Reprocad has installed the first Rigoli MVZ1000 in the UK at Chartley Coffee, which will be used to print roll-to-roll flexible packaging for coffee and tea.
Located in Hixon, Staffordshire, Chartley Coffee is a family-owned traditional coffee roasting company.
Developed by Italian equipment manufacturer Rigoli, MVZ1000 is a Memjet-powered roll-to-roll, wide web, single-pass inkjet printer, and designed for flexible packaging applications. It can support media widths of up to 1067mm, and 1000m in length, producing 1600 x 1600dpi at 9m/min, or 1600 x 800dpi at 18m/min speed, with 1.2pl drop size. The printer also includes an industrial unwinder and rewinder that can accommodate jumbo rolls.
MVZ1000 gives brand owners the ability to produce variable packaging across a range of applications, sizes and substrates. The packaging is produced either offline or inline to create customised products. Its small footprint means this package printing technology can easily be placed inline with finishing equipment.
Chartley Coffee will use the MVZ1000 to print roll-to-roll flexible packaging, and will feed these rolls to their coffee packaging lines, as well as other packaging machines used for tea companies and other clients in the beverage industry.
Zsolt Tarjanyi, managing director at Rigoli, said, ‘As the packaging market addresses an increasing demand for varying branding, messaging, sizes, and shapes, the MVZ 1000 delivers. It has the speed, image quality, reliability, and affordability that users demand, and only Memjet technology can provide.’
Since 1979, Chartley Coffee has worked with growers from all over the world to supply bespoke, hand-roasted, traceable coffee in and across the UK. The company runs five large vintage roasters, combining traditional methods of coffee roasting with modern packaging facilities. The move to on-site digital printing for all its packaging allows Chartley’s customers to order short runs of special promotional packs with full personalisation.
Owain Antcliff, managing director at Chartley Coffee, explained, ‘Using the MVZ1000, we can print up to a metre wide onto accurately wound jumbo rolls. This functionality means that we can offer a wider range of solutions for our customers and enable us to be more responsive and add value to our offering.’
Reprocad has been involved in wide format and label printing for 15 years. The company has a wealth of experience with Memjet technology. Having recently taken on the exclusive distribution of the MVZ1000 in the UK and Ireland, Reprocad is positioned to support the transition of flexible packaging print to digital, as driven by the demands of the fast-moving modern market.
Peter Barton, managing director at Reprocad, commented, ‘Digital technology gives true on-demand print, and the MVZ1000 printer can produce personalised packing with short runs, down to a single package, if required. The full metre-plus print width allows for many package sizes to be produced. In real-life situations, it is quite normal to need a production run with 500 packages using design X, 200 packages using design Y, 50 packages using design Z, and so on. The MVZ1000 printer can cope with this via its internal software menu system.’
Reprocad is to host open days at Chartley Coffee’s premises on 7-9 April to demonstrate the benefits of in-house printing, personalisation, and the efficiency of short runs. Click here to register your interest in attending.
