K15 XL
Fully automatic, servo-driven universal printing machine for any item shapes
The innovative K15 flexibly and accurately prints any item shape – round, oval, square, flat and with a handle – in the highest quality. The flexible handling system designed to transport upright and horizontal article allows for the shortest possible change-over times. The newly developed bottom camera register system aligns the articles accurately by utilizing any unique marking on the bottle of the article.
The system:
- Servo-driven rotary machine platform of turntable size XL
- Robust base construction – suitable for glass, plastic, metal and many other article substrates
- Machine can be equipped with 20 or 24 processing stations that can be configured in virtually any arrangement
- Configurable as screen-printing, digital-printing or hybrid machine system
- Single captured tooling for optimal printing results; accuracy from color to color: + / - 0.1 mm
- Quick change-over times due to optimized make ready system
- Air inflation for plastic containers
- Vacuum supply for shell-type items
- Optional: unique processing in various printing stations
- Performance-optimized ratio of item printing time to item transport time
- Modern, ergonomic operating design
Additional components:
- Tilting attachment assemblies for conical items with vertical angle of inclination of + / - 18°
- Optional: integration of various processing stations, e.g. print image check, imprinting unit, labeling, pad printing mechanism, thermal transfer, varnishing etc.
- Motor controlled fine screen adjustment in X and Y direction and rotation
- UV drying via innovative KAMMANN UV emitter up to 300 W/cm; longer service life of tubes and reflectors due to filtered supply air; energy-saving mode with up to 30% savings; additional systems that can be integrated
- Screen heating for thermoplastic inks
- Optimal item treatment due to servomotoric height adjustment of the pretreatment and drying units
- Seam registration, optical registration, module for mechanical pre-registration etc.
- Remote maintenance of all systems via Internet, supported by camera if necessary
- Integrated longitudinal squeegee device with very short change-over times
- Cassette feed system for quick replacement of processing stations