Wide Web Flexo Printing
89Pages

^We> ■i*vrvOY^&(

AV Flexologic BV’s mission is to deliver highly innovative solutions for the Flexographic industry, focusing on the graphics and press departments. We strive to save cost while increasing efficiency and quality for our customers. We believe it is possible to prevent all prepress-related press downtime, while at the same time increase prepress department’s efficiency and overall productivity. We achieve this by digitalizing traditional workflows and continuously improving on existing equipment with advanced technology and inventing new equipment. AV Flexologic invented camera mounting in the...

Mounting Machines

MOUNTING MACHINES Introduction of mounting concepts AV Flexologic offers a full range of flexo plate mounting machines, from completely manual to fully automatic. This section describes the 4 different concepts that can be identified in flexographic plate mounting machines, from entry-level to fully robotic: Manual (Sleevemounter) Manual mounting is done with a basic machine. This machine is used for mounting one plate at a time and long job runs. Motorized (MOM DD+) The cameras, cylinder rotation and vertical movement of the cylinder are motorized. The front and back table support enables...

Widths of machines Mounting machine Widths [mm] Widths [Inch]

Standard & Optional Mounting Concepts Mounting concept

Features & Options Details

MOUNTING MACHINES Width [inch] Description The AV Flexologic Sleevemounter is our entry-level flexo plate mounting machine with a chromed custom-made air mandrel. The Sleevemounter is ideal for flexo printers who mount mainly 1 plate per color and print mainly long job ru

Workflow The operator manually sets the cameras to a fixed position to which he/she mounts 1 plate per color. The HD cameras with optical lenses and digital zoom function are mounted on precision grinded and temperature treated camera beam to ensure the best calibration for high quality results. The camera beam is parallel to the air mandrel, and is fitted with high precision linear guides. The Sleevemounter is equipped with a bracket on the right-hand side that can be opened by hand for exchanging printing sleeves on the air mandrel or on an adapter mounted on the mandrel. The images of...

MOUNTING MACHINES The MOM DD+ series are Direct Drive sleeve-dedicated machines equipped with motorized cameras, high precisions zero-backlash cylinder rotation and vertical cylinder movement for optimal plate positioning. The MOM DD+ is offered in two versions: MOM DD+ E and MOM DD+ Pro. Equipped with a Windows-10 based operating system with advanced AV-MOM mounting software, developed completely by AV Flexologic. The basis is a recipe system which lets the users enter job-specific information such as width of the plate, repeat of the sleeve and angle of sectors if working with lane...

Width [inch] Description The MOM DD+ Pro is our high-end motorized mounting machine, which is the flexo industry standard for manual positioning of plates. Key options are available such as image recognition, a tape applicator, automatic W&H Easyreg detection, and a digital TIR measuring system, which can also map the full surface of the sleeve. The MOM DD+ Pro comes standard with an open-cell pressure roll

MOUNTING MACHINES Unique features Vertically moving cylinder A key feature of the MOM mounting machines is the vertically moving cylinder. There are several advantages of having the cylinder move vertically towards a fixedheight mounting table. For one this ensures a fixed distance from the lens to the plate, eliminating the need to focus the camera lenses. Avoiding focusing the lenses also means avoiding the parallax effect common to most plate mounting machines on the market since when changing the focus distance the ‘focal point’ also varies which distorts the calibration of the cameras....

elimination of air enclosures in between adhesive (tape or twinlock) and the printing plate. Pressure roller Combining a fixed-height mounting table with a full-width and open-cell pressure roller is the ideal combination for a motorized mounting machine. The fixed height mounting table supports the plate during the manual positioning process, and thus makes it much easier to place the plate into a tight register position. When the plate is in position and the cylinder moves up to fix the plate to the adhesive on the sleeve, the pressure roller is lowered to fix the plate firmly onto the...

MOUNTING MACHINES Unique options MOM DD+ Pro Starting from the MOM DD+ Pro, there are several unique options which are offered to improve prepress workflow as well as prevent press downtime, such as a tape applicator and a T.I.R. scanning device. Since these options are applicable on more types of machines they are explained and displayed in more detail in the options overview section on this page. Automatic Easyreg detection Image recognition system Unique to the MOM DD+ Pro is the optional image recognition system. Using image recognition the mounting marks can be recognized as with the...

MOUNTING MACHINES SAMM 2.0 The patented SAMM 2.0 is AV Flexologic’s solution to common industry trends. Building on 10+ years of experience with automatic mounting machines using vision technology, the SAMM and FAMM are the most accurate and fastest mounting machines in the world. Width [inch] Description The SAMM 2.0 is the second generation SAMM. The SAMM 2.0 is very versatile and has many popular options available such as a nip-roll assisted tape applicator, TIR scanning device and cutting knives for plates or tape. The SAMM 2.0 is offered in the full wide-web flexo repeat range and print

Motorized front table An added advantage of the SAMM 2.0 is the optional motorized front table, which enables the machine to fully automatically mount individual printing plates without operator interaction, keeping the performance of the mounting job with an accuracy of 5 microns. During the time the machine is mounting each plate, the operator can prepare the next plate or perform another preparatory Unique option of or1nisl19 operatioa Trends & Implications • Higher quality demands • Lead times on print jobs are getting shorter Return on investments • Elimination of press downtime due to...