Color Ink Adds Komori’s Impremia IS29

Color Ink, located in Sussex, WI, purchased a Komori Impremia IS29, a first-of-its-kind 29-inch inkjet, sheetfed UV printing system.

Color Ink was an early adopter of Komori’s CTP system and over the years has purchased three 40-inch Komori presses. Two months ago, Color Ink added the Impremia IS29 to its production floor.

Color Ink serves a nationwide customer base of name brands in the retail, fashion, beverage and pharma industries with customized retail merchandising solutions that include structural design and packaging, trade show booths and dimensional displays.

While a majority of the company’s revenue comes from in-store visual retail signage, packaging is quickly becoming a substantial contributor to Color Ink’s bottom line due to repeated requests from customers seeking highly variable small-run packaging solutions. 

“As soon as we saw an opportunity to enter the packaging market, we recognized the need to increase our capacity in digital print,” said Todd Meissner, president, Color Ink. “However, looking at our business holistically, we needed capabilities that offered more than traditional digital print technology offers in terms of sheet size and print quality. Komori’s IS29 was the answer. This press gives us the level of high-quality output our clients expect while supporting a wide variety of requests for personalized short-run applications at a reasonable cost.”

The IS29 is able to run six-up on a 23×29-inch sheet with a sheet thickness range suitable for producing labels and wraps, corrugated boxes, folding cartons, packaging prototypes and more.
The fast curing speeds of UV inks, along with the ability to start finishing immediately make it possible to meet increasing demands to get products to market faster—often with targeted campaigns delivered via the packaging itself.

“There are so many benefits inherent in the IS29 from a production standpoint—from its ability to deliver high-speed two-sided printing to the amazing assurance of color repeatability,” said Meissner. “The best part for us is that the IS29 is making it possible to win new business we couldn’t get previously because either wasn’t able to handle it, or we couldn’t do it competitively. With the IS29, now we can. To sum it up, we absolutely love this press.”