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full-color printing technology back to Okinawa, and went to Tokyo to study the technology.”Delivery time from approximately 2 months to as little as 2 weeksWhat prompted the company to enter the flexible packaging business?President Oshiro explains that while seeking future development in the declining printing industry and taking on various challenges such as e-books, video production, and drone research, the company has simultaneously been considering flexible packaging to make the factory viable.Another major point is Okinawa’s unique printing busi-ness situation.“We have been doing packaging related sales before, but there was no company in the prefecture that handled flexible packaging printing, so we outsourced the work to outside the prefecture, mainly in the Kansai region. The bot-tleneck here was delivery time and logistics costs. The de-livery time was about one and a half to two months,” com-Kindai Bijutsu Co., Ltd. Head Office4Okinawa, Japan, introduced a flexographic press for the first time in Okinawa in 2021 to compete in flexible packaging business. It took three years from conception to installation. This has enabled the company to establish an integrated production system that allows them to handle everything from design to bag-making for flexible packaging, which previously had been ordered from outside the pre-fecture. The company has been expanding its cre-ative business uninfluenced by media, from com-mercial printing to books, websites, event planning, TV, and newspaper advertising. Reporter visited the company’s headquarters in Nambaebaru-cho and the Itoman factory, which has installed flexographic printing equipment in June 2022.President Emi OshiroKindai Bijutsu Co., Ltd.Introduced full-color printing technology to Okinawa, where the primary had been one-color printerKindai Bijutsu is a printing com-pany that handles a wide range of printer main in Okinawa from commercial to others includ-ing event-related. Emi Oshiro, who succeeded the founder as president in 2013 commented, “About 60 years ago, the pre-fecture was still in the era of one-color printers. The found-er had a strong desire to bring First 8-color water-based flexographic press in Okinawa enables integrated flexible packaging productionKindai Bijutsu Co., Ltd., a printing company in

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