SCREEN Europe and IBIS Integrated Bindery Systems are set to showcase their latest partnership-driven innovations for secure exam booklet production and the new IBIS Smart-Label binder at Hunkeler Innovationdays 2025.
This collaboration highlights ground-breaking advancements in workflow security, traceability, and finishing, combining SCREEN’s expertise in digital inkjet technology with IBIS’s pioneering finishing solutions to support businesses seeking meet the rigorous demands of examination booklet, pharmaceutical labels, and other commercial print production.
The new IBIS Smart Label-binder at the SCREEN booth will be demonstrating live production of label booklets from 45gsm printed rolls. This next step in this ongoing partnership between SCREEN and IBIS brings a new level of productivity to the fast-growing market of Extended Content Labels (ECLs) for the Pharmaceutical and Agro-Chemical industries.
“The Smart Label-binder’s innovative glue-binding technology offers a sustainable and reliable alternative to wire stitching and is essential for most ECL production, perfectly complementing the capabilities of SCREEN’s digital inkjet presses,” said John Cracknell, managing director at IBIS Integrated Bindery Systems.
“While 95% of ECL production is still handled by traditional lithographic printing, digital printing workflows are rapidly becoming a driving factor for this market,” continued Cracknell, “The Smart Label-binder’s ability to handle very lightweight stocks together with its patented cold-glue binding technology, integrity controls and optional laser-cut ‘tabbing’ makes it a world-leading finishing solution for ECL production.
This new solution synergises well with Truepress JET digital inkjet printing, where shorter timelines and enhanced precision are required as traditional lithographic workflows for this application often struggle with lengthy setup times, numerous separate manual processes and inconsistent quality.
Meanwhile, SCREEN ink formulation innovations enables faster, high-quality printing onto thin papers common for this application. Truepress SC+ Inks allow flawless inkjet printing on 40 gsm papers or direct inkjet printing unto offset coated substrates all in a single package. Meanwhile, advanced printing technology deployed in presses like the New Truepress JET 520NX AD such as reliable and fast web handling for delicate papers without breakages and NIR drying to minimise static build-up, further enhance printing on thin papers common for this application.
