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“Can you help me make my small label runs profitable?” This is an issue for large-format shops who get customer inquiries for labels. Usually, the labels are printed and cut on a wide-format printer/plotter, hand weeded, and in some instances, the labels are taped together to create rolls.
This process is labour-intensive, costly, and uses production-level equipment for a small job. [Read more…]
3 ROI Scenarios for the L801The Memjet-powered L801 Digital Colour Label Printer features numerous benefits, including:
This adds up to an accelerated ROI. Here are three ROI scenarios that L801 customers have shared with us. [Read more…]
A recent study from ReportLinker provides positive news for the labelling industry. Their research forecasts US label demand to approach $20 billion in 2019. They’ve also seen trends in specific areas of label printing, including flexography and secondary labelling. [Read more…]
There are a number of reasons for adding Narrow-Web Digital to your Flexo/Indigo shop. Best Practices: Digital Strategies, published by packagePRINTING, explains that the benefits are well known: increased speed, lower cost, and variable data capabilities. However, the article also explains the differing reasons that printers and converters add digital. The main reasons that packagePRINTING focused on were increasing demand for [Read more…]
It’s not unusual to find flexo presses that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, or in some cases, upwards of a million dollars, and require a skilled operator to run the press. The average salary for an entry-level flexo press operator in the US is $30,000 (simplyhired.com). Add those together and one must generate hundreds of dollars in margin every hour to be profitable.
Contrast that with our an entry-level, Memjet-powered L801 Colour Label Printer (less than $10,000) that can print 14,400 4×6″ pre-cut labels per hour (at less than $0.04 per label). Since flexo companies are so used to requiring skilled operators, they may ask, “who will run this machine?” The answer is simple: [Read more…]
