Barely installed, the Gallus Five is already running at full speed at Artes Etichette. At the end of December 2025, the Italian label printer commissioned the first press of this model developed by Swiss manufacturer Gallus, a subsidiary of Heidelberg.
The Gallus Five, a modular hybrid system, is currently running two shifts a day, representing around fifteen hours of daily production. The press, which reaches a print speed of 100 meters per minute, regularly handles orders of 10âeuros000 linear meters. It also frequently produces runs of up to 60âeuros000 mètres linéaires. These volumes mainly concern food labelling, but also the chemical and detergent, cosmetics, pharmaceutical and durable goods segments.
For Luca Airoldi, CEO of Artes Etichette, print quality remains the decisive factor. "Quality is essential. There isn't a customer who says, 'Make me less beautiful labels for less money.' Labels have to be perfect, and the Gallus Five offers the precision required to achieve this level of quality every time."
And he emphasizes its ability to handle urgent orders quickly and perfectly. "The Gallus Five enables us to meet tight delivery deadlines. When customer orders are urgent, quality and reliability are paramount. With this machine, it's very difficult to make mistakes."
The arrival of the Gallus Five has enabled the printer to transfer a greater proportion of its conventional production to digital. It has also reduced set-up times. According to Luca Airoldi, a complex four- or five-color conventional job that used to take several hours to set up can now be started up in just thirty minutes.
"The immediate and measurable impact of Gallus Five for customers like Artes, combined with the provision of essential assurances for its longevity, proves one thing: as a systems integrator, Gallus is ideally placed to help converters deploy digital production reliably in real production environments concludes Dario Urbinati, CEO of the Gallus Group. The success of Artes Etichette demonstrates that hybrid technology has gone beyond the stage of potential and niche applications to become a genuine industrial production solution."
