Digital printing

We use only the latest digital label presses designed for label printing to bring you the best in consistency and quality. 

Our digital printing presses use food safe dry toner, CMYK and white colours, and are constantly calibrated throughout the day to ensure colour accuracy and consistency. 

Digital presses don’t use conventional inks or printing plates. This means two things: Firstly, the turnaround times are much quicker than conventional presses. We can turn a design around on the same day if you are desperate, but it’s usually only 3 days from artwork approval here at Mercian. That’s fast for a professional commercial label manufacturer. 

Secondly, there are no origination costs with digital presses. You don’t need to pay for (or wait for) printing plates to be made. This also means that short runs of labels or multiple sorts are quickly available at relatively low cost. 

Digital printing also offers crisp, photographic quality graphics as well as the ability to print variable data, barcodes and variable text (such as names). This makes them ideal for printing competition labels, promotional designs and proofs or trial runs.