QuadTech helps Cerutti maintain control

- System being installed on Cerutti gravure printing presses around the world

 

- QuadTech system helping minimize downtime and waste for customers, responding to move to shorter runs

 

Gravure package printing machinery specialist Cerutti has made QuadTech’s Autotron 2600 register guidance system with ClearLogic a standard feature on its presses to maintain profitability in short-run applications.

 

The QuadTech Autotron ClearLogic interface features user-friendly screens that require fewer touch strokes, making set-up easy and quick for the operator.

 

QuadTech said the Autotron system achieves complete control regardless of ink, speed or substrate, and can measure opaque, transparent, reflective substrates, metallized film and high-gloss cast.

 

The system works seamlessly with the Cerutti auto pre-setting system (CAPS) as an integrated, flexible and cost-efficient tool for minimizing waste at the start of new and repeat jobs in the first phase of production.

 

Approval of the system by Cerutti Packaging Equipment (CPE), a subsidiary of Cerutti Group, follows joint development to tightly integrate the QuadTech Autotron register system into the press manufacturer’s controls.

 

It enhances the ability of the press to pre-set cylinder positions, and enables the press to lock into register seconds after production has started. The press can then maintain tight tolerances throughout the print run. By minimizing start-up waste, QuadTech's Autotron register system enables Cerutti presses to maintain profitability in short-run printing situations.

 

Since QuadTech was recognized by Cerutti as an approved supplier of register control systems, the American manufacturer’s press controls are being installed on Cerutti presses at Containers Printing in Singapore, a leading manufacturer of high-quality metal and plastic packaging products, and China’s Shanxi Yongji Printing and Dyeing, which specializes in printing, dyeing and final finishing of textiles.

 

Riccardo Montagnini, innovation manager at CPE, said: ‘As leaders in the rotogravure printing sector for packaging and converting equipment, we need to ensure that our presses maintain the highest levels of efficiency.'

 

Montagnini added: ‘It is essential that we adapt to the marketplace by investing in automation to increase speeds of production and decrease job change-over times.

 

‘QuadTech’s Autotron register control system delivers exactly what our customers need for fast, reliable manufacturing. As shorter runs become the standard in package printing, downtime and waste need to be minimized.

 

‘This system will ensure that start-up times are optimized and defects eliminated.’

 

The Cerutti packaging gravure presses will use QuadTech’s Autotron 2600 register scanning heads (pictured, top) to assist in phasing and sequencing all of the cylinders into register. This process uses programmable scanning heads and pre-set capabilities, with access stored job parameters for easy alignment, regardless of substrate.

 

It switches between paper and film or foil modes without having to stop the press. The scanning heads then send corrections through the joint ethernet interface, recognizing register errors invisible to the human eye, giving the operator more control over make-ready and quality.

 

Randy Freeman, QuadTech general manager of packaging, said: ‘We are very pleased with the results of our co-operation on this project.

 

‘With the ability to pre-set, store and share information via the jointly-developed interface, the next job can be set-up while the current job is running and corrected within in a run length to precise register.

 

‘This eliminates time-consuming manual intervention and waste.’

 

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