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On 13 June 2017, GMG announced OpenColor 2.1 a new release of its award-winning multichannel profiling software especially useful packaging proofing. OpenColor 2.1 now offers a measurement capability for custom patches. Whereas previously customers would require a specific test chart to create a color profile, GMG OpenColor 2.1 enables the measurement of full-tone patches from a print control strip, or even solid patches and tint patches on the running printed sheet and to create a profile from the captured spectral data, something it claims that no other profiling tool can achieve.

At Labelexpo Europe 2017, TRESU Group (Stand 7D53) will highlight its comprehensive range of ancillary products for controlling ink flow in flexographic label and package printing

Sustainability, efficiency and product safety are among the top issues that will be addressed at the latest packaging technology at Pack Expo in Las Vegas from 25–27 September 2017. The event, organized by The Association of Packaging and Processing Technologies (PMMI), will be co-located with the Healthcare Packaging Expo and is expected to host 30,000 attendees, including 5,000 international visitors from more than 125 countries, and 2,000-plus exhibiting companies that will span nearly 900,000  square feet of an almost sold-out exhibition floor.

Family-owned Printsystem GmbH has just put an automatic Tecnau cutting line into operation at its headquarters in Heimsheim, near Stuttgart in Germany. The company will use the Tecnau line to process the output from a newly installed Océ ColorStream 6900 Chroma Twin inkjet web press from Canon.

Among the top packaging converters in Pakistan, privately-owned Saima Packaging is home to top-flight equipment for printing flexible materials including, most recently, a Bobst RS 4003MP gravure press which has cut make-ready times and reduced waste. The 8-color Bobst RS 4003MP installed last year at Saima Packaging’s flexible packaging production facility in Karachi, Pakistan, features technical solutions for automation and reduced waste that enable it to be operated profitably with any mix of print job lengths, from short to long run production.

Based on the economic indicators of the last 12-18 months, the state of North American packaging, especially in the US, is very strong, according to Charles D Yuska, president and chief executive officer, The Association of Packaging & Processing Technologies (PMMI), during a press conference at interpack 2017. Rising employment, increase in the pace of wage growth and low inflation has put American consumers in a position of strength, which is expected to raise the level of spending in 2017.