Kurz brings flexible foiling with DM Liner

Leonhard Kurz introduces its Digital Metal-Liner, a roll-to-roll label press which transfers metal foil to paper and plastic substrates, in an Australian first.

 

The DM-Liner is a transfer unit for digital metallisation in a web-fed printing process. The machine is a roll-to-roll version of the DM-Liner UV-Ink, which transfers metallisations to paper and plastic substrates using the inkjet process. Kurz says it developed the finishing station to enable the narrow-web processing sector to also take advantage of all the possibilities offered by its digital metal transfer technology.

 

Stephan Pratt, managing director Australia & New Zealand, Kurz says its DM-Liner complements market-available solutions for hot and cold foil stamping.

 

Pratt says, “Kurz have been in Australia for 47 years. We provide a large portion of all the hot foil and cold foil that is used in the country today. It is used by foil stamping houses as well as a lot of label business and label converters in Australia. We also produce high security foils for card solutions, such as signature panels. Kurz produces the holographic foil used on the new Australian five dollar note, and also produces packaging for Apple.

 

“This is the first DM-Liner which we have brought to Australia, and it is currently available on the marketplace. It is the SR-A3 machine, ideal for short-run digital printing, and gives the benefits of personalisation, and numbering solutions. Every image can be created differently, and we will foil onto whatever image is put in front of us.

 

“It works with all digital toner machines. Wherever there is toner on the printed product, the DM-Liner will apply foil. We use a hot transfer roller process, apply the foil, and end up with an image that looks silver or gold in the allocated sections. The beauty of our DM-Liner and the digital metal process is that you can then run that product back in your printer to turn it into a beautiful, colourful, metallised image. It can be done digitally or conventionally, but it is a foil which you can print over. The way we see it, it can be a finishing machine or part of a further process. That provides a lot of flexibility that other companies cannot offer with their solutions.

 

Leonhard Kurz also recently unveiled its Foilconnect program for calculating foil requirements.

 

Pratt says, “The purpose of the Foilconnect program is to provide print finishers with a fast and easy means of optimizing their hot stamping foil usage. To determine the foil requirements, a PDF file containing all the stamping designs is first uploaded. Next the machine specifications and stamping job details are entered and, a few clicks later, all the necessary information for efficient foil usage and machine setup are then obtained.”

 

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3 thoughts on “Kurz brings flexible foiling with DM Liner

  1. Nice machine the DM-Liner. Many smaller machines and some laminators deliver the same result though and only for a fraction of the price

    1. Yes but try running a longer run production on these cheaper machines and you’ll discover the misfortunes of buying Chinesse or Korean.

  2. But I can buy 10 of them for the same price! Also some decent laminating machines have foiling features. So, how many machines has Kurz sold?

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