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Bedruckte Tapete, Gifhorn, Germany

With the installation of the Durst Smart Shop and their new visualization options, bedruckte-tapete.de has pushed the door wide open into the private customer sector. In addition, the Smart Editor helps the company to expand its range of products very easily and quickly at any time.

What the company bedruckte-tapete.de does is essentially already in the company name, although the managing director Regina Waue has significantly expanded the range in recent years. Today, door foils, wall tattoos, kitchen backsplashes and various photo gifts are also part of the range offered by the service provider from Gifhorn in Lower Saxony. Apart from business customers from the range of the building of fairs and the interior decoration also ever more private customers use the offer. In the private sector in particular, a web store is the success factor par excellence, assures Regina Waue, although a web store is also an important instrument for customer loyalty in the B2B sector.

Page-Builder: a modular system for webshops

The company is already successfully using the third generation of the Durst Smart Shop and benefits from the consistent further developments of the solution. At this point, the managing director particularly highlights the functionality of the Page-Builder, which is available in the current version and truly makes the Durst Smart Shop an out-of-the-box store. "The Page-Builder is structured like a modular system. It's very easy to create or adapt new pages via drag-and-drop. This has helped us a lot to optimize the entire web store and here especially to increase the user-friendliness for our customers from the private sector." The project was implemented without external service providers such as web designers or IT specialists, as Regina Waue assures. "With a little graphic flair, you can design a professional webshop with the page builder, and Durst's support was always there to help us with technical questions."

Smart editor with powerful 3D visualization tool

Customers can upload their own images via the integrated Smart Editor and get an idea of how the image will look in the desired size in a predefined environment such as a living room, bathroom or kitchen. This applies to about 90 percent, with the rest drawing on various databases such as Adobe Stock or Pattern Design. The customer defines the format in the Smart Editor, specifies the section of the image or graphic and can place any text. A small but very useful tool in daily practice is the analysis of the image quality. At a glance, the customer can see whether the resolution is sufficient for the selected format or not. Finally, a 3D visualization tool conveys how the product will then look in concrete terms. "With this type of 3D visualization, we can lower the inhibition threshold until the actual order is placed. Since we've been using the new editor, the order rate in our web store has increased noticeably." The introduction of the current version has also expanded the range of photo gifts with printed towels, which are particularly popular with private customers. "Smart Editor gives us the opportunity to easily and quickly launch a test balloon to see how the market reacts to our offer. It's really fun!"

Legal certainty is provided

Printable PDFs are also created directly in the web store, which are then subjected to another visual check and then sent directly to the various printing systems. Of course, administrative tasks such as order confirmations, delivery bills and invoices are also created automatically by the Durst Smart Shop. An important issue that is often not given as much weight in the evaluation phase is legal security.

This aspect, too, was carefully thought out and neatly set up by Durst. The templates are prepared for the necessary legal security and only need to be filled with the appropriate content. All the points listed make the Durst Smart Shop a mature solution from Regina Waue's point of view. "To date, I have not found a comparable solution. User-friendliness for our customers is absolutely paramount with the Durst Smart Shop. This is where you very quickly reach the limits with other solutions."

Customer Success Story, Megalabel, Brazil, Sao Paulo

The strategic investment in a Tau 330 RSC E in 2020 became a game changer for the Brazilian company Megalabel. Originally, their first digital label printer was only intended to ensure cost-effective industrial-scale production at very high quality and speed. And to fill the gap between flexographic printing and short-run digital production. But after a very short time, it was clear that the Tau 330 RSC E would serve Megalabel's production needs perfectly - at significantly lower production costs.

Owner Marcio Romano: "The Tau 330 RSC E made us rethink our flexo production park. Many jobs have already been moved from flexo to digital. Its print quality, a white like silk, the variety of substrates and its "aggressive" speed make the Tau the right choice for many jobs. And the support provided by Durst's Brazilian subsidiary is the icing on the cake. Support from a local partner gives us a clear competitive advantage. When we need help, it's quickly on site!"

The digital transformation of Amonn Print

The history of the Amonn family business began in 1802 with the opening of a general store in Bolzano. Since then 7 generations have developed and each of them opened up new business areas. The collaboration with Durst already began in the 1930s when Amonn acquired two Durst Laborator for the mass production of postcards. For more than 20 years now, Amonn Print has been producing labels and packaging, and since 2019 also digitally. After a thorough demand analysis, the management opt for the Durst Tau 330 RSC E digital label printer. Thanks to the RSC technology, its color consistency and speed, and the simplicity of digital production, Amonn Print is now 70% digital.

Durst Customer Success Story: Boxitut (packaging consultancy Hage), Sonnenbühl-Undingen Germany

Boxitut-shop.de: New Smart Shop solution from Durst offers customers more flexibility and creativity in packaging production

„The online shop needed to entail concentrated expert knowledge and offer customers fair prices. Durst was a professional partner who accompanied us on this journey in a goal-oriented, reliable and competent manner.

Ursula Hage, Managing Director, Verpackungsberatung Hage GmbH & Co. KG

In 1998 Ursula Hage and her husband started their own business. Having advanced from a small two-man business to an internationally operating packaging manufacturer, Verpackungsberatung Hage GmbH & CO.KG now has almost 30 employees and an annual turnover of over €5 million. In 2011 the company began to switch to digital production and invested in plotter technology and later also in digital flatbed printers. The company supplies to a wide range of industries: furniture industry, medical and laboratory technology, tool technology, automotive industry and the food industry. The digital production facility that belongs to the company (Albfactory) specializes in packaging and displays made of cardboard and corrugated board.

"Many years ago, we were aware that digitalisation brings with it a change of times and so we had the vision of an online shop for corrugated board packaging already in 2016. Thanks to our plotter technology, we already had access to a software on which Durst had an online shop based. So with the help of Durst our online shop quickly became a hit."

In 2019, Mrs. Hage and her husband decided to further upgrade and modernize the online shop with the new Durst Smart Shop solution to offer their customers even more flexibility and creativity in product design. The Boxitut, the new online shop, went live in March 2020.

Ursula Hage explains: "The entire menu and navigation of the Boxitut is new, you can get to the product and the order menu faster from all points. The online shop is even more user-friendly, the entire graphics have been improved and users get more inspiration through product suggestions. This makes the customer approach much more direct and thanks to Durst's enhanced Smart Editor, the whole process is much smoother and faster."

"In addition, customers are excited about the fact that the punch contours can be downloaded to create complete designs via the marketing department or with their own software and upload the file again during the ordering process. Furthermore, the 3D preview is an important, improved feature, which is especially crucial for the approval of the product. Another new feature is that we can define millimetre sizes during the packaging design process."

The order data is transmitted online to the production department and processed there in a purely digital form. The well-equipped production facility, which also includes a Durst Delta 250 WT Multi-Pass UV printer using odorless ink, which is highly suited for a range of corrugated packaging, guarantees customers short delivery times and lean cost structures.

"Thanks to the upgraded online shop, we will definitely tap into new markets. More and more companies, especially young start-ups, are looking to do business over the Internet, and that’s currently increasing due to Corona and minimized contact. Our digital production has given us a great advantage," says Ms. Hage. "The data generated in the online shop can be send to production without checking - the core element of the software was crucial here."

"We can highly recommend the company Durst and their service. Our contact people are competent, always available and have supported us professionally with the digital implementation step by step. The Boxitut is highly praised by our customers."

Durst Customer Success Story: Mediapoint, Melbourne, Australia

With the Durst Rho 512R LED, Mediapoint has added another Durst press to its production site and was able to increase productivity by up to 14 times. Not only the productivity played a decisive role, but also the higher quality, the sustainability of the printer and the inks, the possibility to expand their portfolio and the return of investment: "With Durst you are getting a machine that will last longer than anything else on the market." says Jamie Xuereb, Co-Founder, Mediapoint.

Durst Customer Success Story: Grupo Macho, Morón de la Frontera, Sevilla, Spain

It all began in 1954 with a small printing shop for business stationery, before Etiquetas Macho specialized in label printing. Today the family business is run by the third generation, led by Juan Macho. As production costs for digitally printed labels are falling and the market is increasingly demanding short runs, he is convinced that the future of Grupo Macho will lie in digital printing. Therefore, the company invested in a Tau 330 RSC, the fastest digital printing solution with inkjet technology available today. It offers Etiquetas Macho, in addition to its high print quality and Heptachromia plus White, the advantage of a hybrid production line with a flexo unit.

Tasmania’s Road Signs are printed with the traffic sign printer from Durst

Eye Spy Signs, Cambridge, Tasmania, Australia

Durst Rho 163 TS in production at Eye Spy Signs

Eye Spy Signs strengthens its position as industry leader with installation of Durst Rho 163 TS printer.

Eye Spy Signs started out in a suburban home garage in Hobart (Tasmania – Australia) back in 1994 eking out an existence as a dedicated Real Estate sign provider. In 1996 the Company bought the Government’s Main Roads sign workshop at tender and all of a sudden became heavily involved in road sign manufacture for the State of Tasmania.

For the next 20 years, our road signs were made using conventional methods – screen printing or cut vinyl – both high in labour content and inherently inefficient. In the meantime, the development of digital printing processes – and in particular ink technology (in conjunction with 3M) was progressing at a quick pace.

In March 2017, Eye Spy took delivery of a Durst Rho 163 TS and all of a sudden, another world opened up. It quickly re-affirmed our position as industry leader. As well as conventional roll-to-roll printing, it offered many side benefits including the ability to print flat substrates. For example, we very frequently print jobs direct to corflute requiring no over laminate. These days we put many different types of substrates through the machine – it is so versatile.

Year on year, our turnover has increased whilst our labour levels have decreased.

Running costs are surprisingly low and the reliability of the machine is nothing short of incredible - we have experienced machine availability exceeding 99% since it was commissioned. When needed, support from Durst has been outstanding and the fact that we are in different hemispheres/time zones has made little difference.

John Howard B.Eng (Hons), Managing Director, EYE SPY SIGNS P/L says: "In summary the acquisition of the machine is the best business decision that EYE SPY has ever made. It was not cheap, but what do you expect to pay if you are buying the best in the world?"

Tasmania’s Road Signs are printed with the traffic sign printer from Durst

Rondo, St Ruprecht an der Raab, Austria

We didn’t just buy a machine, we bought a whole system involving software, analytical tools and calculation tools, so we are very happy that we don’t need any additional software

Rondo’s digital transformation for its corrugated packaging business has been driven by brands who have opened their minds to the new wave of opportunities from sustainable production where flexibility and time to market are crucial driving factors.

Digital corrugated production is now going up by 25-30% a year for Austria-based Rondo St Ruprecht an der Raab, one of six plants in Europe for the family-owned Rondo Ganahl Group. The company specializes in corrugated board production using flexo, offset and digital technologies. It has never looked back since making a leap of faith two years ago and becoming one of the world’s first users of the Durst SPC 130 water-based technology.

Managing all data through the Durst workflow with its sophisticated color management, analytical tools and variable data creation, has made a strong and positive difference – all provided through Durst Professional Services.

Robert Posch, Operations Manager at Rondo St Ruprecht an der Raab, said: “We didn’t just buy a machine, we bought a whole system involving software, analytical tools and., calculation tools, so we are very happy that we don’t need any additional software. The brand Lindt & Sprüngli, as an example, has extremely dark and powerful red colours, as well as brown. With the powerful Color management features, we have been able to reproduce them accurately and we have matched their demands.”

Mr Posch added: “We are looking forward to working with Koenig & Bauer and Durst together because we see huge future potential with the software and what we hope will be the perfect printing machine. With experience of big industry, both Durst and Koenig & Bauer are excellent, robust engineering companies with world-class expertise. Certainly, we have had a very positive impression of the SPC 130 machine and from the staff right from the start.”

Karl Pucher has been the Managing Director at for Rondo St Ruprecht an der Raab for the last eight years. “We had been talking about getting into digital printing for a long time and for Rondo it was something new,” he said. “We had to change a lot of processes and took a lot of risk. We have made a lot of improvements in the processes. Sales are now racing ahead every month. Customers are making repeat orders, which is very important, so we are very happy that we took this decision. Our corrugated business is going up by around 20 to 30% every year and we see that this is a fast-growing business for the next years and soon we plan to go for a full three-shift operation. The share of digital printing was at first around 5 to 10% of our overall business, but we expect this to double within the next couple of years.

“It’s a known fact that brand owners were in love with the offset printing because of the quality, but since we have had digital printing we have transferred lot of offset business to digital because of shorter lead times, initiation costs and there is no difference in quality between offset and digital for many applications. Quality is extremely important for the brand owners, but it is not the topic anymore.

About 90% of the Rondo digital printing business is for the food industry. Brand owners have many more products compared to a few years ago and shorter lead times to market. “Lindt & Sprüngli is one example where we used to plan months ahead for Christmas, Easter and summer editions and needed to keep high levels of stock,” said Mr Pucher. “Now with digital technology we can be extremely flexible. Lindt & Sprüngli can create a new order that we can produce digitally and have in the shops within weeks.”

Mr Pucher added: “Digital printing is also providing answers for the global debate on the use of plastic packaging, which obviously extends to food and safety. Using the new food safety compliant inks in primary and secondary packaging means we can create corrugated board packaging to be used as an environmentally friendly alternative to plastic. The SPC 130 with its water-based technology from Durst is providing the solutions that we need to delivery to the food industry.”

Pour conquérir de nouveaux marchés, Rospil mise en toute confiance sur sa nouvelle Durst Tau 330 RSC E

Madrid, Espagne – 12.06.2020 : Etiquetas Rospil a franchi une étape de plus dans sa transformation numérique en conquérant de nouveaux marchés grâce à un investissement dans une Tau 330 RSC E de Durst, fabricant de technologies avancées d’impression et de production numériques. De plus en plus, les clients de l’entreprise réclament que leurs étiquettes soient produites dans une presse à jet d’encre monopasse.

Grâce à son attention extrême portée à ses clients et sa propension à innover, l’entreprise madrilène Etiquetas Rospil a connu une croissance continue, pour devenir, en 2013, l’une des premières sociétés espagnoles à investir dans la technologie numérique du jet d’encre avec les solutions Tau 330/200 de Durst – avec lesquelles elle a produit plus de 10 millions de mètres linéaires. Elle a même été la première entreprise de la péninsule ibérique à se doter de la Tau 330 RSC E de Durst, ce qui lui a fait gagner en souplesse et en capacité, et lui a ainsi permis de faire baisser la pression sur ses livraisons. En remplaçant l’ancienne Tau 330, cette machine permet des économies d’encre par mètre linéaire considérables.

Jorge Pérez, directeur adjoint d’Etiquetas Rospil, qui fête ses 45 ans, se réjouit aussi de la consistence de la couleur et de la brillance des productions sortant des solutions Tau. Il indique d’ailleurs que « chaque année, de plus en plus de clients demandent explicitement que leurs étiquettes soient produites avec la technologie Tau de Durst. La croissance est ininterrompue. Et puis nous sommes aussi certains que l’avenir du secteur, c’est le numérique. C’est ce qui nous a décidés à franchir une étape de plus. »

« Nous faisons entièrement confiance à Durst. Notre expérience avec eux a été sans égal. Il n’existe rien de comparable ni en qualité, ni en fiabilité, et avec la nouvelle Tau 330 RSC E rien non plus de comparable en productivité. En plus, l’assistance technique de Durst Iberia est très personnalisée. »

La Tau 330 RSC E, qui combine la meilleure qualité d’impression avec un coût économique, peut, en outre, évoluer intégralement vers une presse étiquettes 8 couleurs, afin d’augmenter la capacité de production lorsque les besoins le demandent. Le modèle d’Etiquetas Rospil possède quatre couleurs en plus du blanc.

M. Pérez a déclaré : « Nous sommes conscients que l’avenir est numérique et nous allons progresser dans ce sens dans les années à venir. C’est l’un des avantages de la Tau 330 RSC E de Durst : sa vitesse peut être portée à 80 mètres linéaires par minute et d’autres couleurs process peuvent venir s’ajouter pour répondre à nos besoins futurs. Quoi qu’il en soit, nous sommes pour l’instant très contents de notre investissement actuel. Par ailleurs, nous penons déjà des mesures concrètes dans le sens de la transformation vers l’industrie 4.0. C’est le défi qui nous attend dans les années qui viennent, et en nous alliant à un partenaire comme Durst pour cette transformation, nous sommes encouragés à aller encore plus loin. »

Selon Helmuth Munter, responsable de la division Durst Labels & Fexible Packaging: « La croissance d’Etiquetas Rospil montre parfaitement comment les sociétés innovantes et visionnaires reconnaissent tous les avantages qu’implique notre technologie. Nous sommes ravis d’apprendre que ses clients réclament de plus en plus que leurs commandes soient produites avec notre technologie. Notre plateforme Tau RSC est la base de l’impression industrielle par jet d’encre pour le secteur des étiquettes. Elle est une offre complète qui permet à nos clients de bénéficier à la fois d’une qualité élevée, du meilleur service possible, d’une fiabilité de production, mais aussi d’économies importantes. »

The Label Makers, Bradford, Royaume-Uni

« Grâce à la qualité extraordinaire de l’encre verte RSC, nous avons remporté un nouveau contrat, et cette marque de l’agro-alimentaire est désormais l’un de nos plus gros clients »

The Label Makers, une société lauréate de plusieurs prix, s’est élargie à des marchés haut de gamme et a fait d’un important prospect du secteur de l’alimentation l’un de ses principaux comptes, grâce à la plateforme Tau RSC de Durst et à ses fonctions logicielles.

« La qualité photographique est incroyable, » a expliqué David Webster, Directeur général de la société connue sous le nom de Labmak. « La qualité d’impression nous a permis de rechercher des travaux encore plus exigeants, notamment parce que nous obtenons beaucoup plus facilement la couleur propre à chaque marque. Par exemple, nous avons été contactés par un client potentiel qui nous demandait si nous pouvions reproduire son vert fluorescent. Grâce à l’extraordinaire qualité de l’encre verte RSC, nous avons été en mesure de le faire et nous avons gagné ce nouveau contrat. Cette marque de produits alimentaires est désormais l’un de nos plus gros clients. »

Récemment, Labmark a remporté deux prestigieux prix pour une étiquette illustrée complexe imprimée et ennoblie pour des bouteilles de rhum brun épicé de la marque Diablesse, basée à Manchester. L’un était pour « Etiquette de l’année » aux UK Packaging Awards, et l’autre était pour « Effets spéciaux sur étiquette et emballage» aux Digital Printer Awards. « L’intensité et l’éclat des encres imprimées sur la Tau 330 RSC de Durst ont été déterminantes et je ne pense pas que nous aurions gagné sans elles », a expliqué M. Webster. « Qui aurait cru qu’un jour nous imprimerions en digital des étiquettes de rhum. Que dire de plus ? »

« Les exigences des clients évoluent en permanence. Sur ce marché, les délais de livraison des étiquettes changent généralement non pas de jour en jour mais bien d’heure en heure; nous devons donc faire preuve de souplesse pour imprimer sur n’importe quelle machine ou même transférer un travail depuis une flexo. Le logiciel Workflow Label de Durst nous permet de manipuler les fichiers du côté presse, pour que les travaux puissent être mis au point immédiatement par les opérateurs de la presse sans retourner le fichier au studio, ce qui pourrait prendre jusqu’à 20 minutes. Toutes les modifications sont désormais effectuées en cinq minutes ; c’est un gain de temps considérable. Et cela change la donne. »

Labmark est une entreprise familiale fondée en 1963. Elle a commencé avec la typographie, avant de passer à l’offset et à l’impression flexo. À présent, elle utilise de plus en plus le numérique. Elle a la réputation d’être une pionnière et fournit certaines des plus grandes marques du Royaume-Uni, couvrant des marchés tels que l’alimentation, les boissons, les soins corporels, la pétrochimie et les revêtements décoratifs. « Tandis qu’il y a une dizaine d’années, nous effectuions régulièrement des impressions de 100 000 étiquettes à la fois, les clients ont commencé à passer de plus en plus de commandes mais de tirages plus faibles, peut-être 10 000 étiquettes à la fois, a expliqué M. Webster.

Il y a trois ans, Labmark est devenu le site de bêta-test pour la plateforme Tau RSC de Durst en travaillant en partenariat avec Durst. Elle possède actuellement deux presses jet d’encre UV single-pass Tau 330 RSC de Durst, avec une capacité de production industrielle allant jusqu’à 80 mètres linéaires/min.

« L’avenir de l’impression d’étiquettes est ici, et c’est la production numérique à jet d’encre », a expliqué M. Webster. « Nous avons désormais des chaînes de supermarchés qui demandent que les impressions soient réalisées en jet d’encre plutôt qu’en flexo en raison de l’éclat des couleurs, de l’effet sérigraphie des encres et du parfait repérage d’impression. Notre investissement dans la RSC de Tau nous offre l’opportunité d’accepter plus de clients et de mieux servir nos clients existants. Auparavant, nous utilisions les presses Tau de Durst principalement pour les marchés des soins corporels. Aujourd’hui, avec nos nouvelles capacités, nous produisons de tout, des étiquettes alimentaires jusqu’aux vins et spiritueux de grande qualité. »

Michelangelo, Tokyo, Japan

After years of market research, Michelangelo decided to invest in a Durst P5 350. The options for roll to roll and direct board printing, the variety of substrates that can be printed on and the sustainability of the inks played a decisive role. In addition, Durst's Web-to-Print solution Smart Shop offers Michelangelo the opportunity to become a global player.

“We are excited to increase our service to our customers and working with Durst,” says Miho Takahashi, Vice President, Michelangelo Co., Ltd. “By partnering with Durst and investing in web-to-print we get a solution from Pixel To Output by Durst. And besides increasing our services, we want to expand our market from a local Japanese to a connected global player.”