IR Dryers – Productivity and Safety

IR Dryers – Productivity and Safety

ACCCSA Technical PresentationCartagena , Columbia 2014

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Delicious Color & GraphicsIR Drying & UV Curing

Sentinel™ & VisionMaster™

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GENERAL

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So why dryers?... The BenefitsMAXIMIZED PRODUCTIVITY High Speed Printing, Die Cutting and Finishing In a Single Pass. Improved ink on-press stability

OPTIMIZED QUALITY Improved color brilliance and quality through dry trapping. Minimized (or eliminated) tracking, marking, smearing and ghosting. Significant reduction of waste.

ALL THAT & SAFETY Sentinel – Automatic Sheet Detection System. VisionMaster – In-Press Dryer Inspection & Monitoring System

5,000 sheets/hr on 1600 mm cylinder = 160 milliseconds of dwell time when

exposed to Final Flexo Dryer

10,000 sheets/hr on 1600 mm cylinder = 80 milliseconds of dwell time when

exposed to Final Flexo Dryer

Water (volatiles) evaporateInk cells flow together

IR Dryer

Continuous ink layer

Top Liner

Bottom Liner

Pigment Binder

Ink delivered to board

from anilox cells

Water (Vehicle) & Amines

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IR Drying Options

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IR Spot & Width Zone ControlFor Modular or Fixed Frame Configurations

6 inch/152mm cassettesCassettes easily removed for maintenance and rotation

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Delicious Color & GraphicsIR Drying & UV Curing

Sentinel™ & VisionMaster™KleenPlate®

KleenPlate® & ColorCure® are Patented http://www.jbmachinery.com/patents.html

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Sentinel™ - automatic sheet detection system

Instant dryer/press shut down if light curtain is broken

Sentinel-ASDVisionMaster™ Combined shroud If Sentinel Light Curtain is Broken:

Instant Dryer/Press Shut Down • Dryer Disabled

• Global dryer reset at control panel

Prevention – not detection!!!!!

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VisionMaster™ - in press dryer inspection/monitoring

Real-Time dryer inspection/monitoring DVR Incident history review Global dryer reset at control panel, without entering machine!

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Top Printer Case Studies: White Top

3-Colors Webbox/Pigs Ears: Before Dryers - 4,000 sph / After Dryers – 14,000 sph.

Representing a 250% Increase in Productivity

4-Color Vier Jahreszeiten Wine Box: Before Dryers - 8,000 sph / After Dryers – 18,000 sph

Representing a 125% Increase in Productivity

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CEMSA Case Study

Run Condition Before Dryer One Pass three (3) colors – 4,000

sheets/hour Stopping EVERY 20 minutes to clean

plates and due to marking of the anvil cover - for a total of 20 minutes DOWNTIME every 20 minutes!!

50 Production hours to yield 100,000 sheets.

CEMSA installed a dwell station with integrated JB Machinery Final Flexo Dryer on their their 3 color RDC.

Run Condition After Dryer One Pass three (3) colors - 5,240

sheets/hour Stopping every 33,000 sheets (6.3 hours)

for 20 minutes to clean anvil covers and plates!

20 Production hours to yield 100,000 sheets.

An overall increase in productivity of more than 150%Payback based on added press time for Pizza Hut job ONLY < 5 Months!!!!

Productivity Quality Consistency

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Top Printer Case Studies: Semi-Coated

618 Flexo Folder Gluer installed with two (2) JB Flexo Dryers, after print stations 2 & 4.

SEMI-COATED 3-Colors: Before Dryers - Not possible / After Dryers – 12,500 sph An Increase in Product Offerings and New Market Oppotrtunities

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Color Sells

Printer Converter took his customer’s graphics from box on left to box on right. Within 3-months Saint Arnold beer sales doubled and SO DID THE

PRINTER CONVERTERS BOX SALES!

Before After

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