Truepress trebles up with Euro award

The Screen Truepress Jet L350UV SAI S has secured its third EDP (European Digital Press Association) win for its inkjet label press technology, taking out the 2021 Best Label Printer Award.

According to the EDP jury, the Truepress Jet L350UV SAI S was voted best label printer for its “ease-of-use, advanced software, improved colour quality and increased speed”.

Peter Scott, managing director of Screen GP Australia, said, “This is an outstanding honour, to be awarded for each generation of the Truepress Jet L350UV since its introduction in 2014. Once is great, twice is excellent but three times is fantastic. During this time, many new entrants have addressed the digital label production sector and many new models have been made available but the Truepress Jet L350UV has triumphed yet again. I think it demonstrates that the core Screen technology is at the top of its game, and, as the SAI S model has shown with several installations in Australia, it just gets better.”

According to Screen, the Truepress Jet L350UV SAI S, which was released in 2020, builds on the success of the popular Plus range, as a high-productivity, high-quality and versatile UV inkjet label press. The Japanese word sai means colourful, and the company says the new Screen SAI series was developed to help printers produce a wider range of spot colours to meet brand owners’ challenging demands.

Screen says that the machine can print on media widths of up to 350mm wide, with a print speed of up to 60 meters per minute. Using white ink, the company maintains that it is still able to achieve 50 metres per minute.

The company has installed hundreds of L350UV digital label presses globally, and says even original seven-year old models are still in production, and in demand as used machines.

It says the new SAI platform is compact and configurable, so able to accommodate today’s label printing requirements and expand its capabilities if market trends demand this.

The L350 SAI S has a four-colour CMYK standard inkset, which according to the company, can easily be upgraded to seven colours – including white, orange, and a vivid blue.

Screen says the extended gamut is what label printers first notice – it claims colours “previously unachievable are reproduced with ease and really pop".

“Together with our distribution partner Jet Technologies, we have seen excellent uptake of the latest SAI S version in the Australian label space. Operators of original L350UV presses have upgraded to the SAI and the feedback is encouraging. Apart from the brilliant colours and increased speed, the uptime is the highest in the industry at over 90 per cent – and that translates into increased overall productivity and profit potential,” adds Scott. “The EDP Best Label Printer Award is really the icing on the cake.”

Taishi Motoshige, marketing director for Screen Europe, was equally delighted. He said, “This prestigious award recognises our commitment to helping our label printing clients to continuously enhance efficiency and productivity – with enhanced reliability through ongoing innovations. This enables them to gain a competitive advantage, and be at the forefront of the label printing industry.”

Jack Malki, director, Jet Technologies, said, “Rarely do we have a product that is universally loved but in all our years with Screen and the L350UV, we have not had a single client who does not love the press. It has been a success in numerous fields and applications – and now with the SAI model, the range of possibilities continues to widen. Our relationship with Screen spans well over a decade and perhaps it is because of this extremely close relationship that we are able to work in such a complementary manner to achieve results.”