Roll Sheet Feeder Allows Cutting To Match Images

Edited by the Printingtalk editorial team Apr 6, 2005

At FESPA, the international sign and screen printing show, Esko-Graphics will be launching a roll sheet feeder for it's i-XL Kongsberg tables.

At FESPA, the international sign and screen printing show, Esko-Graphics will be launching a roll sheet feeder for it's i-XL Kongsberg tables.

It features a belt feed mechanism for continuous printed material loading either via roll or sheets, when linked with Mikkelsen Graphic Engineering's automatic sheet feeder.

Also on show will be the new i-Cut vision control system and i-Script workflow, developed by Mikkelsen and integrated with Esko-Graphics' Kongsberg i-XL series of die cutting tables.

The roll sheet feeder is claimed to allow die-less cutting contours to perfectly match printed images, improving overall productivity and quality.

The Kongsberg i-XL tables are said to be suitable for cutting, creasing and scoring low volume corrugated and folding carton jobs because of their claimed tooling versatility.

The recently introduced multi-purpose toolhead Multicut is also claimed to enhance the cutting capability of the Kongsberg i-XL tables for packaging, sign, display and POP applications with rigid materials such as acrylics, polycarbonates, polypropylenes, alubond and plywood.

The Kongsberg i-XL tables have a belt feed mechanism for continuous printed material loading, either via roll or sheets, when linked with Mikklesen's automatic sheet feeder.

Serious time and cost savings can be achieved since the combined system helps to reduce set-up time, material waste and overall production time and to perform exact cost calculations, claimed Esko-Graphics.

The i-Cut vision control system is integrated in the Kongsberg table with the i-Cut camera in the Multicut head.

With the camera, each printed object on each sheet is measured with its register marks for registration and for any dimensional changes, distortions or material variations like shrinkage or stretching.

The i-Cut software automatically fine-tunes each cut-contour for cut-to-print.

Key cutting and layout data is available, linked with a barcode when printing the graphic objects with register marks, via i-Script workflow integration in digital printer RIP's and print control systems.

Hubert Scheir, Esko-Graphics' director of marketing EMEALA said: "In the world of signage, displays and POP the advent of flatbed digital printing creates an enormous opportunity for excellent, inventive designs.

The i-XL, as an immediate digital converting and finishing system, allows the digital printer to offer completely integrated manufacturing services.

Hence the display makers, sign makers and screen printers can expand their business applications." FESPA takes place from May 31 - June 4 in Munich (Germany).