Uteco to Showcase Flexo and Gravure Innovations at drupa
KENNESAW, Ga.—Uteco Group’s booth at this year’s drupa, E04, Hall 3, will feature the company’s innovations in flexographic and gravure printing. The focal point of the booth will be its high-speed flexo press Diamond HP 808, which will be running.
The Diamond HP 808 features the following technologies:
• Printing speed up to 500 m/min
• Deck makeready while machine is running
• New pneumatically suspended chamber doctor blades tool-less by Uteco
• P2P®: the automatic correction of printing pressure at print speed change
• IDP (“Ink-Deck Presetting): automatic setting of registers and printing pressure at job start-up
At the show, the Diamond will print high resolution images on film for flexible packaging with water-based inks, and will be using both photopolymer plates and engraved sleeves.
Two gravure units will be displayed:
• One gravure unit, the “Q-Press” model, features innovations for short-run gravure printing: Sleeve-based gravure cylinders with on-board sleeve change. This press comes standard with direct drive electronic lineshaft, fully automatic on-board washing system, and Uteco’s “Smart Pack” software package for recipe management including multi-angle doctor blade memorization
• One gravure unit, the “M-Press” model, features tailor-made technology with maximum flexibility in machine configuration. This press is characterized with direct drive of the engraved cylinder (electric shaft), job change by means of interchangeable trolleys, and RotoSmartPackOD®, a Uteco engineering platform for improved performance and profitability in “On-Demand” gravure printing
The 400-sq. meter booth will also host 3S Converting, the service company of Uteco Group, specialized globally in providing services to machines and processes related to flexographic and gravure printing, and many other aspects of the converting world.
