Printing Competence
We bring color to your business
Packaging plays a significant role for the presentation of your products. We are offering all relevant printing processes for each requirement. Whether high-quality flexographic print (pre or post), offset print or industrial digital print - we always have the most suitable solution, also for the following finishing. We have the understanding of being the service partner alongside our customer and have the latest technology, experience and the necessary know-how at our disposal.
Flexographic print
With flexographic print, we are offering a diverse printing process with many advantages: during flexographic printing, the finished corrugated board sheet is being printed on and in combination with other processing steps, it becomes highly economic.
In order to ensure high-quality, repeatable printing results, most of our printing machines use vacuum transportation in between the printing units, as well as chamber or negative blades, ceramic screen rolls, and quick-changing screen roll systems.
For an excellent flexographic printing results we use a 6-color offset-printing machine by Cuir, a 6-color Masterflex HD in line with a Mastercut 2.1, as well as a 5 and 7-color inline-machine by Martin, which have a drying unit in between each printing unit. Our flexographic print is setting standards within our industry.
Offset Printing
This method usually has a sheet of paper or solid board being printed on an offset machine and laminates it subsequently onto an open or closed sheet of corrugated board before being processed further. Exceeding a certain batch size we combine the lamination process with the manufacturing of corrugated board on an inline-lamination machine.
Offset-printing is always the better alternative when:
- the high requirements for the print can no longer be met by flexographic print.
- the total batch size is too small to offset the costs for reprography and plates for flexographic print.
- the consistency of the printing result is of highest priority.
Industrial Digital-Print
At our location in Mayen is manufacturing on a single-pass digital printing machine, which makes us pioneers within our industry when it comes to digital printing. Digital printing offers our customers a multitude of advantages and opens the door to many different areas of application:
- Higher Flexibility
- Faster production times since no printing plates are needed
- Smaller batch sizes possible even for motives of highest quality
- Serialisation, e.g. sequential numbers or barcodes
- Versioning, e.g. in different languages or regional promotions
- Individualization of packaging, e.g. personalization
Multi pass digital printing
Whether it is small batch sizes, a prototype for a presentation or something similar, with the multi-pass digital printing method excellent results can be achieved on the actual material. Even other materials such as glass, metal, or plastic can be digitally printed on.
Finishings
On demand, we are offering finishings for packaging and displays with lacquers of UV- or water-basis. Matt surfaces, high-gloss motives or just the lacquering of single elements are possible. Haptic lacquers simulate difference surfaces such as leather or velvet. Packaging becomes tangible. In addition we also offer a combination of lacquers with matt-gloss-effects or softtouch. On demand technical lacquers, e.g. with anti-slip or fat- or water-resistant characteristics can be added. Metallic finishes such as hot and cold foil-embossing and foil lamination complete our portfolio.
Prepress
Good preparation is (almost) everything
Being able to consistently provide excellent, repeatable printing results does not only require investments in the latest technology. Just as important, is a workflow-based preparation, a very close collaboration with suppliers for paper, ink, roller, and printing plates and the most important ingredient: the training and development of the employees. Our employees are “hungry” for excellent printing results.
Part of a good preparation for us is:
- In-house digital pre-print for offset-, flexographic- and digital-print
- In-house offset printing plate manufacturing
- Pre-print stage, CAD- and ERP-Systems are connected via workflow
- Rapid Packaging Prototyping via virtual 3D-models and digitally printed mock-ups.
- Digitally controlled ink-mixer and formulation
- Ink and lacquer proofing by in-house laboratory
- Proof printing of customer specific colors on in-house proofing press with original paper and within a standardized laboratory environment
- Digital color proofing during production
