The Screen Truepress Jet L350UV+ at JH Label Solutions in Ireland

 

James Hamilton Group in Lurgan, Northern Ireland, has been making significant investments in its label division, JH Label Solutions. The company is the first in the world to install the new Screen Truepress Jet L350UV+ press. It has also opted to purchase a swathe of products from Hybrid Software.

The recently released UV inkjet press will be used to produce food, beverage and chemical product packaging labels. Following a near nine-month process of due diligence travelling throughout Europe to visit different manufacturers, James Hamilton Group chose the Screen press for its combination of efficiency and quality.

‘The business needed more capacity and we knew right at the start we were looking for a digital solution to complement our existing flexo press lines in order to respond to the ever-increasing requirements for shorter run lengths and increased SKUs,’ explained Keith Hamilton, managing director. ‘The Screen Truepress Jet L350UV+ was a clear choice for us because it ticked so many boxes; Screen’s UV inkjet technology delivers tried and tested quality, it has an excellent reputation for reliability and with the 60m/min speed, it’s becoming a real rival to flexo production.’

To match the investment in faster printing technology, the company needed to update its pre-press facility to respond to the new requirements of the pressroom. The package bought from Hybrid Software includes two seats of Packz as well as the workflow software Cloudflow, along with Proofscope and Packzflow.

The seats of Packz, a professional PDF editor for packaging and label workflows, were installed during September and have already improved productivity at the site as general manager, David Hedley, explained, ‘We operate digital and flexo presses and have recently been expanding our digital printing capacity as part of a £1.5 million investment programme.’

He continued, ‘So far we have implemented stage one of Packz, which allows us to produce extremely professional proofs with great efficiency. Over the coming weeks we will start using the other elements and then install Cloudflow. This will include interfacing the Hybrid Software products with our existing Cerm MIS system, and as the two suppliers already work closely together we are confident this will be seamless.’