Offset Printing
CPM Internacional, S.A. Set to Print Labels on an Alprinta 74V in Future
Tuesday 12. January 2010 - Web offset printing press from Muller Martini shipped to Spain
Printing house CPM Internacional, S.A., based in San Martin de la Vega (Spain), has favored a Muller Martini Alprinta 74V to expand its label printing capacity. The web offset printing press will be put into operation in spring 2010, right on schedule for the start of the busy period in beverage bottle labeling.
CPM Internacional, S.A. decided in favor of an Alprinta 74V from Muller Martini back at the end of October this year, and company director Lucio Marina explains: “I am confident that the Alprinta 74V will be yet another high-quality, flexible item of production machinery to add to our range. We need to deliver outstanding printing quality on our flexible materials.” The new machine features flying splicers for unwind and rewind, seven offset printing units and a flexography printing unit for solvent-based printing inks that can be hot air dried. CPM was particularly impressed by the outstanding printing quality delivered by the Alprinta 74V and the excellent print registration. The flexography printing unit is ATEX-approved; this means that solvent-based printing inks can be used and additional products can be produced using the machinery.
CPM Internacional, S.A. is a successful printing house based in San Martin de la Vega, just to the south of Madrid. Among the main products in its portfolio are roll labels, heat-shrink labels and flexible packaging, and CPM prints the Coca-Cola labels for PET bottles in Spain. The Alprinta 74V has been purchased primarily to print the labels, freeing up the VSOP 850 installed in mid-2007 for packaging work. The six-ink VSOP 850 has two flexography printing units that support both UV-based and water-based printing inks. Water-based opaque white offers particular benefits over UV-based opaque white when it comes to heat-shrink labels. In addition to monofilms for roll and heat-shrink labels, the company also uses compound films for flexible packaging, and CPM also has the facilities to laminate thin foils onto the printed product during production.
The Alprinta 74V web offset printing press is flexible and can be used for a variety of sizes; it comes equipped with ten format sets, allowing CPM to produce a whole host of different products of varying printing lengths. Using multiple chill rollers at various positions and adopting a flexible UV-drying configuration (all heaters positioned on chill rollers), it is possible to produce printed products using temperature-sensitive materials; if necessary, inter-station dryers can also be used.