Packaging

Telstar to demo new DPST Digital Retrofit

Friday 06. August 2010 - Telstar Engineering of Burnsville, Minnesota and DPST - Digital Printing Solutions & Technology of Vero Beach, Florida have joined forces to meet the growing demand for digital applications in the label production industry.

With its extensive history of engineering retrofits, Telstar developed new equipment allowing DPST’s unique digital print head system to be installed on virtually any press brand. By utilizing Telstar’s on-site CAD to GO custom engineering service, printers get a DPST print head retrofit that can be mounted between any station or used offline.

DPST’s DOD printers coupled with Telstar’s Servo-Genius system is at the heart of this new alliance. Ideally mounted atop the press, variable information applications are performed by the state-of-the art Drop-On-Demand featuring Telstar’s proven unwind-rewind equipment. The primary goal of most printers adopting this DOD inkjet capability is to increase their competitive position by adding new profit opportunities to a wider audience of customer prospects. Customers see this retrofit solution as a way to optimize their present equipment investments at an affordable cost. The fact that these units are usually installed in less than a day is a big plus for busy shops in minimizing down time.

Drop-On-Demand high-speed package printing sets new industry standards. With a variety of inkjet printers production speeds of up to 500 ft. per min. can be achieved printing UV, solvent, or aqueous inks without compromising quality. DPST dedicated inks are formulated for this special application. An industrial PC running Windows XP, with user-friendly touch screen controls the ink jet printing unit. DPST and DPST Inks provide custom integrated DOD inkjets and consumables to the commercial, security, packaging, card, and label printing Industries.

This new digital capability from DPST fits well within the wide array of Telstar’s retrofit machines numbering over fifty unique units. Watch it work at Booth 1317 at LabelExpo Americas in Chicago, Illinois, USA on September 14-16 2010.