Official quality company according to ISO 12647-2
Repetitive, reliable print quality is one of the most important quality features of a packaging printer. Colour fluctuations are particularly noticeable to the customer when packages with different printing results stand next to each other on the shelf or at the consumer's home. The print quality of packaging therefore has a significant influence on the consumer's quality assessment.
To meet this special quality demand for cardboard packaging, we have installed a quality management system that guarantees a maximum degree of colour reliability. We use the latest printing technology from Heidelberger Druckmaschinen, check every printed sheet with spectrophotometric measuring technology and adjust and calibrate all influencing parameters at regular intervals.
We use the latest printing technology from Heidelberger Druckmaschinen, check every printed sheet with spectrophotometric measuring technology and adjust and calibrate all influencing parameters at regular intervals.
For the materials used, such as cardboard, ink and varnish, we rely exclusively on reliable and well-known regional partners.
We also have our colour management system certified at regular intervals according to ISO standard 12647-2 as an external reference.
Official quality company according to ISO 12647-2
A particular challenge when printing on cardboard is above all the diversity of the surfaces of the many different materials used.
.For example, the smoothness, absorbency and whiteness of the cardboard has a direct influence on the print result
.Sometimes it makes sense to deliberately deviate from the ISO standard in order to achieve special effects. For example, a particularly high colour intensity or when dealing with tinted types of cardboard such as brownish or grey recycled cardboard as well as through-dyed fine cardboard.
Our printing press has a direct influence on the print result.
Our press has 5 printing units. Four of them are usually used for Euroscale colour printing with the basic colours of the subtractive colour mixture cyan, magenta and yellow as well as black. The fifth inking unit is often used for additional special colours according to Pantone or HKS, for example, to achieve particularly luminous or especially pure colours.
The finishing also has a strong influence on the print result. For example, matt varnishes or laminations tend to make the print result lighter. A black surface, for example, changes somewhat towards grey after a matt film lamination. Gloss varnish and gloss lamination, on the other hand, tend to make the print result look more brilliant.
It should also be noted that offset printing involves glazing colours and the basic principle is that a white substrate is used.
So when printing on tinted, solid-coloured or metallised boards, this tone will basically shine through. If opaque colours are to be printed, one must therefore switch to alternative printing processes such as hot foil stamping or screen printing. We are of course happy to receive questions and suggestions about the wealth of options we have in the area of printing and finishing.