• The necessity of manufacturer-covering standards in the tobacco industry
• Effects on quality and product development
• Progress report

• Reasons for shrinking order sizes and their effects on pre-press, printing and converting
• Short runs in gravure printing at 1,400 mm width
• Sustained success through advanced workflow and service concepts

• Definition short runs
• Printing cost comparison narrow web vs. wide web
• Added value on Rotomec gravure machines concept for short runs

• Why does a flexo printer invest in gravure?
• Motives to invest in a 1.400 mm format
• Progress report – 1 x gravure vs. 12 x flexo
• Flexo-feeling through sleeve-systems?

• Highly effective production of narrow web
• Laminating with narrow machines
• The market for narrow finished films

• Reasons for decreasing order sizes
• Expectations on printers and pre-press suppliers

• Technical and organizational conditions and restrictions for efficient narrow web production
• Commercial comparison of gravure and offset printing

• Cost structure in prepress
• Technology and saving potential
• Narrow web vs. wide cylinders

• Scumming, Stripes, Missing Dots & Co
• Colour systems help reduce errors!
• What are the effects of colour systems, which lead to errors

• Handling short run orders if flexo is no alternative
• Cost effective production with the latest technology

• Methods of colour measurement
• Analysis of colour deviation and possible errors

• Methods and prices
• Payback within short runs?
• Alternatives

• Questions that are collected, during the event from the audience, are going to be discussed with Stefan Beilenhoff and other speakers.