Screen installs Italy's first Screen Truepress Jet L350UV

Installed in December last year, the UV inkjet label press began production at the start of 2015, replacing an existing digital press at the printer.

Present on the Italian market since 1987, the company started out in photolithography and has a long history with Screen technology, investing first in a scanner and then typesetting terminals, before its latest investment in UV inkjet printing technology.

Further, Stefano Rossetti, founder and owner of Screen Srl, worked at Bancolini, which at the time was the exclusive distributor for Dainippon Screen in Italy, prior to starting his own business in partnership with Angelo Meazza, who had experience in both chromatics and photography within a printing company.

‘In the beginning, our clients were half advertising agencies, half publishers, but we soon realized that we had to look around and explore new avenues, as the world of photolithography was really beginning to struggle,’ said Rossetti.

This saw Screen Srl move towards the label and packaging market, initially offering an engraving service for photopolymer plates, then a digital printing service for label production.

‘In June 2010 we were the first in Italy to install a Durst Tau 150, after seeing it in action about a year before at Labelexpo Europe 2009 in Brussels, still in prototype form. Before going ahead with the investment we examined all the digital label printing solutions available on the market at the time, eventually rejecting those based on electrophotographic technology.

‘UV inkjet was much more persuasive for a number of reasons, chief among which was productivity. When we bought the Durst Tau 150 we were not a printing company so we didn't understand the dynamics of different formats, but over the years we have gained evermore experience in this.’

The Durst Tau 150 has now been replaced by the Screen Truepress Jet L350UV, which is said to have doubled the company's productivity and presented ‘high growth potential for the future’. The press configuration installed by Screen Srl, through Innovation, Screen’s current representative in Italy, features corona treatment, quick cleaning of the inlet ribbon and high-opacity white printing.

‘I am extremely satisfied with the Truepress Jet L350UV, a machine that represents the perfect combination of speed and printing quality,’ said Rossetti. ‘Currently, 90 percent of our work is for printing companies, to whom we provide a dual service – preparation of photopolymers and digital label printing. This year we expect to increase our sales significantly.’

Carlo Sammarco, Screen Europe sales director, said: ‘It has been very rewarding for us to sell the first Truepress Jet L350UV in Italy to a company that has shown its confidence in us several times before by choosing our technology solutions. Screen Srl has huge confidence that this machine can expand its production capacity, enabling the company to develop new products in the labeling sector and to open up new market opportunities.’