Limpet Labels invests in inkjet with Screen Truepress Jet L350UV

Limpet Labels is a specialist producer of self-adhesive labels in the UK, and has made the investment to support its existing press portfolio, which includes a Xeikon 3000 Series digital press and two Mark Andy flexo presses.

The Screen Truepress Jet L350UV is able to achieve a printing speed of 50m/min and widths up to 322mm, at up to 16.1 sq m a minute.

Limpet Labels worked with Dantex on the purchase and installation. Dantex is the official distributor for the Truepress Jet L350UV in the UK, as well as Austria, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, Turkey and the Benelux countries.

Limpet Labels said installing a Screen Truepress Jet L350UV means it can provide its customers with a range of printing technologies, which it sees as being key to offering customers the best possible quality and service for their requirements.

It states that the best-fit technology for any given print job depends on price, job type and run length, as well as customer expectations, with the point at which digital jobs cost less per copy depending on the type of job and set-up costs; up to the breakeven point digital printing costs far less for short runs, so the higher the breakeven point, the more reason to print digital, the printer said.

Lee Goode, Limpet Labels managing director, said: ‘Great savings can be made as there is very little set-up, and of course no plates, plus a variety of labels can be run at the same time.

‘Some customers would simply not be able to afford to produce the very high quality labels they do for their extensive product ranges without digital.

‘Digital plays its part within a company already using flexo technology, label printing is a jigsaw puzzle and you need all the pieces; digital is an integral part of that. Incorporating the Truepress was quite easy for us, our press operators have a great deal of experience and have the transferable skills to adapt quickly and successfully. In fact, one of our press operators, Kevin Jones, says the Truepress is “a printer’s dream”.

‘We had a great deal of support and training from Dantex from the start and throughout the installation period. Since investing in the new system we are very pleased with its high quality printed results, as too are our customers.’

Limpet Labels sales director Jon Dudley added: ‘This is a major advance for us and we are really excited about it. The quality of output from the Truepress is fantastic. Keeping flexo rather than going totally digital sets us apart from many other label printers that have chosen to go ‘digital only’.

‘Ultra-high speed bridges the gap between digital and flexo, meaning we can now offer the best possible prices for short-, medium- and long-run printing.’

At next month’s Packaging Innovations show at the NEC in Birmingham, Dantex, Limpet Labels and brand CLB Valeting will discuss how having a range of printing technologies is the 'key to offering customers the full label printing package', with an emphasis on how high speed inkjet technology plays an integral part. This will take place as part of the Learnshops seminar program at Packaging Innovations.