Altrif Label invests in second Xeikon 3500 in two years

Altrif Label installed its first Xeikon 3500 in 2011 and has been testing Xeikon’s Ice toner, designed to print on heat sensitive substrates such as PE, since early July 2013.

The new toner and capabilities of the Xeikon 3500 are said to answer Altrif’s needs for extra production capacity perfectly. The existing advantages of increased productivity and cost efficiency are now extended with the capability to print on a broad range of heat sensitive substrates like PE and direct thermal labels.

The Xeikon 3500 is a five color digital label press that prints on substrate widths of up to 516mm wide, and is suitable for oversized labels. It is a full rotary roll fed press with a maximum printing speed of 19,2m/min. The printing speed is independent from the number of colors printed.

Altrif Label commented: ‘The Xeikon 3500 is really up to par with our other equipment in terms of reaching high standards in printing quality. It strongly increases productivity delivering excellent cost efficiency for digital label production. The combination of true continuous output speed and the 516mm substrate width, outperforms any other production solution we tested. It is clearly one of the most productive digital presses on the market, especially when printing opaque white since Xeikon only needs one layer to achieve outstanding density values’.

With the Xeikon ICE toner, print jobs on PE and thermal label stocks can benefit from the specific dry toner advantages offered by Xeikon: 1200 dpi quality, superb productivity, high lightfastness, flexibility to print on conventional substrates without the need to use a primer, and sustainability of the complete production solution.

Filip Weymans, director segment marketing and business development labels and packaging at Xeikon, said: ‘The team at Altrif Label always focuses on selecting the most appropriate label production solution. Their choice was based on exactly the benefits the Xeikon 3500 solution aims for: higher productivity, cost efficiency and a superb one-pass opaque white, now even on heat sensitive PE and direct thermal label substrates. We’re honored to have one of the biggest digital label print shops in Europe as our customer!’