flexographic
Comexi ICUBEDESIGN
Printing for the future
This is the age of flexible packaging. Complex but exciting. With a growing number of new substrates (PE, PP, LDPE, PLA, ALU, etc.) and end products (POUCH, RETORT POUCH, SHRINK SLEEVE, WRAP, BAG, AUTOMATIC BAG, MULTIPACK, SINGLE UNIT PACKS, etc) a growing requirement for segmentation and positioning to cover new brand specs. (colours and POS differentiation), increasing advertising involving smaller and smaller runs. And that’s just a sketchy outline of the world around us.
Comexi, with its ICUBEDESIGN project, has taken a huge step towards discovering – through getting to know its clients and its clients’ clients – new scenarios and trends and developing solutions to cover current and future expectations, even when they are as yet no more than feelings.
The ICUBEDESIGNTM project is our latest offer. A fully-modular press concept, able to adapt to every imaginable configuration, with a fully-integrated programme of upgrades and accessories. A new concept which will define the new line of Comexi printing presses for a new era. The ICUBEDESIGNTM concept (intelligent Comexi unified basis ergonomics) is a new range of presses designed to achieve high productivity/cost ratios, based on greater process efficiency, and energy and labour savings while at the same time caring for the environment. It has been designed following an in-depth study of passive safety issues, bearing in mind operator requirements and offering innovative and preactive solutions. Gentle but aggressive, white and shiny, productive, but easy to use. That’s Comexi’s new line. ICUBEDESIGNTM is the name. Thinking of you and the challenges the future holds.
Comexi ICUBEDESIGN
Printing
High-quality, improved print runs
High-quality, improved print runs, thanks to the new, extended CMX MonoblockTM frame, available in 10 colours with improved anti-bounce effect and non-stop changeover, the first machine to apply the CTSTM temperature-control concept to make the most of new technologies like:
- New EB Flexo printing developed by Comexi, Sun Chemical and ESI, providing an excellent print quality never before seen in flexo printing. Following two years spent developing it, Comexi is proud to present its optimised EB process, which promises to shake the very foundations of flexo printing over the next few years. With a density of colour similar to that we all know, but with better middle-screen colour tones, thanks to the tiny dot size and almost no dot gain, providing better lineature and faster adjustments.
- Heptachromy colour separation as the new quality standard for the future of flexo printing, thanks to an improved range of intermediate tones, huge ink and wash-time savings and increased print speeds.
- New systems for direct plate engraving with higher lineatures, providing better designs through processed colours and higher resolutions than those achieved with rotogravure.
Comexi ICUBEDESIGN
Productivity area
Ingenious, innovative and simple ideas
Huge savings with ingenious, innovative and simple ideas like:
a) New upgradeable robotised platform. Makes changeovers of work in progress easier and shortens changeover times, eliminating loads, effort and risks for the operator and the machine by placing the new revolver trolley to the exactly position for a slevee change and providing easy access to any part of the machine, from ink decks to platforms, from the unwinder to the container. All accessible with a single “click”.
b) New ONTOPTM double-camera video system on the last ink deck, reducing and simplifying run-throughs, improving register and pressures set up reaction and reducing wastage. Equipped with state-of-the-art Jupiter AVT video, featuring automatic recording of register and pressure, among other things. The double-camera system makes easy front-to-back changeovers in one second, reducing material run-through times. Finally, it boasts the new, AconproTM automatic adjustment system, giving a new world record in adjustment times and reduced wastage. And if you don’t have space for marks placement, we present the new CingularTM system. With a single 1.5 mm dot your system will be up and running to perfection. Naturally, the choice is yours.