Complete Design & Packaging (CDP), an independent corrugated packaging provider based in North Carolina, will be the first business in the US to install the EFI Nozomi C18000 single-pass LED corrugated press.
The company, which was founded in 2002, will use the six-colour press for cost-effective, high-quality, direct-to-board digital printing that extends client brand presence in retail corrugated packaging. It currently does some prototyping and very short-run digital work on a multi-pass flatbed inkjet printer. Customers include food and consumer product manufacturers in a wide range of industries, including the home improvement and home electronics fields.
‘There are a lot of flexo and litho lamination options out there today, but customers face limitations in their marketing without digital printing, and as a young, independent company, we want to be on the leading edge of that offering,’ said Howard Bertram, president and co-owner. Along with business partner Scott Sumner, who is CDP’s vice president and co-owner, he went to see the world’s first installation of the Nozomi C18000 press at Rafael Hinojosa, in Spain.
Mr Sumner added, ‘We chose EFI because of their strengths in R&D and their commitment to make things happen in the industry. In addition to the productivity that comes with single-pass printing on the Nozomi press, Fiery technology was definitely a selling point for us. We could see how EFI’s legacy with digital print colour management will be a big plus for us developing our digital packaging business.’
Installation is scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of 2017, with production operations going live by the end of the year. The brands served by CDP will benefit from the press’s capabilities to produce a wide colour gamut with its six-colour inkset, plus a white ink scheduled to be released shortly after the press is installed.
