Danish converter installs HP Indigo WS6000

Scanket, a label printer based in Bikerd, Denmark, has installed an HP Indigo WS6000, its fifth in a succession of digital presses that began with an HP Indigo ws2000 in 2000.

Scanket offers both conventional and digital label printing services to customers and printers without a digital capability in Scandinavia and Germany. Within a year of installing its ws2000, the company was running it in two shifts and soon after installed a ws4000. This was followed by a ws4050 and 4500.

‘It’s misleading to talk about short runs,’ said Martin Fundal, managing director, Scanket. ‘Some of our shrink sleeve jobs run twenty to thirty kilometers, but within that run there may be as many as one hundred small image and text variations. It would be prohibitively expensive to produce them conventionally. We also rely on our HP Indigo presses to print barcodes and other security devices. For example, blood transfusion services require absolute reliability and readability of barcodes, and the label set for one donor can require ten barcodes.’

All of Scanket’s HP Indigo presses operate with in-line finishing systems. It has DigiCon lines from HP partner AB Graphic International as well as a shrink sleeve unit from another HP partner, DCM.

‘In-line finishing can be more efficient than near-line,’ Fundal said. ‘Configuring presses in-line is less labor-intensive and contributes to a smooth workflow.’

Fundal cites high print quality, substrate versatility, and the ability to handle variable data and special colors as reasons for continuing to invest in HP Indigo presses.

‘We chose the WS6000 for is increased production speed, but also because we know we can rely on HP. As a company, it is big enough to set the agenda for digital printing, and I haven’t seen any digital system print better,’ Fundal concluded.

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