Gallus, a member of the Heidelberg Group, is expanding its product portfolio with another digital printing press, Gallus Smartfire at the Gallus Innovation Days 2018 starting today. Gallus print experts present how digitization will change the label industry and how Gallus is going to support their customers to manage this drastic industrial paradigm shift.
The 3 – day event taking place once in 2 years invites more than 800 visitors and customers from around the world.
The Gallus Smartfire, is deliberately positioned as an entry-level model. “With the Gallus Smartfire, we are also focussing on new target groups who are looking for a smart entry into digital label printing,” explains Michael Ring, Head of Digital Solutions at Gallus. “The Memjet technology allows us to offer an inkjet printing press that produces labels with a quality of 1600×1600 dpi while still keeping the investment costs at a low level.”
The Gallus Smartfire prints with Memjet print heads with water-based inks, which means that these labels are eco-friendly and leave a minimal ecological footprint. The Smartfire uses an ordinary power outlet, needs no exhaust equipment, is extremely compact, and emits no VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds), thus making it the perfect press for any work environment.
“The name says it all, the Smartfire is absolutely easy to operate via a self-explanatory touch panel,” says Michael Ring.
With this digital press, only a few prepress skills are required to create professional CMYK 4-color inkjet labels. The machine also has a finishing unit is attached and delivers finished die cut labels, produced in one pass and ready for shipping on the reel, just like Gallus customers know it from the other presses.
Visitors will also get to view the Gallus Labelmaster Advanced that was debuted last year at LabelExpo 2017. automatic transverse and longitudinal register control are some of the easy-to-use features of this press that also boasts of an easy 2-step process change from flexographic printing unit to screen printing unit.
Gallus also offers new Industry 4.0 service offerings to customers which will soon integrate with Heidelberg’s worldwide service network. Gallus customers will now benefit from the dense global network of Heidelberg local service organisations and thus faster on-the-spot services.