November 2024 - Koenig & Bauer Durst Digital Packaging Print

Press productivity – supporting our customers

By Andreas Rogl, Application Engineer, Koenig & Bauer Durst

A comprehensive customer support approach is offered to all customers for our single-pass digital presses serving the corrugated and folding carton markets.

Digital enables production agility, managing short job runs, reducing time to market, and limitless customization. But for many it’s still a new and developing technology.

Here are the main points of how we help our customers in their digital journey:

Pre-installation support: The process begins with pre-installation training and consultation, ensuring all team members are familiar with the new technology and its integration into existing workflows.
Onsite optimization: Onsite visits focus on optimizing production workflows, including stack handling and paper quality, to enhance overall efficiency.
Training and communication: Extensive training is provided for all relevant personnel to foster strong communication, enabling quick resolution of operational challenges. At one customer site, a dramatic productivity improvement resulted from comprehensive training programme given for all core staff, even for the operators.
Key considerations for success:
- Board quality: Our customers usually have a wide variety of paper and corrugated boards and, of course, tend to maximize cost savings. We help them to choose the best corrugated boards for the Delta SPC130 to save money and to achieve the best production output on the press.
- Maintenance: As volumes grow, I’ve experienced some customers running three shifts on a 24-hour basis. Time for maintenance is limited. Therefore, we train our customers to perform maintenance in the most efficient way and to keep their uptime on the highest level.
- Software and workflow optimization: Keeping software updated and grouping similar tasks can improve efficiency.
- Cost efficiency: Strategies like optimizing ink usage and energy settings can reduce costs per m².
- Communication: It’s essential that everybody who is involved in the operational processes around the Delta SPC130, from pre-press to operators, speaks the same language. We support them with knowledge transfer and training.
Ongoing consultancy: Customer support extends beyond installation, with regular account reviews to address challenges, explore new opportunities, and stay informed about industry trends.
Investment in knowledge: The partnership is positioned as a long-term investment, focusing on expanding clients’ digital knowledge and ensuring profitability.

Overall, the approach emphasizes a holistic strategy to maximize the capabilities of digital presses, ensuring clients can fully leverage their investments.

21. November 2024

Sound out the rockstar of corrugated printing at TMV

Events, General News

By Matthias Krautgasser, Senior Product Manager, Koenig & Bauer Durst

The corrugated printing market is evolving at breakneck pace. What worked yesterday will soon be outdated.

Your customers want everything, and they want it now. How will you keep up successfully?

The pressure isn’t just internal; it is external too: regulations, sustainability, environmental responsibility.

But this can be turned to your advantage. Meet the rockstar of corrugated printing! The Delta SPC 130, the only machine flexible enough to keep up with the constant changes in the market.

I’ll be explaining our philosophy and market approach at next week’s TMV meeting in Seeheim on Monday Nov. 18^th in the Spotlights starting 11:00 am.

My presentation, entitled “Stronger together for an answer to your needs”, will cover many topics. These will include small print runs, large formats, campaigns, promotions, fast turnaround times. Whatever the customer decides, the machine delivers.

Our entry-level Delta SPC 130 is the Core model, which provides your flexible entry into the world of digital printing. If small isn’t enough… think bigger!

The Delta SPC 130 grows with you. Automatic feeding, stacking, additional colours, primer, white, (digital water-based primer, and digital water based white) your production capacity grows with your demands.

The Delta SPC 130: modular, expandable, adaptable, this machine can handle it all. We are very flexible, growing to your needs and cope with the challenges.

Talk to us and shape your future before someone else does!

13. November 2024

VariJET provides perfect color match for brands

General News, Innovation

By Maik Laubin, VP Sales, Digital Printing Solutions, Sheetfed Koenig & Bauer

The incredible versatility and capabilities of the VariJET 106 and benefits of hybrid production are answering the calls from brands for precise color matching in digital printing.`

Brands require color consistency with exact color matches to maintain identity across various media, as color variations can dilute brand recognition.

The opening of the new VariJET 106 Customer Demo Center in Radebeul allows potential clients from diverse sectors (cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, healthcare and food & drink etc.) to see live printing, reinforcing confidence in the technology for folding carton markets.

Coating and finishing units can be flexibly configured before and after the digital printing unit to realize a variety of inline finishing options. Customers pay a particular interest in the double-coater configuration of our VariJET.

They also like the preciseness in terms of printing fine lines and small text, as well as barcodes. Variablility and serialization are something to be explored and are only manageable with our software cost efficiency.

That is why we are so proud to have Durst’s software supporting the VariJET, which is established with over 1,000 systems globally, contributing to high productivity and reliability.

With declining run lengths and demands for faster times to market, there’s a shift towards hybrid solutions combining digital and offset printing, which the VariJET complements effectively.

Increased visitor interest at the Demo Center indicates strong demand for testing capabilities and hands-on experience with the technology.

Overall, the VariJET 106 is positioned as a cutting-edge solution for brands seeking consistent color quality and efficient production in packaging

Koenig & Bauer is convinced that the VariJET digital and Rapida offset technologies are a perfect, complementary match for hybrid production.

I urge you to visit us in Radebeul to test files you bring and print on your own substrates. You’ll be amazed at the advances we have made in folding carton production in such a short time.

7. November 2024