Epson qualifies Herma materials

Epson has performed extensive tests with its ColorWorks C7500 and C7500G water-based inkjet color label printers. Results from these tests showed standard self-adhesive materials from Herma achieved ‘very good’ print results with ‘outstanding efficiency’ on these industrial color label printing systems.

‘Our product HERMAwhite (grade 601) was given very good marks, even though the white, machine-finished label paper is considered an absolute standard,’ commented Timo Kerilahti, who works in the technical service team in Herma’s Self-adhesive Materials division.

‘The label material was able to instantly absorb the water-based ink – the print image is excellent thanks to optimal ink adhesion’

Nikos Vardakastanis, product manager, Prographics at Epson, added: ‘Our versatile inkjet color label printers put an end to typical restrictions that go along with thermal transfer printing. Combined with Herma self-adhesive materials, for instance, users can now print high-quality, individual color labels, tickets and price tags as required and in-house. Moreover, they can decide what labels they need at what time and in which quantity. Storage of pre-printed tickets, delays caused by missing labels and unnecessarily rejected labels are therefore now a thing of the past.

‘The tests that we recently performed with Herma materials confirm their high performance with Epson’s inkjet color label printers for these purposes.’

Two further Herma paper materials were also tested on the Epson ColorWorks C7500 and C7500G: HERMAinkprint (grade 137) and HERMAinkprint gloss (grade 211). Moreover, the film HERMAinkprint PP (grade 821) also proved suitable for use with these industrial color label printing systems.

HERMAinkprint PP (grade 821) is not only seawater-resistant according to BS 5609 (section 2), but the Herma adhesive 63B which is used with it by default is also very resistant, such as to various chemicals. Combined with the Epson printers, Herma declared that its self-adhesive materials are therefore ‘ideally qualified’ for quickly creating a wide range of high-quality labels, including packaging labels, EU energy labels or caution labels according to the CLP/GHS directive.