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LABELS & LABELLING
Screen’s tech on
show at Labelexpo
Screen will have a major presence at Labelexpo Americas 2022, and Jet Technologies, together with Peter Scott from Screen Australia, will be there to welcome visitors. PKN reports.
WITH THE POSTPONEMENT of Labelexpo Brussels to 2023, the North American version of the pop- ular event is proving to be attractive for Australian and New Zealand label converters.
Screen has a major presence at the Chicago show, which runs from 13 – 15 September, and representatives from Jet Technologies together with Peter Scott from Screen Australia will be there to welcome visitors.
Screen’s L350UV SAI has been mak- ing waves internationally since it was awarded ‘Best Label Printer’ in the 2021 EDP (European Digital Press Association) awards. Several instal- lations of the 7-colour ‘SAI’ version have been made in Australia – mostly to existing “happy users” of the ear- lier generation of L350UV presses. At Labelexpo Americas 2022, Screen will focus on the SAI for the first time at a North American trade show.
Screen maintains there are two key reasons that the SAI has proven such a hit in the digital label press market
– colour fidelity and productivity.
As a seven-colour inkjet machine it can be expected that colours will be wider in gamut and more vivid but, it is the choice of the extra hues and the way Screen’s software manages these colours that is making a huge differ-
ence, says the company.
Screen opted for extra Blue and
Orange to add to the CMYK and White inkset. These colours, when managed by Screen/CGS-ORIS colour manage- ment software, jointly developed by the two companies, have “remarkable gamut, stability and repeatability, espe- cially with spot colours by using the CxF colour exchange format”.
It may seem ironic, says Screen, but the extra colours actually help reduce overall ink usage. To reach deep blue and orange colours that ‘pop’, a CMYK inkset alone will apply large volumes of mixed ink – even if it can reach certain blue and orange derivatives. By having a pure blue and orange in addition to CMYK, much less ink is laid down to hit spot, Pantone and special colours, says the company.
UPTIME IS PRIME TIME
On the productivity side, Screen says its L350 users have repeatedly stated that the ‘uptime’ exceeds even the manufac- turer’s claims. The tradition of robust build and reliability goes back a long way in Screen’s prepress manufacturing equipment – which the company says explains why it became the world’s larg- est manufacturer of CtP machines, also making them for Fujifilm and Agfa.
According to Screen, this culture of high-productivity has continued since entering the inkjet press sector in 2005, and is now apparent in the L350UV SAI label press – which achieves over 95 per cent uptime.
As most inkjet press users who need white ink know, a press will slow down by as much as half when printing with white added. Screen says this is not the case with its L350UV SAI – the top speed of 60 linear metres-per-minute is only reduced to 50 linear metres-per- minute when using white inks with CMYK.
In addition to the Truperess Jet L350 series, Screen also manufactures the PlateRite FX series of Flexographic digi- tal platemakers, and is close to releasing a digital inkjet flexible packaging press, the Truepress PAC 830F, an 830mm web water-based ink machine that will print up to 4,500 sqm of flexible pack- aging on available substrates, “making short run and variable content flexible packaging viable, just as the L350UV has done with labels,” it says.
Screen’s large Labelexpo Americas stand number at the Donald E Stephens Convention Centre, Rosemont, Chicago is 6423. Local representatives from Screen dealer Jet Technologies, and Screen GP Australia will be in attendance. ■
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Above: Screen opted for extra Blue and Orange to add to the L350UV SAI label printer’s CMYK and White inkset.
Left: Screen dealer Jack Malki of Jet Technologies (right) with Screen MD Peter Scott with an L350UV SAI sold at PacPrint.