With its new ‘Digital Series’ promising to deliver a fully configurable, high-speed hybrid inkjet printing platform, Mark Andy has taken a giant step into the digital arena.
Mark Andy has announced the unveiling of the latest advanced digital printing platform, the Mark Andy Digital Series. Targeted at reducing the total cost per label or unit, it is a fully configurable system that integrates full colour, quality digital printing technology inline with converters’ needs for fast change, web handling, inline converting and other label and package decoration options.
With beta sites identified, the first Digital Series will be installed in December 2013. A design made up of contributions from a dedicated group of highly experienced and innovative digital scientists, engineers and technicians with hundreds of years of inkjet expertise, it promises to deliver a long awaited new and technically advanced total solution for label and package printers and converters. The line will be commercially available in North America in the spring of 2014 and to the rest of world later in the year.
At the core of the Mark Andy Digital Series is a flexible hybrid platform designed to yield significantly more revenues in less time, using less space, less equipment and minimising labour. It combines the economies and productive advantages of all digital workflows, digital inkjet printing and flexographic printing processes, delivering a dynamic approach to minimise job changeover times and maximise single minute exchange of die (SMED) principles of Lean production.
This is not a single product or machine, but a group of machine solutions providing varying degrees of performance at different price points. Coupled with the added configurability of fully advanced, integrated and automated inline flexographic printing and converting, the result is a high-performance, full colour (CMYK, orange, violet and white) inkjet or hybrid system with running speeds over 76 m/min. The series is available for a range of web widths starting at 330 mm. Suitable substrates range from sophisticated packaging materials to films to traditional pressure-sensitive label stocks.
President and CEO, PJ Desai, said, ‘As we expand into the world of digital printing for the label and packaging markets, Mark Andy simply continues to do what we do best as a company, provide the converter with the best solutions incorporating high quality technical innovations that drive customer profitability.’
