Prati showcases Jupiter TC400 to Australian market

Prati showcased its Jupiter TC400 slitter rewinding inspection machine during an Australian Open House event that took place in Bayswater, Melbourne, on April 30 and May 1. The event was organized by Gallus Australia, Prati’s official distributor and service provider for the Australian and New Zealand markets.

During the Open House, the companies demonstrated printing on the Gallus EM280 and slitting and rewinding on the Prati Jupiter TC400.

The Jupiter TC400 is able to process a wide range of substrates from flexible packaging to cardboard and from paper labels to booklets. At the event, the demonstrations focused on two typical job outputs, the first with film substrates and the second with self-adhesive paper labels.

When processing film substrates, the machine is equipped with three different rewinding tension measurements that are controlled by the VaryControl software. As a result, the material is kept in constant web tension avoiding any stretching of the flexible substrate. An air-driven separator allows rewinding of all rows in a single shaft without crossing the substrates or damaging the web edges.

The Jupiter TC400 activates the inspection system when processing self-adhesive labels. A missing label or the presence of waste and flags forces the web to move to the correction table. For the rewinding process, the VaryControl system keeps a steady tension on the plank and a variable tension on the substrate, therefore obtaining large size reels without any conical distortion.

The patented scissors slitting device of the Jupiter TC400 provides clean and precise slitting of plastic and paper materials. Additional features include the self-sharpening blades, capable of cutting any kind of material from 12 micron to 1.5 mm with a precision of 0.15 mm as well as two high-speed and precision sensors that ensure the change over from label to film in just three minutes.

MR Labels, one of Australia’s most awarded label companies, attended the event. The company, which has been in the high-quality label printing business for over 25 years was impressed with the live demonstrations and decided to invest in the Jupiter TC400. ‘We are very enthusiastic about the control features of this machine,’ commented father and son, Paul and Trent O’Brien, MR Labels’ owners. ‘We mainly chose the Jupiter TC400 for its very low maintenance requirements and its strong components.’

‘Prati has received excellent and positive feedback from its Australian users on the solidity and high productivity of its machines,’ commented Chiara Prati, sales director at Prati. ‘Two Australian printers are already using Prati machines and MR Labels will be the third. Together with our distributor Gallus, we foresee further opportunities in Australia and New Zealand in the very near future.’

James Rodden, managing director at Gallus Australia, was equally delighted about the outcome of the two-day event: ‘Around seventy people attended both the presentation sessions that took place at the Heritage Golf Club in the Yarra Valley, Victoria, in the morning, and the live demonstrations in the demo center in the afternoon. The event also generated new business opportunities for Gallus Australia, so we will now have a busy schedule ahead of us.’