How to Cut Costs on Flexo Printing

Sept. 21, 2010 - PRLog -- An effective way to cut costs on Flexo printing is to increase efficiency with the Servo 3000 Flexo press upgrade. This easily attached rotary press accessory re-registers the web with extraordinary precision and its servo system allows a press to run at 0.0025” resolution at full speed. This system reliably results in less waste on set up and while running. Rotary Technologies, the maker or the Servo 3000 Digital Infeed + Re-register system, is so sure of the ability of its machine that the company has a savings calculator on its web site.

The Servo 3000 has a specially coated, servo driven pacing roller that feeds material into the Flexo press while gripper wheels act as a nip. The two acting together provide positive traction and prevent any slippage. The servo mechanism takes an encoder signal from the press and adjusts the infeed with minute precision. Therefore the servo system follows the press at 0.0025” resolution at full press speed.

Because the Servo 3000 can so precisely re-register the web from its own work or print runs from other presses it can run rolls again in order to add colors and fix design errors. It can be used to make the job of printing multilayer labels significantly easier than is the norm on a standard Flexo press or do the finishing for work done on a digital press.

The Servo 3000 will help cut costs on Flexo printing by a significant reduction in wasted material. It will also allow a printer to continue to use a standard Flexo press and not invest $500,000 to $1,000,000 in a new press. For a small fraction of the cost of a new high end press the Servo 3000 can make an old press work like new and better. Because the Servo 3000 increases efficiency and press speeds due to its precise web tension control it helps get jobs done and out the door faster.

For the printer wondering how to cut costs on Flexo printing a look at the Servo 3000 may provide the right answers.

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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.