Inkjet & Digital Printing

LabelStream 4000: More functions for more possibilities

Friday 15. May 2020 - Canon announces significant upgrades and optional configurations for the LabelStream 4000 series, the companys Etikettend digital label press. The new features address the needs of label printers and converters and include an optional orange color channel, white ink with screen-printed opacity and improved usability to increase production efficiency.

Exceptional color gamut
The advanced color options of the LabelStream allow you to use optional orange and white color channels. This allows you to display a wider range of brand colors and achieve high opacity in white without sacrificing quality or reliability.
The new white channel achieves up to 80% opacity in a single pass at a print speed of 36m/min. Eliminate time-consuming set-up processes and costly screen printing meshes and increase cost efficiency. With additional opacity values of over 70% at 50 m/min and over 65% at 75 m/min, a wide range of performance levels are available.
With their high pigment content and the enhanced ink laydown capabilities of the Xaar 2001 printhead technology, LabelStream inks achieve a spot-color swatchbook color space of 96% with Delta E 2000 < 2. Offer your customers high-quality labels, precisely matching brand colors and consistent output with standard label materials - for every print job.
New entry-level configuration
Are you looking for an entry-level digital or hybrid configuration? LabelStream 4000 core configuration is the ideal entry into the world of industrial UV inkjet printing. Based on a cost-effective but powerful base module, a variety of options are available that allow you to expand the printing system to meet additional requirements. With reliable UV inkjet technology and robust web guidance, the system offers print speeds of up to 75 m/min. and two print widths of 330 mm or 410 mm – resulting in an outstanding productivity of 1,845 m”/h and enabling shorter turnaround times. You can also add UV flexo modules for spot colours or varnishing to your digital printing system.
For more demanding applications, the LabelStream 4000 hybrid configuration offers a customized mix of UV flexo, finishing and enhancement modules to transform the platform into a fully integrated label production line. This mix of conventional and digital technologies allows the best possible optimization for the production of self-adhesive labels.
LabelStream provides fast synchronization between flexo and digital modules, reducing operator assistance, increasing uptime and ensuring high quality results. The seamless interaction of the two technologies, controlled from the central control panel, allows easy retrieval of print job settings and automatic setup. The central control panel allows job changes to be made on the fly without stopping the printing system to adjust digital and analogue components.
More options
Canon’s service offering has evolved through the installation of over 1,600 high-volume roll-to-roll inkjet printers and 8,500 large-format UV inkjet printers worldwide, enabling LabelStream customers to benefit from proven, versatile and customised service models.
With LabelStream 4000, you can reduce the amount of operator support required, increase uptime and achieve high-quality results – all with one system. With its short setup time, ability to customize content and faster time to market, you can outperform the competition and expand your production offerings.
Crit Driessen, Vice President and Head of Digital Packaging, Canon Production Printing, explains: “Canon’s ongoing commitment to expanding the functionality of the LabelStream 4000 series provides our customers with innovative ways to increase uptime and achieve greater production efficiency, while the high quality of the printed results enables higher profits. With this series, label printers and converters can take advantage of growth opportunities and produce customized labels of excellent quality that deliver high value to end customers.