The InlineFoiler Prindor can foil-stamp at 16,000sph and, according to Manroland, offers shorter makereadies than hot-foil stamping.  

The foiler is part of a £4m investment by the £12m-turnover company, which includes a new seven-colour Roland 700 HiPrint due to be installed in September. 

Leicester-based Qualvis Packaging, which specialises in food and cosmetics packaging, believes that the cold foiling system will dramatically reduce the cost of colour printing on foil, which will be of particular interest to its cosmetics clients. 

Managing director Jason Short said: "We are having the machine installed in February because we want to give ourselves plenty of time to become familiar with it. At the moment we are doing trials in Germany. We think our cosmetics clients will be very interested in this piece of kit and that it will open the market up."

Qualvis Packaging said it chose the seven-colour Roland 700, which will be retrofitted with the Prindor unit, because it had the latest technology, and because of its compatibility with the company’s two Heidelberg Speedmasters.

Qualvis Packaging is to build an extension to its ink ‘kitchen’ that will be used to develop its offering of low migration ink printing.