Making a Used Flexo Press Work like a New Flexo Press

Sept. 20, 2010 - PRLog -- With the addition of the Servo 3000 Digital Infeed + Re-register system made by Rotary Technologies a printer can greatly enhance press performance. In many ways an old press will work like new and for a fraction of the cost of a new press. With the Servo 3000 the printer can re-register the web. He can print additional passes instead of one. That means unlimited colors. The Servo 3000 press upgrade reliably results in less wasted material on each printing job. In many ways the Servo 3000 simply makes an older flexo press act like new.

Here is an example of what we are talking about. All parts of a press are geared together, start together, stop together, and change speed together. Right? Then why should the press experience any material waste aside from the initial setup? It is because the web is not always doing what the press is doing!

There can be waste of material during make-ready. There can be running waste because of floating registration. There can be hundreds of feet of wasted material used up with starts and stops to regain registration after stoppage or web splices. These problems are all attributable to web tension. The old saying is that if you take care of the pennies the dollars take care of themselves. Taking care of web tension issues saves material and money on every run, sometimes several times a run. Taking care of web tension issues with the Servo 3000 turns those regained pennies into dollars in your pocket with the revolutionary Servo 3000.

Another example is the flexibility, as well as reliability, that use of the Servo 3000 allows. Because the Servo 3000 uses digital material settings repeatability is simple. Because of the light tension settings of the Servo 3000 an older standard label press can run thin, filmic materials, increasing its usability and flexibility.

How Does the Servo 3000 Do This?

The Servo 3000 Digital Infeed + Re-register system uses a proprietary algorithm to precisely meter materials into the press, taking into account the elastic properties of the web. The Servo 3000 maintains web tension by forcing the web to do exactly when the press does in its timing and speed as well as acceleration and deceleration. This is where basic tension systems fail. They are not dynamic enough to precisely match real running conditions of the press.

Adding the advanced Servo 3000 to an old press filters web properties and breaks a single press revolution into millions of parts. The Servo 3000 meters the web, following individual parts with digital accuracy. Adding the Servo 3000 to an older press can make the press perform like new and even better. With the revolutionary Servo 3000 Digital Infeed + Re-register system the web never loses sight of what the press is doing, during each and every tiny fraction of a press revolution.

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Rotary Technologies produces the Servo 3000 Infeed and Re-register System. This servo and re-register system is an easily attached upgrade for rotary presses that reduces material waste and allows a press to run a wider range of substrates than normally.