{"id":13743,"date":"2021-08-11T11:04:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T11:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.screeneurope.com\/?p=13743"},"modified":"2025-12-16T11:05:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T11:05:02","slug":"screen-l350uv-helps-positive-id-become-a-one-stop-label-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.screeneurope.com\/news\/screen-l350uv-helps-positive-id-become-a-one-stop-label-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"SCREEN L350UV helps Positive ID become a one-stop label shop"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Label maker expects third digital printer will boost turnover by 20 percent.<\/em><\/p>\n

With the recent installation of a preowned Truepress Jet L350UV, UK label manufacturer Positive ID Labels has expanded its digital offering to customers to three digital printers, bringing it closer to its goal of a one-stop label shop.<\/p>\n

Positive ID Labels has long been one of the UK\u2019s leading pricing gun label producers, but with that market shrinking over the past 20 years, around 80 percent of its \u00a32.5m turnover now stems from manufacturing labels. It uses both flexographic and digital print technologies at two production sites near Nottingham, in the East Midlands.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the L350UV\u2019s strong points, Positive ID\u2019s managing director, John Mayers, points to the overall print quality: \u201cA rerun of a job six months later retains exactly the same quality,\u201d he says. \u201cBut the most impressive characteristic of the L350UV is the speed \u2013 on a good day, it can get close to 50 meters per minute, which means it can generate a lot more turnover for a similar machine and ink cost.\u201d The machine is also simple to use, and SCREEN is a very easy company to deal with, he says.<\/p>\n

Founded by Mayers in 1997, Positive ID focuses on label markets such as food, beverage, cosmetics, chemical and hygiene. Positive ID, with its 25 employees, is certainly no strangers to digital label printing, having bought its first digital press in 2012.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur strategic goal is to become a one-stop label shop for our 4,500 customers, as it\u2019s always easier to grow your company via your existing clientele. So, we needed an extra digital label printer for barcoding, but also for mid-range printing jobs,\u201d Mayers says.<\/p>\n

SCREEN solution: L350 UV<\/strong><\/p>\n

SCREEN\u2019s L350 UV featured on Positive ID\u2019s radar as far back as 2017, and Mayers travelled to both Amsterdam and Kyoto to see the machine. He recalls: \u201cBack then, there were only new L350UV machines available, and we couldn\u2019t afford one, having just acquired several small printing companies. But we always liked the SCREEN machine, and as soon as the preowned L350UV option became available in March 2021, we bought one.\u201d<\/p>\n

For now, Positive ID\u2019s first SCREEN machine is running at 10 hours per week, but the goal is to reach enough jobs to have it fully automatised and running eight hours a day by Christmas. \u201cWe\u2019d be very happy to get to 12 hours per day somewhere next year, which would mean our turnover should increase to \u00a33m,\u201d Mayers says.<\/p>\n

Positive ID\u2019s MD expects digital labels will only continue to grow. \u201cDigital and flexo both equally represent 30 percent of our turnover, and we\u2019ll still need the analogue technology for the big runs. Last week, for instance, we produced seven pallets of labels for a single customer. But in five years, digital will be the dominant part of our turnover. All our new customers are already starting with digital, as it\u2019s just a simpler and quicker offering, with better quality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Label maker expects third digital printer will boost turnover by 20 percent. With the recent installation of a preowned Truepress Jet L350UV, UK label manufacturer Positive ID Labels has expanded its digital offering to customers to three digital printers, bringing it closer to its goal of a one-stop label shop. Positive ID Labels has long…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[51,115,91,92,67,131],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-13743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-labels-fr","tag-labels-de","tag-truepress-jet-l350uv","tag-truepress-jet-l350uv-and-l350uvlm","tag-truepress-jet-l350uv-and-l350uvlm-fr","tag-truepress-jet-l350uv-and-l350uvlm-de","entry","has-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.screeneurope.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.screeneurope.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.screeneurope.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.screeneurope.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.screeneurope.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.screeneurope.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31279,"href":"https:\/\/www.screeneurope.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13743\/revisions\/31279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.screeneurope.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.screeneurope.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.screeneurope.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.screeneurope.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13743"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.screeneurope.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=13743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}