Heidelberg shows off its connective packaging technology

- Practical customer demonstrations cover entire value-added chains for packaging printing at Print Media Center in Wiesloch-Walldorf

 

- Focus on interaction of technology, services, and consumables for successful business models, with presentation of Prinect packaging workflow

 

Packaging converters gathered at Heidelberg’s Print Media Center in Wiesloch-Walldorf during September for a two-day briefing on the latest connective packaging technology on offer from the German manufacturer.

 

The focus of the Packaging Days event was on HEI Quality and HEI Productivity, with the company’s own Prinect Inspection Control system demonstrated as part of a complete packaging workflow.

 

With the aim of showing how effective integrated production can be, Heidelberg based actual value-added chains around a Speedmaster XL 106 press, a Dymatrix 106 Pro CSB die cutter, and Diana X80 and X115 folder gluers, all equipped with full logistics, and one Diana with the company’s latest Braille module.

 

For the first time, Heidelberg dedicated a full day to the application of Prinect technology for carton converters. Each stage of production, from job creation to the delivery of finished cartons, was integrated as part of the program, and converters were shown in real time the benefits of shorter make-ready times and reduced waste levels that Prinect can offer.

 

The presentations highlighted the benefit of an industrialized production process in which consistency and repeatability are key factors. The converters were also introduced to Prinect Package Designer, a structural design suite of software that creates graphics, and applies them directly to the package using Adobe Illustrator, with the ability to show 3-D visuals for checking.

 

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