中文There’s winning an industry award, and then there’s walking away with two in a single night. That’s exactly what Screen just did at this year’s EDP Awards in Barcelona, and if you’re paying attention to where digital printing is headed, this should stop you in your tracks.
The awards were handed out on May 20, 2026, at a ceremony in Barcelona—yes, the one where Europe’s print elite gather to size each other up and, hopefully, go home with some hardware. Screen took home two: one for the Truepress JET 560HDX digital inkjet press, and another for the Truepress PAC 830F flexible packaging press. Accepting on behalf of the company were Juan Cano, business development director at Screen Europe, and Yoshinari Otani, executive officer at Screen Graphic Solutions.
Why the EDP Awards Actually Matter
The EDP (European Digital Press) Awards have been around for a while, and they’re not a popularity contest. Entries get judged by independent experts from 20 leading European trade publications. The criteria are genuinely tough: innovation, usability, productivity, quality, durability, overall equipment effectiveness, sustainability, and value. You can’t buy your way into winning one of these. The technology has to actually deliver.
So when Screen wins two in the same year, that’s not luck. That’s the result of a lot of engineering work paying off at exactly the right moment.
The First Winner: Truepress JET 560HDX
Let’s talk about the first winner, because it tells you a lot about where commercial print is moving. The Truepress JET 560HDX is Screen’s high-speed digital inkjet press, and the specs are worth looking at closely. It handles substrates up to 560mm wide—that’s a meaningful width for a commercial digital press—and it runs at speeds up to 150 meters per minute. Think about that for a second. 150 meters per minute. That’s not a toy; that’s a production machine designed to go head-to-head with offset on run length flexibility and cost.
The ink system is where it gets interesting. The 560HDX uses what Screen calls Truepress Ink SC2—a high-density water-based ink that works across offset-coated, inkjet-coated, and even uncoated substrates. That substrate flexibility is a genuinely big deal. If you’re a commercial printer, the ability to run coated and uncoated stocks on the same machine without changing inks or doing complex setup procedures is the kind of versatility that actually makes money.
The Second Winner: Truepress PAC 830F
Now here’s where it gets even more interesting. The second award went to the Truepress PAC 830F, which is purpose-built for industrial flexible packaging applications. This is a completely different market from commercial print. We’re talking about PET, BOPP, and MDO-PE films at speeds up to 75 meters per minute, using food-compliant aqueous inks.
And Screen isn’t just throwing hardware at the problem. The PAC 830F runs on Equios workflow software, which supports short-run personalized packaging production. That’s the holy grail in packaging right now—brands want short runs, versioned packaging, regional variants, promotional editions—and traditional flexo and gravure simply can’t do that economically. Digital is the only game in town for this kind of work.
What the Judgement Panel Saw
In their own words, the EDP judges look for innovation that matters, usability in real production environments, productivity that impacts the bottom line, quality that customers will pay for, durability that survives real-world conditions, OEE that makes sense on a factory floor, sustainability credentials that hold up under scrutiny, and value that justifies the investment.
The fact that Screen won in both commercial and packaging categories tells you something important: they’re not a one-trick pony. They’ve built technology platforms that work across multiple market segments. That’s rare in this industry, where most manufacturers pick a lane and stay in it.
The Bigger Story
Juan Cano put it well: “Receiving two EDP awards reflects the result of extensive development work by the entire Screen engineering team. For that work to be independently assessed and recognized by Europe’s leading print industry experts is something we are extremely proud of. It is a strong signal for inkjet’s role in both commercial print and flexible packaging.”
That last phrase is the key one: “a strong signal for inkjet’s role” in these markets. If you’re a printer who hasn’t yet taken digital inkjet seriously, awards like these are the kind of industry validation that should make you uncomfortable. Your competitors are looking at this and asking whether they should be moving faster on digital.
What Comes Next
The flexible packaging market is under enormous pressure to reduce waste, increase versioning, and respond faster to brand owner demands. Digital printing—and inkjet specifically—is the only technology that can deliver on all three. Screen’s PAC 830F winning an EDP award is a signal that the industry experts think this machine is ready for prime time.
For commercial print, the story is similar. The 560HDX at 150m/min is operating in territory that used to belong exclusively to offset. The quality is there, the speed is there, and now the industry awards are saying the innovation is there too.
Whether you’re a printer evaluating your next press investment, or a brand owner trying to figure out how to get more agility into your packaging supply chain, the message from Barcelona is clear: inkjet has arrived, and it’s not going back.
Source: Labels & Labeling
