Networking & Processes

With a fully integrated workflow, your print shop has its finger on the pulse when it comes to digitalisation. Automate your business processes end-to-end, network along the entire value chain and increase your efficiency considerably. With digital solutions from Koenig & Bauer, you can realise your vision of a connected print shop!

The holistic solution for maximum energy efficiency

Energy Management

Digitalisation offers new possibilities for realising maximum energy efficiency. State-of-the-art measuring technology, industry-optimised software together with expert consulting enables you to capture and visualise energy consumption and realise potential savings.

Advanced Planning System (APS) for optimal job planning

Job Optimiser

With the Job Optimiser, you put your pre-planned jobs in the optimal production sequence and reduce your set-up times to an absolute minimum. This allows you to react quickly and flexibly to the rapidly changing requirements of your customers, while utilising your capacities in the best possible way.

Management Information System (MIS)

Optimus dash

Think lean and lead your business successfully into the future. The Optimus dash industry software allows you to automate business processes from end to end and and maximise your profitability. Get actionable insights with Optimus dash to achieve your goals faster.

Manufacturing Execution System (MES)

LogoTronic

LogoTronic is the data hub of your production and the perfect link between management and shop floor level: it supplies presetting data to the presses and records operating data seamlessly and in real time. Connect your production and increase your productivity dramatically.

All-in-one prepress software for banknote design

ONE Suite Security Software

Developed specifically for banknote designers and engravers, ONE Suite banknote design software allows you to unleash your creativity and design secure banknotes easily and efficiently. The all-in-one solution covers all pre-press processes, from imposition to proofing and rendering.

Workflow suite for newspaper printing

PressNet

For an efficient and profitable newspaper production with limited resources, the networking and integration of the individual production steps plays a vital role. With our tailor-made PressNet workflow solutions, you can make your modern newspaper printing house ready for the future.

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Digital Packaging Workflow

with PrintFusion

With PrintFusion, the interface between Koenig & Bauer Rapida presses and the prepress software from HYBRID Software, your workflow becomes even more efficient. PrintFusion enables a bidirectional exchange of information that ensures seamless integration and automation of production processes. Thanks to the jointly developed PrintFusion interface, data such as setting parameters and positions of measuring elements are automatically exchanged between prepress and the printing presses. The automated data exchange leads to significant increases in efficiency and error prevention, as manual intervention and repetitive tasks are eliminated.

Long-term technology partnership for innovative 360-degree packaging workflow

For the development of PrintFusion, HYBRID Software and Koenig & Bauer have combined their expertise to create a highly automated and efficient production environment that meets the requirements of the modern printing industry. This collaboration will continue on an ongoing basis in order to constantly optimise the interface and integrate new functions. One example of this is the automatic feedback to compensate for process-related substrate stretching, which is already being introduced as part of a pilot customer programme.

A look into the future at drupa 2024

PrintFusion has been presented to the public for the first time at this year’s leading trade fair for printing technologies. Visitors will have the opportunity to gain an exclusive insight into the first results of the close partnership between HYBRID Software and Koenig & Bauer. Through automation and the intelligent exchange of data between prepress and press, PrintFusion will set new standards in print production and pave the way for a sustainable and high-performance future in the printing industry.

Connected Packaging

FOLLOW combines print and the digital world

With FOLLOW, Koenig & Bauer is building a bridge between analogue packaging and the digital world. Discover the universe of new possibilities that the cloud-based platform and the associated app have in store for printing businesses, brand owners and consumers.

Printing goes Metaverse

with NFT-Technology and “Gemme”

Under the project title “Printing Goes Metaverse”, Koenig & Bauer is building a bridge from classic printing to the metaverse in collaboration with NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan) and epda (european brand & packaging design association). With the support of Italian design students, a project was realised that uses NFT technology to authenticate luxury goods such as limited edition handbags, jewellery or valuable trading cards. The luxury jewellery brand “Gemme” was created as an exemplary visualisation.

Classic print meets metaverse

Digital proof of ownership is used instead of conventional paper certificates of authenticity. The forgery-proof blockchain technology is impressively demonstrated using special printing technologies and a digital app. This innovative combination of digital proof of authenticity and the traditional art of printing shows how the printing industry is connecting with the new digital reality of the Metaverse.

What advantages does NFT technology offer

An NFT is a blockchain-based token that represents digital or physical assets such as artworks, digital content or media. Unlike other cryptocurrencies, each NFT is unique and non-exchangeable. It serves as a digital certificate of ownership and authenticity and enables owners to trade and sell their assets.

Brands from the luxury goods segment in particular are using NFT technology to enable customers to connect the digital and physical worlds. The main focus here is on the experience of being able to use the purchased product in the digital world. In addition, forgery-proof authentication can be guaranteed by NFT’s unique verifications with a complete history and absolute security.

How does the printing work?

Using a special printing process, functional structures that react to the touch of smartphone sensors can be applied to almost any printed product, creating a link between the physical product and the digital application. In combination with QR codes, this creates a forgery-proof proof of ownership. Customers receive both an origin-verified, printed NFT-Twin and the physical original.