Headquartered in Boechout, Belgium, Reynders Label Printing has six specialist printing divisions and eight production facilities spread throughout Europe and Asia,
A family run business, Reynders has over 60 printing presses and more than 450 printing stations covering flexography, offset, letterpress, screen, dry toner, wet toner and inkjet printing technologies, enabling the company to offer one of the broadest ranges of label printing equipment for a host of applications. It has been this focus on maintaining its position through investment in the very latest label printing equipment that led to the installation of the first Domino N600i digital colour label press at its Belgium production facility.
Chief executive officer Marc Reynders explained, ‘Over the past few years, label printing has been facing new challenges with customers demanding ever tighter delivery deadlines, shorter average run lengths, more personalised data; but still the highest quality of end product. As a result, we needed to find solutions that can not only cope with these changing demands, but that also means adjusting our service offering for our customers. It ultimately helps us to move our business forward in line with the changing dynamics of the industry.’
He continued, ‘We already had a number of HP Indigos, the latest Xeikon technologies and three Agfa Dotrix digital label presses all of which were doing a good job. But to take Reynders to the next level in digital label production we needed a solution that could offer high quality digital printing at significantly increased speeds. The N600i was just what we were looking for.’
The Domino machine offers a native 600 dpi print resolution and uses one of the smallest drop sizes (6 pl) to deliver quality output onto a range of coated paper and plastic label stocks. It operates at speeds of 50 to 75 metres per minute. Combined with a standard 333 mm (13″) wide web width it provides up to 1000 m2 of print per hour. In addition, by varying the droplet sizes delivered from a single print head combined with the composition of the ink, the N600i can reproduce a wide colour gamut including over 80% of the Pantone colour range.
