KPG Corporation

350mm WEB WIDTH - Added value Screen Insetting Station

This machine has been designed to answer to the need of label printers who are looking to add screen printing process on rolls already printed by another process. This further step will bring added value to the labels such as matt varnish, tactile effect, security ink, smelling ink… The GALAXIE MONO is part of the SMAG GALAXIE range already composed with the GALAXIE DUO, GALAXIE CLASSIC and DIGITAL GALAXIE.

Documentation

To assist more of our customers to enter the roll screen printing marketplace with a Galaxy press, we have introduced an entry level press the GALAXIE DUO. It is limited to two configurations and supplied in one web width (260mm).

• Version 1 : Includes two colours and flat bed die cutting.
• Version 2 : Includes two colours plus hotfoil stamping and embossing along with flat bed die cutting.

Advantages of silkscreen over otherprinting methods

• Sikscreen printing as a high resistance both mecanicaly, chemicaly and to uv light
• Extremely important Opacity
• Very heavy ink deposits
• Providing tactile and sensory effects
• Special ink applications such as Thermocromic, Conductive and Scratch Off

Objectives

• Permits other label printers and sheetfed screen printers to enter the reel fed screen printing market with a solution that is reliable, productive and economical.
• Enable to remove production jobs from overbooked existing Galaxie by specializing the Galaxie Duo on 1 or 2 colors + Hot Stamping + Die cutting jobs + smaller productions.
• To provide the added value of silkscreen print to preprinted webs from other techniques such offset, letterpress flexo and of course digital printing.

Advantages

• Easy to operate, user-friendliness and time of short training
• Reduced Waste
• Quick Setup
• Excellent registration accuracy weather in single pass, multiple pass or ineed overprinting preprinted webs
• Reduced investment compared to the Galaxie
• Possibility to trade-up and re invest the duo into the investment of a Galaxie

Documentation

Plan - Version 1

Plan - Version 2

The SMAG GALAXIE roll to roll silkscreen press was launched to the market in 1995 at Label'Expo Europe 95. To date more than 240 machines have been installed in five continents. Since this launch the GALAXIE has seen several updates and the present third generation shares all the hall marks of its predicessors an indisputed to be the industry standard.

Advantages of silkscreen over otherprinting methods:

• Silkscreen printing as a high resistance both mecanicaly, chemicaly and to uv light.
• Extremely important Opacity
• Very heavy ink deposits
• Providing tactile and sensory effects
• Special ink applications such as Thermocromic, Conductive and Scratch Off

Objectives

» Primarily

• Roll to roll printing in single or multiple passes solely silkscreen, to re-register web’s from other processes such as flexo, letterpress, offset, digital print.
• Complete in-line finishing including hot foil stamping, embossing, laminating, waste stripping, slitting and rewinding.

» Subsequently

• Providing added value and differentiation to labels.

Advantages

• A very high register accuracy with a simple web path, multiple passes and combination print.
• Low waste during the set up and run.
• Simplified operation.
• Modular to facilitate future expantion and upgrade.
• A complete system including finishing, in line hotfoiling, diecutting and laminating etc.
• Possibility to match the line according to special requirements.
• Full range of formats and web widths.

Documentation (English)

Technical Characteristics (English)

Configuration Examples