Action Packaging Leverages Digital, Flexo Printing

The Xeikon 3500 features that stood out to Rice included the press's ability to print 1,200 dpi at widths up to 20˝ on coated and uncoated substrates, including paperboard—a capability that would lend applicability for both Action's labels and future paperboard packaging applications. Rice was further impressed by the quality of the press's opaque white printing on clear substrates. The press's continuous web enables precise print-to-cut registration, Rice reports, and a built-in sheeter permits printing and sheeting in-line. He also notes the press's compatibility with indirect food contact inks, and its environmentally friendly operation (no hazardous waste or VOCs, and self-contained environmental humidity needs).