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

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