Mark Andy has revealed details of its widely anticipated entry into digital print: the Digital Series, a full-colour inkjet solution aimed at providing fast changeovers, web handling, inline converting and other label and package decoration options.
Beta sites have been picked and the first Digital Series will be installed in December 2013, said the company.
The new group of machines combines the economies and productive advantages of all-digital workflows, digital inkjet printing and flexographic printing processes to minimise job changeover times and maximise SMED principals of Lean production, according to Mark Andy.
Digital Series machine solutions provide varying degrees of performance at different price points, said the manufacturer.
Coupled with the added configurability of fully advanced, integrated and automated in-line flexographic printing and converting, the result is a high-performance, full color (C, M, Y, K, O, V + W) inkjet or ‘hybrid’ system with running speeds over 200 fpm (61 m/min).
The Digital Series is available for a range of web widths beginning with 13″ (330mm) and can handle substrates ranging from sophisticated packaging materials to films to traditional pressure sensitive label stocks, said Mark Andy.
The line will be commercially available in North America in the spring of 2014 and to the rest of world later in the year.