Label Apeel has moved to new premises north-east of Leicester city centre. The new Thurmaston factory, known as Bo House, covers 36,000 square feet and is also home to a new HP Indigo WS6800 digital label press.
As one of the first label printers in the UK to install the WS6800, the company explained the reasoning for the investment, ‘In a nutshell, all other digital printers rely on densitometry, which is a measurement of grey scales to achieve colour matching, whereas the WS6800 is based on spectrophotometry, which is a measurement of colour wavelength and a far more accurate method of measuring colour. Previously the machine made a best stab and then the operator would tweek offline, now the machine is constantly checking the colour matches the original copy.
‘The WS6800 makes it easier to control colour consistency and we now are one of the few printers in the UK who can guarantee colour consistency on a digital press. Previously, we achieved this consistency through hard work and significant time, now we are able to achieve the same amazing results with significant time and cost efficiencies.’
