McCourt Label, a label manufacturer in Lewis Run, PA, USA, recently introduced digital technology to its flexo-based label printing operation by selecting the Domino N610i digital UV inkjet label press. The company reports the addtion has has been a huge win, seeing an increase in sales due to the ability to capture new types of label jobs they could not produce before economically, and in parallel to that, they are also seeing significant productivity gains on existing jobs, and higher print quality.

“We have a new customer who has 228 SKUs of their product and that’s an example of a job where we would not have stood a chance of being competitive printing it flexo, but now with the Domino, it got us in the door,” says Sharon Zampogna, VP of sales, McCourt Label. “If we had produced that using four-color process, it would have been at least 800 flexo plates.”

Dave Ferguson, president of McCourt Label, has noticed a significant increase in productivity and cost savings. An example is a print job involving 1600 different customers with a couple different label sizes and materials for an outdoor application printing on clear film. “Scrap and labor savings since moving this job to the Domino is huge. With the Domino we can run in one hour what we used to run in an entire shift on flexo,” he says.

McCourt Label undertook a thorough and rigorous 5-year vetting process for choosing this, their very first digital label press. “The reason we selected the Domino N610i was because of the requirements that we have for very high quality printing on clear film and other substrates. The trials on the Domino were superior to what their competitors could show us. And, the print speed was superior,” says Ferguson. And Zampogna, agrees. “From a sales perspective, or an estimating perspective, what I liked was the flexibility. There was no blanket size that we had to fill. There was a wide variety of materials that we could run through the Domino. We do a lot of work in manufacturing, so we liked the idea of the UV ink and that the print quality is highly durable.”

To see and hear more of McCourt Label’s success story with the N610i, visit the Domino Digital Printing YouTube Channel at www.youtube.com/dominodigitalprint and watch the 4-minute video on McCourt Label.