INLINE FOILING®
Brilliant metallic eye-catchers
With the innovative inLINE FOILING® method, items can be finished easily, quickly, and cost-effectively with extraordinary metallic decors – with little pressure and no heat. inLINE FOILING® can be used in conjunction with screen printing in one machine pass.
CIF – CONICAL INLINE FOILING®
Up to now, the industry has been faced with the problem that conical articles could not be metallized, or only to a small area on the substrate. ISIMAT has addressed this limitation and further developed the proven inLINE FOILING® process. For the first time it is now also possible to finish conical articles such as beer glasses or wine bottles with metallization. This is made possible by a decisive adjustment in the processing procedure, which we do not (yet) want to reveal at this point.
DIF – DIGITAL INLINE FOILING®
for a perfect 360° metallization
For the first time, the new DiF process now also allows 360° metallization to be applied to cylindrical articles. This further development of the inLINE FOILING®, differs in that the adhesive is not pre-printed with screen-printing, but it is applied directly within transfer unit using digital printing technology. In this way, metallized full-wrap decorations can be achieved. In addition, now we have an additional printing unit available because the screen-printing station is no longer required for applying the adhesive. The other available printing unit can be used for any other decoration technology.
INLINE FOILING®
Brilliant metallic eye-catchers
With the innovative inLINE FOILING® method, tubes and sleeves can be fi nished easily, quickly, and cost-effectively with extraordinary metallic decors – with little pressure and no heat. inLINE FOILING® can be used in conjunction with fl exo printing, screen printing, or digital printing in one machine pass.
The patented decoration process has also been specially adapted for the TD7. With a double use, the inLINE FOILING® module is integrated into the screen printing process as an independent unit.
DIF – DIGITAL INLINE FOILING®
for a perfect 360° metallization
For the first time, the new DiF process now also allows 360° metallization to be applied to cylindrical articles. This further development of the inLINE FOILING®, differs in that the adhesive is not pre-printed with screen-printing, but it is applied directly within transfer unit using digital printing technology. In this way, metallized full-wrap decorations can be achieved. In addition, now we have an additional printing unit available because the screen-printing station is no longer required for applying the adhesive. The other available printing unit can be used for any other decoration technology.
IDD - INDIRECT DIGITAL DECORATION
Digital and individual finishing
IDD combines the proven advantages of our high-performance printing machines with the benefits of digital printing. The technological principle of our modular ISIMAT solution consists of two units. Inside the digital printing module, a transfer foil is printed with the individual artwork. The second unit, the transfer module, is integrated into the machine. It ensures that the artwork is transferred to the substrate in perfect alignment. The transferred print image can, for example, be transferred to a blanc article or to an already metallized print image. Synergies with other printing processes, such as inLINE FOILING® or screen-printing, thus enable unprecedented finishing possibilities.
DRP-System
The kissprint for your tube!
Dynamic roller positioning makes high quality flexo printing on plastic tubes and sleeves possible by virtually eliminating the negative effect of mandrel runout on flexo print quality. Mandrels hold tubes on their way through a tube printing machine, and even the mandrels’ small run-out is enough to vary the gap between mandrels and flexo plates while the mandrels rotate.
A varying gap width causes the printing pressure to vary: some dots might get squashed; others might only be partially printed. A DRP-System moves the flexo printing rollers in each flexo printing station in such a way that during printing the gaps between flexo plate rollers and mandrels are kept constant.
Flexibility and interchangeability of the TH9
Thanks to the hybrid solution
The nine printing stations can be used independently of each other. Each station can hold a screen printing unit, a fl exo printing unit, an inLINE FOILING® unit, an IDD transfer module, a DiF module, or a varnishing unit. The printing and decoration units can be combined as desired and arranged in any order.