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Case study

Great Northern Corporation

boosts its digital capabilities

with eye on business growth

Investments in HP corrugated solutions enable new value-added oerings

resulting in opportunities to grow business

Challenge

• Adjust to ongoing trend toward lower volumes

and greater customization

• Eiciently produce jobs that require versioning

• Help customers reduce time to market

• Find digital solutions that t existing plants

and workows

Solution

• Install HP Scitex 15500 Corrugated Press, replacing

an earlier-generation HP Scitex press

• Invest in HP PageWide T400S Press with goal

to replace oset printing of folding cartons

• Invest in HP PageWide C500 Press to expand

digital volumes, with litho-replaceable

image quality

• Partner with HP to share insights on technology

development, drive market acceptance of digital

across merchandising display, corrugated, and

folded carton packaging

Results

• Great Northern keeps a larger share of customers’

business by solving their challenges with the help

of HP digital printing

• Allows Great Northern to provide new,

value-based solutions in high-demand areas

• Broad acceptance of digital printing among

customers enables Great Northern to integrate

digital in its general production workow

“I think digital printing has evolved to the point that it will

begin to be disruptive. In the next ve to ten years digital is

going to change how we manufacture.”

– Mike Schliesmann, Senior Vice President, Great Northern Corporation

In the face of rising demand for lower volumes and more

versioning of corrugated packaging and folding cartons,

Great Northern Corporation is signicantly increasing its

digital printing investments. With one HP corrugated press

already installed, and two more to come, it is partnering with

HP not just to boost current digital capacity and capabilities,

but also to fundamentally change packaging production.

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Case study Great Northern Corporation boosts its digital capabilities with eye on business growth Investments in HP corrugated solutions enable new value-added offerings resulting in opportunities to grow business Challenge • Adjust to ongoing trend toward lower volumes and greater customization • Efficiently produce jobs that require versioning • Help customers reduce time to market • Find digital solutions that fit existing plants and workflows Solution • Install HP Scitex 15500 Corrugated Press, replaci
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Case study | Great Northern Corporation “With the savings in waste and setup time, we really “ Digital has opened doors to Challenge see that this has the potential to be the mainstay printing process for our facility,” says Schliesmann. allow us to solve problems for Lower volumes, versioning, “Our goal is to move 50% of our current production at and fast-turnaround customers and keep a bigger Great that facility to digital in the first year.