Nigel Tollman, co-director (left) and James Denny, founder and director, ProPrint Group
ProPrint Group has ventured into digital by investing in the UK’s first FFEI Graphium label press.
Specialising in serving the fresh food retail sector, ProPrint invested in its first FL1 flexo press in 2011, followed by a new Edale flexo press approximately every 12 months. The company’s flexo and UV inkjet hybrid Graphium also features a Xaar Print Bar – another UK first – for the application of inline digital special effects.
‘The time is right for us to add digital printing now and the Graphium is very strategic investment for us,’ said founder and director James Denny. ‘The combination of conventional and digital printing capabilities gives us the power and flexibility to produce a wide range of products with the ability to add variable data and a variety of special and tactile effects all on the one press.’
ProPrint’s 420 mm wide Graphium prints at 50 m/min, integrating an Edale FL3 web transport with two flexo stations, an FFEI digital print engine using Xaar 1002 printheads, an inkjet Xaar Print Bar, followed by lamination and automated semi-rotary die-cutting. The Print Bar System offers the ability to add digital special effects using protective lacquers, high-build spot varnish and cold foil adhesives.
The Graphium will be supplied by Edale and installed at ProPrint’s facility in Wellingborough later this year.
