Mark Andy claims its new Digital Series printing platform is "a game-changing, wholly configurable system that integrates full colour, quality digital printing technology in line with converters' needs for fast change, web handling, in-line converting and other label and package decoration options".
The Digital Series is said to provide key advances in speed, colour, quality and flexibility at the lowest cost per unit. With beta sites identified, the first installations will take place in December 2013.
Key to the new system is a flexible "hybrid" platform designed to yield significantly more revenues in less time, using less space, less equipment and minimising labour. It combines the economies and productive advantages of digital workflows, digital inkjet printing and flexographic printing processes, delivering a dynamic approach to "vastly minimise" job changeover times and maximise Lean production.
The Digital Series is a group of machines providing varying degrees of performance at different price points. Coupled with the added configurability of fully advanced, integrated and automated in-line flexo printing and converting, it offers full colour inkjet or "hybrid" system with running speeds more than 61m/min. A range of web widths is available from 330mm upwards, to handle substrates from films to traditional pressure-sensitive labelstocks.
The Mark Andy Digital Series platform will be commercially available in North America next spring and to the rest of world later in the year.
