McCourt Label Gains New Business with DOMINO Press
- Published: October 16, 2014
LEWIS RUN, PA | McCourt Label recently introduced digital technology to its flexo-based label printing business by selecting the Domino N610i digital UV inkjet label press. The company reports has been a huge win for this innovative label company that continues to reinvent itself through the decades.
In a short time, McCourt Label has already seen an increase in sales due to the ability to capture new types of label jobs it could not produce before economically, and in parallel to that, it is also seeing significant productivity gains on existing jobs and higher print quality.
“We have a new customer who has 228 SKUs of their product, and that’s an example of a job where we would not have stood a chance of being competitive printing it flexo, but now with the Domino, it got us in the door,” says Sharon Zampogna, VP of sales, McCourt Label. “If we had produced that using four-color process, it would have been at least 800 flexo plates.”
Dave Ferguson, president of McCourt Label, has noticed a significant increase in productivity and cost savings. An example is a print job involving 1,600 different customers with a couple different label sizes and materials for an outdoor application printing on clear film. “Scrap and labor savings since moving this job to the Domino is huge. With the Domino we can run in one hour what we used to run in an entire shift on flexo,” he proudly says.
McCourt Label undertook a thorough and rigorous five-year vetting process for selecting this, their very first digital label press. “The reason we selected the Domino N610i was because of the requirements that we have for very high quality printing on clear film and other substrates. The trials on the Domino were superior to what their competitors could show us. And, the print speed was superior,” says Ferguson.
Zampogna agrees. “From a sales perspective, or an estimating perspective, what I liked was the flexibility. There was no blanket size that we had to fill. There was a wide variety of materials that we could run through the Domino. We do a lot of work in manufacturing, so we liked the idea of the UV ink and that the print quality is highly durable.”
