Colordyne 3600 Series
To add digital printing to its business and increase its in-house product offerings, Prairie State Group (PSG) has installed a Colordyne 3600 Series retrofit.
The digital retrofit module was installed at PSG’s Franklin Park, Illinois, headquarters, where the company prints packaging materials, such as pressure-sensitive labels and flexible packaging, for the food and beverage, health and beauty, pouching, cold chain technology and automotive after-market industries.
PSG chose to retrofit its existing flexo press, adding four-colour digital inkjet capabilities, due to the low cost of entry, minimal disruption to its current business and the ability to use existing tooling and finishing.
Prior to adding digital print capabilities, the company produced more than 150 jobs under 5000 feet every month on its own flexo presses or outsourced to a digital printer. Many of these analogue jobs required longer set-up times than run times.
‘With the growing demand for short-run jobs, we knew it was a bigger risk not to go digital,’ said Dan Doherty, executive vice president of operations. ‘Adding the Colordyne 3600 Series Retrofit allows us to transition our existing high-mix, low-volume jobs to the digital press. This opens up the capacity to print hybrid jobs and new product launches, particularly in the test market stage, for our customers.
‘The retrofit is putting us on the map as a digital printer and digital is fast becoming the norm at PSG,’ he continued. ‘Existing work is being done more quickly, it saves money on plates and allows clients to walk into a project without fear of their inventory becoming obsolete.’
