Offset with sleeves ready to market
The first XFlex X6 equipped with Offset (sleeve) groups has been successfully installed at customer Masterpress in Poland
A 10-color XFlex X6 430 with 5 Offset (Sleeve) groups, 5 UV Flexo units, cold foil, rotary die-cutting and Vision-1 automatic register system is the first press by OMET equipped with the new Offset group with sleeves. The press, ready some time ahead than scheduled thanks to the hard work of OMET R&D and Technical Teams, has been installed and commissioned and has gone through final acceptance during the month of December 2012 at customer Masterpress, located in Bialystok, Poland.
The customer, a major player at international level, has already five OMET machines, including this last one, and is using this press to print mainly refined shrink sleeve and In-Mold labels for the food sector.
OMET Offset (sleeve) group, firstly introduced during Labelexpo 2011, is now a reality and an integral part of OMET combination printing presses package. “We are proud to have our first press equipped with sleeve offset at such an important customer”, informs Marco Calcagni, OMET Sales and Marketing Director. “The choice was strategic for both; Masterpress was looking for one in-line offset press with characteristics of high speed, excellent quality results and ease of management, while we were looking for the right customer who could fully exploit the machine potential”. The customer was so favorably impressed by the results obtained that has already put an order for a second machine in 670 mm width.
The new Offset group equipped with sleeves offers many advantages to the customer: the extension of the format range with 1/48 inch incremental steps; ease of job change because the storage space and the handling burden have been dramatically reduced thanks to the use of lightweight sleeves. Plus, there is abundance of technological novelties on board: anti-ghosting system, extra rigidness and absence of sliding parts to avoid unnecessary vibrations, print regulations performed outside the group, maximum printing speed up to 200 meters per minute, format range from 14 to 25 inches, pneumatic blocking of the sleeves directly on the machine (like in flexo), integrated automatic register and pre-register - both longitudinal and transversal - controls, remotely motorized ink trays and automatic dampening system, enhanced automatic pressure, temperature and tension controls.
After XFlex X6 presses, Offset (sleeve) will be available on the whole range of OMET multi-process and platform presses up to 850 mm on Varyflex V2 machines for flexible packaging printing.