Label and packaging specialist Springfield Solutions in Hull, UK, has invested in Europe's first Screen Truepress Jet L350UV digital label press. The new single-pass machine doubles the company's all-digital label printing capacity and complements its existing trio of HP Indigo digital label presses.
"The decision to become an 'all-digital' label company in 2011 is the reason why Springfield Solutions is successful," says operations director Dennis Ebeltoft. "The market for labels is changing rapidly as retailers take advantage of the creative and production benefits of digital printing. While run lengths are decreasing, the number of label variants is increasing quite significantly. In just a year, the number of jobs we handle has jumped from 800-1,000 a month to 1,500 a month at an average run length of around 300m each - although run lengths can go as high as 10,000m.
"Our clients are constantly requesting faster turnaround times and without digital printing technology we couldn't meet these tight deadlines."
He concludes: "Our Screen and HP presses complement one another very well. Driven by an Esko Automation front end the 50m/min Truepress Jet with in-line finishing will allow us to access new business opportunities."
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