EKS-Label of Kirchlengern, Germany, has invested in an 8-colour DSI (Digital System Integration) UV inkjet press from SPGPrints to meet growing demand for short runs of self-adhesive labels.
The custom-built 330mm press features the standard CMYK plus orange and violet, enabling reproduction of 90% of visible colours, a digital primer and opaque white. With top speeds of 35m/min and including converting technology from AB Graphic, it gives a productive single-pass solution. Esko Automation software provides simplified file management with minimal manual intervention, allowing several jobs to be scheduled at once, whilst cutting prepress times significantly.
The press will relieve EKS's existing letterpress and offset presses of production runs between 100-3,000 linear metres, allowing the analogue printing operation to focus on long jobs.
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