NCLPS installs Colordyne retrofit

NCLPS produces various labels, tickets and tags, including prime, promotional, coupon, logistic and variable data applications for a wide variety of end users and markets. Installed on an conventional printing system at its Atlanta-based headquarters,, NCLPS specifically chose the Colordyne 3600 Series AQ - Retrofit to create custom reserve seat tickets for high school football games. These tickets feature high-resolution images of the teams’ players and incorporates each schools’ mascot and branding. With the variable data required for individual seat and game information, no two tickets are the same. Further, each customized ticket becomes a keepsake for parents, friends and fans. This personalized ticket trend is growing rapidly, NCLPS reports, but involves only printing around 200 tickets for each school.

‘Not going digital wasn't an option,’ said NCLPS owner Robin Houston. ‘We evaluated multiple press options, including several hybrid presses, but we found the 3600 Series Retrofit met our production volume needs at an affordable price point. Plus, it allows us to use all of our current finishing assets in-line by mounting to our current flexo press.’

NCLPS is also realizing efficiencies by chaining ticket versions back-to-back and using its current in-line finishing equipment all in one pass. 

NCLPS is now successfully transitioning existing flexographic high mix, low volume clients to its digital capabilities by offering increased flexibility to print short-run quantities, reducing production time and eliminating the cost of plates. The company has even been able to capture new short-run label customers and start-ups using the 3600 Series AQ – Retrofit.

‘The retrofit solution from Colordyne allows us to be a better resource for our customers,’ added Houston. ‘We want to be our customer's favorite vendor, our vendor's favorite customer and the place where everybody wants to work. The real benefit of the retrofit is that it allows us to deliver more capabilities to the existing customers we have, serve new customers requiring short runs and position ourselves for future growth.’

Gary Falconbridge, president and CEO of Colordyne Technologies, said: ‘NCLPS has embraced this new technology and, in doing so, has been successful in transitioning current customers, as well as securing new clients requiring low volume printing and customization. We have no doubt that it will continue to grow its digital business and find new ways to exceed client’ expectations with the digital retrofit.’