Bobst launches Smart DigiMount flexo plate mounter

Smart DigiMount features advanced electronics for improved speed and accuracy of plate mounting. It handles sleeve repeats of 254-812.8mm and optionally 1066.8 mm (10-32, optionally 42in). This extends its capabilities to accommodate larger web widths and formats. The original DigiMount version is also still available to suit print cylinder repeats of 139.7-609.6mm (5.5-24in).

Also new is an enclosure to exclude ambient light, helping the positioning system to operate consistently whatever the environment, it is claimed.

Matteo Cardinotti, managing director of Bobst Firenze and head of its narrow and mid web multi-process product line, said: ‘Every concept within the Bobst Digital Automation program is continuously upgraded or extended so as to keep pace with the equipment evolution and to always ensure new improved levels of integrated automation.

‘This has led to the development of the Smart DigiMount version of the plate mounter in order to provide a solution for Bobst narrow and mid web production lines dedicated to the production of labels, flexible packaging or carton packaging that use sleeve technology. This can accommodate larger formats and web widths, such as the M6 and the M8.’

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