Commercial – SCREEN Europe

SCREEN Inkjet Printing Open House for Pharma Signals the Digital Future of Pharmaceutical Leaflet Printing

Andrew Dion — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 13:34:58 +0000

SCREEN Europe’s recent Digital Pharma Printing Open House for Leaflets demonstrated that its digital inkjet solutions are already driving a new wave of digitalisation in the pharmaceutical leaflet production sector.

Aalsmeer, Netherlands – SCREEN Europe has successfully concluded its exclusive Proven & Approved Inkjet Printing for Pharma Leaflets Open House, welcoming leading pharmaceutical printing and packaging professionals to its Inkjet Innovation Center in Amsterdam. Attendees responded enthusiastically to the live demonstrations, workflow tours and expert-led discussions focused on the critical performance requirements of pharmaceutical leaflet production.

The warm and exciting reception sent clear signs that SCREEN’s inkjet solutions are already meeting the accuracy, productivity and quality assurance standards demanded by pharmaceutical clients, and positions digital inkjet as the most capable and scalable technology for the future of printing leaflet.

The Evolution of Digital Inkjet for Pharmaceutical Leaflets

SCREEN specialists presented the advanced capabilities of the Truepress JET solutions, designed to ensure consistent and compliant output for patient-critical information. The demonstrations confirmed that SCREEN’s SC+ inks deliver offset-equivalent text sharpness and optical density, ensuring small text that meets readability requirements without impacting productivity. Many attendees were particularly impressed to learn that SCREEN digital presses can print on ultra-thin pharmaceutical papers already approved and affordable coated and offset coated papers by major pharmaceutical companies without requiring a primer and the subsequent costs and workflow complexity with the needed high optical density.

Additionally, advanced workflow management and finishing systems supports SCREEN’s proprietary EQUIOS software to ensure printing output remains consistent from the very first sheet to the last while supporting more automation freeing operators to complete more job orders all while lowering waste and increasing production efficiency.

These digital printing innovations together support growing initiatives within the pharmaceutical packaging sector to expand Just-in-Time production strategies, helping pharmaceutical converters improve their overall supply-chain performance, reducing storage requirements, avoiding waste, and improving sustainability initiatives as rapidly shifting regulations risk making large inventories suddenly unusable and require subsequent disposal.

Successful Partnerships Across the Entire Workflow

SCREEN Europe also offer its sincere thanks to their event partners who contributed their expertise, including MBO KOMORI, delfort, and Koehler Paper. Their support demonstrated the strength of an end-to-end integrated production ecosystem starting from substrate manufacturing to folding and finishing solutions can give printing businesses and their exacting clients the confidence that every step of leaflet production has been considered and accounted for.

And they wish to extend a particular thanks to Ralf Kutschera, Head of Strategic Purchasing at Faller Packaging whose keynote presentation proved to be the highlight of the programme. He provided invaluable insights into Faller Packaging’s own digital transformation with SCREEN printing solutions through more than a decade of collaboration with on what they needed from their inkjet systems to be successful for this unique printing application.

Currently, Faller Packaging is producing approximately 50% of all their leaflets using four SCREEN Truepress JET digital presses and expects that amount to increase with a fifth installation planned. Ralf’s message reinforced the confidence throughout the showroom, saying, “Digital printing is no longer about fulfilling a particular niche in our leaflet production workflow. It is increasingly becoming our primary production method as we move forward.”

Digital Inkjet: The Future of Pharma Leaflet Production

This positive reaction by some of the pharmaceutical leaflet printing community’s most influential members confirmed that pharmaceutical printers can rely on SCREEN inkjet to meet the evolving demands of leaflet production, including shorter runs, faster lead times, stricter regulatory expectations and increased product variations.

The conclusion as the guests made their way home was clear, pharmaceutical leaflet production is moving toward smart, automated and adaptable digital processes, and SCREEN is ready to lead this transformation through continuous collaboration with customers, industry partners, and pharmaceutical clients at industry event like this as digital printing becomes the new standard for pharmaceutical leaflet printing.

SCREEN Truepress JET 520NX enables Belgian Acto Print and Mail Services…

websitedesigner@bigwave.co.uk — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 06:40:37 +0000

SCREEN’s technology approach fits Acto’s vision for a digital printing future

Acto Print and Mail Services, a Belgian specialist in transaction printing and document distribution, has installed a Truepress JET 520NX to meet growing demand for colour in transaction print materials and to deliver a wide range of complex print jobs, from high-volume to tailormade small runs, faster and with consistent quality.

Acto delivers large numbers of transactional documents for banks, insurers and other companies each day. On an annual basis, it produces approximately 180 million prints, distributed in about 50 million postal mailings and counting.

Consistent quality

Bart ter Haar, Managing Director at Acto, says: “Almost every document that leaves Acto is a unique document. That’s why, apart from the price and the volume the machine can handle, we needed a high-quality, reliable inkjet digital printing press. When we started looking for a new investment, we found SCREEN’s modern inkjet digital printer to be the best option because of its ability to produce high volumes of variable data printing at a consistently top print quality and extremely accurate and precise.” He added that the 520NX switches easily between printing jobs, and is very reliable, resulting in a high uptime. “Our operators discovered its speed and ease of use quickly after it was installed. The Truepress JET 520NX soon became the most-used machine at our premises in Kontich. It provides optimal value-for-money.”

Ter Haar adds: “Compared to other traditional players, SCREEN takes an atypical approach to maintenance. It uses monitoring software and a centralised European-based support crew, as opposed to national teams. This means we get support from highly skilful and experienced engineers with a quick response time, whenever we need support.”

Large volumes of variable data printing
Demand for printed bank statements and similar materials in Belgium remains strong, despite the fact that banks, insurers and other companies increasingly provide transactional information digitally through emails or access to their online platforms. “Yet Acto has seen demand grow consistently over the last few years, as Belgian banks and insurers have begun outsourcing printing and distribution of their mailings to print companies like ours,” says ter Haar.

Acto handles a wide range of print jobs, varying from high-volume transactional statements from some of Belgian’s biggest banks, to the printing of relatively small runs of salary slips for small- and medium-sized companies.

Ter Haar has been in the transactional printing sector for many years and has observed several other changes, varying from using pre-printed paper and adding a personal touch to high-quality inkjet printers that print beautifully coloured pictures. Also, the paper rolls have become larger and at this point, SCREEN’s inkjet printers are able to simultaneously handle various printing jobs and sort the output into distinct piles accordingly. “Enhanced efficiency and accuracy helps us reduce our environmental footprint,” adds ter Haar. “The machine’s water-based ink reduces the use of chemicals and increases our company sustainability profile.”

No need for human intervention

Thanks to its in-house IT-team and the interface it produced, digital distribution as well as print jobs are processed without the need for human intervention, enabling it to operate 24/7. Acto’s IT-team also builds tailor-made digital interfaces for clients who want to take their communications online.

Acto Print and Mail Services (transactional) together with The Mailing Factory (direct mail & periodicals) and the recently acquired Docufast (transactional) specialise in document distribution services. The companies have a yearly turnover of 25 million euros combined and employ 135 people. Production sites are in Kontich (near Antwerp) and Brussels. The companies are the result of a series of acquisitions since 2007 aiming market consolidation by its sole owner and CEO Philippe Massin.

Introduction to Truepress Jet520HD

Screen Europe — Sun, 25 Sep 2016 11:08:46 +0000

The Truepress Jet520HD high-definition inkjet web press delivers realistic images that expand the boundaries of inkjet printing. With its 1,200 dpi true resolution and precise droplet size control, the Truepress Jet520HD achieves the colours, textures, details and solid ink areas expected for high-end publication and commercial work. For direct mail advertising, the enhanced design opportunities that improve response rates of personalized marketing campaigns make the Truepress Jet520HD an appealing alternative to offset/digital hybrid and toner-based production.