Retrofits & Upgrades for CI Flexo Printing Presses

With a press retrofit, motors, control systems, software, switch cabinets, controllers or the entire system – depending on requirements – are replaced by the next generation of products.

Retrofits are planned precisely in advance and are adapted to your needs. Your concerns, e. g. fixed production times, are taken into account. In this way, you benefit with a smooth, fast and professional implementation of the project.

Depending on your wishes, the retrofit can be carried out in one big operation or in several small steps. For example, you can replace individual press components now or later (depending on your stock of spare parts) with the latest generation of equipment. That gives you increased flexibility with your budget planning.

• Long-term press and spare parts availability
• Reduced maintenance with reliable new components
• Retrofits can be implemented in several stages

Finishing and enhancing print capacity
Your CI Flexo press can be equipped with additional single or double printing units for flexo or gravure – and also with hybrid technology featuring slide-in units. Vertical high-performance dryers at individual units ensure process reliability and effective drying.

Inline slitting
Inline slitting units prior to re-winding ensure reliable finishing (thanks to edge trimming) or separation of blanks in the web direction (inline slitting).

Register control for pre-printed web
Depending on a customer’s requirements, it may be necessary to re-print a web which has already been printed once. That calls for precise register for which we also have a suitable solution: an insetter system to control the register of the pre-printed web.

Web treatment
The surface of a substrate can be modified with a corona unit which considerably improves the printability of the film. A web cleaning system removes contamination from the web being processed. That reduces the contamination of inks and printing plates in the unit.

• Enhanced product portfolio
• Optimised substrate preparation and finishing in line
• Improvement in press performance

The automatic impression setting system PrintTronic enables a rapid production start-up without requiring special print marks. Stable production quality is achieved faster. The patented impression control system PrintTronic allows less experienced personnel to operate the press easily and intuitively via the console. What this means for you: process optimisation through more automation. Fewer manual operator interventions are required with this system, saving you valuable set-up time.

Existing flexo plates and printing cylinders can continue to be used. This means no additional adaptation costs are incurred. With PrintTronic, no ink is required in the system during set-up. This keeps the plate clean and ensures production readiness is achieved faster.

• Rapid achievement of stable production quality
• Patented, easy-to-use system
• Reduced set-up times

The electronically positioned digital web monitoring camera ensures the quality of print results with high image resolution and a top-quality zoom lens. Thanks to its modular design, the camera system can be equipped with functions such as Smart Register, Barcode Check, ink monitoring and error inspection. Offering various flashlight options (varnish, UV, hologram, backstrobe), the system can be adapted to meet your individual production conditions.

Profit from 100 % print image inspection over the full print format with live view. Suitable for all common materials, you receive brilliant pictures with complete image illumination using power LEDs, also with very reflective materials or holograms.

The inline spectral measurement supports you to maintain prescribed colour standards. The system works with an XRGA calibrated camera and, with stable measurement conditions, ensures reliable analyses, also at high speeds. Fully automatic spectral inline colour measurement provides all the parameters in order to operate an ink kitchen for example. The measured values are identical to those recorded by a hand-held device calibrated according to the XRGA standard.

With 100 % web monitoring, you check the quality of the substrate prior to printing. That enables you to log faulty areas which can then be marked with an inkjet system or insert strips for example.

• Simple and intuitive operation
• Suitable for remote maintenance
• Quality reports