The Grand Printing Group (Grandprint/Shengda), China’s largest web-to-print provider, is driving its transformation forward by consistently relying on technology from Heidelberg.
The huge investment in 11 Jetfire 50 digital inkjet systems from Heidelberg and 10 Gallus Five hybrid digital inkjet label presses 2025 is now followed by another order for six Speedmaster CX 92-4 sheetfed machines equipped with AutoPlate Pro and automatic blanket wash-up.
These systems are designed for self-adhesive label printing, high-quality brochures, and a full range of commercial print applications.
Grandprint is positioning itself in a deliberately hybrid way. The company combines the strengths of digital printing, flexibility, automation, and short turnaround times, with the performance and efficiency of offset printing for medium and high-volume production. This intelligent integration of digital and offset technology ensures maximum production reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency – forming a strong foundation for sustainable growth in industrial printing.
Asia underscores its central role as a growth market for label printing
With Asia accounting for 42% of the global pressure-sensitive label market label production according to 2024 AWA market analysis, the region continues to demonstrate its central role in driving label and packaging market growth.
Market forecasts also indicate that Asia is expected to record the highest compound annual growth rate in the global pressure-sensitive label segment between 2024 and 2027. Grandprint’s latest investment further reinforces this momentum, underscoring how forward thinking printers in Asia are investing early to secure their competitive advantage in this fast growing market.
Grandprint implements hybrid end-to-end production
As an industry leader in China’s online printing sector with four factories in China, more than 3.000 employees and a sales turnover of 427 Mio. Euro (2025), Grandprint continues to prioritize technological investments that enhance quality and efficiency, supporting its competitive edge.
As Cui Wenfeng, chairman of Grandprint explains, “Technology from Heidelberg whether it is offset, digital or flexo, have continued to impress us with a high level of automation and performance. It perfectly matches our vision of a digital and hybrid future.”
This end-to-end capability directly supports Grandprint’s strategy of achieving cost-efficient, high-volume production of short-run, fast-turnaround label jobs as well as high-quality brochures, and a full range of commercial print applications. The new Speedmaster CX 92 presses will also be integrated into the Prinect workflow environment from Heidelberg.
“Grandprint’s investment decision underlines the role of Heidelberg as a total solution provider and system integrator, ideally positioned to support customers in building a hybrid future-ready end-to-end production environment with offset, digital and flexo printing technologies,” says Dr David Schmedding, chief technology and sales officer at Heidelberg. “This further investment will help Grandprint unlock new levels of productivity and strengthen its position as an web-to-print provider especially in China’s growing packaging market and beyond.”
