INTEGRATED APPLICATION
Custom Color Napkin Printing
Full-Color, Full-Bleed: Print vibrant photos, logos, and designs edge-to-edge on standard cocktail and luncheon napkins at 1200 x 1200 DPI.
No Minimums: Print 50 napkins for a small event or 5,000 for a corporate function — same setup, same quality, zero waste.
Durable Ink: Fade-, scratch-, and water-resistant HP pigmented aqueous ink that holds up on napkin stock without bleeding or smearing.
Executive Summary
Custom printed napkins are one of the highest-margin, fastest-turnaround specialty print products you can offer. Every wedding, bar mitzvah, corporate event, restaurant opening, and holiday party needs them — and until now, producing them meant outsourcing to a specialty printer with 2-3 week lead times and high minimums.
The Postmark 1170 RapidColor Napkin Pro changes that equation. It's a complete turnkey system — HP FI-1000 printhead, dedicated napkin feeder, delivery tray, workbench, and computer with Xitron Navigator RIP software — that lets you print full-color custom napkins on demand, in-house, with no plates and no minimum order quantities. A customer walks in Monday with a photo of their daughter for a bat mitzvah on Saturday, and you hand them a box of custom napkins the same day.
For print shops, mail houses, and promotional products companies, napkin printing opens a new revenue stream with almost zero competition from your existing customer base. Your mailing clients already trust you with their print — now you can offer them event products too.
Key Advantages
Same-Day Turnaround: No plates, no film, no outsourcing. Upload the design, load the napkins, and print. A typical run of 200 custom napkins takes under 30 minutes from file to finished product.
Highest-Margin Add-On: Custom printed napkins retail at $0.50-$2.00 per napkin depending on quantity and design complexity. Your ink and napkin stock cost is a fraction of that. The margin on napkin printing far exceeds standard mailing work.
Zero Waste Production: Print exactly the quantity ordered — no overruns, no leftover inventory, no plate storage. Every napkin printed is a napkin sold.
Variable Data Capable: Print unique designs, names, table numbers, or personalized messages on every single napkin in a run using multipage PDF workflows through Xitron Navigator.
Expand Your Service Offering: Your mailing and print customers already come to you for direct mail. Now offer them event printing — wedding napkins, corporate event branding, restaurant menus on napkins, promotional giveaways.
Simple Hand-Fed Operation: No complex inline integration required. An operator hand-feeds napkins through the dedicated napkin feeder and collects finished pieces from the delivery tray. One person, one machine, full production.
How It Works
DESIGN: Upload artwork — a photo, logo, or full-bleed design — and process it through Xitron Navigator RIP software, including variable data for personalized runs.
PRINT: An operator hand-feeds napkins through the dedicated feeder while the HP FI-1000 printhead lays down full-color CMYK at 1200 × 1200 DPI, edge to edge.
COLLECT: Finished napkins drop to the delivery tray — a typical 200-piece run takes under 30 minutes from file to finished product, with no plates and zero waste.
