The report for this month includes 18 presses at 18 companies and the word of the month is LABELS! One third of the reported installations were roll-fed label presses and some companies made notable additions to existing inkjet fleets:

  • Germark in Barcelona added the Bobst Digital Master 340 to their fleet of inkjet presses including the Bobst Mouvent LB702-UV digital inkjet press
  • Professional Business Supplies (PBS) in Yorkana Pennsylvania  replaced an aqueous label printer with the Screen Truepress Jet L350UV SAI UV press

The other application segments we saw in abundance were books (5) and commercial print (5) with a smattering of POP signage, direct mail, transaction printing, magazines and corrugated packaging. (But lots and lots of labels.)

The number of roll-label devices combined with a bunch of 2-up roll installations (5) drove continuous press installations (11) well out ahead of the reported sheet-fed installations (7) for June. Interestingly, 3 of the 7 were large, B1 format presses. There were also 4 B3s reported (but where were the B2s? Anyone spot any?)

We also had our first sighting of the Atexco Vegapress 660 mono placed by Insight Print Communications at Delhi-based Pay Enterprises to support the production of books and other commercial work. Also, the first Kento Hybrid in the U.S. was delivered to CP Supply in Iowa for corrugated packaging production. Elanders Print and Packaging in Germany was the beta site for the HP PageWide Advantage 2200 press producing books, catalogs and photo applications.

Geographically, we saw an even split between the U.S. and EU (7/7) plus 1 in India and 1 in Turkey.  It was nice to see so many different OEMs represented with 5 from Canon, 4 Screen, 3 HP, 2 Landa and 1 each from Bobst, Insight Print Communications, Kento and Xeikon.

Just for fun, thought I would mention that we are also seeing an uptick in the uptake of inkjet printbars. Recently Nessan Cleary took a dive into the Memjet DuraBolt Strategy for Inkjet Insight. Our friends over at WhatTheyThink.com have covered installations of the Colordyne printbar at First Tape Label in the US and the Fujifilm printbar at Paragon in Germany. There’s more than one way to make inkjet happen, which is why we added our Bespoke Integration department back in 2020. Let us know if you would like to see us report on more printbar installations in the future.

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As always, we ask that if you are aware of others that we have not covered, please let us know. Stay tuned for our 2023 “half-time” report on installations so far this year. Read on for the June table with helpful links to the company website. You can find more details on individual press models on the Inkjet Device Finder.

June 2023 Roundup

Vendor

Press Installed

Product Type

Company

Location

Segment

Canon

VarioPrint iX3200

B3 Sheet

A&O Fischer

Winsen, Germany

Transaction, direct mail

Canon

VarioPrint iX3200

B3 Sheet

Bridgetown Printing (An RR Donnelley Company)

Portland, OR, US

Commercial (union shop)

Landa

S10P

B1 Sheet

Brodnax 21C Printers

Dallas, TX, US

POS, trading cards, direct mail

Kento

Hybrid

B1 Sheet

CP Supply

Quad Cities, Iowa, US

Corrugated packaging

Canon

VarioPrint iX3200

B3 Sheet

Drukarnia Sowa

Poland

Books, publishing

HP

Advantage 2200

Roll 2-up

Elanders Print and Packaging

Germany

Books, catalog, photoprint

Xeikon

Panther PX300

Roll Label

Etiflex

Poznan, Poland

Labels

Bobst

Digital Master 340

Roll Label

Germark S.A.

Barcelona, Spain

Labels

Screen

Truepress Jet L350 SAI-E

Roll Label

Güleç Etiket

Instanbul, Turkey

Labels, Bobbin labels, holographic labels

Screen

Truepress Jet L350UV

Roll Label

Hine Labels Ltd

South Yorkshire, UK

Labels

Canon

ColorStream 8133

Roll 2-up

MAIN Druckservice GmbH & Co.KG (Copy-Druck)

Darmstadt, Germany

Commercial

Screen

Truepress Jet L350UV

Roll Label

Mercial Labels

Staffordshire UK

Labels

Atexco

Vegapress 660 Monochrome

Roll 2-up

Pay Enterprises

Delhi, India

Books, Publishing, Commercial

Landa

S10

B1 sheet

Primary Color

Cypress, CA

POP, Signage, Commercial

Screen

Truepress Jet L350UV SAI

Roll Label

Professional Business Supplies, Inc. (PBS)

Yorkana PA US

Labels

HP

Advantage 2200

Roll 2-up

Rodona Industria Grafica

Pamplona, Spain

Books

Canon

VarioPrint iX3200

B3 Sheet

Royal Printing

Las Vegas, NV

Commercial, books

HP

Advantage 2200

Roll 2-up

The N2 Company

Wilmington, NC

Magazines, Publishing

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