Advantages of rotary screen printing unit on a rail over one on a printing station.
Tailor-made solutions by OMET include the possibility of positioning the rotary screen-printing unit on a rail instead placing it on the printing station. This solution by the on-demand solutions’ specialist not only avoids losing one flexo station but also helps in saving space.
The printers, who realise complex labels, need to use all the colours provided in the machine configuration, adding the screen-printing unit as additional printing group. By positioning it on a rail, they can avoid the loss of a station that can be used for the flexo-printing. Moreover, they can also take up a minimal amount of space in the production workshop, by optimising the space in terms of height rather than in length.

The silk-screen printing group is completely independent, both electronically and drive-wise; it has an integrated chilled impression cylinder and an independent UV lamp. It could be moved everywhere on the rail system inside the machinery’s track, even before or after other finishing units as the hot foil or the cold foil. Thanks to a special rail system the unit can easily be moved from one position to another just by sliding them and without removing them from the machine.

OMET developed this creative solution in collaboration with its clients in order to solve specific needs with the aim of becoming more competitive. It believes that machineries designed with personalised configurations lead to strong advantages for the printers in the competitive marketplace.