Labelexpo Day 2: Durst launches new platform Tau 420 RSCi

Durst is launching its first new label platform for seven years with the scalable Tau 420 RSCi, with local sales manager Paul Sanelli saying it changes the rules of label print production.

The new press comes with field upgradable web widths and four or eight colours again upgradable, and it prints at 1200x1200dpi using Fuji Samba heads at 100 metres a minute print speed.

The three web width options are 330mm, 420mm and 510mm, the colours CMYK plus orange, violet, green and white. Sanelli says, "Durst has future proofed the investment for label printers, and created a press that offers those label printers multiple new opportunities. It will print from 20 micron film up to 500 micron board, on a range of web widths, the application range is huge."

The Tau 420 RCSi can also be used as an inline digital engine on a hybrid press; here at Labelexpo it is being shown with an Omet flexo printer.

Sanelli said, “High volume printers will benefit from the new platform, with 100 metres a minute in high quality on a range of media giving them real production power.”

Under its “We Keep You Printing” slogan, Durst is also featuring dedicated Web2Production workflow software; its own prepress Workflow Label software; and its current Tau 330 RSC and RSC-E presses, as well as a new low-migration UV ink which is EUPIA and Swiss Ordinance compliant for food and pharma applications.

According to Helmuth Munter, segment manager for labels and package printing at Durst, stand visitors have the chance to see how customers use its software and print technology to benefit from an automated production unit.

“Labelexpo marks 10 years of Durst in the label industry with a raft of new innovations: first with 7 colours, first with chill roller, first with low-migration ink and first with an inert curing system. Introduced two years ago, the Tau 330 RSC and Tau 330 RSC E set a new benchmark in label printing and we now have more than 50 installations around the world.

“We are confident that our updated Tau RSC platform will once again set the base for the future of industrial digital inkjet printing in the label industry,” he said.