From:Packaging News

Xeikon is to showcase the new version of its VariLane, its imposition software plug-in for the Xeikon X-800 digital front-end (DFE), at Labelexpo Europe.

VariLane 4.0 is now fully integrated within the X-800 4.0 workflow and is specifically designed to allow label printers greater flexibility in the production of labels, which it says provides increased profit opportunities.

The VariLane plug-in, launched four years ago as a standalone tool and now integrated into the X-800 workflow, brought to commercial reality the concept of printing different labels in lanes of different widths and heights across the same web.

VariLane gives prepress operators the freedom to combine labels in print lanes of variable sizes which improves throughput and reduces waste.

Jeroen Van Bauwel, director product management at Xeikon, said: “With prepress activities minimized, and utilizing all of the integrated benefits of the X-800 DFE, label printers can easily combine different jobs on one substrate – even for labels of different heights and widths and with different run lengths. And they can easily make last-minute adjustments to artwork or add variable data.

Labelexpo Europe takes place in Brussels from 29 September-2 October.