11.23.16
Coast Label Company has acquired a 13” Durst Tau 330E digital UV inkjet label press, the Southern California custom label manufacturer’s first production class digital press. Under the ownership of president and CEO Craig Moreland for more than 25 years, the company has grown through a devotion to innovation in flexo, screen and now digital label printing. Coast Label Company is a four-time winner of TLMI’s prestigious Eugene Singer Award for Best Managed Company.
According to Moreland, there were several reasons Coast Label has been transitioning to digital, citing efficiency as well as growing customer demand for full color and multiple versions on even the simplest industrial labels. “That becomes time consuming and expensive to do,” he says, “ especially in low volumes on flexo equipment.”
Coast Label Company chose the Tau after a long consideration on what would deliver the best results for its largest verticals, which include healthcare and high-performance industrial label segments. “We just hadn’t found a piece of equipment that we wanted to own,” Moreland says. “We offer UL-recognized components and other products that have a strong need for ink performance, adhesive performance and substrate performance – this is where the toner technologies don’t really work very well for our needs.”
Moreland continues, “This year at Labelexpo, it was clear that UV digital label printing had arrived in terms of quality as well as speed – that was one of the things that finally tipped us toward the Tau 330E. With the Tau, we’ve got the enhanced capabilities of a very durable ink set that, in a lot of cases, will not require overlamination.”
The Tau 330E is a UV inkjet label press printing 8-inch or 13-inch widths in four or five colors at speeds of up to 157 fpm and a resolution of up to 1,260 dpi. The system has been engineered with particular attention to equipment cost while maintaining the speed and printing quality of the flagship Tau 330 label press. By reducing the color offering from seven in the original Tau 330, Durst is able to offer a more economical model.
According to Moreland, there were several reasons Coast Label has been transitioning to digital, citing efficiency as well as growing customer demand for full color and multiple versions on even the simplest industrial labels. “That becomes time consuming and expensive to do,” he says, “ especially in low volumes on flexo equipment.”
Coast Label Company chose the Tau after a long consideration on what would deliver the best results for its largest verticals, which include healthcare and high-performance industrial label segments. “We just hadn’t found a piece of equipment that we wanted to own,” Moreland says. “We offer UL-recognized components and other products that have a strong need for ink performance, adhesive performance and substrate performance – this is where the toner technologies don’t really work very well for our needs.”
Moreland continues, “This year at Labelexpo, it was clear that UV digital label printing had arrived in terms of quality as well as speed – that was one of the things that finally tipped us toward the Tau 330E. With the Tau, we’ve got the enhanced capabilities of a very durable ink set that, in a lot of cases, will not require overlamination.”
The Tau 330E is a UV inkjet label press printing 8-inch or 13-inch widths in four or five colors at speeds of up to 157 fpm and a resolution of up to 1,260 dpi. The system has been engineered with particular attention to equipment cost while maintaining the speed and printing quality of the flagship Tau 330 label press. By reducing the color offering from seven in the original Tau 330, Durst is able to offer a more economical model.