Affordable short-run on-demand label printing; Simple user interface makes training quick and easy

ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA – Printware, the leader in prepress and digital solutions, announces a successful opening day launch of the iJetColor Label Press at LABELEXPO Americas 2014, September 9- 11 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL in the Anderson & Vreeland booth 929. The iJetColor Label Press is a high performance, low total cost of ownership, inkjet digital color press powered by Memjet technology developed exclusively for label packaging applications.

Lee Zerfass, Digital Business Manager for Anderson & Vreeland, Inc., noted “Printware’s iJetColor Label Press represents a cost-effective solution in our premium line of digital printers for narrow web. This high-performance, low cost of ownership digital solution will facilitate the transition to digital output for many of our customers.”

The iJetColor Label Press is a compact, table top, 4-color inkjet press suitable for supporting production label stocks for product packaging personalization, variable data barcoding, shelf labels, product labels for retail and industrial applications. The system features:

• Roll-to-roll printing
• Fan fold printing
• Continuous label printing
• Integrated cutter
• 60 feet per minute speed
• Gap mark sensing
• Black mark sensing
• Production quality Harlequin RIP Workflow
• Advanced spot color matching application
• Variable data-enabled workflow
• Integrated touch-screen user control system

“We are excited about the overwhelmingly positive response to the iJetColor Label Press,” commented Tim Murphy, President of Printware. “Based on the response from the opening day of LABELEXPO AMERICAS, many customers recognized the system as a production ready unit that will immediately add short run printing capabilities to in-house manufacturing and packaging operations and print shops of any size.”

The iJetColor Label Press offers an easy-to-use system with color matching and variable data capabilities at a cost that provides significant economic advantages to bring label packing applications in-house – especially shorter run more complex color work that is highly profitable.

Memjet technology was designed to deliver speed by bringing the fastest inkjet technology of its kind to the market. Using a completely re-envisioned printhead design along with a custom controller chip and software, each component was engineered to deliver printing speeds unheard of in the inkjet world.

The iJetColor Label Press is offered as part of a comprehensive package that includes an easy to use workflow, expert color matching software built in for a wide variety of readily available inkjet stocks, variable data enabled tools, proven Harlequin RIP technology, professional installation, 24/7 support and a no-finger pointing quality guarantee. 

“The iJetColor Press provides low cost, personalized printed images in print volume as low as one unit,” commented Murphy.

Printware was awarded a “MUST SEE ’EM” Best in Category during PRINT 13 and a “Game Changer” at Graphics of the Americas 2014 for its iJetColor^™ Envelope Press and Workflow.