Esko introduces CDI Crystal 4260 XPS, PlateHandler and Platefeeder-S

Esko CDI Crystal 4260 XPS. Photograph Esko

Esko has launched its latest plate making solution, the CDI Crystal 4260 XPS, delivering more automation, and enhanced quality to the plate room.

The CDI Crystal 4260 XPS can be operated with but ane hr of training, with unmarried-touch operation using an intuitive screen interface and enables unattended functioning. The accolade-winning Esko XPS Crystal technology optimally combines UV master and dorsum exposure, using LEDs that always emit consistent UV light as opposed to traditional exposure frames, which use lightbulbs with fluctuating output.

"Today'south prepress departments face a number of challenges that brand the want to offer the combination of quality, speed, and competitive pricing a key commuter of investment and organizational decisions," said Pascal Thomas, director of Flexo Business organisation at Esko. "The touch on of Covid-xix has only compounded the demands on the packaging prepress and printing sector – be that increasing production complexity, shorter run lengths, or a demand for fast turnaround to encounter their brand customers' need for speed to market place.

"Maintaining prepress quality and efficiency in the face of such complexity is challenging when also needing to manage product and service quality and minimize costs to remain competitive. The answer lies in digitizing, automating, and connecting the prepress and plate-making process to drive down costs, increase quality and speed, and eliminate waste and errors in resources, time, and materials. To that finish, we are introducing the newest member of the Esko CDI family unit, the CDI Crystal 4260 XPS."

The combination of the CDI Crystal flexo imager with the XPS Crystal exposing unit offers a perfect, consolidated flexo plate-making workflow with the highest return on investment. "Redefined from scratch, the integration and automation of the digital imaging and LED UV exposure processes improves consistency and overall ease of use for prepress operators," said Pascal. "This solution non only frees up valuable fourth dimension but too reduces maintenance and the footprint of the flexo equipment, keeping costs to a minimum."

The CDI Crystal 4260 XPS excels in efficiency, reducing manual steps by 50% and reducing errors by 50% to create less plate waste matter, alongside reducing operator time past as much as 73%.

Further driving productivity in the plate room, Esko introduced the Platehandler, a robotic device connecting the CDI Crystal imager with the XPS Crystal exposure unit. "A prepress operator is usually required to manage multiple devices to produce a plate, which demands considerable time and attention to what is going on, and often incurs a hazard of mistake," explained Pascal. "Integrating the Esko PlateHandler into the system reduces the number of operator touchpoints, freeing up to 50% of their time and enabling them to attend other more value-calculation tasks such as quality control, plate storage, and plate mounting," he said.

"Similarly, the new Esko PlateFeeder-S has been designed to solve a number of common bug. For case, it enables distortion-complimentary transportation of plates, avoiding damage when they are transferred manually from storage to the CDI," said Pascal. "The tabular array tin also exist tilted to laissez passer through doors and docked onto the CDI to ensure perfect plate positioning and digital connexion to the CDI Crystal. Its cover sail can as well be removed to provide free access from all sides without static charge input."

Integrating the Platefeeder-S into the setup likewise prevents idling betwixt plates due to the operator attention to other tasks, boosting productivity farther by enabling an boosted plate to be positioned for automated transportation into the CDI Crystal immediately when bachelor. "The operator simply needs to nourish the auto once within each imaging bike, to load a new plate and unload the exposed plate from the XPS Crystal," said Pascal.

"What's more, manual positioning is prone to errors and can be fourth dimension intensive. But with the PlateFeeder-S, once docked, it becomes visible on the CDI touchscreen and integrates into the automated workflow enabling the operator to position a new plate at whatsoever time during the fifteen-minute imaging process," he said. "Congenital-in sensors too secure accurate plate loading via the PlateHandler, fugitive plate waste and farther errors. The PlateFeeder-South eliminates 100% of the plate loading idle time on the CDI Crystal XPS resulting in uninterrupted plate making, reducing system idling past up to forty%, and delivering a 40% reduction in human touch points.

"With a CDI Crystal 4260 XPS with PlateHandler and PlateFeeder-S working continuously with optimum throughput and minimum operator attention, at that place is complete platemaking automation. The overall impact can be an increment in plate making productivity of upward to xv%."

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