Mark Andy launches digital screen printing alternative at Labelexpo Europe 2017

A new digital retrofit product, Digital Plus Screen is the latest option in the company’s growing digital hybrid portfolio, and sees single color digital UV inkjet printing integrated with the company’s Performance Series platform.

Digital Plus Screen, a subset of the company’s Digital Plus Program, is designed to retrofit on existing presses. The unit is available both as a rail-mounted option on new equipment or as a retrofit to enhance existing Performance Series presses in the field.

Mark Andy said Digital Plus Screen gives users the ability to quickly create dimensional, highly opaque prints without the capital costs, set-up constraints and extensive cleaning needed with traditional screen printing technologies.

Mark Andy added that this process streamlines the entire label production workflow, simplifying the movement of art files to print. Designed with UV inkjet printing with interstation pinning, the module prints fine text, barcodes, sequential numbering and screen-like white ink all in a single-pass and at high quality with speeds up to 240ft/min (73m/min).

Built upon the UV Inkjet system created for the Digital Series press, Digital Plus Screen delivers high-opacity white print and the ability to personalize products, it is claimed. By offering digital white opacity comparable to rotary screen, as well as variable data printing (VDP), Mark Andy said the single color digital print module augments converter capabilities.

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