For the first time in Europe, Allen Datagraph Systems Inc. (ADSI) will demonstrate two digital label systems during Labelexpo, 24-27 September in Brussels.
The company will be showing its iTech AXXIS HS Digital Label System and iTech CENTRA HS Digital Label System.
The iTech Series digital label systems are complete turnkey systems that allow label converters to digitally print and finish smaller quantities of consumer quality labels, in any shape, without costs and delays associated with analogue production.
‘ADSI has engineered the iTech AXXIS HS Digital Label System to offer exceptional productivity and cost efficiency. Thousands of labels can be produced in just a few hours,’ said Mark Vanover, vice president of sales and marketing. ‘The iTech AXXIS HS Digital Label System also offers ADSI’s promise of a complete table top production system printing high quality labels at an astonishingly low total cost per label to produce. Many of our customers are profitable after selling as few as four jobs per month.’
Launched earlier this year the system includes the AXXIS HS Digital Label Printer, a high resolution roll fed CMYK print engine featuring LED toner technology, and the AXXIS HS Digital Label Finisher that laminates, integrates die-less die cutting, and then strips, slits and rewinds to finished rolls of labels.
The printer includes an LED toner roll-to-roll printer, imaging consumer quality labels with brilliant, durable, consistent colour at 1200 dpi X 600 dpi, at speeds up to 7.6 meters per minute. It delivers high definition printing with four colour stochastic screening versus traditional flexographic and laser printer systems using halftone screening.
With a maximum width of 216 mm, the printer has wide degree of substrate flexibility that does not require top coating and is capable of being used standalone in a pre-die cut label workflow.
The iTech CENTRA HS Digital Label System combines the new iTech CENTRA HS Digital Label Printer with the iTech CENTRA HS Digital Label Finisher, introduced in 2011.
It’s a complete roll-to-roll solution all with low, on-going operational expenses. With the iTech CENTRA HS Digital Label System, label convertors can lower production costs and waste, while offering new capabilities to their customers.
The newest component of the system, the iTech CENTRA HS Digital Label Printer, is an LED toner printer imaging consumer quality labels with brilliant, durable, consistent colour at 1200 dpi X 600 dpi, at speeds up to 9.1 meters per minute. It delivers high definition printing with four colour stochastic screening versus traditional flexographic and laser printer based systems using halftone screening. With a maximum width of 327 mm, the printer has a wide degree of substrate flexibility that does not require top coating.
The CENTRA HS prints on most standard pressure sensitive paper substrates, which are typically half to a third, the cost of inkjet substrates along with white, metallic or clear films.
‘While we have been very successful selling the table-top iTech AXXIS Digital Label Systems, we believe there is still a missing product opportunity between that and the high cost digital presses. All converters have a need for digital. The iTech CENTRA HS Digital Label System makes economic sense, as it allows them to augment their current capabilities, as opposed to making a large capital investment on a digital press to replace their existing print technologies. The iTech CENTRA HS Digital Label System offers better economics for printing and finishing 305 to 915 linear meter run lengths than other technologies,’ concluded Mr Vanover.
