Arndt Eschenlohr, president of Print Logistic Services
Print Logistic Services in Markkleeberg, Germany, is the latest company to adopt Konica Minolta’s AccurioJet KM-1 UV digital sheet-fed press.
A subsidiary of American online printing service OvernightPrints, PLS is a long-standing Konica Minolta customer and was announced as the first beta site for the KM-1 press a year ago.
In the past, PLS used both offset and Konica Minolta bizhub products to fulfil its clients’ needs but offset printing became impractical due to the quantity of wastage, which ranged from 70 to 150 sheets per job.
With the KM-1, PLS benefits from enhanced paper handling and workflow technologies, and by using UV inks the company can move work quickly and easily to finishing with offset quality on standard offset stock.
‘I’ve never known a technology like this. It is better than offset printing, that is for sure,’ said Arndt Eschenlohr, president of PLS Print Logistic Services. ‘The AccurioJet KM-1 has enabled us to move into new markets, such as packaging, which we are confident will be a major growth area for digital printing.’
‘Not only have we proved the robustness of this industrial inkjet press, but we are proving to PLS customers that we can match offset quality to provide online printers like PLS a real alternative now,’ commented Mark Hinder, head of market development, Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe. ‘Our focus now is to push even further through testing plastics and packaging materials to allow PLS growing further its capabilities to capture new market opportunities that UV inkjet can create.’
