As one of the Group’s key technologies, printing is our primary area of expertise. We have developed this know-how over the years, so that you can benefit from the most competitive and efficient processes on the market.
Digital printing offers unmatched flexibility for direct-to-shape decoration, enabling every product to be customized without compromising production efficiency. Whether printing QR codes, serial numbers, names, images, or fully variable designs, each item can be unique, opening the door to personalized packaging and limited editions.
Particularly well suited for short runs and frequent design changes, digital printing eliminates the need for printing plates and significantly reduces setup times, prepress requirements, and material waste. This results in faster time-to-market, lower production costs for smaller volumes.
Beyond its operational advantages, digital printing delivers exceptional print quality, with photorealistic images, vibrant colours, smooth gradients, and razor-sharp details that enhance product appeal on the shelf.
From a business and marketing perspective, digital printing also enables the transition toward a more connected and digitalized supply chain. Brands can create highly personalized consumer experiences, while manufacturers gain the flexibility to support mass customization and on-demand production.
Dry offset printing is one of the fastest decoration technologies available today, enabling high production output while maintaining a highly competitive cost per unit. Thanks to its efficiency, reliability, and minimal downtime, manufacturers can maximize productivity and optimize overall equipment effectiveness.
As a direct-to-shape decoration process, dry offset printing eliminates the need for labels or sleeves, reducing material costs while supporting a more sustainable packaging approach. By printing directly onto the container, it simplifies the production process and minimizes waste.
As the historic technology on which Polytype built its reputation, dry offset printing has been continuously refined and perfected over decades. This extensive expertise has made us a global leader in the field, delivering solutions renowned for their print quality, reliability, and performance.
To ensure a seamless production experience, all our dry offset systems are designed with user-friendly operation, quick changeovers, and easy maintenance in mind, helping operators achieve consistent results with maximum efficiency.
Prime Offset significantly broadens the range of printing possibilities while maintaining the flexibility to use conventional dry offset printing on the same machine. Combining CMYK process colours with up to four additional spot colours, it delivers exceptional image quality, smooth gradients, and precise brand colour reproduction within a single integrated workflow.
Designed to meet the growing demand for premium packaging, Prime Offset enables manufacturers to achieve highly detailed graphics, photorealistic images, and razor-sharp text, even on the most demanding designs. The technology offers outstanding flexibility, allowing rapid artwork changes and efficient production of both short and long runs.
By combining superior print quality with operational efficiency, Prime Offset helps brands differentiate their products while enabling converters and tube manufacturers to respond quickly to evolving market requirements. The result is a decoration process that delivers both creative freedom and reliable industrial performance.
Flexo printing is one of the most widely used direct-to-shape decoration technologies for tubes and sleeves. Thanks to its flexible printing plates, the process ensures excellent ink transfer, resulting in vibrant colours, strong coverage, and consistent print quality across a wide range of substrates.
Combining efficiency with versatility, flexo printing is an ideal solution for high-quality four-colour decoration and branding applications. It enables manufacturers to achieve attractive, cost-effective packaging while maintaining the productivity and reliability required for industrial-scale production.
Well suited for a broad range of designs and production volumes, flexo printing offers a proven balance between print quality, operational flexibility, and manufacturing efficiency.
Screen printing is a decoration process in which each colour is applied and cured individually, ensuring excellent opacity, durability, and visual impact. Its distinctive advantage lies in the high ink layer thickness that can be achieved, creating tactile effects and raised print elements that stand out from the substrate.
This capability makes screen printing particularly suitable for decorating coloured or transparent containers, where strong ink coverage and vibrant colour reproduction are essential. It also enables the creation of premium finishes, textured designs, and special visual effects that enhance product appeal and brand perception.
By combining exceptional opacity with tangible, high-quality decoration effects, screen printing offers a unique way to add depth, character, and value to packaging.
Hot stamping is a proven decoration technology used to create premium metallic and glossy effects that elevate the appearance of packaging and products. Widely adopted in luxury markets such as cosmetics, beauty, and premium consumer goods, it enables brands to create eye-catching designs that stand out from conventional packaging.
Using a combination of heat and pressure, the process selectively transfers metallic, holographic, or coloured foils onto the substrate with exceptional precision. This creates highly reflective and durable decorative elements that cannot be achieved with conventional printing processes alone.
Ideal for highlighting logos, text, graphic elements, or specific design features, hot stamping adds a distinctive sense of quality, sophistication, and exclusivity to the final product. The result is a premium visual and tactile effect that enhances shelf appeal and reinforces brand value.
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