ICE toner opens up new opportunities
Xeikon announces that the slovenian company Megalogos has installed its second Xeikon 3030 in less than two years. This press will be running Xeikon’s new ICE toner for heat-sensitive materials. It will therefore double the company’s printing capacity as well as extending its range of applications.
– Digital technology provides us with so many new ideas to serve our customers even better. Our team is very keen to develop new applications and to make the most of the possibilities digital production offers, says Uroš Slemenik, CEO at LabelProfi, who is convinced they made the right decision by moving into digital printing.
– We knew from the beginning that digital was the way forward and we opted for Xeikon because of the quality and reliability of its machines and the excellent support. It turned out to be a very good decision. In less than two years, the demand from our customers has increased by more than 50%, so we just had to buy a second machine.
Like all Xeikon presses, the Xeikon 3030 boasts full rotary technology with variable repeat length, which means it has virtually no restrictions on repeat or image length and always prints at top speed, regardless of the number of colors used or the size of the labels. At a maximum speed of 9.6 m/min (31.5 ft/min) it achieves production volumes of up to 190 square meters/hour (294.5 MSI/hour). It prints on scalable substrate widths of 200 to 330 mm (7.9” to 13.0”), handling a wide range of paper-based and synthetic substrates with weights of 40 to 350 gsm (27 lb text to 122 lb cover).
ICE toner opens up new applications
The new ICE toner was another reason for LabelProfi to choose for Xeikon once again as it opens up new opportunities. Jeroen Van Bauwel, Director Product Management at Xeikon, explains why – this purchase both increases the company’s printing capacity and extends its application range:
– Because our ICE toner offers exactly the same print quality and color gamut as our QA-I toner, they can run their existing applications on both presses. In addition, the new press will be used to print jobs on heat-sensitive substrates such as PE or thermal labels.
LabelProfi is one of the first to use ICE toner.
Left to right: Ro Nabernik (Megalogos, Head of production),Hans Gerinckx (Xeikon, sales director), Uroš Slemenik (Megalogos, CEO) and Andrej Strus (Xeikon, sales manager).