The Label Shoppe installs new Nilpeter FA-4 press

For more than 80 years the Gaytan family-owned Label Shoppe has served the California region.

‘Due to our nearly 100 percent growth in two years, in February 2016 we saw the need to add a modern flexo press,’ said Ryan Gaytan, vice president of The Label Shoppe. ‘This new machine needed to offer automated short-run capabilities, long run stability and impeccable register and impression control. It also needed to comfortably handle a 450 mm web without stepping up to the 500 mm+ size category. Nilpeter was the only manufacturer to offer the latter. We interviewed and demonstrated with several leading manufacturers, but none impressed us as much as the Nilpeter FA-4. The fact that the FA-4 and its clean-hand technology, dot-2-dot registry system, and complete automation are the newest innovative features from any manufacturer was also a consideration. We will be one of the first to pioneer these combined features in North America.’

Gaytan continued: ‘Our team was particularly impressed with the value-adding units and options available on the FA-4. With one machine, we can easily run short runs, long runs, high-end wine and spirit labels, extended content labels and critical register jobs that would previously only be possible on web offset or digital presses.’