Imprenta chooses DigiFlex for in-house CtP

Hungarian label converter Imprenta Kft was founded in 1994 and its first flexo press was a 180mm wide, 3-color water-based Edale sold by Jozef Scharnitzky from Henn-Grafo. The printing workshop was in one room of a family house, where simple labels were produced for over three years.

‘Two rooms in the family house and corridor was where we kept the stock and my office was another room,’ recalls managing director and joint-owner Apostol Laszlo, who was an offset printer by trade. ‘At that time there were not so many label converters in the country. A different situation from today, where there are at least 40-50 printers of self-adhesive labels in Hungary.’

Today Imprenta is based in a 2,200 sqm purpose-built factory in Veszprem. ‘I said to the architect it should be more like a hotel than a factory,’ says Laszlo, and this vision has been realized. The factory houses pool table and table tennis rooms and a fully equipped gym.

Imprenta has a turnover of €2.12m, expected to rise to €2.4m by the end of 2014. Last year the company grew at 25 percent, and has reached 12 percent this year.

More than 10 years ago Imprenta installed its first UV flexo press, a 6-color Gidue, followed five years later followed by a 370mm-wide Gidue Quadra.

High quality finishing equipment was also added, including Grafotronic and Flexor inspection-rewinders with die-cutting units and a Cartes hot foil stamping machine.

Two years later an Omet X-Flex X6 UV flexo press was purchased, specified with a 340mm web and 8-colors. This machine has produced some particularly striking work, with fine text reversed out of 4-colors.

Complementing this equipment is a Primera CX1200 with a FX1200 die cutting and finishing unit, which is used for small quantities of labels, typically runs of 300-500.