The $300,000 machine uses LED technology, has no plates and no screens, with print heads from Xaar, and enables spot costing on sheets from 306mm up to 1050mm width at speeds of up to 36 metres a minute, on stocks between 90-650gsm.

Ralph says, “It can be used inline or offline, and as it uses LED it has none of the smells associated with UV. Digital spot coating means short run lengths are possible, and cost are reduced as there is no platemaking.”

* In what Ralph says was ‘the best drupa we have ever had’ his company picked up the agency for THermotype, the US manufacturer that has developed the all in one finishing system, the Caslon Zip TS2L.

Ralph says, “Simply put it will do everything; scoring, perforating, cutting, slitting, round cornering, punching, embossing, hole punching, it is one machine that performs seven or eight formerly discrete tasks. We have about 40 printers currently interested in it, and at $115,000 we are expecting it to fly out of the door.”

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