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The Gallus presses are 8-color and 10-color; the Pantec and Prati machines have been customized, enabling the company to bring to market unique products at high production efficiency. ‘The Gallus Labelmaster, with its short set-up times and high level of automation, offers the finest print...

T4 is an all-in-one digital color label press with integrated finishing station that can print, laminate, cut and die-cut 4-color labels. The print engine can achieve a 1600 x 1600dpi resolution at a maximum speed of 60ft/min. A new formulation is claimed to reduce ink consumption by 50-70...

The new 20,000 sq ft factory doubles the Xeikon press user’s available manufacturing space and will enable it to improve productivity, both through equipment utilization and workforce output. Five Xeikon presses – four CX3 engines and a CX500 – have been orientated with the unwind units facing...

Labels & Labeling (L&L): Please introduce Sato, its history and its products. 
Ryutaro Kotaki (RK): Sato provides on-site solutions for customers by attaching identifiers to items and people to ensure accuracy and sustainability, save labor and...

The project began back in 2016 with a major growth in label sales by Desmedt that highlighted a shortfall in production capacity on the company’s existing flexo and digital presses. According to general manager Henri Köhler: ‘We intended to buy one new 8-color UV flexo press and visited all of...

By chance, his first job after graduation was servicing barcode printers. ‘I was fortunate to witness the golden age of barcode label printing in China from 2002 to 2004. I started to have a preliminary understanding of the label industry and decided to start my own business.’ Jim Ji explains...

Private label (PL) brands are manufactured under a retailer’s own name. In contrast to heavily marketed ‘name’ – regional, national and international – brands, they are not supported by advertising or marketing, enabling retailers to gain a higher profit margin and attract consumers with lower...

Labelexpo India, the largest label and package printing event in South Asia, will run on November 22-25. With 250 industry-leading exhibitors, the show offers highly valuable networking opportunities for visitors and exhibitors alike, bringing together the entire supply chain with machinery,...

It is hard to define the moment when an over-hyped ‘revolutionary’ technology becomes a realistic proposition, but it seems to have arrived with Indigo’s web-fed Omnius One-Shot Colour System. It augments the sheet-fed E-Print 1000 launched in 1993. Since then a few other short-run digital...

Most label converters have passed over the opportunity to move into RFID production because they cannot see a way of making profits from what is, on its own, a low value commodity item. Most of the big projects in the RFID sector have involved RFID inlay manufacturers making deals directly with...