BHS tile online digital printing prototype released

[China Packaging Network News] Do you remember the news from Germany last June? On June 1, 2016, the German BHS Company and Japan Screen Company reached an exclusive cooperation agreement. The two parties will develop an online digital printing solution for BHS tile lines with a printing speed of 300 meters/minute for corrugated box factories. To this end, a newly established SCREEN GP IJC company will mainly develop core digital printing technology, thus forming the ultimate BHS tile online digital printing solution. The newly formed company is located near Inca, a subsidiary of Screens UK, and currently has about 20 employees.

Unlike other digital printing solutions, BHS tile online digital printing solutions will be the only printing method in the world that truly integrates digital printing into the production of corrugated cardboard, enabling it to be used in the production of corrugated cardboard. Simultaneous digital printing, down from the stacker is printed cardboard. The single-pass digital printing method can make a 2.8-meter-wide corrugated board printing speed of 300 meters / minute.

According to reports at the time, laboratory tests have been completed. The current Screen GP IJC company is doing 2.8m wide four-color printing. It is expected that it will take three years to complete the final version. This revolutionary corrugated cardboard production line will be used as a new product of BHS in the future, and BHS can also install and upgrade the existing tile line equipment. This integrated online digital printing system on the tile line makes the tile line have two main values ​​of great popularity, the first is a faster and more flexible exchange, and the other is to help carton factory significantly reduce production costs.

Christian Engel, chairman of BHS, also believes that with Inca's digital inkjet technology and the wide variety of inkjet screen technology companies, their cooperation will be successful. According to reports, this digital printing solution will be equipped with at least 600 nozzles, and previous experience in the printing of corrugated cardboard POS can also make these nozzles can adapt to a variety of complex production environments.

On June 15, 2016, Christian Engel, chairman of BHS, went to Shanghai and held a media news briefing at Bokai Machinery (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. At the briefing, Mr. Christian Engel gave a detailed explanation of this online digital printing solution: this new type of online digital printing solution, named by BHS as “RSR—reel to sheet at real time, will be able to install In the tile lines produced by all BHS, the traditional “Roll to Roll” and “Sheet to Sheet” printing modes were changed, and online digital printing directly behind the wet end of the tile line, traditional preprinting process or single sheet The printing process of the printing press will be omitted, which not only reduces the relevant production staff and floor space, simplifies the process flow, but also realizes faster and more flexible change orders, helping the carton factory to significantly reduce production costs.

At the time, he explained that BHS is expected to launch the first prototype in 2018; based on the prototype in 2019, it will be further improved; finally, it will officially introduce a format of 2.8 meters in 2020, and the printing speed will reach 300 meters per minute. Corrugated cardboard production line. It is expected that the introduction of this technology will swallow 80% of the traditional printing press industry. At the same time, he also stated that from now on, all BHS tile lines will provide an interface for future support of this technology, ensuring that after the technology is officially launched, it can be directly equipped without modifying the tile lines.

At the "2017 China International Corrugated Exhibition" held on April 11-14, 2017, BHS headquarters in Germany sent specialists on the online digital printing of tile lines to Shanghai to give a detailed introduction to this technology and let it Many domestic companies have some understanding. From June 1st, 2016, it was formally declared to the public that by the end of the next year, how much of this technology will be developed in cooperation with BHS and screen technology?

According to Inca, at present, its R&D center already has a single channel digital printing machine with a width of 1.6m running. The digital ink jet equipment manufacturer headquartered in Cambridge, UK, will prototype this digital press with a speed of 305m/min, and develop a 2.8m wide tile online digital printing solution. This is also the case for BHS and Inca. Owner - part of a strategic agreement signed between screen companies. The device uses Fuji's Samba nozzle. According to Inca CEO John Mills, this solution is currently receiving widespread attention from the industry.