The Truepress Jet L350UV digital UV label press

The Truepress Jet L350UV digital UV label press will make its European debut at Labelexpo as part of Screen’s labels and packaging portfolio.

The company’s expanded portfolio of label and package printing-related products will include new digital label printing, flexo plate-making, innovative board packaging applications and workflow technologies will all be on show at Labelexpo 2013 on 24-27 September, in Brussels.

The L350UV press was developed to address the demand from major brands for value-added packaging that increase product differentiation. Shown as an early prototype at drupa 2012, the label printing system has photo-realistic quality, fast job turnarounds and stable output that requires almost no daily maintenance.

The new press prints widths up to 322 mm and prints at a top speed of 50 m/min. It leads the industry as an inkjet printing system for labels with productivity of 16.1 sqm per minute. Lamination, die cutting and other post-press processing devices can be connected inline to automate label production from beginning to end.

Combined with advanced colour management technology based on the Equios universal workflow, the press creates smooth, vivid gradations. To provide a wider colour gamut than is typical with the four colour process, it uses the company’s proprietary high-definition UV inks.

Optional opaque white ink further boosts colour vibrancy while enhancing application versatility by allowing printing on transparent film and metallic foil. The press incorporates single-pass greyscale piezo printheads with a minimum droplet size of three picolitres. Printing resolutions of 600 x 600 dpi combined with the very small droplet size gives sharp, well-defined images and text.

The press is engineered as either a roll-to-roll press for near-line finishing, or with the ability to feature automated inline finishing such as lamination, die-cutting, foiling, coating and embossing.

President, Brian Filler, said, ‘Screen is committed to providing the packaging industry with a choice high-quality and ultra-reliable imaging and digital printing solutions that deliver flexibility, low cost of ownership and a swift return on investment. The Truepress Jet L350UV is a superb digital press designed to meet the needs of the market to produce highly competitive high-quality, high