Overview and Options

• Multi-color presses for complete gravure production
• Single color presses for all kind of finishing purposes
• UV cassette, IR cassette, high speed air knife, hot air knife
• Electrostatic print assist (special ESA System)
• Inline varnishing
• Inline micro embossing and stray graining
• Inline flexographic printing
• Print job manager (open data base)
• External software service (modem)
• Print medium from paper to cardboard and synthetics

Investment and Costs

• Economical format
• More favourable purchase price compared with rotary gravure machines
• Eco-friendly process
• No approval for process necessary - only notification with emissions of less than 25 kg/h
• Shorter print runs possible than with webfed gravure as well as less wastage
• Best printing results on low quality cardboard and recycled materials
• Continuous tone printing jobs are better due to constant register with electrostatic print assist
• Laminated material can be substituted by printed basis
• Feeder compatible with HD offset presses for finishing options
• No powder contamination of sheets
• Faster change-over times between the jobs compared with web presses

Handling and Operating

• User-friendly and clear styled gravure press
• Easy operating of press
• Few operators required even when many units are in use
• Short training time for staff
• Short press make-ready time
• Quick printing job changeover

Production and Quality

• Register-true multi-passes through the press
• Best processing in short grain as well as in long grain direction
• No fading over the length of a sheet or over the whole run
• No streaking across the sheet
• No trapping, ghosting or ink problems like in other processes
• Stable inking during the process, irrespective of whether the sheet is still wet or dry
• Up to four times more pigments can be transferred than in other processes
• All inks and varnishes need only one application for complete coverage
• Full surface printing on reverse side of rough cardboard in one printing pass
• Reliable reproduction stability of finest metal characters in short and long runs
• Ink with specially-combined pigments instead of heavy metal-containing ink not only applies in the food industry, it replaces the bronzing method
• Pearlescent, fluorescent and metallic inks can be used for unusual effects, which only attain their full brilliance with gravure
• Top results even with difficult ink formulations; special-inks against counterfeiting
• Inline micro embossing / stray graining
• Immediate further processing and refinement after printing

Why Sheetfed Gravure Printing ?

There are many sound and valid reasons for sheetfed gravure printing: Judged simply on its method, gravure printing puts all other processes in the shade when it comes to:

• Color brilliance
• Optimum net-output
• Minimum wastage
• Overall production stability
• Streak-free full-surface ink application
• Varnishing and other specialities

No indirect printing process such as offset or flexo offer comparable easy production whilst ensuring brilliance of colors and print consistency.

In addition even short runs are profitable.

Gravure is used in the field of package printing up to 400 g/m², label printing from 75 g/m², security printing instead of intaglio and many other special print jobs.

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