color label printer

[Brett S]

We are looking for a small footprint/price tag color label roll printer. The only two that I have seen are the Primera LX900 and the VIVO touch. The labels are the for the Wine industry and the Food industry. Any thoughts?

[Printease]

Depending on your projected volume, Memjet has a couple that might fit your need:

Memjet Labels OEM Benchtop Print Engine | Memjet
YouTube - Memjet Label Printer

[Brett S]

The current volume is 250/500/1000 runs of a 5 1/4x4 label, then another is 2 1/2x8 1/8 and those runs vary from 500-2500. All are 4-color process.

[Printease]

This would fit the bill:

Rapid Label Machinery Printers

It also uses the Memjet engine.

[X33]

why do you need it to be a roll fed printer? why not single sheet labels?

[Brett S]

We currently print the labels on sheets but the customer wants rolls. They recently purchased a label applicator machine in an effort to streamline the process. Any other thoughts? The Primera is low end but low cost, around $2300. All of the other options are $20-30K. Anything in between?

[coco1]

We are currently looking into this as well..

We have a Primera LX810 machine which we have to almost get finance from a bank to buy cartridges for and it is just not a viable product..

Have found the VP485 Colour Label Printer which looks like a much better machine, you can also get a Bulk Ink Supply system (or CISS) for this printer which will cut ink costs down a fair bit which is why the machine has become so attractive to us.

Any one used one of these before?

[daveholmes]

I agree with coco I have a primera cx1200 and fx1200 and the toners come to over £1k - ridicuuos however I've heard that the memjet label printer is very expensive.

If you need a label printer rather than doing it your self please get in touch we would be more than happy to help


Bespoke Labels | Custom Label Printer | Milton Keynes

[samuelinkmaster]

I think Epson P50 will be great for this. It's small and not very ex[ensive. Plus if to buy CISS printing will be much cheaper.

[graficworx]

One thing you have to remember is that the inkjet labels will not be water safe, so if a wine bottle is chilled, then it gets condensation, the ink will rub off if touched. Even worse would be to put it in an ice bucket! I evaluated all the inkjet label printers several years ago, and all had this problem.

If you have such short runs I would look to outsource it. You can try Lightning Labels, they do really good work.