Digital Label and Package Printing: Terminology, technology, materials, management and performance - Tapa blanda

Digital Label and Package Printing incorporates much of the combined knowledge of many of the world’s leading experts to provide a comprehensive guide to understanding how these technologies work - whether electrophotographic liquid and dry toner or inkjet. It also explains the enhanced requirements that digital printing brings to color management, origination and pre-press, workflow, demands on substrates, digital analog and laser finishing, and how converters should look to manage and market the digital printing operation.

Chapters include:

• Digital label and package printing - evolution and trends
• Digital printing - technology, imaging and terminology
• Digital drop on demand color label presses
• Digital package printing - new solutions and opportunities
• Pre-press strategies for profitable digital printing
• Substrate selection and print quality
• Digital print finishing - options and opportunities
• The potential of laser die-cutting and finishing
• Managing the digital process in label and package printing plants
• Markets and applications for digital printing

Michael Fairley has been writing and speaking about label and packaging materials, technology and applications since the 1970s, both as the founder of Labels & Labeling and other print industry magazine titles and as an international consultant writing label industry market and technology research reports for the likes of Frost & Sullivan, Economist Intelligence Unit, Pira, InfoTrends and Labels & Labelling Consultancy.

He now works as a consultant to Tarsus Exhibitions & Publishing - which organizes the Labelexpo shows, Label Summits and publishes Labels & Labeling magazine - as well as regularly speaking at industry conferences and seminars.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Package / Packaging Society, Fellow of IP3, a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Stationers, an Honorary Life Member of FINAT and a Licentiate of the City & Guilds of London Institute. He was awarded the R. Stanton Avery Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009.