Digital press pioneer will use Labelexpo next month to release new Eco toners, which the company says align themselves along two main axes: sustainability and food safety.

OKI and Graphtec are in a strategic partnership to provide solutions that address the varying applications for creating ‘ready to use’ labels and packaging.

Xeikon says a host of breakthrough solutions will be on show when it sets up its stall at Labelexpo, all focused on making label and packaging production easier sustainable.

The world’s biggest label printing show, Labelexpo, will open its doors in just two months' time, with the Brussels show set to be the biggest in its history, there are 600 exhibitors on the expo floor.

The new Konica Minolta AccurioLabel 400 Press – designed for on-demand label print production with the latest in automated technology – has won a trio of global product awards.

Gallus has celebrated its 100 year anniversary by opening its new Gallus Experience Center, and launching Converting on its Gallus One digital press, as part of the company’s Gallus Experience Days.

Jason Brown is the new managing director at Label Line, taking the reins at the 24-year-old Bayswater-based business, which specialises in supplying self-adhesive blank labels.

Unimax has become the first label and packaging printer in New Zealand to install the new Screen L350UV SAI Inkjet Press, as it upgrades from its original L350UV.

Label giant CCL is launching a new online ordering platform, which it says will provide a personalised experience for its customers, and drive increased conversions, retention and value.

The successful collaboration between digital pouch and label printer Luminar, now part of the QLM Group, and food start-up Mingle, is continuing with Luminar printing the newly rebranded packaging.

Label printers will need to pack their boardies and sunnies for future Labelexpo events, the global show is moving to Barcelona, with this September’s event set to be the last-ever in Brussels.

Leading trade label printing house Foxcil has ceased all production, bringing down the curtain on what was one of the country’s most innovative print business, after a ten-year pioneering run. Its customers and general manager are now with Guru Labels.

Digital print pioneer Xeikon is launching a new entry-level UV inkjet label press, the Label Discovery Panther, which it says will be profitable if it runs for just two hours a day.

WA print business Footprint has produced a quarter of a million labels in the first 10 weeks of its new label operation, produced on its new Epson SurePress L-4533AW, supplied by Fujifilm.

Print service provider and self-described print geek Leon Wilson, from Ballarat based Revolution Print, lit up LIVE with an inspiring story of transforming the general offset jobbing printer into a technologically advanced set-up, now including inhouse digital label printing.

Label printing business Prestige Labels & Print has been placed into voluntary liquidation by owner Gary Weinberg, owing $151,000 to creditors, most of whom are other label printers, but the company has nothing in the bucket for them to claim against, with zero assets or funds.