Canon has launched significant upgrades and optional configurations to its digital label press, the LabelStream 4000 series. Addressing the needs of label converters, new improvements include an optional orange colour channel, a screen-like high-opacity white ink, and enhanced usability for greater production efficiencies.
With the LabelStream’s expanded colour capability, users can add optional orange and white ink channels. Match a wider range of brand colours and achieve highest white opacity without compromising on quality or reliability.
The new white ink channel achieves up to 80 percent opacity at 36 m/min in a single pass. Users can eliminate lengthy set-up times and expensive screens, as well as increase cost efficiencies. With additional opacities of more than 70 percent at 50 m/min and more than 65 percent at 75 m/min, a wide range of performance levels are available.
Using Xaar 2001 printhead technology, which offers high pigment load, and increased ink laydown capability, the LabelStream inks attain a colour gamut of 96 percent with the spot-colour swatch book at a Delta E 2000 value of less than two.
LabelStream 4000 Core unit is the first step into the world of high performance, UV inkjet printing. Built on a cost-efficient, yet powerful base unit, users have the option to expand the press set-up to meet their needs.
With its UV inkjet technology and a robust web transport system, the press offers print speeds of up to 75m/min and two print width set-ups of 330mm or 410mm, resulting in an industry-leading output speed of 1,845 sqm/hr, providing quicker turnaround times. Users can also complement digital production printer with UV flexo units for spot colours, varnishing and coating.
For more complex applications, the LabelStream 4000 hybrid configuration offers a custom mix of UV flexo, embellishment and finishing units, turning it into a fully integrated, single-pass label conversion line. This mix of conventional and digital technologies enables a complete inline production of high-quality self-adhesive labels.
The LabelStream provides faster syncing between flexo and digital print units, so users can benefit from reduced operator intervention, increased uptime and high-quality output. The seamless interplay of the two technologies, driven by LabelStream’s central control panel, allows for easy recalling of job settings and automated job set-up. The central control panel enables job changes to take effect on-the-fly without halting the press to adjust digital and analogue elements.
Canon’s service proposition has grown and evolved, with more than 1,600 high-volume inkjet presses and 8,500 UV-based large format printing systems worldwide, enabling LabelStream customers to benefit from proven, diversified and tailored service models.
With the LabelStream 4000, users can reduce operator intervention, increase uptime and produce high quality output, all with one device with minimal set-up time, the flexibility to mass customise contents and artwork, and the quicker time to market.
