UV Inkjet Full Colour Labels Cheaper Than Digital

Jetrion launched a digital UV inkjet press at Labelexpo this week - the Jetrion 4000 Series inkjet system.

Jetrion launched a digital UV inkjet press at Labelexpo this week - the Jetrion 4000 Series inkjet system.

The Jetrion 4000 is said to provide full-colour labels in production volumes with quality comparable to flexography, with production costs lower than current digital colour presses.

Developed for short-length and medium-length narrow web production runs, as well as variable data imaging, the Jetrion 4000 series of digital inkjet colour presses is claimed to give label converters all the advantages of UV inks, coupled with the immediate and low-cost change-over of digital printing.

Because the only consumable required is the UV ink developed and manufactured by Jetrion, usage costs of the Jetrion 4000 are lower than those of other types of digital colour printing, said Jetrion.

The press utilises UV inkjet hardware and Jetrion's new UV4000 set of CMYK inks to print full-colour labels at fast digital speeds on an increasing range of papers, films, foils and small caliper tag stocks, added the company.

The first Jetrion 4000 has already been installed in the United States.

Jetrion added that it is also currently in discussions with label printers and label users for placements of the digital inkjet colour press in other label production operations.

Production units of the Jetrion 4000 will be available in the first quarter of 2007.

Dr Ken Stack, president of Jetrion, commented: "Jetrion's UV digital inkjet colour technology holds tremendous promise with its grayscale quality of print making it a perfect fit for secondary labels and industrial labels, a sub-segment that makes up over 50 per cent of the market.

It provides quality images at higher production speeds with lower operating costs than other, more complex digital printing systems." He added: "The Jetrion 4000 makes it far more cost-effective for label printers and their customers to efficiently handle label jobs from small test quantities to full production runs.

It's another important landmark in our commitment to introduce new inkjet technology and products that advance productivity and quality in digital printing." Offered in widths of 4", 6" and 8", the Jetrion 4000 fits a range of applications for short-run and medium-run batch and variable printing, including industrial, electronic, automotive, shelf and shipping labels, as well as a range of tags, tickets and forms, said Jetrion.

Jetrion has incorporated Xaar-based grayscale printheads and UV-curing technology in to the turnkey printer.

The company also said that because the Jetrion 4000 runs like a printing press rather than a stop-and-go laser printer, standard converting and finishing equipment can be seamlessly added.

Jetrion added that earlier this year, it unveiled another technology development in high quality inkjet colour printing for packaging - claimed by the company to be the world's first high-resolution, full colour, digital inkjet printing on a metal can.

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