CDigital Purchases Two Xeikon 3030 Presses

ITASCA, IL—July 09, 2013—CDigital Markets has purchased and installed two Xeikon 3030 digital label presses to solidify its leadership role in providing full color digital heat transfers to the product decoration industry.

Based in a 35,000-square-foot facility in Baltimore, CDigital has replaced earlier generation Xeikon machines with the two new Xeikon 3030s, which would offer upgraded capacity and higher productivity for full-color, short-run jobs.

"These new Xeikon 3030 presses are everything we expected them to be, and in some cases more," said Paul Smith, CEO of CDigital. "We're doing things faster, better and cheaper. Because of the speed of the presses, we've increased our run sizes, which has made us competitive in more markets."

CDigital was founded in 2001 as the first U.S.-based company to use an all-digital system to decorate optical media, including CDs and DVDs. CDigital later launched a product decorating program, trademarked "Grafixx," in which the company digitally prints the images on a polyester film and sells the imaged film to customers who use their own equipment to transfer the images onto their products. Today, product decoration is the company's principal business and Grafixx images can be found on many plastics, glass materials, ceramics, graphite as well as metal products.

Increasingly, product decorators are using clear/transparent pressure sensitive labels printed with a colored image to achieve a "no label look." "Our full color transfers are the next logical step as only the artwork transfers to the product," Smith said. "No label look works because there isn't any label. Plus, Xeikon's toners provide the opacity needed to make our transfers look great on any color product."

"Producing heat transfer labels digitally with the Xeikon 3030 offers CDigital significant advantages compared to other technologies, including unparalleled image quality and fast turnarounds," said Todd Blumsack, vice president of sales at Xeikon America. "We're proud to partner with CDigital to help this innovative company take advantage of the huge business opportunity of heat transfer applications possible with digital printing."

About Xeikon
Xeikon is an innovator in digital printing technology. The company designs, develops and delivers web-fed digital color presses for labels and packaging applications, document printing, as well as commercial printing. These presses utilize LED-array-based dry toner electrophotography, open workflow software and application-specific toners.

As an OEM supplier, Xeikon designs and produces platemakers for newspaper offset printing applications.

Xeikon also manufactures basysPrint computer-to-plate (CtP) solutions for the commercial printing market. These proven CtP systems combine the latest exposure techniques with cost-efficient UV plate technology, high imaging quality and flexibility.

For the flexographic market, Xeikon offers digital platemaking systems under the ThermoFlexX brand name. ThermoFlexX systems provide high resolution plate exposure including screening, color management, as well as workflow management.

All the Xeikon solutions are designed with the overarching principles of profitability, quality, flexibility and sustainability in mind. With these guiding principles and a deep, intimate knowledge of its customers, Xeikon continues to be one of the industry's leading innovators of products and solutions.

Source: Xeikon.