DRUPA comes to an end. CHINA PRINT is coming soon

The 2024 Drupa Print Fair, which came to an end today, shared 18 exhibition halls in the Dusseldorf Exhibition Hall, covering all pavilions. A total of 1,646 exhibitors from 52 countries and regions around the world, covering segments including: pre-printing and printing, cross-media and pre-processing, post-press processing and packaging, future technology, material manufacturers, equipment services and infrastructure. Chinese exhibitors in recent years in the digital, intelligent, green and other aspects of remarkable progress.

During the Drupa exhibition, while visiting exhibitors, the CHINA PRINT 2025 promotion team under the leadership of Yang Bin, Vice president of the CHINA Printing Association, deepened the close ties between CHINA PRINT and the global printing industry by meeting overseas printing associations and holding press conferences, etc., and will attract more overseas exhibitors. Organize more overseas professional visitors to visit CHINA PRINT 2025, laying a solid foundation for the success of the exhibition.

At this exhibition, digital printing has once again become the focus of attention, as stated in the 'drupa 2024 guide' released by the organizer of the Drupa Exhibition: Regardless of size, region or market, all printing companies must recognize the huge changes digitalization has brought to the printing industry, and digital printing and traditional printing will coexist for a long time to come.

Through the visit, it was found that at this Drupa exhibition, many exhibitors launched large format digital inkjet printing equipment. Landa introduces a new generation of B1 format S11 and S11P nanoimage presses, which will offer high production versatility while achieving 11,200 sph printing speeds. Konica Minolta's One Pass B1+ digital inkjet press, MGI AlphaJet, innovates by integrating independent processes such as four-colour printing, drying, local UV and stamping into an integrated production process; HP launches the new Indigo 120K HD digital press with speeds of up to 6,000 sheets per hour (B2) and the ability to print more than two million sheets per month (B2). The varioPress iV, Canon's new B2+ inkjet press, has a printing speed of 8,700sph on one side and 4,350sph on both sides; Fujifilm's B2 format single-sheet digital inkjet printer Jet Press 750S, with its SAMBA nozzle, on-site connection of UV glossy oil, presented packaging application solutions to attract many professional visitors...

Printing equipment manufacturers in other fields have also introduced new digital and inkjet equipment. In partnership with Omet, the label company has launched the KJet hybrid press, which offers operators an efficient and seamless working environment with a user-centric design and extremely short roll paths, while reducing material waste and preparation time, demonstrating the full potential of digital printing. Geras has announced the launch of its innovative product System to Compose, which increases the print width from the original 340mm to 430mm, encouraging printers to create one-of-a-kind prints by improving technical compatibility and allowing additional units to be added, removed or replaced. The Mastermatrix 106 CSB full-cleaning die cutting machine brought by Evergreen Group in the field of post-press packaging represents its innovation achievements in high-speed die cutting technology, which realizes accurate and stable full-cleaning production at 9000S/H speed, and the new fast version change system is more efficient for diversified orders; Bost Group announces the DIGITAL MASTER 55, which integrates printing, finishing, quality control and die cutting processes with production speeds of up to 100 meters per minute, ensuring faster delivery and a better total cost of ownership (TCO). The global debut of the CutPRO X 106, a rotary die-cutting machine with a speed of up to 16,000 sheets/hour, provides the market with more choices...