Lamination and Foil in One Pass: Taotech Digital's 4-Head Double-Lamination Label Printer at the 34th Shenzhen Gifts Fair

Trade fair preview | Booth 13J37 & 13J39 | Shenzhen, China | October 20–23, 2026

The 34th Shenzhen Gifts & Home Products Fair opens on October 20 at the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center (Bao'an). Taotech Digital will occupy booth 13J37 & 13J39 with three machines running live — and the one at the centre of the booth will be the 4-head double-lamination all-in-one label printer with foil stamping.

That choice is deliberate. Gift packaging is judged in the hand before it is judged on price, and the fastest way to lift a box, a bottle, or a gift set is a metallic finish. The problem has always been what it takes to produce one: a printer for the artwork, a foil stamper for the metal, and a laminator to protect the result — three machines, three production steps, three sets of scheduling.

This machine collapses that into one pass.

What the 4-head covers

Four Epson-licensed industrial printheads run the job at up to 6.8 m²/h, with white, colour, varnish, and glue produced in a single pass. Double lamination and hot stamping are completed on the same machine, and the roller lifting structure has been upgraded to a cam lifting design — material loading is noticeably easier, which matters when operators are loading AB film through a shift.

The integration is the point. What used to sit on three separate machines now sits in one workflow:

One machine replaces the laminator and the foil stamper — and removes the handoffs between them, which is usually where small batches lose their margin.

Built for gift-box work in small and mixed batches

The gift industry rarely orders in one long run. It orders in waves: a couple of hundred boxes for one brand, a few hundred more for a seasonal promotion, each with a different logo. That pattern punishes multi-machine setups, because every job change means moving material between machines and re-registering it.

A single-pass workflow sidesteps most of it. Because nothing in the process depends on tooling or plate-making, changing the artwork is a file change rather than a production change — which is what makes short runs and one-piece-minimum orders viable.

Two further details support consistent output across a shift: double large-diameter rollers apply even pressure for a flatter lamination and a cleaner foil transfer, and the white ink circulation system keeps ink moving to prevent settling and nozzle blockage. The lifting ink station handles printhead cleaning and maintenance automatically, and the machine's alarm indicator flags faults and abnormal states directly on the panel — useful when one operator is watching more than one process.

See it print at booth 13J37 & 13J39

What makes a fair useful is not the datasheet, it is watching your own artwork come off the machine. Sample printing is done on site — bring the artwork, and bring the actual box, bottle, or closure you intend to apply it to.

Three questions worth bringing with you:

1. How does the foil look in the hand? Gold and silver effects vary enormously between processes. The booth is the place to hold the sample, not judge it from a photo.

2. Can it handle my batch sizes? Tell us your typical order — a few hundred or a few thousand — and we will walk you through the setup and the turnaround for each.

3. What does the workflow look like day to day? Ask about consumables, foil usage, lamination materials, and service intervals. The engineers at the booth are the people who build and calibrate these machines.

The other two machines on the floor cover the rest of the process map: the compact A2 UV DTF label printer for high-volume small orders, and the 6090 UV flatbed printer for direct printing on rigid substrates such as glass, acrylic, metal, and leather. If your orders arrive as many small mixed batches, tell us at the booth and we will point you to the configuration that fits, not the biggest one.

About Taotech Digital

Taotech Digital was founded in 2006 and has spent two decades focused on the design and manufacture of digital printing equipment. The company is a National High-Tech Enterprise and a National-level Specialized and Sophisticated "Little Giant" Enterprise — a designation issued by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology for manufacturers that lead their category in innovation and supply-chain position. Every machine in the current lineup runs Epson-licensed printheads, and products are exported to more than 100 countries and regions.

The factory is directly operated: R&D, production, calibration, and quality control are all under one roof, which is why the engineers you meet at a fair are the same people who support the machine afterwards.

Shenzhen, October 20–23, booth 13J37 & 13J39. Bring your artwork and your packaging — the foil will be running.