A packaging and display company based in Lee’s Summit has expanded its digital printing capabilities.

Two years ago, Bennett Packaging of Kansas City Inc. invested in the first large-format, single-pass, direct-to-corrugate digital printer in North America. This year, it installed its second Barberan Jetmaster digital press.

Over the past two and a half years, the company reported, Bennett clients have benefitted from efficiencies from the digital process, and Bennett has seen an increase in market share. The current 66-inch Jetmaster operates during three shifts each day.

Bennett’s second Jetmaster is 48 inches wide and better aligns with projects that would normally be printed on a 40-inch offset press, the company said.

“This digital press gives our customers another production option when they want high-graphic packaging and retail displays,” sales manager Robert Sweet said. “Digital print may be preferred for a project simply to increase the speed to market, or because different creative versions are needed for the same structure, or to help fulfill a client’s sustainability efforts of reducing raw materials in their packaging.”

Bennett is a 31-year-old, woman-owned company run by CEO Kathy Bennett that offers services and manufacturing, from concept to design, from testing to production, and from pack-out to distribution.