head technologies, printer software, digital printing colouration and design and business for digital printing




Predicting the Adoption of Digital Printing in the Label Printing Industry


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"The package printing industry is a vibrant and growing industry and digital printing technology is improving quickly--yet the adoption of digital printing has not fully penetrated the label printing market, a subset of packaging, and digital printing has seen slower adoption in its decade-long history in labels than expected. This research attempts to explain why this may be the case by understanding the factors affecting the intention to adopt digital printing. This study utilizes Fishbein and Ajzen's Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) in a cross-sectional survey of individuals in a decision-making role in label printing companies. The study was intended to gather timely, descriptive information to understand the adoption of digital printing for commercial production in the label printing industry in the next 12 months. The study attempts to measure a dependent variable, the Intention to adopt and the following independent variables: Attitude, Subjective Norm, and Perceived Behavioral Control. Questionnaire instruments were mailed to 260 companies, of which 51 responded, a response rate of nearly 19%, and of those, 31 qualified for data analysis. A high percentage (86%) of the respondents represented companies with fewer than 50 employees. The results of the research indicate that the outlook on digital printing technologies remains optimistic, however, those in charge of the adoption are concerned about budget within the next 12 months. The customer, sales, and marketing are the most influential groups supporting the adoption, contrasted with the president, and owners/shareholders with the most reserved view. The normative referents in the organization were shown to have the highest degree of influence and effect on Intention, illustrating the clarity of that construct in this specific research context. The discussion of the results covers three themes relevant to digital adoption in labels: budgetary concerns, customer-driven demands, and optimization of the production of sold goods."--Abstract.







Label Printing for Profitability


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Every business aims to make a profit, although profit is not always guaranteed if you are not doing the right thing. The quality of a product is first assessed through the packaging and its branding; an attractive label printing gives your potential buyers a good impression about your product. Have you spent so much on printing labels for your product, and you are not getting the desired results? Do you need a cost-effective approach to your printing work? There is always a print solution and a cost-effective approach to the various print task, as there are better and more economical techniques to achieving a more reliable and sustainable output. Label Printing for Profitability is a book prepared to enlighten its potential readers on various printing techniques available in the market today, and factors that determine their applicability. This book is set to expose you to the following: Modern printing technique as well the classical methods, and their advantages as well their limitations; The industrial application of various printing techniques, and their cost-benefit analysis; Factors that determine the choice of a printing technique, and how you can make the best choice towards profitability; The ideal substrate for your print solution; The importance of quality barcode printing in business labelling; The criteria and factors to consider before purchasing a barcode printer as well as other types of printers; to mention but a few. Are you still waiting? Grab a copy NOW! Click on the BUY button, and the information is all yours. Cheers! Get a free e-version of this book when you purchase a paperback.




Handbook of Industrial Inkjet Printing


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Unique in its integration of individual topics to achieve a full-system approach, this book addresses all the aspects essential for industrial inkjet printing. After an introduction listing the industrial printing techniques available, the text goes on to discuss individual topics, such as ink, printheads and substrates, followed by metrology techniques that are required for reliable systems. Three iteration cycles are then described, including the adaptation of the ink to the printhead, the optimization of the ink to the substrate and the integration of machine manufacturing, monitoring, and data handling, among others. Finally, the book summarizes a number of case studies and success stories from selected areas, including graphics, printed electronics, and 3D printing as well a list of ink suppliers, printhead manufacturers and integrators. Practical hints are included throughout for a direct hands-on experience. Invaluable for industrial users and academics, whether ink developers or mechanical engineers, and working in areas ranging from metrology to intellectual property.




Post-Digital Letterpress Printing


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This book presents an overview of the convergence of traditional letterpress with contemporary digital design and fabrication practices. Reflecting on the role of letterpress within the emergent hybrid post-digital design process, contributors present historical and contemporary analysis, grounded in case studies and current practice. The main themes covered include the research on letterpress as a technology and medium; a reflection on the contribution of letterpress to arts and design education; and current artistic and communication design practice merging past, present and future digital fabrication processes. This will be of interest to scholars working in graphic design, communication design, book design, typography, typeface design, design history, printing, and production technologies.




Encyclopedia of Label Technology


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In the ten years since the first ever Encyclopedia for the label producer and label user sectors was published it has become an established and well-respected international reference source, providing a comprehensive understanding of the technology and terminology for all kinds of label and product decoration solutions. It included materials, adhesives, printing methods, application technologies, inspection systems as well as the related areas of tickets and tags. It also covered legislative requirements and the growing area of brand protection and security as well as new innovations, including smart labels, RFID, indicator labels and chipless tags. Now these topics have been substantially updated and extended in the latest edition of the Encyclopedia to incorporate the production of narrow-to-mid-web package printing, the fast-changing world of digital imaging, printing and finishing, digital direct-to-shape and the new technologies of digital watermarking, mobile interactive labels and packaging, as well as the latest converting and tooling solutions and an understanding of printed sachets, pouches, flexible packaging and cartons. More information has been included on the environment and sustainability, and mention made of all the leading industry associations and relevant bodies. More informative, more relevant and more comprehensive, this new edition of the Encyclopedia should be a basic reference source for every label printer/converter and industry supplier - as well as for the designer, pack producer and brand owner looking to better understand label and related technology, markets and applications.