Over the past ten years the sheet-fed, post-print corrugated flexo press has changed dramatically. The corrugated container can now be a high quality, multiple color, tightly registered marketing tool.

This paper briefly reviews the advances made in the technology, consumables, peripherals, processes and equipment that have allowed the corrugated industry to shed its “brown box” mentality and compete favorably with other printing and packaging options.

The reader should consider the fact of the features mentioned in comparison to his or her own pressroom’s capabilities and understand that all the advances made will lead to further evolutions that will continue to improve speed, quality, efficiency and competitiveness in the marketplace.