Please click below to read our featured article in the current issue of Labels Plus Issue 12 May 2013. The Australasian Labels Plus Magazine is the leading industry resource in our region.
This article refers to an interview on our decision of investing into HP Indigo Digital Offset Label Printing Technology and the many benefits digital label production provides.
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Stage 3 – Pixels to Print with HP Indigo Digital Offset Label Press
‘All Good Things Take Time’ we commenced production with our new digital label press on December 7, 2012. The installation engineers and training support personnel from Currie Group have been fantastic in making sure everything is absolutely perfect.
It has been very pleasing to see how quickly our team has picked up the new technologies and production workflows.
During a busy December, at such an early stage I could see the many advantages, improved efficiencies, flexibility of the workflow and the outstanding quality of each label order produced.
I’ve even tested the team out, when a client called to say the labels looked fantastic but, ‘Sorry Ken due to miss calculations we need another 2,500 urgently, can you help us out’? They picked them up 4 hours later. Only digital can provide such a dynamic solution.
Knowing everything is going to continue to improve as the team increases their knowledge, I look into 2013 with even more optimism.
Now I can say ‘All Good Things Take Time’ – Not any more with our Digital Offset Label Printing Solution.
Regards,
Ken Strachan
Managing Director
Wednesday 21 November
Smag 1-col Flexo Press
It’s been a very busy period in our new digital production facility factory.
We took delivery of our shipping container early in the morning Wednesday 14 following its short journey from the manufacture SMAG in France.
The equipment includes:
• 1-col Flexographic printing press with corona treatment and Infa Red dryer. This press will be used to coat our label stocks with a necessary primer required by the HP Indigo Digital Offset Label Press
• Digital Label Finishing Machine fully servo motor controlled for precise finishing of labels. This machine provides finishing capabilities of:
– Label Laminating
– UV Varnishing (Spot & Full Coverage)
– Cold foiling (Silver/Gold)
– Die-cutting
Smag Digital Finisher
It has been a pleasure to work with and watch the efficiencies of the engineers of the Australian Distributors Gulmen Engineering unpacking, installing and setting up the equipment.
We’ve taken delivery of the final piece of the digital puzzle our HP Indigo from Currie Group this morning. With their team of engineers commencing the unpacking of all of the components and installation.
Our team is getting close to providing our valued clientele with our pixel to print solutions.
Regards
Ken Strachan
Managing Director