Quality

Labels are designed to sell. The Xeikon 3300 is packed with features to make sure they do, producing nothing less than attention-grabbing, head-turning and jawdropping quality.

Proven imaging process

True to its roots, the Xeikon 3300 uses dry toner electrophotography. Engineered to perfection, the electrophotographic imaging process remains the industry standard for quality and reliability.

True 1200 dpi

The Xeikon 3300’s revolutionary imaging head has one optimally conditioned and perfectly calibrated LED for every 21 micron width of the print medium. Each LED can be addressed with 4 bits of information. The unique combination of true 1200 dpi and 4 bit variable dot density offers vibrant quality, rich color depth, and subtle contrasts for photorealistic high-impact labels, while exceptionally sharp and crisp details enable adding micro text to prevent counterfeiting.

Optimized screening libraries

To exploit the 1200 dpi to the fullest, the Xeikon 3300 uses the Pericles screening library. For each print job, the screen ruling can be adapted for every single page element, be it text, line work or images, ensuring outstanding image quality.

Perfect color consistency

Two inline densitometers and high-performance process algorithms provide uniform and accurate colors and perfect color registration. Color consistency is guaranteed over time, from job to job and from press to press. The Xeikon 3300, with the specially developed Xeikon FA toner, is Pantone® certified. What is more, this FA toner is FDA-approved for indirect contact with food. Certain colors have also been approved for direct contact with specific dry foods.

Extended color gamut

Brands are more than logos and colors, yet color is sacred when it comes to brand integrity. The Xeikon 3300’s 5th color station can be used for standard off the shelf or custom-made spot colors for perfect reproduction of your customers’ brand image. And to create that sought after ‘no label look’ on transparent labels, it can be used for opaque white.

Productivity

WANTED: HIGH-IMPACT, SOPHISTICATED, MULTILINGUAL LABEL

To say the label market has changed significantly over the last few years may well be an understatement. Global growth, legal and regulatory developments, counterfeit deterrence and brand protection impose new challenges and requirements on the label industry. Technology has not been standing still, but is there a technology capable of meeting most, if not all, of the requirements?

Maximize shelf appeal

In a brand-saturated world where thousands of products are competing for customers’ attention and buying decisions are made quickly, based often on emotional rather than rational responses, standing out from the crowd is crucial. As the saying goes ‘you never get a second chance to make a first impression’. Test marketing of packaging and labels has gained importance as packaging, and labeling for that matter, have become powerful tools to differentiate products. Marketeers and designers let their imagination run wild. Labels are no longer just labels; they are attention-seeking works of art.

Print more, faster and cheaper

Industry globalization, rapidly increasing product variety, drastically shortening product life cycles and just-in-time production are the challenges label printers, even more than other printers, face today. In addition, profit margins are shrinking. Today’s tagline has become ‘fast and flexible… at low or no cost’. Label printers need to find a way to increase their added value and to drive down expenses. Print on demand would allow just-in-time production of multi-version product labels while reducing inventory and waste, and therefore costs, which is undoubtedly the answer the sector is looking for.

Protect brand integrity

Industry globalization has not only led to an increase in the import and export of branded products. The problems of counterfeiting and piracy continue to increase at the same pace. Not only high-value added products such as designer goods and medicines are being targeted, but even more mundane ones. This is why there is a definite trend towards more sophisticated, clever labeling to include overt and covert product tracing and brand protection features such as RFID and barcodes or sequential numbering, the use of visible and invisible security inks, as well as other variable data features to discourage forgery and make replication harder.

Follow the rules

Authorities worldwide are placing increasing emphasis on consumer health and safety. Products are being distributed on a global scale, but legal and regulatory requirements differing from one country to another, products labels differ, not only in language, but also in content. Labels designed for products to be exported to multi-lingual countries will have to contain all text in all official languages. This requirement poses specific challenges to the design of labels and the volume of text that needs to be legible, which leads to the need to be able to print in different fonts, font sizes and, if necessary, on labels of flexible size or shape.

DFE

pioneer in digital printing, Xeikon was one of the first to develop fully integrated digital workflows. The latest generation of our X-800 digital front-end is the result of continuous improvement and innovation. Through the X-800, the Xeikon 3300 enables you to print all common input files and to easily include variable data. Intuitive the X-800 has been designed with the user in mind. Its intuitive user interface helps your operators to get the most out of your Xeikon 3300.

Fast and flexible

Xeikon’s proprietary unequaled streaming technology guarantees top-notch performance, while the integrated engine controller ensures continuous output quality. The X-800 comes with ICC color management and even allows post-RIP color adjustment, minimizing downtime while offering great flexibility.

Open and transparent

Thanks to Xeikon’s focus on industry standards, the X-800 enables the implementation of fully automated workflows in any production environment. Being a truly open system, it integrates seamlessly with your MIS and the rest of your existing workflow, while its modular set-up allows you to separate pre-press functionality from press operation, greatly simplifying your operators’ task. Its scalability, supported by a dedicated workflow partner program, makes sure it can grow with your future requirements.

Powerful

Last minute changes are no problem thanks to the post-RIP imposition function while the preview functionality makes sure you catch errors before they appear on the label. Adding metadata such as sequential numbers or barcodes is as easy as could be, allowing you to broaden your application range without any effort whatsoever.

Flexibility

Fast, flexible and first time right. It sounds too good to be true? With the Xeikon 3300 that is exactly what you get: fast, flexible and first time right labels on virtually any substrate you like.

Super-fast

Customers need their labels faster. Here is how to keep up with their pace: with an impressive top speed of 19.2 m/min the Xeikon 3300 is the fastest digital color label press in the market, leaving the competition way behind.

Entry in style

The Xeikon 3300 sets the digital benchmark for label printing. What if your niche is paperboard packaging applications or textile transfer printing? What if you are convinced that digital printing is the way to go, but you want to start mastering it at a more leisurely pace? What if you don’t need all that speed just yet, or if even half the productivity would be enough? Then go for its entry-level counterpart. Featuring a top speed of 9.6 m/month and a duty cycle of 350,000 m/month, the Xeikon 3000 is otherwise identical and every bit as robust. You can have it upgraded to a full Xeikon 3300 whenever you are ready.

Inexhaustible

Time is money, but speed alone is not enough. Well-engineered, robust, and reliable, the Xeikon 3300 will never let you down. With a duty cycle of 700,000 m/month you could have it run 24 hours a day if you wanted it to.

Full rotary

The Xeikon 3300 is not only fast, it makes finishing so much easier. Its full rotary printing technology allows you to adjust the positioning of the labels, regardless their size, to match finishing equipment requirements. It also allows labels with variable formats and sizes to be printed in the same run. The result is obvious: less waste, reduced costs and increased productivity.

Environment

Follow our lead and ‘print only what you need, reprint when needed’, reducing waste through minimal production, thus downsizing storage space and decreasing costs. When developing new products we are guided both by environmental objectives and key design strategies:

• Eco-objectives: we aim to reduce recycling costs of all Xeikon products and the printed material produced and to minimize the environmental impact of our products throughout their entire life span, while meeting existing environmental directives and anticipating environment-related product standards and customer requirements.
• Design strategies: we aim to meet our eco-objectives by replacing or reducing the raw materials used, improving process efficiency, optimizing energy consumption and product life cycles, and improving product disposal and recyclability.
• Xeikon presses are environmentally friendly: they produce no hazardous emissions of VOCs, and because they do not use any process water, they do not cause water pollution either. The materials printed on Xeikon presses are also environmentally friendly. Xeikon printed matter is guaranteed to be recyclable as the toner can be easily removed and contains no harmful chemicals.

Choose a Xeikon and make your contribution to eco-printing.

Spot on

The Xeikon 3300 stands for top-notch quality at industry-best speeds, and there is a lot more it has up its sleeve:

• The high-precision LED-based imaging head, featuring true 1200 dpi at 4 bits per spot, generates impeccable image quality output and allows for pin-sharp micro text printing.
• The refined screening library helps to exploit the 1200 dpi imaging to the fullest while two inline densitometers and high-performance process algorithms vouch for consistent and accurate colors.
• A top speed of 19.2 m/min provides more than the productivity you need.
• Xeikon FA toner delivers cost-effective impeccable quality.
• An easily replaceable 5th color station allows the use of standard off-the-shelf and custommade spot colors as well as opaque white for an exclusive ‘no label look’ and special security toner for anti-counterfeiting applications.
• It can print on scalable widths and an unmatched range of substrates from all sorts of self adhesive films including co-extruded film, to unsupported film, paper, transparent and opaque foils and even paperboard, opening up a whole new world of applications from labels to flexible packaging.

Specification