DSI pushes the boundaries of digital label printing - now and in the future
Jan20
From Labels and Labeling:
The label printing industry has been facing big changes in recent years. Changes in decrease of run lengths and shorter delivery times form significant challenges for label printing. To meet those challenges Stork Prints has developed the DSI (Digital System Inkjet), thanks to the input of their extensive customer base in rotary screen custom printing and its experience of over 4,000 inkjet systems installed worldwide. Erik Blankenstein, area sales manager and Mark Huisman, sales manager at Stork Prints write
The latest-generation DSI digital label printer brings at least two crucial benefits to custom label printing and sticker printing companies. Printers can carry out increasingly complex print jobs more cost-effectively than with traditional methods, plus they are also fully prepared to meet changing market demands in the years to come.
Impressive performance statistics
As you would expect, the performance statistics for the DSI are impressive; average break even at 4,000 linear meters compared to conventional UV Flexo, 20, 33 or 53 cm wide, 10 print positions possible, hexachrome, digital primer, stand alone and in-line converting possibilities are only a few points of the performance statistics.
Geared for the future
The real value of the DSI lies in the ‘future proof’ concept around which it has been designed:
• As a customer you can start with a CMYK configuration on a 20 cm print width and upgrade later, with the same machine, to a 33 cm wide machine with 10 print positions.
• Digital primer gives you the possibility and flexibility to print onto any substrate.
• Digital white gives you the screen printing look.
• Digital varnish, metallic inks or a third extra spot color are possibilities for the other print positions.
All of above mentioned options are possible on the same machine, so no forklift upgrade is necessary.
These high standards of service have made it the 