The £570,000 investment in the press doubles the company’s label printing capacity, boosts productivity and enables it to develop new label applications.
The new single-pass Screen Truepress Jet L350UV, installed earlier this month, is already in production and complements Springfield Solutions’ existing trio of HP Indigo digital label presses.
“The decision to become an ‘all-digital’ label company in 2011 is the reason why Springfield Solutions is successful,” said operations director Dennis Ebeltoft. Ongoing investment in new technology over the last couple of years led to a 26% growth in print turnover in 2013 alone.
“The market for labels is changing rapidly as retailers take advantage of the creative and production benefits of digital printing,” he added. “While run lengths are decreasing, the number of label variants is increasing significantly. In just a year, the number of jobs we handle has jumped from 800-1,000 a month to 1,500 a month at an average run length of circa 300m each, although run lengths can go as high as 10,000m.
“Our clients are constantly requesting faster turnaround times and without digital printing technology we couldn’t meet these tight deadlines.”
Source: Springfield Solutions
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