Edale press adaptability ticks boxes for Nepalese converter

- Seven-color Edale combination UV/IR scratch card line offers range of additional options

 

- Options make press installed ‘completely future proof’

 

Nepalese converter Sprint Print & Packaging has installed a seven-color Edale combination UV/IR scratch card line with a wide range of additional options as it looks to future-proof its operations.

 

Based in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sprint has experienced rapid growth. With a printing background, the company was previously in commercial printing, but with the introduction of the new Edale press, the company has expanded into scratch card and label production.

 

The Gamma SC-510 press installed as part of the line (pictured, top) will also allow the printing and converting of cartons.

 

The 510mm-wide press is configured with: seven UV/IR flexo units; an Edale CR80 card stacker, which takes multiple streams of standard format CR80 cards from a die cutting unit and transports them in a continuous stack in discreet lanes, in sequence; and a complete personalization system, including digital variable data printing, data verification, void  product logging and tracking.

 

Edale said the system offers highly productive single pass telephone card production.

 

The Gamma SC-510 is fully servo driven and comes in web widths of 430mm or 510mm with the ability to handle substrates from 12-600 microns. Servo drives on each print head provide pre-register, auto-register and print length control features. Combined with the unique printhead designs, this ensures job change times and set-up wastage are kept to a minimum with the ability to perform a full station color change in under 70 seconds.

 

The Gamma SC-510 can be customized to suit the exact requirements of the customer and this specific machine was designed to combine the multiple processes normally associated with scratch card production, in a single pass.

 

This rationalises the production process, eliminates work in progress and increases the security and traceability of the cards. This single machine has been designed to produce up to 1.5 million pins per hour.

 

Sprint director Shishir Nahata said: ‘This new press allows us to better serve our customers by utilizing new capabilities and services that go beyond what we could previously offer.

 

‘It also allows us to expand our reach further and be more flexible to our customers changing needs.

 

‘We decided on an Edale as we were highly impressed with its engineering skills, and there are no installations in Nepal that can incorporate such a wide range of substrates.

 

‘This machine seemed infinitely flexible being able to print on 12–600-micron substrates and also add additional options to the press at a later date – to us, this makes our equipment completely future proof.’

 

James Boughton, Edale’s managing director, said: ‘The installation of this scratch card line illustrates the high security of the Edale personalization lines and the latest flexo technology available, eliminating outsourcing and providing our customers with turnkey service, shortened cycle time and enhanced quality levels on specialized packaging.’

 

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