US converter installs first AB Graphic laser cutter

AB Graphic International has sold a SabreXtreme laser label cutter to Diagraph of Northern Ohio, USA. The installation is the first of the company’s new machine range, which includes enhancements to label cutting software. 

‘The laser cutter has enabled us to greatly improve our ability to economically process small quantity label jobs,’ said Mark Uvlin of Diagraph. ‘It also means we can develop as a trade house by taking on the more troublesome small jobs from other label printers that don’t yet have this capability. AB Graphic International cooperated with us to develop and customize the laser for our digital workflow and have been a pleasure to work with.’ 

Laser technology dispenses with the need for conventional die-cutting tools and the costs associated with production and storage. SabreXtreme aims to meet the increasing demand for shorter print runs and is capable of producing hundreds of different die patterns a day. The system offers network connection enabling a company’s art department to directly load a library of label cutting patterns to run. The patterns are selected by the operator using barcodes printed on work orders. In addition, the Windows-based software now permits all machine settings to be saved so that the exact performance of a pattern can be duplicated later. 

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