Nowadays, in the constantly demanding labels
and packaging market, where customers persistently ask for the best quality,
efficiency and profitability, Gidue has introduced a visionary concept for the
flexographic printing: the Digital Flexo technology.
Everything started in 2005, when Gidue first
industrialized the Print Tutor model, applied first to the mid-web and offset
multi-process machines and then (March 2010) to the flexographic ones. From
that starting point, the evolution went on with the Digital Flexo technology,
introduced for the first time in September 2011, at the Label Expo Bruxelles.
On that occasion, Gidue proposed a new vision for the labels and packaging
industry, made of flexographic presses with fully automated print pressure and
lateral and cross register. For the first time, in the narrow-web flexo industry,
the press automatically runs the printing process, substituting the operator
(also of the less technically skilled one) hands and eyes: HD digital cameras
(Print Tutor™) set on each printing unit “read” and manage the print pressure,
the colour density and the image register, servo-adjusting them, in order to
achieve superior printing outcomes.
With the introduction of the Digital Flexo,
the machine ensures higher printing quality and significant waste reduction
(less than 20 meters for the 8 colours set up), since everything is digitalized;
this allows the press operator to better focus on achieving the best outcomes,
also during operational production phases (such as speed and roll changes).
Thus, a Digital Flexo press is also able to
avoid mistakes in file management. With this absolutely innovative expertise, Gidue
reconfirms its technological leadership in the flexographic scenario. Digital
Flexo is the future for flexographic printing in the label and packaging
industry, especially in terms of waste and production time reduction, providing
incomparable and unprecedented quality standards.
Nuova Gidue is a manufacturer of printing and
converting machines, providing exclusive technology for the Label and Packaging
industry. Most technologies are developed by Nuova Gidue in cooperation with
the end-users to manufacture original solutions for long-term profitability and
innovation. Since 1999 Gidue has provided the Label and Packaging industry with
innovative solutions that have set new standards in productivity.
Nuova Gidue‘s product range includes
solutions for the label industry such as combination presses and finishing
solutions for Offset, Flexo, Gravure, Screen, Digital, Hot Stamping, Cold Foil,
Embossing, Label and Carton Die-Cutting, Sheeting, Perforation and others. Most
of the processes are interchangeable. For the flexible packaging industry Nuova
Gidue offers substrate solutions such as aluminium foil for yoghurt lids, laminated
tubes for tooth paste and cosmetics, sausage skins, shrinkable sleeves, ROSO,
wrap-around, stand-up pouches, IML, PE 20 M PET 12 M, PA, PVC, BOPP, aluminium
foil 12 m etc. Lamination solutions complete the product range with in-line
solventless, hot-melt, pre-adhesive lamination.
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