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Technology Focus
With its legendary engineering prowess coming from its CTP systems, Screen has developed a range of digital print systems for multiple applications.
Precision printing from Screen
Screen rose from a competitive field to become the biggest manufacturer of CTP systems, thanks
to its focus on precision
engineering. Now the company has transferred that outlook to a growing range of digital print systems.
Screen Managing Director Peter Scott says: “Despite Covid, 2021 has been a successful year for Screen and Jet, with three sales of Truepress Jet L350UV digital label presses.
“Since the Jet Technologies’ Open House/demo day held in March, interest in our label solution has been high. We needed to get our new label technology in front of
the industry and it worked way beyond our expectations. Even our demonstration L350UV SAI had to be installed at a customer site
– which was also to have been our PacPrint machine.”
Jack Malki, managing director
of Jet Technologies, which supplies the TruePress Jet L350UV SAI, said, “The SAI press can print on a broader range of materials, including the likes of shrink film and aluminium, which will enable print businesses to serve a broader market.”
He said, “The L350 UV SAI will enable printers to produce a wide range of products, not just labels, such as pouches and lamitubes for instance, thanks to its ability to handle thicker substrates. It will open up new markets for its users.”
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Precision: The new Screen L350 UV SAI, available from Jet Technologies
Malki said the new SAI machine is also between 30 to 100 per cent more productive, depending on the colours and opaques, and said that the eight-colour press could handle thick carton and fibre-based materials, which chimes with the demand for environmentally friendly packaging.
According to Malki, the new
SAI printer gives a future proofing aspect, with its broad range of products and substrates, and its Screen precision engineering. He said, “We have a Screen digital label printer that has been pumping out work in Australia for the past seven years, and is still operating at the same levels as when it first went in.”
Next on the horizon –
flexible packaging
Screen has entered into flexible packaging with the Truepress PAC830F digital 830mm web. The Truepress PAC 830F is a water-based inkjet system for flexible packaging, working across a 830mm wide web, printing standard PET and OPP recyclable materials.
The Truepress PAC 830F delivers throughput at 75 meters per minute, or 4500 metres per hour, and is targeted at print runs of under
linear 4000 meters. Such runs can include variable data jobs, mock-ups, versioning, trial marketing, and other short-run work, in a responsive way that takes advantage of a digital
workflow all the way to press, with no platemaking and mounting involved.
The company says that at a print resolution of 1200 x 1200 dpi,
and with Screen’s advanced colour management gained over 30 years in prepress supply, the “image quality on flexible substrates is superb”.
Screen also has the Truepress Jet 520HD series of digital web presses with Equios workflow. The company says that when running Screen’s own SC inks, these presses can produce
such quality colour, on standard
offset stocks, that the results are indistinguishable from the best litho offset. There is also a black & white version, which runs at 150 metres a minute, which is proving popular in the trade book sector. A range of finishing and binding options for the press are available from companies such as Hunkeler, Horizon and Technau.
Scott says: “Equios is a versatile, scalable workflow management system that provides total support for digital print-on-demand and computer-to-plate production.
It automates job management, including accurate imposition and consistent colour management, across different output devices from the same user interface.”
Screen has recently announced new 4-up and 40-up CTP, and says it now has the world’s broadest and most eco-friendly CTP range, from B2 to VLF. 21
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