Converting specialist Cartes has developed Jet D-Screen (JDS), a digital screen printing unit for creating high build effects and metal doming, including the possibility to foil high build varnish and print Braille effects.
JDS builds on the range of modules available for Cartes’ GT360 and GEMINI360 machines. By allowing the depositing of a thicker layer of ink, claimed as ‘previously impossible to achieve with inkjet technologies’, JDS allows the creation of multilayer effects such as spot coatings, tactile effects and Braille printing, as well as very detailed foil and metallic doming. Using inkjet technology, JDS requires no tools and allows immediate job changes. Materials that are printed with the JDS system do not need to be varnished or treated prior to converting, even those with rough, natural and other textured surfaces.
In an article looking at the market for wines and spirits as published by Digital Labels & Packaging late last year, and available to read here, Enrica Lodi, who is responsible for marketing and sales at Cartes, commented, ‘If we think about this digital screen printing unit installed on a laser die-cutting machine, we have a perfect embellishment and converting line for an immediate finishing of labels processed with digital machines.’
Read more about finishing and embellishment in the March/April issue of Digital Labels & Packaging; register here to receive the magazine, for free
