Soma displays Optima at Labelexpo

Peter Blasko, Soma’s marketing manager said, “We carried out extensive research with flexible packaging printers and customers and the consensus was that a solution was necessary to meet short run, mid-web requirements cost effectively. The Optima has been a great success with our wide-web customers, but we are now identifying label printers that want to offer a wider portfolio of products, such as, for example, shrink sleeves. The Optima can handle virtually any product in the growing mid-web field.”

 

The press bridges the gap between narrow-web and wide-web printing for products such as in-mould and wraps around the labels, shrink sleeves, retort pouches and sachets as well as paper sacks, cups and plates.

 

Available in 620 and 820mm widths in up to eight-colour, the Optima is capable of speeds up to 300 m/min and features unwind and rewind systems that are located outside the printing unit modules. This variable design allows the option of choosing any unwind/rewind configuration and inline upstream or downstream printing and converting units such as cold-seal or slitting.

 

Insight Communication and Print Solution is the Indian representative of Soma. The Soma Flex Premia printing presses have two installations in India.