Choosing the Right Equipment

It's difficult to talk about slitters without also talking about rewinders, because usually they go hand-in-hand during the off-press process. Mark Andy Inc. has produced a new line of equipment, the VSR300 that verifies, slits, and rewinds material for the label and flexible packaging markets.

"In their simplest form, slitter/rewinders are used to convert one roll of material into several narrower and/or smaller rolls. The inspection slitter/rewinder is used in the label industry and combines the slitting and rewinding capability with a special web path that makes it suitable for inspection. This variant of the slitter/rewinder allows taking web directly off of a printing press, inspecting it, and removing labels while slitting and rewinding the finished product," said Ken Daming, director of product management, Mark Andy.