Luminer Enhances Short-run Capabilities with Digital Inkjet Printing

Finding the tool

To find the optimal solution, Luminer took seven employees from production, prepress, QC, engineering and management to Labelexpo 2012 in Chicago to investigate a large array of digital offerings. The team knew what it was looking for. "Price point was a major consideration, but even more important were print quality, consumable costs and the company behind the machine," recountsBorrelli. In addition, it was very important that the digital press could print labels on clear film (which drove the need for white), had no special substrate requirements and that graphics would match the look of its flexo-printed labels. "We did not want the raised-letter look that is sometimes associated with UV inkjet."