Situated at the entrance to the main Hall, Booth 219 was the bustling throughout the three days of LOUPE Americas 2026, with live demonstrations of various jobs across three presses, including pure flexo, flexo\/toner hybrid, and flexo\/inkjet hybrid.\u00a0 Each of these presses targets a sector of the market where productivity improvements have a significant impact on profitability.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
In addition to the printing presses, the booth also highlighted the latest technology in high-speed inspection, and a new inventory management program from MAPP (Mark Andy Print Products).<\/p>\n
\u201cPartnership\u201d was the key message from Mark Andy, according to CEO Duane Pekar.\u00a0He says, \u201cOur long and rich history gives us unmatched expertise to share with our customers who want to grow their businesses in a smart way.\u00a0 We brought a variety of productivity solutions across the pressroom for our partners.\u00a0 Our technology has long focused on lowering cost by improving productivity and reducing waste.\u00a0 We\u2019re able to deliver on this because of our partnerships and working with converters.\u201d<\/p>\n
The first of the live demos was the Performance Series S9 flexo press working in tandem with the Rotoflex VLI inspection rewinder.\u00a0 Developed after market research into customer requirements, the S9 is the \u201csleeve\u201d version of the P9 press. It ran two jobs, which gave the operator the opportunity to show how quick and easy changeovers can be on a 26\u201d press capable of running at 610 m\/min.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
The S9 at the show featured Mark Andy\u2019s Momentum H3 dryers.\u00a0 These are highly controllable to reduce energy costs and lower carbon footprint.\u00a0 Finishing the jobs from the S9 was the Rotoflex VLI, capable of matching the S9 for speed and offering a 40\u201d unwind and two 24\u201d rewinds.<\/p>\n
Moving from pure flexo to digital hybrid technology, the DPro MAX showed how simple a productive press can be.\u00a0 Affordable, compact, and intuitive to use, it brings low cost-to-print operation to short and medium run work.\u00a0 It also has the benefit of inline converting and embellishment for single-pass production of high-quality finished labels.\u00a0 This was showcased by the demo labels that featured CMYK toner plus gold cold foil, gloss varnish and die cutting.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Mark Andy says this all-round capability makes the DProMAX a solid investment and perfect introduction to digital print production with its capability of upgrading specification as future demands dictate.<\/p>\n
Touted by Mark Andy as the top of the range and the fastest narrow web digital press in the world, the DSHD HighSpeed 1200 made its return to the Chicago arena two years after its successful launch.\u00a0 According to the company, this is \u201cthe ultimate production tool for label printers, offering exceptional production flexibility and unrivalled productivity \u2013 and all from one manufacturer.\u201d <\/p>\n
The DSHD was demonstrated running two jobs.\u00a0 The first showed how a spot color can be printed flexo or inkjet at high-speed on a semi-gloss substrate.\u00a0 The second featured multiple versions of high-opacity digital white and automatically registered flexo varnish on a \u201cclear on clear\u201d substrate.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
The DSHD highlighted three key features that make it a highly efficient production tool: inline converting for single pass production; high speed that raises the crossover point between digital and flexo production; and the application of a spot color with either print technique.<\/p>\n
Supporting the presses was Mark Andy\u2019s latest version of ProWORX Label Suite providing a DFE (Digital Front End) and Analytics.\u00a0 This provides the efficient set up of step and repeat, variable data and effective multiple SKU planning, as well as on press color management.<\/p>\n
Two new offerings were available from MAPP.\u00a0 The first is SupplySmart, an inventory management program designed to simplify pressroom restocking.\u00a0 The second is ColorSmart, a system designed to help converters achieve consistent and repeatable color across different jobs, presses, shifts and operators.\u00a0 Instead of treating color management as a single software setting, ColorSmart standardizes the interaction of all variables on the production floor to improve consistency.<\/p>\n
Pekar comments, \u201c\u201cChicago is always a very special place, and LOUPE gave us plenty of reasons to remember this expo!\u00a0 Old friends, new partnerships, and one very special VIP guest kept our booth constantly busy and buzzing.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe came to LOUPE with one message \u2018Proof of Productivity\u2019 because we believe that if our converter partners are not working on productivity every single day, their business is at risk.\u00a0 We\u2019re here to help drive productivity and we put it on the floor for all to see.\u00a0 Not just press demos but live production of real jobs to show converters how to accomplish more, improve efficiency, and keep their operations moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Situated at the entrance to the main Hall, Booth 219 was the bustling throughout the three days of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-875391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}