The 2026 All in Print exhibition will take place from October 12 to 16 at the Shanghai New International Expo Center, covering 150,000 square meters and gathering more than 1,500 exhibitors. The signal is clear: digital printing is entering the mainstream for corrugated, label and flexible packaging, with AI and sustainability as core engines. Yet long-run, high-coverage packaging jobs still depend on high-end offset, so imported used sheet-fed presses are being reassessed upward.
- Trend 1: UV coating, inline coating and automatic plate changing have become the key value drivers for premium used presses.
- Trend 2: Models such as Heidelberg CD102/XL105, Roland 700, KBA Rapida 105U and Komori LS40 remain active in the second-hand market, and the NAS archive holds multi-year service manuals and circuit diagrams for them from 1999 to 2010.
- Trend 3: Smart configurations directly determine residual value. The more complete the CPC/CIP4 ink control, AirStar feeder and Densitronic closed-loop color measurement, the higher the resale premium.
- Trend 4: Maintenance history matters more than build year. The 2010 KBA Rapida 105U maintenance rules use three-shift operation of 80 working hours per week as the baseline and require the ink-duct motor drive oil to be changed every 1,000 operating hours, with circulation lubrication changed at 500/2,000-hour intervals.
High-end offset still owns long runs
E-commerce and new consumer brands hand short-run customization to digital presses, while food and beverage, household chemicals and tobacco packaging long runs are still dominated by high-speed offset. In the used market, inquiries for Heidelberg CD102-6+LX, XL105, Roland 700 and KBA Rapida 105U units with UV or coating modules have increased, with price premiums of 15%—25% over base configurations.
Inspection now focuses on configuration and maintenance
Buyers now check configurations, not just impression counts. The key list includes: UV-IST drying (Heidelberg 2007—2010 circuit diagrams can verify the hardware version), inline coating units, CIP4/CIP3 prepress interfaces and automatic washing. Roland 700 Series 733/742 circuit diagrams (1999/2003 editions) and Komori LS40 2005/2007 manuals are key references for judging electrical-system completeness. Machines with complete maintenance records typically command 8%—12% more than same-year units without them.
Conclusion: All in Print 2026 is not an obituary for offset printing; it is a watershed for its value reconstruction. Digital packaging solves small-lot, multi-SKU jobs, while high-end offset holds the long-run, high-margin work. The real hard currency in the used market is imported sheet-fed presses with UV/coating modules, smart interfaces and verifiable maintenance records.
