Quality Tape & Label purchases HP Indigo 20000 at Labelexpo Americas 2016

The company will use the press to produce supplements, chemical, food and household product labels and shrink sleeves more efficiently and expand its flexible packaging offering.

With HP Indigo digital printing technology, Quality Tape & Label has experienced high double-digit growth since 2012 and been able to gain business from multiple Fortune 500 companies.

Building on the company’s two upgraded narrow web HP Indigo WS6800 digital presses in operation already, the HP Indigo 20000 will continue the company’s growth trajectory, offering greater imposition efficiency with a larger format. Quality Tape & Label has estimated that the 30in-wide HP Indigo 20000 will save more than 200 hours of print time over six months, freeing capacity on its existing presses and allowing the company to competitively address new business. 

Quality Tape & Label will also leverage its Chameleon technology, based on HP SmartStream Mosaic, to produce high-quality, one-of-a-kind labels, shrink sleeves and flexible packaging applications, such as stand up pouches, on its new HP Indigo digital press. With the press, the company will be able to produce run lengths of any size and offer its customers more competitive digital solutions.

The press will be installed in October following Labelexpo Americas 2016.

Rob Daniels, Quality Tape & Label president, commented: ‘Digital printing enables us to provide our customers added value with unique application possibilities, and we want to extend those capabilities into flexible packaging, while also gaining new efficiencies with a larger format.

‘Our narrow format HP Indigo WS6800 digital presses have enabled our company to grow an average of 30 percent each year, and we are confident that the HP Indigo 20000, along with support from HP, will help us capture new flexible packaging growth opportunities and be an even better partner for our customers.’