Lean and smart ink management that saves up to 30% of your costs

Robust

With our competent team and financially stable organisation, we build equipment that lasts.

Smart

Our modular product and software design combines the benefits of customisation with those of standardisation.

Fast

Not only our dispensers are fast, but also our response times due to a committed support team, a modern ERP and Lean workflows.

Latest news

Barcom Industries (India) reduces ink waste and boosts colour quality

17 October 2018

– Press Release – Barcom Industries (India) reduces ink waste and boosts colour quality, with GSE’s Colorsat Match dispenser Perfect Proofer™ from Print Proof Solutions also part of major investment at leading Indian label converter Brummen, The Netherlands, 17 October, 2018: Label converter Barcom Industries Ltd, of Vasai, India, has…

GSE at Labelexpo Americas 2018

17 July 2018

– Press release – GSE demonstrates Ink manager software at Labelexpo Americas 2018 Brummen, The Netherlands, 17 July 2018: At Labelexpo Americas 2018, ink logistics provider GSE (stand 558) will demonstrate its GSE Ink manager, a comprehensive software package with enhanced ink management capabilities. There will also be information about…

Introduction of automation enhancements

20 March 2018

– Press release – GSE introduces automation enhancements and vapour extraction capability to Colorsat ink dispensing programme Brummen, The Netherlands, 20 March, 2018: GSE, the global provider of ink logistics solutions for label and packaging flexo and gravure applications, has introduced automation and safety enhancements to its Colorsat ink dispensing programme….

GSE’s Lean ink logistics

Muda, or ‘waste’, is a key concept in Lean. Reducing waste is the key to reducing costs and increasing profitability. We understand waste to be the deployment of all time, materials, tools, techniques, people and space in excess of what is needed to offer added value to customers.

GSE’s ink management solutions help printers to implement lean business practices that also make sound financial sense. It has helped them save up to 30 percent of their costs. By mixing base components, the dispenser eliminates the need to buy expensive ready-mixed inks and allows recycling of return inks. Stock is minimised, rework and human error are avoided and press productivity can be boosted by thousands of hours annually.

Whatever package, label or textile substrate you’re printing on, our products and software put you in total control of your ink logistics needs.

Beat the eight wastes

Waste 1: Overproduction

Do not produce more than what the customer asks for. For instance, do not mix or order any more colours than are needed for the print run.

Waste 2: Transport

Movement of products form an expense that adds no value. You can reduce transport costs if you mix inks from large barrels instead of ordering pre-mixed colours in small packages.

Waste 3: Defects

Aim for zero-defects. Colours that are ‘first time right’ avoid waste of substrates, ink, press downtime and operator hours.

Waste 4: Inventory

Stocks are purchased that the customer will not pay for. By mixing colours yourself from a limited number of base colous, you eliminate stocks of pre-mixed colours.

Waste 5: Motion

Excessive motion adds no value. Doing the mixing yourself, near the printing press, means reduced handling and less ink movement.

Waste 6: Overprocessing

Some processes have no place in the workflow. For example, if you mix the ink from larger containers, you avoid having to drain contaminated buckets.

Waste 7: Waiting

If you prepare your colours ‘in-house’ with an automated ink dispenser, you reduce waiting times.

Waste 8: Talent

This is insufficiently using the competences of the workforce. The laborious task of mixing inks manually, for example, can be avoided by installing an automatic dispenser.

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Automatic ink blending

GSE’s Colormix range consists of manual, semi-automatic and automatic pneumatic blenders for the homogenization of dispensed inks in containers.

The Colorsat Compact for dispensing solvent-based inks can be integrated with an automatic roller conveyor for container transport and the automatic Colormix blender. The container is automatically positioned and grounded. The equipment features parallel dispensing and blending. The blender is turned over a container with solvent, which makes it suitable to clean the blender blades and the shaft before blending a new batch.

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What others are saying

Integrating the Colorsat Match with our MIS enabled us to develop a ‘digital flexo workflow’.
Patrick WackManaging Director of 5Sept Étiquette

The Colorsat Compact is a good technical system and easy to handle. It has an overall solid construction and it gave a good impression. Having compared it to similar systems by different manufactures, we all decided to buy the GSE system.
Markus WielensManaging Director of ACW Film (part of the Melitta Group)

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