Industrial Digital Printing is above all highly flexible, suitable for any substrate. A technology that allows you to deliver a just-in-time service, eliminating substantial stock requirements.
A finishing technique that enables a high degree of customisation, as unique as you want. A solution that we as experts can integrate into your finishing line, supporting you in the choice of inks, print settings and line parameters.
Creating impactful decorations using metal coils
One specific area that concerns industrial digital printing in which Cefla Finishing has pioneered recent developments is related to metal coils, steel for example. Combining our expertise with a partner company responsible for several continuous cycle plants for surface treatment and processing of flat-rolled products in ferrous and non-ferrous metals, we are qualified to provide a turnkey solution using our roll-to-roll, single-pass industrial digital printing equipment.
The beauty of decorated steel coils is not limited to their beautiful appearance. Applications in countless sectors are possible, from urban installations to building exteriors, household appliances to shopping mall interiors, sidings, garage doors, applications in sectors such as nautical, retail, logistics, etc. The list is long.
Benefits of industrial digital printing
Production flexibility, decorative variety, the absence of minimum batch quantities, even the ability to print multiple patterns consecutively are benefits that other technologies are hard pushed to imitate. Of course there is always a reverse side of the coin and this comes from the significant effort required to adopt such a successful technology.
The investment should contemplate the cost of skilled operators as well as the equipment. The mental effort requires a shift from mass production towards smaller batches and custom requirements, in other words exactly the way the market is moving today.
Our experience will be invaluable in supporting your transition to these technologies, especially when integrating with a complete finishing line that involves roller coating, manipulation, drying, etc.
J-PRINT SP R2R combined with a coil handling solution
A single-pass machine that is perfect for continuous printing using UV inks, equipped with industrial printing heads, J-PRINT SP R2R operates at high speeds and prints at a high resolution, combining quality with productivity. Running across rollers in humpback formation, the coils are printed using up to 8 different colour bars with 8 channels including haptic inks, standard YRCK and 3 protective varnish channels. Coil thickness lies between 0.25 and 1.60 mm and the maximum coil width reaches 1550 mm.
Production speeds vary according to the configuration and ink set, but the system runs at rates of up to max. 60 metres/minute. Optimal print quality is also achieved thanks to our proprietary software that compensates for what are known as “missing nozzles”, and the printing heads are cleaned automatically.
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