UK printer Limpet Labels has acquired its third Screen UV inkjet digital press, as the company sees demand for its digital label printing services grow.
A seven-colour Screen Truepress Jet L350UV SAI S press has now been installed at the converter, as it seeks to boost colour consistency whilst also achieving ink savings.
Screen’s SAI series has been developed to deliver to help printers produce a wider range of Pantone colours to meet brand owners’ challenging demands.
For Limpet Labels operations manager Nathan Williams, ‘This machine enhances our colour gamut while at the same time helping us save ink, making our operations more cost-efficient.
‘To print the right blue colour, for example, previous generations of print presses often needed large amounts of ink, applied in different layers. The newest Screen SAI press, however, achieves the right colour much more easily, and saves us about half the amount of ink.’
As well as cost savings, this enables Limpet Labels to address its customers’ increasing interest in meeting challenging eco-friendly standards. The L350UV SAI S also helps Limpet Labels reduce material waste even further by requiring minimal to zero setup in between live jobs.
Active in the chemical and industrial label markets, as well as other sectors, Limpet Labels has been working with Screen for seven years. Mr Williams added, ‘Each generation, Screen equipment and software provides even more stability and colour consistency. This newest, high-end SAI technology is as easy to use as an iPad, and it doesn’t require a lot of training for our operators to use the machine in the best possible way.’
Screen cited Limpet Labels’ growth as a reflection of the ongoing shift towards digital in the wider UK print market. Having moved from toner digital printing to inkjet, the amount of orders Limpet Labels is producing digitally has grown by around 230%. With inkjet enabling it to target new markets both within the UK and mainland Europe, the company is expecting ‘healthy and steady growth’ to continue, with more investments in digital inkjet printing to come in the next few years.
