Screen GP Australia exhibited alongside its distribution partner Jet Technologies to demonstrate a working Screen Truepress Jet L350UV SAI, which was sold on the last day of the show. The press recently notched up its 200th installation as well as being judged the Best Label Printer in the European Digital Press Association (EDP) awards for its ease of use – thanks to its advanced software – as well as for its improved colour quality and increased speed.
“We were thrilled to have a working L350UV SAI on the stand – a few have been installed already and the reports back from customers are that the results and productivity are sensational,” says Peter Scott, Managing Director of Screen GP Australia.
The L350UV SAI is a seven-colour inkjet machine that can replicate special colours used in flexographic printing. In addition to CMYK and white inks, orange and blue are added and when profiled, the colour gamut expands into hues, especially vivid blues, that other presses struggle to match.
“With Screen’s Equios workflow and special CfX colour management developed in cooperation with Germany’s CGS Oris, the labels coming off the L350UV SAI really pop, and preparing them at makeready is faster than ever,” says Scott.
Sensational colour is not the only advancement in the L350 series. Productivity has increased 66% when using white ink – notorious for slowing down digital presses. When running white, for transparent labels as an example, Screen’s L350UV SAI still hums along at 50 metres per minute, only ten metres per minute slower than its maximum speed.
“Most SAI installations so far have gone into printers who also run flexo presses,” says Scott. “It really is ‘Flexo’s Digital Friend’ in that it can handle the shorter runs and variable content that flexo’s longer prepress and makeready would render uneconomical. With the seven-colour configuration it can also match anything printed flexographically, and embellishes such as hot/cold foil, emboss and lamination can be achieved on near-line finishers such as Prati and ABG,” Scott added.
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David Reece, Sales Director Jet Technologies, and Peter Scott, Managing Director, Screen GP Australia
