Ink World staff01.13.21
Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, many label and packaging printers experienced a healthy growth due to growing trends in e-commerce and with brand owners using more variable data printing (VDP) and personalization to communicate with consumers during this time.
"COVID-19 has really accelerated the growth in e-commerce, a trend which is likely to remain after lockdown restrictions are lifted," said Jim Orford, K600i product manager from Domino Digital Printing Solutions. "Brand owners are also placing more emphasis on personalization to engage with consumers through loyalty and promotional programs and to track their products through the supply chain. This has resulted in some of our label and packaging converter customers reporting a 40-50% increase in the demand for variable data printed labels during the pandemic.”
The Domino K600i is all about high quality and high-speed digital printing of variable data. This ranges from simple alpha-numeric text and sequential numbering to a wide range of industry-standard machine-readable barcodes and 2D codes, including QR and Data Matrix codes.
These are used for logistics and reverse logistics in e-commerce and online retail, for "track and trace" applications in the food and beverage sectors, and for security applications including brand protection, in the pharmaceutical and tobacco sectors.
This versatile, monochrome UV inkjet printer is available in seven different print width formats, ranging from 108mm to 782mm, in either a standard single print bar or the high-speed dual-bar configuration. It can be retrofitted onto most conventional printing presses and finishing lines.
The K600i can be used with Domino's UV-curable, LED-curable and aqueous pigmented ink sets, with a high opacity white ink, fluorescent ink and clear varnish also available.
The single print bar prints 75 meters per minute at 600 x 600dpi resolution with optimum print density, but can print at up to 150 meters per minute. The dual bar unit demonstrated in this video prints 150 meters per minute at optimum print density, and can still print at 600 x 600dpi at up to 200 meters per minute.
“We recognize converters have a choice from the various inkjet printing equipment suppliers in the marketplace. We are delighted that so many have chosen Domino for high-speed digital printing - we [are] now approaching 1,000 global installations based on this 6th generation inkjet technology," said Philip Easton, director of Domino Digital Printing Solutions. "Our customers recognize that the K600i digital inkjet printer is simple to run and maintain, offering exceptional productivity and efficiency, enabling them to react to this VDP opportunity and providing profitable, efficient, on-time delivery to their brand owner customers.”
