Nuova GIDUE S.r.l., the Italian manufacturer of printing and converting machines for the labels and packaging industry, announces the successful installation of a newly developed Auto-Register system. The NoMark™ technology has been recently installed on a GIDUE press for the production of aluminum blisters and it completes the range of Auto-Register systems developed in-house by GIDUE. Along with the photo-cell mark-to-cylinder ARC™, and the fully automated mark-to-mark Print Tutor™, GIDUE has developed a third “high-end” Auto-Register system for special applications like pharmaceutical aluminum blisters, tube laminates and expensive web substrates. The NoMark™ system is based on the automatic recognition and comparison of selected print characters inside the printed area. The selected characters in the print area “simulate” the function of register marks, and avoid the need of printed lateral register marks for automated register control. The print characters are “embedded” in the print design, and can be easily recognized by the NoMark™ system, with the support of high definition GIDUE Digital Cameras, one for each print unit, which recognize the selected characters and use them as “simulated” embedded register marks.
Ing. Matteo Cardinotti, chief of the R&D department at Nuova GIDUE, states: “The elimination of the lateral waste used for register marks can take to substantial economic advantages to converters which are printing on expensive substrates. Especially on aluminum blisters the lateral waste is a “painful” tribute to register accuracy. This waste is not any longer needed on the GIDUE presses which print on aluminum foil. The choice to develop our own Auto-Register technologies is proving successful, as we can satisfy the most “difficult” requests from our customers, with reasonable costs, without compromising on print quality and register accuracy.”
The NoMark™ Auto-Register system is currently working on a E-Combat™ narrow-web multicolour GIDUE flexographic press at the production plant of one of the largest European printers of Pharmaceutical aluminum blisters. Federico d’Annunzio, MD of Nuova GIDUE, concludes: “it is time to commit for the specific needs of each industry, for the label as well as for the packaging industry. Solutions have to be deeply thought out in close cooperation with converters. This can give back to technology and innovation its role of a true “profit” advantage for converters.”
Source: http://www.gidue.com/
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