7.1.2020
Domino Digital Printing Solutions is excited to announce the official launch of its next generation digital embellishment solution after its initial preview at Labelexpo Europe 2019. Visitors to the Domino stand were extremely impressed with the quality of the highly embellished labels that were created using Domino’s new, unique UV-curable clear ink UV67CL with two of Domino’s market leading K600i ink jet printers installed on an AB Graphic’s Digicon Series 3 finishing line.
This latest addition to Domino’s ink range can be used either as a digital spot varnish or a digital adhesive for cold foil applications, ensuring total flexibility with a single fluid. It is compatible with standard medias including polyethylene, polypropylene and under the right conditions certain coated papers.
Jim Orford, K-Series Product Manager at Domino, says, “This new UV67CL ink for use with our high speed, high resolution K600i ink jet printers was developed in response to feedback from our customers, the label converters. They continue to face increased demand from brand owners for enhanced label designs, which not only make their products stand out on the shelf and encourage consumer engagement, but also add value to their products and brand image. Our customers wanted to be able to achieve this by delivering the highest quality, most visually striking and diverse label designs, but without compromising their manufacturing process.”
Jim continues, “Domino’s digital embellishment solution achieves this taking finishing into the digital age. It removes what many see as the production efficiency bottleneck, and offers greater efficiency to produce short and medium run, added-value embellished labels quickly, with significantly reduced man hours and material waste.
This UV67CL clear ink can be used to create embellished labels with a high laydown of digital spot varnish or cold foil images, removing the necessity for screens and plates used in the traditional analogue embellishment processes. The combination of printing variable data with embellishment provides all the advantages of digital printing as part of the label finishing process, generating highly detailed digital spot varnish and cold foiling labels with minimal impact on productivity and throughput.”
With over 700 installations worldwide, Domino’s versatile K600i ink jet printer can be easily integrated into an existing web-fed press or finishing line. Domino can supply a complete embellishment solution in conjunction with a number of leading label finishing partners. A single K600i print bar is required for cold foil applications, capable of print speeds of up to 75m/minute; for printing spot varnish, a dual bar K600i system is used with speeds of up to 50m/minute depending on the ink laydown required. The latter can also be used to digitally print high opacity white, providing a cost-effective alternative to the more expensive and labour-intensive traditional screen printing.
Jim concludes, “The ever-changing label market is demanding faster turnaround times with more SKUs, meaning the focus is now all about how to produce short and medium run length jobs with optimum efficiency. This is not just related to the printing process, but also the finishing and embellishment too. Domino’s new UV67CL ink and K600i embellishment solution enables our customers to provide a superior service and added value offering in this specialised marketplace.”
