Gallus has launched its first fully digital label press, the Gallus One, marking a ground-breaking new addition to the company’s conventional and hybrid portfolio of label presses.
The Gallus One has been specifically designed to remove the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) barrier for the adoption of reel-to-reel digital labels with the highest level of automation and cloud-based technologies. This provides brands, for the first time, with access to cost effective and sustainable, high quality digital labels.
With its 340-mm wide roll-to-roll UV inkjet digital inline labels press, the Gallus One promises to revolutionise the way in which converters approach digital label printing. Powered by a market-leading Gallus Labelmaster press platform, the Gallus One offers unrivalled UV inkjet print quality and speeds of up to 70 metres per minute, making it a powerful tool for both standalone digital printing, and as a complimentary service within a traditional analogue operation.
Dario Urbinati, Chief Sales & Service Director, Gallus Group explains, “With the launch of the Gallus One, we are doing more than just bringing a new press to market – we’re providing a unique solution that has the capability to drive the next big opportunity in labels. With cloud capabilities in-built within Gallus One, you can not only enjoy remote set-up, but transparent performance monitoring and standardization across your press portfolio and manufacturing sites. In conjunction with the sophisticated press design the Gallus One offers a complete reel-to-reel digital label solution, including all the software and hardware necessary to produce high quality, profitable digital labels. All this, with the highest level of automation available, and the most competitive TCO.”
Dr. Frank Schaum, CEO Gallus Group, commented, “Gallus One is an important addition to our portfolio. It provides customers with a unique opportunity to pioneer a new and complimentary category of label service in the quest for significant business growth and differentiation.”
“But Gallus One isn’t the only exciting initiative we’re launching today. We are delighted to announce the creation of a new ‘Gallus Experience Center’ - currently being built in St. Gallen, Switzerland and expected to open late this year. As part of our vision for realising ‘the label industry of the future’, the new facility has been specifically designed to aid collaboration across the industry. Once open, we will invite customers, brands and suppliers from across the eco system to use the new facility to meet and share solutions, as well as develop new ideas to help solve key industry issues and create new opportunities” adds Schaum.
Heidelberg and Gallus have combined their decades of experience in the narrow-web industry to create Gallus One, a web printing solutions provider. Heidelberg's ink testing laboratories were used to develop digital inks specifically for the Gallus One's Fuji Dimatix print heads, while a second lab was used to optimize waveform design. This allows for better print performance.
Gallus One is designed for businesses of all sizes, and integrates seamlessly with Heidelberg Prinectworkflow software. Prinect allows production managers from start-ups to large, established labels to access insights and production data to ensure optimum production. They can do that remotely across a secure network, from any smart device.
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