Gallus obtains sales rights for Heidelberg Linoprint L digital drop-on-demand system

Gallus has added the Heidelberg Linoprint L digital drop-on-demand (DoD) system to its portfolio with immediate effect in Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and Australia via its sales and service organizations. Further markets will follow gradually.

‘Digital label printing is a key growth segment in our industry and offers our customers the potential to obtain additional business. In conjunction with the Heidelberg Linoprint L digital systems, our solutions for flexographic, offset and screen printing enable label printers to significantly boost their competitiveness by meeting even the toughest requirements in terms of flexibility and quality,’ said Klaus Bachstein, CEO of the Gallus Group.

‘The sales agreement with Gallus means greater market access for our Heidelberg Linoprint L systems in the growth segment of digital label printing. It enables us to benefit from Gallus’s comprehensive application know-how in the field of label production. For their part, users gain access to inkjet and workflow technologies from Heidelberg that have already demonstrated their credentials in the packaging sector,’ added Jason Oliver, head of the digital printing business area at Heidelberg.

Stefan Heiniger, COO Label Business at Gallus, added: ‘The Heidelberg Linoprint L and our management information system are the ideal complement to our existing portfolio of solutions for the cost-efficient production of short runs – the revolutionary Gallus ECS 340 flexographic press and the Gallus ECS C digital finishing system based on this unit’.

Gallus will be showcasing the functions and benefits of combined label production with digital and conventional production equipment with its print shop concept at the upcoming Labelexpo from September 24 – 27,  2013, in Brussels.