An Effective Way to Finish Digital Printed Extended Content (Dual Layered) Labels

Sept. 11, 2010 - PRLog -- Extended content labels, or multipart labels, are commonly found on pharmaceutical products, herbicides, pesticides, and other products requiring extensive information for the user or consumer. Although these multilayer labels can be efficiently set up on a Flexo press using the Servo 3000 Infeed + Re-register System, short runs are typically better done on a digital press. In fact, a digital press can be the ideal solution when the label, or parts of the label, need to read differently by city, state, or country due to differences in local regulations, not to mention language. The problem for a digital press is finding a finishing solution that can effectively deal with extended content labels. Stand alone machine can’t do the job but a Flexo press fitted with the Servo 3000 can.

A Comparison of Finishing Solutions for Digital Press Work

There are a number of stand alone, “modular,” machines made for die cutting, stripping, and laminating labels from a digital press. The same work can also be done on a Flexo press or die cutter upgraded with the Servo 3000 Digital Infeed + Re-register™ system. Using an existing press or die cutter fitted with the Servo 3000 the job gets done using existing equipment with which employees are already familiar. A Servo 3000 assisted press can do finishing at speeds substantially faster than the digital press and then go back to other work. By comparison a stand alone finishing machine stands alone under a dust cover until the next time this single use machine is needed.

A Comparison of Finishing Solutions for Extended Content Labels from a Digital Press

Only a press fitted with Servo 3000 can reregister the web from the first layer of labels and hold the second layer in register with the first in order to print multipart labels! A stand alone finishing machine cannot do this. Thus, there is no comparison. The Servo 3000 comes at a fraction of the cost of a new high end servo press. It extends press flexibility, makes the press more cost efficient, reduces waste on all jobs, and expands the range of substrates on which a press can print.

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Rotary Technologies produces the Servo 3000 Infeed and Re-register System. This servo and re-register system is an easily attached upgrade for rotary presses that reduces material waste and allows a press to run a wider range of substrates than normally.