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Exhibiting at ExpoPrint & ConverFlexo 2026, GSE will highlight ink dispensing and software solutions that help converters respond to tighter regulation, shorter runs and growing efficiency pressures. Brazil’s label and packaging converters are facing operational and regulatory pressures that are making streamlined, automated workflows a necessity for staying competitive. Shorter…
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.
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.
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.
Managing Director of ACW Film (part of the Melitta Group)
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