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D240 Digital printer for cylindrical hollow bodies

D240 Digital printer for cylindrical hollow bodies

"The ideal solution for any printing requirement!" The digital printer D240 – a real world premiere! The new D240 now enables high quality digital printing for the decoration of cylindrical bodies. Photo-realistic pictures with vibrant and vivid colours and pin sharp texts open up completely new options of graphic design and the marketing of your products. Also small editions or samples can be produced cost-efficiently at any time since conversions, costs for tooling, etc. are omitted when changing the image. The most important advantages of the D240 at a glance: // Perfect printing quality...

D240 Be convinced by the digital printing Quality made by HINTERKOPF! • • • • • High resolution of up to 1,200 dpi High ink coverage F inest gradients and shading Optimum edge definition of lines P in sharp texts with font sizes of up to 2 pt (positive) and 3 pt (negative) The application options for your high-quality decorated tubes, aerosol containers, bottles, cartridges and other cylindrical bodies made of aluminum, steel or plastic material are almost unlimited: • • • • • Cosmetics Pharmaceutical industry Food & Beverage Technical produ

“Excellent printing quality – looks matter!"

D240 Purely digital workflow, maximized production time – with the D240 digital printing The workflow of the digital printing technique offers distinct advantages compared with conventional printing methods (see also graph on page 14): When changing the image at offset, screen or flexo printing, including printing plates, colour exchanges and machine adjustments, misprints – unusable products – cannot be avoided. Furthermore the whole change-over procedure up to “good” products often takes one to two hours of valuable production time. Such intermediate steps are omitted when using the D240...

"The advantages of digital printing speak for themselves!" Features and benefits of digital printing with the D240 compared to other printing methods Feature Offset printing Screen printing Flexo printing Best printing quality (on the product, in the lines / cm) Minimum text size (positive / negative) Photo-quality printing (variety of colours, finest shading, 3-D effect) Edge definition Change-over time for • Image change + length change • Format change Rejects at production start-up (misprints) Production speed (at comparable quality) o / + Depending on the format Cost for printing...

D240 Advanced modular machine concept The D240 digital printer is based on a modern control and software concept with direct drives which is already successfully used in lots of other machines made by HINTERKOPF. The concept was consequently enhanced for the digital printing applications. The precision rotary indexing machine is equipped with 16 double mandrel working stations, which can be configured according to the customer´s requirement. • In-line-capable machines • oading and unloading of the products via L conveyor systems or chains • Modular precision servo drives • ir conditioned,...

"Advanced machine concept for maximum success!" Outfeed of cans, tubes, etc. via conveyor system or chain Operating panel: 42” touch screen Infeed of cans, tubes, etc. via conveyor system or chain L oading P roduct presence and positioning control C leaning / pretreatment (e.g. Corona) U p to eight colours e.g. CMYK + two special colours or hexachrome colour system + base coat and top coat / spot coating Final curing Print image control Unloading Unloa

D240 Easy and intuitive operation The D240 is intuitive and very easy to use – quite similar to smartphones. The machine is equipped with an innovative interface with a high quality 42“ touch panel which was specially chosen for the industrial environment and is exceptionally durable. The available masks allow to directly view and call up different operating states or the next printing jobs conveniently. Thus time-consuming training sessions to be able to use the machine, as well as operating errors, are reduced to an absolute minimum. Install and start off

“Intuitive, innovative, rapid – how to operate the D240!" // Start screen Overview and control of the machine. Additional screens can be selected by touching the corresponding area of the touch screen. Information regarding the print order and the ink supply are represented on the right and left side of this screen. Printing / colours • Colour status • Colour mode • Printing head status • Order runtime • etc. Selection menu • Basic machine • Maintenance • Help • Language selection • etc. Selection print job • Print order No. • Resolution • Order size • Diameter • etc. // Screen "Print job"...

D240 Lean and Green The new D240 digital printer combines new options of image selection and high efficiency with a comprehensive environmental concept – on the whole, this results in an economical use of natural resources. rapidly printed “on demand” with the D240, saving large parts of this “surplus capacity”. Projected worldwide, this corresponds to a saving potential of about 600 million cans and tubes! Some key points which are having a positive effect on the environment while using the digital printing techniques are: // No printing plates and no ink rollers Direct printing on the...

"D240 – intelligent and sustainable technology!" HIGH EFFICIENCY Large series FLEXIBILITY INDIVIDUALITY MAXIMUM PRECISION MODULAR PURELY DIGITAL WORKFLOW

D240 ECONOMICS OF DIGITAL PRINTING Whereas the production speed to manufacture tubes and cans has continuously increased, the order sizes on average have become considerably smaller. For aerosol deodorants, for instance, there are more and more variations for different countries, new fragrances, etc. Therefore the change-over between different decorations of the packaging – in this case of a can – has to be performed with minimum time and effort. Using the digital printing method and the D240 due account is taken in an ideal way: The change-over of the image is done by software only, no...