Achertäler Druckerei opts for Zeller+Gmelin inks

German printer Achertäler Druckerei has opted for a series of inks from Zeller+Gmelin for its waterless offset printing. The company believes the inks play an important part in its award-winning wine label production.

Achertäler has won several awards at the Finat Awards 2024 competition. Two labels with motifs by the Ortenau-based artist Bastian Fiala, specially designed for a limited Pinot Noir edition of the Waldulm winegrowers' cooperative, won three first prizes. In addition to the recognition in the Combination Printing and Group Winner of Printing Processes categories, the artist's edition also won the title of Best in Show.

Frank Neumann, managing director of the Achertäler, said: ‘We are incredibly proud of these awards. They symbolically show the team performance our company is capable of. Printing a work of art as a pictorial reproduction is challenging. In order to recreate all the effects of the original, we had to pull out all the stops with the printing and finishing technology available to us. The implementation of this special label was only possible thanks to the diverse expertise of all the specialist departments involved.’

In addition to the Waldulm winegrowers' cooperative and the artist Bastian Fiala, Zeller+Gmelin was also involved as a supplier of the printing inks.

The limited edition labels were printed on a Codimag Viva printing machine with Aniflo technology. The Toracur W580 ink series from Zeller+Gmelin was used for waterless offset printing. The W580 series' advantages include high color intensity and abrasion resistance, which provide a high-quality printing result.

Before the Toracur W580 series was launched, the Achertäler printing company had been looking for suitable offset printing inks for the waterless variant for some time.

‘The W580 is the first ink series for this application that works for us without any restrictions,’ added Neumann. ‘Another advantage is that we prefer monopigmented inks.’