US converter reduces set-up time with SensoTec system

Innovative Printing Technologies reports it has received positive feedback from Design Labels’s installation of the SensoTec automatic registration system. The installation, said to be the industry’s first of a SensoTec system on a Mark Andy printing press, was completed five months ago.  

Kyle Knight of Design Label, a US label converter, said: ‘Design Label installed a SensoTec automatic registration system in the Fall of 2009 on our 8-color Mark Andy 4150 16” flexo press. Our original reason for trying the system was the bottom line: how much time and material this system would save us. The benefits far exceeded our original expectations.  

‘Our actual set-up time for registration has been reduced to a third of what it used to take. Material waste has been cut in half. With these bottom line savings the ROI on this system is less than nine months. With material prices increasing and customers’ demands to reduce or hold pricing, this system has allowed Design Label to remain competitive.  

Knight reports that a noticeable benefit is the consistency in print quality from operator to operator. ‘We have taken the human element out of controlling the registration,’ he said. ‘Our operators now have more time to spend on the actual print quality and color overall making their jobs easier while giving us a higher quality product.’