Background
Shelf strips are a single-sided flat sheet work, mainly printed in color, which is applied to the shelf itself. Produced as standard as individual strips but can also be produced on roll, either on self adhesive material or not.
Shelf strips are a single-sided flat sheet work, mainly printed in color, which is applied to the shelf itself. Produced as standard as individual strips but can also be produced on roll, either on self adhesive material or not.
Here you can see a shelf strip sample printed on a Xeikon CX500 digital press.
The Xeikon CX500 has been the digital press of choice since shelf strips are essentially a single sided application. Moreover due to the high speed on high grammages, the Xeikon CX500 is ideal for running high quality images or fine text on heavy stocks. Additionally it provides a perfect compatibility of QA-CH toner with varnishing or lamination for durability and luxurious finishing.
The increased need to promote and differentiate next to more customization can be fulfilled through digital production. Increasing quality in digital color print, short runs, possibilities of store or regional specific campaigns, shorter turnaround is making it easier and more affordable to produce this kind of promotional material for marketing purposes.
Furthermore digital printing with Xeikon offers:
The Xeikon CX500 digital printing press. The flagship in digital dry toner printing, which produces at true 1200 dpi for formats up to B2+ stunning speeds while offering with its digital front-end full flexibility:
Below you can see an example of a full production set-up for shelf strips including a Xeikon CX500 digital press and a Pile High Stacker to accommodate long print runs. It is our complete digital printing solution, which comes with all the necessary components for seamless digital graphic arts printing.
You can see this application live in the following events:
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