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In Pictures – Installing an @Xeikon 3300 digital label printing machine

This is what a Xeikon 3300 looks like when its sat in your car park (being carefully guarded!)
Have you ever wondered what happens when you install a digital label printing machine?  We took a few photos when we swapped out our  330 for the new Xeikon 3300 digital label printing machine in December 2011, shown below.  The whole process of decommissioning the old machine and installing and commissioning the new one took about 6 days, and went very well thanks to the expert team from...
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Comparison of HP, UV Inkjet and Xeikon digitally printed label images exposed to sunlight

The test compared HP, Xeikon and UV inkjet prints over months of sunlight exposure
At last weeks Label Expo 2011 a poster caught my eye, comparing the pigment fading of the 3 principal digital label printing technologies in an easy to see and understand way, the best comparison I have seen to date.  Put simply it showed the same image printed at the same time using 3 different processes (HP Indigo solvent based liquid toner, UV cured inkjet inks used by Xaar, Konica Minolta...
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We are attending the BPIF Digital Printing for labels Seminar #in #bpiflabels

Digital Printing for labels Seminar
We will be attending the digital label printing technical workshop run by BPIF Labels in Daventry, UK, on 2 November 2011.  It looks like a really good day for those in the UK labels industry to meet up and discuss a really important trend towards increased digital labelling, and one that we have just again invested into. Speakers include Xeikon, Xaar, HP, LabelTrax, UPM Raflatac, AB Graphics...
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