Make Life Easier for Your Flexo Pressman

Sept. 21, 2010 - PRLog -- The Servo 3000 easily attached Flexo press upgrade can make life easier for your Flexo pressman. It can make your Flexo press more profitable too. Let’s take an example. You have a job printing multilayer labels for a pharmaceutical product. Doing the job with the Servo 3000 Infeed + Re-register System, Series II attached to your Flexo press will make the job easier and faster. Your Flexo pressman will get the job done in less time and with less waste.

Standard Press

Making multilayer labels can be really difficult on a standard Flexo press, even for the experienced pressman. The operator needs to register the colors on two webs simultaneously. Then he needs to register the two webs together. This leads to a lot of setup waste as well as running waste even a very slow press speeds.

Using a standard press for this procedure reduces the number of colors you can print. Six or eight print stations end up being split among printed panels. That means fewer colors for each panel

With the Servo 3000

The Servo 3000 automates this job. Because the top layer is pre-printed all print stations can be applied to the next panel. It also lets the pressman laminate the pre-printed layer in register to the base layer.

With the Servo 3000 upgraded Flexo press the pressman only needs to register one web at a time as the Servo 3000 performs the complex part. This reduces setup and running waste even at high press speeds. Even though the pressman will devote one press run to printing the top layer the much higher press speeds on subsequent layers are such that overall printing time will typically be reduced. Overall waste certainly will be.

How to Setup for Multilayer Labels with the Servo 3000

First of all print the top layer. Because there is no die cutting or matrix stripping in this step the only factor limiting press speed is drying. Because of the ability of the Servo 3000 to precisely re-register the web the first layer can even be printed on another press.

Second, make ready the base layer. Put the top layer roll on a lamination tower and web it through the Servo 3000. The two layers can be put together by using a clear laminate or by printing adhesive on the base layer. The nip point where the two webs come together can be a mid-feed nip, or a die station can be used.

Adjust the top layer to be in register with the base layer using the Servo 3000. Once this is set up, the Servo 3000 will automatically and precisely hold that position. Then the pressman will diecut and strip as normal.

Additional Benefits

Other types of equipment used to facilitate printing multilayer labels are typically used only for that process and sit idle the rest of the time. The Servo 3000 improves press performance on all jobs, reduces waste, allows printing of extremely thin films (due to its precise web tension control), and can be used for jobs such as finishing labels printed on a digital press.

Ask your Flexo pressman if he wants his life to be easier. Ask yourself if you want your flexo press to be more productive and profitable. If the answers are yes check out the Servo 3000 by Rotary Technologies.

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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.