Creed Engineers showcases a slew of products at Labelexpo

Ranesh Bajaj, managing director at Creed Engineers, in an interaction with PrintWeek India during the Labelshow, said, that there are four important things that his company did at the Labelexpo India. “We have launched the Lombardi range of narrow pressesPDM rubber plate; showcase the Omega inspection system, the Vinsak inkjet systems.

02 Nov 2012 | By PrintWeek India

Creed is not running the Lombardi machine but two of the modules showing their ABS system, capable of unsupported film as well as labels, was on display. The press is a dual servo machine with two servo per unit. The press can handle substrates as thin as a 12-micron unsupported BOPP film as well as a 500 micron paper. “We have received two orders for the Lombardi Synchroline full servo narrow web press, one of which will be delivered in December and the other by March, next year,” said Bajaj.

The AB Graphic’s Omega HSR on display was a full slitter rewinder with fly eye vision, a 100% defect detection system, while the online inkjet system from Vinsak can among other things do variable 2D barcoding. We have already installed our first inkjet system at Hyderabad, said Bajaj. It is capable of print labels with mono as well as colour barcoding, numbering, any sequencial variable data numbering etc. “The pharma industry is very soon going to make it mandatory to put a QR code on every medicine pack to fight conterfeiting. This is a solution for that. The same machine can be upgraded to full colour. If you want to do short run digital label production, you can do it in four-colour as well,” he said.
 
Bajaj is also excited about the launch of a direct laser engraving machine. “You can burn the image on the rubber plate, which is not photosensitive, so handling is not an issue.” According to Bajaj, these rubber plates are quicker to make and does not use chemicals.
 
“It’s eco-friendly, has a longer storage life and is very durable,” he said.
 
Bajaj said that the label market is growing, but for the printers to take advantage, they have to look at the world as a market place. “Specialise in few niche products and just go global,” was his advice to the label printers.