Full-service visual communications agency Oschatz Visuelle Medien has installed a Canon LabelStream 4000 series digital label press, as it seeks to broaden its application offering and improve on turnaround time.
Based in Niedernhausen, near Frankfurt/Main, Germany, this is the first of Canon’s industrial-scale, UV inkjet digital label press series to be installed in Germany.
Canon’s LabelStream inkjet digital press can achieve an output of 1845sqm/hr, with a 410mm print width and speed of 75m/min. Inline finishing and embellishment capabilities mean turnaround times can be further reduced while delivering high quality output.
Specifically for Oschatz, the agility of the Canon LabelStream 4000 will allow the company to meet increasingly tight deadlines and an increase in demand for short runs. The new press is now installed in a hybrid configuration, including a flexo print unit, cold foiling and highly automated semi-rotary die-cutting in addition to the CMYK+W digital print unit.
The company also benefits from the fact that Canon’s LabelStream is the first digital press to have been awarded the Fogra Process Standard Digital (PSD) Print Check specification. The certification confirms that colour consistency, uniformity, detail sharpness and stability of print runs produced on the LabelStream 4000 comply with the requirements defined by Fogra PSD Print Check, and enables Oschatz Visuelle Medien to guarantee high quality and colour consistency for labels printed on a broad range of media. With the option to use the white inkjet channel, achieving white ink opacity of up to 80% and the possible extension with an orange channel, converters have access to more extensive application possibilities.
Oschatz Visuelle Medien CEO Joel Oschatz said, ‘LabelStream’s large application versatility, printing from self-adhesives to cartonboard, variable data printing capabilities and enlarged colour gamut will further support and broaden Oschatz’s flexible offering for a wide range of print services, meeting the demands for a higher frequency of short-run jobs, while accurately matching brand colours over a production run.’
Founded in 1922 as specialist photo laboratory, Oschatz Visuelle Medien now employs more than 60 people in pre-press, creative print production, logistics, and onsite installation and decoration. The LabelStream 4000 is the company’s fifth Canon investment, and sits alongside two existing Canon Colorado 1640 and a further two Colorado 1650 wide format devices.
Mr Oschatz continued, ‘We have always valued our strong partnership with Canon, which convinced us to extend our alliance into other markets. With our current fleet we print in various techniques onto a wide range of materials, from point of sale visuals to artistic prints.’
Crit Driessen, vice president and head of digital packaging, Canon Production Printing, commented, ‘We are thrilled to strengthen our partnership with Oschatz Visuelle Medien with the newly installed LabelStream 4000 series. It is an important step for Canon towards a leading position in the label and packaging segment. We look forward to working together with Oschatz and to help this impressive and innovative company to continue to thrive.’
