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HP opens doors for digital Fujifilm at
Drupa 2024

packaging forum Fujifilm has confirmed

that its stand space at Drupa
2024 will be 20% bigger than
HP gathered customers She said: “Every time I at the last show in 2016, with
and Indigo experts at its come to the UK, they say that the Japanese manufacturer
London office yesterday (12 packaging is only fit for big gearing up to showcase a
October) for its first-ever UK volumes, and there is little
Packaging Forum event. opportunity for digital. With much-expanded portfolio.
The event, intended to Covid, this has all changed.” At the last Drupa in 2016,
inspire early adoption of The proliferation of small, Fujifilm exhibited alongside
digital print technology for often craft-based businesses, its then-joint venture partner
folding carton and flexible she added, has opened up Xerox in a 2,020sqm space in
packaging markets, saw the demand for fast, easily- the centre of the hall.
OEM host two sessions of ordered short run packaging It had originally opted to
presentations and panel dis- Kalas Packaging director Matt Evans took questions from floor in the UK. keep the same size booth and
cussions, with existing cus- trying to do new and innova- A major theme of the day She said: “We used to have location, but subsequently
tomers invited to share their tive things, compared to, was the explosion in cottage brands that knew how the decided to effectively take
experiences. say, adding a label press to a industries over the past sev- industry worked – these new ownership of the base of hall
“We want it to be about fleet of label presses, or a eral years that has propelled customers are used to 8b, which involves an addi-
having a discussion, as cut-sheet press to a commer- a surge in demand for short Amazon. They want their tional 400sqm of space.
opposed to being all about cial print room. This is, for runs of packaging. orders to arrive tomorrow, Fujifilm’s product portfo-
our technology,” said Peter most people, new ground. Justine Rexer, HP’s B2B and they don’t want to have lio has grown substantially
Jolly, HP Industrial’s UK I’m a big believer in conver- marketing product manager to send 50 emails back and since the last Drupa, includ-
country manager. sation, because sometimes a for packaging, had flown in forth to check the artwork. ing its own-design Acuity
He told Printweek: question sparks another to London for the event from And they will pay for that range of wide-format print-
“We’re talking about people thought.” HP’s Barcelona office. privilege.” ers.
Screen to rebadge latest AA Labels buys B2+

Kyocera as UK sales loom HP Indigo 12000

Peterborough-based AA
Kyocera’s new SRA3-plus Labels has dived into the
sheetfed inkjet press drew folding carton market with
crowds at Printing United its purchase of a brand-new
Expo, while Screen has B2+ HP Indigo 12000 and
announced it will also sell TruCoat auto-fed lamina-
the device. Kyocera
announced the 150 A4 tor. The new machines
images per minute TaskAlfa arrived at AA Labels at the HP’s B2 Indigo 12000
Pro 55000c earlier this end of September and
month. Screen announced quickly entered production, MD, told Printweek: “We
this week that it will sell it as TaskAlfa Pro 55000c: 9,000 A4 images per hour with speeds so far reaching researched for nearly a
the Truepress Jet S320, inte- Japan. installations from April up to 3,000sph of book rate year, through 2021 and
grated with its Equios work- Both devices use Screen’s 2024. of 4,600sph. The TruCoat, 2022, to find out what our
flow system. Both presses proprietary Truepress SC/ “We have a device we are bought directly from manu- competitors were doing,
were on show in Atlanta, SC+ ink, which allows print- installing into our German facturer TecLighting, pro- and how they were process-
with Kyocera allowing visi- ing onto coated papers with- vides gloss, satin or matte ing their orders. “That was
tors to take away printed out the need for coating or company later in October so finishes at up to 4,000sph. very interesting, because
samples – showing the priming. Regarding the UK if customers wish to see it, we The web-to-print busi- we found that a lot of peo-
promised commercial qual- market, Rod Tonna-Barthet, will be able to take them to ness’ expansion into pack- ple were either outsourc-
ity colour output on coated president and CEO of visit.” aging – largely cosmetics ing, or using more
paper. K y o c e r a D o c u m e n t Pricing has not yet been and food items – was a well- economic equipment.”
Kyocera and Screen are Solutions UK and Ireland, disclosed, but he said it thought-out process. The company currently
neighbouring corporates in told Printweek he expected would be highly competitive. Sohail Sethi, AA Labels’ turns over around £4m.

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