Melbourne printer Sticky Labels has installed Screen’s Truepress Jet L350UV digital label press with the aim of driving FMCG market growth.
This is the Braeside company’s first full production digital label press, although its sister company Label Concepts has been running wide format inkjet technology for a number of years to service fleet vehicle wraps and the occasional short run of labels on self-adhesive stocks.
Sticky Labels directors Justine McEwan and Mark McEwan bought the Screen machine from Jet Technologies.
They needed to make sure that the L350UV was the right fit for Sticky Labels, as they had specific requirements on a number of stocks, including colour matching, usability, ink cost, quality and speed.
Sticky Labels is currently on a capital investment venture which will allow for the funding of a major new Flexo machine in ensuing months.
Screen’s L350UV is an all-inkjet, 350mm narrow web digital label press that uses both LED and conventional UV curing to ensure completely dry results on reels of labels, ready for finishing offline or, if required, inline via its JetConverter 350 system.
Running at up to 50mpm with high uptime, sequential differing label jobs can be produced without interruption to re-set the press, mount plates and make-ready.
Data is streamed to the press via Screen’s Equios front-end provided the printed stock remains the same, with changeovers to different self-adhesive stocks fast and easy.
