Flexo for Short Runs

Continued processing

The P7's set-up efficiencies "changed our whole thought process" regarding the viability of frequent changeovers for flexo, Florence states. "Setting up jobs successively, one after another, is not as big of a deal from a cost perspective," he reflects. To illustrate, he cites a newer customer's family of protein and supplement products packaged in small plastic tubs with 4- to 8-color wraparound flex-pack labels requiring tight register. "All the products utilize a common container size, so common print cylinders can be used," he points out. "We can be setting up job number two while job number one is on the [P7] press." Previously, the six-SKU, 25,000-foot job took two to three shifts to produce; the P7 can turn it out in four hours.