Obaly Morava has installed the world’s first HP high-speed inkjet corrugated packaging solution for pre-printing of corrugated liners.
A privately-owned corrugated board producer based in the Czech Republic, the company provides a broad range of corrugated products to the Czech Republic and surrounding markets, including up to nine-layer corrugated board and boxes. Obaly Morava installed the press in June, becoming the first user of the new solution, which is based on the HP T400 simplex color inkjet web press.
‘Market demands and the technology available are changing dramatically, and we are taking a fresh look at how to best meet our customers’ needs, such as individualisation and differentiation from the competition,’ said president Martin Rehorik. ‘I had a vision of what digital pre-print could potentially do for our business and reached out to HP to discuss the possibilities of its high-speed production inkjet technology for printing corrugated liners. HP helped turn that vision into a reality.’
With the new press, Obaly Morava digitally produces pre-printed corrugated top liners in back-to-back runs on the same substrate rolls for maximum efficiency. It then transfers the pre-printed rolls to its corrugator to produce corrugated board for packaging applications.
Adding value for new and existing customers, the press enables Obaly Morava to transition high-value jobs from analogue litho-lamination and flexographic processes to digital. This allows the company to take advantage of faster time to market, short and medium runs, versioning and reduced environmental footprint.
The company is further optimising its finishing processes with a Harris & Bruno International near-line coater, ideal for aqueous priming and overcoating printed substrates. It plans to eventually move this coater inline for priming and add a second coater for inline overcoating.
Printing on uncoated and coated corrugated substrates, premium offset media, and recycled and thin liners with speeds of up to 183 m/min, the press delivers faster turnaround times. It also features the new HP Priming Agent technology with four-colour HP A50 aqueous pigmented CMYK inks.
