Nine demos a day stirred up OMET’s stand and gathered crowds of visitors to watch live 3 presses tailored to the needs of today’s label converters and fully covering the requests of a variegated and dynamic market such as the one of labels and packaging printing.
The big news was, of course, the first ever show demos on iFlex 370mm (14’’) label press. everyone appreciated the simplicity of operation and the high quality results obtained with no effort at all and with just one gear per flexo unit at iFlex. Pre-register, register, job change were performed with the greatest attention to the reduction of wastage of material and time. Novelties like iLight, laser-assisted pre-register system, QCDC, Quick Change Die cutting by means of a trolley for the slide in/out of the heavy die-cutting cylinders, iVision, camera-assisted system for the immediate set-up of the perfect register showed how simplicity can be the key to success.
Next to iFlex, the XFlex X6 Offset, flexo + offset with sleeves hybrid press captured the attention of the audience. The XFlex X6 Offset is the most complete and only press mixing flexo and rotary offset in 530mm (21’’) width whose multi-technology and multi-application approach can handle medium to large volumes of filmic labels, shrink sleeves, IML labels, flexible packaging and carton boxes with the certainty of the least quantity of waste and the highest quality output in one, single passage.
To complete such a valuable picture, OMET presented the XFlex X6 Digital with flexo + digital JetPlus combination to satisfy needs of short runs printing and heavy job rotation, and delivering the most elevated quality and highest productivity. The XFlex X6 Digital, firstly presented in Drupa 2012, is a fully operational machine already installed in the market with great satisfaction of the printers. Thanks to the perfect integration of the flexo and digital workflows, and adding in line further finishing and converting technologies, like screen printing, UV lamination or cold foil, the converters that choose to rely on XFlex X6 Digital can profit, as necessary, of a flexo press, of a hybrid flexo + digital combination machine, when the need is to print sampling or variable data with short delivery times, or of the digital 4-colour unit JetPlus (expandable) to print 100 percent digital.
Many orders were signed during the Show and more orders are expected by Omet to come in the next few weeks.
Marco Calcagni, sales and marketing director of OMET, comments: “The visitors to our stand, all of the highest level and well informed on the technology available on the market, showed a real interest in our offer of presses and appreciated its completeness and our innovation-oriented approach. In every edition of Labelexpo, we have brought new solutions that immediately turned out positive for the market. This year it was the turn of iFlex, by far the most attractive flexoprinting machine in Brussels: the ideal press for modern label converters looking for operational simplicity, costs reduction and high quality results.”
