Inkcups, a leading global supplier to the printing industry, has announced its latest innovation and most sophisticated system to date - the Revolution high-performance cylinder press. The Revolution is a fully automated machine that can print around 600 parts per hour in full colour at high quality.
The system offers Automatic loading and unloading, integrated pre-treatment of the items to be printed and a patented, spiral printing technology. Common applications include drinks cups for sporting events, beer and other drinking glasses, stainless steel and plastic drinking cups, cosmetic jars, glass and plastic bottles, drinks cans, oil filters and much more.
„We are thrilled to be able to present the revolution,“ said Ben Adner, founder and CEO of Inkcups. „The new machine offers everything we wanted to achieve when we launched the project more than two and a half years ago. We wanted a Industrial printing system for the optimum market range develop.
A machine that is fast enough to produce real volume; that is flexible enough to allow quick job changes; that offers the outstanding print quality our customers have come to expect; and that is competitively priced.
The machine offers a Strong price-performance ratio - It is a production machine that is capable of printing large quantities at a third of the cost of comparable machines on the market. We are also proud that our new system can be used in the USA developed, designed and built and is supported by our team of experienced service technicians worldwide.“
High speed for efficient production
The machine is the most technically advanced offering in Inkcup's portfolio of Digital printing solutions for cylindrical objects and represents a huge increase in production volume over the company's successful HelixÒ model. Jobs whose volume exceeds the practical maximum production limits of the HelixÒ printer can be easily produced on the Revolution.
The inline feed section of the printing system can either be operated manually by an operator or - in order to avoid a more rationalised process to realise - automatically by a robot system are loaded with the objects to be printed. The parts are automatically loaded onto twelve vacuum mandrels, deionised, subjected to corona or plasma surface pre-treatment, printed and, after passing through the machine, unloaded onto a discharge conveyor.
The machine prints Images 360 degrees in scope seamlessly with a maximum resolution of 1,200 dpi on a wide range of cylindrical objects and open conical vessels. The machine can print images up to 220 mm high on parts that can be between 76 and 305 mm high and have a diameter of between 65.5 and 111 mm.
The printing stations work with Inkcups’ patented Helical technology, which applies the inkjet droplets in a spiral pattern, one inside the other. The system's print head technology is able to cover the entire length of an object up to 220 mm without additional print head requirements. This enables a better Image quality without stitching (joining of print image parts).
The machine is delivered as a turnkey package that includes InkcupCare's world-class warranty and service coverage. The machine is now available in North America and will be sold in the on the market worldwide next year come.
Source: Inkcups Now Corporation
