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Technology Focus
Xeikon meeting the demand The innovative digital print solutions developer has both toner
Iand inkjet printers, and its new digital carton press, the Idera.
CX500. “They offer printers of all types the opportunity to enter the digital label market at an entry level investment price, with all the acclaimed Xeikon technology.”
PX UV inkjet
The Xeikon PX platform is a digital UV inkjet label printing press. At PacPrint Xeikon would have been showcasing the PX3000, and the PX30000, which it says are the ideal solution for health and beauty markets and high-performance durable label printing, or for digitally printed labels, previously produced on UV flexo or screen-print, where a glossy appearance and tactile look and feel is desired, or a high durability requirement for industrial end-use.
The PX Series is designed to deal with short runs on self-adhesive media, coated and uncoated paper, PVC, PP, PE. It will print at 600x600dpi on a web width of 330mm at 50 metres a minute.
Idera digital carton
Xeikon says it new Idera was created to bring easy, flexible, and sustainable packaging to the corrugated packaging industry. It says the Idera architecture and specifications provide speed, flexibility, and agility to corrugated converters, delivering new opportunities with customers, and internal productivity gains to the converter.
Idera prints on coated and uncoated corrugated sheets up to 160cm x 280cm, and enables variable printing speeds between 60 and 120 meters a minute, with flexibility in terms of in-line priming, varnishing and drying, and peripherals such as automatic pre-feeding and stacking. 21
n a field that now contains many years of experience, and with our technology options, Xeikon was there from the agnostic approach, we can advise and guide start, one of the companies that on the best way to transform a label printing launched digital printing into the business into a digital label manufacturing printing world at Ipex ’93, and it has business. That is what Café TV has been doing,
been developing print systems ever since, enabling print business owners to see and
with installations around the world.
Based in Belgium it is now part of the Flint Group, the world’s biggest ink manufacturer,
with Trevor Crowley leading the operation of Xeikon in Australia and New Zealand.
The ANZ business is growing, evidenced
by Crowley’s increasing staff numbers, and with more Australian and New Zealand
print businesses joining forces with Xeikon technology. Crowley says, “In the digital world Xeikon has been around for a long time, its pedigree of engineering, stability and quality is a known quantity, and now being part of Flint gives it extra credibility. We are seeing local print businesses installing both the toner and inkjet Xeikon systems, and appreciating Xeikon’s deep understanding of the markets they operate in.”
Xeikon has always been committed to communicating with its customers, with the annual Xeikon Café in Belgium a standout event, where customers could see various different print lines producing specific applications, everything from labels, to pouches, to toothpaste cartons, and talk to all the developers on site. Covid has put a temporary stop to the event, so Xeikon has been running Café TV, with five sessions over winter, covering inkjet, toner, finishing, colour matching and digital integration.
Crowley said: “Not every digital printing technology is a fit for every label printing application – different applications require different digital technologies. Xeikon has 30
discover what could work for them, and why.” With Covid impacting Australia and New
Zealand for 18 months, and in various forms likely to do so until Christmas, it has been
a tough time for many print businesses, although labels and packaging has largely escaped serious problems, indeed the stay at home world has had the opposite effect as far as the sector is concerned.
Crowley said, “In the labels and packaging sectors business is mainly good, there
is confidence in the market, and this is translating into businesses installing new presses, and choosing Xeikon, based on
the quality, productivity and flexibility the presses provide.”
CX toner technology
Xeikon has launched two new digital label presses – the Xeikon CX30 and Xeikon CX50 – describing them as entry level presses to sit between its Rex (pre-owned) range and its high volume CX300 and CX500.
Xeikon says it has designed and developed the two new presses to suit any label
printer operating on middle capacity, that
is between 20,000-40,000sqm or 30,000- 55,000sqm MSI in all end-use segments, but especially in the pharmaceutical, food, and wine and spirit label sectors.
Crowley said, “The new printers offer either narrow web 330mm or wide web 520mm, and are scalable all the way up to the CX300 and
Full range: Xeikon digital technology includes toner and inkjet systems for multiple applications from labels, to cartons, to commercial print
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