Schelling invests in second Gallus Labelfire 340

The Gallus Labelfire includes a pinning after each print head row. This first drying step ensures that the inks do not run into each other, the foundation for very small fonts or fine lines. The Digital Print Unit is followed by UV boosters from GEW to produce applications with low migration compliance even at high speeds.

Migration tests were conducted on the Gallus Labelfire at Heidelberger Druckmaschinen in Wiesloch, Germany. The low migration compliance was confirmed by the Swiss laboratory service provider SQTS (Swiss Quality Testing Services).

‘The new Gallus Labelfire 340 with low migration equipment is the perfect machine for us,’ commented Marcel Häsler, COO at Birkhäuser. ‘This digital printing press is the ideal addition not only to the flexo printing presses in this segment but also to our first Labelfire. Now we can offer the whole range of applications for the food sector, which meet all relevant low migration requirements – from flexible packaging and labels, paper bags and folding cartons to self-adhesive labels with cold foil finishing or lacquer effects.’

This is the second press at the production site in Reinach, Switzerland. Four years ago, Birkhäuser was one of the first printers on the market to invest in a Gallus Labelfire 340. Quite a few improvements have been made since then, not only in terms of low migration compatibility, but also in terms of speed, white line compensation and Prinect workflow integration.

‘The system is just great and runs extremely stable,’ added Häsler. ‘It is still the only digital printing press that can reproduce 1-point fonts, thus, is able to print such small font sizes. I don't know any other machine that is able to do this. This is beyond comparison.’

Tobias Grolimund, head of production at Birkhäuser said: ‘With the integration of the Labelfire with the low migration equipment we have a great extension to the first digital printing press. Also, the great ink adhesion was a pleasant surprise. The drying and anchoring of the ink with UV inkjet is very good, even with uncoated paper.’

‘The Labelfire Plus gives us the necessary flexibility for our customers and once again confirms our goal of technological leadership. For us, the customers are decisive, not the machine technology. With the Gallus Labelfire, we can offer our food customers low-migration-compliant and permanently reproducible applications with excellent print quality and very small font sizes as well as short order sizes,’ concluded Häsler.