EFI Jetrion 4900 customers ‘achieve lean label production’

EFI reports to have successfully completed deployments of Jetrion 4900 UV inkjet industrial presses for lean label production at US converters Consolidated Products of Knoxville, Tennessee, and Repacorp of Tipp City, Ohio.

The EFI Jetrion 4900, launched at Labelexpo Europe 2011, combines digital printing and digital finishing in a single system. Its integrated workflow is said to save customers time and money as they move from a label print file directly to the finished roll without interruption. The Jetrion 4900 ‘can pay for itself with a minimal number of jobs per day’, says the company.

‘EFI is pleased to be at the center of our customers' success in lean label production,’ said Sean Skelly, vice president of EFI and general manager of the Jetrion business group. ‘Jetrion inkjet technology is focused on exceeding customer expectations for performance, application flexibility and total cost of ownership. Our collaboration with customers like CPI and Repacorp help us innovate in the areas our customers care about the most.’

Consolidated Products, Inc (CPI)

In business for more than 25 years, Consolidated Products is a provider of pressure sensitive labels and tags, offering digital printing, dome labels, high-speed laser die-cutting, RFID and more. According to Kirk Icuss, president of CPI, ‘We first acquired the Jetrion 4830 and then partnered with EFI as an early installation site for the 4900 with the EFI Fiery RIP to unify the color for both machines. The Jetrion presses give us the ability to respond to customer needs in a short time frame without the added cost of plates or dies and we deliver that increased value to our customers.’

CPI is focused on lean manufacturing in order to assist its customer base of consumer products companies and big-box retailers to reduce SKUs and label inventory and reduce scrap costs. Icuss continued: ‘In the compliance labeling business, we grade quality by durability of the actual label. UV durability of the EFI inks was a key requirement for us.’

Repacorp

Repacorp is described as a full service print provider with four manufacturing plants located in Ohio, Wisconsin and Arizona. Tony Heinl, vice president of Repacorp, said: ‘As a company, we constantly look at what we can do to help our distributors increase sales. The answer was definitely adding EFI Jetrion presses to compete in short run process printing. We estimate the short run label market at about 800 million dollars. The addition of our three Jetrion presses immediately made us a force in that market.’

Repacorp prints a wide-range of label jobs on its Jetrion 4900, 4830 and 4000 systems, and relies on their high image quality. ‘Our Jetrion 4900 has near photographic quality with outstanding color reproduction. Digital printing eliminates the need for plates and the laser system provides a tool-free method for cutting any desired shape,’ said Heinl.

The printers are also used to print multiple copies of a label with variable data information such as serial numbers, barcodes, 2D barcodes, parking decals or date and lot coding.

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