High-speed six-color screen printing speeds exceeding 150 tubes per minute

Large-capacity screen printing on hoses ISIMAT's new TD 6160 has passed all factory acceptance tests, has been sent to the user site and commissioning has begun. This screen printing machine is specifically designed for high-speed printing on flexible plastic tubes for cosmetics and personal care products and plastic cylinders with glue, grease and durable elastic sealants. The TD 6160 is designed to meet the needs of hose manufacturers; they require a multi-color high-speed printing machine with very high registration accuracy. The TD 6160 is a second-generation operating printing machine; it can have up to seven printing stations, and its production rate can be as high as 160 tubes per minute. The tubes that the TD 6160 can handle have an outer diameter of 13 - 60 mm and a length range of 50 to 200 mm. The ISI-Star UV drying system is fitted as standard equipment; the new invention's extended mandrel is also an option. Peter Detzner, Managing Director of ISIMAT, said, “We know that the precision of our first-generation hose printing machine (TS 6090) is accurate to within a range of 0.1 mm. We hope that the second-generation machines can approach this. Accuracy and printing results exceeded our expectations.The color to color alignment of the TD 6160 is exactly equal to the TS 6090. We printed two identical images, but each with a different color, one in the other On top of that, we need a powerful magnifier to verify that the first image has been printed beforehand.” Other flexible packaging manufacturers are also very interested in the TD 6160. Previously, the screen printing machine's productivity and the required registration accuracy could not meet their production requirements and the needs of their users. The TD 6160 has changed this situation. The machine can register with high accuracy over the entire speed range, allowing cylinder manufacturers to profitably produce cylinders with high quality screen-printed images. The user has a very wide range of options, such as painting, standardization, in-line print inspection, ISI on-site UV drying for circumferentially wound printing that is practically invisible. After assembling the options for loading and downloading onto a pin chain from one pin chain, the TD 6160 is particularly suitable for on-line 24/7 production.