Konica Minolta shows full production workflow at Labelexpo

Konica Minolta will showcase software and service capabilities, as well as latest hardware at its stand C21/22 in Hall 8 during Labelexpo Europe in Brussels, Belgium, from September 11-14. 

Developed with Danish-based Grafisk Maskinfabrik (GM), Konica Minolta will be showcasing the full production workflow for the label converting and packaging industry.  

Labelexpo will be the platform to present the AccurioLabel 400 single-pass digital press to a broad, global audience – launched just nine months ago – that brings a new level of enhanced print quality for converters, as well as benefits such as running cost reductions and the ability to expand applications with white toner. The toner press offers improved productivity with print speeds of up to almost 40 meters a minute. It is available in 4 and 5-colour configurations. 

On its Konica Minolta and MGI Digital Technology Industrial Print stand, the company shows end-to-end Industry 5.0 Ecosystems with partners such as ePS, OneVision, IIJ and GM. To enable customers to produce variable data printing with high visual impact labels, Konica Minolta combines from pre-and post-press technology. The AccurioLabel 400 will be among five running systems for Konica Minolta.  

Another involves the toner-based entry-level AccurioLabel 230 press being configured with GM’s DC330Mini, connected in-line with the label press. This exhibit will also include an inkjet customization project in combination with partner Industrial Inkjet Ltd (IIJ).  

MGI’s JETvarnish 3D Web Compact and Octopus Web machines, together with Konica Minolta’s PKG-1300 – designed for corrugated manufacturers, converters, printers and brand owners looking for short-run digital inkjet box printing - will complete the hardware line-up.  

As part of showcasing the full label production cycle, Konica Minolta’s comprehensive software suites – including AccurioPro Flux and AccurioPro Dashboard – and service capabilities will be spotlighted, together with partner technologies. 

Sacha-Vittorio Paolucci, head of industrial print business development at Konica Minolta Europe, said: ‘We have a proven track record of worldwide customer adoption of the Konica Minolta AccurioLabel solutions with more than 1,200 units installed. We have been able to create long term partnerships with converters to grow their digital on-demand industrial label production.  

Paolucci continued: ‘Labelexpo provides an important platform for us to demonstrate our unwavering commitment to customers and growing importance within industrial printing markets. The digital production of labels is now a mainstream technology and represents a significant growth market for converters to rethink possibilities.’