Inkjet & Digital Printing
Xeikon to showcase broad digital application range at FESPA Digital 2009
Monday 20. April 2009 - Live demonstration of industrial alternative to in-mould labeling (IML)
Xeikon, a division of Punch Graphix, announced today that it will be participating at this years edition of FESPA Digital, the leading trade show for digital printing in Europe, focusing on screen printing, industrial packaging and signage applications, which will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Xeikon will have on display a wide selection of sophisticated applications such as textile transfers, plastic transfers and decals, including industrial packaging decoration applied on buckets, cartridges, and tubes, signage (POP/POS), industrial labels, and wallpaper.
Eye-catcher
The eye-catcher at the show will undoubtedly be the live demonstration of a digital transfer application set up in collaboration with Diamond Photofoil (www.photofoil.com), a UK-based company specializing in decoration of plastic materials. At FESPA Digital, plastic glasses will be decorated using a Xeikon-printed transfer. This application is unique in that it is the only truly viable industrial alternative to in-mould labeling (IML) or direct printing, providing offset-challenging full color prints on virtually any thermoplastic molding.
Unique capabilities
All applications have been chosen such that they will amply illustrate the unique features and capabilities of the award-winning Xeikon range of presses in terms of quality, productivity, and format and substrate flexibility.
As explained by Brian Heegaard, Business Development Manager Specialty Printing, “We are thrilled to once again demonstrate the exceptionally versatile capabilities of our solution range. Only Xeikon offers the unique combination of superior 1200 dpi print quality and industry-best printing speeds and productivity. Being web-fed and capable of printing on a sheer unlimited range of materials our presses provide access to a whole host of value-added applications no other press can match.” Adding, “And not only our transfer application is exceptional. Only Xeikon-presses offer full color process printing along with one-pass opaque white, allowing high-quality prints to be produced on transparent, colored and even metalized materials. The POP/POS signage applications we will be demonstrating will provide a good idea of the many possibilities. We are confident that our applications on show will appeal to a wide audience and even the most discerning print buyer.”