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Xeikon has signed a partnership agreement with Polish packaging and converting specialist Technograph. The agreement, finalised at Xeikon Café 2019, will see Technograph distribute the Xeikon Cheetah series and Xeikon 3000 series, dry toner technology based presses for packaging production. This acc

Xeikon has signed a partnership agreement with Polish packaging and converting specialist Technograph. The agreement, finalised at Xeikon Café 2019, will see Technograph distribute the Xeikon Cheetah series and Xeikon 3000 series, dry toner technology based presses for packaging production. This according to a press release from Xeikon.
Technograph was founded by current owners Konrad Staroscik and Piotr Mrozek in 2011. They combined their wealth of packaging arts experience to create an operation that strives to responsively support today’s Polish printer service providers.
“The Polish packaging production market is still very much dominated by offset print processes but as brands move towards shorter, more highly versioned, print runs we believe digital is the future,” says Staroscik.
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