Xeikon launches ‘groundbreaking’ ICE toner for label converting

20 June 2013


Xeikon says its new ICE toner, developed for use with its digital label presses, will open up “a whole range of new applications” for packaging involving heat-sensitive substrates such as polyethylene and thermal labels.

Part of the Xeikon Label Suite, ICE toner will run on all new and installed Xeikon 3000 Series digital presses, and has already undergone extensive tests in the field with a number of existing customers.

According to the Netherlands-based company, ICE toner is based on Xeikon’s “proven” QA technology, said to bring benefits including “top printing quality, high lightfastness, top opaque white quality and being able to print on conventional substrates without the need of specific priming”.

Xeikon vice president consumables & process group, Lode Deprez, says that up to now, dry toner technology was not expected to be able to work in labelling applications such as those used for squeezable plastic tubes and bottles, or bags that need to be pressed.

“Following requests from our user base, Xeikon specifically developed the ICE toner to be suited for heat sensitive materials,” says Deprez.

“We pushed back the boundaries in toner development and digital label printing. ICE toner is undoubtedly again a real breakthrough in dry toner technology driven by Xeikon.”

The new ICE toner will be demonstrated at Labelexpo Europe in Brussels, 24-27 September 2013, and will be available for customers in Q4 2013.

Xeikon enables label converters to evaluate their own PE labels printed on a Xeikon 3000 Series digital press through its website www.SeeTheProof.com, where files can be uploaded and printed on several substrates including PE.



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