Linoprint expands product range

Linoprint, a project by Heidelberg, has expanded its product range. The first four-color printing systems have been available on the European market since mid-2009. Linoprint will now offer modular systems under the name ‘DriveLine’, which will function as stand-alone products and can be employed independently of existing packaging lines, e.g. for web printing with various substrates. DriveLine systems can print on labels, films and board with a high degree of variability and quality. The maximum resolution of 720 dpi allows printing at web widths of up to 340 mm. The maximum print speed is 60 meters per minute. First customer installations of a pilot series of DriveLine printing systems for four-color printing were taken into operation in June 2009.

The one-color integration systems for installation in existing or new packaging lines – which Linoprint launched in 2008 – are now undergoing further development under the name ‘FixedLine’. With a maximum resolution of 720 dpi, the system is suited to decoration and variable printing in production and packaging lines. The range of substrates stretches from paper and board to aluminum and plastic films.

’The latest additions to our product line make Linoprint even more flexible,’ explained Karl-Heinz Walther, head of Linoprint. ’Customized top-quality four-color printing is now available for the shortest label and packaging runs. And, depending on motif, ink coverage and type of inks used, Linoprint systems are superior to traditional flexographic printing in terms of total cost of ownership for quantities of up to several 100,000 printed motifs.’

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