Xeikon has announced that Pasadena, TX-based The Label Smith has purchased and installed a Xeikon 3500 digital color press to support its growing digital business.

Celebrating its tenth anniversary, The Label Smith has grown into one of the region’s leading label printers, specializing in custom labels for food and water containers. After a review of products from a range of competitors, the company chose the Xeikon 3500 citing capability, flexibility and service support of the Xeikon technology among their primary reasons.

Tim Smith, founder of The Label Smith says, “The print quality of the Xeikon 3500 really stands out. Ease of maintenance is tremendous. It’s allowing me to say ‘Bring it on’ to new jobs, instead of saying ‘I can’t work 24 hours a day’. I’m throwing the world at it and have been very satisfied.”

With a 20.3 inch web width, the Xeikon 3500 is ideal for the production of label as well as packaging applications, the company says. Equipped with high-precision LED-based imaging heads, it features true 1200 dpi resolution with variable dot density, generating excellent image quality. The Xeikon 3500 is equipped with five color stations, four for the standard process colors and the fifth station for the use of gamut expansion colors or a one-pass opaque white toner or a security toner for anti-counterfeiting applications.

Due to its full rotary printing technology, the speed of the press is unaffected by the number of colors used and the size of the labels. The press can handle monthly duty cycles of up to 3.8 million square feet, allowing plenty of room for growth to its users. It runs on Xeikon’s QA-I toner which is FDA-compliant for indirect and direct contact with dry food.