SPGPrints names ColorScreen as sole distributor for rotary screen label products for southern Africa

SPGPrints has named ColorScreen as its sole distributor for the southern African region for its rotary screen products, services and support for label printing applications.

SPGPrints appointed ColorScreen last year as a dealer in southern Africa

With stocks at its facilities in Cape Town and Durban, the company offers rapid supply of SPGPrints RotaMesh non-woven, re-engravable nickel screens, and RotaPlate re-imageable screens. ColorScreen also offers a screen imaging service and will be the point of contact for SPGPrints’ machine systems that include printing modules and laser imagers. 

Established in 1981, ColorScreen and its full-time staff of nearly two dozen people have broad expertise in the graphics, screen, pad and digital printing markets.

Jaap Storm, area sales manager, label printing at SPGPrints, commented: ‘Since we appointed ColorScreen last year as a dealer, our relationship has grown and flourished. This appointment is timely as we are seeing market growth in the region’s labels sector. The importance of high-impact labelling for brand success is increasingly recognised, and to achieve this, many converters are installing new narrow web presses with hybrid process capability, with one or more rotary screen printing units included.’

Rotary screen printing can be used in-line with flexo, offset, gravure and letterpress to create eye-catching effects such as gloss, matte and tactile varnishes, vibrant colors, as well as metallic and opaque effects. It is also used for Braille dots and anti-counterfeiting. SPGPrints’ rotary screen integration (RSI) printing modules allow integration the process into existing label presses. SPGPrints has a close partnership with many press manufacturer to install the technology on both new and, through retrofitting programs, on existing presses.

Storm concluded: ‘The availability of products, and especially consumables, without import delays is a major contribution to the market that ColorScreen’s expanded relationship with SPGPrints offers customers.’