Touching the future--- 2016 drupa printing exhibition in Germany. DRUPA is the world's largest printing exhibition, organized by Messe Düsseldorf, Germany, with the theme of "touch the future--- touch the future" in 2016.
The German drupa international printing exhibition is the most prestigious printing exhibition in the world, the German drupa international printing exhibition is held every four years, the last exhibition "Drupa2012", a total of 19 exhibition areas, the exhibition area of 166,000 square meters, more than 1,800 exhibitors from 52 countries around the world exhibited their new products and new technologies, of which 60% The exhibitors came from countries and regions outside Germany, and received about 314,000 professional visitors from 138 countries. The exhibition can be called the Olympic event of the printing and paper industry, and is called "the grand festival of printers" by industry insiders.
Let's take a look at some of the highlights of the show.
▲ 6 major business innovations
At this year's exhibition, Esco, as a global market leader in packaging, display, environmental printing and commercial printing, will bring six major business innovations to provide high-quality integrated packaging design solutions for global enterprises.
According to Udo Panenka, President of Escor, better packaging, more prominent logos, more exquisite labels and more eye-catching display racks are all important factors to promote consumers' desire to buy, but such diversified needs will bring a large number of short orders and higher speed requirements to packaging and printing factories, resulting in continuous cost increases.
The needs of our packaging and printing plant customers are the driving force behind Esco's innovation. At this year's drupa exhibition, Esko has set itself the goal of helping customers build a convenient and efficient printing production process to cope with the increasingly complex work orders in the packaging production process.
▲ HP developed PrintOS, iOS and Android compatible apps
HP's highlights at Printing Druba 2016 include:
1. Launched HP PageWide C500 press;
2. The world premiere of HP Indigo combination press technology;
3. Showcase HP Jet Fusion 3D Printing Solution;
4. Disclose new customers of HP Indigo devices;
5. The number of PrintOS customers has reached a new milestone;
At Drupa 2016, Hewlett-Packard unveiled a range of digital printing solutions that bring new business opportunities to print service providers. As the largest exhibitor at Drupa (the size of a football field), HP showcased more than 50 HP digital printing solutions, highlighting the innovation, speed, performance and power of digital printing.
Among the exhibits is the new HP PageWide C500 press, a flexible, reliable, industrial-grade corrugated postpress solution with proven HP PageWide technology. The new HP Indigo Combo Digital Press is capable of processing HP Indigo prints and their finishes in a single pass. To demonstrate the power of the full line, HP will also announce early customers with the new HPIndigo 12000, 8000, 7900 and 5900 digital presses, as well as the first test customers of the HP Indigo 50000.
"Drupa2016 is a great event for the graphic and graphic arts industry and a great time to showcase revolutionary innovations in printing and graphic art," said Mike Salfity, Global Leader, Graphic Graphics Solutions Group, Hewlett-Packard. HP's digital printing innovations are changing the economics of the graphic arts industry, redefining the role of printing. With a wide range of innovative technologies, HP aims to showcase the surprises that print technology can bring to print service providers and inspire them to adopt innovative technologies to address new business opportunities. ”
▲iGen5 150 Press
Xerox/Fuji Xerox's latest flagship product, the iGen 5 150 Press, a sheetfed color production electrostatic digital press, was undoubtedly the highlight of the show. The gamut can be expanded with a fifth dry ink – orange, green and blue – to enable more fifth spot color applications. In addition, the
iGen 5 150 Press automatically measures color samples to match the corresponding CMYK (Printing Quarter Mode) or fifth color, and automatically evaluates spot colors in the file to ensure the most accurate match. With a new color gamut for the fifth color dry ink application, the iGen 5 150 Press can match more than 90% of spot colors.
In addition to the iGen 5 150 Press sheet-fed color production electrostatic digital press, Xerox 18 digital printing systems and workflow solutions were unveiled at the 2016 drupa international printing exhibition. Under the theme of "Just Let the Work Flow", Xerox demonstrated how advanced technology can be seamlessly integrated into the printing workflow to bring more profit to customers through high-value-added solutions and applications.
At the exhibition, visitors were the first to see Canon's newly released production printing systems, including the Océ VarioPrint i300, a sheetfed inkjet printing machine with new features and finishing solutions, and the imagePRESSC10000VP/ imagePRESS C8000VP, a production digital printing machine with speeds of 100 pages per minute and 80 pages per minute, respectively. The OcéColorStream 6000 Chroma, a high-speed commercial inkjet system with the new Chromera ink group, the ImageStream2400, a full-color inkjet printer for standard coated paper, and the ColorWave 910, a high-speed, single-pass color inkjet printer. In addition, a number of new wide-format printers, which were exhibited for the first time in Europe, were also exhibited at Canon's booth to get up close and personal with visitors. imagePRESSC10000VP/ imagePRESS C8000VP production digital printing equipment (see Canon (China) The press release released on the official website on May 20), released to the Chinese market at the 2016 Shanghai Canon Expo, the new products provide offset-grade printing quality while ensuring high efficiency, and have also made many optimizations in terms of equipment stability and media diversity, effectively helping business users improve overall operational efficiency and business value, and have received a good response from Chinese users.
At the 2016 drupa printing exhibition, Canon showcased a rich line of production printing products, covering a variety of application scenarios in various segments of the printing industry. Powerful products combined with the latest software and finishing solutions can effectively help industry users reduce costs and maximize business value. Canon fulfills its brand promise of "Digital Printing, All in Canon" with practical actions to help users solve pain points in production and achieve a win-win situation.
Drupa exhibition indicates the development trend of printing technology in the next four or five years, where people can have a thorough understanding of the future development trend of printing technology, and provides an ideal business negotiation platform for printing enterprises;