Xeikon introduces smart finishing integration with PX3300HD

Packaging Solutions

Xeikon has announced its strategic vision for integrating finishing systems with its digital label presses. While different suppliers in the industry pursue their own approaches, the company draws on decades of digital printing experience to chart its own path. Its focus is on digital finishing integration, a digital first, modular approach designed for workflow automation, productivity, and simplicity.

‘We are not selling a hybrid,’ said Jeroen Van Bauwel, director of Xeikon’s Global Innovation Centre. ‘We are presenting a digitally integrated, in line production solution that supports automation and reduces steps in the value chain. The result is maximum efficiency for converters handling today’s high stock keeping units, short run environments.’

Xeikon is showcasing this vision at Labelexpo, where the PX3300HD press is demonstrated with a fully integrated LCU (Label Converting Unit). The live set up demonstrates how a single operator can produce finished, high quality labels in one pass, with no roll changes and no off line steps required.

The modular design also ensures flexibility: while in line integration maximises speed and efficiency, the Xeikon LCU can equally run off line whenever parallel finishing is the smarter option.

The company’s approach is defined by a digital first design, purpose built for integration rather than retrofitted from flexo technology. At the same time, the solution enables a one operator workflow, delivering true labour efficiency without demanding heavy training. With compliance and safety at its core, the system is food and pharma ready. Crucially, Xeikon’s finishing integration is modular and flexible – able to run in line for maximum efficiency or off line when parallel finishing is the smarter option. This flexibility stands in contrast to more rigid hybrid set ups on the market and underlines the futureproof positioning. Above all, the philosophy is one of simplicity: essential five colour digital printing combined with core finishing capabilities, without over-engineered complexity.

Xeikon emphasises that the real value is not in hardware specifications, but in workflow outcomes. By combining the press, the X-800 DFE, and integrated finishing, customers reduce job change times, require fewer operators, and increase throughput per shift, all of which are critical in today’s competitive label printing market.