TOPPAN Brings Electron-Beam Curing to Lids, RISO Paper Rises up to 21%, 30,000 Wine Bottles Stolen — and 7 more | BPJ News
As print processes change and material prices rise, how should printers price the hidden costs of training, recovery and permission to send?
TOPPAN’s electron-beam curing offset process is moving into food lidding, while RISO Kagaku will raise prices for proprietary papers by up to 21%. After the equipment, cloud services and AI have been installed, the remaining costs of training, recovery responsibility and permission to send can still decide whether the numbers work.
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Nissin Foods will cut annual resin use by 20 metric tons by changing the lid stock used for Donbei products. A price rise of up to 21% for proprietary paper, alongside first orders for a new press in North America, will directly affect printers’ margins. Cloud recovery now turns on which machines can restart. For artificial intelligence, the focus is permission to send. In workplace accidents, it is confirmation that machinery has stopped before cleaning.…
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