SPGPrints highlights the business-transforming potential of SPGPrints’ DSI digital UV-curable inkjet workflow at Labelexpo Europe 2015
At Labelexpo Europe, SPGPrints (stand 8A10) will present live demonstrations to show the business-transforming potential of its DSI digital UV-inkjet press and workflow.
Available in widths from 135 mm to 530 mm (5in. to 21in.), the DSI press is a high-performance alternative for print runs up to 5,000LM (15,000 linear ft.) and variable data printing. CMYK, intermediate inline LED pinning stations and chill drum are standard. In addition to the four process colours, the press can be specified or latterly extended with up to six extra stations, including orange and violet to make 90% of the colour gamut, digital white with industry-leading 93% optical density, and a digital primer. A full range of semi-rotary converting options can be included in-line too. SPG’s proprietary UV-inkjet inks offer UV-, chemical and scratch-resistance, and include low-migration options, fully compliant with safety standards for safe food / pharmaceutical packaging.
High-level support and consultancy
SPGPrints offers ongoing consultancy and intensive training to ensure customers adopt the digital workflow fast and use the technology to its full potential.
Bas Hoijtink, commercial manager graphics at SPGPrints commented, ‘Our digital offering is based on press specification, modularity, specially optimised inks and long term support throughout the press lifetime. This has proved its value in numerous retail packaging and industrial markets. We have helped label converters offer brand-owners high-value services such as short-runs, and multi-versioning, variable data, batch traceability, prototypes on demand, as well as high impact graphics. The live demonstrations will allow stand visitors to appreciate at first hand, how our workflow and support makes this possible.’
Etikettenhaus: flexibility and batch traceability via the DSI
Label converter Etikettenhaus, of Hilden, Germany, has earned praise for supplying serialised, short runs of labels to national supermarket retailers, after installing a five-colour 330mm (13in.) wide DSI press featuring opaque white and inline converting capabilities.
With the press’s variable data capability, Etikettenhaus provides point-of-sale branding solutions and batch traceability for multiple stock-keeping units, far more flexibly than one could with conventional printing.
Recently, the company supplied a set of three four-colour point-of-sale labels, applied to point of sale boxes for a national German packaging assembler and wholesaler. Printed on super-white paper, the labels are applied to the front and sides of corrugated packages containing the retailer’s own brands of jams.
Using a common-sized label and template based on customer branding guidelines, Etikettenhaus makes design changes and adds serial numbers with ease, at very short notice, for each job. The company supplies up to a thousand batches, each comprising a thousand identical labels that have the their own batch number. The staff schedule several jobs consecutively, minimising setup times. Etikettenhaus uses SPGPrints’ low-migration inks because they are essential for safe food packaging.
Udo Sobkowiak, owner and co-founder of Etikettenhaus, comments: “The digital inkjet process was an essential part of our business concept, because it was the most reliable and economical means of supplying both short runs and thermal transfer labels.”
