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First-of-its-Kind, Large-Format Screen Printing Produces Superior Indoor and Outdoor Durability

Empire Screen Printing, expands its printing capabilities with the introduction of a revolutionary new multi-color, roll-to-roll screening press that more efficiently produces superior quality, highly-durable printed products for the industrial decal and OEM markets. The technologically sophisticated and environmentally-friendly system delivers high volume, reduces setup, and streamlines the production process. Used in products such as Warning and Danger Decals, Industrial Decals, Product Branding, Name badges, Nameplates, Overlays and Decorative or Informative Graphic Decals, Roll to Roll innovations are ideal for the Medical industry.

Empire’s Roll-to-Roll Screen Press employs several innovative features that eliminate variability and increase efficiency, including a patent-pending registration platform, an automated chase, vacuum functions, and a completely standardized set-up system. The press utilizes a camera registration system to ensure precise color-to-color and graphic-to-cutting registration. These advancements in registration allow the material to automatically re-register itself when needed. 

2021 11 04 105456With this innovation, Empire combines the outdoor durability advantages of screen printing with the efficiencies of a roll press. The industry standard for screen printing is sheet-fed equipment and most roll labels are printed on offset or flexo equipment, which cannot produce products that stand up to outdoor and challenging indoor conditions.  

Custom-built by Empire’s industrial engineers, the Roll-to-Roll Screen Press can print on a variety of first and subsurface materials including Polycarbonate, Polyester, Vinyl, BOPP, and Paper products with material thickness ranging between .005” to .03” thick. Finished products can be delivered to the customer on rolls, as sheets, kiss cut on carriers, and as individual cut decals.

The Roll-to-Roll Screen Press also exemplifies Empire’s commitment to environmental sustainability and employee safety. Empire is the first company to develop and implement UV LED ink curing technology for screen printing in its small-format Kammann K61 Eco Press, which has a max image size of 14x13.50”. The new Roll-to-Roll press brings this innovation to large format printing, with a max image area of 36.00” x 18.00”. LED curing has no emissions and is up to 600% more energy-efficient than UV Mercury bulbs. The Roll-to-Roll press is also designed with waste reduction measures as a one-of-a-kind web press that allows for starting and stopping with no web loss. 

Empire’s ingenuity, lean principles, and customer focus drove this development to deliver superior outdoor durable products for the appliance, electronics, automotive, and medical equipment manufacturers. This state-of-the-art technology modernizes screen printing with an environmental focus. Empire was able to expand its capabilities without increasing its carbon footprint, waste is minimal, and the quality reproduction of their product is enhanced with this newest manufacturing process.

For more information on Empire Screen Printing visit www.empirescreen.com.

About Empire Screen Printing

Empire is a family-owned, award-winning business that prides itself on using environmentally-friendly print methods. A full-service company in OEM and POP markets, Empire produces overlays, vinyl decals, crystal-line domes, nameplates, magnets, and roll labels, using UV LED and UV screening, digital, and flexographic printing.

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Empire delivers creative, extremely durable, and superior quality graphic solutions

Empire Screen Printing, a leading manufacturer of screen printed products, highlights its graphics solutions for the food and beverage industry. For more than three decades, the most trusted consumer food and beverage brands and the equipment manufacturers that support them have relied on Empire Screen Printing for creative, durable, and superior quality graphic solutions that enhance and protect their brand image.

2021 08 09 093107Empire closely collaborates with customers to design and engineer unique and beautiful graphics. For example, the Monarch Public House, Wisconsin’s oldest operating tavern, turned to Empire to design labels with the distinct vintage look of the Fountain City Brewing Company that operated on Monarch’s site from 1856 to 1965. The artists at Empire used a combination of hand-drawing and scanning to replicate century-old images into print-ready digital artwork incorporating required revisions to meet government regulations and incorporate barcodes. The finished products are faithful reproductions of the original look and feel, updated for use with modern printing, brewing, promotion, and advertising processes.

Food and beverage equipment manufacturers also turn to Empire for graphical solutions that visually stand out and reliably stand up to the harsh conditions of everyday use. Materials and printing processes are selected to withstand the high temperatures and harsh cleaning solutions in food service applications, and for outdoor applications, crystal-line doming provides protection from UV light and from dents and abrasions.

Empire has an assortment of in-house stock materials and adhesives that can be combined to meet most customers’ requirements. When presented with a new material combination, Empire's R&D process performs vigorous testing to ensure durability, ink adhesion, and product performance meet the customer's desired needs. In addition, Empire’s large library of custom color builds are stored using their QColor Color Management System providing consistent spot color reproduction from run to run and from part to part. 

For more information on Empire Screen Printing’s technology for the food and beverage industry, visit www.empirescreen.com.

About Empire Screen Printing

Empire is a family-owned, award-winning business that prides itself on using environmentally-friendly print methods. A full-service company in OEM and POP markets, Empire produces overlays, vinyl decals, crystal-line domes, nameplates, magnets, and roll labels, using UV LED and UV screening, digital, and flexographic printing.

For more information, visit www.empirescreen.com

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In the rapidly changing medical market, Empire delivers the quality, prototyping, sampling, and rapid response time that is essential to product success

Empire Screen Printing, a leading manufacturer of screen printed products, announces that its wide range of printing technology brings medical device and equipment manufacturers the critically-important benefits of exceptional quality, prototyping, sampling, and rapid response time.

Manufacturers of monitoring systems, laboratory equipment, pumps, ultrasounds, mobility, and oxygen regulators/therapy rely on Empire as a trusted partner. Their medical device and equipment applications include control panels, graphic overlays, decorative and informative graphics, dead fronts, nameplates, brand identification, and warning/danger decals.

2021 03 15 080630Empire understands the highly-competitive market requirements and helps customers increase profitability and brand recognition by providing creative, durable, and superior quality graphic solutions. Empire offers many special printing solutions required by medical device and equipment manufacturers, such as anti-microbial and chemical resistant inks and coatings.

By developing customized solutions in close collaboration with customers, Empire has earned a reputation for delivering solutions that ensure quality and improved productivity, while meeting the evolving requirements of the medical device and equipment markets. Application experts evaluate materials for stability and durability, as well as for compliance with the latest health and safety standards. The team produces samples for testing and conducts rigorous evaluations to ensure labels maintain their form and function under the stresses that medical products encounter in actual use. Empire’s extensive label product testing capabilities guarantee that labels meet or exceed label performance requirements while delivering ultimate value.

For more information on Empire Screen Printing’s technology for medical device and equipment manufacturers, visit www.empirescreen.com

About Empire Screen Printing

Empire is a family-owned, award-winning business that prides itself on using environmentally-friendly print methods. A full-service company in OEM and POP markets, Empire produces overlays, vinyl decals, crystal-line domes, nameplates, magnets, and roll labels, using UV LED and UV screening, digital, and flexographic printing.

For more information, visit www.empirescreen.com or call 608-783-3301.

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