Durst buys flexo press maker MPS; Mercari temporarily bans listings of new Pokémon cards — plus eight more stories | BPJ News (Evening Edition)
As processes, provenance, and even capital and power constraints collide, print operations now have to manage both “pre-press conditions” and “post-print operations” at the same time.
Durst Group has acquired MPS Printing, putting digital and flexo on the same playing field (Durst Group, September 15, 2026). Meanwhile, C2PA conformance certification and new compliance pressures around the secondary trading-card market are pushing the value of printed materials back from “manufacturing” toward “operations.”
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In printing and adjacent industries, it is getting harder to lock down a quote based on technology trends alone. From the “combination of processes” signaled by Durst Group’s acquisition of MPS Printing B.V., to the “authenticity of assets” forced onto the table by TOPPAN’s C2PA conformance certification, to the “consent and evidence” that comes with the EU’s age-verification debate, and even the cost of money and cost of goods shaken by markets pricing in Federal Reserv…
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