New digital label printer features

The printing technology in the label market is complex and many start-up companies want to enter the market through low-cost solutions. Today's digital label printers use a variety of digital printing technologies that we are familiar with. High-speed printing units have toner-based electrophotographic and thermal transfer on-line units.

Flexo printing is still the leader in the label printing market. Flexo printing uses a polyester plate for high print resolution and can be imaged directly on substrates such as vinyl or paper. This printing method is fast, economical, and widely used in the field of labels. The reason why flexo printing is suitable for label printing is that it can use a variety of spot colors, including color, fluorescent, and metallic colors. When we print labels with digital presses, the available spot colors are limited.

The HP Indigo press has been a huge success in the market, and the most popular ws4500 Indigo press now has a more powerful brother model, the ws600, which will be available in early 2009.

The Xeikon 3300 has taken the limelight in the market. This device has a resolution of 1200dpi and a fifth imaging unit dedicated to spot color or white printing.

EFI's single-channel UV printer can print 4-color or 6-color with UV-curable ink at a resolution of 1000 dpi, while SolarSolar's SolarJet is a stand-alone printer using a Xaar 760 print head (4 colors, 900900 dpi). UV inkjet label printer.
This press is equipped with a Xaar 760 print head, which gives the user a visual resolution of 900 x 900 dpi. The company also allowed its ink experts to develop SunJet UV inks specifically for SolarJet printers. The four-color press has a maximum print speed of 80 feet per minute and a print width of 2.1 to 6.3 meters.

The Nilpeter Denmark's Caslon ink jet printer uses a Xaar 1001 gray-scale print head with four print bars, each with 5 or 6 print heads. This single-pass printing system with UV-curable ink can achieve a resolution of 720×360 dpi.