Finishing & Screen Printing
R.E.A.L.: advanced Hot Stamping unit by GIDUE
Friday 05. December 2008 - Robust, Easy, Automated, Lean: hot stamping has never been as efficient!
After the completion of the project of the innovative Hot Stamping unit R.E.A.L., GIDUE is now ready to market it for the benefit of the label converters worldwide. The strength of the product is summed up in its name: the R.E.A.L. Hot Stamping unit offers indeed Robustness, Ease of use, Automated controls and Lean guiding principles.
The Hot Stamping unit is built to last, with extremely robust construction (thickness of steel frames: 25mm – 6,3″) and solid parts that can resist high pressures up to 100N/mm. This sturdiness allows to reach the average speed of 80 meters per minute (262 ft/min) and to print with much higher pressure in order to obtain top print quality on the most difficult substrates, such as natural or textured papers, wine label papers, etc.
The front opening and the temperature quick drop down ensure a fast and simple sleeve changeover and reduce set-up times dramatically. This marks an advantage for the printers who use different formats or change job often during the day. The Hot Stamping is mounted on guides for extreme ease of extraction in case of format replacement or cleaning. The unit main frame is easily opened and the sleeve changed in a matter of seconds. Reduced set-up time and low wastage are secured and the possibility of dangerous contact with the hands of the operator carefully avoided.
The R.E.A.L. unit is also provided with automatic temperature and pressure controls (the pressure becomes a tricky point when printing on complex or textured papers) and with the latest multi-camera Intelligent Register for quick longitudinal and transversal register control. Label converters who print repeat orders may especially benefit of the automatic recall of recipes, job data storage, and register settings memory to avoid the time waste linked to the definition of the hot stamping parameters. To help printers even more, all the controls can be managed through a touch-screen panel positioned on the R.E.A.L. main frame or from the machine general control pulpit.
The foil tension is controlled electronically through a load cell placed before the unit, while an anti-wrinkle device located before the foil stamping and pneumatically controlled, ensures the smoothest operation possible.
Companies that have put into place Lean Manufacturing systems or base their operations on the principles of the reduction of time and unnecessary movements will benefit from the dedicated Organizer section. The Organizer (running frontally along all the GIDUE presses) is the realization of the “built-around-the-operator” philosophy to grant user-friendliness, safe working environment and time cutback as it lodges at easy reach all the hot stamping tooling and the auxiliary devices needed by the operator (lifting instruments, tools repository, working surface, etc.).