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a big market for us.” “Across the board, the
ColourStar AQ is helping all markets save significantly on their package printing costs by giving them the ability to fulfil their own packaging needs, on time, with less storage needs, and with ease.”
The printer prints on pizza boxes, clamshells, take-away food trays, cake boxes, zip lock bags, paper bags, boxes, beverage cup sleeves, beer carry boxes, shippers, and coffee bags with valves with ease. Any reasonably flat uncoated paper or cardboard product up to 100mm in height can be printed on.
“With single use plastic bans now in place and the increasing sustainable mindset of consumers looking for custom branded sustainable packaging, the Trimatt ColourStar AQ is delivering perfect prints, quickly and economically.
“As an HP OEM, no stone has been left unturned with the development of this machine. Working closely with our customers and understanding their businesses, we have really created a product with vision and versatility,” McFarlane says.
Marchese adds, “With the capabilities the Trimatt 1170 gives us, we can greatly expand what we can do for our clients. I’m really excited about the possibilities this gives us. In fact, I’m almost certainly looking at adding another system because I know the demand is there.”
Orkun Bayhan from printed bag specialist Ausbag in Melbourne, recently had Trimatt install the printhead onto one of his flexo offset lines. The company now uses the machine as the primary printer for paper bags due to the quality, ease, and speed of the set-up and printing.
ABOVE THE FOLD
Trimatt Systems has a raft of solutions in automation machinery, and with a strong
The Trimatt team at its factory on the outskirts of Melbourne.
COVER STORY
engineering team has a solution for every problem.
The FoldLine 9000, is a premium automation machine that feeds, folds and glues ready-made meal sleeves and any other cardboard wrap around labels for a food product packed in a tray, providing the customer with a full brand experience. It also folds and glues food packs for take-away sandwiches, cup sleeves, and many other food packaging items.
The machine has been designed with an extremely small footprint at only five metres in length. With incredible speed, it can produce 20,000 glued folded sleeves per hour and is fully customisable to suit specific variable needs. This compact machine operates seamlessly with
precision and optimal performance, Trimatt says.
Inkjet printing and camera inspection can be added to print and read unique QR and barcodes and text. A labeller can also be added for particular promotions, to help satisfy even more market opportunities. Waste reduction and increased output are significant features of the add-ons.
Adding value to finished products, this versatile system is used for many markets such as FMCG, financial, retail, bindery and fulfilment, magnet, self-mailers, gift card and greeting card applications, and offers the finishing capabilities that make printed products stand out in a crowded market.
With a digital printer and ValidForm variable data reader
added, the FoldLine 9000 can also ensure an application is error-free by reading and collecting unique data from printed media, and monitoring in real-time the performance of the printed job, while checking for missing records, duplicates, mismatch, and poor quality.
McFarlane says, “The recent sale of a FoldLine 9000 to one of Australia’s leading food packaging machinery companies was so rewarding. It gives the company the capability to fulfil large scale orders cost effectively and with a fast turn-around, keeping Australia competitive in the market.”
Contributing to and strengthening the Australian manufacturing economy is something Trimatt is very proud of. ✷
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