OMET’S ONE-STOP SOLUTION FOR AFFORDABLE LABELS AND PACKAGING PRINTING

Customers visiting Labelexpo Americas 2014 showed much appreciation of OMET’s one-stop solution and the news of the strengthened presence in the US territory

Hundreds of visitors huddled in OMET’s stand to touch with hands the deluxe package of multi-technology all-in-one-pass packaging printing machines answering to the most stringent needs in label and packaging printing. OMET’s one-stop solution is a package of printing, converting and finishing units engineered in-line to deliver products in one pass under the sign of efficiency of operation, high quality output and great ergonomics of use.

For printers worldwide, it is fundamental to rely on a partner that knows deeply all the market applications, manages any print job and the most complex substrates, and pays the greatest attention to the affordability and efficiency of the whole printing process. On this regard, through OMET’s platform machines, keeping the impact on general costs low is a mantra the company follows with great conviction.

Labelexpo Americas 2014 marked the occasion for the Italian company to show its machine firepower represented on stand by the low budget yet advanced XFlex X4 press, there presented in new width 440mm/17’’, and XFlex X6 in 530mm/21’. The XFlex X6 total flexo solution displayed in Chicago represented one of the many configurations available on such a press that include flexo/offset with sleeves dedicated to highly standardized high quality packaging printing applications and flexo/digital inkjet for short to long runs of labels with short delivery times and rapid job turnover. OMET’s digital solution based on JetPlus inkjet unit, firstly presented during Drupa 2012, was recently unleashed after a period of on-field tests and is now available for sale.

The event also served to remind all customers how OMET’s global approach redefines their expectations and needs. OMET is present with subsidiaries and service centers in the most strategic areas of the globe including Europe, Asia, Australia and America, where OMET Americas Inc. recently established in Des Plaines, Illinois, in the Chicago suburbs, to serve the whole American territory with punctual assistance and fast spare parts delivery.

“This year’s event” comments Marco Calcagni, sales and marketing director of OMET, “has offered us the chance to show the great potential of our multi process label and packaging printing machines as one-stop solutions tailored to the needs of any size printer, whether small or major multinational companies, for any kind of application, whether simple of highly complex involving the use of innovative materials and hybrid technologies pushed to the limits.”

“We are excited about how this is already impacting on the label and packaging market and how customers have turned on us as their preferred experts and solution providers with more than 50 years’ experience in the label and packaging industry.”