Heret Printing Chooses MGI’s JETvarnish 3D & iFOIL to Add FPackaging Value to World’s 1st HP Indigo 30000 Installation or over 75 years, Heret Printing, based in Yavna, Israel, has delivered world-class production packaging solutions to a wide variety of industries. Heret provides customized print distribution and enterprise-level, supply-chain services to international brands such as Soda Stream, Ahava, Sabon, and many more. In addition to its powerful high-volume production infrastructure, Heret also specializes in providing detailed, luxurious, high-end packaging options to elite clientele in the beauty, cosmetics, and skin care industries. Heret Printing is committed to providing complete beginning to-end business support to every customer. This full-service, project management approach starts with consulting during the early stage of the package design process, continues on through production and lasts until the finished product is delivered. To provide a complete portfolio of commercial printing service options, Heret has invested in multiple presses (offset and digital) and a wide range of in-house finishing equipment. One notable example is the implementation of the world’s first HP (Booth 1202) Indigo 30000 digital press for folding cartons. In March 2015, Heret Printing installed the latest version of the MGI (Booth 3013) JETvarnish 3D Digital Spot UV and inline iFOIL system, a 100% digital solution to produce personalized 3D spot coating and embossed hot foil stamping applications for its digital and offset presses, including the HP Indigo 30000. Yarden Ben-Dor Heret, Printing Executive Vice President, says: “Last year, we were chosen by HP to be the first company in the world to install the HP Indigo 30000 Digital Press, a unique solution for digital printing of folding cartons in the packaging industry. Now it is time to turn our focus on finishing our printed output with the very innovative 3D spot coating and hot foil stamping equipment from MGI in France. “In addition to offering amazing quality and spectacular results, we have all the advantages of going digital for spot UV coating and foiling: quick turnaround, no plates and tooling, no media changes, and much more. The HP Indigo 30000 and MGI JETvarnish 3D/iFOIL are the perfect fit for all my B2 (50x70) packaging for folding cartons up to 550 μm.” The JETvarnish 3D and iFOIL utilize MGI’s patented inkjet and hot foil stamping technology to provide digital spot UV coating in plain 2D and 3D (up to 200 μm thickness) and embossed foil textured effects in one pass. The digital hot foil and embossing functions are inline with the varnish application process on substrates and sheets up to 52 x 1050 mm in size (from 135 to 600gsm). This digital Spot UV coating process is 100% variable data capable with barcode reader options that enable custom spot varnished prints with unique graphics, text, and numeric data. Yarden Ben-Dor adds: “Good printing quality is not enough. Even with our latest digital press, all the end-user’s The Inkjet Candy Store: AA Cure for the Common Ink s you make your way through The Inkjet Candy Store (Booth 3040), you will likely notice some letters on the various spec sheets and product descriptions. One set that is becoming more prevalent is “UV LED,” sometimes written as “LED UV”. Regardless of how a given equipment manufacturer writes it, what it refers to is ink that cures under exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light generated by light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Let’s unpack that a bit. The Inkjet Candy Store features a mélange of machines that use a variety of different types of inkjet inks. The primary difference among them is the way in which they are cured, or dried. Here is a quick rundown of the most common options: • Solvent inks consist of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that dry primarily by evaporation. Solvent inks can be characterized by toxic fumes and strict environmental regulations regarding their disposal. • Ecosolvent inks use milder chemicals than other solvent inks, but still dry predominantly by evaporation, although some require heat. • Aqueous inks use water as their primary solvent, but often require special coated substrates to adhere properly. • Latex inks are largely water-based and dry quickly upon exposure to high temperatures. “Latex,” by the way, is a generic chemical term that refers to a “stable dispersion (emulsion) of polymer microparticles in an aqueous medium” (says Wikipedia) and is not related to the natural latex exuded by plants or the synthetic latex used to make gloves or other rubber-like items. Thus, latex inks are perfectly safe for those with latex allergies. • Dye-sublimation inks consist of a pigment suspended in a liquid solvent that, under heat and pressure, turns into a gas and prints on the fabric. Some dyesublimation inks require a transfer paper to “offset” the image onto the substrate. Here’s where we came in. • UV inks consist of photo-initiators that, when exposed to ultraviolet light, “polymerize,” or, essentially, turn into a plastic film. In a word, “cure.” The traditional method used to cure UV inks was, as mentioned earlier, mercury-vapor lamps. It’s a fast-curing system, doesn’t generate too many harmful vapors, and has allowed UV printers to print on virtually any substrate. (Trivia question: what’s the one surface UV is not good for? Give up? Teflon. Makes sense when you think about it.) The drawback to mercury-vapor lamps is they use a fair amount of energy and generate a substantial amount of heat. An alternative system has emerged that use LEDs to generate the UV energy at the right wavelength needed to polymerize the inks. The advantages of these so-called “cold-curing” lamps is that they generate far less heat and some users of UV LED systems have reported lower energy costs. So keep this little cup of alphabet soup in mind as you walk The Inkjet Candy Store. perceived value is coming from the finishing techniques. Now, thanks to the 100% digital JETvarnish 3D Spot Coating integration with the personalization of the iFOIL Hot Foiling module, Heret can help our print customers create a deep personal and emotional connection for their brands with our personalized product packaging options.” One of Heret Printing’s biggest customers is Sabon, an international bath and body products brand. Sabon’s elegant salon-style products require packaging with very refined details and intricate foil applications. After acquiring MGI’s JETvarnish 3D & iFOIL solution, most of this production was transferred from the traditional offset, die-making method to the MGI digital process. The result was a considerable savings of time, money, and resources. Furthermore, the finishing quality was so impressive that the customer increased orders and generated additional revenue for Heret. Yarden Ben-Dor continues: “All this MGI digital equipment is really giving us an edge in the marketplace. We can move forward with new projects more quickly and operate faster than the competition. We can produce and customize finishing projects on-demand now. The same spot UV and foiling run can include personalization in multiple languages for commercial and retail customers with international distribution. The JETvarnish 3D & iFOIL are unique when it comes to adding value to printed output with enhanced, deluxe finishing treatments such as 2D/3D UV spot coating and embossed hot foiling.” Urban Lending Solutions Increases Throughput, Reduces Inefficiencies IBy Adopting Ricoh’s Infoprint 5000 n 2002, Urban Lending Solutions (ULS) was established as a title and settlement services provider. Over time ULS began to provide a variety of back office support to its financial services clients. Twelve years later, in 2014, ULS was sending out over 2 million documents annually and averaging 99% for print and ship timeliness, exceeding service level agreements (SLAs) every month. Maintaining or exceeding SLAs at that level was of the utmost importance to ULS’s clients. As it looked toward 2015, ULS realized that to ensure the highest level of document fulfillment services while growing the size and scope of its business, it needed to take total control over its print operations business, and the best way to do this was to bring the production of documents completely in-house. Thus, ULS put in place a brand new 25,000-square-foot print facility with a capacity of 1.8 million pages per day and 24/7 production capability. ULS’s Steve Wilson, Senior VP, Business Development, and Brett Birky, Senior VP, Operations, looked to find a partner that would provide the new facility with the best equipment and print solutions to ensure ULS could meet the capacity, quality, compliance, and cost requirements of its clientele. Solution ULS needed a provider that offered a complete package of hardware and services solutions. It sought to deliver high-quality graphic and media capabilities, to incorporate Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) architecture for handling large print file streams, and to fulfill variable data needs that change on a document by document basis. Ricoh (Booth 1231), its InfoPrint 5000 GP continuous feed color inkjet systems, and supporting solutions met ULS’s requirements. “At the end of the day, what has made Ricoh stand out is how they situate their products within their solution and services-minded offerings,” says Wilson. “They don’t just sell you a piece of equipment, but rather, they partner with you, working closely to understand your clients’ expectations, so they can then match their technology to meet both your needs, as well as your clients’.” Results From the beginning, ULS realized that to make its print business successful, it needed not just an equipment provider but a partner who would help it move its entire document production service in-house without sacrificing capacity, quality, or reliability. Today, thanks to its work with Ricoh, ULS’s print production facility is open and fully operational, and ULS is no longer outsourcing any of its document fulfillment projects. As ULS adds new customers and expands production, it sees its relationship with Ricoh growing to address client and project expansion created as a result of its print facility. 10 September 16, 2015 | GRAPH EXPO Official Show Daily | PrintingNews.com
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