Labelling Solutions Digital label printing system for Scottish label maker


Minolta AccurioLabel 230 toner press, to serve its many high-end clients with top quality labels and fast turnaround, as the company scales up its digital offering. Founded in 1987, Premier Labels


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provides high-quality labels to leading clients in a variety of markets from drinks, luxury fashion, gifts and cosmetics, to electronics and engineering. Servicing over 2,000 accounts in the UK and beyond since its inception, the Scottish printing company offers a personalised service and has expanded considerably over the past few years. This was complemented by a complete rebrand in 2018 and investment in new equipment to better reflect its ethos and ambitions for growth. The most recent investment in the 23m/min, four-colour, Konica Minolta AccurioLabel 230 press will significantly increase Premier Labels’ offering and is the first industrial digital label printing press, as the company takes a big step up in its digital printing capabilities. The new toner- based press will complement the existing servo-driven foiling and finishing machines. Managing director, Gary Kerr says, “We had been looking for several years for the


lasgow-based Premier Labels has installed its first industrial digital label printing system, a Konica


and had a small footprint. The AccurioLabel is a simple solution, which requires no chillers or compressors and plugs straight into a normal single-phase electricity supply. It can print on standard materials without pre-coating, which means there is no need to buy in special digital substrates or waste time in preparing media for the press. The press comes with Konica Minolta’s own Label Impose software, which automates jobs, such as impositioning and step-and- repeat, and also offers support for variable data printing. Gary adds, “This press will help us


ideal solution to allow us to expand our offering. We wanted a digital press that would service our discerning clients but also came at the right price point. When we became aware of the AccurioLabel from Konica Minolta about a year ago, we soon realised that we had found the right machine for our needs.” The Premier Labels team was


immediately attracted to the high print quality that can be achieved on the AccurioLabel 230 press, which offers a resolution of 1200 x 1200 dpi. They also wanted a machine that was easy to operate


respond quicker to customer demand. We are also looking at some very exciting new technology that will combine our expertise in hotfoiling with digital print and more specifically with the capabilities of the AccurioLabel 230 press.” Steve Lakin, Label Press Sales Consultant


for Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) Limited, comments, ““As soon as we started discussion with Premier Labels, it became clear that the AccurioLabel 230 would be the perfect fit. The press will help them expand, open new markets and gain new customers, while taking full advantage of their existing hot foiling and finishing equipment.”


konicaminolta.co.uk Marsh Labels switches pre-press production to Packz M


arsh Labels, the family-owned digital label printer in Brighton, is branching out since transitioning its pre-press


department to the PACKZ PDF Editor. PACKZ is the native PDF prepress production tool designed for labels and packaging and developed by HYBRID Software. “We run two HP Indigo, 6900 & 6800 plus


four ABG Digicon’s and a new peel and reveal machine,” says Gary Burnley, joint managing director. “We take in lots of short runs and provide the repro to put the files together. In the past a 500 – 1,000 label run has taken longer to repro than to print. PACKZ has improved turnaround time significantly so that we have more capacity to take in more work. It’s giving us the confidence to branch out into another line of work.” Marsh takes on about 20,000 new label jobs


each year, providing digital capacity for other print shops around the UK, printing labels for most sectors of industry including beverage, pharmaceuticals, retail, cosmetic, healthcare, food, beverage, security and industrial. “PACKZ is head and shoulders over any other software I’ve used and I’ve been in the business for more than 20 years”, says Leigh Howe, pre-press manager. “It has a great feel to it and HYBRID Software is constantly driving it forward. They listen to people like us who’ve got a few ideas and the next thing


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you know, you see an update with that feature in it. It’s native PDF so the job stays in PDF through pre-press so there are no conversions that can slow things down and clutter up the file server.” The number of


variable data (VDP) jobs has doubled over the past year says Howe. It’s mostly barcodes and numbering but because the VDP module is inside PACKZ the pre-press department can work on a customer supplied PDF file from start to finish, cutting out unnecessary steps such as importing the file into another application and then exporting the file again. “It’s very efficient. And I’m much more confident that what I see on the proof is correct than I ever was before because PACKZ reduces the risk of human error: dimensions of crop boxes are computer generated rather than drawn manually; editing and sharing the colour books is simple and no longer a manual


process; there’s bar code recognition that is computer generated from the incoming file.” PACKZ captures all elements of a job in a single PDF file. It contains all the features required for labels and packaging production such as trapping, full transparency support, colour separation mapping, Live Objects for variable content, barcode pre-flight and creation, tabular step & repeat, and structured assets including fonts, images, separations, object-based screening settings, barcodes, and other PDF objects. hybridsoſtware.com marshlabels.co.uk


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