When two speeds share one label plant, estimating and scheduling decide the print
Durst’s acquisition of MPS shifts digital-plus-flexo from a capex debate to an operating model. Where can a print company win back gross margin—and where can’t it?
Digital keeps getting faster. Flexo keeps getting wider. And more label plants are being built around the assumption that both will sit on the same floor. Durst’s acquisition of MPS pushes that “two-handed” setup away from choosing a press and toward choosing an operating model: estimating, production planning, and how plates/files are governed. Profit, in other words, starts migrating back outside the click charge—into setup, job routing, and the postpress bottlenecks that decide what actually ships.
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Translated from Japanese by AI. The Japanese original is authoritative.
“80 m/min” and “200 m/min” look like more than a 2× gap at a glance. But they are not the same kind of speed. Durst describes the Tau 340 RSC as “real print speed” of 80 m/min. On the MPS EF SYMJET side, the number is “flexo mode mechanical speed” of 200 m/min.…
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Sources
- Durst Group（公式発表ページ） / 2026-09-15
- Durst US（Tau 340 RSC 製品ページ）
- MPS Printing（EF next generation 製品ページ）
- Ferrostaal Graphics（MPS EF SYMJET ブローシャPDF）
- Durst US（Lift ERP紹介ページ）
- Durst Software（Workflow紹介ページ）
- Durst Group（ヘルプ：Order details）
- Esko（planning and imposition紹介ページ）
- OMET（ニュース/記事ページ）
- Reddit（r/CommercialPrinting 該当スレッド）
- PJL（ニュース/イベント記事）
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